Sen. Reid and “incompetence”
posted at 10:37 am on June 15, 2007 by Bryan
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Remember this?
That’s Senator Harry Reid, referring to illegal aliens as “undocumented Americans.” The comment came straight from his own official web site.
Last Thursday, a day or so after I posted the video here, I rang up Sen. Harry Reid’s office. When the receptionist answered, I asked for someone in the press office. A couple of rings, then a young man picked up.
I identified myself and asked “Does the senator stand by his comment that is currently front and center on his web site, that illegal aliens are ‘undocumented Americans’?”
“That’s it?”
“Yes, that’s all. Does Senator Reid think of illegal immigrants as ‘undocumented Americans’? That’s currently the main video on your web site. Does the senator stand by that characterization?”
At this point, I think it dawned on our young press officer that the comment was a problem, as was its prominent display on the senator’s official web site. If Sen. Reid stood by the comment, then he’s revealed as a man who thinks nothing of American citizenship and following the law. If Reid misspoke, then he’s a boob and his web operation is run by incompetents.
A few seconds of silence followed my question. Then the young press officer started tap dancing.
“Uh, I’ll have to ask about this. Can we get back to you?”
“Of course.”
And I gave him my phone number. Neither the young press officer nor anyone else in Reid’s office ever called me back. But the next day a new video replaced the “undocumented Americans” clip on Reid’s site. Anticipating that Reid’s people would do something like that, I’d already downloaded the clip to post it here. It would have gone down the memory hole otherwise.
That’s the kind of man we have in our Senate Majority Leader. He won’t own up to his mistakes; he just tries to bury them and hope they go away. He hoped his disparaging comments about two of America’s finest generals would just go away. They won’t.
Sen. Harry Reid is a dishonest shill for the nutroots whose approval rating stands at 19%. He is the incompetent leader of a pathetic Democrat-led Senate, the approval rating of which stands at a whopping 23%. For Reid to disparage either Gen. Peter Pace or Gen. David Petraeus, both of whom have given their entire adult lives in service to their country, is a disgrace.
If Reid had any sense of honor or decency, he’d resign. Which means he’ll be in the Senate until the voters of Nevada finally tire of him, or he retires at a ripe old age.
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Ah, ya tipped him off Bryan….
TheBigOldDog on June 15, 2007 at 10:42 AM
Hey Bryan, I have an idea for you - check the tips email account.
TheBigOldDog on June 15, 2007 at 10:44 AM
Rip him a new one Bryan, rip that a$$hole a new a$$hole and shove him through it……
doriangrey on June 15, 2007 at 10:45 AM
By virtue of your personally calling his office on this I’ll have to say that you did Dennis Miller one better at p@wning Dingy Harry. Well done.
Buzzy on June 15, 2007 at 10:45 AM
Hope you got screencaps and audio of that stuff, because its going to go right down the memory hole.
Good Lt on June 15, 2007 at 10:45 AM
Dinghy Harry is such an unappealing person (see: Dennis Miller rant) I can’t understand how he is continually re-elected, especially since politics depends so much on perception. He has to be a tool of big money and influence in Nevada who have him propped up to do their bidding.
Mallard T. Drake on June 15, 2007 at 10:45 AM
Reid is the embodiment of incompetence.
Jaibones on June 15, 2007 at 10:46 AM
RACK Bryan. Good job. Reid is a pandering jackass.
Metro on June 15, 2007 at 10:48 AM
Reid is another gelding in a pool of geldings called congress.
Wade on June 15, 2007 at 10:49 AM
If only Pace would have helped the Ethical Dingy rip off the taxpayer with a shady land deal in Las Vegas, he would have loved him.
Democrats: any graft and fraud is good graft and fraud
benrand on June 15, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Funny you should mention the Dingy one and incompetence. That’s the subject of this week’s Friday Freefly from Uncle Jimbo. As always, viewer discretion is advised before viewing the original Friday Freefly (though the language is quite tame this week).
steveegg on June 15, 2007 at 11:04 AM
The only difference between what Reid buries and what a cat buries is the stench.
