The Problem with Harry
Well, Hell may be freezing over, but I agree with Glenn Beck on this one.
Media Matters for America claims that Beck and other right-wingers played a "doctored audio" of Harry Reid saying this:
Today is a big day in America, only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good.
Beck didn't "doctor" that statement. He didn't have to — those are Reid's exact words.
Sure, we know what Reid meant to say — just like we know what he meant to say when he characterized presidential candidate Barack Obama as "light-skinned" with "no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
The problem with Harry is that he's been a Washington insider for 28 years, with 24 of those years spent oh-so-pleasantly as a privileged member of elite Senate society. He's forgotten that all those votes and bills and back-room deals and political calculations have real impact on real people.
The problem with Harry and so many other of our so-called representatives in Congress is that they're way out of touch with the rest of us.
