Ad Compares Herman Cain to Clarence Thomas, Warns of ‘High Tech Lynching’
ABC News’ Jonathan Karl ( @jonkarl) reports:
An emotionally charged and slickly produced new video obtained by ABC News from the group Americans for Herman Cain portrays the sexual harassment story as a racially motivated effort to destroy Herman Cain.
The video ends with the Clarence Thomas’s closing statement at his 1991 confirmation hearing: “This is a circus. It is a national disgrace. It is a high tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves . It is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order you will be lynched, destroyed caricatured rather than hung from a tree.”
As Thomas speaks, the video superimposes the words “Don’t let the LEFT do it again.”
Americans for Herman Cain is a so-called Super Pac independent of his campaign.
A spokesman for the group tells ABC News the ad will run on television in Iowa next week and in a series of Internet ads on the Drudge Report and elsewhere. It will also be emailed to 25,000 Republicans in Iowa.
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Read more HERE about conservative claims that allegations of sexual harassment against against echo the Clarence Thomas hearings.