On Monday, in an interview with Atlanta’s Fox 5 television station, Ginger White claimed to have had a 13-year affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. The 46-year-old said she came forward because she felt bad for the four women who’ve alleged sexual harassment charges against the presidential candidate:
It bothered me that they were being demonized, sort of, and being treated as if they were automatically lying, and the burden of proof was on them.
White says she’s “not proud” and that she “didn’t want to come out with this”, but felt the story would break sooner or later. She says she and Cain met in the late 1990s in Louisville, Kentucky, where Cain allegedly told her, “You’re beautiful to me and I would love for us to continue this friendship” after having drinks together following a presentation he had given as head of the National Restaurant Association. According to White, “he made it [the affair] very intriguing. It was fun. It was something that took me away from my humdrum life at the time, and it was exciting.”
In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday, Cain denied having an affair with White but admitted to knowing her: “Until I see and hear exactly what the accusations are going to be made, let’s move on.”Continue
In an interview with The 700 Club, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice revealed to co-host Kristi Watts that macaroni and cheese was the one thing she has to have at Thanksgiving. After viewing the clip, host Pat Robertson asked, “What is this mac and cheese? Is that a black thing?”
Watts replied:
“It is a black thing Pat. Listen: and you guys, other people, the world needs to get on board with macaroni and cheese,” said Watts. “Christmas and Thanksgiving — we have to have macaroni and cheese, and it trips me out that you don’t.”
Robertson admitted, “I really don’t, I don’t, and I have never.” Pat, you really don’t know what you’re missing!
It’s been over a month since 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley was reported missing from her Glendale, Arizona, apartment. Her mother, Jerice Hunter, was arrested on Monday on a felony count of child abuse following a police interview with Jhessye’s 13-year-old sister who said her mother told her to lie about Jhessye’s disappearance, kept her in a closet and that Jhessye had cuts and bruises before she was reported missing.
Jhessye was reportedly last seen Oct. 11 after Hunter said she left her in the care of her older siblings while she ran an errand. Although a polygraph has been offered to Hunter numerous times, authorities say she’s been uncooperative. In a press conference following Hunter’s arrest, Sergeant Brent Coombs said “with the information that has come to our investigators in the past few days, we do not believe that it will be likely that we will find Jhessye alive”.
On Tuesday, Hunter appeared in court and continued to maintain her innocence before the judge ordered her to be held on a $100,000 bond because of her history of child abuse and the severity of the charge against her. According to her teenage daughter, Hunter kept Jhessye in a bedroom closet and deprived her of food and water and had seen her younger sister with “black eyes and bruises and cuts to her face and body”. Continue
First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden were on hand at Sunday’s NASCAR season finale in Miami, where the served as grand marshals of the Sprint Cup Finale in support of their Joining Forces Initiative.
NASCAR fans booed the two as their names were announced just before they gave the “Gentleman, start your engines” command along with retired Army Sgt. Andrew Barry and his family. Mrs. Obama’s communications director, Kristina Schake, issued the following statement, choosing to focus on the positivity of the event: Continue