Some readers are doing so:
You use Amy Jacobson's account to back up Sharon Bialek's claims about sexual harassment. Why, indeed, would Jacobson lie about the meeting she witnessed between Cain and Bialek at a Tea Party event earlier this fall? However, Jacobson's story also raises serious questions about Bialek's story, in which Cain did not merely sexually harass her, but sexually assaulted her in a car. When someone grabs my head forcefully enough to push it towards his crotch while we're sitting in a car, I'm not so inclined to go up to him backstage and put my arms around him or speak closely in his ear.
Granted, reactions vary, but if Bialek was very concerned about candidate Cain last month, why did she wait until now to come forward with her story, Gloria Allred at her side, when Cain is leading polls and drawing the most media attention?
Another writes:
Ms Bialek alleges that Cain reached under her clothes and attempted to touch her genitals and also moved her head towards his lap. Her reaction? "You know I have a boyfriend?" What does that mean? "If I never had a boyfriend, this attempt at sexual assault would be ok? " She says she told her boyfriend but did not give him the details, and he said it would be a case of "He said/She said." I commend her for being the calmest person who has ever been subjected to an attempt at rape.
Another:
I detest Gloria Allred and won't believe any of this until there is more evidence. Allred is an opportunist and I'm sure she is making big bucks from presenting this woman. The woman accuser may be telling the truth, but she should have chosen a reliable attorney.
I find the person credible, whatever lawyer she has. And I regard Cain's bald-faced statement that he couldn't even recognize her, when he had seen her only a month ago, to be disqualifying on its face. Cain should be asked again: how can you forget someone you saw only six weeks ago? At this point, everything else is more elusive. But that fact – and what it implies about Cain's strategy and veracity – is now the crucial one.
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