Eric Cantor smears 99% movement as a "mob" out to “divide Americans”

[Kadie]

CANTOR SMEARS OCCUPY WALL STREET AS A ‘MOB’ | Speaking at the social conservative Value Voters Summit today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) maligned the Occupy Wall Street protests and the wider 99 percent movement as a “mob” that is out to “divide Americans”:

CANTOR: I for one am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country. And believe it or not, some in this town have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans.

video at link...
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/07/338843/cantor-smears-99-percent-movement-a-mob/

[piratefish08]

1. I for one am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Congress

you fucking half-wit douchebag.

[justiceischeap]

2. Boy, Cantor needs to be voted out of office

cause he's just too dumb.

[valerief]

6. He shouldn't be allowed to BREATHE. nt

[OHdem10]

3. Making the Republicans nervous. This is why they are attacking

the OWS protestors and doing what they can to
try to marginalize them.

[peace frog]

26. GOOD. Live in fear, a$$holes

[HughBeaumont]

4. Citizens exercising their First Amendment rights against a corrupt economic system are now "Mobs"?

Oh FUCK off, Canturd. Smirking inbred hayseed bastard.

[Enrique]

5. as opposed to the Tea Party protests

some of whom brought guns to their protests.

[catbyte]

7. What a miserable excuse for a human being

[HappyMe]

8. CANTor can't understand why people

are angry -- no surprise there.

He's an asshat that is begging to be voted out.

[hifiguy]

9. Someone should make Cantor disappear.

Give him an enema and there will be nothing left but an empty suit and a pair of shoes.

[renate]

33. I want to embroider that on a pillow!

That was too funny! :rofl:

[Courtesy Flush]

10. And he's worked so hard to unify us

:sarcasm:

[newspeak]

36. yeah, with the help with those hate spewing talking heads

for corporate media, I thought that was their intent--to divide us. The faux grass roots teabagger movement hasn't helped much. Any movement manufactured by corporate, monied interest is no grass roots movement in my books. Look in the mirror Cantor to find one who has helped divide this country.

[City Lights]

11. Let's send him to FL in case Ritch Workman is successful.

Cantor can be the ceremonial first "dwarf" tossed if that doofus from Melbourne gets his way.

[qanda]

12. They are so nervous

All this week the media has been trying to spin it, explain it, denigrate it and malign it. But one thing for sure is they can no longer ignore it.

[malaise]

13. How is 99% the mob?

:puke:

[Kahuna]

14. Good. I was afraid the repukes would be smart enough to co-opt

the 99ers, and say as newt said, that it was a protest against PBO. carl rove must be slipping. I'm glad little eric has put the kibosh on it.

[TalkingDog]

15. I happen to agree with him

I am pitted against the people destroying this country through wanton greed.

I want to divide my self from people who put profit and corporate person-hood above the rights of flesh and blood citizens.

Having grown up in dire (for America) poverty (meaning I went without food and heat on occasion as a child and most of my clothes were used before that was chic), and watching my mother work 2 or 3 jobs because her wages were lower than her male counterparts for the same job, I realize that anything creating a profit for the 1% is permissible in this country.

So starving children, lining your pockets with the wages of women who are forced to work for less, killing the environment, polluting the food, all these things are acceptable, because the 99% is immanently replaceable.

[madamesilverspurs]

16. That's a remarkable comment

coming from someone who approaches civility with a meat cleaver.

[lumberjack_jeff]

17. "Some"? You mean like politicians who talk about "real americans"? You mean you? n/t

[global1]

18. You Know - Let Repugs Like Cantor & Cain & Barrasso Continue To Slam The OWS Movement......

they are only digging their own grave on this. There are a lot more people getting involved with OWS and aligning with its mission. This is a ground up movement unlike the Teabaggers. The 99%er's will be a major voting bloc and factor in the 2012 elections. The Repugs trying to discredit this movement by making statements like they are a 'mob' and 'trying to divide this cournty' will only solidify this growing group against them. Repugs like Cantor are only making it evident that the Repugs are only loyal to the 1%er's and that will be the reason that Obama will be re-elected and the Dems will take back the House and maintain the Senate. Repugs like Cantor are proving out the point the OWS movement is making.

