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StumblePublished Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009 | 1:52 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009 | 4:42 p.m.
The happy couple.
Check out the picture at right. That is Bob Brown, the RJ's advertising manager, posing with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at that chamber luncheon and beaming at the opportunity, only moments after he supposedly felt threatened by Reid saying, "I hope you go out of business." Would someone, who as Publisher Sherm Frederick claims, felt threatened eagerly have his picture taken with the man who threatened him? Does Brown's smile look forced to you?
Two possibilities: 1. Brown really did feel threatened but thought he should have the picture taken anyway (oh, that makes sense). Or 2. Frederick fabricated the whole "Brown felt threatened" story for his own purposes.
Indeed, here is what Frederick told the AP: "He (Brown) was not laughing. It was not said in a social context in which there was a lot of joking going on," Frederick said. "It sounded like a threat to me. Our guy took it as a threat."
Really?
Nice smile, Bob.
Angryreader guy should start a newpaper or run for public office.
Gotcha!
What i would like to know is why Senator Harry Reid would even like to see the largest newspaper in the state of Nevada go out of business. Could you even imagine the firestorm in the news media across this country if Senator John Ensign would have said that to the Las Vegas Sun. And if you think about it the Las Vegas Sun gets delivered inside the Las Vegas Review Journal: If the RJ gos down it will take the SUN with it. THINK ABOUT IT!
"Or 2. Frederick fabricated the whole "Brown felt threatened" story for his own purposes."
And BINGO was his name-o.
Actually, I've kinda enjoyed this political farce. Too bad it's petering out.
"Could you even imagine the firestorm in the news media across this country if Senator John Ensign would have said that to the Las Vegas Sun."
There would be no firestorm because the people at the Las Vegas Sun can take a joke.
Reid should remember -- conservatives hate everything. They are angry people and scared of their own shadow. They conjure up whoppers like death panels and the birther conspiracy. With that in mind, he should know that they cannot, under any circumstances, be trusted to handle the nuance of a joke.
Harry Reid is Pink
our retarded republican friends have lost all character...
they will do or say anything to get their way or make a buck...
it is sad...
truly sad!!!
Hey "angryreader" try looking at the czars when they speak. I wouldn't be throwing stones if I were you. Karma if alive and in full swing. God I love this country.
Uncle Harry is more and more reminding me alot of the Music Man.Dances into town,talks a good talk,then skips out and leaves you with nothing!As for birdbrain,i can see your a product of CCSD.Your choice of words sounds like something you would retain!
Ralston should get an award for calling the RJ on their (now) oh-so-obvious shenanigans. When someone critically and closely looks at Republican used sound bites and tactics their cynical manipulation of "facts" usually comes to light.
Kudos Jon, Kudos LV Sun.
The sad truth is, I used to be proud to be a Republican. But my party has been hi-jacked by the Dick Cheneys, Ann Coulters, and Sherman Fredericks of the world. The pendulum will swing back one day. But for now, they have no solutions. They only offer character assassination, lies, and venality. I'll pass.
Well, the LV TeaBagger is printed on pure pulp with stories made of whole cloth. Shermie could spin an anti-Reid story if he bought Girl Scout cookies.
There is nothing more entertaining than a desperate Republican Party.
Someone should interview Jack Landreth the "BOSS" at hate-talk station "KXNT." He and his peons hit the phones and the email to flack Nevada events to national hate-talk hosts, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Rush Limpbaugh as well as Internet geek, Matt Drudge.
They made a big deal about Obama saying bailout funds should not be used for trips to Vegas or the Super Bowl, etc.; egging Mayor Goodman along to say the president "hurt Nevada tourism."
Then, like tattling children, they fanned the flames over an off-the-cuff comment by Reid, as a "threat to the RJ and the First Amendment."
Since one of their hate-talk hosts is a Republican Party employee, the latest contrived garbage can be conveniently disseminated through Republican Party ranks.
The right wing echo-machine amplifies trivia to the mindless Hannitized dittoheads, such as Obama's education speech is a "Hitler-like" attempt to indoctrinate school children.