Sunday, 13 November 2011

EPA Finds Compound Used in Fracking in Wyoming Aquifer

Herman Cain’s new low

I’m not surprised that right-wingers are trying to smear the women who’ve come forward to charge Herman Cain with sexual harassment. This is what they do. Remember Graeme Frost, the 12 year old boy who spoke out on behalf of the Child Health Insurance Program in 2007 and wound up under attack by Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin for faking hardship to get government help? Or Ty’Sheoma Bethea, the young South Carolina girl who asked President Obama for funds to rebuild her crumbling school and got trashed by the Washington Times for grubbing for federal handouts? In fact, remember Anita Hill?
Now Herman Cain and his supporters are trashing Cain’s accusers, with a Web site devoted to “debunking” their claims, CainTruth. But Friday they hit a new low. Cain Truth now features as its top story a charge that’s been making the rounds on the right via Glenn Beck and Mark Levin: that Sharon Bialek, the Chicago woman who claims Cain groped her when she asked him for help finding a job, has an unsavory sexual past of her own...