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Fast Money & Foreign Objects
By Jonathan Chait Follow @jonathanchait
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John Hinderaker, reporting a rumor via his friend who had visited Las Vegas, which explained that Reid been been accosted by his jilted mafia business partners:
“Reid had promised to obtain some benefit for a group of mobsters. He met with them on New Year’s Day, and broke the bad news that he hadn’t been able to deliver what he promised. When the mobsters complained, Reid (according to the rumor) made a comment that they considered disrespectful, and one of them beat him up.”
This is not just a story Hinderaker heard from a guy. It's a story he heard from a guy who heard it from another guy who actually visted Vegas, which makes it even stronger.
So Reid made a deal to do legislative favors for the Mafia, only to discover that Republicans controlled the House of Representatives, blocking Reid from passing his desired law, causing them to overpower his security detail and beat him up. This was a far more sensible explanation for his condition than the fanciful official story that a 75-year-old-man somehow sustained an injury while exercising. Conservative journalists like Byron York and Rush Limbaugh, who are among the few journalists beholden neither to the Mafia nor to Reid’s own network of shadowy goons, have asked tough questions. Breitbart conducted a groundbreaking investigation, centered around a painstaking reconstruction of Reid’s bathroom, and has followed up its coverage by investigating other aspects of the cover-up:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/04/terrified-reid-refuses-to-finger-mob-assailants.html
the f is going on?
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John Hinderaker, reporting a rumor via his friend who had visited Las Vegas, which explained that Reid been been accosted by his jilted mafia business partners:
“Reid had promised to obtain some benefit for a group of mobsters. He met with them on New Year’s Day, and broke the bad news that he hadn’t been able to deliver what he promised. When the mobsters complained, Reid (according to the rumor) made a comment that they considered disrespectful, and one of them beat him up.”
This is not just a story Hinderaker heard from a guy. It's a story he heard from a guy who heard it from another guy who actually visted Vegas, which makes it even stronger.
So Reid made a deal to do legislative favors for the Mafia, only to discover that Republicans controlled the House of Representatives, blocking Reid from passing his desired law, causing them to overpower his security detail and beat him up. This was a far more sensible explanation for his condition than the fanciful official story that a 75-year-old-man somehow sustained an injury while exercising. Conservative journalists like Byron York and Rush Limbaugh, who are among the few journalists beholden neither to the Mafia nor to Reid’s own network of shadowy goons, have asked tough questions. Breitbart conducted a groundbreaking investigation, centered around a painstaking reconstruction of Reid’s bathroom, and has followed up its coverage by investigating other aspects of the cover-up:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/04/terrified-reid-refuses-to-finger-mob-assailants.html
the f is going on?