I still hope that OWS takes on K-Street as well. I'm for an Occupy K-Street Movement as well.

[Viking12]

19. Pot meet kettle...

some in this town have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans.

Are they really that completely devoid of self-awareness?

[newspeak]

37. well, in their "awareness"

they probably think global corporations are people-so, I can see why he thinks that we are all trying to divide americans because he thinks those corporations are americans.

[Bandit]

20. I would bet if there was such a thing as a national rating of Congress Critters

Cantor would rank at 435th in the House and probably 530 something for the complete congress. Republican approval rating in congress is in the teens but I bet if they could be singled out Cantor's would be in the low single digits..He really is despicable..

[harun]

21. Wow, project much Cantor?

[sinkingfeeling]

22. And I, Mr. Cantor, was increasingly concerned about the mobs that disrupted all serious

debate about health care at town hall meetings. And who stood outside the Capitol and yelled to let the US government default.

[1776Forever]

23. Where does this JERK come up with stuff like this when he & his Crew live to divide!

I cannot think back to anyone except maybe McCarthy who has done more to disrupt our way of life in this country in my lifetime more then this man and his Cronies! He disgusts me!

A little history on McCarthy and how he came down. I think we could ask Cantor the same thing, "“Have You No Sense of Decency”?:

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6444

“Have You No Sense of Decency”: The Army-McCarthy Hearings

Anticommunist crusader Senator Joseph R. McCarthy stepped into national prominence on February 9, 1950, when he mounted an attack on President Truman’s foreign policy agenda. McCarthy charged that the State Department and its Secretary, Dean Acheson, harbored “traitorous” Communists. McCarthy’s apocalyptic rhetoric made critics hesitate before challenging him. Those accused by McCarthy faced loss of employment, damaged careers, and in many cases, broken lives. After the 1952 election, in which the Republican Party won control of Congress, McCarthy became chairman of the Senate Committee on Government Operations and its Subcommittee on Investigations. McCarthy then extended his targets to include numerous government agencies, in addition to the broadcasting and defense industries, universities, and the United Nations. After Secretary of the Army, Robert T. Stevens, refused to intercede to halt an overseas assignment for McCarthy’s chief consultant, G. David Schine, who had been drafted, McCarthy’s committee began a two-month investigation of the Army. Viewers saw the following dramatic encounters televised live as they occurred between McCarthy, Special Counsel for the Army Joseph N. Welch, Counselor for the Army John G. Adams, and the subcommittee’s chief counsel, Roy Cohn. Although McCarthy’s power declined sharply following the hearings and the Senate voted to condemn him a few months later, scholars disagree on whether McCarthy’s appearance before a mass television audience caused his fall. Historians do, however, credit ABC-TV’s decision to broadcast the hearings live, the only one to do so, with the network’s rise to prominence.

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When they do fall they will fall hard!

[toddwv]

24. In Cantor's defense

he's douchebag.

[Avalux]

25. Hey Cantor! Have you read the first amendment?

We have the RIGHT as citizens of this country, as granted by the US Constitution, to assemble peacefully and voice our grievances when fuckheads like you screw us over. It's called DEMOCRACY.

(Sorry for the foul language, can't help it)

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. More projection from a stinkin' lowlife republican POS.

:puke:

[truebrit71]

28. "some have condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans"...like you and the tea party?

Does this guy hear himself..???

What a fucking hypocrite..

[gratuitous]

29. Right as usual, Eric

Which is to say, 100% wrong. The "mob" is actually Americans coming together, talking to one another, and working out for themselves just who it is that's fucking up the system, and proposing different ways of doing things that inure to the benefit of more citizens, rather than just the top dogs.

Oddly enough, it's folks like you, Eric, who have spent the last 30 years trying to atomize society and keep everyone looking out for his own interest, screw everyone else. That sort of thing works very well for a handful of people, and very badly for just about everyone else. As one of the errand boys for the winners, you are right to be concerned. The next move, sadly, is up to you: Do you peaceably change your ways and help reorder society, or do you doggedly hang on to appease the greedy motherfuckers who hold your leash?

