Senator Harry Reid bullies newspaper

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Perhaps this is why the two Gannett papers in the 8th district constantly act like lap dogs for Congressman Kagen and rarely have anything critical to say.

Has Steve Kagen or his liberal buddies bullied the local papers the way Senator Harry Reid bullied the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Sunday accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, of “bullying” his newspaper by telling an employee he wants the Review-Journal shut down.

Sherman Frederick alleged in a column in his newspaper that the “full-on threat” was made during a brief exchange between Reid and the newspaper’s advertising director Wednesday at a luncheon for the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.

Frederick said that as Reid shook the employee’s hand, he said, “I hope you go out of business.”

While acknowledging that his newspaper does not always see “eye to eye with him on matters of politics,” Frederick noted that ad director Bob Brown has “nothing to do with news coverage” or opinion pages.

The publisher is correct in calling out the Senator for his comment.

“No citizen should expect this kind of behavior from a U.S. senator. It is certainly not becoming of a man who is the majority leader in the U.S. Senate. And it absolutely is not what anyone would expect from a man who now asks Nevadans to send him back to the Senate for a fifth term,” he wrote. “So today, we serve notice on Sen. Reid that this creepy tactic will not be tolerated.” (Source – Publisher accuses Reid of “bullying” Nevada newspaper – FoxNews)

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