Reid backpedals: Just kidding about wanting newspaper to go under
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on Sep 10 2009 Filed under Politics.
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Looks like Harry is trying to dig himself out of a hole he dug with his own mouth. Last week, just before a speech to the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, Reid told an advertising executive at the conservative Las Vegas Review-Journal, “I hope you go out of business.” Well, that didn’t go over well back at the newsroom. The editors went ballistic and are gunning for Reid. Apparently the blowback is hurting Dingy Harry and everybody on the left now (desperately) wants to laugh the whole thing off as a joke.
Ol’ Harry, he’s such a card.
From the WaPo blog, The Sleuth.
Ralston tells The Sleuth he can’t imagine anyone in Nevada politics not understanding that Reid was joking to the Review-Journal ad exec. “It’s just so typical of Harry Reid’s humor to say something like ‘I hope you go out of business.’”
As an example of the awesome wit, they cite these knee-slappers.
Indeed, Reid does have a penchant of saying whatever comes to mind. He once called President George W. Bush “a loser.” He called Justice Clarence Thomas “an embarrassment,” and blasted former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan as “one of the biggest political hacks we have here in Washington.”
Now that’s some funny stuff.
And funnily enough, it doesn’t sound like he was joking there either.
Perhaps the real reason the left is now trying to turn Reid into a benign joker as opposed to a nasty, tactless buffoon, is that his polls numbers suck and he violated the old adage, “you never pick a fight with a guy who buys ink by the barrel” (or at least has a lot of bandwidth).
Good luck with that.
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