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.

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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.