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  • I know were those cowboy poets like to stick there penis in

  • The tens of thousands of people wouldn't exist?

    I'm sure those imaginary people are Obama voters.

  • another liberal douchebag who fucked up america. resign now, a-hole

  • Important bidness alright... :D!

  • wow.........good job Nevada ............and good job san Francisco for nancy peloci the tumors of america

  • OMG They wouldn't exist?!

  • Too bad he stole his election.

  • I once knew a man from Brokeback

    He and my friend went bare back

    He caught a disease,

    Now he bleeds when he pees

    And he’s growing some warts on his nut sack

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  • @TheDanbristol Really, my home town hosts the festival he's talking about and its a big boost to the local economy every year. Better that the money stays in some millionaires bank account so he can buy his wife and his mistress a mink for Christmas?

  • What amuses me is that the people who gather at the poetry festival are staunch Republicans. I wonder what they think now that the very politicians they root for now turn around and make fun of them in public.

  • Thank God for that Cowboy Poetry Festival, or else the world would be short 10,000 people. He's on something...

  • @TPartyJD lol, I thought the same thing

  • When reid talks about the people who don't "EXIST" in relation to govt funding, it would make a lot more sense if he was talking about the dumpster behind planned parenthood.

  • political correctness stops a lot of people from saying this but our politicians are really turning into criminals. they just talk nonsence and steal from all of us. the more outrageous they can be the better..the moron liberals believe ..nancy pelosi sez the best way to stimulate the economy is to pay out unemployment...i hope they both have a massive brain bleed....hows that for pc??

  • HEY ASSHOLE. we don't want our hard earned money going to COWBOY POETRY!! THERE IS A REASON IT DOES NOT FUND ITSELF!!

  • anyone else want to shot themselves when they hear this man drone on and one about nothing?

    and is it any wonder we can't pass a budget when Mr. Cowboy Poetry is one of the chief negotiators?  and under him the senate has not passed a budget in almost 2 years…

  • Did he really say that they would cease to exist if the funding stopped?

  • @ImprovmanZero yes and it is true Government funding is people. for instance if you cut the department of education's funding then teachers will disappear or possibly explode.

    14 trillion in debt will eventually create about 14 trillion people, who will pay taxes and help balance the budget.

  • Give this Bastard the HOOK please!

  • If this Cowboy poetry thing draws tens of thousands of people, why does it need any funding? if its that popular

    people will buy tickets to see it, and it can sustain itself. if people are dumb enough to pay to hear a 2 bit actor like Charlie Sheen ramble on about nothing on stage, then I am sure they will have no problem selling Cowboy poetry reading tickets.

  • @federalwarhawk Because they are paid to be there.

  • A majority of Nevada voters are truly challenged

  • I'm confused... would the people actually vanish or is cowboy poetry an afrodisiac? Need Clarification.

  • @KendrickJ2 yes they will vanish and Las Vegas will send CSI to investigate, it would be a national travesty if we lose all your poetic cowboys in such a manner. I support any size debt even if it leads to the insolvency of the entire nation if it saves the cowboys.

    Fight Reid Fight for the Cowboys YeHa!

  • This should be a new slogan for Democratic party because the Cowboy Poetry Festival is the only group in america that benefits from their compassionate programs and regulations

  • Proof that our whole government is brain dead from years of pot use.

  • I was really angry today. My buddy recommended that I watch this video. And now I am blinded by rage.... I wish I had never seen this clip.

  • Ok, Harry Reid is an idiot...but, if you hear is whole arguement he is talking about cutting the funding of the NEA which is 126 million total...it's samll potatoes. This Poetry festicval get a 2500 grant from the NEA and it DOES bring in thousands of tourists and employment to the area...so its actually a good investment....if you want to compare wasteful spending...NEA gets 126m while the fail experiment called No Child Left behind get 24 BILLION...I think we could bark up some differnt trees.

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  • @connerpeyton The "Cowboy Poetry Festival" doesn't need taxpayer dollars to do what it does. That's why Reid's attempt at compassion is so ridiculous.

