Here's the exchange:
"During a Senate press conference today, CNN's Dana Bash asked Reid if he would support a bill that would reinstate funding to the National Institutes of Health, including a program providing access to clinical trials for children with cancer.
In response, Reid decried the idea that legislators can "pick and choose" which parts of the government should be funded, reiterating his desire for legislation to fully fund the federal government without strings attached.
After that Bash asked, "if you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do it?"
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) responded to her question by asking "why pit one against the other?" and Reid chimed in, "why would we want to do that? I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force base that are sitting home. They have a few problems of their own."
In the conservative Free Beacon's write up of the exchange, Schumer's question has not been included, leaving the false impression that Reid is responding to Bash's question about helping a child with cancer. House Speaker John Boehner's website has provided a similarly false transcript of the exchange, including only Bash's question and Reid replying, "Why would we do that?"
Several media conservatives have repeated the Beacon's false version of events.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/02/conservatives-made-it-up-harry-reid-didnt-dismi/196234
Reid is a despicable hyper partisan ass clown of the highest order. Anyone who agrees with him or cheers his moronic rhetoric are nothing more than low lifes.