Brent Bozell, October 2006 "Associated Press reporters John Solomon and Kathleen Hennessy reported that Reid scored a windfall of $700,000, turning a $400,000 real-estate investment in Las Vegas in 1998 to a $1.1 million land deal in 2004 -- even though he apparently had sold the property to a casino lobbyist buddy in 2001. He did not report the facts on his Senate financial disclosure forms -- while he served on the Senate Ethics Committee.
When the AP called Reid for comment, he hung up on them. You would think that an aggressive, fair and balanced media would have been incensed and activated. But we don't have a fair and balanced national media.
It should be said that major newspaper editorial pages were not impressed with Reid's defense. The Washington Post suggested that "Mr. Reid's professions of transparency and full disclosure are transparently wrong."
But the network distaste for saying anything critical of the Democratic leader was obvious. ABC aired nothing. CBS aired nothing. NBC's Chip Reid offered a few words on "Nightly News" -- after the latest full story on "Foley fallout." There was no "Harry fallout."
Here is my snide comment of the day: As a Mormon in good standing, Harry Reid is expected to tithe a minimum of 10 percent of everything he earns or is givento the LDS church. Does this mean he also tithes his ill-gotten gains?
Here is my snide comment of the day: As a Mormon in good standing, Harry Reid is expected to tithe a minimum of 10 percent of everything he earns or is givento the LDS church. Does this mean he also tithes his ill-gotten gains?