Politico’s Ben Smith hears Sen. Harry Reid is holding a rally with Dana White, president of Ultimate Fighting Championship, and writes:

It is, my smart colleague notes, “odd for Reid to be embracing UFC champion Chuck Liddell—a champ of a real and amazingly violent sport–while the DSCC is pounding Linda McMahon for her connex to a fake violent sport.” . . .
UPDATE: WWE critic Irv Muchnick has an answer: UFC hasn’t seen any fighters die.