In what looks set to become the best — or possibly worst, we’re not sure — addition to American television in history, celebrity GOP pollie Herman Cain is launching his own network. Here’s the rather remarkable trailer.
Fame hungry GOP superstar Herman Cain will launch his career in radio next year, the latest in a long line of American politicians who have made the transition from politics to the media, writes Dashiell Bennett.
Compared to these guys, Obama is Howard Zinn on bad acid
With five primaries and caucuses done, with party favourite Mitt Romney leading, and with the next four contests before Super Tuesday favouring him, the 2012 race for the Republican nomination is beginning to slip quietly away from the top of the news agenda.
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Well it has been a helluva ride for the Republican Party, as its right-wing base searches for anyone but the passionless and, by American standards, centrist mainstream candidate Mitt Romney.
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Herman Cain isn’t serious, but that might not stop him
Of the Republican contenders -- Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain -- one name stands out. America's pundit class have been giving a lot of attention to the pizza tycoon.
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