While on Lebanese television, Media Matters ally Max Blumenthal fabricated several quotes and attributed them to Herman Cain. Only Blumenthal knows whether these fabrications were intentional, so as to discredit Cain maliciously, or born of Blumenthal’s poor recollection ability.
Let’s review.
BLUMENTHAL QUOTE:
” … who has said that he would impose loyalty oaths for any Muslim who wanted to serve in the federal government. Completely unAmerican.”
ACTUAL CAIN QUOTE:
” … I would ask certain questions, John. And it’s not a litmus test. It is simply trying to make sure that we have people committed to the Constitution first in order to for them to work effectively in the administration.”
BLUMENTHAL QUOTE:
” … he said that mosques should not be built in American communities …”
CAIN:
Wallace: So you’re saying any community, if they want to ban a mosque?
Cain: Yes, they have the right to do that.
BLUMENTHAL:
“And he is the former CEO of a pizza company called Godfather’s Pizza. That’s his, you know, that’s where he comes from. It’s a pizza, I remember as a kid, it gave everyone diarrhea and made everyone sick.”
Retracto can say that he before has enjoyed a slice of Godfather Pizza and there were no unfortunate side effects.
We request that Max Blumenthal retract his false remarks.