Cain's Chief Of Staff Proving To Be A Serial Screw-Up Artist

Cain's Chief Of Staff Proving To Be A Serial Screw-Up Artist

Yesterday, as Herman Cain continued to fend off multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, Cain's chief of staff Mark Block went on Sean Hannity's eponymous Fox News show and did something unaccountably stupid. With the recently leaked name of accuser Karen Kraushaar in hand, he concocted a secret conspiracy between the accuser and Politico, who first broke the story of Cain's sexual harassment accusations, and then said that he had "confirmed" this:

"Her son works at POLITICO," Block said of Karen Kraushaar, whose name POLITICO printed earlier today after other media outlets made her identity public.

"I've been hearing that all day - you've confirmed that now?" Hannity asked.

"We've confirmed that he does indeed work at POLITICO and that's his mother, yes," said Block.

The only problem here is that if you abide by the laws of material reality that govern the universe, this is untrue and it's therefore not something that's possible to confirm. Josh Kraushaar -- the younger Kraushaar to which Block was referring -- is not Karen Kraushaar's son. The two are not, to their knowledge, even related. (Kraushaar also left Politico for National Journal in 2010, but that's almost beside the point.)

UPDATE, 1:25pm: The Cain campaign is now responding to critics regarding their Kraushaar cock-up. Via TPM:

“Based upon information available at the time of Mr. Block’s Tuesday night interview on Fox News, the campaign was led to believe that Mr. Josh Kraushaar, currently with the National Journal and a former employee of Politico, was the son of Karen Kraushaar,” campaign spokesman J.D. Gordon said. “We have since learned that is not the case.”

But what on earth is Gordon referring to when he says, "based on information available at the time?" There was no information available at the time. There was, at no time, "information" that suggested that Josh Kraushaar was the son of Karen Kraushaar. The Cain campaign, in making that allegation, was operating with the absence of information. They threw some junk at the wall, hoped it would stick, it didn't, the end.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/0 ... 84106.html

You can't make this stuff up.... rofllol

They are also going after her by claiming that she works for the Obama administration.

Nevermind the fact that her complaint against Cain was filed in 1999, when Obama was still in diapers (politically speaking). :bash

Looks like the Kraushaar "confirmed" connection came from an amateur sleuth who saw the last name at Politico and presto, 2+1=4. Alert the Cain campaign.

http://bcove.me/w5z3dxku

Well, it had a lot of the same letters in it... That's "close enough for jazz" for the dirty-tricks machine...

Cain has really screwed the pooch on this...with all of his denials, he is begging for the women to all come forward. week two of this. I wonder if it comes up tonight in the debate? oh yeah it will

Just one more in a log litany of reasons why we need a revolution to really clean house.

it's starting in the streets now... get out there and join in... this time it is not funded by a political party.. it is just people