Memory Lane: Dingy’s Greatest Hits

The report of Senator Reid’s racial insensitivity during the ’08 election campaign is really only one of a long series of  his verbal gaucheries. Fox News helpfully enumerates some his more memorable faux pas. Keeping in mind that Reid is in a high profile position as the Senate Majority Leader, one is struck by how  mean spirited and vicious so many of these are :

“There’s dozens over the years,” Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sue Lowden said of Reid’s eyebrow-raising remarks of the past.

Lowden cited better known remarks by Reid, such as:

His summertime comparison of a lack of health insurance coverage to slavery;

His April 2007 conclusion that the war in Iraq was lost; (Do not get me started!)

His description of tea partiers as “evil-mongers”; and

His pleasure that the Capitol Visitors Center meant he wouldn’t have to “smell the tourists” filling up the Capitol in the summertime.

“He called our former president a loser in a high school classroom here in Nevada,” Lowden said, referring to a civics class discussion a few months after George W. Bush’s second inauguration.

The two worst in my estimation – announcing that the Iraq War was lost before the surge was even fully operational, and calling a sitting President, during war time, a “loser” to a captive audience, (school children) in a civics class. OMG., what a @#$%!

Among some of his finer moments, Reid also declared to the Reno Gazette-Journal in September that Sen. Ted Kennedy’s death “is going to help” Democrats pass health care.

Last summer, he told a Fox News reporter to “turn up your hearing aid” at a press conference.

One more she missed:

Threatening the Las Vegas Journal’s Director of Advertising at a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

During the simple process of handshaking, an exchange in which most people with an ounce of class can pull off without issue, Reid said to Brown:  “I hope you go out of business.”

I don’t remember Reid apologizing for that, but he’s been making the apology rounds for his Obama/Negro comment, ad nauseam, saying, “I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.”

But after a round of criticism from Republicans, including calls for his resignation as majority leader by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Reid spokesman Jim Manley said that’s not going to happen.

“The Republicans are saying this because they know they can’t beat Harry Reid… They know that Harry Reid delivers for Nevada. … So the only way to get him is to try to push him out. Senator Reid stands by the president and will continue his life’s work to improve people’s lives,” Manley said.

*Triple snort*

One more:

Oh yeah. I had completely forgotten about the nasty comment Reid made about Clarance Thomas:

I think that he has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court. I think that his opinions are poorly written. I just don’t think that he’s done a good job as a Supreme Court justice.

This from a man who considers Robert (KKK) Byrd “an unusually brilliant man”.

It’s too bad no one ever asked Reid to identify what he found in Thomas’s writing that was so inferior.

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Just for sh*ts and giggles, here is some entertaining audio of Mark Levin taking Reid to the proverbial woodshed, a couple of weeks ago.

UPDATE:

ABC’s Byron Wolf piles on with: Harry Reid’s Top 13 Foot-in-Mouth Moments