If only the Secret Service had been there to protect Herman Cain
from the Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel editorial board...
Apparently editorial board editors from Wisconsin to New Hampshire are getting a bit
too unruly for Herman Cain:
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain began receiving protection from the U.S. Secret Service Thursday, his campaign said, making the Georgia businessman the first GOP presidential contender to received stepped-up security on the campaign trail.
Cain spokesman J.D. Gordon said Thursday night that the campaign asked for the protection after The Washington Post posted an article online that morning detailing a series of physical skirmishes involving journalists at Cain rallies. [...]
Gordon would not say how many Secret Service agents would be positioned with Cain, but the spokesman said the coverage began Thursday night in New York, where Cain taped an interview on the “Late Show with David Letterman.”
On the campaign trail, Cain “draws anywhere from a dozen to 50 media at his events," Gordon said. "When he gets out at a rally or a campaign stop, it has been increasingly common for media to be physically putting themselves and others in danger by trying to follow him with a lot of heavy equipment and cameras in close quarters like we saw yesterday."
This doesn't seem like the wisest use of taxpayer dollars. Then again, after that disastrous Libya interview he did in Wisconsin the other day, you can appreciate why Herman Cain wants protection from the media.