Dingy Harry Reid defends stink bomb
Silly you! Don’t you know that when Harry Reid complained about how D.C. tourists reek, what he was really saying was how awesomely awesome they are:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid defended himself Wednesday over a joking comment that tourists to the Capitol sometimes smell.
Turns out many people weren’t amused.
The Nevada Democrat has been attacked on blogs, editorial pages and letters to the editor since his remark last week: “In the summertime, because of the high humidity and how hot it gets here, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol.”
His comment came during the opening ceremony for the new Capitol Visitor Center.
In response, an offended letter-writer to Reid’s hometown Las Vegas Review-Journal declared: “You, Sen. Reid, are the one who stinks.”
Without directly apologizing, Reid sought to explain himself in his own letter to the Review-Journal on Wednesday.
“Much has been made of my comments at the opening of the Capitol Visitors Center,” Reid wrote. “Anyone who took the time to watch my statement or read it in full knows the point I was making: I’m always pleased when the Capitol is filled with citizens eager to learn about our country’s great history and the work we do in that historic building.”
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Defusing a stink bomb with another stink bomb. Where is my Febreeze?
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In the infamous word of Blago…
$#^& you, Harry!
Reid was complaining about the heat and lack of air conditioning. Admit it.
Sure he was. There is always some excuse with these guys.
Was that you on huffpo this today lgm? Someone called me out on being from here. Like its some sort of crime.
On December 11th, 2008 at 5:35 pm, lgm said:
Oh, so what he says is not what he means?
And you find it acceptable to defend people who are innately wired to behave this way?
P. U.
huh? I get it, it wasn’t him, it was everyone else.
“Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, I’m not going to apologize because I’m a stinking liberal, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.”
I agree with what madmonkphotog said.
sniff, sniff…whew!
Did someone drop a reid?
A rude moron.
I’ve really come to believe that if, on 9/11, in exchange for the three planes that did hit their targets not hitting their targets, Flight 93 had hit its target; then (relatively speaking), the whole nation would’ve been better off in the long run.
Not only would several thousand fewer lives have been lost; but also, those murdered would have been out of commission (government), and those spared would have been around to better serve the nation (commerce and defense).
Gruesome scenario? Sure. Objectively true? Immutably affirmative.
Those two Pelosi and Reid look like the walking dead!
“And if the unwashed peasants coming to view their betters in the US Capitol don’t have any bread to eat, then let them eat cake!”
OH-OUR hired errrr-elected ’servants’…we US – do PAY them (w/our $$$$) -DON’T we!!!!So- they are supposed to be WORKING (3 months a year-last count) for US….
THEY are the ones who stink!!!!! Reid being one of the stinkiest!
Let’s put them in the social security system—a place they feel they don’t belong – being better than the US citizens for whom they ‘work’….
Tommy boy Reid is a worthless tool.
Ole Harry is not fit to step foot into that “historic building”. Mr. Reid is a certified loser.
“Read it in full” indeed. As I recall, he prefaced his original remarks with something like “my staff told me not to say this.”
Whatever for, dear Harry?
We have two very handsome Huskies In the back yard. They eat alot, So we have to be careful not to step on a
“Reid or a Pelosi”…….because they stink also!!!!
When liberals complain about Bush, they talk about torture and incompetence. When conservatives complain about Reid, it’s to deliberately misunderstand a comment about how hard it is to work in a hot humid environment.
Sure he was, but instead of talking about his concern that citizens must stand for long periods in the heat with no respite, Harry was only concerned about himself and the stench of the “tourists.”
‘Nuff Said
Dead on. As someone said on another thread, I’m getting so tired of these people doing things right in front of our eyes and then reviling us for believing what we plainly see. The old “Who you gonna believe? Me, or your lying eyes?” crack comes to mind…
That, or Judge Judy’s old “Don’t tell me it’s raining” line.
Aww poor baby!
Nothing to see here, move along. Move along….
So you missed the last _____ hundred posts on Reid’s incompetence? No surprise there from our resident foot-in-mouth champion.
There, fixed that for him.
Isn’t the great state of Nevada just so lucky to have wonderful gem to represent them?
/sarc off
Um. No. When we talk about Reid, or as you put it, “complain about Reid“, it’s to talk about open borders, spending my grandchildren’s money, blocking funding of troops in the field and their supplies for no reason other than to work to make the President look bad, telling those same troops and the rest of the world that we (the USA) have already lost in Iraq which has been proven time and again to be 100% incorrect, trying to sneak yet more legislation into unrelated bills to stop any shale exploration keeping the US dependent on foreign oil just that much longer, lying about just exactly where in ANWR the drilling should be, trying to jam yet another stimulous bill down our throats, cheating on vote procedures in the Senate strictly to facilitate an outcome he has decreed, being the leader of a Senate that has nearly set a record for the longest running single digit approval rating and just generally being a wind bag in an empty suit and a traitor to his country.
Who has time to misunderstand this oxygen thief.
Oh, back under your bridge, Troll. The big people are talking.
WORK?
Would someone please identify a piece of WORK performed by this guy?
Its becoming a close battle of who’s more full of themselves, the Hollywood folks or the DC politicians.
No.
