On the 18 October 2011 edition of The Early Show, CBS political analyst John Dickerson might have stepped too close to calling GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain a minstrel: "Now that he [Cain] is a top-tier candidate...he probably has to moderate the jester act a little bit, and show that he can...be seen by voters as a president." Dickerson was replying to Cain's recent controversial remark about an electrified border fence.
