Reid Between The Lines
April 26, 2007 at 8:36 am
Poor Harry Reid. First he gets smacked around (Instapundit, Mystery Pollster, Volokh ) for using mythical numbers for rhetorical excess in saying that only 9% of the American people like Dick Cheney.
But what’s worse than having 91% of the people hate you? Having David Broder doubt you:
Reid is assuredly not a man who misses many opportunities to put his foot in his mouth. … The Democrats deserve better, and the country needs more, than Harry Reid has offered as Senate majority leader.
Today’s Broder column is the the OUCH! heard ’round the political world.
UPDATE: A point of clarification. I missrepresented Volokh as among the smackers. Here’s Volokh’s point:
I realize that some laypeople might miss the jocular hyperbole, but I suspect it will be very few. And Reid was apparently speaking to reporters, and in that context even someone who realizes he may be quoted might be pitching his off-the-cuff comments at the sophistication level of the audience that is present.
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