The Harry Reid mafia conspiracy stuff - how the RW media got punked by one man

[Statistikhengst]

So, it's time to bring some light into the many weird rumors about Harry Reid:

I warned that this stuff was based on lies and innuendo, and it is now proven that I was right.

Behold:

Las Vegas Man Epically Punks Conservative Media ThinkProgress

In January, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid was seriously injured while he was exercising with a resistance band. The band broke and Reid crashed into some cabinets. Reid broke a number of bones in his face and may lose sight in his right eye.

But the conservative media was certain that something more nefarious was afoot.

Enter Larry Pfeifer, a Las Vegas motivational speaker and life coach. In an interview with ThinkProgress, Pfeifer said he initially called John Hinderaker of the conservative Powerline Blog using the pseudonym “Easton Elliot” to “bitch the guy out” for printing an article suggesting Harry Reid was beaten up by the mafia without any evidence whatsoever.

At the last minute, Pfeifer decided to make a up a story about how Reid was actually beaten up by his brother Larry. “I made up the story off the cuff. It was so outrageous I thought there was no way” he would print it, Pfeifer said.

But Hinderaker took the bait and quickly arranged a phone call between Pfeifer and Rush Limbaugh. On the call Hinderaker and Limbaugh repeatedly asked Pfeifer for evidence to corroborate his story. Each time, Pfeifer refused. It’s hard to corroborate a fake story, after all.

Which, of course, led to this:

(Of course, we now know it was bullshit and the Right fell for it. Why did the Right fall for it? Because it hates Obama, Reid and Pelosi so much, it would grasp at any possible straw to keep up the "throw as much shit as possible, 24/7, and see what sticks" method)


More from the link:

Hinderaker ran with the story, deeming it credible. “Someone attacked Harry Reid on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day; that much seems clear from photographs and from the nature of his injuries.” Hinderaker admitted he had not bothered to independently verify the story but said “the inferences [Elliot] draws seem reasonable.” That articles was shared over 3,600 times on social media.

From there the story took off like wildfire. Hinderaker invited “Easton Elliott” as a guest a few days later when he was substitute host for Laura Ingraham’s radio show. A couple of weeks later, Rush Limbaugh repeated the rumor on air to millions of listeners. (Limbaugh did acknowledge that he hadn’t verified the story.)

Here is how it was reported in the Las Vegas Sun:

The big lie Las Vegas man watches as his Harry Reid tale takes off - Las Vegas Sun News

A Las Vegas man claims he started a false rumor that the injuries suffered by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid several months ago were the result of an attack by Reid’s brother, not an exercise accident.


Larry Pfeifer, a 50-year-old former consultant in the nightclub and entertainment industry, said he fabricated the story after becoming appalled that right-wing political blogger John Hinderaker published a rumor that Reid’s injuries stemmed from an assault by a Mafia enforcer. Pfeifer said he pitched his fake story about the Reid brothers’ supposed fight to Hinderaker, author of the Power Line blog, to test whether the blogger would publish it, as well. When Hinderaker reported it and the rumor was subsequently spread by others in conservative media, Pfeifer says he began plotting to self-report it as a lie to show the lack of credibility and journalistic standards among partisan media figures.

“It was just so outrageous,” he said. “The fact that someone can say something completely false that can destroy somebody’s life, it’s just wrong. Where’s the moral compass?”

Pfeifer, who describes himself as a motivational speaker who is involved in addiction counseling, said he completely concocted the story that Reid’s brother, Larry, showed up intoxicated at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting on New Year’s Eve in Henderson and claimed to have beaten up a relative.

Pfeifer said the media figures who published and broadcast the rumor did so without corroboration and without knowing his true identity. He revealed to them that he was using a pseudonym, he said, yet none demanded proof of his true identity.

The rumor spread quickly after Hinderaker published it April 3, landing Pfeifer on conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham’s radio program six days later when Hinderaker was a guest host, and leading to a conversation between Pfeifer and Rush Limbaugh. Pfeifer said he tried to get on Limbaugh’s show, where he planned to admit he’d made up the story.

“I thought the whole thing would be over in a day and a half,” he said. “I wasn’t after 15 minutes of fame. I wanted a platform where I could present this as what it was and 2 million people would pick up on it.”

He said he decided to present the truth after Limbaugh rejected him as a guest but repeated the rumor April 15 on his talk-radio show......Pfeifer said it was still unconscionable for them to spread it, and now he’s looking to get as much exposure as possible.

“Can I set off a domino effect where people say, ‘We’re sick of this,’ and start turning away from this kind of media or maybe boycott their sponsors?” he said.

