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October 19, 2007
When the Democratic Smear Brigade gives you lemons…
…make $2.1 million in lemonade, donate it to the Marine Corps, then sit back and watch as Harry Reid goes from gray-skinned opportunist to, like, grayer skinned opportunist. Final score: Capitalism 1, Reid, et al, still trying to find their way through the maze of tunnels to the stage. “HELLO CLEVELAND!” 35 Comments ::: Post a comment »RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI: http://proteinwisdom.com/wp-trackback.php?p=10020 Leave a commentIf you want to leave a feedback to this post or to some other user´s comment, simply fill out the form below. |
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Comment by Matt Knowles on 10/19 @ 10:44 am #
This… is… Spinal Tap!
Comment by JD on 10/19 @ 10:46 am #
Rush is just trying to purchase a rehabilitation of his image, because we all know that he hates the troops. Or some other blather like that.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/19 @ 10:55 am #
Harry Reid, in his eternal non wisdom, is now out trying to take partial credit for the money raised.
IO I want to say that Reid is worse than a tool can I just call him tools?
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/19 @ 11:02 am #
Harry Reid’s statement on the matter.
Comment by A fine scotch on 10/19 @ 11:03 am #
Not only is Harry Reid trying to take credit, he’s doing it on the Senate floor, making his remarks part of the permanent record.
I loathe Harry Reid.
Comment by Stankleberry on 10/19 @ 11:06 am #
Harry Reid is deranged.
Comment by wishbone on 10/19 @ 11:07 am #
Yep, 11% and still heading south.
Is it possible to have a negative approval rating?
Comment by MMShillelagh on 10/19 @ 11:17 am #
In Cartman voice: I… am seriously… so… pissed off. Reid should be caned on the Senate floor. This is such a load of awful, blatant, bald-faced LIES that I find it beyond the pale, even for the Demo-craps.
I mean, c’mon, really? You’re going to get 40 other Senators to join you in personally trashing a private (though by tort law, he’d be a public person) citizen, and lying about what he said as you do it. Then, when he turns around and embarasses you in a rather cunning and totally unforeseeable way (I guess those pain-killers didn’t do any permanent damage to his mental faculties), you try to take credit for the good? Really? REALLY?
I’m incredulous, incensed, and incandescent!
(N.B. Yes, that was a joke.)
Comment by slackjawedyokel on 10/19 @ 11:47 am #
So, is Dingy Harry going to match the contribution, like Rush is going to do?
Senator?
Anyone?
Hello?
Comment by BJTexs on 10/19 @ 12:12 pm #
OH. My. Gosh. What a pandering, self promoting, charity chasing rat faced little turdlette Reid is. It’s official as of this minute. I raise him to my Pantheon of Loath, right next to John Kerry.
Friggin, fraggin maroon…
Comment by Squid on 10/19 @ 12:15 pm #
Dingy Harry may not match the contribution personally, but he has a phalanx of bundlers willing to step up to the plate.
Comment by JD on 10/19 @ 12:26 pm #
BJ – When reading that into the record, how in the hell could he keep from chuckling and laughing the entire time?
Comment by Pablo on 10/19 @ 12:27 pm #
Dan,
This part is ab fab:
You know what else is funny? Media Matters with nothing to say is funny.
Comment by Darleen on 10/19 @ 12:42 pm #
Congress is really Another World.
Comment by smiller on 10/19 @ 12:42 pm #
Jitstain. Harry Reid is a jitstain.
Comment by the other Ken on 10/19 @ 1:21 pm #
By the way, don’t be counting your Clevelands before another gazillion canadian soldier ants are hatched…
Comment by The Rick on 10/19 @ 1:28 pm #
Wow, over 4 MILLION dollars going to the soldiers and…wait for it…virtually no coverage on the big news networks – even form the assortment of 7 24-hour news networks.
Liberal Media bias? Unpossible!
Comment by The Rick on 10/19 @ 1:30 pm #
…and Harry Reid can suck my Harry Rod.
What a slimy little bastard. He makes Larry Craig look like an honest upstanding citizen.
Friggin tard.
Comment by McGehee on 10/19 @ 2:50 pm #
Senate Democrats chose Harry Reid to be their leader, and the only time Harry has a brain cell is when Joe Lieberman sneezes on him.
Comment by Alice H on 10/19 @ 3:29 pm #
Isn’t it nice of Rush to throw in free shipping?
Comment by R30C on 10/19 @ 3:32 pm #
It just confirms what I’ve suspected of Reid. His father threw the used rubber out the window of the Packard and it grew.
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/19 @ 3:40 pm #
I was just skimming the letter and I notice they’re still clinging to that stupid Military Times poll from 2006. What planet are they living on?
