Las Vegas Paper Tells Harry Reid To Stop The Childish Bullying

The Whistler • August 30, 2009

Harry Reid, one of our ruling elite who thankfuly may be on his way out, just got a lesson in courtesy from someone whom he should be gracious, not insulting.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal had a rather ugly exchange with the Senator:

We’re still here doing what we do for the people of Las Vegas and Nevada. So, let me assure you, if we weathered all of that, we can damn sure outlast the bully threats of Sen. Harry Reid.
On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber’s board members for a meet-’n'-greet and a photo. One of the last in line was the Review-Journal’s director of advertising, Bob Brown, a hard-working Nevadan who toils every day on behalf of advertisers. He has nothing to do with news coverage or the opinion pages of the Review-Journal.
Yet, as Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said: “I hope you go out of business.”

The paper didn’t take the insult – threat – laying down. Their reply:

Such behavior cannot go unchallenged.
[...]
For the sake of all who live and work in Nevada, we can’t let this bully behavior pass without calling out Sen. Reid. If he’ll try it with the Review-Journal, you can bet that he’s tried it with others. So today, we serve notice on Sen. Reid that this creepy tactic will not be tolerated.
We won’t allow you to bully us. And if you try it with anyone else, count on going through us first.
That’s a promise, not a threat.
And it’s a promise to our readers, not to you, Sen. Reid.

A politician just managed to anger the largest newspaper in the state he represents. His behavior toward them, that sneering condescension, is symptomatic of what we’re seeing on a much larger scale in Washington right now. the casual dismissal of the peasantry by the royal wave of a hand.
It just backfired on Reid and as the honeymoon with the media grows stale for the liberal democrats we may begin to start seeing more of this.
Never anger the people who buy ink by the barrel and paper by the ton.

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http://Array sayanything-4625

Hey Greg, go read some of the editorials from the conservative Vegas paper and see several examples of conservatives’ attitudes toward government pensions.

Why don’t you do a little work for a change and post them? Wrong thread by the way!
robert108

Good advice for all the Dems right now. The politics of partisan grievance isn’t fooling the American public anymore.
sayanything-4625

I figured someone as smart as you Greg, could cross-reference threads.

So, I guess you must be the dumbest human alive because you don’t bother to read or cross reference posts within the same thread. You made the allegation so you have to bring the proof. Keep on dodging the question! Its what you do best!
http://vdvfamily.com/ Sphagnum

What an ass…. picking up on those Chicago THUG tactics of Obama already…
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Never anger the people who buy ink by the barrel and paper by the ton.

The dim bulb from Searchlight has probably never read Twain!
Mark

I see Dirty Harry wants what’s best for the Nevada economy.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

The Review Journal is the conservative paper. Take a look at their editorial page

So at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon, where people meet to promote business in a state that needs business as badly as any other, it is okay to wish that business out of business? And if all the other businesses that advertise with them suffer, that’s okay, too?

This guy wasn’t even on the paper’s editorial board! He was a working stiff in a Nevada business. Harry Reid wished for the tax revenue that Nevada receives from that paper would go away. He wished that the tax revenues that Nevada receives from those employees would go away. He wished that the tax revenues that Nevada receives from those businesses that supply the newspaper would go away.
And, I suppose he wished that there would be more people to collect unemployment from the state because of the overflow of money Nevada needs to give away somehow?

Harry Reid is a dim bulb.
rog

The wimpy little shitstain is in his last days, and he knows it.
sayanything-4625

Hey Cracka, look up 5 posts.

Copy and paste fool, is it to hard for you? I begin to doubt that the “proof” exists!
jimmypop

these people are not kings and queens. its time they learned it. too bad it took this long.
docdave

A real test of how Americans value their freedoms will be the Nevada election, whether or not they return Reid to the senate.
DINO

The Review Journal is the conservative paper. Take a look at their editorial page. They sound like one of the stems here.

You can see their conservative bent in the following editorials which are highly critical of what they call the “unfair public pension system.” Sound familiar?

