Police: Eric Cantor’s office wasn’t a target of violence
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According to police, Eric Cantor was mistaken. His campaign office in Richmond, Va. was not targeted by political extremists as he claimed earlier today with so much partisan pizazz. Instead, a bullet fired into the air at 1 a.m. on Tuesday happened to fall at just such a trajectory that it punctured the office’s front window and fell some inches from it.
Police in Richmond said late Thursday that bullet was fired randomly, and that Cantor’s office was in no way the target.
A fired up Cantor had, earlier that same day, accused Democrats of blaming Republicans for the actual violence that had befallen members of Congress who supported health care reform. In reality, Cantor argued, it is the Democrats who are “dangerously fanning the flames” of violence, not Republicans.
That a politician can hold a media event like this, point fingers at the political opposition, misinterpret events to lay blame, and declare “It is reckless to use these incidents as media vehicles for political gain…” Well, what can one say?
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In grade school there was always that whiny smart kid who just annoyed the hell out of everybody and you wanted to pop him but couldn’t. Behold the answer to what ever happened to Eddie of Leave it to Beaver fame.
RE:Police in Richmond said late Thursday that bullet was fired randomly
Cool ….you can fire randomly in Richmond Virginia…everything is cool as long as you don’t have a target
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