Harry Reid Bullies Nevada Newspaper

Unpopular Democrat Sen. Harry Reid last week told a senior manager of the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he "hopes the paper goes out of business." For a politician whose constituents read the newspaper and many of whom work for the paper, this is both bizarre and outrageous. Why? Apparently because Reid doesn't like articles that are critical of him. Publisher Sherman Frederick responded in an op-ed yesterday.

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.

Looks like Reid is learning the ways of Obama well.