after his son lost interest in it. even the republicans are recoiling. he s now been scrubbed from the gop young guns website after it turned out he preferred old guns, you know, like lugers. only when pressed by debbie wasserman schultz did eric cantor address the issue. debbie, when launched into her attacks as to some of the reports about candidates that are running and particularly the one in ohio having to do with nazi reenactment, she knows that i would absolutely repudiate that and not support an individual well, you haven t. who would do something like that. you haven t. i m doing it right here. i m doing it right here, debbie. you know good and well i don t support anything like that. to that point, the iott spokesman, matthew parker, telling the toledo blade that the house minority whip is, quote, just one member of congress. and as for mr. iott? i think that representative
congress. and as for mr. iott? i think that representative 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 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
recruitment video on its website. if this isn t glorifying the experience of re-enacting military actions of nazi germany, then nothing is. but mr. iott came de los saying the right thing with this statement on saturday. never in any of my re-enacting of military history have i meant any disrespect to anyone who
coveted israeli jump wings and senior parachutist wings of the netherlands. iott has had a lot to say since the story broke saying it s about re-enactment of history. anybody involved in re-enacting endorse politics of the time period of the group it represents. there s politics where i can say with certainty they don t endorse feeding christians to lions. it s a carefully timed character assassination. it s another lie to distract the voters from what the real issues are. it s about not wanting to talk about the issues. the viking group has a
officials who should have been making this loud and clear. i would have hoped to hear something a bit more clarion from representative cantor. you know, i m against anything like that. well, you know, i m really, really against anything like that. and question this guy and whether he s suitable for the office that he seeks. the real one, not in the dress-up yeah, the real one, not the i don t even want to think about whether he wants to be promoted to, you know, captaine or whatever. speaking of not hearing enough, there s a headline i saw today on a blog on newsweek. the nazi sympathizer who isn t, ohio congressman rich iott is being attacked for wearing a nazi uniform, but shouldn t we be concerned about his views, not his attires. and it goes on to suggest this is just a lot of the