After battling allegations of sexual harassment this week, a super PAC supporting businessman Herman Cain’s presidential campaign launched a web ad blaming the media for a racially motivated to defeat his bid for presidency. The video features a woman calling the allegations, first reported by Politico, a “high tech lynching,” and ends with footage from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s 1991 testimony in which he used to same phrase to deny sexual harassment charges.
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