As Twitchy reported, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) made outlandish and unsubstantiated claims about Mitt Romney and his taxes. While the press ran with the slimy rumors, citizens turned their attention to Senator Reid and what he may be hiding himself. That scandal continues.
Today, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi backed Reid’s imaginary friend conversation.
Harry Reid accuses Romney of not paying taxes for ten years on the Senate floor, and Pelosi supports the hearsay… http://t.co/izBfT6h4
— Rock the Red (@RocktheRed2012) August 6, 2012
Of course, HuffPo, and MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, ran with scurrilous and unsubstantiated slime-attempt rumors. Again.
Nancy Pelosi: 'It Is A Fact' That Somebody Told Harry Reid About Romney Not Paying Taxeshttp://t.co/5HNh3L5t
— Ed Schultz (@edshow) August 6, 2012
From the Huffington Post:
“Harry Reid made a statement that is true. Somebody told him. It is a fact,” Pelosi told The Huffington Post in a Sunday interview. “Whether he did or not can easily be disposed of: Mitt Romney can release his tax returns and show whether he paid taxes.”
Both Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus came out swinging against Reid on Sunday over his claims about Romney potentially not paying taxes. Asked to respond to Priebus calling Reid “a dirty liar” over the situation, Pelosi initially responded, “Who?” She went on to say that Priebus doesn’t know what he’s talking about since he wasn’t part of Reid’s conversations.
“Well he doesn’t know that,” Pelosi said. “Harry Reid is a person who is, as we know, A, is a fighter, B, he wouldn’t say this unless it was true that somebody told him that.”
Oh, well then! Case. Closed.
https://twitter.com/DanFosterNRO/status/232485057904910336
Some guy, who knows this girl, who cuts the hair of this other guy’s cousin totally said it! As for what kind of person she thinks Harry Reid is, well, citizens disagree. Sorry, Nancy, but he is either delusional and hears voices in his head or he is a big, fat liar. Maybe both.
Next week on "Ghost Hunters," the team will hold a seance with Harry Reid's imaginary friend, to find what else he knows about Romney.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) August 6, 2012
If Harry Reid goes on like this, maybe next year Senators will start caning each other like in the good old days.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) August 6, 2012
Breaking: the voices in Harry Reid's head say that whoever the Romney VP nominee is, they probably never paid any taxes.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) August 6, 2012
Reid follows Andrew Sullivan's descent into intellectual depravity–issue slanderous charge, then demand the slandered prove the falsity.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) August 6, 2012
Citizens also give Ms. Pelosi the business for shamelessly and shamefully defending and backing Sen. Reid’s gutter-level smears.
It's a fact Pelosi and Reid should be held in contempt and removed from office for baseless accusations.
— The Porter/Stout Hunter (@hch242) August 6, 2012
It might also be a fact that you're insane… Pelosi: Reid’s Baseless Accusation Against Romney Is “True” And “A Fact”… http://t.co/PaK4IR4h
— A.C. Spollen (@ACSpollen) August 6, 2012
Pelosi: It's a fact somebody told Harry Reid that Romney didn't pay taxes for ten years http://t.co/r2O77s7U like crop circles are a fact?
— Jen's Ri (@texasmcmanus) August 6, 2012
https://twitter.com/jimmiebjr/status/232505479446802432
https://twitter.com/jimmiebjr/status/232504592213090304
Heh. Pelosi’s camp is also conspicuously silent on those allegations.
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