mr. cusick. thank you for coming. in bernie goldberg on whether the mainstream media will step up the attacks on newt gingrich. also, did the press street herman cain fairly? bernie is next.
bill: sometimes. there is too much smoke. i happen to like. bill: with clinton there was a provable situation and that dove tailed back. only with monica lieu lieu eaten ski. lewenski. with cain there isn t anything like that. and i felt bad for him in the sense that. bill. bill: go ahead. you can t defend yourself by the way against that stuff. it s impossible. you can t. let me just say this very quickly. i think there was there is no question that conservatives are right when they say there is a double standard. the john edwards thing as you mentioned and even with bill clinton. there were some very serious sexual allegations against him. far more serious than anything that s been leveled against herman cain. the media ignored or down played those stories for as long as they could before they couldn t ignore them anymore. now, as far as herman cain is concerned, i don t know him personally. what i see on television i
are going to find, you know, people are going to go yeah, you know what? i ran into him 20 years ago and he did this. okay? that s an industry in this country now. a money-making industry. and it s impossible for me or any journalist to know it s true. we ll don t know what happened with herman cain. we don t know. that s absolutely true. we don t know what happened with herman cain. and we don t know that bill clinton actually exposed himself when he was governor of arkansas in front of paula jones. we don t know he raped a woman when he was attorney general of arkansas. we don t know for sure that he played grab behind with kathleen wily in the white house. but cliches don t get to be cliches by accident. you know the cliche where there is smoke there is fire?
john edwards. if it wasn t for the national inquiry. no question. so the media everybody knew that john edwards was doing stuff that wasn t legitimate. nobody in the mainstream media pursued the story. national inquiry had to do the story and they got it. the probable with herman cain story. i think i treated the factor treated herman cain very fairly. would you agree with that? yes. i went out of my way to treat mr. cain with respect and to look at this story in a way that wasn t exploitive, which is important for the audience to understand. very true in america you see now with penn state and syracuse. there is the woodwork factor. once you have an established charge from anybody, could be a martian from venus. lawyers think they can make money from it, lawyers, they
people are going to go yeah, you know what? i ran into him 20 years ago and he did this. okay? that s an industry in this country now. a money-making industry. and it s impossible for me or any journalist to know it s true. we ll don t know what happened with herman cain. we don t know. that s absolutely true. we don t know what happened with herman cain. and we don t know that bill clinton actually exposed himself when he was governor of arkansas in front of paula jones. we don t know he raped a woman when he was attorney general of arkansas. we don t know for sure that he played grab behind with kathleen wily in the white house. but cliches don t get to be cliches by accident. you know the cliche where there is smoke there is fire?