This guy was a senior adviser to Bill Clinton. Does anyone believe he’s not biased?

I saw Cantor myself on Hannity this week and he was way too timid in his deference to Obama and his agenda.

While Cantor may have gotten around to making Rush’s point, why give Stephy and the MSM the opportunity to take this out of context. Sorry, I don’t feel sorry for Eric. He went along with the media set narrative, and then hoped to make Rush’s points by providing futher context.

Republicans have yet to learn completely how to communicate well and effectively with our enemies in the media. This experience is just another example.

I like Eric Cantor a lot, but I expect more from him than to be drawn into this and then so easily distorted.

You can lay the blame at Stephy’s feet, and I’m all about crying foul, but who out there is going to care and take the time to be thoughtful about the misrepresentation. Sure, we will on blogs like RedState, but that’s not going to cut through and result in accountability or sympathy.

Our spokespeople in the Repub. party have got to get smarter, faster about communicating with the media. Period.

It would have been better if Cantor had said “Limbaugh makes a good point and here’s why…”

Why is it the the Dems could rip Bush and accuse him of everything, but the GOP must sit there like trained seals and bark on cue to whatever the Libs throw at them?

Are there any heroes in the GOP? Have they all gone into retirement?

That is a total distortion of both how Rush framed his point — it was not a blanket wish for Obama’s failure, but only failure if his mission is to destroy capitalism and individual liberty — and Cantor’s response.

In fact, in George Stephanopoulos’s post at ABC News, he completely leaves out the bold faced text of Cantor’s statement that I highlighted. Completely leaves it out. Why? Because it directly reinforces the point Limbaugh was making and George would not then have been able to say Cantor rejected Rush Limbaugh’s rhetoric.

Hell, Stephy didn’t even tell Cantor what Rush really said.

Admittedly, Cantor needs to jump on this first thing in the morning. He needs to be on Rush,and on Fox and Friends,and Hugh Hewitt, explaining exactly what Erick explained in the paragraphs I blockquoted above.

Cantor should mea culpa that, when Steph worded the question as if to imply that Cantor was rejecting Limbaugh per se, he (Cantor) should have refused to answer the question worded that way. He should have clarified immediately that he wasn’t criticizing Limbaugh per se. That was a goof on Cantor’s part.

But it is fixable, and he can fix it tomorrowl.

In fact, it’s an opportunity for us.

Cantor and Limbaugh (and all the rest of us) should wonder aloud, loudly and repeatedly, why George Stephanopholous would spread such a misconception about Cantor’s real meaning.

Gee, we should wonder aloud, why would this former Clinton offical do something like that? Hmmm…

Rush can pound on Steph for three hours tomorrow—and that’s just Monday.

The American people perceive the MSM to be biased. As far as I’m concerned. let’s use this incident as another example of that bias.

Let Steph convince America otherwise.

Let’s put them on defense.

Eric Cantor is making the same terrible mistake that Tom DeLay made. He is the whip he needs to be the whip and get his face off national TV. ABC understands that the more Cantor talks the more he will be less effective.

Cantor has to park his ego and get off TV. Let the firebrands go on the air that is what they are for to stir the masses.

You see, Republicans are just too darn nice. When asked a question, we politiely answer the question asked. Instead, we need to answer the question we want asked. Reframe what was asked into what should have been asked. Then answer that question from the talking points. Dems do it all the time. You can’t get an answer to a question because they just want to make their point. We just need to lay out our case, not the case the MSM wants us to make.