Posted on 08/31/2009 8:41:38 AM PDT by dvan
This newspaper traces its roots to before Las Vegas was Las Vegas.
We've seen cattle ranches give way to railroads. We chronicled the construction of Hoover Dam. We reported on the first day of legalized gambling. The first hospital. The first school. The first church. We survived the mob, Howard Hughes, the Great Depression, several recessions, two world wars, dozens of news competitors and any number of two-bit politicians who couldn't stand scrutiny, much less criticism.
We're still here doing what we do for the people of Las Vegas and Nevada. So, let me assure you, if we weathered all of that, we can damn sure outlast the bully threats of Sen. Harry Reid.
On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber's board members for a meet-'n'-greet and a photo. One of the last in line was the Review-Journal's director of advertising, Bob Brown, a hard-working Nevadan who toils every day on behalf of advertisers. He has nothing to do with news coverage or the opinion pages of the Review-Journal.
Yet, as Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said:"I hope you go out of business."
Later, in his public speech, Reid said he wanted to let everyone know that he wants the Review-Journal to continue selling advertising because the Las Vegas Sun is delivered inside the Review-Journal.
Such behavior cannot go unchallenged.
You could call Reid's remark ugly and be right. It certainly was boorish. Asinine? That goes without saying.
But to fully capture the magnitude of Reid's remark (and to stop him from doing the same thing to others) it must be called what it was -- a full-on threat perpetrated by a bully who has forgotten that he was elected to office to protect Nevadans, not sound like he's shaking them down.
No citizen should expect this kind of behavior from a U.S. senator. It is certainly not becoming of a man who is the majority leader in the U.S. Senate. And it absolutely is not what anyone would expect from a man who now asks Nevadans to send him back to the Senate for a fifth term.
If he thinks he can push the state's largest newspaper around by exacting some kind of economic punishment in retaliation for not seeing eye to eye with him on matters of politics, I can only imagine how he pressures businesses and individuals who don't have the wherewithal of the Review-Journal.
For the sake of all who live and work in Nevada, we can't let this bully behavior pass without calling out Sen. Reid. If he'll try it with the Review-Journal, you can bet that he's tried it with others. So today, we serve notice on Sen. Reid that this creepy tactic will not be tolerated.
We won't allow you to bully us. And if you try it with anyone else, count on going through us first.
That's a promise, not a threat.
And it's a promise to our readers, not to you, Sen. Reid. _______
Sherman Frederick (sfrederick@reviewjournal.com) is publisher of the Review-Journal and president of Stephens Media.
Nevada, PLEASE dump Hairy in 2010!!
Reid is just another miserable little liberal puke who is about to get tossed into the dustbin of history.
Reid is not much different than you garden-variety liberal politician. You think Obama, or Pelosi, or Rangel, or any other Democrat is any different?
For decades the corrupt MSM has been nakedly in bed with liberal politicians (Democrats). It should come as no surprise that they have helped create this bully.
What is that line regarding feeding othes to the alligators hoping he’ll eat you last?
I would imagine before Reid got his "badge/ Title" he was beaten up on a regular basis, not because of his weakness but because he is, simply a slug.
Never argue with someone that buys ink by the barrel.
Be sure to read the last paragraph.
Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher here in southern California , was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Harry (senator (D) from Nevada ) Reid’s great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889. Both Judy andHarry Reid share this common ancestor.
The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows in Montana territory.
On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this inscription:
‘Remus Reid, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.’
So Judy recently e-mailed Senator Harry Reid for information about their mutual great-great uncle.
Believe it or not, Harry Reid’s staff sent back the following biographical sketch for her genealogy research:
‘Remus Reid was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory . His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad. Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to government service, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889, Remus passed away during an important civic function held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed.’
That’s real POLITICAL SPIN! THAT is how it’s done folks!
We will be doing our very best to get rid of him.
Wow!!
LOL..The reply really is good.
Harry is lucky the good folks of Nevada haven't given him the same treatment.
One of the comments to the article is this one:
Harry Reid wrote on August 30, 2009 06:07 PM:
I’M SORRY!!!
Good for them!
How about Cuba? He might be very happy there.
The problem is that Hairy Reed is NOT the disease - he’s just a symptom of it. The disease is Washington, D.C. and the corrupt and cynical political system that our elected representatives have turned the Constitution into.
If you ever want to see the corruption and perversion of our political system, pull up a copy of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”. I watched it again recently and was surpirsed to see that nothing changed in Washington from the time they made the movie - the corruption flourishes and we suffer the consequences!!
Clean house completely starting next year (assuming there is an election next year) and keep voting out the incumbents for the next 20 election cycles until the rot and stench of the current Congress is completely gone!!!
Just keep repeating - No Incumbents!!
“The disease is Washington, D.C.”
No, the disease is leftism.
All leftist thought, from the limousine liberalism of a George Clooney to the mass murders of Mao, Stalin, or Pol Pot, is of and from Satan. It is a contaminant in the human cognosphere, not a natural component of it.
Intellectual dishonesty is not merely the hallmark, the metier, the forte, the oeuvre of the liberal, it is the very sine qua non of liberalism. Compared to this, hypocrisy is a mere spear-carrier in the liberal’s limping army of sophistries, prevarication, and false moral equivalences.
The liberal himself somehow manages to suppress awareness of his own detachment from both reality and honesty, and in fact spends great volumes of energy swanning about in high dudgeon, gushing forth banshee wails of rage at the purported dishonesty and malice of his opponents. Spraying poison in all directions like a rabid cobra on meth, the liberal walks closed-minded through a world in which only he is open-minded, bigoted through a world in which only he is tolerant, ignorant through a world in which only he is educated, consumed by rage, hatred, and malice through a world in which only he is kind and nice.
“We Won’t Allow You to Bully Us”
One wonders how heavily the Las Vegas Register endorsed Democrats for elective office.
I don’t claim to know the political leanings of this paper, however I do believe that declining revenues and increased unemployment in the media WILL lead to them turning on their Dem overlords at some point...
Thanks for the lesson on liberalism. I’m pretty well versed in it and I stick by my main point - the disease is Washington. Liberalism is a separate disease unto itself.
Let’s cure one before we worry about curing the other.
A newspaper standing up to a dem? Rather than covering for them, or giving them “passes”, or kissing their fat liberal butts? I would subscribe if they were a few states closer...
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