GOPer Slams Cantor For Disowning Him Over Nazi Reenactments

[babylonsister]

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GOPer Slams Cantor For Disowning Him Over Nazi Reenactments (VIDEO)
Eric Lach | October 11, 2010, 4:01PM


All year, we've been hearing from Tea Party candidates who think Washington politicians have lost touch with average Americans. As a Nazi reenactor, Ohio Tea Party Republican congressional candidate Rich Iott has some harsh words for one of those professional politicians who just happens to be a Republican: House Minority Whip Eric Cantor. On CNN this afternoon, Iott, who was recently outed as a Nazi reenactment enthusiast, called Cantor out for repudiating him on Fox News Sunday yesterday. Iott even compared Cantor to a Democrat.

"I think that Representative Cantor did what so many career politicians do," Iott said. "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, or the education side of it. And he just made a decision without all the facts. My opponent here is cut out of the same cloth. Those are the people who passed the health care bill before they knew what was in it. The same folks who passed the stimulus bill..."

Throughout the appearance, Iott tried to argue for the educational value of his hobby.

"The purpose of historical reenacting is not to glorify war, necessarily, or the sides," he said. "It's to educate people. To learn about what happened. And to keep those memories alive, so we don't let it happen again."

Iot said "participating in historical reenactments, living history, is a much better way to get the message across" than other forms or education. "It's a great outreach to the public," he said.

When asked how he explained World War II to his son who started participating with him in reenactments at age 15, Iott said "on many, many occasions we talked about the horrific things that happened during World War II."

"That was absolutely one of the low points, I think, in human history," he said. "It's a tragedy that we don't want to forget."

Asked if he regretted dressing up as a Nazi, now that he's running for Congress, Iott said: "What I regret is that we're wasting the time talking about this issue, when we should be talking about the real issues that are facing the country today."

[jaxx]

1. I'm trying to think how seeing a bunch of nazi reenactors

walking down the street would educate me. It wouldn't.

[breadandwine]

7. He's EDUCATING people in HOW TO BE A NAZI.

Sheesh! Some libruls are just so full of communist sympathies......


Pay no attention to Iott's Nazi reenacting!

He's just trying to get rid of the Bolsheviks!


Leave Iott alone!
Leave Iott alone!
Leave Iott alone!
Leave Iott alone!
Leave Iott alone!
Leave Iott alone!
Leave Iott alone!
Leave Iott alone!
Leave Iott alone!
Leave Iott alone!

[jaxx]

12. "?"

[Gothmog]

2. Does anyone know how many Jews are in this district?

This teabagger is complaining that the one Jewish Republican member of congress does not approve of his hobby. That is really funny.

I really want to know the percentage of Jewish voters in this district. I have a good feeling that my fellow MOTs will have an issue with this hobby also

[pattmarty]

6. Cantor is the ONLY Jewish Republican in the House or the Senate too?

I never thought about it (I knew Cantor was Jewish), but if that's the case it is truly unbelievable.

[Grassy Knoll]

3. WHAT !!

I thought Obama and his regime were the nazi's.
:sarcasm:

[rurallib]

4. makes allusion that health care = "nazi"

Where do they get these people?

[AlinPA]

5. Does his district have teabagger / racist / anti semites? If so he is just trying to rally his base

It's the republican MO.

[pokercat999]

8. Does he go to battlefields in Europe or Africa? Living in VA

we see civil war reenactments all the time and someone has to take the Confederate side and someone has to take the Federal side but all of them are on an actual battlefield!

I don't get how you could have a WWII reenactment on the US mainland unless you were Rosie the Riveter.

But he is right about talking about this BS when the time could have been spent finding out that he knows nothing about the issues facing the US in 2010.

[breadandwine]

9. Does the MSM have the guts to show Iott's Nazi reenacting group's recruitment video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZa-dVFE0vg&feature=player_embedded#at=17



I bet not.



It's on the group's website and on YouTube.




(Funny, it's not accessing right now.)

[breadandwine]

10. I just checked their website and it has suddenly been made a "private video."

It was on a link on Wiking.org home page as late as Friday. Looks like they hastily took it down to protect their boy.



Many people probably have it though, because you can convert a YouTube video to QuickTime.

[Rozlee]

11. Hey! Is the color a bit off on my brightness/contrast...

...or does Iott look as orange as Boehner? I think his Nazi regalia clashes with his tang tone.
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[Historic NY]

13. But he doesn't regret portraying a NAZI.