  • NO! Not Cowboy Poetry! Oh the humanity of actually cutting something that 80% of the country doesn't give a shit about!!!!!!! >:I

  • @nureallycool

    99.8%*

  • @BetterCallSaulBWC I stand corrected :D

  • This is the most important program that absolutely cannot be cut? Reid is playing to his base, just as he did with the Dream Act. Our budget deficit this year is $1,650,000,000,000. That's a huge number. It's going to take the elimination of many, many Cowboy Poetry Festivals to bring down this deficit. We are not " liberal Democrats who can't stay & fight, can't deal with logic, can't stop spending taxpayer money, & can't stop themselves from becoming more socialist each year. We are taxpayers

  • This guy is such a JOKE! Nevada, you get what you deserve! The rest of the country is looking at you and laughing!!!

  • proof that the majority of Nevada's voters are challenged mentally

  • Can anyone say recall?

  • I'm from northern Nevada, and I didn't vote for this moron, in fact this is flat out embarassing. To unsderstand how he won this election, simply look at the census data for Nevada and you will see that over the last ten years the state's population has grown by 700,00 people, or one third.Nearly half of that growth was Latino,most of the rest came from CALIFORNIA! While Angle had the right message, she basically hid from the press.Cowards don't win elections, stand for something or step aside

  • Actually the people would exist.

  • So funny! Without cowboy poetry tens of thousands of people "wouldn't exist"?! Hilarious.

  • cowboy poetry festival needs funding today please send me you SS#, credit card numbers (with 3 digit security key) along with you license number. i also take cash donations but you have to send at least 10000 dollars. Please help fund the cowboy poetry festival. tens of thousands of lives are on the line.

  • I'm from Texas....and yes....A Cowboy Poetry Festival sounds like something you would need alot of lube for...

    Alot of people wouldn't exist? Do humans spawn through poetry? Would Vogon poetry create horrible birth defects?

  • "With out this program tens of thopusands of people would not exist". Republican spending cuts would kill tens of thousands?

  • Yippe Yo Ki Yaa muther fuck!

  • thats a lie im from Northern Nevada(Elko) and the reason people "exist" there are because of the mines. oh and the cowboy poetry is really gay... just thought I'D let you know before going

  • They QUEER COWBOYS and their POETRY can exist on donations NOT THE TAXPAYER!

  • I have finally figured out why liberal democrats want entitlement programs, it’s because all of them are mentally handicapped and are not intelligent enough to think for themselves. They can’t survive in the free market system!

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  • @TheFoxFollower

    Entitlement programs are called that because they are earned. They are earned by paying your earned money into them. Social Security and Medicare are only two of the entitlement programs. I have paid into these programs for almost thirty years. This is why I will have an income when I am old and why I will have some medical coverage when I am old. Once you pay into something and have earned your return on your investment is what free market is all about.

  • but people, the ten of thousands of people would simply cease to exist if we stop funding the cowboy poetry festival. That's what ole harry says. I would not be able to stand up there and say that without laughing out loud and how humiliating it must be to say such a farce of a comment. I love poetry. I dig cowboys. But, I don't wanna fund them Does government fund Sturgess or Daytona bike runs every year? Let them fund their own activities. I am humiliated for our gov officials.

  • A taxpayer sat on a big steer, drinking a beer and along came harry to poke'em both in the rear. Nevada hunter who voted for Harry once proclaimed "Why Taxidermy when you can Tax-a-dummy?"

  • @Fockersnextdoor

    lmfao

  • This country is so bass ackwards when cutting cowboy poetry festival is a concern. And btw, cowboys don't do poetry. You're either a cowboy or a poet. Can't be both unless you're a pussy.

  • There once was a Cowboy named Reid

    The South end of a North bound Steed

    He came from Nevada

    Where they can’t rhyme for nada

    Unless spending our money with greed!

  • @guitman58

    BRAVO! Send that man some of our hard-earned money!