Here’s one that advocates getting rid of generous TAXPAYER-FUNDED pension programs like Pilgrim’s and forcing them into 401ks like the rest of us:

The long-term, unfunded liabilities for the state’s public employee pension and retiree health care plans amount to about $10 billion. In layman’s terms, that means governments have promised their workers $10 billion worth of pension benefits and retirement health care subsidies without having the revenue to pay for them.

In fact, the only viable way for lawmakers to rid taxpayers of the $10 billion unfunded liability is to completely scrap the current system for all future hires and force them into a defined-contribution retirement savings plan.

Here’s another one critical of the sweet deal public employees get:

The fact that public employees represent a large percentage of today’s pension beneficiaries naturally draws the wrath of the political right. Forking out tax dollars to pay retirement pensions for hated “bureaucrats” is the kind of thing that really gets under their skin.

But beyond this feverish rhetoric, public sector pensions are a real issue for all of us, not just government-bashing conservatives. When handsome pension plans are funded at the expense of education and other immediate needs, I wonder if we’re doing the right thing.

Nevada’s public employee retirement is considered to be quite generous compared with other states. One local critic called it the “Rolls-Royce of public employee pension plans.”

Here’s yet another editorial bitter about the great deal people like Pilgrim get from public employment:

The financial sector’s freefall has put millions of retirements in jeopardy and delayed millions more. The country’s savers are scrambling to maintain what assets they have left, knowing further market losses will mean a commensurate sacrifice in their standard of living.

Unless, of course, you’re snuggled safely under the warm blanket of government employment, which serves as a shield from volatility, unpredictablity and the fiscal realities that confront common citizens on a daily basis. On Monday, legislators and taxpayers received more reminders of the economic dangers presented by Nevada’s unsustainable, unfair pension system.

So it looks like Pilgrim’s new best newspaper friend, the one that doesn’t like Harry Reid, would take Pilgrim’s pension and SCRAP IT. They don’t think it’s fair that someone gets to retire at 55 with a fat generous TAXPAYER-FUNDED pension.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

A real test of how Americans value their freedoms will be the Nevada election

So now do all Americans get to vote in the NV elections or is that still a state affair?

We already had a test, gop lost big time.
jimmypop

The Review Journal is the conservative paper. Take a look at their editorial page.

are they looking for a bailout?
sayanything-4625

So now do all Americans get to vote in the NV elections or is that still a state affair?

I don’t know, are you Dems going show up and register to vote like in Ohio?
DINO

Hey Greg, go read some of the editorials from the conservative Vegas paper and see several examples of conservatives’ attitudes toward government pensions.
DINO

I figured someone as smart as you Greg, could cross-reference threads.

The paper critical of Reid is the constem paper so FUCK EM. I hope they go out of business too.

That paper hates the kind of public pension Pilgrim gets.
nuckingfutz

Dino failed the IQ test didnt he?
DINO

Why don’t you do a little work for a change and post them?

Hey Cracka, look up 5 posts.
Eneils Bailey

I have always believed that you could truly like some one and disapprove with them politically. And not vote for them.

But, it is so much more fun and satisfying to have some hateful, despicable, lying, maggot-gagging, cock-sucking, son-of-a-bitch like Harry Reid go down in defeat.
brain trust

With the legislation that Reid, Pelosi and Obummer are pushing, you would swear that they want a lot of businesses to close up. That way more people can rely on Government entitlements.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

DINO just STFU you stupid moron. You ruin ever thread on this blog. Stupid sock puppet.
http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Bike Bubba

Another amazing diversionary tactic from Dino. Evidently it’s OK on his planet to bully newspapers if they take the right side on eliminating pensions and substituting actuarially sound retirement plans?

He’s telling us a lot about his personal ideas, methinks.
sayanything-6955

It just backfired on Reid and as the honeymoon with the media grows stale for the liberal democrats we may begin to start seeing more of this.

He is toast!! And I think he and a few other lib senators are going the way of the puffster!

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