Reid criticism of Bush resurfaces: Senator cuts off reporter's questions

[NVMojo]

It must be payback time for DeLay smearing and if so, this is weak.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Harry Reid's provocative criticism of President Bush appears to be getting in the way of efforts by the Senate Democratic leader to promote other issues.

During a news conference Monday to advance an agenda on matters facing U.S. families, Reid testily cut off a reporter's questions about his descriptions of Bush as a liar and a loser.

"I know you hate to give up on that," Reid said. "I apologized for the loser. I haven't for the liar. But with all due respect to you: Maybe you could come up with something else."

When the reporter, Ed Henry of CNN, tried to follow up by asking Reid whether it is helpful to call the president a liar, Reid snapped, "I answered the question."

more...

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Jun-07-Tue-2005/news/26679205.html

[NVMojo]

1. Love this part!

" Reid also is the subject of a story in the June 16 issue of Rolling Stone magazine, in which he had the following exchange with an interviewer:

Q: You've called Bush a loser.

Reid: And a liar.

Q: You apologized for the loser comment.

Reid: But never for the liar, have I?"

[wtmusic]

2. Spin O' The Day

Instead of the reporter's incessant questioning getting in the way, it's Reid's comments from a week ago

[librechik]

3. Ed Henry is a neocon stooge

he was instrumental in the 2 year War againsdt Gore; and his credibility as an objective reporter never existed. He should go work for Faux.

[NYC Liberal]

4. No need to apologize for the loser comment - he is one!

[bunkerbuster1]

5. He "snapped," did Reid?

Not that the reporter would ever editorialize or nothin' in a news story, nosireee...

[gratuitous]

6. Poor Ed Henry

Maybe he should go to the White House press gaggle and try to get Snottie McClellan to answer a question about, oh, say the Downing Street Minutes. You know, something important and newsworthy?

[rkc3]

8. Thinking the same thing - ask some tough questions to the guys screwing us

[Supersedeas]

32. Red State Ed is on distraction creation patrol!!! Do your part Ed Hen

[dArKeR]

7. Where's the post of Reids tel. #? My Mormon roommate was

educated but brainwashed into a fundimentalist zombie. This guy Reid seems to have his own mind. Last time I called him I told his aide he shouldn't have apologized. This time I'll tell him, "thanks for having some grit which other Dems. don't have!"

[Straight Shooter]

9. "I know you hate to give up on that ..."

Reid sure has Henry's number, doesn't he?

[lady lib]

10. That is one kick-ass guy.

We're lucky to have him.

[dArKeR]

11. "When you ask aWol about Plume, Lying about Iraq, his NG duty....

then I'll answer your question." Why didn't Reid say this?

[PurityOfEssence]

12. Maybe not helpful to the president, but helpful to the country and world

I'm glad he stuck by his guns. If journalists are going to demand lock-step loyalty to someone who only has an allegiance to himself and a small cabal of economic monarchists, then the journalists should take some heat too.

Yes, it's helpful to humanity itself to call a loutish, unremitting liar a liar. It's good for the country and for the rest of the world, and it's supremely helpful. George W. Bush is a pathological, totally unprincipled, continual liar of the soul; he lives a lie, he stands for lies and he whips up whoppers faster than Burger King.

[deacon2]

23. PurityOfEssence - You have nailed it down tight

My father - an excellent semanticist, among many talents - taught us that "to call a son of a bitch a son of a bitch, is to be, above all, accurate."

If only our media had the balls left to do so. No sack, no stones, no story...

[Karenina]

38. Mo does it in a pic, a thousand words in an instant...

[Prodemsouth]

30. I would have loved to hear Reid say the second part of your

post. It would be the truth, that would be a jaw dropper of a 10.5 maginitude. The Washington elite and the whores would be speechless.

[xchrom]

13. lol!

ed henry is a pig.

and reid is taking us all to school to teach us how to deal with pigs.

[Beetwasher]

14. *Sigh* Pitbulls Against Dem, Puppies For Bush

If only they would question Bushco. Capo's w/ such tenacity. Fucking whores.

[Norquist Nemesis]

15. Reid "snapped" ROFLMAO!!!

That's not an overstatement, it's a blatantly purposeful mischaracterization. I heard Reid. It was matter of fact and precise. (period). There was no "snap" in tone.

I guess it rocked the 'reporter' on his heels that he couldn't manipulate the situation pushing his bias. Reid's correct...he could have come up with something else, and chose not to.

[UpInArms]

16. Keep it coming, Ed Henry, you loser

I like hearing *Co and Liar in the same sentence.

To Harry Reid:

:yourock:

[DiverDave]

17. Saw it, liked what I saw.

Dave.

[DiverDave]

18. Just got off the phone

with his office.
Told them I was proud of him.

[vickie]

19. Great. How did they respond? I'm about to call.

[malachi]

20. 'Oh, Ed Henry! A case study of CNN bias gone wild'

An article posted on The Smirking Chimp last week about Hall of Fame Asshole Ed Henry.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=21365

[indypaul]

21. It seems truth is also the first

casualty of "wars on terror". Liar and loser
seems credible description to me.

[AzDar]

22. Telling the truth and not being cowed into an apology for doing it is a

Revolutionary act, these days. I'm calling Reid's office to say "Thanks"...