  • @guitman58 FYI, this festival began in 1985 with 2 small seed grants from the N.E.A and has since grown into an event that strongly boosts the local economy every Jan. The $45,000 it may lose from the N.E.A now only accounts for 3% of the festivals budget and it would surely survive without it But may never have been possible without the initial seed grants fom the N.E.A. Funny how a little money can go a long way in preserving American culture and boosting local economies in the long run.

  • @theEdinero How do you know they wouldn't have found money elsewhere in the beginning?

  • @sonnybrown Who know's. What I do know is the fact that those seed grants from the N.E.A went a long way in boosting the local economy. Those are the facts. The funny thing is Elko county is so heavily Republican, President Obama has been there six times trying to get votes in a battle ground state. All these Republicans basically trashed the concept of something that's popular and lucrative there locally: Niiice work.;). I think president Obama had a chuckle at the brilliance of that.

  • @theEdinero Well the funding "going a long way" I think had more to do with the folks running things then the government money. I think they would have done just fine without it tbh. But you're right, who knows. What popular and lucrative concept did they trash btw?

  • @sonnybrown IDK; Sarah Palin calling cowboy poetry "a bunch of rodeo clowns' was one that I heard, among others. See how well that goes over next time , or if she ever campaigns there again. People want to hear facts when you're defending a stance, then you state facts, and they find a way to spin it "cowboy poetry, really", "those people wouldn't exist, really" When the fact and the point is that Reid was defending the N.E.A funding and giving an example of how it's worked in his own state.

  • @theEdinero LOL THEY GOVERNMENT KAN FIX PROBLEMZ REEL GOOD MANG!~!11

  • @hotfudgemoney Word?!

  • If they won't cut faggot cowboy gatherings they won't cut anything. Keep voting Democrat if you want to be a Chinese slave.

  • I get it! Is he reading his own poetry? Because that hit the core of my cowboy soul!

  • This guy is frightening.

  • This is taking his quote out of context. The proper context is years of brainwashing "education"/indoctrination at school and university, to ensure that narcissistic emotionalism and worship of The State triumphs over common sense and reality. Then it makes perfect sense...... but only in context. Off to reeducation you go...

  • 'Tens of thousands of people WOULD NOT EXIST!?!?'

    OMG! That is bad... hurry give him his cowboy money!

  • What an assclown.

  • @CousinSkinny

    Dear, you hit the nail on the head!

  • They will not exist? If they love poetry so much then why cant they charge an admission fee and set up vendor booths? Ohhhhh i know its becuase harry reid has his hand in my pocket and he loves spending other peoples money on this kind of garbage.

    How much does it cost in tax dollars to run this event? $100k? Oh my god we cant cut $100k becuase cowboys will not know how to write poetry anymore and all those people will vanish off the face of the earth.

    Get real you dipshit.

  • lmao Is the Cowboy poetry fest one big sex fest?? "The tens of thousands of people that 'come' there every year wouldn't exist"

  • He is actually serious. In my opinion he has been pot smoking for years, a recreational drug addict is the only kind of person who honestly believes the world is a better place because of the cowboy poetry Festivals.

  • Hey, have we thanked you lately, Nevada, for letting this clown into office?

    WHIOOPS! Sorry! I meant to say, thanks to his son, for arranging with his union thugs, to rig the voting machines to vote for Dingy!!

    Good Lord, please someone put this man out to pasture!!!

  • This is Harry (whore house) Reid just getting desperate. Why can't a private group run this cowboy poetry?Charge an admission fee to see it? If these are real cowboys they'd be thinking of how to make this work for them instead of asking for a government hand out. They have no right to my money unless I want to pay to hear cowboy poetry.

  • I'd bet that all those who have lost their real jobs doesn't think Reid's Cowboy Poetry taxpayer spending spree should be on our countries priorities list. A list of our politicians strupid spending sprees should be on the air on every station 24/7. That is only wishful thinking. Maybe those who are still supporting the crooks will find out what crap they are wasting our tax dollars on. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad for those who could use that money to provide perminent real jobs.

  • Harry ate some peyote...