Make a decision, O Wise Man of Washington.

[fishwax]

30. lol -- "some in this town have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans"

conservatives so often have no sense of irony :rofl:

[Bloke 32]

31. Does Mr Cantor ever NOT sneer?

I swear, he's got to be the grimmest plonker I've ever laid eyes on!

[backscatter712]

32. Eric Cantor's a subhuman piece of shit. n/t

[jwirr]

34. Poor baby - he must not have gotten his invitation to join the 99%.

Oh, that's right he is one of the 1%. I wonder if he really is rich enough to be part of the 1% or if he is just an ass licker?

[kestrel91316]

35. I'm concerned about the mobSTERS that make up the 1%.

[neverforget]

38. The 1% occupy Congress, K Street and Wall Street.

The 99% occupy the country.

[moondust]

39. Eric Cantor is unfit for public office. n/t

[tapermaker]

40. a perfect barometer

I think all three leaders in gop congress are the perfect barometer to watch. The more upset they get publicly the more we know we`re on the right track.

[surrealAmerican]

45. I quite agree ...

... and by calling OWS groups "mobs", he is actually acknowledging that they are a large group of people: this is progress, indeed!

[Bozita]

41. GOPers always accuse others of doing exactly what they themselves are doing

[pansypoo53219]

42. it's a shame districts are so gerrymandered to protect seats.

cantor is vile, but so is his district.

[woo me with science]

43. Yes, we have divided into a group of 99 percent.

:evilgrin:

[SmileyRose]

44. Yeah Cantor - be "increasingly concerned' you twit.

The 99% of us are coming for your stupid selfish greedy ass.

[Lorien]

46. Um, isn't condoning the pitting of Americans against Americans what Fox news,

hate radio and the GOP have done for the past 25 years??

[applegrove]

47. Projection!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

48. Eric Cantor is a wanker and an embarrassment

And I for one haven't forgotten that this giant steaming pile of shit has money in a hedge fund that bets against the American economy. Imagine the posts we'd be seeing on Free Republic if it came out that Nancy Pelosi had money in such a fund?

[rucky]

49. Eric Cantor is he epitome of a Concern Troll n/t

[saras]

50. At least he isn't smearing them with santorum

[krabigirl]

51. the elites have pitted Americans against Americans for a long time.

[Tsiyu]

52. What any sane politician should be saying:

"I for one am increasingly concerned about the growing disparity between rich and poor in cities across the country. And believe it or not, some in this town have actually condoned the 475:1 ratio between CEO and average worker compensation!"

I think it's amazing and sad that creeps like Cantor don't realize IT'S TOO LATE. People can't hear his lies; Cantor's lies merely blend in with all the other lies and drown themselves out.

It's too late for the Rightwing in this country, but they will be in denial until well after they are completely defeated.

[Contrary1]

53. What an idiot...

If he would bother to take his head out of his wealthy ass and look around, he might realize that we Americans are already divided. But then again, probably not.

You, Cantor, and your big business buddies are the problem.

[NICO9000]

54. This so absurd on its face that I'm speechless

The GOP have been dividing Americans for decades, especially in the one just past. Is Cantor as stupid as he is evil or visa-versa? Who in their right mind votes for these people?

[deacon]

55. "mob" out to “divide Americans” = karl rove and the GOP for the last 12 years. n/t

[coalition_unwilling]

56. I emphatically condone the pitting of Americans (the 99%) against Americans

(the 1%). Come to think of it, that 1% would probably sell us the rope with which we could hang them (with apologies to V.I. Lenin).

[sofa king]

57. Part of me wants to drag his ass out of the closet...

...But another part of me recognizes that he's about as shitty at his job as one can reasonably wish, and his continued incompetence is an important part of ensuring an overwhelming electoral victory for us next year.

[LatteLibertine]

58. Like they say

"It's only called class warfare when >we< fight back."