Niger Innis, the national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality and a "volunteer adviser" for Herman Cain's campaign, goes on Fox News to attack a group that hasn't been terribly sympathetic to Cain's woes -- the "elites in the conservative media."
"I would caution Karl [Rove], I would caution members of the conservative elite that sexual harassment today is being used as a powerful, political weapon the same way that the race card today is used as a powerful, political weapon.
And I would caution these elites in the conservative media, as well as in the liberal media: do you really think it's just going to end -- this political tool -- with Herman Cain? I caution them to be careful about what they say."
A little risky. Cain needs all the friends he can get right now, and this won't make an already leery portion of the media think more hospitably of him.
By the way, here's some more small evidence of the Cain campaign's notoriously inept handling of all this.
At the beginning of the interview, Innis takes care to say he's not speaking for the Cain campaign, but Fox News host Jon Scott later objected, saying that Fox News was told he was speaking for the campaign. By the end of the chat, it was unclear whom Innis was actually speaking for.
