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Eric Cantor’s Selective Condemnation

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Congressman Eric Cantor demonstrates what hypocrisy is all about.

At yesterday’s tea party rally on Capitol Hill, at least one protester brandished a large graphic photograph of the victims of the Dachau Nazi concentration camp, comparing health care reform to Nazi policies. Today, Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) spokesman called the photograph “inappropriate.”

Also, in an interview with Bloomberg, Cantor denounced Rush Limbaugh for comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler.

“Do I condone the mention of Hitler in any discussion about politics? No, I don’t, because obviously that is something that conjures up images that frankly are not, I think, very helpful.”

Ok, wonderful of Cantor to speak out…except this: Where the hell was he for the last year and a half when Obama was being compared to not only Hitler but to Mao, Lenin, Stalin and Satan himself?  Where was he when his party remained silent when Obama was being called a terrorist and Muslim?  Where was he when members of his own party made false claims of death panels in the health bill?

By way of his silence, Cantor was signaling that he had no problem with the smear and lies.  And now, the only Jewish Republican in Congress finds it offensive when Dachau is brought up by crazed teabaggers but yet every other ridiculous assertion by these ignorant mental midgets was not worthy of condemnation.

Go climb back under your rock, Cantor.

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Comments

  1. janine says:

    Cantor doth protests too late……which he has done on purpose because who in his party will hear him at this juncture?

  2. Tennessean says:
  3. @Tennessean

    Those pictures of Bush were as dumb as the ones of Obama…but that’s not what this post was about. Classic strawman tactics. You can’t defend Cantor so you attempt to introduce an angle which has nothing to do with the post. Whatever.

  4. janine says:

    @Tennessean,

    there you go again man, employing your dodges once more. Really, I’ve come to expect more from you

  5. Tennessean says:

    mario, no strawman or anything else. You stated, “Where the hell was he for the last year and a half when Obama was being compared to not only Hitler..”

    And you have repeatedly used what I consider the “dodge” of, “Well, you didn’t complain the previous 8 years. Why are you complaining now?”

    I was simply pointing that out, in case you had forgotten.

    As for Cantor, what has he done wrong that I should feel compelled to “defend” him?

  6. Tennessean says:

    janine, please be careful. I fear one day you’re going to injure yourself in your haste to jump on those bandwagons.

  7. janine says:

    @Tennessean

    wow, there is so much straw in your comments I’m surprised your moniker is not “Scarecrow”

    Be careful there, Tenn, I fear one day you’re going to go deaf listening to all the Beck, Limbaugh, Savage nonsense and your tongue may not hold up to the torture you put it through as you repeat all their talking points

  8. Frances says:

    I think it’s better late than never for someone in the GOP to finally distance himself from this fringe insanity, if that’s even what Cantor is doing. Did no one ask him about them before now?

    I’m an unapologetic liberal and I wasn’t aware of Bush as Nazi pictures until Dick Armey pointed them out a couple of months ago on Meet The Press. So they definately weren’t mainstream and didn’t get any media attention that I was privy to. The interesting thing about this situation is that the Tea Party people are inserting themselves front and center getting mainstream media attention and support from places like Fox News and Americans For Prosperity. Now they have also gotten sanction from none other than elected members of Congress. So whereas the nasty coming from the extreme left fringe was disassociated from the rest of the Democratic Party, the Republican Party is suddenly having no problem embracing their extreme right fringe. Not only that, they want people to think that their fringe represents mainstream America.

    They could be harmless, but we can only access them by the signs they carry. Which is only fair. People carry signs to say something about what they believe. The signs are ugly and the ugly had to come from somewhere. I guess the important thing to know is how radical are these people? Are they Ruby Ridge/Waco/Tim McViegh radical? Are they Klan/Aryian Nation radical? How many steps away from that type of radical are they? I suggest that before these members of the GOP throw their hats in the ring with them, that they make sure there are no hoods already in the pile.

  9. MARYKAY says:

    I JUST DONT THINK THEY REALLY CARE ABOUT ALL THE IGNORANT SIGHN AND IGNORANT QUOTES WE SAW THAT DAY,OF COURSE THEY ARE GOING TO SAY THE DONT CONDONE IT ALL.BUT THEN WHY DO THEY TURN AROUND AND SAY IGNORANT THINGS WHEN THEY DEBATE IN CONGRESS,IF YOU WATCHED THEM ON SATURDAY DEBATE THE HEALTHCARE BILL DISRESPECT AT ITS BEST.I CAN SEE WHY NO ONE WANTS TO BE IN THEIR PARTY.C-SPAN SHOWED THE WHOLE DEBATE AND IT WAS JUST SO IGNORANT WHAT THEY WERE DOING.DO THEY THINK NO ONE SEES THEM .AND ON CAPITOL HILL WITH ALL THOSE IGNORANT SIGHNS,THANKYOU FOR COMMING WE HEAR YOUR VOICES AND WE SUPPORT YOU.WELL IF THATS WHAT THEY STAND FOR IS HATE IGNORANCE AND DISRESPECT DONT EXPECT TO BE IN POWER ANYTIME SOON .

  10. Lynne says:

    When are you Liberals going to wake up and realize you elected a Marxist Muslim for President????? God how can you be so stupid??? The clock is ticking Sharia, Sharia, Sharia…..

  11. Tennessean says:

    Lynne, when they come for THEM and none of US are left to fight for them.