Well-known whiney-ass pantywaist Eric Cantor, who is also the GOP House Minority Whip, was sent to the podium yesterday with a threefold task: Make light of the recent rash of violence and threats against pro-healthcare Democrats; blame the attacks on the victims for somehow “fanning the flames”; and create an equivalence by claiming there have also been attacks on Republicans.
Check, check, and check. Cantor was just the guy for the third task, as he had his own recent personal tale of terror to tell: “Why just this week,” he droned, “a bullet was shot through the window of my campaign office in Richmond.” Oh my! Maybe the violence truly is coming from both sides in the healthcare struggle.
Mr. Cantor modestly declined to link the attack to his Jewish faith, but famed civil rights activist Terry Crowley immediately knew exactly what was going on – an anti-Semitic hate crime perpetrated by pro-healthcare leftists!
“By the way, has everyone heard the leading Jewish Congressional representative had his office shot at?” Crowley thundered last night. “My god, they kicked Netanyahu out of the country for building some apartments, now they’re coming after the rest of them. The anti semitism of the Left rears its ugly head.”
Oh. Except for this: Police reports (which are all we have since there were no news reports on the “incident”) show that someone in a nearby neighborhood evidently discharged a firearm into the air one night, and when the bullet came back down it grazed the window of a Richmond office building where Cantor rented office space, shattering the glass. But wait – there’s even less: It was a first-story window of a two-story building where Cantor sometimes rents office space on the second floor. And no sort of message was left by the crazed “assailant.”
Josh Marshall, in a piece hauntingly entitled “Demzo Violentino,” observes:
…Cantor’s claim seems to be that he was attacked by one of those Renaissance military engineers from Italy who first discovered the parabolic ballistic equations that allowed you to shoot artillery nearly straight up in the air and have it hit your enemy on the way back down… I’m a bit surprised that he can even walk down the halls of Congress now without friends and associates snickering at him for making such a fool out of himself… In need of an incident to create a false and preposterous equality, Cantor has determined not only that this unknown assailant was an aggrieved proponent of universal health care but that he or she has an exceptional grasp of trigonometry.
To which famed civil rights activist Terry Crowley would quickly add in correction, “An aggrieved anti-Semitic proponent of universal health care with an exceptional grasp of trigonometry.”
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When I heard Cantors comments yesterday about the Dems flaming the fire, I could only think of a defense attorney blaming a rape victim. He is total douche, the stray bullet thing is just further confirmation.
I knew Cantor was a jackass but I didn’t know he was a Jew. So does that make me an anti-semite if I don’t like him?
Why is it if you condemn a Jew or Israel you are an anti-semite?
And if semites include Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Arabs, and Ethiopian Semites, why is it only “anti-semetic” when Jews are the issue?
Shouldn’t it be considered “anti-semetic” to attacks Arabs as well?
Yeah Sean, I’m afraid you have to live with the nomenclature. If you don’t agree with a position of the leftist homosexual lobby, you’re homophobic. If you disagree with a black politician, you’re a racist. You disagree with Israel, you’re anti-semitic.
Ah, I don’t accept any of that crap. Not that you would notice.
But I’ve never called you homophobic for opposing marriage equality. Or racist for constantly trashing Obama. I’m not sure if you’re either of those, but there’s just not enough evidence to go that far.
And I will always bridle at being called anti-Semitic if I criticize policies of Israel, or ridicule a douchebag like Eric Cantor.
i suspect he was attacked for being a closeted homosexual that supports a party/movement that would not support him if he lived outside of their vision of “normal”…
i couldn’t let this go:
Man Charged With Threatening To Kill Rep. Eric Cantor
Justin Elliott | March 29, 2010, 12:22PM
INFORMATION REGARDING THE DEFENDANT
NAME ADDRESS AGE
Norman Leboon Philadelphia, PA 33 years old
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/man-charged-with-threatening-eric-cantor.php
or this:
LEBOON, NORMAN SR
PHILADELPHIA,PA 19149 DISABILIED/RETIRED 6/20/08 $255 Obama, Barack (D)
LEBOON, NORMAN SR
PHILADELPHIA,PA 19149 DISABILIED/RETIRED 6/21/08 $250 Obama, Barack (D)
or this:
Obama Says “Argue With Neighbors, Get In Their Face”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCMDur9CDZ4
Yeah middleground, I saw that story this morning too. FINALLY a credible case of threatened violence from my side of the debate. Only a matter of time, I guess. Woohoo, let’s celebrate! NOT.
FINALLY a credible case of threatened violence from my side of the debate
which one? obama or leboon?
Don’t be stupid MG. There was absolutely nothing wrong about what Obama said.
Let me repeat it again, I see it was quoted with great CLUTCHING OF PEARLS by rightwingers during the ’08 campaign … while they and their reps use the roughest of rhetoric without batting an eyelash. I’ll repeat it from right off a rightwing site – even if it’s out of context it still looks fine to me:
I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.
And if they tell you that, ‘Well, we’re not sure where he stands on guns.’ I want you to say, ‘He believes in the Second Amendment.’ If they tell you, ‘Well, he’s going to raise your taxes,’ you say, ‘No, he’s not, he’s going lower them.’ You are my ambassadors. You guys are the ones who can make the case.
OOO – scary talk! Do I need to post an anthology of elected Republicans being TEN times more menacing? No, this tit-for-tat is stupid, just knock it off, and let’s all tone things down before there is real violence.
Yes Vern very Scary, but not as much as saying you’re dead if you vote yes, uttered by a leader of the Republicans in the house. And not even close to putting crosshairs on your website like the former Vice Presidential Candidate Lame Brain Palin did.
Toning things down is a great idea. Arguing over ideas or policy is a thousand times different that what is now happening, unfortunately mostly from one side.
No, this tit-for-tat is stupid, just knock it off, and let’s all tone things down before there is real violence.
too late. don’t worry about it though. my short term memory isn’t all that good either.
Left-Wing Terrorist Crashes Plane Into Austin, TX IRS Office, Blames Bush
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/left-wing-terrorist-crashes-plane-into-austin-tx-irs-office-blames-bush/blog-263391/
“Well, it wasn’t a right-wing tea party activist that crashed an airplane into an Austin, Texas office building housing an IRS office. It was a left-wing terrorist nut who has posted a lengthy suicide note online that rails against George W. Bush and the Catholic Church.”
It’s seeming less and less worthwhile to respond to your tiresome comments. Not everything fits in your little left-right dichotomy, and this terrorist certainly didn’t. But it WAS Republican politicians who jumped in saying, “You could understand why he would do that.” And teabaggers who accepted him as an anti-tax hero.
I’ll probably get tired of this real soon, and let your comments just stand. (I almost never delete things, and I’m usually the guy who approves your little barbs.) Like I said, this tit-for-tat is stupid, immature and unproductive. Send a couple more instances and I’ll see if I can ignore you. Maybe you can go 15 years back to the Unabomber or something, see if you can connect him with Obama, that’ll keep you busy for a bit.
Maybe you can go 15 years back to the Unabomber or something, see if you can connect him with Obama, that’ll keep you busy for a bit.
obama? no. Gore yes.
peace out.