[CarryaBigStick]

“I question the timing,” said Harry Reid. “We’ve seen this time and again with this Administration, whether announcing dramatic so- called ‘terror’ arrests to deflect attention from the Ned Lamont primary victory, flying planes into the World Trade Center to distract from a draconian decision on stem cell lines, or steering hurricane Katrina directly into New Orleans to distract from whatever that was supposed to be distracting from, Rove is the dark master of this kind of political legerdemain.”

Harry Reid doesn't have the mental capacity to use a word as big as 'legerdemain'...but I guess that's really the only way to tell this is a fake quote.

[twonie]

“legerdemain”? Somebody taught him to say it just for the occasion - took him 20 minutes to learn it, and of course, he has now forgotten it. And he never knew what it meant anyway. Oh, well.