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twitterLowden: ‘I didn’t laugh about it’
But tape of exchange over Reid bomb story reveals otherwise
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009 | 2 a.m.
Sue Lowden
Harry Reid
Gibbons on Nevada Newsmakers
Gov. Jim Gibbons on "Nevada Newsmakers" on Monday.
CARSON CITY — Was it a chuckle or a laugh? And what, exactly, was she laughing at?
The talk radio exchange that set off the skirmish between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sue Lowden, one of his Republican challengers, was dissected Tuesday on the Northern Nevada TV program “Nevada Newsmakers.”
Visiting the program a day after Gov. Jim Gibbons repeated the discredited assertion that the bomb found under Reid’s car during his time on the Gaming Commission was a phone book in a shoebox, Lowden was asked by host Ray Hagar about her comments on the incident to Las Vegas radio talker Heidi Harris.
Hagar noted that Lowden was a Las Vegas news reporter at the time.
“It seems like a really big story, how could you forget that? And then you laughed about it on the radio,” Hagar said.
“I didn’t laugh about it, but I know it was made out to be that way,” Lowden said.
During Lowden’s appearance on Harris’ show, Harris told Lowden that she had never heard about the bomb and asked Lowden if she had heard of it.
Lowden said (without laughing) that she only remembered the bomb that exploded under colleague Ned Day’s car.
“I don’t remember Harry Reid’s bomb,” Lowden said (still, without laughing).
“So maybe he’s claiming Ned Day’s bomb,” Harris said.
Lowden gave a breathy chuckle. “Maybe,” she said.
During Gibbons’ Monday appearance on “Nevada Newsmakers,” he said he had read in the police report that the device found in Reid’s car was a shoebox and a phone book. The police report and bomb squad log make no mention of a shoebox or a phone book. The log says the device was similar to, but more sophisticated than, a device previously found beneath another Gaming Commission member’s car.
Gibbons’ spokesman, Dan Burns, later said that Gibbons made a mistake.
•••
Media outlets are lobbying the Nevada Supreme Court to allow more electronic devices into courtrooms, including laptop computers and text-messaging devices.
Martha Bellisle, a courts reporter for the Reno Gazette-Journal, told a committee of the Supreme Court working on revising rules governing media in district and justice courts, that the rules should regulate activities, not devices. In Los Angeles, she said, the courts allow text-messaging as long as the device is held in the lap and isn’t disruptive.
Barry Smith, director of the Nevada Press Association, is also pushing for clearer rules on when photos can be taken in the courtroom.
Representatives of some media outlets argued that requiring 24-hour notice for television and still photographers isn’t feasible. Some suggested it should be shortened to 30 minutes.
Chairwoman Justice Nancy Saitta says a lot more work needs to be done before a final regulation is set. Saitta’s committee will hold more hearings before submitting its final report.
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Sounds like Sue Lowden is a real politician. In the face of facts showing otherwise, she says she didn't do it.
How then can we believe anything she says?
Good question, geezelouise. Let me give this thoughtful consideration ...
Hmmm ... after following both Sue Lowden and Harry Reid over the past two plus decades ...
Hmmm ... my money and vote is definitely on SUE LOWDEN!!!
typical stupid pathetic lying republican bull crap...
who the hell believes a single word that comes out of their mouths...
with regard to that little gibbons monkey...
the question is what the hell were you reading there jimmy boy???
hmmm???
a comic book???
it certainly wasn't the police reports...
it certainly wasn't the vegas papers...
makes you wonder doesn't it folks...
what the hell does that little gibbons monkey do all day???
anything???
certainly not lead...
has there ever been a governor with less leadership skills than that little gibbons monkey???
nope...
the people of the great state of nevada have a little gibbons monkey as a leader...
pathetic...
absolutely pathetic...
with regard to sue air head lowden...
look in her closet harry...
let's start with the ron paul incident shall we...
that should be thoroughly explored don't you think...
and...
why does she remind me more and more of sarah palin every day...
because she is dumb as a bag of rocks...
because she is not nearly as clever as she thinks she is...
bottom line...
a monkey and an airhead...
this is the best the stupid pathetic lying republican party has to offer up in the great state of nevada...
oh i almost forgot...
let's not forget johnnie boy i slept with my best friend's/senior staffer's wife then fired them both when i got caught then ran to mommy and daddy to fix my boo boo ensign...
it's like a parade of cartoon characters in the great state of nevada...
hee hee hee...
who the hell would join the stupid pathetic lying republican party these days...
only l-o-s-e-r-s!!!
We cried because they missed. That day will always be a day of mourning.
Hey Birdie, Havana! Do you like them too? Oh my I forgot, he didn't have sex with her, the Havana did!
Yesterday's results confirmed that Harry is a short timer anyway. If all The Sun can throw at Lowden is that she laughed at a decades old bomb threat, it just goes to show how much trouble Harry is in. Adios and goodbye Harry, how sweet it is!
What a liar! Jeez, and Miss Sue isn't even a good liar at that. If all the Republicans can throw at Harry Reid are denials of a VERY real bomb threat, then they're just too desperate to be taken seriously. Bye bye, Sue. Bye bye, Danny. You're BOTH going down next year!
