Eric, I know you are Jewish and you have gotten threats

[nadinbrzezinski]

because of that.

I am willing to be that YOU have turned those to the FBI, and if you have not you are an IDIOT. But blaming the press? REALLY?????

This is the height if idiocy, and this is why now I can officially say it. the GOP is in cahoots, and either they KNOW IT... or they are now the useful idiots.

[LiberalLoner]

1. Yeah, they really are blaming Democrats for all of this. Amazing.

They obviously want to incite more violence. They are doubling down on the stupid and crazy.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. the 1850s come to mind...

and I mean that fully... that includes the WHIG party. Unfortunately that includes the end of the 50s, and a little soiree that took half the next decade.

[myrna minx]

2. This is just breathtaking.

:wow:

[ecstatic]

3. The threats were probably from his very own teabaggers!

His hinting that it was our side was unbelievable!

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Nah I am POSSITIVE he's gotten threats

and it does not matter from where. It just comes with the territory of being Jewish in public life.

Here is a little dirty secret. He has not gone to the press with them because that is standard SOP recommended by the ADL... mostly because most of the time that works. Of course the ADL also says.. go to the local police.

As to who is threatening him I don't care.

What bothers me is how he is blaming democrats for this, and the press... when it has been the GOP leadership that's escalated the rhetoric.

[GumboYaYa]

10. "It just comes with the territory of being Jewish in public life..."

Boy is that true. I am not Jewish, but am descended from Jews who fled Germany in the late 30s. When people hear my name, they think I am Jewish. The two other co-producers and writers of my film are Jewish.

When we put up the website for the film, we started getting email comments and I was shocked with the number and vitriol of the antisemitic emails we got. Neither of my Jewish cohorts were surpised at all. They lived with that their whole life.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. You are Jewish as far as these idiots are concerned

it is just that for most people this is not something that happens, because in their experience it just doesn't.

:-)

Take care, and the vitriol... get used to it.

Though do contact the ADL on that.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Probably from Dick Cheney and Bush...

"Shape up or ship out Dip-shit"

[LiberalFighter]

7. I seriously doubt his being Jewish is reason for most if any threats.

Most constituents don't know their member's religion. And even less likely for those that are not his constituents.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Most members don't say it

but he has not made it a secret... and the fringe in American life cannot have a Jew in any political office. So I am sure he has, and he's gotten them partly because he IS Jewish... That is neither here or there... what he did is disgusting... essentially blaming the press and the dems for his fringe.

That is standard bully tactics... out of SOP for bullies everywhere.

[riderinthestorm]

11. "Most constituents don't know their members' religion"?? Are you kidding?

Being a believer is one of the absolute musts for any politician. Atheists are completely unelectable because they CAN'T point to "their religion".

I am dead cert that his constituents, and virtually everyone else knows Cantor is Jewish.

[Metta]

9. James Baldwin said "Any Jew who behaves like a white man is a traitor to his race." Still true.

Happy karma, Eric. And happy Passover, too. You're still in bondage.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. I am sure he ain't gonna get that either

but he is playing with fire. The people throwing them bricks believe HE is part of the problem too.