Herman Cain is back from the dead… again… sorta.
The 2012 GOP presidential primary candidate, who died from COVID-19 in July 2020 after attending a maskless Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been trending all morning after Newsmax ran a story about Black conservatives.
Related: Herman Cain tweets from beyond the grave (again) and this time he’s questioning his own death
A screenshot showing Cain, alongside Sheriff David Clarke and Ben Carson, with a chyron that reads “Left considers Black conservatives to be traitors” has been circulating on Twitter. Also featured in the lineup is extreme right-wing YouTuber Ben Shapiro, who isn’t Black.
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This is an actual screenshot from Newsmax. I did not edit this. pic.twitter.com/zTevhmwMAH
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) April 20, 2022
Why Newsmax selected Cain for its lineup of Black conservatives is a mystery, especially when there are plenty of far more relevant, not to mention living, people it could have chosen–Herschel Walker, Candace Owens, or Tim Scott, just to name a few.
Related: So Ben Shapiro attacks LGBTQ people…because he wants to sleep with his sister?!
An even bigger mystery is why Shapiro, who believes homosexuality and transgenderism is the result of people being unable to “control their impulses”, was included on the list.
Here’s what folx on Twitter have to say about it…
I guess Diamond and Silk were busy so they had to get Ben Shapiro and Zombie Herman Cain to make a lineup of black conservatives. https://t.co/w2ppqr11Ce
— Joshua Holland (@JoshuaHol) April 20, 2022
Well, Herman Cain is mum on this subject and Ben Shapiro appears to be even deeper in the closet than anyone had imagined.
— Fieryside Chatter (@rmchair_expert) April 20, 2022
Ah yes, Ben Shapiro, the leading voice of black conservatives. The ghost of Herman Cain is a close second.
— Super Chrisseh (Hurry up Spring!) (@Chrissehcat) April 20, 2022
Apparently Herman Cain is the new Republican Jesus and he rose from the dead a couple days ago. https://t.co/e8Dhvp6ccT
— Hold My PomPoms Bitches (@Scattered211) April 20, 2022
remembering when herman cain caught covid at a trump rally, died, and then his account kept tweeting pro trump shit after he died. love those memories
— Pierre Marteau (@a_lolbrarian) April 20, 2022
Conservative media is running so low on black Republicans that Newsmax borrowed Ben Shapiro and a dead Herman Cain for this screen shot. Are they so embarrassed by Tim Scott they couldn’t use him? Too sexist to use Candace Owens? ? https://t.co/6nuo6cNRxN
— evie ? ? (@eviebauer727) April 20, 2022
In fairness, I don’t consider Herman Cain to be anything these days but dead.
— Pé🌻 (@4everNeverTrump) April 20, 2022
Guess NewsMax thought the reports of Herman Cain's death were greatly exaggerated #NEWSUPDATE https://t.co/wJ1RnaR1o3
— Cecil Duncan (@DuncanCecil) April 20, 2022
Ben Shapiro is only there to conjure Herman Cain at a Newsmax seance? pic.twitter.com/58xyHQgBkE
— Robert Johnson (@Rob184rob) April 20, 2022
Herman Cain been dead almost 2 years and Ben Shapiro whiter than me. You can't find 4 alive black people? https://t.co/C2cdmdONrm
— Jake (@JakeJohnsonTX) April 20, 2022
Kangol2
Look, Newsmax is really stupid, racist, misogynistic, and lazy, so this isn’t a total surprise, but I think Ben Shapiro might want to rethink his association with these extremists because they’re basically billboarding that they don’t think he’s…really “White.”
BennyTheHill
Since people can change their genders by just saying they’re male or female, regardless of their biology and genetic code. Then Ben Shapiro can be black, or Asian, or Hispanic.
Bosch
That’s because gender is neither biological nor genetic. Dumbass.
BennyTheHill
Bosch:
I guess you’re obsessed with me, now.
Listen, I already have a great boyfriend. And, besides, I have a firm policy of not permitting ugly and unintelligent men to suck my d, and since you fit that bill, we are NEVER going to hookup. 🙁
Bosch
@benny
Are you under the impression that your racism, homophobia, and disgusting pedo-defending behavioues are attractive?
You are trash.
Kangol2
@BennytheLoonyTunes, you ask Ben Shapiro if he’s Black. He’s as like as your racist @ss to scream bloody murder at the very suggestion, no matter what fake ID you’re using on here!
Polaro
There should be a law against lying purposefully on TV. Put Newsmax, OAN and Fox out of business. It is one thing to have a crazy opinion, it is another to purposefully lie to further a political or business agenda under the guise of free speech. Its fraud really.
ZzBomb
We used to have a law that did just that, but in the 80’s Reagan and the Republicans repealed it.
BennyTheHill
Polaro:
“There should be a law against lying purposefully on TV.”
That would put CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, and CBS out of business.
Bosch
“I know you are but what am I?” -Benny
mailliw110
Uhh, Miss Marcy, you forgot NPR.
ZzBomb
I def think Ben Shapiro is a self hating gay man who for the life of him cannot let himself be happy.
BennyTheHill
LOL!!!
Gays seem to think everyone else is gay. Gays are approximately 1-3% of the population. Accept that fact and get over it.
Bosch
Hahaha 1-3%.
You’re not just a troll, you’re a fkin stupid troll. Flunk highschool much?
