At least, that's what my mother used to say. And Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate Minority Leader, has got to be one of the most cavernous vacant vessels in recent memory.
After having to apologize for calling the winner of the 2004 presidential election a 'loser' over the weekend he has now sinisterly and obliquely referred to problems in an Appeals court nominee's FBI background file.
I was going to do a roundup of Sen. Reid's foot insertions, but Superhawk Rick Moran beat me to it. (The fact that he did it better and more completely than I would have doesn't enter into it.) Rick does say the MSM cannot ignore this; I disagree - they most certainly will try to make the story about what's in the file, not about the reference to those contents.
Additional commentary on Sen. Reid's most recent transgression is popping up all over, including Michelle Malkin (with more links), Kevin Aylward, Ace, Lorie Byrd, Dirty Harry, and Captain Ed.
Ask youself what would have been the Democratic and MSM response if the contents of the confidential FBI background file of an Arab American judicial appointee of Mr. Clinton had been publicly referenced by, say, Sen. Trent Lott. Be honest.
UPDATE: I would be remiss if I did not add reference to this thorough summary from Will Franklin. Reid's reference to the FBI file is certainly not the first; that does not excuse it. And the multiple references reinforces my belief that the MSM will make the story more about the contents of than the reference to the file.
I haven't been able to watch the MSM for quite a while now. It makes me sick! So I go to the blogs... I did watch CSPAN the other day. I wanted to see the Dems. lie and do their little song and dance on John Bolton...Harry Reid is such a BIG Loser. So are his constituents! It amazes me to see how the Dems. have allowed themselves to sink to the level they have sunk!
Posted by: Zsa zsa | May 14, 2005 at 02:40 PM