House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) said today that the U.S. should follow Israeli airline El-Al’s example since “there is not a passenger that boards those planes that they don’t know everything possible about. And that’s what we gotta do.”On Fox News today, Cantor pointed out that “anybody who has traveled lately knows how nonsensical some of the things you have to go through are if we are fighting a war on terror. Why does somebody like Joan Rivers get thrown off a plane, when we’ve got terrorists riding these planes?”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=132260