CNN posts Penn Jillette's accusatory Obama Vegas OP-ED without screaming "LINK???"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

He would NEVER get away with that shit here...N-E-V-E-R.

:rofl:

If it HAPPENED, provide the details. If it DIDN'T, STFU, you fucking blowhard.

"...There's no way to really know if many people really canceled..."

THEN STFU, m'kay? "...if many..." Or ANY?

:grr:

Obama's 'stupid' jab at Vegas
By Penn Jillette, Special to CNN
February 8, 2010 7:37 a.m. EST

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/02/08/jillette.obama.vegas/index.html?hpt=T2



I know Obama doesn't really hate Vegas. I bet he'd have a blast here, if he were still welcome. Obama's good-natured symbolic joke was an applause line. People knew what he meant and agreed. Yeah, don't waste money on Vegas, send the children to college!

The last time Obama made a negative comment about Vegas, some jumpy, patriotic, image-conscious corporations canceled some trips here. That's what we figure here in Vegas. There's no way to really know if many people really canceled.

Do people really go to the president for travel advice? But in Vegas, most of us make our money from tourism or serving others who make their money from tourism.

Tourism is what we really, really do in the Silver State. It's not like Obama is giving the Mojave subsidies for not growing soybeans. It's too easy to not grow soybeans in the stinking desert; we do it for free. Not farming is one of our vegan gifts to the rest of the country.


We don't know how much, but when the president of the United States of America makes his jokes about Vegas -- he costs real people real money.

[Enrique]

1. if Obama kept some tourist from paying to see Penn's show

then good for Obama. :thumbsup:

[Gold Metal Flake]

2. Vegas costs real people real money.

Same goes for Tobacco Town and Hookedonboozeville.

Vegas depends on addicted gamblers. Take them away and leave the conventions and the families on the occasional vacation and I wonder what the Vegas economy would look like.

[harkadog]

4. The food industry depends on fat addicts too

Should we shut them down? What do you do for a living , if anything? Someone will find fault in it.

[Gold Metal Flake]

7. Ooh. Quite the comeback.

No one said anything about "shut them down". Not me and certainly not Obama. But, hey, it's Monday. Get down with your baddass poutrage!

[harkadog]

10. No you didn't say shut them down

Just smeared a legal form of entertainment that employs real people making real money.

[Gold Metal Flake]

11. A legal form of entertainment that depends on adicts to survive.

Sorry the truth is so offensive to you. Deal with that someplace else.

[joeybee12]

12. Yup, addicts go to all the restaurants and shows here...

...nice try...no, a pathetic try I'd say.

[Gold Metal Flake]

17. I'll refer you back to post #2.

You are playing the absolutist game, not I.

[harkadog]

13. I will deal with it here

I guess Obama is dependent on those addicts too. http://www.lvrj.com/news/12785077.html

[Gold Metal Flake]

16. Sure. A lot of people depend on fleecing adicts.

Same with the tobacco industry.

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[Swede]

5. Gambling is an addiction.

Vegas is literally a shining example of this.

[Gold Metal Flake]

9. Gambling is not necessarily an addition.

But people can (and many do) become addicted to gambling and Vegas is and always has been designed to take advantage of that.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Actually, I think addition is required when gambling. Or more importantly, subtraction, so you know

much you've taken out of your checking account. Wouldn't do to overdraw. LOL

[TlalocW]

6. If I were Penn, I wouldn't worry

When the president made that remark, I'm sure enough Teabaggers and employees of Fox News immediately made reservations for Vegas to "defy" the president that it made up for any of the phantom cancellations Penn is talking about.

TlalocW

[ThomWV]

8. He wasn't besmirching Vegas Tourism, he was saying that people who gamble are fools

Where's the news in that?

[mulsh]

14. It's called "gaming" not gambling, especially in Las Vegas

There hasn't been much gambling in places like Las Vegas since the big corporations muscled the mob out. Oh Penn Jillete is a gas-bag and a douche-bag, he's good at multi tasking.