The GOP Is "Shooting the Messenger"

I disagree with House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) that the media and Democrats are “fanning the flames” by reporting harassment, death threats, vandalism, and brick throwing directed at ten Democratic Representatives who recently voted “yes” on the Health Care Reform bill that recently passed in Congress. Isn’t this, pardon the metaphor, like “shooting the messenger”?

Are we supposed to ignore this intimidation? Act as though it is not happening? How foolish is that? Also isn’t it a little hypocritical to state a bullet was shot through your office window while declaring we shouldn’t report these matters? Turns out the bullet didn’t go through Cantor’s office but landed nearby and was a stray shot as a result of random gunfire, but let’s not be picky. What the Representative was trying to say was “we Republicans get targeted too”, which I am sure is true.

More…