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Reid Flares Over Media Coverage of Energy Proposals (Asks Reporter: Do You Speak English?)
Fox News ^ | Thursday, July 24, 2008 | Trish Turner

Posted on 07/25/2008 8:53:07 AM PDT by kristinn

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's advice to reporters who don't get his energy agenda: Check your hearing.

Reid, D-Nev., may look like a mild-mannered man, but when he's backed into a corner, this former boxer comes out swinging. On Thursday, the object of his ire was the Fourth Estate as he lashed at reporters quizzing him over stalled Democratic energy proposals.

At a "pen and pad" — a more casual, off-camera chat with reporters — Reid attacked and scolded correspondents in attendance, telling them he's "really disappointed" in how they have been writing his energy plans, which include a bill to reign in speculation in the energy futures markets.

According to two Senate Democratic aides, Reid and other Democratic leaders were particularly stung by an article Thursday in The New York Times. It followed on several other reports that have highlighted Democrats' attempts to fend off defections from their ranks to GOP-sponsored amendments, measures that would permit new drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf and in the West for oil shale.

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Reporters tried to pin Reid down Thursday on the amendment issue.

In the exchange, Reid told one reporter she should "watch the [Senate] floor more often. ... You might learn something."

Another reporter explained she had watched the Senate proceedings and said it was not clear he was ... offereing separate amendments, to which Reid asked the reporter if she "spoke English."

"Turn up your Miracle Ear," Reid added.

Reid spokesman Jim Manley later told the reporter his boss's comments were a show of "frustration," not desperation.

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The House No. 2 Republican, Roy Blunt of Missouri, told reporters today, "Clearly we've built a fire on energy that they're feeling the heat from."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; congress; drilling; energy; reid; rudedems; ussenate
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1 posted on 07/25/2008 8:53:08 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

Do you speak English? Fair question nowadays.


2 posted on 07/25/2008 8:55:01 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: All

Reigning in speculators = moving oil trading markets out of the USA and abandoning valuing oil in dollars?

Yes? No? Maybe?


3 posted on 07/25/2008 8:56:54 AM PDT by listenhillary (Obama - The Wizard of Uhs)
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To: kristinn

wow - what a Klymer!


4 posted on 07/25/2008 8:57:07 AM PDT by Republicus2001
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To: kristinn

there’s a rigidity in washington d.c.

in both the u.s. congress and presidency

concerning energy.

just heard t boone pickens on bill handel am 640, los angeles.

he praised mayor antonio villaraigosa for his energy views.

the mayor is an opportunist.


5 posted on 07/25/2008 8:57:42 AM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: kristinn
"Reid, D-Nev., may look like a mild-mannered man, but when he's backed into a corner, this former boxer comes out swinging."

A former boxer? LOL!


6 posted on 07/25/2008 8:57:45 AM PDT by avacado
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To: kristinn

Reid has an energy policy? who’d a thunk? I mean penalizing ‘speculators’ is sure gonna do a whole lot to ease the price of fuel...

funny how the president announces that he is ending the prohibition against drilling and the price of oil has been dropping ever since, except when pelosi said that she would not let the house drop it’s drilling bans.


7 posted on 07/25/2008 8:58:56 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: kristinn

Senator Reid, are you familiar with the term ‘9%’?


8 posted on 07/25/2008 8:59:10 AM PDT by tbpiper (NObama '08 - Unfit in any color)
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To: kristinn

Does this turd realize that if the US starting drilling ferviously, the futures market he is trying to kill would be driving the cost of oil down very quickly.


9 posted on 07/25/2008 8:59:19 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: Sig Sauer P220

Maybe the media has been taking their hero Obama’s advice and learning a foreign language ............


10 posted on 07/25/2008 8:59:57 AM PDT by seabreezelover (Ich bin ein Beginner Obama does, says or becomes whatever he thinks will get him elected President.)
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To: kristinn

Former boxer? My cat could kick his butt..


11 posted on 07/25/2008 9:01:03 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Drill Now, Vote Nobama, and Oust the Third Word Democrat Congress)
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To: kristinn

>”Turn up your Miracle Ear,”<

Why don’t YOU start talking with a manly voice instead of whispering like a librarian.


12 posted on 07/25/2008 9:01:45 AM PDT by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
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To: kristinn

Former boxer. I’d like a few rounds in the ring with him. He can bring Pelosi with him and I’ll box both of them at the same time. These Demotwits cease to amuse me.


13 posted on 07/25/2008 9:01:54 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: kristinn
telling them he's "really disappointed" in how they have been writing his energy plans

Wow. Did he hand out preferred phrases and terms?

14 posted on 07/25/2008 9:02:07 AM PDT by doodad
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To: Always Right
Does this turd realize that if the US starting drilling ferviously, the futures market he is trying to kill would be driving the cost of oil down very quickly.

Of course. That's why he's planning to do it right after the election.

15 posted on 07/25/2008 9:03:16 AM PDT by ArmstedFragg
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To: Conspiracy Guy

I’d take Reid in one hand, Pelosi in the other and club with them on Murtha’s tummy.


16 posted on 07/25/2008 9:03:46 AM PDT by SolidWood (Obamarxislamism, the threat to our Republic!)
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To: Always Right; tbpiper

Contact your congress
Drill Here Drill Now

Pelosi AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov


17 posted on 07/25/2008 9:03:55 AM PDT by mouse1 (McCain 08)
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To: kristinn

(Asks Reporter: Do You Speak English?)

Si


18 posted on 07/25/2008 9:05:24 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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To: kristinn
"You'll get nothing and like it"

Ted Knight in Caddyshack

19 posted on 07/25/2008 9:05:39 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: kristinn

Reid needs to be reminded that he is a public servant and lives off the taxpayer. Hey Senator,just shut up and answer the questions. If your boxer shorts are in a twist over a few questions,RESIGN!!!!


20 posted on 07/25/2008 9:06:08 AM PDT by 4yearlurker
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