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justicefire

and fucking great...

Mar 25, 2010 12:00

apparently someone has now shot at Eric Cantor's office. This is what I was worried about....its getting out of hand. The Dems and Reps should get together and denounce these unwarranted responses. We have court cases and elections to settle these matters.
Drew

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johnbutler March 25 2010, 19:15:52 UTC

Eric Cantor the Democrat?

??? justicefire March 25 2010, 21:12:35 UTC

There is an eric cantor democrat? I meant Eric Cantor republican from.... the internets tell me from the state of Virginia (totally didnt know that just knew he puts the R behind his name)...
If he'd be a dem that would just be more of the same. He's a republican that creates the whiff of one ups manship...
Drew

Re: ??? _gothfather_ March 25 2010, 21:56:28 UTC

Eric Cantor is a Republican congressman from Virginia. He's the only one I know of. And strangely (or not), this is the first I've heard of this incident.

Re: ??? johnbutler March 25 2010, 22:31:19 UTC

Well, if he's an R, it must be one-up[s]-man-ship and not a real threat, right?

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No. This is not what happened... tricstmr March 26 2010, 21:58:08 UTC

See here:

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/police-on-cantor-incident-were-calling-it-random-gunfire.php?ref=fpb

No one was shooting at him at all...

He is directly distorting what happened.

Re: No. This is not what happened... tricstmr March 26 2010, 23:01:30 UTC

Was someone shooting the gun in the air in protest?
Drew

It is unclear... tricstmr March 27 2010, 01:41:44 UTC

.. but what is clear is that this incident, unlike what Cantor is portraying it as, has never been about someone taking a shot at him--and he knows this.

The bullet's trajectory was so vertically-oriented that when it came through the window, it didn't penetrate past the blinds right on the other side of the window.

Furthermore--it's not even clear that the bullet came through the window of Cantor's own office..... as the link notes the bullet "penetrated a window in a building that includes a campaign office of Rep. Eric Cantor."

So--a random bullet, shot from a random Virginian, up into the air, comes down and hits a window--and Fox News reports that a gunman has shot up Cantor's office...

Cantor knows all of this, and distorts it consciously.... there is no equivalence to these things...