[Zerex71]

24. Yeah, but where's the press asking Bush some tough questions?

Hah? Where are they all the time? No, instead they have to try and hound Reid. We all know whose lapdogs they are.

[tom_paine]

25. Naturally, the story is framed in the customary Rovian Fashion

The problem is Harry Reid.
The problem is Harry Reid.
The problem is Harry Reid.

Standard Imperial Amerikan "Journalism" Formula, circa 2005 AD:

Whenever anyone has a problem or criticism of the Imperial Family or various Minion of the Imperial Family, the REAL STORY is ALWAYS the treasonous, unpatriotic accuser and how their "wild-eyed" as well as their irrational hatred of our Glorious and Godly Leader, just keeps getting inthe way of doing their job.

I have now seen this replayed a thousand times using a hundred different variants. It is as standardized as if beetle-browed OHS Officers were stationed at every Newspaper and TV Station. How the Busheviks managed Soviet-style media uniformity without the overt controls is a True Addition to the Evil Genius Hall of Fame, a DEFINITE improvement and progress over the original Goebbelsian Methodology prior to it's enhancement by Karl Rove et al in the beginning of the 90s.

It is as mundane to a Totalitarian or a Bushevik as it is shocking and appalling to Free People.

The questions, as always in Imperial Amerika, is NOT whether criticisms of the Emperor and the Imperial Administration are valid or wheteher they should be investigated.

They are and will never be investigated.

The question, for the enslaved (but very gently so, for the moment)subjects of Imerial Amerika as fed to them by their (our) Corproate TV Pravda is, "What is wrong with those people for daring to speak against our Glorious and Pious Ruler?"

God, I miss the days when America was free. I miss the American People of the post-WWII era, now over and gone.

[Supersedeas]

34. WOW!!! Great post...if only we could get it mass produced and

distributed from LA to NY, we'd have friends and family with a better sense of where the country stands politically.

[DemsUnited]

26. "is it helpful to call the president a liar" asks Ed Henry of CNN

Mr. Henry, what really isn't helpful is that the president IS a liar!!

Crawl back under a rock, sir, and take the rest of CNN with you...

[Iowa]

27. Hmmm....

"When the reporter, Ed Henry of CNN, tried to follow up by asking Reid whether it is helpful to call the president a liar, Reid snapped, 'I answered the question'."

Not an effective reply (whether he snapped or not). Reid was on the defensive here. When you're in a battle with an enemy - you should ALWAYS play offense - never defense. I'd like to see the Dems try to embarrass and humiliate an occasional reporter like Henry - reframe the issue and make it all about Ed Henry, and the fact that he is a lap-dog for the Bush administration. Come prepared with a couple of examples and challenge his objectivity and bias; really try to do some personal damage to the guy. Choose one reporter and make it very personal. Separate one reporter from the herd - maybe praise a couple of other reporters and comment about something specific they did (IOW, don't come off like paranoid Nixon who tried to trash the entire media). Make him loose sleep at night over being ridiculed on national television.

--Play offense - never defense.
--Make it personal.
--Separate one from the herd by praising others.

We've got to do things differently.

[NVMojo]

39. Reid was fine. These idiots are like the dog crap on the bottom of

the shoe that can't be kicked loose. The more you have to deal with them, the more they stink!

[Merlin]

28. Good for Reid. Finally somebody nails Bush as a liar.

A consumate, inveterate, unconscionable, rabscallion of a liar at that!

[Dr Fate]

29. As long as the words "liar" and "Bush" are repeated in the same sentence..

..then this is a good thing.

[nolabels]

35. That shoud be how * is refered to in open air, as L-I-A-R-B-U-S-H

Maybe they should even make a song about the monster that hides out in the project Northwoods just down the road from the twin towers. He hides behind the L-I-A-R-B-U-S-H with Commander Bunny-Pants close at hand. He is a big ugly montster nobody should see :scared:

Oh, Mr L-I-A-R-B-U-S-H where are you, please come out Mr. L-I-A-R-B-U-S-H :shrug:

[Dr Fate]

36. "Someone who constantly & knowingly makes false statements is a liar."

"I apologize for my knowledge of the English language!!! Would you like me to list Bush's lies with dates & times- or is that YOUR job? If not, then next question please..."

That is what I wish Reid would say!!!

[nolabels]

37. The question is who are Reid and the rest of them really working for

I don't share in the optimism that anything will be solved in the corporate run place known as D.C.

You ask what am I doing here? Ans: Just waiting till the time most everybody can see this as well. People are told this how you must find the answers, but anybody that solves problems knows doing what you are told is not a way to solve problems.

Btw, I found this piece of art today, hope you like it


http://www.worth1000.com/emailthis.asp?image=152055

[Supersedeas]

31. instead of reporting the News, ED the Red becomes the News

Way to go ED, Freeps and Corporatistas around the world salute you.

[krkaufman]

33. The issue shouldn't be "is it helpful to call the president a liar"

The issue the reporter should be looking into is... *IS* the President a liar?

And the Downing Street Memo pretty much proves that he is. (Amongst all the other examples.)

[Gyre]

40. "Take that you little pimp!"

Harry's got a gun, and he's not afraid to use it. Refreshing change for a DLCer.:)

Gyre