HARWOOD: The last few days a bunch of people are saying, "Reid, he didn't have an exercise accident. He got beat up by the mob."Posted on 04/15/2015 12:51:37 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Dingy Harry is back at it. The last we heard from Dingy Harry he was explaining that some sort of elastic band on an exercise machine in his bathroom malfunctioned and left him blind in his right eye and otherwise severely injured.
Prior to that, Dingy Harry was out there suggesting that Mitt Romney had not paid his taxes for ten years. He was on the floor of the Senate claiming a friend of his told him that. The media said (paraphrasing), "Who's your friend?" Dingy Harry said, "Doesn't matter." The media said, "Where's your evidence?" Dingy Harry said, "I don't need any. What you need to do is go ask Romney why he hasn't paid his taxes in ten years." The media said, "But you don't have any evidence?" "No. That doesn't matter. The onus is on Romney to prove that he's paid his taxes and we gotta see his taxes."
The media dutifully went over and assumed the charge that Romney had not paid his taxes was true and began treating him as such. Dingy Harry has now called the Republican presidential field a bunch of losers and compared Senator McConnell to a lump of coal. This was an interview today.
What is it with all this? What is it with this juvenile high school-like name-calling that we get from Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultz and Dingy Harry. Called Rubio a prune in tinsel, that's what Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultz called him. Mika Brzezinski called Rubio a boy. They call Rand Paul a woman hater. Is this all they've got?
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RUSH: Dingy Harry, who was interviewing him, what does it say here? Well, it's in TheHill.com. I guess they did the interview. No, it was CNBC. He was asked about the Republican contenders. He said (paraphrasing), "I don't really care. I think they're all losers." He said "McConnell's a lump of coal. He thinks coal is the salvation of the world." Childish school yard names and so forth. And then, of course, ladies and gentlemen, my name came up, as it tends to do now and then with Dingy Harry. CNBC Squawk Box, they played a clip of the chief Washington correspondent John Harwood's interview with Senator Reid in which they had this exchange.
HARWOOD: The last few days a bunch of people are saying, "Reid, he didn't have an exercise accident. He got beat up by the mob."
REID: It shows the credibility of Rush Limbaugh. He's the guy that got all this started. Why in the world would I come up with a story that I got hurt in my own bathroom with my wife standing there? How could anyone say anything like that? I think a lot of people, as I read, they kind of don't like me as a person and I think that's unfortunate.
RUSH: Okay. Okay, so I'm the guy responsible for the story that Dingy Harry got beat up by the mob in his bathroom. Now, I did offer here that I don't think, the nature of his injuries was such that this wasn't a run-in with an exercise machine or the elastic band, whatever the story was. I did raise the specter that it did appear to me that Dingy Harry got beat up. I don't know by who, although I might now. Bottom line is, I might now know who did it. And I wasn't even gonna bring this up.
But here's Dingy Harry, who seems free and clear to go lie about Mitt Romney and his taxes, and then when asked about it after the fact, said, "Well, he didn't win, did he?" Meaning, "hey, my lie worked. Romney didn't win." So here's a guy who thinks that he can lie with impunity. And let's not forget Dingy Harry's role in this whole sordid phony soldier tale in which he attempted to have my syndication partner censor me, apologize for me, and basically impugn me and my character.
He sent a letter -- you know the story now -- that we auctioned off on eBay that raised a total of $4.2 million, half of which was matched by me for the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation. And after that, Dingy Harry tried to take credit for it! The man is a reprobate. He's actually shameless.
Let me tell you a little story. It's a couple of weeks ago now, I got an e-mail from John Hinderaker at Power Line, and he said that he had been in contact with somebody in Las Vegas who claimed to know what happened to Harry Reid, and that this man wanted to tell the story to both Hinderaker and me, on the phone. I was asked if I would join a phone call and listen to the story, and I said, "Sure, but I'm not committing to using any of it. I'm making no commitments about anything." Everybody understood that.
So after the program one day a couple of weeks ago I got on the phone with John Hinderaker and this caller from Las Vegas who claimed to know what happened to Dingy Harry Reid. Hinderaker wrote the story up and published it on Power Line. I don't know what the date was because it didn't print. But it's just a couple, three weeks ago. And here's the upshot of it.
