Posted on 03/30/2015 7:31:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s pretty obvious from the photographs that somebody beat the bejesus out of the soon-to-be-former senator from Nevada. And yet the national media has uncritically swallowed the cover story that “exercise equipment” was to blame for the loss of sight in the former majority leader’s right eye. Baloney. As far as I can tell, the piece of equipment allegedly behind the beatdown of Sen. Pat Geary has not been identified, but I can tell you from experience if the senator was using, say, a Soloflex machine this would be impossible: the weight straps simply come apart without any snapping or ricochet. His story is, to put it mildly, bunk, as Power Line’s John Hinderaker notes:
Scott wrote here about Harry Reid’s announcement that he will not run for re-election, a decision which, Reid was quick to say, was not the result of his “elastic exercise band” accident. In January, I wrote OK, So What Really Happened to Harry Reid? I noted the injuries that Reid suffered on New Year’s Day, in Las Vegas: multiple broken bones around his right eye, damage to the right eye, severe facial bruising, broken ribs, and a concussion. Was all of this really the result of losing his balance because an elastic exercise band broke? That seems unlikely, to say the least.
Anyone who saw Reid would say that he looked like he had been beaten up by a guy with a hard left, maybe using brass knuckles. When a guy shows up at a Las Vegas emergency room on New Year’s Day with severe facial injuries and broken ribs, and gives as an explanation the functional equivalent of “I walked into a doorknob,” it isn’t hard to guess that he ran afoul of mobsters. Yet the national press has studiously averted its eyes from Reid’s condition, and has refused to investigate the cause of his injuries. To my knowledge, every Washington reporter has at least pretended to believe Reid’s story, and none, as far as I can tell, has inquired further.
Of course not — why would they? Court stenographers don’t get paid to think or ask questions. But take a look at the legendarly corrupt senator’s facial bruises and tell me somebody didn’t work him over but good, with a left to the jaw and repeated blows to his eye socket. They didn’t want to kill him, but they sure wanted to send him a message. And that message was: time to retire.
Note also that the second video directly contradicts the first one:
This wasn’t a workout accident....
I say either falling down drunk or a attitude adjustment.
Powerful enough? B613 or what ever it is really called
Powerful enough? B613 or what ever it is really called
One of my favorite movies.
Brother of Sen. Harry Reid arrested, accused of punching Nevada state trooper
When this first came he said he did the heaviest band or something similar. Yea, like he could do that. He’s freaking delusional.
This happened around New Years when the whiskey flows freely, so I think his younger brother got drunk and hit Harry, much like he did when he hit the state trooper.
Kind of like he was tared and feathered... We need more of that in politics,
I'd pony up 50 bucks for a copy...
Who is going to get the Senator alone long enough to beat the bejeezus out of him, at that time of day?
How about this theory. He was drunk off his a$$ from the night before and took a header? He’s 70 years old. Not even the mob is going to throw him a beat down. Although I can see the SEIU doing something like that.
Most likely scenario I've heard.
Anyone that has seen “Casino” knows who the Nevada gaming commissioner was based on. If you know that, everything else just falls into place.
He probably played the “do you know who I am card” to the wrong guy. Same thing happened to the former SF 49’s coach Walsh up in Reno at a card game.
Given the extent of his injuries, I find it hard to believe it was from a fall during an exercise mishap. The only way it seems possible is if he had a serious underlying health issue.
This guy maybe?
Or dese guys?
I started noticing key public figures showing up looking like they had been beaten up over a decade ago.
Something is going on behind the scenes.
“Hey Harry! Dat’s a real nice exercise machine yoose got dere! Be a real shame if you was to take a nasty spill on it!”
Dirty Harry made promises that he did not keep and somebody made him pay for it. I could see someone ripping an arm off an exercise machine and beating Harry upside the head with it. He’s lucky that’s all that happened to him.
If only there was a video of the beating to play over and over..
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