Report: Attorney Gloria Allred to Appear at 1:30 ET Presser with a Woman to Accuse Herman Cain of Sexual Harassment – 11/7/11

Oh my. Just when you thought the Herman Cain harassment soap opera was about to die down, enter just the person to give it a steroid shot: Gloria Allred.

The lawyer who loves the limelight is going to appear with a woman – not one of the previous three accusers – who claims she was sexually harassed by Cain during his tenure at the National Restaurant Association. The woman is supposedly going to appear with Allred in New York at around 1:30 PM ET, and go on the record with her allegations:

MICHELLE MALKIN: Yep: Gloria Allred is back. And she’s scrambling to hop aboard the Cain Train.

Gird your loins. Er, maybe that’s not the best idiom.

Get ready for the Gloria Media Gaggle. Estimated time of circus debut: 1:30 pm Eastern. . . . As much of a despicable publicity-seeker as the Paris Hilton of Lawyers is, it’s a mistake to completely write off Allred before the presser. The last time we saw her, I must remind you, she was attached like a barnacle to the side of one of Anthony Weiner’s sexting pals. And we know how that all — rightly — ended.

That said, while Cain botched the initial response to Politico’s vague story and the race-card playing by all sides has been over-the-top, the scandal qua scandal has so far been a dud. . . . Read More