Hey all. Today on "Face to Face with Jon Ralston" we are talking with conservative radio host Heidi Harris about her interview with Sue Lowden and other issues. We also get reaction to yesterday's elections from Harris and conservatives Chuck Muth and Steve Wark. That's at 5:30pm, 6:30pm and 8:00pm on Las Vegas ONE, Cox Cable Channel 19.
blake You live in a fantacy world. Reid is not a short timer.Lowden is and a lying, pathetic short timer at best. Sue Lowden's only accomplishments are that of being a first class gold digging lounge lizard. Without big daddy Paul's money she would be working in room reservations at a cheap hotel today. Reid has his issues but so does every elected official,unless they are the right wing evangelists telling the rest of the world how to live, but in the end I'll stick with Reid just as the CEO of MGM Mirage does.Lowden could not have saved City Center on her best day with the help of ten top economists. Hell she can't save herself from her lies.
hey jon...
don't give that maggot a platform to spew her nonsense...
big mistake...
obama has it right...
not only must the politicians ignore fox and other's like it...
but so must other media outlets...
that means you jon...
you must ignore heidi and her kind...
they have no interest in the truth...
it is just spin spin and more spin...
sorry jon...
big fan...
but you got this one wrong!!!
what are the chances of Harry Reid retiring in searchlight in 2010?
He'll have to go somewhere? Tar and feathers would be too good for him.
Bumama is already packing his bags
Sue Lowden would be well advised to quit the race. She cannot win the Republican Primary because almost 3000 delegates elected to last year's Nevada State Republican Convention know she's a cheater and a liar. She rigged the national delegate election when she, as party chairperson, shut down the convention during the delegate vote count because she was tipped that her candidates were losing. Imagine how easy it would be for a Sen. Sue Lowden to cheat all Nevadans based on her willingness to cheat her own party's delegates.
Geeze Louise, you say "In the face of facts showing otherwise, she says she didn't do it."
A laugh or a chuckle? There is a difference, but really WHO CARES???
I haven't seen any facts yet. How then can we believe anything you say?
Sue Lowden say she has never "farted" but something stinks!
Who even cares, I laugh at our goof-ball senator Harry Reid almost daily. I think what we have here is a desperate Harry Reid trying (like Obama) to marginalize his threats. Yet one more reason why he has to go.
watch the video boys and girls...
did you see that little gibbons monkey get all indignant???
did you read the police report???
did you read the police report???
what a blowhard...
what a complete and total blowhard that little gibbons monkey is...
seems to me jimmy boy...
you were the only one who hadn't read the police report!!!
hee hee hee...
hoo hoo hoo...
haa haa haa...
somebody get kieth olbermann on the phone...
i smell a worst person in the world nomination in the future for that little gibbons monkey's...
I would rather look at Lowden...she gets my vote
Well, As Ronald Reagan said: "There you go Again".
Now all the GOPers have to find is 'nother Raygun. Too bad they just can't bring him back to life. It is amazing that the demographics changed while the GOPers weren't lookin'. The USA just has to embrace the great ideas of the free market and all the love the GOP has to offer. It has worked so good for the last thirty years. We have such high minded intellectuals such as Heidi Harris, Sue Lowden and Jim Gibbons. They must be the smartest people in the room. I am so impressed with their intellect, but I am a troglodyte so I am easily impressed.
So here is hoping we go back to the hateful, fearful past that these three represent. Just like all the rest of the GOP. Wrong for the USA, and wrong for the future.
Hangtown, Lowden isn't a cheater. She's too DINGY to add and subtract. Do we know of any Blondes that win elections? Hard to take that Dumbell seriously. Ill be supporting another R in the race.
Yeah, I like Harry, and dislike the smarmy but sexy Lowden... but this is a NON-issue. Let's talk about the ISSUES.
Kathleen Boutin is Blonde and won her race. Not all Blonde women are stupid Dewey.
Did anyone watch the Nevada Newsmakers interview with Lowden? She's an idiot! I've never seen anything so ridiculous. I was, at MANY points completely embarrassed for her. True, Ray Hagar is an idiot as well, but he looked smart next to her!
Federal PAC dollars- Lowden says she won't be accepting them because that's against the rules...? WHAT?? FEDERAL PAC.
DC Support- says she doesn't want it, even though it was offered. BS Sue. NO ONE in their RIGHT MIND would say NO to DC Support.
You are an airhead. I don't know WHO I will vote for in the primary yet, as I think a lot of candidates are just beginning their campaign, but it WON'T be you!! I still can't figure out, after watching this interview why ANYONE would think she is qualified to withstand a campaign against Harry Reid. He'll "vaporize" her for sure.
Let's be real folks, if the mob wanted this "threat" eliminated, Reid would not be here. they don't miss on guys like this.
Ah Yes, the bloggers are now on to the underlying issue: is it a plus or minus to be an attractive candidate? OLIVEU (clever BTW), the bold, pretty and yes;blonde Ms. Boutin could never be construed as "dingy".
