You know what liberals do? They hit below the belt. That’s the explanation given for the race-based treatment that the mainstream media are giving “beautiful man” Herman Cain, according to this exercise in crisis management produced by Cain’s camp.

Watch as they trot out the brothers — Cornel West, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Harry Belafonte — who’ve been party to this “high-tech lynching,” and then be amazed as parallels are drawn between Cain’s case and that of another high-profile African-American man who once found himself in the hot seat: Clarence Thomas. –KA

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