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" There are moments when I think that the best way to build a career as a professional Washington pundit is to make sure you forget everything you knew prior to the moment when the red light goes on over the camera lens. Last night, on MSNBC, Lawrence O&amp;#039;Donnell had Roger Simon and Maggie Haberman from Politico on to talk about whatever comes next in the saga of Herman Cain and his wandering... well, whatever it was of his that did the wandering a few years back. Both O&amp;#039;Donnell and Simon agreed that the women involved in the original complaints should come forward, confidentiality be damned. &amp;quot;I wish they&amp;#039;d come forward,&amp;quot; Simon said. &amp;quot;Who&amp;#039;s going to sue them? The National Restaurant Association is not going to sue them. Herman Cain&amp;#039;s not going to sue them.&amp;quot; Jesus H. Christ on a weekend furlough, have you watched any politics over the past 30 years? These women are not staying anonymous because they&amp;#039;re afraid that they&amp;#039;ll be sued. They&amp;#039;re staying anonymous because they don&amp;#039;t want to be destroyed in public by the wolverines of the lunatic Right. Put out their names, and they&amp;#039;re everybody&amp;#039;s Blue Plate Special on Fox News and all over your AM radio dial for the next two years, and that&amp;#039;s not even to mention the fact that there are some seriously unbalanced people out there who might decide to take this all very, very personally. Simon also said, &amp;quot;Nobody wants to be Anita Hill.&amp;quot; Well, nobody sued Anita Hill, either. But her character and reputation were trashed for the better part of two weeks by members of Congress. Her name was still being slandered by various spavined harpies last week in connection with this scandal, more than 20 years later. Good god, you&amp;#039;d have to be crazy to subject yourself to that. I hope we never find out who these women are. Getting sued? That&amp;#039;d be the easy part. As Politico looks like it will soon find out. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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