Harry Reid Hates Papa John's Pizza

Note to advertisers: If you're going to interrupt Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) with a promotional BlackBerry e-mail, make sure the message doesn't involve crappy nationwide pizza chains that run ads featuring Cowboys owner Jerry Jones dancing like a Botoxed hyena.

During an interview with The Hill last week, Reid (D-Nev.) stopped mid-sentence to check his BlackBerry for what could have been a very important e-mail...

"Help Us Celebrate Our 25th Anniversary With a $0.25 Pizza!" read the e-mail from Papa John's.

Reid snapped, "Purchase a pizza for a quarter? I don't like pizza, and I especially don't like Papa John's Pizza!"

We can hardly blame Reid for his sentiment. Papa John's makes a lousy product, from its sugar-saturated dough to its repulsive "garlic sauce," which is actually just a tub of room-temperature cholesterol.

But there might be something else that's turning Reid off... namely that "Papa John" himself, Kentucky's John Schnatter, has donated untold thousands to Reid's nemesis, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)!

It looks like this is yet another case of political pay-to-play. (Or, in this particular instance, pay-to-deliver-soggy-sugar-saturated-pizza-to-your-door-30-minutes-late.) Reid is obviously withholding his praise for a pizza mogul who's more sympathetic to his politics.

Well he shouldn't count on Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's. That guy went full-court press for the presidential campaign of Sam Brownback, the Kansas Republican who spends more time thinking about the Rapture and Terri Schiavo than BlackBerry e-mails.

Well maybe that Little Caesar guy is a Democrat...