Calling Out Harry Reid
Sunday, August 30th, 2009If there’s an inescapable truth about Harry Reid, it’s that it’s common for him to speak with a forked tongue. Thanks to Sherman Frederick’s column, we now have proof of Reid’s duplicitousness:
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.
Reid’s bitterness implies that Reid’s temperament isn’t befitting a U.S. senator, much less the temperament of the leader of the Senate. Harry Reid must go. It’s imperative that he not be returned to Washington, DC. He isn’t a leader. He’s corrupt. Worst of all, his priorities aren’t Nevada’s priorities.
Reid is one of several long-serving Democrats afflicted with DC-itis. Other Democrats fitting that description are Christopher Dodd, Arlen Specter, John Murtha, John Conyers and David Obey.
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.
Congratulations are in order to Sherman Frederick and the Las Vegas Journal-Review. They’re speaking out against a thug and a glass-jawed elitist. It’s time that more people and more newspapers started speaking out against DC’s elitists. After all, there are two inarguable facts on our side: 1. They work for us, not vice versa and 2) WE OUTNUMBER THEM!!!
A couple weeks ago, I was talking with a close friend about Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. I said that an important principle of Rules For Radicals was the bullying factor. I said then that the best thing that could happen to stop a bully in his tracks was to pop him first and give him a bloody nose.
The thing about bullies is that they’re full of bravado…until they meet a bigger bully. When you rock a bully, they’re usually disoriented. I think that’s what Sen. Reid is right now. He’s always been the biggest bully in Nevada. He’s never had people push back. He’s never had to have a Plan B in his playbook because his Plan A, bullying people, has ALWAYS worked.
Now the Las Vegas Journal-Review is pushing back. They’re the biggest bully because you can’t defeat someone who buys ink by the barrel.
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.
Three cheers to Mr. Frederick. If more media outlets took this attitude, sales would skyrocket and trust would be rebuilt. It’s important that media outlets first build a rapport with their customers. It isn’t that important that they build a rapport with the people they cover.
When all the votes are counted that first Tuesday in November, 2010, Harry Reid will be a defeated soon-to-be ex-senator. That’s what happens when you try bullying the biggest bully in town. That’s what happens when you ignore the will of the people. Good riddance.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog