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Never Pick A Fight With . . .
Annuit Coeptis ^ | August 31, 2009 | Jay Henderson

Posted on 08/31/2009 9:42:13 AM PDT by jay1949

. . someone who buys ink by the barrel. This apocryphal adage from somewhere in the 19th century may have to be updated for the next generation, but it remains familiar to many of my own cohort. Except, obviously, Neveda Sen. Harry Reid, who has rankled the publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal

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KEYWORDS: harry; reid; senate

1 posted on 08/31/2009 9:42:13 AM PDT by jay1949
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Saying “I hope you go out of business” isn’t a threat. I saw it about the NYT often enough. It’s petty and thin-skinned for him to say it though.


2 posted on 08/31/2009 9:45:15 AM PDT by TomOnTheRun
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I wouldn’t characterize it as a “threat,” myself. But it was less than astute, shall we say, to give the largest newspaper in the state such an opening.


3 posted on 08/31/2009 9:49:31 AM PDT by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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Hubris: 1. the pride associated with arrogance; pride considered as sin.


4 posted on 08/31/2009 9:51:53 AM PDT by dblshot
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Oh yeah. It’s plenty stupid. I guess some cracks are beginning to show under pressure.


5 posted on 08/31/2009 9:57:09 AM PDT by TomOnTheRun
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Pelosi’s poodle!


6 posted on 08/31/2009 10:11:52 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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7 posted on 08/31/2009 10:13:05 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (If you cannot make them see the light, make them feel the heat. ~~ Ronald Reagan)
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8 posted on 08/31/2009 10:16:51 AM PDT by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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