Herman Cain Pay Dirt

NYDN

Former Clinton political guru Dick Morris on Wednesday's Fox & Friends: "Thirty-five thousand is chump change" in sexual harassment case settlements.

NYT's Jim Rutenberg, Jeff Zeleny, Mike McIntire

If Cain is right that the charges were “baseless” and he’s the victim of a “witch hunt,” why did the association pay the women anything?  NYT columnista Maureen Dowd

Related: Gloria Cain Stands By Her Man The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet

A Wash Post scribe is taunting the National Enquirer to start throwing money around to get to the bottom of the Cain thing.  The Enquirer's Pulitzer-nominated installment expose of John Edwards wasn't picked up by the Real Media for more than a year.

CNN:  A new era for The National Enquirer? 

NBC's Today, ABC's GMA, and CBS Early Show have perfected crafting clever "get" payoffs that fail the checkbook journalism smell test.