Eric Cantor's phony victim story

[Joanne98]

His false claim of office gunshots functioned as the Ashley Todd tale of 2010, distracting from right-wing violence

Did House GOP Whip Eric Cantor just become 2010's answer to Ashley Todd, the white McCain supporter who claimed she was assaulted by a black Obama backer in October 2008?

You remember the story: A 20-year-old McCain-Palin volunteer told Pittsburgh police that a black man robbed her, and then, when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on her car, he beat her and carved a B – for "Barack" -- into her cheek, and told her she better support the black Democrat. Days later, the clearly disturbed Todd confessed that she made up the attack, and apparently mutilated herself to provide "evidence." But for a few days, the right wing insisted Todd's attacker was the Democratic equivalent of the menacing crowds at Sarah Palin rallies shouting "Kill him!" and "Terrorist!" about Obama. Drudge and Fox News hyped the story, with Fox news V.P. John Moody even claiming the attack might lead some voters to "revisit their support for Senator Obama."

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/sarah_palin/index.html?story=/opinion/walsh/politics/2010/03/26/phony_eric_cantor_story

[madrchsod]

1. but..but he`s a jew ......

that was the most reprehensible he said the other day.....

[Happyhippychick]

2. As a fellow Jew, I have to agree. It's like a woman making up a story of being raped.

It just makes the real victims lack credibility.

[OHdem10]

3. This was a typical ploy to try to distract from the scandalous

activities of the Teabaggers. Nothing more.

[arcadian]

4. It's unfortunate.

I know I am going to be running into wingnuts 6 months from now saying, "Yeah! But Cantor was shot at by Democrats!" I'm already trying to set the record straight around here, they are so lazy they only hear what they want to hear and after i tell them the facts they will still choose to believe Cantor was shot at.