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SHERMAN FREDERICK: Enough is enough, Harry

Stop the childish bullying
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  • We're still here doing what we do for the people of Las Vegas and Nevada. So, let me assure you, if we weathered all of that, we can damn sure outlast the bully threats of Sen. Harry Reid.

    On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber's board members for a meet-'n'-greet and a photo. One of the last in line was the Review-Journal's director of advertising, Bob Brown, a hard-working Nevadan who toils every day on behalf of advertisers. He has nothing to do with news coverage or the opinion pages of the Review-Journal.

    Yet, as Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said: "I hope you go out of business."

    Later, in his public speech, Reid said he wanted to let everyone know that he wants the Review-Journal to continue selling advertising because the Las Vegas Sun is delivered inside the Review-Journal.

    Such behavior cannot go unchallenged.

    You could call Reid's remark ugly and be right. It certainly was boorish. Asinine? That goes without saying.

    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.

     

    Sherman Frederick (sfrederick@reviewjournal.com) is publisher of the Review-Journal and president of Stephens Media.

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    Truth Exposed wrote on November 09, 2009 05:28 PM: Senator Harry Reid I to just ran across this article.

    Can you tell the TV Stations more bull dodo.

    How can you claim how you fought crime. When in fact you profit as a shareholder off sex crimes at Lionel Sawyer and Collins?

    I would rather be under the old mafia as a politician who profits off human lives and ran the mafia out of Las Vegas so they could help control it.


    John Coleman wrote on October 23, 2009 10:37 AM: I just now ran across your article ("Enough Is Enough") and wanted to tell you; Sic-em !!

    I'm from Indiana (not Nevada), but let me applaud you for standing up to such self-righteous/self-centered behavior on the part of Sen. Reid.

    John Coleman


    Baylor wrote on October 22, 2009 10:31 AM: First it was FOX news they started bashing, now your newspaper, people better wise up, this same thing happened in the 1930's in a particular European country. Sensorship and control is the same today as it was then. Be very wary of Mr. Reid and his cronnies.


    bill turner wrote on October 10, 2009 11:18 PM: Conratulations to our Medical Board.Once again they have demonstrated their complete and utter ineptness. A patient offers hard evidence of being billed for treatment never received. Another doctor says that very same doctor gave him so heavy a patient load that he could not adequately treat his patients.But our saavy Medical Board Representative, who is paid with our taxpayer dollars, said that the Board could do nothing. (read WOULD AND WILL DO NOTHING BOARD) And this, despite the fact that the first allegation is, if true, a crime and the second admission is a clear violation of both doctors sworn fiduciary responsibility to their patients. Apparently the Nevada Medical Board has never heard of the Hippocratic Oath, only the oath of Hypocrisy.Those responsible and the representative should be fired for wasting our taxpayer dollars. We hire them to protect us, not harm us. And the Governor, whose motto is Do Nothing, Risk Nothing, and who has his own issues with the oath of fidelity, continues to look the other way.Bill Turner Henderson


    Vince wrote on October 09, 2009 01:50 PM: If the senate votes on this Obama Care bill without putting it online for 72 hours like was promised I would like to see Harry Reid recalled.


    betyangelo wrote on September 30, 2009 08:36 PM: Mr. Frederick, this country needs more men like you. Please write more! And God bless the state of Nevada with a strong conservative leader in 2010. Do not split the votes!


    Joe Coggiano wrote on September 29, 2009 07:58 PM: It would be effective if someone would
    list his opponents in the next election
    2010.
    Pick one only so as not to split votes.
    AS a matter of fact also list his Primary
    foes from his own party and everyone
    register democrat and vote for his opponent and then change back.


    David Snow wrote on September 16, 2009 10:26 AM: I was born and raised in the Reno area. Nevadans have always been a proud and independent people, as am I. I am now an outside observer living in Colorado. Harry Reid has always struck me as a misfit for the culture and values of Nevadans. He may have once shared Nevada's values but now seems locked into Washington's corruption and the far left viewpoint.
    I truly hope you folks vote him out of office in 2010. For the good of Nevada and for the good of the USA.


    JimG wrote on September 14, 2009 10:40 PM: LYN, READ THESE COMMENTS....AMERICANS HAVE JUST ABOUT HAD ENOUGH !....READ 50 OR 60....IT'S AN UNSTOPPABLE WAVE !


    jim moruss wrote on September 14, 2009 12:44 AM: WHY DOES ALL THE NEWS MEDIA PUSH THIS GLOBAL WARMING HYPE. WHEN THERE IS SO MUCH EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY AND OVER THIRTY THOUSAND SCIENTISTS SAYING THE EARTH IS ACTUALLY IN A COOLING PHASE FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS. AND EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE, IT WOULD ACTUALLY BE BENEFICIAL FOR CROPS AND AGRICULTURE.


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