You can smell Reid’s nugget from a few hundred miles away.
Incompetent? Indeed.
natesnake on June 15, 2007 at 11:05 AM
Harry meet Dennis
Dennis Miller did what could now be viewed as a pre-emptive strike on this clown.
LakeRuins on June 15, 2007 at 11:06 AM
“of which stands at a whopping 23%”
The thing that makes that funny (and significant) is that’s just over 6-months from the Democrats being elected to the majority and less than 6-months since they took over.
And they’re at 23%.
Christoph on June 15, 2007 at 11:06 AM
This worm of a ‘human’ being doesn’t deserve to mention the names of Generals Pace or Petraeus. And even worms are indignant again.
“Undocumented Americans” - they’re not even “illegal immigrants”. This is simply and invasion and s/b called that. To blame, however, are not the invaders - blame the employers and foremost their enablers, from both sides of the isle. All pockets are bulging and that’s the supermagnet. Let’s throw them all out.
Entelechy on June 15, 2007 at 11:06 AM
Ripe old age? He’s already there. This POS has already had a stroke.
Nevadans should be embarassed.
thegreatbeast on June 15, 2007 at 11:12 AM
Nevada doesn’t have any good choices really. Who would they replace Reid with, Jimmy Carters’ son?
He lost but where does the winner John Ensign (R - NV) stand on the amnesty bill?
LakeRuins on June 15, 2007 at 11:15 AM
Well done, Bryan. Definitely keep this one in the archives and replay it when election season heats up - along with the Headscarf Nancy photos.
thirteen28 on June 15, 2007 at 11:20 AM
FYI-Gen. David Petraeus will be on Fox News Sunday this week.
KelliD on June 15, 2007 at 11:26 AM
I think one of the key concepts many here are missing, is that the American people are tired of ALL the crooks and idiots in Washington.
NEITHER party is giving us a choice… neither party is looking out for us, they are BOTH playing partisan politics to the detriment of America…
Fully 1/3 of the voters in America are now registered Independant… and I bet its going higher as I write this.
Bush is incompetent, Gonzales should go, Cheney has been muzzled, McCain is an open border anti Free Speech traitor, Ghoulianni ran a sanctuary city… but then we got Pelosi and Reid… and don’t even get me started on the RACIST Obama and Hillary (who is so stupid she believed her husband about his serial infidelity, but we want to give her the nuclear button??? HUH???)….
Sorry, both parties are letting down the American people.
Romeo13 on June 15, 2007 at 11:30 AM
Any country that elevates the likes of Reid to a position of great authority has lost its moral and intellectual compass and cannot survive.
rplat on June 15, 2007 at 11:32 AM
That’s the kind of man we have in our Senate Majority Leader. He won’t own up to his mistakes; he just tries to bury them and hope they go away.
Why are you assuming that he didn’t mean to say that?
Mr. Bingley on June 15, 2007 at 11:33 AM
The really scary thing is that they’re not ‘mistakes’ but rather what he truly believes.
Mr. Bingley on June 15, 2007 at 11:34 AM
American supported this happening with the dot.com boom of the late 90’s. You get what you paid for.
tomas on June 15, 2007 at 11:47 AM
Over ripe.
Speakup on June 15, 2007 at 11:52 AM
If this guy isn’t giving aid and comfort to the enemy I don’t know who is…wait, yes I do.
Iblis on June 15, 2007 at 11:52 AM
We have got to clean house on the hill. An ad campaing would be a good idea — not espousing any single party or doctrine, just one of cleaning house, eliminating panderers, cheaters, slanderers, etc. We need representation by honest, ethical, sane people, not the spineless whores we have now.
Any thoughts?
stonemeister on June 15, 2007 at 11:53 AM
Oops, I meant “campaign”…fat-fingered it.
stonemeister on June 15, 2007 at 11:53 AM
Great idea… but who is going to pay for it?
The big money out there knows its already bought the system, why would they want it changed?
