Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) recently admitted that he is now blinded in his right eye from injuries he sustained from "exercising" on New Year's Day in his home in Henderson, a suburb of Las Vegas. Supposedly, an "elastic exercise band" snapped so violently that Reid was flung across the room and crashed into a filing cabinet, resulting in broken ribs and facial bones.
Or so we are to believe.
Nor is this the first time Reid had been injured from "exercising."
In May 2011 in Washington, D.C., Reid dislocated his shoulder, bumped his forehead, and sustained a contusion just below his left eye when he slipped and fell during a morning jog in the rain. Reid said he was leaning on a wet car near his home in the Ritz-Carlton hotel when he tumbled to the ground.
Now, our suspicions about the real cause of Reid's New Year's Day injuries are confirmed: They were from a beating, not from "exercising."
From the transcript of Rush Limbaugh's radio show yesterday, April 15, 2015:
It's a couple of weeks ago now, I got an e-mail from John Hinderaker at Power Line, and he said that he had been in contact with somebody in Las Vegas who claimed to know what happened to Harry Reid, and that this man wanted to tell the story to both Hinderaker and me, on the phone. I was asked if I would join a phone call and listen to the story, and I said, "Sure, but I'm not committing to using any of it. I'm making no commitments about anything." Everybody understood that.
So after the program one day a couple of weeks ago I got on the phone with John Hinderaker and this caller from Las Vegas who claimed to know what happened to Dingy Harry Reid. Hinderaker wrote the story up and published it on Power Line. I don't know what the date was because I didn't print. But it's just a couple, three weeks ago. And here's the upshot of it.
Note: Hinderaker had an asterisk * after the name Elliott because "Easton Elliott" is the name he goes under in his second career as an addiction recovery life coach. In his business career he uses his given name. He is known to the AA members who witnessed the events he describes here, and to the recovery community generally, as Easton Elliott.
" He introduced himself as 'Larry.' In a group discussion that was heard by a number of people, Larry said that he had just had a fight with a family member. Larry said he had been at a family get-together, and he didn't remember much about the fight because he had blacked out. When he came to, he was rolling on the ground, fighting with a family member, and his clothes were bloody ," and in fact that's how he showed up at the AA meeting. " Now, he said, he was frightened that the Secret Service would come after him. " [...]
So this guy, Larry, "stayed for the rest of the meeting, and for a while afterward. There is a front room where coffee is served, and he remained there for a while. At some point during that time, he asked whether anyone could give him a ride to Searchlight. Larry's appearance at the AA meeting was memorable, as references to fighting, bloody clothes and so on are extraordinary in that group." It's not something that happens at every AA meeting.
And the guy we were talking to, Easton Elliott , he didn't think much more about this guy, Larry, until several weeks later when "he saw a newspaper story about Larry Reid, Harry Reid's brother, being arrested for DUI and assaulting a highway patrolman. The story was accompanied by a photograph, and ... immediately recognized Larry Reid as the 'Larry' who had attended the AA meeting ," weeks previous, who was drunk, who was bloody, who had a swollen left fist, and claimed he had been in a fight with a family member and was worried the Secret Service was gonna follow him.
Now, "Subsequent to the news story about Larry Reid's arrest, Elliott discussed with several others who had been present on New Year's Eve his belief that 'Larry' had been Larry Reid. They, too, recognized Larry from the newspaper photograph. One of those who had been present at the AA meeting called Las Vegas's Channel 8 to tell them about Larry Reid's account of fighting with a family member, but that person said that whoever he spoke with at the television station told him they were not interested ." [...]
So, bottom line, somebody attacked Harry Reid on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day. That much seems clear from pictures and from the nature of his injuries. Nobody's investigated this. [...]
As Hinderaker wrote, his investigation "consisted of answering my telephone." And he posits maybe "those reporters who were so eager to dig through Sarah Palin's dumpster and track down Mitt Romney's high school classmates," or to find out whether Romney had paid his taxes or not, "will now swing into action, carry out an actual investigation, and either confirm or refute the events described by Mr. Elliott," and the people at the AA meeting.
He also made a point over and over of saying he's not a political guy. He's a small businessman. He's had several businesses in the Vegas area. Hinderaker called Harry Reid's spokesman, gave him an opportunity to comment, and they didn't deny it, but they said they're not gonna comment, either.
For John Hinderaker's account, much of which was repeated by Rush Limbaugh yesterday, see " What Really Happened to Harry Reid? Part 3 ."
Here's contact info for the incurious, disgraceful KLAS Channel 8 Las Vegas:
Channel 8 Main Switchboard: (702) 792-8888
News Hotline: (702) 650-1960
Email address of Emily Neilson, President & General Manager : eneilson@8newsnow.com