It will be interesting to follow her political career,especially considering her upbringing.
But let us focus on Lowden. I too don't care for Harry Reid. Lowden is a Reid basher and a woman who no one takes seriously ...so far. Unless she changes her message- and changes it fast- I simply cannot support her.
"Sorry SUE, its hard to believe YOU."
Heidi says she doesn't read the newspapers like the sun, or watch or listen to news shows she doesn't agree with. That would be a good question. Do you ever read the Sun? Do you every watch CNN or MSNBC or CBS? Where do you get your information? Drudge.? FOX?
The worst thing is now Loudung is pictured with Joey, Alan ET AL. Don't they look dashing in their 70's polyester? Now Harry can go to the right in the campaign and play "clean face," and make Loudung oily with Gibbons, Ensign, and the 70's and 80's Vegas sleazoids.
The talk radio knuckle draggers like Alan Stock, The BOSS, Heidi and the Bugkiller and Bill Slanders in Reno, are going to do to Reid's opponents what Limbark, Sean Inssanity, Mark Leswine, and others did up in NY's 23 third district. Thanks for electing the first democrat since the civil war...way to go dittoheads and Beck Brains!
Let's not chase Lowden out of the race. She can afford to pay for all her campaign costs out of her husband's pockets and she has zero chance of beating 'dirty' Harry in a general election. It's a win win for everyone. :)
Hey mred, a question...
Have you ever posted without name calling?
So much compassion from you guys on the Left...
So, why is this even news today, other than the Sun is campaigning for Harry. How much does the Sun, Ryan and Schwartz get from the campaign of Reid to do Reids dirty work?
Why not concentrate on something Lowden actually did and that was screw with the GOP convention last year. That to me, is more serious and troubling.
I just don't get why anyone is supporting Lowden. dhvincent1, I agree with you. The mess she made of the convention, and the fact that she has NO apologies for it- disgusting. She needs to own up to what she did, instead of responding with, "I think it was a great convention."
Really? Great? I was there and I did not see one great thing about it.
hedi harris is a mindless twit, who has a big mouth.........and lowden is just plain laughable !
You gotta admit she is pretty hot for a cougar her age, not the brightest bulb in the box though.
angry reader: you probably need to see a sex therapist or something. sue lowden looks more like a lizard than a couger.
so she lies about a convention outcome and a chuckle that was taped and shes somehow better than harry reid?
i dont want a stupid lying lizard representing nevada.
If she did laugh it wouldn't be a deal breaker and she surly isn't the only one to laugh at Harry over the alleged car bomb. Even if there was a bomb in his car, this was many years ago and the person he was then isn't the person he is today.
Today's Harry is taking America down a pathway that is going to destroy America where we will become another 3rd world country. Outside of the Democrats and their brain-dead lazy flowers who don't want to work, we won't allow this to happen.
Democrats can whine and complain and attempt to divert the attention away from the issue at hand, Obama and the rest of the lunatic democrats has awaken many proud Americans and we will stop at nothing to ensure America remains as such, America with all of our freedoms and freedom of choice.
its2hot: youre 2 cold. nevada cannot afford to lose harry reid, like him or not. wake up. its his position that is so valuable, not him.
and, if we did lose him, for petes sake, dont put the lizard women in office. hey, dont lizards have slick, slitherly tongues? like liars do? how fitting of sue lizard lowden.
LEvine, Michael Sewage, Limpbough, Sean Innsanity do all kinds of name calling, on the air not on some net posting, dish it out but can't take it? These politicians that embrace the talk radio freaks are going down the drain.
The same Reid (and his sycophants) who declared that we had lost in Iraq when our citizens were on the ground fighting, dying and winning is making a big deal of an out of context chuckle.
Give me a break. Reid is done politically. Even if we conservatives are in the minority, all those who have practiced group and ethnic politics for decades, hold on; we are going to raise hell as the minority and you can pound sand.
Nobody can beat mred in his name calling and he has not figured out that he does not have to watch his favorite people, Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity...
This story is just a pathetic attempt to draw fire on one of Reid's opponents and to gain Reid some sympathy, something us bible thumping, gun tote'n, hard working, honest, good citizen tea baggers aren't buying! Reid is going down in 2010 and will re-emerge as a lobbyist for some big drug company, mark my words!
Lowden, Gibbons Obama -- If you can't say nuthin' good, don't say nuthin' at all.
Whatever happenend to having smart politicians that knew when to keep their mouth shut.
If the mob had a hit on Reid,he would have been dead a very long time ago!This whole thing sounds like a stunt!By Reid himself.
Sue Lowden is HOT!
Birdie thinks REID is HOT!
Sue Lowden is HOTTER!
Birdie thinks Reid is HOTTER!
Sue Lowden is a blonde HOTTIE!
Birdie thinks Reid is a bald Hottie!
Sue Lowden is a Hot tamale on the Hot tamale train!
Birdie thinks Reid is a Hot piece of;; wait can't say it, we know the bird is sick.
Just another Republican lier, no bid deal.
Just another intelligent comment from thebaboon...