Abandon All Hope

I try not to blog too often but this is so “today” that I could not wait.

Once the first juicy and salacious news article is written, it is all over. The subject of the juicy and salacious news article will twist and turn but he is a politically dead man from that moment onward.

I am talking about Herman Cain. He is the latest victim of a phenomenon called, News Media Attack Crescendo.

Although some of you will come away from this article saying I am defending Herman, I really am not. I am addressing the reality of what happens when juicy, especially salacious, stories are allowed to run their course.

I probably should not have bothered to say “allowed” above. In reality, such stories are not “allowed”. There is no way of stopping them once they get started.

Herman is politically dead. The reporting about his campaign is now not about anything other than the juicy and salacious stuff. (Anyone remember 9 9 9?) I will give you 4 bullet points below that will make every one of you fully agree with me (yea right )...

• Are you surprised that today there is a news article out about Herman and his current troubles?
• The article contains 1,046 words (Did you know that Microsoft Word displays a count of all the words in a Word File? I did not want you to think I sit around counting words. I’ve got better things to do...Or do I?).
• Only 51 words are about anything other than the juicy and salacious.
• That means 995 words were devoted to the juicy and salacious.

If you want to check me out go to... http://www.mydesert.com/article/20111130/NEWS11/111130004/Cain-presses-ahead-after-PS-affair-allegation .

Here are the non-juicy/salacious words...

“Cain received a standing ovation after he spoke about what a "Cain administration" would do.” (The article did not report on what a Cain Administration would do.)

And...

“stuck to his plan to present his foreign policy vision, one in which the U.S. would stand by friendly nations such as Israel, quit giving money to countries he considered enemies and spend more on defense.”

Can any campaign survive if 95.1% of what is written about it is juicy and salacious? You can stick a fork in Herman and test him to make certain but, in my opinion, he is done.

What’s he going to do now? He can probably go to a public park and play chess with the coach of the (#1 ranked) Duke University Lacrosse Team who was immediately fired when those reports of his players raping that stripper surfaced.

How many of us remember that the reports of the rape were juicy, salacious and untrue but he still lost his job?

Would I kid u?