Herman Cain’s “Joke”

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Over the weekend, Herman Cain raised some eyebrows and shocked some consciences by calling for a 20 feet tall electrified fence along the US-Mexico border to electrocute people trying to cross illegally into the US. Then he insisted on Meet the Press that it was just a joke. Here’s the video. You decide whether he was joking. Watch.

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