Comment by R30C on 10/19 @ 4:32 pm #
McGehee, I visualize Reid more along the lines of Marys brother in the movie “something about Mary” when the school clowns set him up to ask the school hot chick “have you seen my wiener” ..or something along that line.. He makes the rest of them seem intelligent by comparison.
Comment by easyliving1 on 10/19 @ 4:44 pm #
Rush chose to label Sen. Reid as “dingy,” not “soiled,” the other option.
I prefer Soiled Harry Reid.
It’s because I really liked “The Blues Brothers” and their use of the term soiled, as well as the Coen’s “The Hudsucker Proxy,” where old Paul Newman says “sure sure” numerous times, in a memorable way.
Soiled Harry Reid could be seen as SHR, leading to the “sure sure” entanglement.
My apologies, but I donated $8 to Jeff and $6 to Ace, so I can post whatever the hell I want!
BOOM!
Comment by R30C on 10/19 @ 5:24 pm #
Actually “soiled” may be appropriate, as in when Harry Reid found his letter to clear channel worth so much money he soiled himself.
Anymore fun ways to combine Harry Reid and soiled in a phrase kids?
Comment by narciso on 10/19 @ 6:10 pm #
One is reminded that Jack Shafer in Slate, brought out the fact that the
gambling commissioner played by the more self important Smothers brother
in Casino is based on Harry Reid n 1970s Vegas.
Comment by Serr8d on 10/19 @ 6:12 pm #
“MORE THAN $2 MILLION FOR A LETTER SIGNED BY THIS SENATOR AND MY FRIENDS.” And my friends. Not ‘colleagues’ or ‘associates’, or ‘accomplices’, but friends.
Strikes me as an slip-up error in his little speech, there. Earlier he claimed that, if he had had more time, he could have garnered every Senator as a signer.
Does he think they too are all his friends?
Or that because they didn’t sign, they are not?
Comment by The Lost Dog (El Pero Perdido) on 10/19 @ 6:45 pm #
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/19 @ 11:02 am #
“Harry Reid’s statement on the matter.”
I hate to beat around the bush (no pun intended), but this man, Lying Harry Reid, is an ABSOLUTE PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!
Go, Harry!! I will spit in your Stalinist, lying face anywhere, anytime, anyplace.
How does such a lowlife, lying chunk of offal stay in the Senate? How cool is it that your three sons are the top lobbiests(?) in Nevada? I smell even more bullshit.
And we are supposed to respect this flying assholes?
Sorry for the “Kos-tone”, but this moron has pissed me off more than anything I can remember in my life.
Hey, Harry! we are not all illiterate ignoramuses like the people who elect you.
Harry is an insult to anyone who has an IQ of over 80.
There. I feel a little better..
Comment by alppuccino on 10/19 @ 7:45 pm #
My guess is Hairy Reed has asked that the transcript of his stirring statement of “Mission Accomplished for the Chirren” be printed on his letterhead for a follow-up auction on Ebay. Signed by him and his D.C. roommates, all proceeds will go to the Frost family.
In the end “Reserve not met” will be the grand total.
Comment by Big Bang (pumping you up.) on 10/19 @ 10:35 pm #
- Maybe the Reps should get up a resolution to censure Reid for “Gross mis-interpretation, egregious pandering to the crazy aunts in his party, and chronic stupidity”. Wonder how many votes they’d get “for”.
Comment by Babbitty on 10/20 @ 6:36 am #
I LOVE you people.
A couple of posters here insisted that “attack” and “smear” were left-wing words. I found that puzzling..comic, actually since Rush and O’Reilly or their fans are always saying they’re under attack by LW “smear” groups.
Glad to have that cleared up.
Maybe the lesson here is – point of view is everything. And I’ll leave it at that.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/20 @ 6:44 am #
Babbitty:
Actually I think the lesson is – incoherence is not a point of view. What the hell are you talking about?
No, no, don’t answer. I’m just not that interested.
Comment by alppuccino on 10/20 @ 8:15 am #
I think Babbity is citing the rule of thumb for football: When a guy tries to gouge your eye out in a pile up, don’t retaliate because you’re the one who will get the flag for 15 yds.
Shorter Babbity’s rule: Smearing – fine. Retaliation – personal foul.
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/20 @ 12:03 pm #
A smear consists of, say, lying about what someone said in order to call him or her a racist or an enemy of soldiers — even when you know it not to be the case.
Pointing out facts that someone finds inconvenient for maintaining his bogus image? Not so much.
Comment by Pablo on 10/20 @ 12:17 pm #
No, they’re just words. When they become all left wingy is when you use them for things that ain’t what they mean, such as saying that Limbaugh called anyone who disagrees with the war a “phony soldier”.
Some might call it spinning. I call it lying. But, hey…whatever.
Scoreboard, baby.