Newt Turns Fire on Cain

By ALEXANDER BURNS, Politico

11/11/11 3:18 PM EST

Newt Gingrich said Friday that Herman Cain should not have joked about Anita Hill potentially endorsing him for president, arguing in a radio interview that harassment is “not something to be joked about.”

“I think if you look at the concerns we have about issues like sexual harassment, if you look at the tragedy at Penn State, if you look at how people feel in general about this kind of stuff, it’s not something to be joked about,” Gingrich said on Laura Ingraham’s show.
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“He may well be innocent,” Gingrich said of Cain, “and I think it's perfectly reasonable for him to defend himself and for him to make clear who his accusers are, but these are not things, I think, that you joke about.”

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Herman Cain: Joke about Anita Hill endorsement was "in no way intended to be an insult"

Washington Post

Herman Cain says his joke suggesting Anita Hill might endorse him was “in no way intended to be an insult” to the Brandeis law professor. The former Godfather’s Pizza CEO was caught on video laughing when a supporter brought up the woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. Hill, for her part, said earlier this week that she had “no comment on Herman Cain” but that it was good to see that “we have evolved tremendously in discussing these kinds of issues.”

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