Reid Was Source for His Own Comment

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was the source of the anecdote that is giving him so much trouble—that he said Barack Obama was a “light-skinned” black man “with no Negro dialect.” So does he have only himself to blame? Not necessarily—while, of course, no one put those words in his mouth, the authors of the book that contains them, Game Change, may have betrayed his trust. According to the book, “all our interviews” were conducted on a “deep background basis.” So it’s possible that Reid spoke the words believing that they would never wind up in print. Mike Allen at Politico notes Reid feels “burned” by the authors.