I can’t decide if Harry Reid is evil or just senile—so let’s just say he’s evnile.
How do I know this? He’s a lying liar who lies.
A couple weeks ago, Harry Reid posted an article called “The Facts About the Koch Brothers” on the front of his Senate site.
It’s no longer on the front of the Senate site because he had to hide it because it was likely a violation of Senate rules.
Of course given that it’s Harry Reid, it’s completely littered with lies.
We’re going to focus on just one sentence from his “facts” because it is my belief that every word is a lie, with the possible exception of pronouns.
Here’s the sentence: “The Kochs spent $400 million on misleading attack ads.”
That gives you a nice visual of Charles and David Koch writing a check for over $400 million dollars. However when you actually click on the source for Harry’s “fact” you’ll find this on really unbiased (sarcasm) “Republic Report.”
“Koch PAC specifically spent $4.9 million in disclosed contributions.”
Hmmm. So where did they get over 400 million?
“…But they also spent over $407 million on undisclosed campaign entities.”
You might ask yourself, if they were undisclosed how do you know about them?
You’ll be shocked to hear that Republic Report is not doing its own journalism on this story. It’s linking to a story on The Washington Post. And shockingly The Washington Post proves that every single thing they say is a lie. Here’s where they get the number: “Together, the 17 conservative groups that made up the network raised at least $407 million during the 2012 campaign.”
We should also note that only nine of the 17 groups filed taxes. Soon the other eight will file and Harry can further inflate his lie. Awesome!
Now that we have some information, let’s go and look at Harry’s claim, “The Kochs spent $400 million on misleading attack ads.”
Is every word in this sentence a lie?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
First “The Kochs." It’s not “The Kochs", it’s a combination of 17 conservative groups that the Koch brothers are affiliated with in some way.
Two. The word "spent." That’s not what the sentence says at all. The network raised at least $407 million. It clearly says “raised.” Spent and raised are two different things.
Three. "$400 Million." The way they get to this number is so insulting to your intelligence you’re not going to believe it. They took every donation from every donor from all across America to all of these 17 organizations and credited them all to the Koch Brothers.
For example, one of these organizations is Americans for Prosperity. They alone have 90,000 donors. Harry Reid is giving credit for every dime donated by all donors to all these organizations to two people, the Koch Brothers.
To be fair, our unbiased source Republic Report notes that the Koch spending is Pac, individual, and outside spending. In this context, outside spending apparently means the spending of every single person in America who agrees with the Koch brothers.
Four. "Ads." Actually they didn’t spend all of this money on ads. Some of it went to salaries and overhead but also as The New York Times points out: “Americans for Prosperity spent tens of millions of dollars in political advertising….while investing equally large sums to build a national grass-roots organization.”
So if you can believe The New York Times, which I admit is a stretch, it’s probably around half or less that actually went to ads.
Number five. "Misleading attacks." Were those ads misleading attacks?
Congratulations you picked our video daily double. Here’s a sampling of ads that Koch related organizations ran during the election.
Certainly registering people to vote is not a misleading attack ad.
So, "Koch Brothers" is a lie. "Spent" is a lie. "$400 million" is a lie. "Misleading attacks" is a lie. "Ads" is a lie.
What’s left of this sentence is just “on.”
When we translate Harry’s original sentence from his native language of “Evnilian” to English it looks very different.
“The Kochs spent $400 million on misleading attack ads" is translated to “Seventeen conservative and or libertarian organizations that have similar beliefs to the Koch Brothers raised $407 million from hundreds of thousands of donors who have similar beliefs to the Koch Brothers of which they spent probably around half on ads some portion of which were attacking and an even smaller portion of which were misleading depending on your political views. Also the fact that I posted this is a violation of Senate Rules and I’m equal parts evil and senile. I am evnile.”
That sentence makes for a terrible attack website. But that’s what happens when you’re honest in translating Harry Reid’s Lies.
Harry Reid and Republic Report left out this little tidbit from the article they sourced: “The left has its own financial muscle, of course; unions plowed roughly $400 million into national, state and local elections in 2012.”
In his evnility, Harry must have also forgotten all about how the Koch Brothers donated to some of his close buddies like co-author of Obamacare, Max Baucus-Democrat, Mark Pryor-Democrat, John Dingell-Democrat, Tom Harkin-Democrat, Mary Landrieu-Democrat, Diane Feinstein-Democrat, Chuck Schumer-Democrat, Hillary Clinton-Democrat, Joe Biden-Democrat, Barack Obama—Democrat.
Remember Harry Reid is an evil, senile, evnile old man. Oh, and according to Pat Gray, he’s also the worst living human being on the planet.
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