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Friends of Herman Cain

"Who is Herman Cain?" +
  2:12 web video from Aug. 5, 2011.

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Stossel: This is Herman Cain.

[SFX] Sean Hannity: Herman Cain...

[SFX] Unidentified Female News Announcer: Herman Cain...

[SFX] Unidentified Male News Announcer: Herman Cain...

[SFX] Bill O'Reilly: Herman Cain..

[SFX] Female News Announcer: ...has gone from unknown to contender...

[SFX] Juan Williams: ...Herman Cain is gaining traction...

Cain [clip]: ...and climb the corporate ladder before it was cool for a black guy to be vice president...

[SFX] Stossel: Herman Cain has never held elective office...

[SFX] O'Reilly: ...but now he's getting national attention...

[SFX] Williams: ...I think a lot of liberals have trouble with anybody who's black and conservative.  Cain: Yes.  Williams: You don't fit in the box.

[SFX] Hannity: Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather...great success story...

[SFX] Stossel: I think voters need to know more about this man...

[SFX] Cain [clip]: Let's look at the facts...

[SFX] Cain [clip]: Uncertainty is killing this economy...

[SFX] Cain [clip]: It's time to have a problem solver in the White House...

[SFX] Stossel: I'd rather have a businessman be president than a career politician...

[SFX] Glenn Beck: I think you're real...

[SFX] Unidentified Citizen: I think maybe the country needs to be run like a business...

Unidentified Citizen: I do believe that the country should be run as a business...

[SFX] Stossel: Several American presidents have never held elective office before...  I don't know that he's George Washington, but maybe...

Cain [old clip addressing Clinton]: Mr. President, with all due respect your calculation quite honestly is incorrect...

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[Music "Get on board the Herman Cain train"]
SCROLLING TEXT: Schedule of Iowa tour.

Notes: The first one-minute plus of this video is a montage of short clips of various news announcers talking about Cain.  The device of running the video clips inside a clunky old computer monitor is a bit curious.  For the last 40-50 seconds of the video, the schedule of Cain's pre-Iowa Straw Poll tour scrolls up the screen.