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babylonsister

(171,056 posts)
Wed May 8, 2013, 08:09 PM May 2013

WHAAAAA!!! Republican leader (Eric Cantor) rips the media for ‘shoving us in the corner’

What a POS!! And what a mixed message. He is such a liar.


Republican leader rips the media for ‘shoving us in the corner’
By Jonathan Easley - 05/08/13 05:48 PM ET


House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) ripped the media in a speech Tuesday to the Ripon Society, arguing press coverage is partly responsible for the GOP’s messaging woes.

Cantor, who has tried to recast the image of the GOP with his Making Life Work agenda, said the party’s economic message is often drowned out by coverage of debt and deficits.

“The media has done a great job of sort of shoving us in the corner, because all they say we are concerned with is somehow balancing the budget and cutting spending and taking things away from people,” Cantor said. “What we’re trying to say is that we need to do those things in order to reenergize the opportunity machine of America. We’re about giving people opportunity. And that’s really what our agenda this year is about.”

But Cantor said Republicans shoulder much of the blame for the party’s failure to capture the White House and Senate in last year’s election. He said the party must do a better job of speaking to the concerns of people at the lower rungs of the economic ladder.

“We also want to speak to the people who, frankly, have begun to turn us off because they don’t feel we have an agenda that speaks to them,” he said. “What are we doing for that assistant manager of a fast food restaurant? What are we doing for single moms who are waking up in the District of Columbia this morning and facing the fact that their kids are going to schools that can’t even provide a safe place for these mothers to leave their kids, let alone get an education?”

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/298599-gops-cantor-rips-media-for-shoving-us-in-the-corner

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WHAAAAA!!! Republican leader (Eric Cantor) rips the media for ‘shoving us in the corner’ (Original Post) babylonsister May 2013 OP
No Eric! Your policies are lower than fecal matter! muntrv May 2013 #1
The "liberally-biased media" just got the GOP's message out there ... zbdent May 2013 #2
bwahahahahaaa..guess that means even cantor doesn't watch faux!!!! spanone May 2013 #3
Patrick Swayze was wrong. Liberal Veteran May 2013 #4
That word "opportunity" is what management at work says right before a round of layoffs arcane1 May 2013 #5
Was sure this must be the Onion magellan May 2013 #6
The party of personal responsibility never takes any. Scuba May 2013 #7

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
2. The "liberally-biased media" just got the GOP's message out there ...
Wed May 8, 2013, 08:18 PM
May 2013

and people who didn't have the bread didn't like the quality of the shit sandwich available to them ...

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