  • HOW IN THE F#$K DID THIS TURD GET ELECTED.

  • @mike1111qq

    Unions.

    He scratches their back and they scratch his.

    And we get to foot the bill.

    I think perhaps Cowboy Poetry Festival is code for gay hoedown.

  • @mike1111qq ask the morons who live in Nevada... but then again... people here in AZ elected another dumbass... only a little better than this one. I swear people just don't think for themselves anymore.

  • If Obama's budget is slashed with a meat-ax, they can have their subsidized Cowboy Poet Festival. "Oh, give me a home where the big spenders roam and the subsidies are not cloudy all day." Why am I thinking of the Blazing Saddles farting scene? Mel Brooks, where are you?!

  • .HA HA HA HA HAY HARRY .... in navada theres very little grass and most cowboys think harry is a dumb ass but to the cowboys paying the toll old harry is still just the ass hole. see harry it can be done for free.

  • is he still high on that sh!t or in one of the cat houses

  • So for every small business owner working 18 hour days and throwing up in the bushes when he realizes he can make payroll or pay taxes, but not both, and THAT'S the first indication his dreams will die... well it was all worth it because somebody enjoyed a Cowboy Poetry Festival.

    Been there.

  • Jesse Jackson Jr. wants to pass an amendment so every kid can have an ipod. You can't make this stuff up!! LoL

  • What is the festival called, the Brokeback Mountain Poetry Festival? Maybe that's why Harry Reid likes it so much. Or should I say Fairy Reid?

  • OMG !! ..Yet another national tragedy for the liberals ! I think Harry should volunteer to hold The Cowboy Poetry Festival at his ranch/ home, and use some of his OWN pocket money for a change !! Stop your whining and share the wealth, Harry !

  • Brokeback Harry ?

  • Harry Booey

    Harry Kurkleberger

    Harry Boobleback

    Harry Fiffleberger

    Harry Hackleberger. Everyone? Any more names to describe our friend Harry?

  • Just think how many jobs would be created if we build a rocket big enough for Harry Reid and everyone involved in the cowboy poetry festival and then launch it at the Sun.

  • Cowboy Poetry Festival? Why do we as federal tax payers have to fund that? WHY? If it's so great, Reid, have Nevada to fund it.

  • LMFAO!! only libturds can think this crazy shit up!!! LOL better then the Comedy Channel without a doubt. Nevada deserves this lunatic.

  • I can go to Luckenbach Tx and hear cowboys sing and share their insights anytime for free! Of course with the exceptions of concerts and festivals that we happily pay for!

  • I can go to Luckenbach Tx and hear cowboys sing and share their insights anytime for free!

  • Can't poetic cowboys pay for their own festival??

  • @somedudeinva :NO, like most of liberal americans today, they think they are "ENTITLED" to have it.

  • My brother and nephew just got laid off. Losing a cowboy poetry is the least of our worries. Besides, real cowboys don't depend of government!

  • The Reid comment begs to be followed with the Jim Demint response. And only on Fox did I get both in sequence last evening.

  • This is the most important program that absolutely cannot be cut? Reid is playing to his base, just as he did with the Dream Act. Our budget deficit this year is $1,650,000,000,000. That's a huge number. It's going to take the elimination of many, many Cowboy Poetry Festivals to bring down this deficit. We are not " liberal Democrats who can't stay & fight, can't deal with logic, can't stop spending taxpayer money, & can't stop themselves from becoming more socialist each year. We are taxpayers

  • nice work Nevada. keep on electing him. his priorities are obviously in the right place.

  • You know if they Cowboy Poetry would make money for Nevada if it was not funded by tax dollars otherwise its not worth having.

  • Reid is just pathetic!

  • What an absolute doofus. I can't believe Nevadans inflicted this moron on the U.S. after his last term. Please harry, crawl back under your rock and STFU!

  • I'm an artist who DOESN'T want your help, Reid. Don't try to run a ridiculous, enormous budget through on my behalf.

  • I think good ole Reed is remembering his brikeback moments.

