By GottaLaff
Hey Eric. It's always a good idea to get your facts straight before you shoot your mouth off (no pun) to the press, blame Democrats for "dangerously fanning flames" (and boy, are their arms tired; rimshot), and claim a bullet was intended for you.
"Just recently I have been directly threatened. A bullet was shot through the window of my campaign office in Richmond this week, and I have received threatening emails," Cantor said, citing the fact that he is an elected official, and that he is Jewish.(Follow the links above for more details.)
Timing is everything:
Cantor's spokesman is now claiming in media interviews that Cantor didn't know that the bullet was randomly fired when he revealed the incident on national television Thursday.
The incident occurred at 1 a.m. Tuesday morning -- more than two days before the Cantor press conference. This afternoon, spokesmen for Cantor told CNN and the Plum Line that Cantor did not know when he gave the press conference that the bullet was randomly fired.
Maybe he should have checked the police report. Others did.
Of course, ClusterFox jumped right on the pretend "Cantor's office was shot up" bandwagon:
The news of the "shooting" was apparently first reported in a Fox "exclusive." Within an hour of the press conference, Fox was framing the incident this way on TV: "Gunman Shoots Up Office Of Number Two Republican."
Oddy, Cantor's people didn't acknowledge the following out loud when it became public:
Things looked even worse for Cantor when the Richmond Police Department today began explicitly describing the incident as "random gunfire". But now, Cantor's office is claiming in media interviews that Cantor didn't know that the bullet was randomly fired when he held the dramatic press conference.
Let's recap:
A random bullet landed on the floor of an office in the same building that houses Cantor's office. It wasn't intended for him at all. Yet he pointed fingers at the Democrats and said it was an anti-Semitic attack on his very life, but that's okay because he claims he just. Didn't. Know.
How responsible of him.
Mr. Reliable. And voters are supposed to trust this guy? Or are they just supposed to go into auto-sympathy mode while he plays the finger-pointing victim?
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The problem I have with these repubs that come in here spouting off about what is wrong with our government and they know how to fix it is, where were they during the Bush years?
How come it took the election of a Democratic president to unleash their anger? I mean what do you call Cheney's secret meetings with the fossil fuel companies early on before 9/11 and the wars they started?
Where were they when Bush was giving tax cuts to the rich without ever paying for the wars?
Where were the Repubs when the Republicans in power were turning our tax pay into an ATM machine for big corporations and private contractors?
Where were the Repubs when Bush was getting warned about an attack by terrorists and wouldn't even see his terrorist czar? 9/11 happened on his watch. Where was the anger then?
Where were the Repubs while the Bush administration was compiling the greatest debt this country has ever seen? They were listening to FAUX Noise playing the fear card daily or they were listening to Limbaugh, or Hannity, or Savage, or Levin, etc. demonize the liberals.
And now they want to say they are the independents and the wise ones when all I see is a bunch of marionettes still being controlled by their puppet masters who will lead them down the wrong road, yet again.
Yeah, our government is a mess and the Democrats are part of the blame.
But one year in power and they are to blame for this mess? That is hypocrisy on the highest level.
Government is not the problem. It is the money controlling the government that is the problem. And the ruling the other day by the Republican appointed Supreme Court Justices will only allow big corporate (including foreign) and the big Banks to control our government even more.
As Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator said, “Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power”
So anytime you Repubs come in here trying to defend yourself you won't get any respect here until you atone for your sins. Only then can we come together and fight the real enemy.