Is Cain Harassment Coverage 'Racist'? GOP Reveals Hypocrisy [VIDEO]

Trump claims Stewart's comments were part of a "very, very racist rant" against Cain, asking: "Where is Reverend Jackson? Where is Reverend Sharpton?"

"Nobody else could pull that off," the business mogul said in his "vlog" against The Daily Show. In a peremptory response to those wondering how a reference to the Lindbergh kidnapping, which few connect with thoughts of race, could be construed as racist, Trump had this response: "It's not what he said, it's how he said it. The tone of voice. The inflection."

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Stewart is indeed using a mocking tone when depicting Cain, but he uses the exact same voice to depict the commenter, earlier news reporters, and Gov. Rick Perry. In the past, Stewart has noted how ridiculous his voice impressions can be, even devoting an entire portion of his show to cataloging them when Fox News insinuated he was unfairly targeting Cain earlier this year.

The segment, meanwhile, was evenly split between discussions of how the harassment allegations will affect Cain's image (Stewart goes after stations for pairing the news with shots of Cain with a group of nuns) and how both Cain and Perry seem so deluged in scandals that Mitt Romney may be "the luckiest motherfudger on earth."

Regardless, Trump said Stewart had done "a horrible, horrible thing to the African-American community," and called on the host to apologize and temporarily step down.

GOP Calls "Racism" on POLITICO Allegations

Trump's attack may have been targeting The Daily Show (and with questionable success), but his comments come as part of a wave of GOP counter-attacks against POLITICO's allegations, with almost all of them saying the attack was motivated by racism and a deeply biased perspective on minority Republican politicians.

Cain himself started the offensive. "To use Clarence Thomas as an example, I'm ready for the same high-tech lynching that he went through," Cain said. The phrase "high-tech lynching" was taken from Thomas himself, who was accused of sexual harassment by lawyer Anita Hill during his Supreme Court confirmation in the 1990s. Denying the accusation, Thomas was successfully added to the Supreme Court, and said the attack was politically motivated by Democrats and the Washington establishment.

Cain's campaign team followed a similar line: "sadly, we've seen this movie played out before." Within hours, almost every major GOP news site and TV network was following the same strategy. Commenters have cast Herman Cain as the victim of racism by Democrats, arguing that the attention fixed on him since his long-shot run began has been motivated by fear of losing the party's monopoly on Black and Hispanic voters.

"I'll tell you what this really is," conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said on Oct. 31, also referencing Clarence Thomas. "It really is about Blacks and Hispanics getting too uppity."

"This is gutter partisan politics," Limbaugh declared, linking POLITICO's strike against Herman Cain to The Washington Post's recent reveal that Marco Rubio's story of fleeing Castro's Cuba was likely fabricated. "It's the politics of minority conservative personal destruction."