Pfeifer said he made up the rumor virtually on the fly, patching it together with bits of information he’d gleaned from going to AA meetings and reading a recent news story about Larry Reid being arrested for drunken driving and allegedly punching a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper. Pfeifer said he peppered it with false information that should have been seen as red flags, including that AA allows intoxicated individuals to attend meetings on New Year’s Eve and Christmas Eve.

He said he also made up details designed to create credence to his story, including that there was a potluck dinner at the AA meeting and that Larry Reid’s left hand was injured — a juicy tidbit considering that Harry Reid’s facial injuries were on the right side of his head and thus could have been inflicted by blows from a left hand in a face-to-face fight.

Pfeifer said he was appalled at how little vetting was done on him and his story.

“They had no problem using a story that had nothing but some guy’s word,” Pfeifer said. “Not one of them knew my real name. I didn’t even give them my phone number.”

And so, the moral of the story is two-fold:

When talking about "Alternative Media", then remember that they obviously have no journalistic standards at all.

The Right will write anything, say anything, spread any possible lie about the Left if there is even the slightest chance that it will get traction.

Welcome to the RW Unicorn-World of "fact".






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Discuss: do you rely on facts, or rumors, exaggerations and lies?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Reid was a drug mule for the Las Vegas mafia.

Its the Romney taxes standard, the story might be a lie, but it got rid of Reid

 

[Statistikhengst]

Reid was a drug mule for the Las Vegas mafia.

Its the Romney taxes standard, the story might be a lie, but it got rid of Reid

Thank you, thank you.

I just won a bet with someone. I told him that you, specifically YOU, would say that.

I am now 40 Euros richer. Thanks!

 

[Stephanie]

So now they are trying to tell everyone you are stupid to believe what you believe

Harry Reid is nothing more but corrupted thug who had involvement with the mobs who has their hands in the casinos

I guess now they want us to believe he was as pure as little boy scout

 

[Stephanie]

This poll is a joke. coming from the one who post nothing but rumors, nonsense and garbage from the media and left wing hate sites

 

[mdk]

So now they are trying to tell everyone you are stupid to believe what you believe

Harry Reid is nothing more but corrupted thug who had involvement with the mobs who has their hands in the casinos

I guess now they want us to believe he was as pure as little boy scout

Yes, it is monumentally stupid to believe outright fabrications just b/c it fits your political narrative.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

So what attacked Harry, was it Jack and Daniels?

 

[Stephanie]

So what attacked Harry, was it Jack and Daniels?

I'm starting to think he and brother got into it. Looks like his bro kicked his ass.

and then a couple weeks later was arrested for DUI

what a upstanding family eh

Harry Reid make my skin crawl

 

[Statistikhengst]

So what attacked Harry, was it Jack and Daniels?

I'm starting to think he and brother got into it. Looks like his bro kicked his ass.

and then a couple weeks later was arrested for DUI

what a upstanding family eh

Harry Reid make my skin crawl

Uh, you do realize that this is EXACTLY what the OP is about, right, ya dumbfuck? That the story about his brother was deliberately fabricated.... to punk idiots on the Right...

...like you.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

So what attacked Harry, was it Jack and Daniels?

I'm starting to think he and brother got into it. Looks like his bro kicked his ass.

and then a couple weeks later was arrested for DUI

what a upstanding family eh

Harry Reid make my skin crawl

Uh, you do realize that this is EXACTLY what the OP is about, right, ya dumbfuck? That the story about his brother was deliberately fabricated.... to punk idiots on the Right...

...like you.

Maybe it was Johnny and Walker?

 

[Statistikhengst]

So what attacked Harry, was it Jack and Daniels?

I'm starting to think he and brother got into it. Looks like his bro kicked his ass.

and then a couple weeks later was arrested for DUI

what a upstanding family eh

Harry Reid make my skin crawl

Uh, you do realize that this is EXACTLY what the OP is about, right, ya dumbfuck? That the story about his brother was deliberately fabricated.... to punk idiots on the Right...

...like you.

Maybe it was Johnny and Walker?

Smooth, or bitter?

 

[Statistikhengst]

So what attacked Harry, was it Jack and Daniels?

I'm starting to think he and brother got into it. Looks like his bro kicked his ass.

and then a couple weeks later was arrested for DUI

what a upstanding family eh

Harry Reid make my skin crawl

OMG OMG frikken frikken razzle-frazzle fickin-chickin kicked his ass aaargh those DEMS are at it agian (*burp* *belch* *drool*) yore deer leeder eh frikken frikken DUI frickin DUI! He make my skni crawwl GAWD!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

So what attacked Harry, was it Jack and Daniels?

