RUSH: “Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he ‘did what was necessary’ in 2012 when he falsely accused Mitt Romney of not having paid his taxes for 10 years. Reid was asked about those comments, which he made during a speech on the Senate floor.
When it’s over, people asked Dingy Harry, “Who’s your friend, who told you this?” And Dingy Harry says to the media, “That’s not the question. You need to go ask Romney why he hasn’t paid his taxes in ten years.” And what do you think the media did? They left Dingy Harry’s office and they tracked down Romney and they started asking him, “Why haven’t you paid your taxes in ten years?”
Now, Dingy Harry — this is again tracks back to the media — Dingy Harry can say whatever he wants; the media trusted it, didn’t try to track it down and didn’t question it, just went out and made it out to be true. Dick Gephardt said, “I’ve got a friend, the friend called me and said, ‘Please raise my taxes. I’m doing really well now, but if you really want to make me rich and help the country, you’ll raise my taxes.'”
I said, “Well, who is this clown, who is this idiot that’s calling you?” And he never could produce a name. The Democrats have all these little helpers out there, and they have all these little friends, all of these anonymous characters that are always telling them, like Little Dick’s friend, “If you really want to make me rich you’ll raise my taxes.” That makes common sense. (laughing)
Now he’s denying that he told any lies. I’ll guarantee you what this means. “I didn’t tell any brazen lies.” What he’s maintaining here is that he did have somebody who told him that Romney hadn’t paid taxes 10 years. That’s what he’d fall back on. But it not only was a brazen lie, it was the epitome of fake news. And it was fake news purposely intended to interfere with the 2012 elections. And the Russians were nowhere to be found.
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