That’s One Way of Putting It

On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said this about Republican attempts to delay a health care vote.

When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said ‘slow down, it’s too early, things aren’t bad enough.

Today, the Republican National Committee sent out an email memo on its health care polling, and RNC Chairman Michael Steele spun Reid’s comments like this:

On the say anything front — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made it clear this week that any American who opposes Trillion dollar legislation that raises taxes, cuts Medicare, and increases your health care premiums – is a racist.

That’s quite an interpretation of Reid’s remark.