I'm starting to think he and brother got into it. Looks like his bro kicked his ass.

and then a couple weeks later was arrested for DUI

what a upstanding family eh

Harry Reid make my skin crawl

Uh, you do realize that this is EXACTLY what the OP is about, right, ya dumbfuck? That the story about his brother was deliberately fabricated.... to punk idiots on the Right...

...like you.

Maybe it was Johnny and Walker?

Smooth, or bitter?

So, who is beating up Harry?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

So what attacked Harry, was it Jack and Daniels?

I'm starting to think he and brother got into it. Looks like his bro kicked his ass.

and then a couple weeks later was arrested for DUI

what a upstanding family eh

Harry Reid make my skin crawl

Uh, you do realize that this is EXACTLY what the OP is about, right, ya dumbfuck? That the story about his brother was deliberately fabricated.... to punk idiots on the Right...

...like you.

Maybe it was Johnny and Walker?

Smooth, or bitter?

Glenmorangie for me

 

[Statistikhengst]

So what attacked Harry, was it Jack and Daniels?

I'm starting to think he and brother got into it. Looks like his bro kicked his ass.

and then a couple weeks later was arrested for DUI

what a upstanding family eh

Harry Reid make my skin crawl

Uh, you do realize that this is EXACTLY what the OP is about, right, ya dumbfuck? That the story about his brother was deliberately fabricated.... to punk idiots on the Right...

...like you.

Maybe it was Johnny and Walker?

Smooth, or bitter?

So, who is beating up Harry?

Mebbe his inner demons, but surely not the Right.

 

[Statistikhengst]

So what attacked Harry, was it Jack and Daniels?

I'm starting to think he and brother got into it. Looks like his bro kicked his ass.

and then a couple weeks later was arrested for DUI

what a upstanding family eh

Harry Reid make my skin crawl

Uh, you do realize that this is EXACTLY what the OP is about, right, ya dumbfuck? That the story about his brother was deliberately fabricated.... to punk idiots on the Right...

...like you.

Maybe it was Johnny and Walker?

Smooth, or bitter?

Glenmorangie for me

Glenfiddich all the way. Real men drink Glenfiddich.

 

[healthmyths]

Reid was a drug mule for the Las Vegas mafia.

Its the Romney taxes standard, the story might be a lie, but it got rid of Reid

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid is refusing to apologize for incendiary claims he made that Mitt Romney hadn’t paid taxes in 10 years.

“I have no repentance, because the issue was important,” Reid said in an interview Tuesday with Fusion’s Jorge Ramos.

Pressed by Ramos about evidence and Romney’s disclosures of taxes that he has paid, Reid was unapologetic and suggested the real issue was that the 2012 GOP presidential nominee did not release his actual tax returns.

“Of course he paid taxes,” Reid said. “What he didn’t do is let us see his tax returns.”

BUT OF COURSE THAT WAS OK!!!

The comments by Reid, who is retiring from the Senate after the 2016 elections, are the latest in his refusal to back down from claims that have been debunked by fact-checkers. His defense during a recent CNN interview: “Romney didn’t win, did he?”

Harry Reid won t apologize for attack on Mitt Romney s taxes OnPolitics

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I'm starting to think he and brother got into it. Looks like his bro kicked his ass.

and then a couple weeks later was arrested for DUI

what a upstanding family eh

Harry Reid make my skin crawl

Uh, you do realize that this is EXACTLY what the OP is about, right, ya dumbfuck? That the story about his brother was deliberately fabricated.... to punk idiots on the Right...

...like you.

Maybe it was Johnny and Walker?

Smooth, or bitter?

So, who is beating up Harry?

Mebbe his inner demons, but surely not the Right.

"... do your demons, do they ever let you go?"

 

[depotoo]

So, you aren't an American citizen?
Second, first I've heard his brother did it.

Reid was a drug mule for the Las Vegas mafia.

Its the Romney taxes standard, the story might be a lie, but it got rid of Reid

Thank you, thank you.

I just won a bet with someone. I told him that you, specifically YOU, would say that.

I am now 40 Euros richer. Thanks!

 

[Statistikhengst]

So, you aren't an American citizen?
Second, first I've heard his brother did it.

Reid was a drug mule for the Las Vegas mafia.

Its the Romney taxes standard, the story might be a lie, but it got rid of Reid

Thank you, thank you.

I just won a bet with someone. I told him that you, specifically YOU, would say that.

I am now 40 Euros richer. Thanks!

Uh, I am indeed a US-American citizen. Why do you ask? Because I mention Euros instead of $$$???

Did it ever occur to you that there are Americans all over the world doing all sorts of cool things?

Think out of box a little, little depot box!!!

Uncle Sam thanks you in advance!