So who is this guy, in the messy crazy person’s office, keeping large ancient vases within reach of his laboriously carved Oaken Throne. Well he’s the mayor of Las Vegas, that’s who. Mayor Goodman. Mayor Goodman, along with Harry Reid, along with other Nevadan legislators, along with Republicans aiming to score points, is furious that Barack Obama said this at yesterday’s Dick Swett town hall: “When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college.” Why was he being so racist and Making Fun of Trig about Las Vegas?
Last year Obama made similar comparisons, but with little ruckus. This time around lawmakers were peeved and showed it. Several Republicans were quick to score some predictable points. But even fellow Democrat, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, jumped on the bandwagon. “The President needs to lay off Las Vegas and stop making it the poster child for where people shouldn’t be spending their money,” Reid told local Channel 8, a CBS affiliate. “Las Vegas is suffering through one of the highest unemployment rates in the country and we cannot afford for the president to bring us down any further.”
Harry Reid is grasping for anything in his re-election campaign so whatever. Local officials are just doing their jobs defending their city whenever they get the chance, because it’s absolutely one of the worst-affected economies of the Great DepRecession, so whatever. (Still, this is what happens to gambling economies during recessions! Sorry!)
But we truly would love to hear what the national Republicans were saying in their stupid stupid stupid political point bullshit of the hour. Remember their ONE SINGLE TALKING POINT EVER during the stimulus debate last year? About something that actually would have tangibly helped the Las Vegas economy?
It is the Republican talking point that won’t die, even though it has little if any basis in reality: what they claim is an earmark in the federal stimulus package for a high-speed train from Disneyland to Las Vegas.
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Oh, and the money was requested by the White House, not by Mr. Reid, people close to the negotiations said.
But that has not prevented Republicans from hammering away at the project for days. Some have even called it a “Sin Express.”
But who wants to google for individual Republican leadership names regarding yesterday’s comment? No one. Let’s just assume “John McCain” and criticize him for hypocrisy, because why not.
Anyway, Obama was forced to be gay for Harry Reid, in a letter:
Dear Harry:
I hope you know that during my Town Hall today, I wasn’t saying anything negative about Las Vegas. I was making the simple point that families use vacation dollars, not college tuition money, to have fun. There is no place better to have fun than Vegas, one of our country’s great destinations. I have always enjoyed my visits, look forward to visiting in a few weeks, and hope folks will visit in record numbers this year.
Sincerely,
Barack Obama
Summary: there’s seriously a controversy right now about the president trashing the good name of Las Vegas, Nevada, in a single independent clause.
President Obama (kind of) apologizes for Las Vegas remark [Dscriber]
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Hopey FAILS. What are we doing when we gamble our mortgage payment, other than hoping we leave with mortgage + utilities? Hope hope hope hope. It is the essence of gambling.
That guy sits on a throne? And what’s with the severed head on the left.
Fucking touchy Vegas retards.
“My fellow Americans: Your kids are never going to get jobs anyways, unless they learn Chinese and then actually move to China. So yes, take that money, go to Vegas, See Celine Dion (for Canada!) and put whatever’s left on 23 red. And when you win, remember to take the “Sin Express” to Disneyland!”
politics is dumb
Haha. You said “gambling” economies, Jim. It’s “gaming” economies. Read the memo, please.
“The President needs to lay off Las Vegas and stop making it the poster child for where people shouldn’t be spending their money,” Reid told local Channel 8.
I nominate Texas as the next example of a place where people shouldn’t be spending their money.
Besides the gambling, hookers, buffets and strip clubs, what does Vegas have to offer?
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Yeah, me neither.
This is fucking retarded.
Las Vegas is pure as the driven snow.
I know I’m not the only parent to have blown my children’s tuition money at Vegas. Gotta keep the economy moving/doing one’s patriotic duty, etc.
Obama said he enjoyed his own visits to Vegas. Great. Now they’ll start talking about how Obama is a degenerate gambler. And proposing high-speed rail from Disneyland right to the Spearmint Rhino.
First draft went something like this:
Dear Harry,
Blowing your money in Vegas is retarded.
Barry
I don’t care for LV, except the El Cortez.
