communists in our midst!

From the Las Vegas Sun :

Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., stared straight into a television camera Wednesday and apologized for referring to opponents of corporate-funded presidential inauguration parties as communists, a remark that was aired nationally last month by NBC.
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NBC reported on critics who have said that corporate donations for inaugurations represent a way to buy influence with President Bush and the Republican Party. On the subject of corporate donations for inaugural parties, Gibbons told NBC reporter Lisa Myers: "Anybody who is against that obviously must be a communist."
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Gibbons hadn't directly addressed the criticism himself until Wednesday when he told Ralston that while he shouldn't have made the remark, it was also taken out of context.
"Well, should I have said that? You know, no," Gibbons said. "I mean it was a statement that wasn't actually played properly back because we were talking about those people that supported democracy and I said, 'If you're opposed to democracy and these people are opposing democracy, then they must be communists.'

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Our of context?! This is hardly comparable to the innumerable ways the repugs took quotes from Kerry & Edwards out of context and twisted their meanings to mean the opposite of what they said. Even in context, he is saying that if you don't support big businesses spending elaborate amounts of money on inaugual balls, then you are a communist! Where do these people come up with this stuff?! Sure would be nice if our politicians existed in the real world with the rest of us!