How about Gloria Allred and Sharon Bialek take lie detector tests?

In all of American history, has there ever been a presidential candidate or sitting president who was asked to take a lie detector test by a member of the media?

Answer: no.

How about the numerous accusations of sexual violence against women by Bill Clinton? Or Barack Obama's links to domestic terrorists, racists and virulent anti-semites?

Of course not.

Only a black conservative would be targeted this way, with the accusers tied (coincidentally, I'm sure) to the Obama machine.

Bialek, who just happens to live in Obama campaign chief David Axelrod's luxury building, is a woman with a checkered background:

Sharon Bialek is 50, out of work and, according to one who knows her, she’s a smooth operator living way above her means... Bialek pranced into the Friars Club yesterday with lawyer -- who else? -- Gloria Allred aboard patent-leather do-me pumps. She proceeded to spill a dirty little secret she claims to have harbored these last 14 years -- presidential front-runner and fellow Republican Herman Cain made a pass at my junk!

With that, she became the fourth woman to accuse the GOP presidential front-runner of sexual harassment -- and the first to proudly show her face.

She did so with the breathy giddiness of a gal who’s read too many bodice-rippers. Bialek, who had her bleached-blond hair set in waves for the occasion, recounted with a broad grin the night back in 1997 when she flirted like a tart with the “inspirational” Mr. Cain... But the question remains: Why sit on this seeming sexual assault for 14 years?

According to someone who knows Bialek: “...she’s a complete gold digger. It’s all about the money.” The friend said she comes from a lower-middle-income family, but lives in a posh apartment running from bill collectors. “Most of her jobs ended in termination. It’s always the employer’s fault, not hers.

“This is a lady who lives off the system. She is hellbent on finding a way of never having to work and living the lifestyle she wants to live, a very affluent lifestyle. In my next life, I want to come back as her.”

It's not hard to imagine her approaching Axelrod, who she admits she's seen in the building, and offering her "services". Character-assassination services, that is, not unlike the many Axelrod campaigns where mysterious allegations are unearthed and sealed records become, eh, unsealed.

Veteran CBS reporter Bill Kurtis called Bialek a "woman with a history" and implied it was more likely she would have sexually assaulted Cain than vice versa.

Say, I've got an idea: how about a polygraph apiece for Sharon Bialek and Gloria Allred?


Update: "Investigator: Herman Cain innocent of sexual advances"