[re=507053]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Herpes?
This may cost Harry Reid his seat, but it was worth it to see Las Vegas cry.
Unfortunately, what happens in New Hampshire doesn’t stay in New Hampshire.
Rahm’s Vegas endorsement:
“Dustin Hoffman, ‘Rain Man,’ look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Counted toothpicks, cheated cards. Autistic, sho’. Not retarded.”
Barack Obama: the man who made Las Vegas cry like a girl.
Harry Reid is retarded.
Las Vegas and the GOP should put together a “Blow your college savings in VEGAS” ad campaign.
And when is the big boat industry going to weigh in on what an asshole the President is?
NOW THAT’S A GODDAMN OFFICE!
My dried-up sea monkey tank sits in shame…
(jesus christ, if I can’t afford a chair like that, I needs to steal me one!)
[re=507046]Prommie[/re]: [re=507054]trondant[/re]: Reidtards!
That is the biggest bong I have ever seen.
Yes, how dare the President actually suggest throwing your money away by gambling is kind of a dumb thing to do. This is almost as bad as the time he tried to tell children to stay in school.
[re=507051]bitchincamaro[/re]: That attempt at rebranding is annoying because it causes too much confusing. “Gaming” already has a meaning, people, and it refers to playing video games, not gambling; but because of this name changing the papers have articles that claim to be about gaming, but turn out to just deal with casino shit.
Obama can fix this by saying that when he makes us all rich (after we take the stimulus and jobs money and go to college and get great jobs) the first place we should go is Vegas.
In keeping with my movie theme I can’t help thinking about Albert Brooks in Lost in America. His character lost all his money in Vegas. Fred Flinstone, also.
[re=507053]ManchuCandidate[/re]: LEAVE LAS VEGAS ALONE!!!111!
It’s got lots of great stuff besides gambling, hookers, buffets and strip clubs.
It’s got, uh, and, ummm…
Oh, fuck it. It’s still a great town.
[re=507073]jetjaguar[/re]: (jesus christ, if I can’t afford a chair like that, I needs to steal me one!)
How do you think Oscar’s fat ass got his?
“During his career as a defense attorney he represented defendants accused of being some of the leading organized crime figures in Las Vegas, such as Meyer Lansky, Nicky Scarfo, Herbert “Fat Herbie” Blitzstein, Phil Leonetti, former Stardust Casino boss Frank ‘Lefty’ Rosenthal, and Jamiel “Jimmy” Chagra a 1970s drug trafficker who was acquitted of ordering the murder of Federal Judge John Wood. His most notorious client was reputed Chicago mobster Anthony “Tony the Ant” Spilotro, who was known to have a short and violent temper. In the semi-factual 1995 movie ‘Casino’, the character of Nicky Santoro was based on Spilotro and was portrayed by actor Joe Pesci. Goodman had a cameo appearance in the film as himself. Goodman also represented former San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock, who was convicted of accepting illegal campaign contributions and eventually forced to resign.”
Mayor Goodman wins the fucking decade with this line: “He makes it sound like Las Vegas is a place of excess!”
[re=507054]trondant[/re]: No, it’s like fucking a retard.
Of for fuck’s sake! Has anyone ever heard of a motherfucking metaphor?
O–O I %&*($% mean! Is it happy hour yet?
Is he mayor or curator of Luxor?
“Ey Obama, you see this giant fuckin vase behind me? It’s 12,000 years old. Older than fucking Jesus fucking Christ, blessed be thy name. Anyways, the pharoahs used to stick the ashes of the fuckin Kings in those fuckin things. And yet…here they are in my fuckin office. Would you believe that???!!! Did you know the fuckin sphinx is 7,000 years older than they originally thought? Now this vase behind me’s got the ashes of Tony the Nose from Chicago. Eh, anyways, fuck you in your ear, ya prick!” ??
Hizzoner has a nice pink panky, there. And his decorator caught the sidewalk sale at Pier 1. Nice.
Vegas is retarded. Indian casinos are closer and the food is just as good.
[re=507073]jetjaguar[/re]: The chair is on sale here. You can also find many other fine furnishings for you mausoleum or whore house.
