White House Jumps On the ‘Intimidate Erickson’ Bandwagon

By Larry O’Connor at Big Journalism:

Over the past few days there has been a manufactured firestorm over comments Erick Erickson made on his local Georgia radio show last week. You can hear his full remarks by clicking here.

Today the White House joined in the pile-on at the instigation of a left-wing talk radio host and former CNN employee who somehow got credentials:

BILL PRESS:  Robert, on the Census, Erick Erickson, a commentator for CNN, a couple of days ago, he said he was not going to fill out his Census form, and if a Census worker came to the door, he said he would “pull out my wife’s shotgun and see how that little twerp likes being scared at the door.” So my question is, do those remarks concern the White House? And are there any –

ROBERT GIBBS:  It should concern CNN — probably first and foremost. Probably concerns his wife as well.

PRESS:  Any thoughts about protection for Census workers?

GIBBS:  Well, I think there are a lot of people that get on cable TV and say stuff so that people will quote it back to other people.

Allow me to rip this apart. (My comments in italics):

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