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Herman Cain has written 113 columns for leading birther website

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Herman Cain has written 113 columns for leading birther website | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

For the past two years, Herman Cain has written a weekly column for WorldNetDaily, a website that is the online hub for people who believe that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.


Not one of Cain's 113 columns broaches the topic of Obama's birth. He has used his WorldNetDaily column to build support for his presidential candidacy, outline his policy ideas on health care and economics and clarify his positions on the campaign trail.


Cain, a Georgia businessman who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, has catapulted in recent polls into the field's top tier, following his victory last month at the Florida straw poll. His decision to associate himself with the birther movement's flagship publication could hinder his attempt to shift from a tea party star into a leading Republican presidential candidate.

WorldNetDaily regularly publishes articles by Jerome Corsi, the author of the book Where's the Birth Certificate?: The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to Be President. Corsi alleges that Obama's birth certificate, released by the state of Hawaii, is a forgery.
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..... Anybody here surprised at this?
 
Hey, a conservative uses a conservative outlet to spread a conservative message, I'm shocked.

Here's a tip, guilt by association is a fallacy.
 
No one needs to worry about Cain. He won't win, but some of his messag(es) will sift through and be utilized because he does have a few good points. he is a smart man as well, but not really electable to the presidency.
 
Was Cain defending the birther notions in these 113 articles or was he writing on other topics? That Cain is getting out his ideas on a conservative sites - even the rabidly conservative wingnut sites - does not mean he is dumb enough to have ever believed that Obama was born in Kenya.
 
Non-issue is a non-issue.
 
I'm sure you could use the same guilty by association hatchet-job for anyone who writes for huffpo as well. Cain should be judged for his own words not the website he put them on.
 
holy ****.......wnd is the bottom of the pit. this is so funny.........
 
Zyphlin said:
Surprised that some random Yahoo Blogger is attempting a guilt by association technique to smear Cain as a birther due to writing for WND despite the fact that, as they point out and quickly then try to gloss over, he didn't write anything about the birther issue?

No, not surprised at all.
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in this case, that doesn't matter. merely to write for wnd is disgusting.
 
Grim17 said:
I for one, am not surprised at all...

Not surprised that Herman Cain is now the target of phony attack stories like this one, that twist the facts and attempt to deceive the public into believing things that simply are not true.

One word describes that article... PATHETIC... On to the next liberal fabrication.
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how is this phony? please explain.
 
CBS pushed the entire bogus story on Bush military record led by Dan Rather so obviously anyone who would go on CBS is unfit to be president.
 
1Perry said:
CBS pushed the entire bogus story on Bush military record led by Dan Rather so obviously anyone who would go on CBS is unfit to be president.
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That would include every single GOP candidate. ;)
 
1Perry said:
CBS pushed the entire bogus story on Bush military record led by Dan Rather so obviously anyone who would go on CBS is unfit to be president.
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one story. opposed to hundreds. every day a new birther story. a pure right wing white trash website.
 
I'll judge the man on the content of his articles, not who chooses to allow the posting of them.
 
tessaesque said:
I'll judge the man on the content of his articles, not who chooses to allow the posting of them.
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I can do that but i'll need to create an entirely new thread for it. Hard stuff, not weak sauce.
 
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*Correction: This article originally stated that Cain's commentary for WorldNetDaily was "exclusive." WorldNetDaily receives the articles from North Star Writers Group, which syndicates Cain's columns. However, WorldNetDaily advertises Cain's work as "exclusive commentary." The headline has also been changed to reflect this.


So in the end WND runs Cain's syndicated columns. :rolleyes:
 
liblady said:
one story. opposed to hundreds. every day a new birther story. a pure right wing white trash website.
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Woooooow Liblady. Care to chuck out more racial slurs to trash a place. Its okay of course because you're a liberal and don't like it so naturally that's fine.
 
1Perry said:
*Correction: This article originally stated that Cain's commentary for WorldNetDaily was "exclusive." WorldNetDaily receives the articles from North Star Writers Group, which syndicates Cain's columns. However, WorldNetDaily advertises Cain's work as "exclusive commentary." The headline has also been changed to reflect this.


So in the end WND runs Cain's syndicated columns. :rolleyes:
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HAHA...how DISGUSTING! Those White Trash racist bigots that are just low class white people that are obviously ignorant redneck hicks are being pandered to by Cain whose obviously putting out syndicated columns specifically to be picked up by hillbilly backwoods white folks at WND to secretly hide the code that the birthers are right!

DISGSUSTING

UTTERLY DISGUSTING

:roll:
 
Out of curiosity, what are the "rules" of journalistic sharing? Does Cain get to say, "No, not that outlet" or does he lose that authority when his main publisher is given distribution rights? Or is there some other format?

And regardless, if you're campaigning to be the future President wouldn't you want to reach out to as many voters as possible? I'm sure that not every person who finds an article they enjoy on WND is a hack. Maybe he's looking for the normal, intelligent voter who searches for information? Or maybe he's looking for hacks. Without reading the 113 articles I couldn't tell you.

But from what I've seen of Cain, he appears to be pretty logically. He's been amazingly successful and I think we need a hard worker with a history of success working with us to move the country forward. I don't think he's necessarily my first choice, but him having articles on WND doesn't play into that.
 
liblady said:
how is this phony? please explain.
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It implies 3 things that are not true, to lead readers to falsely believe that Herman Cain is a birther that either caters to, appeals mostly to, and/or is part of, the fringe kooks on the far right and is associated with the websites they frequent.

1. They imply that WND is a website dedicated to, or is centered around, the "birther" issue... That is false. They are a conservative news outlet that centers on general political issues. As Wikipedia states, they are "an American web site that publishes news and associated content from a U.S. conservative perspective".

2. They imply that Cain is a staff writer or contributer that writes articles specifically for WND, and that he has some kind of personal affiliation with them. That is false. North Star Writers Group syndicates Cain's columns nationwide to many different websites and media outlets, including WND.

3. Finally, even though the piece says that none of the 113 articles from Cain that appeared at WND were on the subject of Obama's place of birth, the headline of the original article on Yahoo read "Herman Cain has written 113 columns for leading birther website" implies that Herman Cain is himself a birther, which is also false.

I don't know about you, but that qualifies as "phony" to me.
 
How many of Cain's columns stated that Obama wasn't born in the United States?
 
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