How to not answer a question

In the video above you can see House Majority Leader Eric Cantor not answer a few questions about the 2012 State of the Union address. He is asked if the members of the house and the senate can focus less on their differences and more on the job at hand as we ask our members of the military to do when we send them out on a mission and as President Obama suggested that our elected officials do in his speech. Eric Cantor replied with a statement about supporting our troops.

Eric Cantor is asked if it is fair that Warren Buffet pays a lower tax rate than his secretary and he responds by saying that no one wants to pay taxes and that small businesses are the backbone of our country.

Eric Cantor is the House Majority leader and apparently he is so mentally challenged as to not be able to understand the simple questions asked of him in this interview. We have seen Mitt Romney's tax returns and Newt Gingrich's Freddie Mac contract and I think it is now time that we get to see Eric Cantor's IQ test results. The answer to the question of "is it fair that Warren Buffet's secretary pays a higher tax rate than he does" should be yes or no or even, "it's complicated". The answer can not be "small businesses are the backbone of our country" as that has absolutely nothing to do with the question. It would be like being asked "how are you today?" and responding with the Gettysburg Address. If Eric Cantor can't answer a question as simple as "is it fair" then he should be recalled on the basis of stupidity.

Of course we need to take a look at Charlie Rose as well. Why didn't he, upon not getting an answer to his question, ask the question again? Ask if Mr. Cantor needed the question clarified? Stay on the question until he, and us, got an answer? Our media seems willing to let any politician say anything without challenging them. Guess what, the media's job is to help hold these people accountable and the media, in general, is failing. We have elected officials not answering the questions they are asked and a media more worried about getting the next commercial in on time than they are about doing their jobs as journalists. This is America people, we deserve better than this. At least we used to, now we accept what ever comes through the screen at us without question. Maybe idiotic representatives and lazy journalists are what we deserve these days. God bless America, and God forgive us for letting what we ask you to bless go to hell in a handbasket.