  • I'll bet Barney Franks loves the Cowboy Poetry Festival!

  • @Goklayeh...old bawny fwanks is haiwees bestest fwend he inwhites haiwee owver to his boy fwends appatment aww da time.

  • Is this the best that the Democrat leadership can come up with? I am guessing 'yes.'

  • Now where am i gonna go to see gay cowboys eating pudding?

  • @DietLite1986 San Francisco?

  • I know one thing don't ever get between a cowboy and his poetry. Got to love what the Federal Government spends you money on.

  • Harry Reid is an old fool, just like Nancy Pelosi. If Harry wants the Cowboy Poetry Festival to continue, then why don't that old rich bastard donate to it so the tax payer don't have too.. Now we know why this country is broke!!

  • Harry Reid in the Senate talking about his Cowboy poets, just incredible. Reid is a doddering, senile old fool. In the midst of a major financial crisis, he is worried about a cowboy poet festival and thinks that tens of thousands of people will cease to exist if it is cancelled. He need to retire to the home for senility. I am serious. It shows just how stupid the people are who vote them in.

  • Harry Reid’s comments show how out-of-touch Senate Democrats are with the priorities of the American People. Reid called the 61 billion dollars in savings in the house bill "reckless" and "irresponsible". Liberals in Washington have a fundamental disconnect with the majority of the country that know we got to make hard choices now. Is Harry Reid the best person to represent the people of Nevada?

  • What an idiot!

  • If it brings in that many people, it doesn't need a government subsidy.

  • harry, go take it easy. Don't worry. The people that vote for you, will always vote for you. Just relax and don't waste precious air time with your nonsense. Don't worry. We'll let you know when the next election is so you can get elected again.

  • Harry owes his soul to SEIU so he'll do whatever it takes that the country keeps spending while the country burns down.

  • He said people wouldn't exist! Is this a Saturday night live skit! You can't make this shit up! While we burn, Dingey Harry worries about the Cowboy poetry. Never even herd of it!!

  • All politicians are puppets to a higher athority.Hard to believe that americans still think that there is a difference between the democrats and the republicans.

  • How come I have this uncontrollable urge to beat the living piss out of Harry Reid? Gee I wonder

  • Saw a statistic the other day 89% of the homes in Nevada have no equity in them think about that 89%!!!!!!! Please people of Nevada do your patriotic duty and get rid of this guy This is right up there with Nancy Pelosi's we have to pass it so we can find out whats in it as possibly the dumbest thing ever said these guys bare a gaff a minute if it wasn't so sad it would be funny

  • Yah! Won re-election! There are some DAMN DUMB people in Nevada!!!

  • Harry, you idiot! I'm am damn sure those people would still exist EVEN without your Cowboy Poetry Festival!!

    Remember, ole Harry is one of the "Best of the Best" on THAT SIDE of the isle! Is it any wonder this country is hurting!!??

  • wait a minute, those people wouldn't EXIST? they would not be on this earth if it were not for the Cowboy Poetry Festival? Well, hush my Brokeback Mountain......

  • Hard to believe he won re-election. Oh wait we are dealing with liberal voters....never mind.

  • @quickboat22

    And union voters.

  • Cowboys recite poetry?

  • If the cowboy poetry festival isn't strong enough to survive without taxpayer dollars then to hell with it

  • did he just threaten to remove those people from the timestream ?

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  • Harry Reid lost all his marbles a long time ago. Time to take him out to the glue factory and put him down like old yellar.

  • Did he just say that tens of thousands of people would not exist if it weren't for cowboy poetry in northern Nevada?

    I find that claim to be dubious.

  • The sad thing about this video is that no one will ever see it on MSLSD, The Communist News Network, or the other state run media ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS. Katie Couric will be to busy reporting on something Palin said in 2007, Brian Williams will be jerkin' his nub to Obama, Chris Matthews will be slobbering and spitting all over the screen and Ed Shultz will be too busy stuffing his basketball sized head. We are fucked because the MSM won't do its job!!

