Rachel Maddow: 'Herman Cain Is An Art Project' (VIDEO)

Rachel Maddow criticized Herman Cain on her show Wednesday night for his mounting foreign policy gaffes. She has laid into the GOP candidate for his foreign policy comments in the past, and has even questioned the authenticity of his campaign by calling it "satire." However, she took things to a whole new level by making her own protest sign about Cain.

Maddow opened her show by running clips of George W. Bush being interviewed in 1999 by a reporter in Boston, Massachusettes. Bush was asked to name four leaders in what the reporter called "four hotspots," which Bush could not do.

"Does this remind you of anybody?" Maddow asked viewers. She then ran clips of Herman Cain's "Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan" comment, his comment that China was "trying to build nuclear capability," when the nation has had nuclear weapons since 1964, and his Libya gaffe.

Maddow mocked Cain's campaign for trying to turn what she called their "foreign policy problem" into "an asset." She quoted Cain who recently told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that he was "not supposed to know anything about foreign policy." Maddow also ran a clip of Cain telling supporters that he was "often criticized for not knowing this and that..." and that "a leader does not have to know everything."

Maddow held up a massive banner that said "Herman Cain Is An Art Project." Maddow was reiterating her point that, according to her, Cain's campaign cannot be considered serious. "I don't think I need to try to prove this anymore," Maddow said. "I think the evidence is overwhelming. Can we just concede that we agree on this?" Maddow asked of her viewers.

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[zest]

08:19 PM on 11/20/2011

Republican canidates are supported no matter their depth on issues because they can be manipulated by the business community and the Pentagon; i.e. facism.

[SOFOM]

06:01 PM on 11/20/2011

Hey Artu di-tu,

So Obama was highly qualified to be president? Really? Had Obama been a 50 something white community organizer he wound NEVER have been elected. He couldn't govern even one of our 57 states...LOL

[Michael Rappaport]

07:48 PM on 11/20/2011

Bagger, please. He was a senator. Get your facts right and you might get a fan someday.

[mikal haley]

09:24 AM on 11/20/2011

Rachel Maddow is dangerously superficial.

[BlackWidowPilot]

04:20 PM on 11/20/2011

Can you actually disprove anything Dr. Maddow has reported on, citizen?

Do you have any empirical proof to offer up, or is a transparent effort to try and "shoot the messenger" all you've got?

Can you even tell a fact from a mere opinion?

Do tell.

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[atlasusa]

08:49 AM on 11/20/2011

Evidently YOU lack a good sense of humor.
On the other hand, Herman Cain is an American Embarrassment.

[Artu Di-tu]

07:20 PM on 11/19/2011

What's your point. Rachel was highlighting Cain's unsuitability for the US Presidency...as was GW Bush. How about an article of the bashing at the hands of FOX News pundits such as Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck (for as long as he was allowed without his muzzle), etc

Not even close to being the same!

[ThermoChemist]

12:56 PM on 11/19/2011

A Cain / Bush 43 comparison was made?

A major difference between the two... Cain does NOT have "a Rove" that is determined in "teaching" him the basics (so that he can look like a "passable" candidate to a wider audience).

[bashadad73]

12:30 PM on 11/19/2011

wow, the huff sucks! They take too long to review posts!!

[bashadad73]

12:24 PM on 11/19/2011

Anything is better than our current president and msnbc. The former is no leader and the latter is so bias it makes fox look center

[Artu Di-tu]

07:21 PM on 11/19/2011

Tr011...collect your spare change!

[learnsomething]

12:17 PM on 11/19/2011

Those are not gaffs, Cain just does not know anything other than running a pizza business.

[Iamrebelriser]

11:52 AM on 11/19/2011

It appears that the know nothing baggers have access to computers, so I strongly suggest that they go to several sites that highlight the news and get the truth instead of blindly believing & repeating FOX or Limbaugh. Geeez! that is outrageously stupid.

[mikal haley]

09:31 AM on 11/20/2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Block

some of the SALIENT dirt on the Cain Campaign is therein!

[BlackWidowPilot]

04:26 PM on 11/20/2011

Wikipedia is not considered a valid citation source in K-12 public school, citizen, so what makes y'all think it's going to pass muster in an *adult* conversation?

Try again.

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[Iamrebelriser]

11:11 AM on 11/19/2011

The whole republican party, whether on purpose or due to their lack of morals & followers, has dumbed down to the point of hypocrisy. I wouldn't even call Cain anything to do with art, because I believe he is an abusive crab. How in the hell can any person think they can be a candidate for any office without being available to the people & the press? I'm wondering if the ignorant Tea Partiers know enough to worry about Cain's abuse, his knowledge of issues or his mentality. They think anyone who knows a bit more than they do is fit for office. Red lights should be flashing and sirens blaring when he appears in public, but the stupid don't want and can't handle truth.

