Herman Cain considering lawsuit against Politico over sexual harassment story

[WingDinger]

Dear God, let it happen. The GOP will be branded for a decade.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/herman-cain-considering-lawsuit-against-politico-over-sexual-161751765.html


Herman Cain is considering a lawsuit against Politico over its explosive report this week about sexual harassment allegations against Cain while he was president of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.

Mark Block, Cain's campaign manager, confirmed a Washington Post report that the campaign may try to sue the media company.

"It is being discussed," Block said on Fox News Channel's America's Newsroom Friday morning when asked if Cain's team was considering legal action. "End of story." A representative for Politico did not immediately return a request for comment.

As The Ticket's Chris Moody points out, a lawsuit against Politico would be an uphill battle for Cain. "Public figures don't have a strong track record of beating news outlets in court," Moody wrote. "Cain's team would be required to prove that Politico's editorial hands knew the accusations in the report were false and that they published the material with intentional malice."

[TheWraith]

1. Right winger suing right wing outlet. Go for it. nt

[WingDinger]

2. He has called the women liars, and now he would have to prove not only that they are, but that Polit

Politico knew that. This will likely lead to defamation lawsuits from the women.

[Kber]

3. I think it's time to buy stock in a popcorn company.

'cause this is just too good!

[Gamow]

4. You can't sue them for accurately reporting publicly-available information.

[WingDinger]

5. Not disagreeing with you, but it wasnt publically available, it was sealed.

[Gamow]

9. Well my mistake. Accurately reporting nonetheless. Reporting the allegations on record. nt

[Lex]

13. If the press gets the story because someone leaked it to them

that doesn't mean the reporting of it is illegal. Maybe the leaker is in trouble.

[Lex]

11. But someone made it available to the press somehow

and then the press can report it. Maybe the person who leaked the sealed document is in trouble . . .

[markpkessinger]

21. The press is not bound ...

... by confidentiality agreements executed in settlement of civil suits to which the publishing party was not a party. Such agreements extend only to the parties who sign them.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Whatsa matta pizza man?

Can't handle the truth?

[WingDinger]

8. By the time this employment boosting campaign run is over, he will be delivering them.

Not to mention, it was Hermie that blabbed.

[Old and In the Way]

7. Discovery ought to be quite entertaining. nt

[yellowcanine]

17. No kidding. Discovery would likely break the confidentiality agreements.

Let the curtain lifting begin!

[Cirque du So-What]

10. He should definitely pursue a lawsuit

The truth will emerge in court - the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Open the NRA's file and everything. I don't believe Cain or his handlers want the truth to be known; this is just so much posturing.

[WingDinger]

12. The NationalRifle Assoc might sue, to delineate themselves from that acronym.

[yellowcanine]

14. Politico to Herman Cain, "Go ahead. Make my day."

This is nuts. Cain has pretty much confirmed the gist of the Politico story. Their story said that two women alleged that Cain harassed them. That story happens to be true. Here is the original headline and the link to the story:

Herman Cain accused by two women of inappropriate behavior


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67194.html


I am baffled as to what would be the grounds for a lawsuit. Cain himself has confirmed the claim of the story which was that two women accused Cain of inappropriate behavior. You can't sustain a charge of libel when you have confirmed the claims of a story.

[WingDinger]

15. Might still lead to him replacing another hater on Fox, like Coulter.

[gratuitous]

16. Runnin' to the courthouse, Herman?

I thought you rough-and-tough self-made he-man types didn't go in for that namby-pamby lawyerball stuff.

Yeah, I'm sure suing Politico has been "discussed" in the Cain camp. And then someone with a lick of sense explained what a horrible, awful, no-good, very bad idea this is, and the proposal got shit-canned. But for sure they discussed it.

[WingDinger]

18. Yeah, where are those calls foir tort reform now? Frivolous is the name of this game.

[seabeyond]

19. oh bullshit. he is so full of shit, never gonna do anything, cause we would hear everything

how totally obvious what an ass he is

[WingDinger]

20. Yahuh, he will use Trump's men on the ground in Hawaii, since they have already proven Obama is

Kenyan birthed

[seabeyond]

23. lol. just that. ah ha. nt

[sufrommich]

22. Right. Don't count on him ever opening that can of worms

voluntarily. Aint gonna happen.