Herman Cain has a new chief spokesman representing the campaign, former Navy spokesman Jeffrey “J.D.” Gordon, who took over recently. But it wasn’t always fun and games for Gordon, who first had to overcome an alleged sexual harassment campaign from a female reporter.
Gordon’s strange tale began in 2009 when Gordon, then with the Navy, demanded the Miami Herald launch a “thorough investigation” into its military affairs reporter, Carol Rosenberg, who he said was serially harassing him with bawdy language and taunts. As The Daily Caller recounts:
In his letter to the Miami Herald, Gordon detailed what he called “multiple incidents of abusive and degrading comments of an explicitly sexual nature” he claimed to have been subjected to by Rosenberg. Gordon said that on one occasion Rosenberg asked if he had used “a red hot poker” in a sexual situation, and if he had enjoyed using it. On another occasion, claimed Gordon, Rosenberg implied he was homosexual who had taken his intern as a “companion.” He also claimed Rosenberg told both him and others that seeing him run without a shirt “was the most repulsive sight” she had ever seen, and “routinely” labeled government officials and other journalists as “‘bitches,’ ‘stupid,’ ‘lazy,’ ‘incompetent,’ ‘Nazis,’ ‘Saddam Hussein-like,’ etc.”
Gordon’s work in Guantanamo Bay gave him some added perspective on his trials. “I’ve been abused worse than the detainees have been abused,” he complained to CNN’s Howard Kurtz at the time.
Reporters defended Rosenberg and the Miami Herald concluded it “did not find corroboration” to back up Gordon’s accusations.
