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Harry Reid: proponent of paper cuts?
Politico ^
| 9/1/2009
| GLENN THRUSH
Posted on 09/01/2009 12:45:12 PM PDT by markomalley
Turns out Harry Reid was only joking when he told a media exec last week that he hoped the biggest paper in his state would “go out of business.”
Over the weekend, Sherman Frederick, a columnist with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, reported that Reid made the comment to another higher-up at the 175,000-circulation daily during a Chamber of Commerce event last Wednesday.
“Such behavior cannot go unchallenged,” wrote Frederick, CEO of the paper’s parent company.
After 24 hours of silence on the comment, a Reid spokesman got back to POLITICO on Monday to say it was all a misunderstanding blown out of proportion by a paper with an anti-Reid bent.
“Clearly he wasn’t serious,” Reid aide Jon Summers wrote in an e-mail to my colleague Marty Kady. “Once again, the editors at the Review-Journal got it wrong.”
The National Republican Senatorial Committee wasn’t buying. “It’s out-of-touch comments like this that make clear why his approval numbers are among the lowest of any senator in either party,” said NRSC spokesman Brian Walsh.
Reid has a 37 percent favorable rating, according to a recent Mason-Dixon poll.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: alilmisunderstanding; areyouareddupe; censorship; goebbelswouldbeproud; harryreid; lvreviewjournal; macacamoment; obamunism; pravdamedia; stalinisttactics
To: markomalley
37% approval. Yet, almost as if by magic, he will get re-elected.
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posted on
09/01/2009 12:47:38 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
To: markomalley
Harry Reid: proponent of paper cuts? Ouch... is that a new torture technique?
Paper cuts hurt, but won't kill you!
-PJ
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posted on
09/01/2009 12:51:31 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(Comprehensive congressional reform legislation only yields incomprehensible bills that nobody reads.)
To: markomalley
Turns out Harry Reid was only joking when he told a media exec last week that he hoped the biggest paper in his state would “go out of business.” 
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posted on
09/01/2009 12:51:56 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
To: markomalley
Turns out Harry Reid was only joking when he told a media exec last week that he hoped the biggest paper in his state would “go out of business.”
Yeah, that joke is an oldie but goody. The Founding Fathers thought is was so funny they wrote an amendment addressing it. That Reid, he's such a jokester.
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posted on
09/01/2009 12:55:40 PM PDT
by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: WayneS
NO, HE WON'T. You can take that to the bank...Here's who we're supporting. Heard him speak yesterday at the Tea Party in Vegas...He's a conservative, and he's got a name: Jerry Tarkanian's son.
Danny Tarkanian
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posted on
09/01/2009 12:57:40 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: markomalley
Hey Harry, that sound you are hearing is a certain person practicing vocal scales behind the curtain. I have great hopes that the curtain will be raised in November of 2010. Maybe you can exercise your great native ability to sour pickles in a future job.
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posted on
09/01/2009 1:30:11 PM PDT
by
SES1066
(Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
To: Hildy
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posted on
09/02/2009 4:46:37 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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