  • This douche Reid should be considered an enemy of the state. We need to begin holding treason trials for these inept and obtuse politicians whose only purpose is spending money to remain in office. Maybe we need to vote out all Democrats and Republicans and put trained Chimpanzee's in the House and Senate. They'd probably be more realistic and responsible than the fucking clowns representing us now.

  • I like poetry, and I really like cowboys, but it's time for Harry to SHUT UP. LoL

  • Is he talking about broke back mountain? Fuck this guy.

  • The tens of thousands of people "would not exist." Ok, I'm sure they'd be disappointed their festival is canceled, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't just disappear...

  • harry reid is an idiot... like pelosi and her infamous "gotta pass it to know what's in it" statement....

  • umm, can't cowboys make poetry without tax money? "look at that Texas moon, see how it shines, look at that Nevada dim, hear how he whines" See I did that completely free of charge....

  • Harping Harry is wiser than us all. Even though I can't afford gas and meat, it's important to give more tax money to him so he can find things to spend it on... like desert festivals.

  • If that had come out of Sarah Palins mouth , every MSNBC anchor would have led with it tonight.

  • I wonder if he still plays cowboys and Indians? Harry, you're such a pathetic douche bag.

  • @juniemoon careful, you mean cowpersons and the native/indigenous/aboriginal americans, where they smoke peace pipes and have brokeback sex for hours and hours.....

  • I am going to see what NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC has to say about this...

    Wait a minute.. what am I thinking.. they are still on Charlie Sheen..lol

    Did Charlie Sheen give Harry Reid some of his Tiger Blood?

  • im from nevada and im ashamed of all the people here that voted for this guy hes a fucking idiot

  • WHAT A FREAKING MORON... WHAT ARE PEOPLE IN VEGAS THINKING??????

    Is this guy on drugs.. we are broke and he wants to spend money on "Cowboy Poetry"??? You can be serious...

    Perhaps it is Senility...

  • I can live without cowboy poetry, but they better not touch lumberjack ballet

  • @occamselectricrazor ROFLMAO!!! dude, very monty python of you (salute)

  • It is time to make cuts.. Harry Reid.. sit down and be quiet

  • In all fairness this short clip could be taken out of context. NO wait there is NO way to put this INTO context.

  • @sinnersaved2008 Nah I actually saw the full clip on the news, and then what another senator had said in response to his silliness... Its very sad.

  • The media (the usual suspects, you know who they are) will hide this and no one will see this through them. Book it.

  • We are in huge trouble as a country with this idiot leading the Senate.  Unbelievable.

  • @ the comments here about feeling like having a stroke after watching this...

    It looks like Harry already had one.

  • The poeple of Nevada should be ashamed for re-elect this out of touch with reality clown!

  • Did he just say that tens of thousands of people would not exist if not for a Cowboy Poetry Festival?

    How can a Senator say that with a straight face? This flub is so ridiculous... you can't make this stuff up.

    The problem is, there appears to be enough brain dead democrats in Nevada to keep re-electing this clown that probably believe this rubbish.

  • People are out of work, forced out of their homes by foreclosure and can't feed & clothe their children, but at least we have the Cowboy Poetry Festival.

  • May God help us. This is our highest ranking Senator? This is one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen. Agree with another comment..... I feel like I am having a stroke.... from unbelief.

  • Waiting too see if NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, NY Times, Washington Post, The View discuss this in the "I can't believe I heard it" segment. I won't hold my breath. Hard to believe this is a person that actually has a vote in the direction this country goes.

    God help us

  • @jessg517 It was only shown on Fox, and will only been seen on Fox.. When I watched the whole thing it made me just shake my head. I laughed when the other senator responded to him about how he loves poetry and cowboys just as much as the next guy haha.

  • BLINDED

  • So tell me... Why was he re-elected? Oh that's right the huge amounts of money given to him by the union bosses, combined with idiots who voted for him.

  • @inkmage80 you mean combined with the *ILLEGALS* who voted for him...twice...or three times

  • Heaven help us.