Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said Thursday that he dared anyone to find one word by him dealing with race or sex.
Reid: "They said Reid accused Republicans of racism and sexism. I dare anyone to find a singe word that I said dealing with race or sex."
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 23, 2015
That's easy.
Reid embarrassed himself last August when he told the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce, "I don’t think you’re smarter than anybody else, but you’ve convinced a lot of us you are."
He added later that he had trouble "keeping my Wongs straight."
His comments about a "light-skinned" then-Sen. Barack Obama not having a "Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one" were part of the 2008 book Game Change, drawing bipartisan condemnation.
During a campaign stop in Nevada in 2010 he said, "I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, okay? Do I need to say more?"
I also noted last August that:
Reid appeared unaware in July that a black Supreme Court justice voted in the majority in the "Hobby Lobby" decision, mourning that "five white men" would have dominion over women’s bodies. A quick fact check revealed Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is an African American.
Reid, who is an old white man, also complained about "17 angry, old, white men" trying to buy the country during a 2012 rant about outside money in politics, a topic on which Reid is, to put it mildly, inconsistent.
According to reporter Maggie Haberman, Reid referred to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) in 2010 as the "hottest member" of the Senate with her sitting a few feet away.