Cantor Spox Writes Indignant Op-Ed Addressing Netanyahu Flap

Rep. Eric Cantor's spokersperson Brad Dayspring has written an op-ed in Politico to address the fallout from a meeting between his boss and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York last week. In the piece, Dayspring expresses outrage with the news media, which "hyperbolically suggested that the incident was a scandal, or worse, a felony."

Last week's flap grew out of the following section of the press release which Dayspring wrote about the meeting:

Eric stressed that the new Republican majority will serve as a check on the Administration and what has been, up until this point, one party rule in Washington. He made clear that the Republican majority understands the special relationship between Israel and the United States, and that the security of each nation is reliant upon the other.

At the time, Ron Kampeas of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency argued that he "can't remember an opposition leader telling a foreign leader, in a personal meeting, that he would side, as a policy, with that leader against the president."

In his op-ed, Dayspring accuses Kampeas and Politico's Laura Rozen of pushing this "false assertion" about the meeting, and says that Steve Benen at The Washington Monthly, Glenn Greenwald at Salon and Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic, among others, "expounded on and further mischaracterized" the story.

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