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CNBC/NYT’s Harwood Blames Anti-Semitism for Cantor’s Defeat
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Posted on 06/14/2014 12:22:09 PM PDT by chessplayer

Discussing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s surprising primary loss, on Friday’s Washington Week on PBS, John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC, a regular on NBC and MSNBC, and a political writer for the New York Times, blamed hostility to Jews in Cantor’s “very rural conservative southern district.”

“Eric Cantor is a Jewish Republican. This is a very rural conservative southern district where that is not a -- you don’t have a lot of Jewish members of Congress from the South.”

Host Gwen Ifill, hardly a conservative, jumped in to counter Harwood’s presumption: “Oh, but he’s been elected several times from this district.”


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To: M Kehoe

Neither-they’re eagerly evil.


21 posted on 06/14/2014 1:04:17 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: lonevoice

I guess the people that elected him all those years had no idea he was Jewish and just found out. Geesh how dumb do they think we are.


22 posted on 06/14/2014 1:04:27 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: A_perfect_lady
didn’t even know he was Jewish

Nor did I and I am a politics junkie; I followed his race perhaps more closely (and with more loathing) than any other.

As far as I'm concerned Jewishness would be his only redeeming quality.

23 posted on 06/14/2014 1:05:59 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: chessplayer

Yeah, Harwood, those rural southern rednecks only re-elected Cantor six times. They mustn’t have known they’re anti-semitic till last week. Putz.


24 posted on 06/14/2014 1:07:02 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: chessplayer

full spin/kabuki mode.


25 posted on 06/14/2014 1:14:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: chessplayer

So he wasn’t a Jew when he got elected in the first place?
Yes stupidity can hurt..........


26 posted on 06/14/2014 1:15:32 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: Robert DeLong

I guess they finally realized he was Jewish. OMG..................................... Yeah, and they may also find out that Republicans hated Jacob Javits, Goldwater and Henry Kissinger who were also joooz. s/


27 posted on 06/14/2014 1:17:27 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Hillary 2016! Really??? That's Retarded Sir.)
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To: chessplayer
I grew up with a lot of Jewish kids.

I knew a “cantor” was the person in a synagogue who leads the singing and chanting.

I assumed he was not Orthodox, which means I also assumed he was center-left, but I never tried to verify either assumption.

Over the last year, I came to understand that he was part and parcel of the GOP Amnesty Leadership.

His defeat was wonderful news.

Not that his absence will help.

The GOP Leadership will still stuff Amnesty down our threats, possibly before the November election, or absolutely after it.

28 posted on 06/14/2014 1:25:30 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: chessplayer

John Harwood can no longer be taken seriously as a journalist, since he should have known that Americans proved in 2000 that they are not anti-Semitic when the majority of them voted for an Orthodox Jew, Joseph Lieberman, for vice president on the Democratic ticket that won the popular vote that year.

And in the year 2008, Americans proved that they are not racists when they elected Barack Obama to the presidency.

Anyone who accuses Americans of anti-Semitism or racism is not a journalist conveying the truth but instead a propagandist for the Democratic party — one who tries to alarm Jews and Blacks, two of the Democrats’ major voting blocks, that unless they run to the voting booths to vote for Democrats, their Republican opponents will recreate German concentration camps for American Jews and bring back black slavery.

John Harwood should be ashamed of himself and so should the newspapers and networks that purvey his lies.


29 posted on 06/14/2014 1:36:59 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: chessplayer

Eric Cantor was Jewish 14 years ago and was elected to Congress.
Eric Cantor was Jewish 12 years ago, and was elected to Congress.
Eric Cantor was Jewish 10 years ago, and was elected to Congress.
Eric Cantor was Jewish 8 years ago and was elected to Congress.
Eric Cantor was Jewish 6 years ago and was elected to Congress.
Eric Cantor was Jewish 4 years ago and was elected to Congress.
Eric Cantor was Jewish 2 years ago and was elected to Congress.
Eric Cantor was Jewish and pushed illegal immigrant amnesty and was defeated in the primary.
He must have lost because he was Jewish.


30 posted on 06/14/2014 1:37:02 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: chessplayer

YEAH, THEY ELECTED HIM TO SEVEN TERMS BECAUSE THEY ARE ANTI-SEMITES.

YOU WANNA SEE ANTI-SEMITISM? LOOK AT THE CLOWN’S TEAM AIDING THE TERRORIST HATERS OF ISRAEL: IRAN, IRAQ, LIBYA, EGYPT, and SYRIA.


31 posted on 06/14/2014 1:40:48 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: chessplayer

Oh, really? Then who do they think voted for him in all the previous elections? It certainly wasn’t Democrats, and I don’t think there are enough liberal Republicans in his district to have put him over the top all those times before.


32 posted on 06/14/2014 1:42:54 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: chessplayer

Ha Ha Harwood, you just go right ahead and believe that nonsense.
Liberals are hilarious.


33 posted on 06/14/2014 1:43:51 PM PDT by Bullish (You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
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To: chessplayer

I didn’t have the first clue that he was Jewish.OK then...to address the issue lets replace him with Charles Krauthammer.


34 posted on 06/14/2014 1:44:41 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: chessplayer
His district was probably more rural and conservative when they first sent him to office. What a stupid explanation.
35 posted on 06/14/2014 1:58:16 PM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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To: M Kehoe

IMO, they’re bigots who project their bigotry on others.


36 posted on 06/14/2014 2:09:52 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: chessplayer

Harwood, G0 F yourself


37 posted on 06/14/2014 2:15:09 PM PDT by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: Albion Wilde

“He must have lost because he was Jewish.”

Of course the media overlords know he wasn’t; they simply have to tarnish those who oppose him and the New World Order he represents...


38 posted on 06/14/2014 2:23:49 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: zeestephen

“Cantor” is Latin for “singer.” The lead singer in the Catholic church is also called a “cantor.”

There is a Hebrew word as well but a lot of synagogues don’t use it.


39 posted on 06/14/2014 2:40:28 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: chessplayer

Nonsense! Cantor defeated himself with his radical amnesty views. He blew a huge lead to an unknown because he turned his back to America.


40 posted on 06/14/2014 2:50:03 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Philadelphia Eagles!)
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