. >> jon: some are saying it's a double standard here and whispers about john edwards when he was running for president, but none of the stories were brought to the fore until he was already out of the race. >> took the national enquirer banging and banging away to get the mainstream media to pay attention. >> there's not the pall and disdain that surrounded gennifer flowers and paula jones. >> what we learned from nthem. you be-- with a messy background. >> jon: what about looking into the background of accusers, gem mew. the ap looked at the most recent of the women to accuse herman cain and found there were, well, she is a sort of a serial lawsuit filer. >> here we go again blaming the victim. and in this case blame the victims, because it's he said, she said, she said, she said. and when we're looking at the cain casting couch situation as i look at it. why are we having so many stories about why did this young woman get into the car of a married man, versus why did the marry man upgrade a hotel room for a woman he didn't even know. and of course, mr. wood, he has to answer in the cou

after watching people like anthony weiner and john edwards i am explode of accusations in this vein, how could the cain campaign make the mistake. >> from "the washington post" said it's not a campaign ready for prime time. and you hate to-- that's what, look, it's horrible to say that there are rules sin nicks and beltway insider types if you don't play by the rules you don't make it. it's true, this is reality. >> jon: there were reactions of race involvement and coulter said the media wouldn't have run the story if cain were white, is that true, judy. >> that's just not true. john edwards, i mean, a list of politicians now and it's because of all who have come before him that the issue of sexual harassment is now on the table. our blacks are better than yours, i didn't know-- this is. >> this is not a high-tech lynching and the conservative movement is split down the middle, karl rove, ed rollins, satisfyi satisfying-- saying and let's get the facts out. >> if there's nothing there they should a want the facts out. he was accused of sexual harassment never convicted of sexual hara