“Everybody pay attention to me”
I find myself in a festive mood tonight. A great way to get rid of the stink in Washington DC might be to decorate some of the trees in the Capital Mall with our more arrogant public officials that see themselves above us mere plebian dogs that pay their salaries with our forced tribute. I think Senator Reid would be a great start with a long list of fellow Democrat and RINO Congress critters that come to mind.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
I absolutely cracked up with that sentence. Awesome!
Yes Senator Reid there is a stench emanating from Washington. I suggest that to locate the source of it, you begin searching in increasingly larger concentric circles around your own little piece of the Capitol building.
LGM, you’re displaying a tiredpattern now. Yes, Reid was likely just complaining about the AC. (If he thinks he’s felt humidity, though, he needs to pay a visit to Orlando).
The problem is specifically what he said and the notation it carried. It sounded just like an elite-type ding dong complaigning about smelling the dirty masses. Haven’t you ever toured Washington? Did you think you stunk? It really sounds like that is what he is saying.
As for Booooosh, how many incorrect conclusions were voiced based on the fact that he isn’t as polished a public speaker as his past opponents? You know darned good and well he really isn’t stooped, but the left certainly talked like he was due to his persona.
You maybe need to hink long and hard about this. Freud might have something to add if he were still around.
Dobby the house elve needs a scrub down!
LGM you crack me up and you know that Reid is from Nevada and its hot there. I know its a dry hot but still hot. If Reid doesn’t like it he can resign and work at a place that does have AC. What was the torture you were talking about anyway?? You never explain fully, are we practicing the same methods that the Germans, Japanese, Saddam to get information??? Whats your solution?? By the way where are those abortion clinics at that are being bombed daily lol. I will feint if yo answer
lgm(LegallyGoneMad) and over ripe Reid have a lot in common, both are liars, both have no concept of honesty, both are unamerican, both should be locked up somewhere we can safe from them and their smell…I don’t have anymore time for these stinko’s.
“Anyone who took the time to watch my statement or read it in full knows the point I was making: I’m always pleased when the Capitol is filled with citizens eager to learn about our country’s great history and the work we do in that historic building.”
“I just don’t like the way they smell.”
What Senator Reid smells is what he’s shoveling. Schmuck.
Reid looks like the most famous stinky liberal of all – Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Screw you Harry Reid. Your Anti-USA politics of socialism stink.
Is this honestly the best you could come up with? I love how desperate you guys are getting. With almost 3/4 of the nation satisfied with Obama’s handling of his transition, you guys are turning to stories like this. Pathetic.
Well, dingy, why did your staff warn you about such a statement? But you knew better, you don’t need no “stinkin” staff.
Why don’t you get him a clean room? Then he won’t be troubled by the “smell” of the “common folk.” It must be such a burden for elite pinheads like Reid to erect useless edifices to Washington bureaucratic ineptitude.
OMG, look who I’m talking to. You’re a freaking Math professor (or just a public school teacher). You used to working for institutions that waste money on a daily basis.
Oh, you mean Saint Obummer whose own dung don’t stink, right? The same person who is so above it all but got his hands dirty (or used people so he wouldn’t be entangled) in that now greatest of swamps…. Chicago.
I love how Obummer supporters continue to whine desperately to deflect from the fact Obummer is embroiled in yet another scandal. It’s just amazing that nobody can criticize a Dem without being seen as “desperate.”
Do you even care how things function in Washington or in this country? Or are you just another bobblehead drone who just goes along to get along?
Might I also suggest that if you find MM’s coverage so “pitiable” that perhaps you can do your Obummer frenzied, end-zone, prejudged, best evah presidency dance at Huff ‘n Puff or Daily Chaos?
We’re sorry we’re not including you more. I hear if you donated enough money to Obummer’s campaign, you might be able to get a job in his administration. Maybe that will be able to salve your ego.
If that was all he was doing, why didn’t he just say how sorry he was for the summer tourists having to suffer in the heat? Why did he focus on HIS suffering by having to endure the stench of the great unwashed? Besides, Reid’s on vacation most of the summer anyway. (And how could he tell the stench came from the tourists and not from Murtha visiting the Senator next door?)
Does anyone remember the summer before last when several
Democratic senatorshypocrites paused for the microphones on their way out the door at the start of their summer vacation? They stayed just long enough to criticize the Iraqi parliament for going on vacation while American troops were risking their lives in Iraq. It never dawned on them that THEY were going on vacation while American troups were risking their lives in Iraq.Maybe the heating/AC industry needs a bailout.
No, but maybe it’s time for the folks in Nevada to “cut one”
Zombies, looking for brains.
On December 12th, 2008 at 2:12 am, emjem24 said:
See, if you had anything to base this on, it would be credible.
I have no problem with fair criticism; however, this story is ridiculous. I hear a lot of complaining about “gotcha” journalism; this story could be run in a tabloid.
Message for lgm from Henny Youngman:
Who are you going to believe? Me or your own eyes?
Whoops! Sorry DBNinKY, I just saw your entry (#22), which makes mine (#52) redundant.
Is there nothing a Democrat can say that you’ll not defend?
If George Bush had said (or even possibly implied, if the MSM twisted his words enough) something about “smelling the tourists”, you – and the rest of the left – would be Oh! So! Offended!
You are an idiot. Admit it.
Memo to Dingy Harry: He who smelt it, dealt it.