Hinderaker writes: "On Monday I got a phone call from a man named Easton Elliott. We talked briefly on Monday, and have had additional telephone conversations since then. Elliott*," with an asterisk, "is a businessman who lives in the Las Vegas area, and he thinks he knows what really happened to Harry Reid. This is the story as he related it to me."
Here you go. Elliott, the caller, who wanted to speak to Hinderaker and me, "Elliott spent a portion of last New Year’s Eve at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Henderson, Nevada," which, for all intents and purposes, is Vegas. "His AA group has meetings every hour on New Year’s Eve, along with a pot luck supper. There were approximately 20 people present at the meeting during the events," that you will next hear about.
"Some time between 10:00 and 11:30 p.m., a man entered the meeting. His appearance was striking: there was blood on his clothing, beginning around his midsection. His left hand was swollen. He appeared to be somewhat intoxicated and was visibly agitated," and he wanted to share, at this AA meeting.
"He introduced himself as 'Larry.' In a group discussion that was heard by a number of people, Larry said that he had just had a fight with a family member. Larry said he had been at a family get-together, and he didn’t remember much about the fight because he had blacked out. When he came to, he was rolling on the ground, fighting with a family member, and his clothes were bloody," and in fact that's how he showed up at the AA meeting. "Now, he said, he was frightened that the Secret Service would come after him."
So here you have these people at the AA meeting who don't know this guy. He walks in for the first time ever and says his name is Larry. He's drunk. He's bloody. His left fist, his left hand is swollen, and he says he just had a fight with a family member. He blacked out, came to, wanted to come to the meeting, and is looking for a place to hide out because he fears the Secret Service is gonna be coming after him.
Now, according to the guy talking to John Hinderaker and me, the group did not take the Secret Service reference seriously. They thought that it was just some conspiracy kook that was drunk that wandered in and for some reason needed the comfort of an AA meeting. They all did agree that it was obvious he had indeed been in a fight, but they thought the Secret Service was tinfoil hat type stuff.
So this guy, Larry, "stayed for the rest of the meeting, and for a while afterward. There is a front room where coffee is served, and he remained there for a while. At some point during that time, he asked whether anyone could give him a ride to Searchlight. Larry’s appearance at the AA meeting was memorable, as references to fighting, bloody clothes and so on are extraordinary in that group." It's not something that happens at every AA meeting.
And the guy we were talking to, Easton Elliott, he didn't think much more about this guy, Larry, until several weeks later when "he saw a newspaper story about Larry Reid, Harry Reid’s brother, being arrested for DUI and assaulting a highway patrolman. The story was accompanied by a photograph, and Elliott --" again, the guy talking to John Hinderaker and me "-- immediately recognized Larry Reid as the 'Larry' who had attended the AA meeting," weeks previous, who was drunk, who was bloody, who had a swollen left fist, and claimed he had been in a fight with a family member and was worried the Secret Service was gonna follow him.
Then everybody said, "Whoa, wait a minute! The guy who came in here who we thought was a kook is Harry Reid's brother?" So they started putting two and two together because this story's accompanied by a photograph. Easton Elliott "immediately recognized Larry Reid as the 'Larry' who had attended the AA meeting on New Year’s Eve. Putting that fact together with news stories about Harry Reid being admitted to a hospital on New Year’s Day, and with Larry’s references to the Secret Service, he concluded that the family member with whom Larry fought was Harry Reid. He also knew that Harry Reid’s home is within a short distance of the location of the AA meeting."
So these guys at the AA meeting who think a kook came in, weeks later see his picture in the paper after being arrested for DUI, and, lo and behold, it's Harry Reid's brother. So now they're starting to think they know what happened to Harry Reid: Family fight and his brother beat him up. Larry Reid is 73, a short, pugnacious guy, and is a well-known brawler, by the way, subsequent research has indicated.
Now, "Subsequent to the news story about Larry Reid’s arrest, Elliott discussed with several others who had been present on New Year’s Eve his belief that 'Larry' had been Larry Reid. They, too, recognized Larry from the newspaper photograph. One of those who had been present at the AA meeting called Las Vegas's Channel 8 to tell them about Larry Reid’s account of fighting with a family member, but that person said that whoever he spoke with at the television station told him they were not interested."
Channel 8 Vegas said they weren't interested. I mean, some AA member calling, claiming a guy came in all bloodied, swollen hand, family fight, Secret Service after him, he feared. The same guy arrested weeks later, it turns out to be Harry Reid's brother. Anyway, that's the account, that's the story of this man who identified himself as Easton Elliott.
