Com­ment: With numer­ous Demo­c­ra­tic sen­a­tors and con­gres­sional rep­re­sen­ta­tives hav­ing received overt and/or implicit threats, Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Eric Can­tor (R-VA) has been grand­stand­ing about a sup­posed shoot­ing at his headquarters.

In short, it appears to be “Not as Advertised.”

“Cantor’s ‘Ran­dom Arc’ of Doom” by Josh Mar­shall; Talk­ing Points Memo; 3/25/2010.

It wasn’t quite as bad as show­ing up this morn­ing with a back­wards B scraped on his cheek. But even so, it doesn’t look like anybody’s buy­ing Eric Cantor’s non­sense. Even the AP is com­ing about as close as their style­book will allow them to come to call­ing him on his non­sense about the bogus attack he tried to float in this morning’s press conference.

From the AP report ...

“A bul­let was shot through the win­dow of my cam­paign office in Rich­mond this week, and I’ve received threat­en­ing e-mails,” Can­tor said. He refused to release details, how­ever, say­ing it would only encour­age more threats, and refused to take questions.

Later Thurs­day, how­ever, Rich­mond police said in a news release that the bul­let had been fired into the air around 1 a.m. Tues­day. It fin­ished its ran­dom arc back to earth at a sharp down­ward tra­jec­tory, break­ing a win­dow pane on the bot­tom floor of the two-story brick build­ing where Cantor’s cam­paign leases the top floor.