CHAIRMAN PRIEBUS: “Do we want to continue down the direction of unemployment above 8% for countless months? This president hasn’t fulfilled the mission hasn’t fulfilled the promises of three or four years ago. Do we want to continue that direction? Heck no. As far as Harry Reid is concerned, listen, you might want to go down that road, I’m not going to respond to a dirty liar, who hasn’t filed a single page of tax returns himself. He complains about money but lives in the Ritz Carlton here, down the street. If this is on the agenda, I’m not going to go there. This is just a made-up issue. The fact that we’re going to spend any time talking about it is just ridiculous.”

STEPHANOPOULOS: “You just called him a dirty liar. Do you stand by that? Do you think Harry Reid is a dirty liar?”

CHAIRMAN PRIEBUS: “I just said it.”

STEPHANOPOULOS: “So, what do you want from him right now?”

CHAIRMAN PRIEBUS:“Listen, this president has a job to do and Harry Reid has a job to do. We have an opportunity in this country to save the very idea of America. To bring back the days of liberty, freedom, the American dream and the fact is, we’re just — we’re not doing well right now as an economy. This president, is the head of this country and he has not fulfilled the mission and he hasn’t lived up to the promises that he made to the people of this country. And it’s hard to believe that the president of 2008, when he campaigned and said that he was going to bring America together, that he would trot out Harry Reid and try to divide this country and spread this division and hatred, it’s ridiculous, wrong and it’s untrue. It’s going to hurt the president…”

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News Coverage

Reince Priebus: Sen. Harry Reid Is A ‘Dirty Liar’ ABC News: “Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus called Sen. Harry Reid a ‘dirty liar’ this morning on ‘This Week’ for accusing presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney of not paying taxes. Reid, the Democratic Senate Majority Leader from Nevada, said in an interview with the Huffington Post last month that, according to a source that called his office, Mitt Romney did not pay taxes for ten years. The accusation was strongly denounced by Romney, who said it was false and that Reid needed to ‘put up or shut up.’” http://abcn.ws/Mm98FM

RNC’s Priebus Calls Reid A ‘Dirty Liar.’ Washington Times: “Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday fired back at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid regarding his accusation that GOP presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney hasn’t paid taxes in years, calling the Nevada Democrat a liar. Mr. Reid, while speaking on the Senate floor last week, said he had an anonymous source that told him Mr. Romney hasn’t pay taxes for ten years. But Mr. Priebus, while appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” called the debate over Mr. Romney’s refusal to make his tax returns public ‘just a made-up issue.’ ‘I’m not going to respond to a dirty liar who hasn’t filed a single page of tax returns himself, complains about people with money but lives in the Ritz Carlton here down the street,’ Mr. Priebus said.” http://bit.ly/NZXkMr

RNC Chairman: Harry Reid A ‘Dirty Liar.’ The Hill: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is a ‘dirty liar’ for accusing Mitt Romney of not paying any income taxes, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said on ABC’s This Week Sunday morning. ‘And as far as Harry Reid is concerned, listen, I know you might want to go down that road, I’m not going to respond to a dirty liar who hasn’t filed a single page of tax returns himself, complains about people with money but lives in the Ritz Carlton here down the street,’ Priebus said when asked about Reid’s claim that a Bain Capital investor had told him Romney hadn’t paid income taxes. ‘So if that’s on the agenda, I’m not going to go there. This is just a made-up issue. And the fact that we’re going to spend any time talking about it is ridiculous.’” http://bit.ly/Mm90Ge

Priebus: Reid A ‘Dirty Liar.’ POLITICO: “Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) a ‘dirty liar’ on Sunday for accusing Mitt Romney of failing to pay income taxes for a decade. ‘As far as Harry Reid is concerned, listen, I know you might want to go down that road, I’m not going to respond to a dirty liar who hasn’t filed a single page of tax returns himself, complains about people with money but lives in the Ritz Carlton here down the street, ” Priebus said Sunday on ABC’s ‘This Week.’ ‘So, if that’s on the agenda, I’m not going to go there.  This is just a made-up issue. And the fact that we’re going to spend any time talking about it is ridiculous.’” http://politi.co/MdtqWG

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus Calls Harry Reid A ‘Dirty Liar.’ USA Today: “Surrogates for President Obama aren’t repudiating Sen. Harry Reid’s unsubstantiated charge that Mitt Romney may not have paid taxes for the past decade, while a backer for Romney called the Senate majority leader a ‘dirty liar.’ Asked on the Sunday talk shows about the Senate Majority leader’s claim that Romney may have not paid taxes for the last decade, Obama surrogates turned the issue back on the Massachusetts governor for refusing to release more than his last two years of tax returns. Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus retorted that Reid is a ‘dirty liar’ in a separate interview on ABC’s ‘This Week’ for accusing Romney of not paying taxes. ‘As far as Harry Reid is concerned…I’m not going to respond to a dirty liar who hasn’t filed a single page of tax returns himself, complains about people with money but lives in the Ritz Carlton here [in Washington, DC] down the street,’ Priebus said.” http://usat.ly/PXWFsH

