Hapless Harry opens mouth, inserts both feet
Cue “Had a Bad Day:”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid became the latest Democrat to stray into rhetorical trouble Tuesday, botching statements on three subjects in one news conference—including the fragile health of the chamber’s most senior members.
The Nevada Democrat reported that one of them, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was absent because he was receiving a new round of treatment for his brain cancer. Asked if the cancer was in remission, Reid replied, “As far as I know, it is, yes.”
Kennedy’s office refused to confirm Reid’s comments or make any statement in response, the public silence a classic Washington disavowal.
Reid also flubbed statements on Robert Byrd’s health and the Senate Dems’ position on Gitmo detainee funding:
Even the post-gaffe handling of Reid’s remarks was awkward. Spokesman Jim Manley, who previously worked for Kennedy for years, swept through the press gallery to clean up after his boss. He retracted Reid’s assessment of Kennedy’s condition. He clarified Reid’s comments about the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Manley’s job was no fun at that moment, a reporter observed.
“Not so much,” he said.
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Idiots, thieves, and liars…
Just keep on talking Harry.Maybe you and Nancy can do a speaking tour.
It’s been said that a gaffe is when a politician against his better judgment tells the truth.
I can only hope that the rest of my Nevada neighbors help me vote this tool into oblivion.
Reid, Pelosi, Biden and Hope-a-Dope are perfect examples of what happens when you get a free pass from a friendly media for so long — after a while, you just start “hip-shooting” with your words, because you think that nobody can touch you.
George Bush was no friend of the English language, but the number of actual gaffes he committed was quite low — minuscule, in fact, when compared to the donks who were/are constantly calling him an idiot. And the reason was simple: Bush knew that he had to carefully choose his words before a relentlessly hostile media.
In the same way that libs think that they’re “helping” minorities by treating them like infants, the media thinks it’s “helping” donks by refusing to call them to account when they shoot off at the mouth. In both cases, they couldn’t be more misguided in their notion of “altruism.”
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I just lost a submission – anyone else having the problem? Received the dreaded error page?
The jest of that was:
Why are the two spokesmen for the party suddenly acting like they are brain damaged? I don’t recall any of them being camera shy before – now, they can’t string a complete sentence together without flubbing their lines before a camera. You would think their poll numbers were in the tank? We’re all missing the bigger picture or something evil this way cometh.
The real question: Is Harry in remission?
Suddenly? Seems a chronic condition to me. Nanny just messed with the wrong folks this time. HER calling the CIA liars? Reid is just out to lunch as usual.
He just couldn’t stand it that Nan was getting all the attention.
A rare trifecta. One more and he would have “hit for the cycle”. That’s more rare than a perfect game!
I think Harry Reid is an embarrassment to himself, his voters, his constituents, his state, the Senate, the USA… and the entire human race.
A favorite quote of mine from Harry Reid is about where he learned to swim.
From his book “The Good Fight”….,
That Harry, and we wonder how he got to where he is today.
And now he works in a whorehouse.
Is this the face of a failed Democrat?
Here’s hoping he chokes.
Lame attempt at impersonating Clinton.
Lap dog.
Did he just admit that his mother worked the night shift?
Hey, quit bagging on LGM’s object of worship. You’ll hurt it’s feelings.
They’re all under the evil spell of TOTUS. Without TOTUS, they have become nothing.
Arrogance
Did I wander into the Perez Hilton site by mistake?
So….
One can type “whorehouse” without triggering the filter, but “p0ker” is verboten.
Yet another mess from the Bush admin. Obama will have to clean up.
Sounds like Dirty Harry forgot to take his brain(less) pills.
Don’t care.
Yeah Chap, he’s doing a real spiffy job cleaning up the Bush deficit. And fixing up the national security. I feel so much safer. But that’s only because I bought more guns.
You can also choose to buy butter. Or so my high school econ teacher said.
Chap, Butter raises my cholesterol, while guns actually lower my tension. My guess is your econ teacher was a socialist. Thus your hippie world view.
We don’t have socialists in Lowville, NY. He was however my tennis coach. And the hot tub on his patio in the middle of winter several years after I graduated from HS was the site of the strangest, craziest night of my life. It, btw, did not involve my econ/tennis coach directly in any way.
I see. I understand there are no gays in Iran either.
At any rate, please do not elaborate on the hot tub incident, unless it involved supply side economics in some manner.
Should either of those cretins die – the dems would have them stuffed so they don’t lose the votes.
I am really tempted to make a “trickle down” joke, but will try to maintain a modicum of propriety.
I suspect Harry passed away sometime after the “war is lost” incident. Looks like a corps, but with less personality.
Speaking of Harry Reid, Dennis Miller had him pegged just a few days ago when he said, “His whole career is a typo.”
Well Chappy buy your butter now–it too will get awful expensive under Obamics 1 and ll. Bring a cooler–there won’t be any AC in Obama’s cardboard cars.
reid the idiot in motion is the true picture of the liberal (progressive) party. still evolving from ameoba stage.