In acknowledging that one woman reached a settlement agreement with the National Restaurant Association, where he served as president in the 1990s, Cain said he mentioned to one of his accusers that she was about the same height as his wife, a comment that made it into the sexual harassment complaint, Cain said.
The first sentence, which notes that Cain acknowledged a “settlement agreement” with one of his “accusers”: The words “Settlement Agreement” and the implications implicit legally in “settlement”, as guilt of the accusations, is blatantly misleading, and links to an article published in the Post on November 8th with a quote from Cain that contradicts this statement.
From the Washington Post November 8, 2012:
Cain denied Kraushaar’s allegations at a news conference in Arizona.
“To the best of my recollection, that is the one that I recall that filed a complaint that was found to be baseless,” Cain said. “The accusations made of sexual harassment. They were found to be baseless. There was no legal settlement. There was an agreement between that lady and the National Restaurant Association and it was treated as a personnel matter because there was no basis to her accusations.”
In the statement made on the 8th, Cain does not “acknowledge a settlement”, rather states clearly “There was no Legal Settlement” - there was an agreement. It was, in fact a “severance”, an agreement of separation between employer and employee normally given an employee when there is a “lay-off”.
What is most egregious is the manner in which the media continues to insinuate, insulting (slandering) not only Herman Cain, but the reader (intelligence), who is clearly able to access the original article – with the apparent arrogance of the progressive stance that the “masses” are not smart enough to recall an earlier article, or to have watched a video, listened to a broadcast or read elsewhere the fact that Cain has denied any legal settlement was made.
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