Harry Reid’s attack on Mitt Romney claiming that “for the past ten years, Romney paid no taxes” has gotten a negative reaction from practically everyone in the media who isn’t already a partisan Democrat. Even liberal comedian Jon Stewart blasted Reid as “really, really terrible” on his show last night, and pretended to invoke the ghost of George Romney to call Reid a “two-bit, trash-talking sonofa–” before cutting himself off.

And now that Reid has repeated the charge from the Senate floor, a panel on Megyn Kelly’s “America Live” has fired back with an even more cutting response. Specifically, former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen described Reid’s attack as a thoroughly disingenuous piece of rhetorical sleight-of-hand and to prove his point, jokingly made a similar charge against Reid:

In response to Reid taking to the Senate floor to declare that “the word is out” that Romney avoided taxation for ten years, Thiessen quipped: “The word is out that for the past ten years Harry Reid has been beating his wife. Do I know that? Do I have any proof? No. But the burden of proof is on him to prove that he hasn’t been beating his wife.”

“That’s essentially what Harry Reid just did to Mitt Romney,” Thiessen said.