Herman Cain Sees 'Fakery' In Hillary Shoe-Throwing Incident

[DonViejo]

SAHIL KAPUR – APRIL 15, 2014, 1:10 PM EDT

Count Herman Cain among the "shoe truthers" who suspect that Hillary Clinton staged an incident last Thursday where a woman threw a shoe at her during a speech in Las Vegas.

In a tweet Tuesday, the radio host -- and former Republican presidential candidate in 2012 -- wondered if it was "fakery from the Clintons."

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Hmm...Fakery from the Clintons? RT @BestofCain: VIDEO: That Hillary shoe-throwing thing does look kind of fake, huh? http://bit.ly/P2R7DZ

9:21 AM - 15 Apr 2014

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/herman-cain-hillary-clinton-shoe-staged

[liberal N proud]

1. Why Herman, WHY?

[pinboy3niner]

3. Because he's a heel?

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Christmas came early for you with this deal, didn't it

Sock it to me.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. I see fakery

in Herman's pretenses of intelligence and rationality.

[gottafly]

4. Hillary has

Enough enemies without having to resort to "pretend" ones...

[wildbilln864]

5. who cares what this guy thinks?

[davidpdx]

6. Yes, Herman

The Clinton's hired the psychotic woman who is in love with James Holmes and who controls her mind from jail. Maybe James Holmes is in on it as well. I'm sure he told the wackjob woman to go there and throw the shoe at her.

[madashelltoo]

7. Captain Fake talking shit again.

Who has been bigger fake, fraud, imposter than this idiot?

[GeorgeGist]

8. Revolution 9?

That's Fakery.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. Does he "have the facts to back that up" this time?

[pinboy3niner]

10. I'm guessing the answer to that is "Nein! Nein! Nein!"

[nyquil_man]

11. Compelling arguments on Cain's site:

She doesn't duck out of the way until the shoe is already passed her.

Gee, no. She didn't see the shoe being thrown. Of course, if she had ducked before the shoe passed her, you would say, "This is obviously staged because she ducks in advance." So let's not pretend this is an actual argument.

She doesn't put her hands up to protect herself as you would expect when something is flying at your head. She sort of claps them.

Ah, but if she'd put her hands up, you'd say, "She doesn't put her hands up until the shoe is already past her," as if that proves something.

Does that look like a natural reflex action of someone who has just realized an object is flying at them?

See above two.

Does the snarky grin on her face (check the screen grab above) look like the expression of someone who feels afraid, startled, alarmed or surprised?

It looks like a "what the hell just happened?" face. Snarky? Not so much. Bemused, maybe?

At first she asks, "Was that a bat?" Have you ever been in a room where a bat was flying around? Once the bat has fluttered past your ear, do you just calmly say, "Was that a bat?" Or do you try to figure out where it is and how to catch or kill the damn thing?

Never mind that. Why didn't she whip out her 9MM and just kill the damn bat right then and there?

Then: "Was that somebody throwing something at me?" Listen carefully to the inflection. I'm just asking: Did that sound sincere?

Obviously, a better line reading would have been, "Was that somebody throwing something at me?!?" accompanied by a howl of righteous anger. It would have been much more sincere. And then she should have caught or killed that damned bat.

The Cirque de Soleil comment? Does that sound spontaneous? Or written for her?

Yes, of course it was written. "Was that a bat? Was that a bat? Was that somebody throwing something at me? Is that part of Cirque de Soleil?" is dialogue worthy of Mamet.

[yuiyoshida]

12. Tweeted...

https://twitter.com/yuiyoshida1987/status/456183307013603328

[Johonny]

13. First the moon landing and now this, will the Clintons ever stop!!!

[Donald Ian Rankin]

14. Clinton's fiendish scheme for world domination starts with hiring someone to throw a shoe at her?

N.T.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Shoeghazi!

Where's the boot certificate?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. Ow.

[warrprayer]

16. Herman Cain

What an asshole

[edbermac]

19. What about Obama throwing a shoe from the grassy knoll??

It's all a conspiracy!!