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“Come clean,” Sharon Bialek challenged Cain, demanding he confess to any inappropriate behavior with her or other women. She is the first to go public with her allegations.

Cain’s campaign instantly issued a denial. “All allegations of harassment against Mr. Cain are false,” it said.

Cain is one of the leading contenders in the race to challenge President Barack Obama for the presidency.

Bialek’s appearance at a news conference marked a new and — for Cain — dangerous turn in a controversy that he had been trying to lay to rest.

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She described an evening in mid-July 1997 when she had dinner in Washington with Cain, whom she had contacted in hopes he could help her find a job. The two were in a car for what she thought was a ride to an office building.

“Instead of going into the offices he suddenly reached over and he put his hand on my leg, under my skirt toward my genitals,” she said.

“He also pushed my head toward his crotch,” she added.

She said she told Cain to stop, adding that he did.

Bialek said she did not file a workplace complaint against Cain at the time because she was not employed.

She said she informed both her boyfriend, an unidentified pediatrician, and a longtime male friend.

Bialek appeared at a news conference alongside Gloria Allred, an attorney known for sexual harassment cases.

As if to blunt any attacks on her client’s motives, the attorney described Bialek as a registered Republican, and a woman with a long and successful work history.

Allred said Bialek was employed for parts of 2006 and 2007 at the Educational Foundation of the National Restaurant Association, an industry trade group that Cain headed at the time. She said she first met him at an organization convention, interacting with him several times over the course of a few days.

In mid-2007, Allred said, Bialek was fired from her job, and her boyfriend suggested she contact Cain in hopes he could help her find employment.

That led some time later to a trip to Washington, where Cain upgraded her hotel room to a suite, Bialek said, and the unwanted sexual advance took place after they had gone to dinner.

“I want you Mr. Cain to come clean,” she said. “Just admit what you did. Admit you were inappropriate to people.”

She added: “Mr. Cain, I implore you: Make this right so that you and the country can move forward and focus on the real issues at hand.”

 America’s favorite father pulled no puches during his appearance on NBC’s Today Show. Dr. Bill Cosby expressed his views on everything from poverty to literacy. Things got heated when “The Cos” was asked about “The Don’s” possible run for president in 2012. Mr. Cosby stated that Donald Trump was “full of it.”  He went on to say that if  Trump wants to run he needs to announce it or shut up.

I gotta say, most people aren’t accustom to hearing Bill Cosby talk like that about anybody. For sure he is NOT Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable and he most defintely “AIN’T NO PUNK!” Check the video from the show now:

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Now I already told you about talks for Men In Black 3 and now execs are in talks for an Independence Day Trilogy.

2012 director Roland Emmerich is pondering a pair of follow-ups to his ’96 Alien hit Independence Day.

“What we want to do in the next – it’s actually two movies – we want to do a bigger arc,”  said Emmerich . “Independence Day was always like the king who leads his troops into battle against an evil force, and that stays like that.”

Last month Latino Review reported that Emmerich was chatting about the possibility of a sequel and that budget concerns –namely that of  Will Smith’s salary– was holding down production.

“Will is essential for us, for this movie and actually for the audience too. And, so, it’s in limbo and lately the studios are fighting,” Emmerich said on Fox asking him about the possibility of an Independence Day 2 without Smith. “Will is a gross player and is probably the only gross player right now who’s worth his gross. So we’ll see what happens. I would love to do it.”

2012 is out today in U.S. theaters.

Via: Reelloop.com