Herman Cain: Jon Stewart Attacked Me ‘Because I’m Black’

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Earlier this month, ThinkProgress reported that GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain told an audience in Pella, Iowa that he would not sign a bill longer than three pages. (Cain later said he was “exaggerating.”)

Jon Stewart picked up on the story, imitating Cain and joking that if Cain was president he would require everything to be shorter: “Treaties will have to fit on the back of a cereal box … The State of the Union Address will be delivered in the form of a fortune cookie.” You can watch the segment here.(Chris Wallace later replayed the segment during Stewart’s appearance on Fox News Sunday.)
Speaking Wednesday at the Iowa Falls Fire Department, Herman Cain lashed out at Jon Stewart, claiming that Stewart was only targeting him “because I’m black”:

I did an interview on Sean Hannity’s show on the way over here. I had been traveling the campaign so much I did not hear what Jon Stewart said on Chris Wallace’s Sunday morning show last Sunday. Where he was mocking my three page bills. Did you see that show? And then he mocked me with a, you know, Amos and Andy type brogue. And Sean said you didn’t see that? And I said no Sean, I didn’t see that, I’m out campaigning. And so they played the clip. And I said well Sean first of all if he really thinks that I’m serious about a bill only being three pages the joke’s on him. And I said secondly, as far as him mocking me, look I’ve been called every name in the book because I’m a conservative, because I’m black.
Sticks and stone may break my bones, words are not going to hurt me. I was on that radio show because a happen to be an American black conservative. I labeled my self. I’m an American Black Conservative, an A-B-C. They keep trying to put labels on me. I have been called “Uncle Tom,” “sell out,” “Oreo,” “shameless.” So the fact that he wants to mock me because I happen to be a black conservative, in the words of my Grandfather, “I does not care. I does not care.”

Video mentioned above: http://www.aoltv.com/2011/06/10/jon-stewart-says-herman-cain-does-not-like-to-read-video/

Article from:
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011/06/23/251851/exclusive-herman-cain-jon-stewart-attacked-me-because-im-black/

[ergot]

1. boo fucking hoo

:grr:

[KansDem]

2. "Treaties will have to fit on the back of a cereal box "

Hey, Herman! How about a pizza delivery box? You know, that square thing that tastes a lot like your pizzas!:puke:

[tanyev]

3. Huh. I didn't know Amos and Andy were Irish.

[JoePhilly]

4. He's right .... and that's why Fox News attacks Obama 24/7.

:sarcasm:

[KittyWampus]

5. AWESOME! With any luck, this gives Stewart more material.

[Ezlivin]

6. I'd also expect the future President Cain to solve problems in 30 minutes or less

Or I get back my fucking money.

[City Lights]

7. No Herman, he's "attacking" you because you're an idiot. nt

[no_hypocrisy]

8. High Tech Lynching 2011

Clarence Thomas Redux

[Initech]

9. Ah the no irony crowd at work.