Priebus Calls Reid a ‘Dirty Liar.’ National Journal: “Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus echoed the new Republican attack on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Sunday, accusing him of being a ‘dirty liar’ for his comments about Mitt Romney’s tax returns. ‘I’m not going to respond to a dirty liar who hasn’t filed a single page of tax returns himself,” he said on ABC’s This Week. Reid has alleged that Romney is refusing to release his tax returns because he hasn’t paid taxes for the past 10 years, an accusation that picked up steam this week as Reid repeated it on the Senate floor on Thursday. But on Sunday, Republicans went on the attack, with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., accusing Reid of being a liar on CNN’s State of the Union, and Priebus following suit.” http://bit.ly/PXWygS

Republicans Hit Harry Reid Hard Over Mitt Romney Tax Charge. Roll Call: “Republicans struck back hard today at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for claiming that he had heard presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney did not pay taxes for a decade. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) did not mince words, saying he did not believe the Nevada Democrat. ‘I think he’s lying,’ Graham said on CNN’s ‘State of the Union.’ Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, went a step further on ABC’s ‘This Week,’ calling Reid a ‘dirty liar.’ ‘I’m not going to respond to a dirty liar who hasn’t filed a single page of tax returns himself,’ Priebus said. ‘[He] complains about people with money but lives in the Ritz-Carlton here down the street.’ In his regular appearance on the ‘This Week’ roundtable, conservative columnist George Will called Reid’s charge ‘McCarthyism.’” http://bit.ly/QtZgiq

Priebus, Graham: Harry Reid ‘Dirty Liar’ for Romney Tax Smear. Newsmax: “Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is lying about Mitt Romney’s tax returns in order to divert the presidential campaign away from real issues. At the end of an interview with Candy Crowley on CNN’s ‘State of the Union,’ Graham unloaded on Reid, saying, ‘I’ve been around this town for awhile—I actually like Harry—but what he did on the floor of the Senate is so out of bounds. I think he’s lying about his statement about knowing something about Romney’s [tax returns]…’ That sentiment was echoed on ABC, where Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus called Reid a ‘dirty liar’ this morning on ‘This Week’ for accusing presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney of not paying taxes.” http://bit.ly/Mm8EzC

Reince Priebus: Harry Reid Is A ‘Dirty Liar.’ Huffington Post: “Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus waded into the Harry Reid-Mitt Romney tax drama on Sunday, calling the Senate majority leader a “dirty liar” for his accusation that Romney didn’t pay any taxes for a decade. ‘As far as Harry Reid is concerned, listen, I know you might want to go down that road. I’m not going to respond to a dirty liar,’ Priebus told ABC’s “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos. ‘If that’s on the agenda, I’m not going go there. This is just a made-up issue.’ ‘You’re saying your’re not going to go down that road?’ Stephanopoulos responded. ‘You just called him a dirty liar. You stand by that — you think Harry Reid is a dirty liar?’ ‘I just said it,’ Priebus said. http://huff.to/Mm8A2R

Republicans Slam Sen. Reid Over Romney Tax Claim. Associated Press: “ Republicans are accusing the Senate’s Democratic leader of lying by passing along an anonymous claim that Mitt Romney hasn’t paid taxes for 10 years. Sen. Harry Reid said last week he had been told that by an investor in Romney’s former firm, Bain Capital. But the Nevada Democrat hasn’t offered any evidence to support the claim and even has said he’s not sure it’s true. GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina tells CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ that he thinks Reid is ‘lying about his statement of knowing something about Romney’ and just ‘making things up’ to divert the campaign from ‘the real issues.’ Republican Party chairman Reince Priebus tells ABC’s ‘This Week’ that Reid is ‘a dirty liar.’” http://bit.ly/Mqx6pj

Republican Chairman: Harry Reid Is A ‘Dirty Liar’ About Mitt Romney’s Taxes. Business Insider: “Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus angrily responded to a week full of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s accusations about Mitt Romney’s tax returns, calling Reid a ‘dirty liar’ on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. This past week, Reid told The Huffington Post that a Bain Capital investor had told him that Romney had not paid taxes for 10 years. He repeated that claim many times throughout the week, responding at one point to Romney beckoning him to ‘put up or shut up.’” http://read.bi/N7iIR4

RNC Chair Calls Harry Reid A “Dirty Liar.” BuzzFeed: “After Reid charges that Mitt Romney didn’t pay taxes for 10 years, Reince Priebus fights back. Coincidence? Clint Eastwood just endorsed Romney.” http://bit.ly/Ncx0OB