Philadelphia Inquirer Headline Claims Cain Accused of Sexual 'Abuse'

It’s just a fact that no one knows the specifics of what GOP frontrunner Herman Cain was accused of while he was running the National Restaurant Association from 1996 to 1999. Nor, outside of the term “five figures,” do we know what the amount of the settlements were. There are no reports, however, that the police were involved. What we do know is that even though Politico doesn’t have much of a story, the same MSM that ignored a sex scandal involving Democrat John Edwards while he was running for President is now obsessed with a decade-plus old scandal involving a black Republican.

It’s also pretty obvious that The Philadelphia Inquirer has just decided to take it to another level with this wildly misleading headline:

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A tipster informs us that this is the headline in the Inquirer’s print edition, as well.

Here’s Merriam-Webster’s definition of sexual abuse:

1 a:the infliction of sexual contact upon a person by forcible compulsion b:the engaging in sexual contact with a person who is below a specified age or who is incapable of giving consent because of age or mental or physical incapacity2:the crime of engaging in or inflicting sexual abuse

Here’s Merriam-Webster’s definition of libel:

a written or oral defamatory statement or representation that conveys an unjustly unfavorable impression

Attempting to twist a free-thinking black man who threatens the establishment into a scary sexual predator is a tactic as old as, well, the Democratic Party itself.