Posted on 04/08/2015 4:49:41 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is changing the story about how he sustained those gruesome New Year’s Day injuries that have left him blind in one eye.
Previously, Reid claimed that an exercise band he was using “broke.”
“I was doing exercises that I’ve been doing for many years with those large rubber bands and one of them broke and spun me around and I crashed into these cabinets and injured my eye,” (emphasis added) Reid said at a press conference on January 22.
(You can see the video of that press conference here.)
But now, in an interview conducted by Fusion (a joint venture between ABC and Univision), excerpts of which have been released today, Reid tells Univision anchor Jorge Ramos that the exercise band “slipped,” rather than “broke.”
“[T]he [elastic band] strap had no handle on it, slipped, spun me around, uh, about, oh I guess four feet (Reid points with his right hand to the wall of the interview room) and so I smashed my face into a cabinet,” Reid tells Ramos.
Reid’s latest version of the incident, as told to Ramos, differs from previous versions advanced by his team in another very significant way.
“Sources familiar with the incident said Reid was exercising in his bathroom, with the exercise band attached to the shower door,” Politico reported on January 22. (emphasis added)
As Breitbart News reported previously, that version of the story, almost certainly told to Politico by Reid’s staffers with his approval, is not credible.
Now, however, Reid tells Ramos a different story. The exercise band was not attached to the shower door in his bathroom, Reid says, but was instead attached to “a big metal hook that came out from the wall” in an unspecified room in his new Nevada home.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Earlier today I read that Harry’s brother Larry got into an altercation with Reid. Larry is an alcoholic who is in AA, but not a faithful practicer of AA’s philosophy of refraining from alcohol. Harry and his brother got into an altercation, which would be embarrassing for Harry to admit, so he made up the story about his exercise machine.
According to this story, it was first published on Powerlineblog.com and written by John Hinderaker.
Somebody beat the crap out of him, I’m sure it was well deserved.
Exercising in his bathroom: a bit kinky, don’t you think?
Harry would never admit someone beat the crap out of him. That would destroy the legend of his boxing prowess.
So hard to keep the lies straight, Harry.
And most will say 'good riddance'......
Harry Reid exercise???
The guy can barely walk straight and is very feeble. He is 75 and exercise is the last thing we want to do at that age..
His fairy tales are like Hussein Obama’s..They more than likely learned from each other
That’s about it! LOLOL
I’m guessing a two bit whore beat him up for twenty bucks... then again, it could be his brother.
That’s so awesome LOL
Might not have been who most are alluding to either....might be some of our guys are playing their game...after all Chicago Politics is the style now. Tsk!
I did wonder about that also.
I think that exercise band was attached to a FIST! ;)
I agree. I’ve thought all along it looked like someone whomped up on him and deliberately damaged his face so people would see it.
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What kind of health insurance did you say Reid has?
I don't know what truthful Reid is smoking, but I have seen many NFL football players who played an entire game yet received less bodily damage than truthful Reid seems to have accidentally sustained in just a few seconds with exercise bands---could someone please tell me about those bands Reid talks about?---that suddenly broke and threw Reid against some cabinets, which caused Reid to suffer a severe eye injury?
I realize that Reid is in his 70s, but I still find Reid's explanation ridiculous.
substitute INFLATABLE DOLL for “rubber bands”....
harry just penetrated the doll, ripped a seam and it flew aimlessly around the room with the heavy duty battery repeatedly smashing into his defenseless face...
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