Hinderaker can't vouch for it. Neither can I. But if what he says about the AA meeting is accurate, then the inferences seem reasonable. I mean, if you're sitting in the AA meeting and this guy comes wandering in, you've never seen him before, he's bloodied, swollen left hand, says he just had a fight with a family member, woke up, blacked out, woke up, seeking refuge at the AA meeting.
He hangs around even after the meeting for coffee, claims Secret Service is after him, and then weeks later he's spotted in the newspaper. His picture next to a DUI story, it's Harry Reid's brother. They put two and two together, and figured out that Harry Reid was beaten up by his brother. They tried to get a Las Vegas TV station interested in the story, and they wouldn't take it.
So, bottom line, somebody attacked Harry Reid on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day. That much seems clear from pictures and from the nature of his injuries. Nobody's investigated this. I don't know who else Easton Elliott called. He claimed he wanted to talk to us because he had previously encountered both of us, Hinderaker and me, speculating that Dingy Harry had had something more happen to him just an encounter with a rowing machine or a elliptical machine or whatever the excuse was.
As Hinderaker wrote, his investigation "consisted of answering my telephone," and he posits maybe "those reporters who were so eager to dig through Sarah Palin’s dumpster and track down Mitt Romney’s high school classmates," or to find out whether Romney had paid his taxes or not, "will now swing into action, carry out an actual investigation, and either confirm or refute the events described by Mr. Elliott," and the people at the AA meeting.
And, by the way, the man known as Easton Elliott was more than willing to come on the radio. In fact, he wanted to. He was more than willing to tell the story himself. He's willing to go on TV. He said: "I’m a citizen who believes in God and feels compelled to do the right thing -- tell the truth. Harry Reid could learn a lesson from me in being truthful!
He also made a point over and over of saying he's not a political guy. He's a small business man. He's had several businesses in the Vegas area. Hinderaker called Harry Reid's spokesman, gave him an opportunity to comment, and they didn't deny it but they said they're not gonna comment, either.
So that's the extent of our knowledge about what happened. Dingy Harry's out now blaming me for starting a rumor that he was beaten up by the mob. I didn't say mob, but it's clear from the pictures that an exercise machine in a bathroom did not do what happened to Harry Reid. Is it not? So now there's this story on the table, that it was his brother, Larry Reid, and they got in a family fight.
What is even more startling is Larry got beat up by a policeman a couple of months later. So Harry the Eyed Weasel was not even man enough to pay his brother back ? Had to have a police officer do it for him ? Just how many people has this little weasel corrupted over his life ?
Oops...One Eyed....the sunglasses are not helping.
Exactly. That is why I have had trouble believing the story. If true you would be taking the word of an admitted alcoholic that is breaking the prime directive of AA.
The point is that whoever named Larry Reid as being at an AA meeting needs to have a calibration meeting with their sponsor.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Imagine if a prominent Republican in Congress was in the same circumstance.
How many journ-0-lists would be assigned to the investigation?
More than were working on Joe the plumber Wurzelbacher’s trade license status?
Played lead guitar in a band called 'Cars The', along with Ocasek Richard and Orr Benjamin?? :-)
(Can't remember the keyboard player's and drummer's names and am too lazy to google it!)
He thinks we are all fools
Whether you realize it or not, you are helping the rats.
No I believe it was just a few month ago
I think his name is Elliot Easton.
I hear ya, but if this story played out as it has been described, then the whole “anonymity” thing should probably go out the window ... because of the very strong likelihood that the people at the AA meeting are potential corroborating witnesses to a crime.
For once I agree with HR
He deserved it. Most of them do.
So much for Harry’s vaunted career as a boxer. He looks like a catcher, in more than one sense.
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I’m not sure what to believe. The exercise story was obviously a lie. There appears to be some evidence for the fight between brothers story. If it really was the mob, then maybe it took this long to concoct a cover story.
If it was the brother, I’d sure like to know what prompted 2 guys that age to go at it that hard.
More questions than answers.
I heard Harry hasn’t paid his Taxes in over ten years and the IRS came to collect the debt.
Can’t remember who told me that though.
I suspect that in the absence of a complaint from Harry Reid, there is not much law enforcement can or should do.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Larry’s left hand was bloodied as was the right side of Dingy Harry’s face. The evidence adds up rather convincingly.
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