Andrea Mitchel interviews Cantor who blames Dems for the Tea Partiers’ extreme signs. I assume this was before he decided to criticize Rush. See the previous post. Watch:
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Cantor Blames Dems for Extreme Signs
Saturday, November 7th, 2009Cantor Criticizes Rush!
Saturday, November 7th, 2009Cantor who was at the Tea Party on Thursday and was silent on the hateful Dachau imagery and comparison of Nazis to Obama. However, he now critizes Limbaugh. Will he take it back? This was on Bloomberg News today:
Cantor Calls for Inclusive Party, Criticizes Limbaugh Rhetoric
By Lorraine Woellert
Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) — The second-ranking Republican in the U.S. House, Eric Cantor, criticized some comments by talk-show host Rush Limbaugh as inappropriate and said his party needs to be inclusive.
“The Republican Party in its roots is a party of inclusion and we ought to be promoting that and making sure that voices are heard,” Cantor, of Virginia, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend.
Hateful images at Tea Party
Cantor, when asked about Limbaugh’s comments that “Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate,” and his comparison of the administration’s health-care logo to a swastika, said the comparisons were wrong.
“Do I condone the mention of Hitler in any discussion about politics?” Cantor said. “No, I don’t, because obviously that is something that conjures up images that frankly are not, I think, very helpful.”
He also took issue with some of the harsher rhetoric of House Republican colleagues.
Cantor, 46, said Republicans must stay unified if they are to win elections. “That’s the lesson learned” from the Nov. 3 Republican gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia and the loss of a New York congressional seat in a race that divided the party, he said.
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