The poster says it all

Over the weekend, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) decided to attack his state’s largest newspaper, stating that he hopes the Las Vegas Review-Journal “goes out of business.”

In other words — the Senator from Nevada hopes that a state business goes under. Costing people — his constituents — their livelihood. And why would their senior Senator hope for their demise? Because they had the temerity to hold him to account.

But — in what has to be one of the best newspaper stories of the year — Publisher Sherman Frederick punches back at Reid (in part):

But to fully capture the magnitude of Reid’s remark (and to stop him from doing the same thing to others) it must be called what it was — 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. 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.

If he thinks he can push the state’s largest newspaper around by exacting some kind of economic punishment in retaliation for not seeing eye to eye with him on matters of politics, I can only imagine how he pressures businesses and individuals who don’t have the wherewithal of the Review-Journal.

For the sake of all who live and work in Nevada, we can’t let this bully behavior pass without calling out Sen. Reid. If he’ll try it with the Review-Journal, you can bet that he’s tried it with others. So today, we serve notice on Sen. Reid that this creepy tactic will not be tolerated.

We won’t allow you to bully us. And if you try it with anyone else, count on going through us first.

That’s a promise, not a threat.

And it’s a promise to our readers, not to you, Sen. Reid.

Uh. Wow. Say goodnight, Harry. If you thought this was going to help you overcome your double-digit polling deficit to GOP challenger Danny Tarkanian, you’ve just made your re-election bid a bit more difficult.

I’m going to go ahead and call it now — that amongst the large turnover in Democrats in the 2010 election, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) will be one of those Dems looking for a new job.

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OTHERS:

Don Surber:”It is heartening to see an old newspaper publisher with his dander up fighting against corruption and ineptitude. Reid falls in the latter category.”

Doug Ross:

It goes without saying that the unaccountable, “ethically challenged” leadership of the Democrat Party is capable of anything when it comes to getting their way. This, remember, is the party of ACORN, dead voters, and paying for votes with crack cocaine.