Stefano
@Bosch : You are wasting your time trying to argue with him. He just wants to intimidate people on the site. All these comments are along those lines. No matter what you say, he’s going to say the same thing over and over again or try to diminish you. It’s his way of making himself feel better about his shitty life.
BennyTheHill
Bosch:
Yes, 1-3%, and I was being very generous.
An exhaustive study was done in the United Kingdom by its Office for National Statistics (ONS). LOOK IT UP!!! This study found that 1.1% of the population in the United Kingdom reported their identity as gay or lesbian.
Now, you’ll reply that many gays are too afraid to identify as gay. That may be true, but we can only go by the mathematical SCIENCE of statistics and quantitative analysis. I thought you leftists worshiped SCIENCE. Guess not when the science runs afoul of your agenda.
I’m a gay man, and I have no problem accepting this metric. Why do you feel so intimidated by it? Do you think that gay people are somehow socially or politically compromised because they don’t make up 10-20% of the population? I could care less. Why are YOU so concerned??? What do you fear???
Bosch
@stefano yeah you’re right. What can I say, i like picking on trolls. Especially when they’re not so good.
Eventually they do something extra dumb, like defend a bunch of convicted child abusers. Twice.
BennyTheHill
Stefano:
“Shitty life?”
If that’s really your pic, then YOU live the shitty life because you are butt-ass ugly.
Bosch
@benny
When presented with a list of convicted child abusers, you DEFENDED them.
And that’s gonna be in the Queerty comment section foreveeeeeer.
Bosch
@benny going around calling people ugly shows us exactly how low your self-esteem is. Did you sleep through middle-school psychology class?
Clearly, Stefano struck a chord when he commented about your shitty life. I’m sorry your shitty life is so shitty. Maybe if you spent less time defending GOP pedophiles on the internet, and more time with your imaginary boyfriend…
Jaquelope
ABennytheHill :
1-3% in the UK may be what the polls show, but we weren’t talking about the UK. The story was talking about the USA, which has a much larger population and a much larger land area than the UK all combined.
Kangol2
@Bosch & Stefano, BennytheLoonyTunes is a troll who’s popped up here intensely over the last half year. She has cycled through multiple identities but just remember, if you do respond, just cite verifiable facts, as others have done. She screeches and shrieks but she usually has no followup. She claimed repeatedly that Biden had the lowest favorability ratings of any elected US president when it turns out that 5 presidents over the last 100 years alone more than exceeded Biden, and this was easy-to-find information. BennytheLoonyTunes couldn’t answer it. None of her IDs could. They just want to disrupt conversations and defend far-right anti-LGBTQ politicians and policies. They’re anything but “libertarian” or “conservative.” They are extremely right-wing and reactionary, though!
Mister P
I agree the FCC should be enforcing laws like that.
Dangerous lies are not and should not be protected speech.
BennyTheHill
Mister P: You really are stupid.
You don’t know the law, obviously. The FCC has power ONLY over broadcast channels and the FCC must comply with the First Amendment according to Congressional statute and Supreme Court decisions. Cable channels are NOT under the FCC’s jurisdiction.
In the 1960s, it was the libs and leftists who defended free speech. Today, they want censorship, and now it’s the right, the conservatives, and libertarians who defend free speech.
Sad turn of events.
The left LOST the high ground on this most American of democratic principles!
Read the left-wing writer Naomi Wolfe’s analysis of this phenomenon. It’s excellent!
Bosch
“and now it’s the right, the conservatives, and libertarians who defend free speech.”
Oh, is that what the Don’t Say Gay bill is about? Free speech? Dumbass.
Mack
BennyTheHill when the Democrats were defending free speech they didn’t know that everything broadcast by the right would be filled with blatant lies. One after the other, after the other, after the other. Hell a Republican can’t even open their mouth without a blatant lie.
BennyTheHill
Bosch:
You’ve made it clear that you oppose the Florida law which outlaws pedophilia and grooming. Americans support this law. Even a slim majority of Democrats do, too.
Mack: Free speech is a human and civil right. It does matter what you say unless you have libeled or slandered someone. If that’s the case then sue the person engaging in those things. Remember, Nick Sandmann??? CNN slandered him and he sued CNN and won a multi-million dollar lawsuit against it. I’m sure Kyle Rittenhouse will do the same and win! That’s how you deal with libel and slander. You don’t deny FREE SPEECH.
The leftists have exposed themselves as supporters of authoritarianism. Sad!!! Read Naomi Wolfe. She writes about this ALL the time, and she is a full-fledged leftist and feminist!
Bosch
“the Florida law which outlaws pedophilia and grooming”
No Benny, it doesn’t outlaw pedophilia or grooming. Read the damn law.
mailliw110
Unfortunately, the FCC does not regulate cable. Only over the air broadcasts. The lies should be a class action lawsuit for slander.
Josh in OR
Newsmax: Such a reliable news source that we can’t even spell ‘David’ correctly. (And we think Ben Shapiro is black…)
BennyTheHell
BTW i am trueley obsesssssed with BenntyZheHillll but hers lost her style already and is so stale and useless ennymorw. Camm’s troll farm really scraped the button of the barrels findinh that one. Sad. We need a better benny 2.1
mailliw110
Aren’t you HE-lar-rious!
JeffBaker
I remember in the ’90s I was a regular reader of World Magazine precisely because of sloppy blunders like this!
whereshouldistart
My son sent me this one and asked what’s wrong with this picture.
I replied that one of them is dead.
He had to point out that Ben Shapiro is white.
I hate to admit it, but it’s the truth…
all liars look alike to me.