September 1, 2009

The publisher of the Las Vegas Review Journal has delivered a blistering response to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after Reid told the paper's advertising director, "I hope you go out of business."

Publisher Sherman Frederick wrote in his paper, "You could call Reid's remark ugly and you would be right. It certainly was boorish. Asinine? That goes without saying."

Frederick said Reid's comment and a similar remark during a speech he delivered to the local chamber of commerce represent "a full-on threat perpetrated by a bully who has forgotten that he was elected to office to protect Nevadans, not sound like he's shaking them down."

"No citizen should expect this kind of behavior from a U.S. senator," said Frederick, and added, "It is certainly not becoming of a man who is the majority leader in the U.S. Senate. And it is absolutely not what anyone would expect from a man who now asks Nevadans to send him back to the senate for a fifth term."

Nevadans don't have to. They can show him who's boss in the 2010 election.