Harry Reid Throws Penalty Flag, Calls Personal Foul on GOP Opponent, & Plays the Satan Card All in One Fell Swoop!

This one was just too plain oddball to pass up, even if I may think that Slimy Harry is a scuzwad career politician and political thug. Reid, the current U.S. Senate majority leader and highly unpopular in his home state of Nevada, is facing the fight of his political life, as he'll try to keep his Senate seat in November against GOP nominee Sharron Angle (pictured next to Reid above). The general theme of Reid's campaign is fairly simple: "You may hate me, but that woman's a dangerous extremist."

And so it was that a recent newspaper column in Nevada's Pahrump Valley Times played right into Reid's hands. More on that in due course. Anyway, the column suggested that Angle in 1991 opposed a local high school football team's switch to black uniforms on grounds that the uniforms' color would be "too Satanic." The columnist is named Bill Roberts, who himself looks like a bad cross between Don Imus and ol' Lucifer incarnate -- noteworthy is how his column picture is cropped at the top so as not to reveal whether or not he sports actual horns on top of his melon.

But I digress. Roberts' column says that he personally recalls the "Black Unis = Too Satanic" sentiment as being the position of a group of locals (which included Angle, although Roberts says Angle was not the leader of the group) that opposed the uniform switch. (See first link at bottom for Roberts' column and picture).

The backstory on the uniforms deserves a mention as well before I proceed on to Slimy Harry: It seems that the local Tonopah High School "Muckers" (short for muckrakers? did Slimy Harry name this team?) had a football game in 1991 on the one-year anniversary of what was considered the most humiliating football loss in school history. The Muckers' uniform colors were red and white (apparently bright red, for some reason and unlike black, passes muster under the "Hell" test).

But the head coach wanted the team switch to black unis just for the anniversary game in order to motivate the players (with the thought being that the black represented their "darkest day," i.e. the game the year before). Roberts' column says that the opposition group that included Angle ultimately prevailed in its viewpoint, and the black unis, although purchased, were not used. But some good news: The Muckers, wearing their regular red and white, did win the game (their only win that season, says Roberts).

So that's the background, but what about Roberts' claim that the group of locals that included Angle was motivated by a "Black Unis = Too Satanic" sentiment? Well, Angle says the story is simply not true (see second link at bottom for Politico's full story). But obviously an unequivocable denial is not going to be enough to stop Slimy Harry! His campaign has had a field day with this, printing up and distributing T-shirts that say, "The Devil Wears Shoulder Pads" (obviously a takeoff on the 2006 film, The Devil Wears Prada). No word yet on whether the T-shirts are black, but I think that's quite likely.

But let's not stop there! The backside of the T-shirts spouts, "Extreme Views, 15-Yard Penalty". So yes, Slimy Harry is actually throwing a personal foul flag on Angle based on the Satan card! My take on all this zaniness? I assume there is another side to this story, even if Angle isn't providing it by virtue of giving nothing more than a blanket denial (although truth be told, leaving it at a denial and trying to move on is probably the smartest thing politically that Angle could do here).

Reid's actions here are certainly sophomoric, but admittedly entertaining to a small degree (at least from my warped perspective -- and I still hope he loses). And what if Roberts' account is true? Well, it certainly makes Angle look very deranged. But what's the shock there? I don't call them deranged right-wingers and loony left-wingers for nothing, after all!

http://pvtimes.com/opinion/angle-strove-religiously-against-black-jerseys/
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41321.html