THE DAILY BLADE: People Who Live In Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Bricks
Last week, when Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) said that he had received threatening messages during his political career (“not only because of my position but also because I'm Jewish.”) and that a bullet was shot through a window of his campaign office in Richmond, media reaction generally ranged from disinterested to dismissive. With a few notable exceptions: Politico’s Ben Smith, who accused Cantor him of “me-tooism” (“I wrote yesterday that the current Republican charges that they face the same threats and anger right now as Democrats are (as Eric Cantor painfully illustrated) absurd”); TalkingPointsMemo editor Josh Marshall, who wrote “Cantor's behavior is shameful beyond imagining”; New York magazine’s Dan Amira, who ridiculed him (“Eric Cantor Directly Threatened by Act of Random Gunfire”); and Washington Monthly’s Steve Benen, who called him a liar (“Cantor’s Creative Definition Of ‘Threat’”).
Earlier today, the FBI filed a two-count complaint and warrant charging Obama donor Norman Leboon, 33, with posting a video on YouTube in which he threatened to kill Cantor and his family, suggesting the possibility that the bullet through the window could have been a warning shot (the video was created the day after the incident, but police have not linked Leboon to the stray bullet as of this posting):
My Congressman Eric Cantor, and you and your cupcake evil wife ... Remember Eric ... our judgment time, the final Yom Kippur has been given. You are a liar, you're a Lucifer, you're a pig, a greedy f**king pig, you're an abomination, you receive my bullets in your office, remember they will be placed in your heads. You and your children are Lucifer's abominations.
With Jew-hater Leboon, IRS-hater Andrew Joseph Stack – who, BTW favored healthcare “reform” (“the drug and insurance companies are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple”) - and Bush hater John Patrick Bedell – a “9/11 Truther” – Democrats should consider the effect their paranoid, overheated rhetoric has on Obamaniacs before tarring conservatives, Tea Partiers and other healthcare “reform” opponents with being extremist, racist and violent.
After all, when it comes to violent healthcare “reform” protests, supporters of Obamacare drew first blood.
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