cantor did what so many career politicians do, as he reacted before he had all the facts. he didn t know the whole story. he didn t understand what historical reenacting is all about. time now to call in msnbc political analyst, pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the washington post and author of disintegration: the splintering of black america, gene robinson, who will now join me for another edition of batting practice. good evening, keith. i feel so underdressed tonight. congratulations on your murrow. congratulate me on getting into this suit. mr. iott is playing the victim. and we get it by this point, tea partyers are never wrong, day do not know shame, and they certainly never know when to run. my semi rhetorical question to you is, why do they not know these things? keith, i have no idea. why do you not know that dressing up like a nazi and running through the woods and, you know, gambling and
de-frolicking and killing hungarian jews for pretend is not an an acceptable activity. it s not something we like to see in our members of congress. but, iott s right about one with thing, even though that sort of they don t know the whole story is sort of misspeaking. i was only taking orders from my overlord in re-creation about he s right about one thing, cantor was just one congressman. republican jewish coalition came out alongside cantor in condemning this, but where s john boehner? where s any other republican congressman. where s joe lieberman? where s anybody of consequence on this? i have no idea. you would think that today there would have been a stream of denunciations and you wouldn t have been able to see around here for the dust kicked up by the feet of people running as fast as they can away from this guy. i mean, this is you know, you don t just decide to dress up
viking since 2003. although they posted a disclaimer wholeheartedly condemning atrocitied committed during world war ii. we are onlyรง interested in recreating his daily life, furthering our understanding of what it took to be a soldier, and at the same time, having fun reliving history. as austrian historian eleanor lapin writes, soldiers in the vikinging division were involved in the killing of hungarian jews. mr. iott confirming that he participated in the group under an alias, reinhard pferdmann, citing his deep love of history. i ve always been fascinated by the fact that here was a relatively small country that from a strictly military point of view accomplished incredible things. i mean, they took over most of europe and russia and it really took the combined effort of the free world to defeat them. from a purely historical military point of view, that s incredible. mr. iott s response was to note he s also played dress-up for the civil war and on the union side and world war
harpist not included. they have embraced birthers, deathers, and tenters, but what would republican party do with the latest out of ohio s ninth congressional district. our third story, millionaire business man, rich iott, nazi reenactor on weekends. mr. iott, running on the usual tea party platitudes until a report from the atlantic s josh green citing mr. iott s involvement with a group of nazi reenactors. mr. iott seen wearing a german ss uniform was a member of a group that reenacted the panzer
condemning atrocities committed during world war ii, we are only interested in recreating his daily life, furthering our understanding of what it took to be a soldier, and at the same time, having fun reliving history. as austrian historian eleanor lapin writes, soldiers in the viking division were involved in the killing of hungarian jews. mr. iott confirming that he participated in the group under an alias, reinhard pferdmann, citing his deep love of history. i ve always been fascinated by the fact that here was a relatively small country that from a strictly military point of view accomplished incredible things. i mean, they took over most of europe and russia and it really took the combined effort of the free world to defeat them. from a purely historical military point of view, that s incredible. mr. iott s response was to note he s also played dress-up for the civil war and on the union side and world war i. and he dressed up like a war criminal for all the right reasons. it wa