Undercover Harry: Reid Sports Shades at Presser

Bridget Johnson

February 24, 2015 9:25 AM

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) underwent eye surgery at the end of January and mid-February to repair facial bones damaged in his home-workout accident; today at a press conference, he was sporting a new look.

Reid wasn’t wearing his new shades on the Senate floor, which suggests the lighting from cameras at the press conference to pressure Republicans to pass a clean DHS bill was painful.

Senator Harry Reid wears glasses to treat eye injury, inadvertently goes full #DealWithIt and looks awesome pic.twitter.com/1bC3aS2Es7

— Jake Laperruque (@JakeLaperruque) February 24, 2015

Introducing Harry Reid, the next Blues Brother RT @RebeccaShabad: Reid is wearing sunglasses at DHS presser pic.twitter.com/vyuShcic0a

— Jessica Taylor (@JessicaTaylor) February 24, 2015

Harry Reid conducting DHS presser in sunglasses. Did not wear on floor this morning. pic.twitter.com/BJspJJz2Oa

— Mike DeBonis (@mikedebonis) February 24, 2015

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Bridget Johnson is a veteran journalist whose news articles and analyses have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. Bridget first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News.

Bridget is a Senior Fellow specializing in terrorism analysis at the Haym Salomon Center. She is a Senior Risk Analyst for Gate 15, a homeland security risk management firm in the Beltway. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico, New York Daily News, The Jerusalem Post, The Hill, New York Observer, Washington Times, RealClearWorld and more, and has myriad television and radio credits including Al-Jazeera and SiriusXM. Bridget is Washington Editor for PJ Media.