Reid: Outrage over Thompson Tweet
On Wednesday, former Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee tweeted, “Jobless men = domestic abuse. Is he saying we should be worried about Mrs. Reid after the November elections?”
That was more than Sen. Harry Reid could tolerate — see full account below:
Reid spokesman: Thompson wife-beating Tweet “despicable”
Harry Reid’s spokesman isn’t laughing at Fred Thompson’s Wednesday tweet  musing whether the majority leader would beat his wife if he loses reelection in November  calling the comment “despicable” and invoking Reid’s own violence-plagued childhood.
“While Fred Thompson may think he was being funny, it is unfortunate and disappointing that so many on the right would make light of domestic abuse,” Jim Manley wrote me in an e-mail. “As someone who witnessed it firsthand as a child, Sen. Reid does not find the issue funny.”
Early Wednesday, the former Tennessee senator  who served with Reid from 1994 to 2003  responded to Reid’s awkward Senate floor discussion of unemployment and domestic abuse with a glib tweet:
“fredthompson Reid: Jobless men = domestic abuse. Is he saying we should be worried about Mrs. Reid after the November elections?”
That hit a sour note with Manley, who recalled the description of the leader’s hardscrabble childhood on the outskirts of Las Vegas in the 1940s, where a young Reid had to cope with a pair of hard-drinking parents and a father who beat his mother until Reid was 14. The beatings stopped when Reid and his brother pinned their father down and demanded he stop.
Reid was roundly ridiculed for bringing up the issue, seemingly out of the blue, during a Feb. 24 speech on the jobs bill.
“I had met with some people while I was home dealing with domestic abuse,” he said. “It has gotten out of hand. Why? Men don’t have jobs. Women don’t have jobs, either, but women aren’t abusive, most of the time. Men, when they’re out of work, tend to become abusive.”
Source: http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0210/Reid_spokesman_Thompson_wifebeating_Tweet_despicable.html
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Apparently Sen.Reid’s spokesman, Jim Manley, and Reid himself, don’t understand a basic principle of law. Just because one member of a class is violent, doesn’t mean that ALL members of that class are. However, this is a common occurence among the domestic violence/feminist ideologues. They want to punish ALL men for what their father did. In their zeal to demonize all men, they ignore the overwhelming weight of evidence that women are abusive in equal numbers. A U.S. Senator is supposed to represent ALL his constituents fairly and equally, not grant special dispensations to his preferred minority. Perhaps Reid should step down….after he apologizes to the men of America.