Jon Stewart: Refusing Media Questions, Herman Cain Is Saying ‘No Means No’

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Well, it’s the second week of Herman Cain’s sexual harassment scandal, and the story keeps pushing forward. On Monday, a fourth woman went public and detailed unwanted sexual advances by Cain.

Sharon Bialek, who worked for the National Restaurant Assocation’s Educational Foundation in the 1990s — along with her celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred — held a press conference at New York’s Friar’s Club, of all places.

While serious allegations were laid out, Allred served up a memorable line, saying Cain tried to show her client “his version of a stimulus package.”

Cain has responded to the accusations by claiming the media are unfairly attacking him. “Don’t even go there,” he told one reporter who asked about the scandal. “What part of ‘no’ don’t … people understand,” Cain said last week.

“If I have this correctly, I believe what Herman Cain is saying is ‘no means no,'” Stewart said. “I know what you’re gonna say … you’re gonna say look at how Herman Cain is dressed, with that suit, surrounded by all those microphones, he’s asking for it. ‘It,’ of course, being heightened media scrutiny.”

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