CBS's Smith Touts Harry Reid's 'Very Sober' Racist Slam of GOP

Rich Noyes | December 11, 2009
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On the December 8, 2009 Early Show, co-host Harry Smith confronted RNC Chairman Michael Steele with Harry Reid's "very sober" accusation that GOP opposition to health care was similar to opposition to ending slavery and enacting civil rights legislation. Steele retorted that "it was not a sober moment....It was an ignorant moment."