What's the REAL scoop on Harry Reid

[Ladydawnelle]

I've been hearing nasty comparisons of Reid to the likes of Cunningham, Ney and Jefferson today on MSNBC yet............ I read the allegations against him and the land deal were totally bogus on Daily KOS.

But when I just went back to recheck the article is gone. And I just sent a nasty email to Whora O'Donnell shaming her for lying.

I hope I didn't stick my email foot in my mouth?

Would appreciate any help on the truth. I've scanned and found NADA!

Thanks

[LTR]

1. Drudge was trying to float this the other day

You could check his archives.

In a nutshell, it sounds like they're pulling out the old "shady real estate deal" nonsense that they tried on the Clintons.

[grasswire]

2. a DUer in the real estate profession explained it the other day

...and there was no crime. It was a land transfer.

I'll try to find that thread.

[grasswire]

4. here's the URL

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2375812

And the DUer who wrote it is a CPA who deals in that kind of stuff all the time.

[Ladydawnelle]

5. Thanks!!

Then if true NORA is for SURE trying to even the playing field with BOGUS facts.

I think I may be glad I sent that nasty email after all! :-)

Thanks again.

[Ladydawnelle]

3. What? go to drudge?

And watch my computer explode?????

LOL

Was hoping someone had a link from here or another more LEFT leaning website with the real facts. Thanks! I didn't realize it was already old news? Whora O'Donnel sure seemed to get some sick glee out of adding his name in the mix with the other criminal elements of the RIGHT (aside from Jefferson) whom I'm not convinced wasn't duped or set up.

[babylonsister]

9. Well, you got her name right so you're

aware of how she leans. And welcome to DU!

[babylonsister]

6. And currently Menendez. They got nothing, so they're grasping

at anything.

[acmejack]

15. I am going to read that book about Martha Gelhorn.

Just because of your sig line. I wanted to tell you that! Every time I read it, I love it anew! I was lecturing a young would be freeper yesterday, the pool dude & it developed he was parroting his Brother's viewpoints and he had misinformation from that POS ABC mockumentary as well! Well, after various & sundry debunking exercises & slapping him around with the Chicken voting for Col. Sanders line, we got around to just what they did plan to do being of prime draftable age.

When I asked him how he voted and he replied they both didn't, the last time, I bludgeoned him with that fabulous quote-Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[babylonsister]

17. No, thank you!

I'm glad you like it and can use it. I haven't read that book yet, but you aren't the first DUer who encouraged me to do so.
It is a great quote and just how I feel. :hi:

[skids]

7. The real scoop is this: they dug hard and the most Repugs could find...

...to try to stave off damage from Le Cage Aux Foley is an innocuous accounting blunder.

And they have the gall to accuse Dems of bringing stuff up "just in time for the election." This is a total non-story... it's bullshit that the media even bothered to run with it.

[hijinx87]

8. at most we have a minor clerical error

on reid's financial disclosure forms. it happens all the time. he
will amend it, if necessary, and that should be that.

this just means the rethug mud machine is cranking up.

[Ladydawnelle]

11. WONDERFUL NEWS

And thanks for the welcome. I rarely post but do try to get here daily for the latest breaking news. I count on you guys and you've never let me down.

Awesome!

NOVEMBER COMETH (COMMETH?) LOL

If we don't take back the HOUSE and/or Senate this year we will finally have PROOF that the machines are RIGGED!

[gratuitous]

10. Another John Solomon hit piece

And it has all the credibility of his earlier hatchet job on Reid in regard to complementary boxing match tickets and trying to tie Reid to Jack Abramoff. Which is to say, none.

Odd, innit, how the media will swallow Solomon's mud hook, line and stinker even with his proven record of getting things wrong; but they can't seem to figure out if Frist's personal management of his allegedly "blind" trust is improper or not.

[Redbear]

12. It is bogus. There is no there there

He listed the land as his property all along.

At one point he switched the property into an LLC (Limited- Liability Corp). His interest in the land did not change,so he continued to show that he owned the property. The entire "controversy" is whether he should have disclosed that he changed form owning it in his own name to showing he owned it through the corp.

This one reporter is constantly fishing for something to criticize Reid over.

It is the same reporter who claimed Reid was connected to Abramoff without reporting that Reid had consistently voted against Abramoff's position.

[Demit]

13. try tpmmuckraker.com

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001782.php
Good explication of the actual facts. Including what makes John Solomon the Worst Journalist in America (as Duncan Black called him on Atrios).

[OzarkDem]

14. Our local rag Plain Dealer has been hyping the story

Dems will win and hopefully make life miserable for them.

http://www.cleveland.com/darcy/index.ssf?/darcy/more/101306.html

[Ladydawnelle]

16. Awww I loved Ann Richards

She would have been the BEST FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT!!

I can't think of any other woman as excellent right now.

GOD speed Ann! We miss you!

[librechik]

18. Reid sold himself a piece of his own property and made a million!

ummm...

More proof Republicans can't add, subtract, multiply, or recognize corporations by their initials (LLC) Reid sure got them on that one! They are so desperate they'll jump on any little pimple thinking it will explode and get all over us. It just gets all over them.

[newyawker99]

19. Hi Ladydawnelle!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Ladydawnelle]

20. Sweet!

Thank you! Cheers! :-D

[yellowcanine]

21. Tempest, meet teapot. IMO, there is no there there. He transferred

some land from his name to a company he owned with some other guy. Later he sold the land and made money on it. He should probably have spelled out the details on the financial disclosure form but as far as I can tell, this transaction did not have any bearing on how much money he made. So where is the beef?