[BlackWidowPilot]

04:27 PM on 11/20/2011

You have nooo idea:

http://www.republicanoffenders.com

All actual criminal cases, all matters of public record.

I remain convinced that when Newt the Serial Philanderer declared the GOP "The Party of Conservative Christian Family Values" he really meant the locals from THE HILLS HAVE EYES.

Yeeeach.

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[Gigi Jacobs]

11:07 AM on 11/19/2011

That pesky math sure does get in the way for you. Now remember, when you send in that check, it's real simple: the amount paid in federal tax divided by total amount of net income equals 35% and nothing less.

Oh, you want the 35% of those 15% with no job? Go ahead and take it too. let's see 35% of 0 equals 0.

All done with pen and paper-not super committee unless you mean me. Why are we arguing about the big 3 social nets, when those who earn all the income don't pay their fair share? Just pay it and shut up and move on. If 35% of a million is too much to pay and you just don't want that remaining 65%, then hand over and the rest of us will gladly pay.

And that's why I think the human race is not evolved enough to be civilized yet. And perhaps if the 99% don't throw you out of your bank windows, it's better we let it self destruct for this is not a species worth keeping anymore.

Gigi Jacobs
small business, Los Angeles, CA

[BlackWidowPilot]

04:37 PM on 11/20/2011

Ms. Jacobs, I respectfully beg to differ; ours is a species well indeed worth saving. I offer up the poetry of Rumi, the collected works of Handel and Sibelius, the writings of Twain, Chaucer, Voltaire, and Shakespeare, the music of Woody Guthrie, Sting, David Bowie, and Sade, the discoveries of antibiotics, the computer, an embryonic space program, and the architecture of Rome for Exhibit A.

What we have is an infestation of *authoritarians* in our body politic and our halls of government. They are a minority, but indeed, a virulent one as the historical record shows plainly.

Let us focus on the minority who are the problem, and not condemn the whole species. That frankly makes about as much sense as shooting all dogs because some contract rabies.

Oh, and I recommend Sun Tzu's *The Art of War* to anyone who wants to start understanding how best to defend against the authoritarians among us.

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[Gigi Jacobs]

11:06 AM on 11/19/2011

Do you know what the yearly income of the US is? It's 12 trillion dollars. And about 10% of the country's earners make 90% of the US income. Now we already know that Warren Buffet and others pay 17% and of course we know corporations pay 0...maybe sometimes 4%. So the average of this 90% of income is taxed at an average of 10%.

But you top 10% are all complaining about paying 35%. So, you know what, why not pay the 35% you complain about? 90% of 12 trillion dollars is 10.8 trillion dollars. Since you pay 10%, let's add that 25% you complain about but never pay. So, let's see 25% of the 10.8 trillion dollars....and we have 2.7 trillion dollars more PER YEAR in revenues.

As I see it, there's your balanced budget-not cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and social security. And the left over will pay off the debt in just a matter of years. See, the top 10% make up 90% of all income earned, so it they'd just pay their taxes, then we won't have any deficit to worry about.

All created, lied, falsified, by liars like the Koch brothers and the like who cannot live on 50 billion per year. Next time one of the 90% income earners complain of paying 57%of total taxes, remind them that they are 33% short.

[Gigi Jacobs]

10:31 AM on 11/19/2011

Here's the problem. Some human gets the idea he's an advanced race. only what kind of an advanced race takes, steals, and lies to make as much money as it can? Not our race. Oh, there are few who do a good days work for a good days pay. But for the most part humans are more cruel than any rodent I know.

Maybe we should just let this greedy race annihilate itself and we can hope for a better breed next time around. If the 1% hasn't gotten it yet, and if the 99% don't physically throw them out of their Wall Street offices, then it better we let this race go and hope for a better round next go around.

I have completely given up in anything called the human race. Greedy, selfish, arrogant, etc. What more can be said.

[ThermoChemist]

12:51 PM on 11/19/2011

"I have completely given up in anything called the human race. Greedy, selfish, arrogant, etc. What more can be said."
=========

John Connor: We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.

The Terminator: It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.

John Connor: Yeah. Major drag, huh?

: (

[Gigi Jacobs]

03:09 PM on 11/19/2011

ThermoChemist,

What I've said is not going to be very popular, but sadly, I truly belief....we aren't going to make it. And yes, a major drag! ; (

[mikal haley]

09:33 AM on 11/20/2011

what if it's just YOU and YOUR greedy self-centered arrogance, ms, jacobs?
have you MET AND TALKED WITH every member of the human race that should be let go until the "maybe" next go around that you have no real way to assure will happen?

you might be the scariest monster on this web site.
i think i wanna be your friend.

[termack]

09:09 AM on 11/19/2011

More good Herman Cain stuff:
http://kravisblog.net/RICK_PERRY.php