Yesterday, we began hearing reports the prominent GOP leaders were acknowledging that the flood of violence, hate and intimidation, inspired and egged on by the GOP, is inappropriate. Each acknowledgement has bee followed by a ‘but’. …but the Democrats are forcing a government takeover of healthcare. …but they’re afraid of Democrat socialism. …but the Unibomber was left wing. No excuse is too absurd, as they try to evade accountability for their behavior. Here’s the topper:
Eric Cantor, the second-ranking House Republican, claimed earlier today that his office had been the target of a politically motivated shooting.
If you thought Cantor’s claim seemed reminiscent of the the bogus "an Obama supporter carved a backwards ‘B’ into my face" story from the 2008 campaign, you were right.
According to AP, the Richmond Police Department now says the bullet that hit an office in the building where he has a campaign office was fired randomly.
Bullet that hit Va. congressman’s office random
RICHMOND, Va. — Richmond police say the bullet that hit a window of Republican Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor’s office had been randomly fired skyward.
Given the facts of the matter — that the bullet was fired randomly in the air, and hit a window in the building in which Cantor has an office (the bullet didn’t hit his office) — it is clear that Cantor willfully misled the media this morning. Cantor and his office knew that they were not targets of the shooting, but they claimed otherwise to score political points.
This is a big deal. Cantor is the number two Republican. He speaks for the party. And he brazenly dissembled to the national press corps on an issue of life or death. It might not be fair or balanced, but he should be held to a different standard: truth and accuracy.
Postscript: In related news, officials have determined that the gas line leading to the home of the brother of Congressman Tom Periello was severed intentionally. Tea partiers had urged members to "drop by" Periello’s brother’s home thinking it was the Congressman’s. [emphasis original]
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They have no excuse. Because the GOP is unwilling to conform to the basic premise that, in this country, we settle our differences with ballots, not bullets, every Republican in office is one Republican too many.
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Then there is the dad with his daughter run off the road in YN because he had an Obama/Biden bumper sticker. This is gonna get worse before it gets better…..
Judi, maybe not. With Congress ob Easter break, thay won’s be able to stir up hate from the balcony.
And Jed Lawson further learned today that not only was the window that was broken not in Cantor’s office, but the building is not even in Cantor’s district!
“Probably because the building isn’t in Cantor’s CD, it doesn’t have any actual campaign posters or other markings to indicate that Cantor has an office inside it. Moreover, the building’s address is not listed on his campaign website, so even if the bullet hadn’t been fired randomly, it’s virtually impossible to imagine how somebody could possibly have decided to target this location.”
ahttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/26/851031/-Cantors-campaign-office-isnt-in-his-congressional-district
I heard Pete Williams on NBC Evening News last night and Kelly (GOP Shill Extraordinaire) O’Donnell on the Today Show this morning promoting Cantor’s outright lie. Where did all the real reporters go?
Thanks Nameless. Great find! As for real reporters, I know of three: Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and Ed Schultz.