your memory is faulty. the papers had a field day with clinton. papers always love stuff like this. i bet i could pull headlines from the NYPost and NY Daily News from that time which would make what they're doing to cain look simply benign.
what they would have done to clinton if he got his tax plan from the sims... now THAT would have been sometihing to see. they gave cain a huge pass.
the NYPost is owned by Murdoch.
I remember very well there was this story about Paula Jones and her court case in 1995 on
Sixty Minutes. The entire report was based on whether Clinton had a legal standing to avoid civil court. (The court ruled against him 9-0). When it came time for Jones to state what her complaint was, CBS cut off the audio and a voiceover said, "We've decided not to repeat the nature of the allegation".
I remember when
Sixty Minutes did a report on Kathleen Willey. The next day, the media dug up every person who had something bad to say about her, mostly that she was left with a lot of debts after her husband bankrupted the family and shot himself the same day Clinton groped her. (Man, that had to be a shitty day!)
I also remember when NBC news and Lisa Meyer produced a segment with Juanita Brodderick, the woman who claimed Clinton raped her in 1978. They had this report in the can before the trial in the Senate, but NBC news buried the report, and didn't air it until a month later. And even then, they broadcast it against the Grammies, hoping no one would watch it.
Now, yeah, we all knew Clinton was a horndog, but women who accused him were usually savaged until too many of them showed up.
By contrast, anyone who pops up out of the woodwork and makes an accusation against Cain is given instant credibility. Even if she refuses to go public with her name. Even if she never filed a complaint at the time.