Romeo13 on June 15, 2007 at 11:57 AM
I didn’t say it would be easy. This would have to be a grass-roots effort…possibly run on the web? Instead of standard advertising methods, perhaps we could convince blog sites to include a link to the website, with links to email representatives, election campaigns, etc.?
I don’t have all the ideas, could always use more…
stonemeister on June 15, 2007 at 12:02 PM
After reading this I want to know how Bryan really feels.
Two thumbs way up. Now where are the tar and feathers?
Limerick on June 15, 2007 at 12:08 PM
Harry Reid is the democrat party LEADER in the Senate. If this is the best they have, then it says volumes that the Republicans are in the minority in Congress.
God help us all.
SouthernGent on June 15, 2007 at 12:12 PM
Comments about how we’ve lost the war… pointless insults directed at our military leaders… the crack about “undocumented Americans”… if it weren’t for this man’s crooked land deals, I’d think he did nothing but undemine national security.
morganfrost on June 15, 2007 at 12:14 PM
Sadly, this is true. America is on the fast track to total irrelevance.
infidel4life on June 15, 2007 at 12:33 PM
Harry Reid also claimed he told Bush again to his face the war was lost in April
a little more
…The White House said no one recalled Mr. Reid saying “the war is lost” at the meeting with the president.
Topsecretk9 on June 15, 2007 at 12:43 PM
Heh:
Laura on June 15, 2007 at 1:38 PM
Reid is a four-letter word.
He declared the surge a failure before it began. He insinuates things are going badly in Baghdad, when the situation there is improving. He thinks he knows more about waging war than career military officers. Without DNC talking points or a teleprompter in front of him, he comes across as the total buffoon that he is.
Hey Nevada, wake the Reid up!
fogw on June 15, 2007 at 1:48 PM
Yes fogw. So is caca (a 4-letter word). It descended today upon our ‘esteemed’ senators.
And Pace is a real man, a rare breed left in Washington. What a national shame we are undergoing.
Run for president Mr. Pace. The country really needs you.
Entelechy on June 15, 2007 at 3:01 PM
Bryan:
We really need a running Reid roll of such comments. Does the Majority Leader have a neurotic problem with authority? Who can forget this one, when he himself first took the reins, on Justice Thomas:
I know there are more, and I suspect the collected wisdom of the Senator from Nevada is just begging for a vent of its own.
JM Hanes on June 15, 2007 at 3:22 PM
Hey JM, thanks for the reminder. Isn’t it also true, that when Reid was questioned about this statement it was discovered he had never read a single opinion written by Justice Thomas?
fogw on June 15, 2007 at 3:53 PM
we oppose Harry Reid here in Nevada and are working to replace him already.
http://www.opposereid.com
“Daschle first, Reid next.”
jcrue on June 15, 2007 at 5:45 PM
Uncle Jimbo over at Blackfive has a video rant about Harry Reid up. And no profanity. Where have all the real men gone?
LakeRuins on June 15, 2007 at 6:29 PM
When Rush named this guy “Dingy Harry” he hit it right on the head. The fact that this man is the head of the Senate is a joke. The people of Searchlight should start searching for a replacement for this bag of crap!
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on June 15, 2007 at 9:33 PM
once again “KUDOS” Bryan “KUDOS”
mjkazee on June 15, 2007 at 9:53 PM
fogw:
Yes, I believe you’re right. He’s made similar comments about other notables whose shoes he should be shining too. I just wish I could remember names & dates! And remember where I’m supposed to drop off the shoes I’ve been shining myself.
JM Hanes on June 15, 2007 at 10:42 PM
“Which means hell be in the Senate until the voters of Nevada finally tire of him, or he retires at a ripe old age.”
Or he is indicted for his land dealing, bribe taking, and corruption.
georgej on June 16, 2007 at 1:30 AM
Well, Kev got shut up by the “OPSEC” anti-blogging rules, so there goes half the profanity in the usual Friday Freefly. Personally, the lack of profanity from Uncle Jimbo makes the piece even more devastating (think of a whispering boss).
steveegg on June 16, 2007 at 10:50 AM