[re=507082]proudgrampa[/re]: They also had the NBA All-Star game until the town fathers banned it. Too many coloreds.
Also, isn’t Las Vegas nowadays all about family fun, cirque du soleil and, uh, celine dion, that kind of stuff? his comments only seem to apply to gambling.
I thought they tore down Las Vegas and built something else.
[re=507063]Prommie[/re]: Nice. But can you still work as a hooker in Vegas if you have AIDS?
[re=507078]blowhard[/re]: I like that plan.
[re=507079]thesheriffisnear[/re]: Great movie. Julie Hagerty played the wife who went berserk in the casino.
[re=507076]JMP[/re]: Interesting comment about the word. As a former Nevada resident, I know the industry calls it “gaming” and has done so for years. Never really thought about the rebranding idea before.
The mayor/curator/whatever has his own picture on his desk.
Eh, my wingnuts are up in arms over Nobama bowing – AGAIN! – to some mayor lady.
Am I the only one getting tired of the verb “slam”? In my day it’s what we did before the metalheads started moshing, and know it is used in every political article ever when someone criticizes anyone or anything.
[re=507104]Ducksworthy[/re]: No, but you can deal with it.
It’s good to see all that talk Obama’s given to people in both parties about trying to get serious about governing and give up all the silliness that’s been going around has had an effect
I’ve lived in Vegas for years. It’s always been a bipolar city. The 9/11 of LV was when the pirates of Treasure Island went porno (with Sires of TI). The town cried for weeks.
[re=507089]forgracie[/re]: Well, somebody did mention 4th grade gin.
Las Vegas upset by President Obama’s metaphor? that’s pretty Vegtarded.
[re=507109]Crank Tango[/re]: No, it’s a breakfast at Denny’s.
[re=507076]JMP[/re]: sorry nerd, but according to wikipedia the Nevada Gaming Commission was founded in 1959, before pong even. Shit they coulda renamed it but I dunno.
Interesting, we have set up a system whereby any insane pigfuking mayor or retarded snowbilly grifter can get media attention by pretending to be HIGHLY OFFENDED by anything a demoncrat says. Oh wait, its been this way for years. Thank gawd I say. This way the media’s doesn’t have to talk about people dying from a lack of health care or the bankers stealing billions from old ladies.
[re=507097]Joshua Norton[/re]: woah… I thought I was a google master, but apparently I was very wrong[re=507083]
Extemporanus[/re]: So, to recap, defending mobsters as a sketchy defense attorney -> movies -> $$$ -> awesome chair. Alright, time to start studying, I think this is doable.
Vegas, come for the hookers and gambling. Stay for the high background radiation.
Obama’s racist against boats.
[re=507055]TGY[/re]: Or she was until she drifted.
Oops, Harry Reid said “poster child.”
Oscar Goodman is my favorite retard mayor.
If Nevada wants jobs, maybe they should just stop bitching about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump and open it up already.
[re=507121]proudgrampa[/re]: touché grampa, touché
Got married there thirty years ago (cheap and relatively painless) and it worked!
Mr. Potter should shut the fuck up!
It’s nice to see the Aryans celebrating Black History Month by getting indignant over every goddamn retarded thing every black and Jew says.
Can Obama take back his acceptance of Reid’s apology for the stupid use of the word “Negro”? Because I would, at this point.
[re=507114]El Pinche[/re]: Ahoy, El Capitán!
Thar be ye I be spyin’ walkin’ ye ol’ plank?!
ARR ye fuckin’ retARRded, me matey?
[re=507154]Extemporanus[/re]: Mr Crabs???
[re=507154]Extemporanus[/re]: Methinks I be the retARRd!
Here be the shiverin’ timber! that be drivin’ ye ol’ nuts!
That urn has to be the largest vomitorium evz! Think how many Mexicans it must take to clean.
In related news:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201002030040
January 3, 2010
Limbaugh suggests Obama may have made remarks about Las Vegas because he “got rolled by a hooker there”
Fucking retards!
[re=507053]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Pawn Stars? Ok…I got nothing.
Confucius say, “Casino only viable when filled with losers”.
[re=507053]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Besides the gambling, hookers, buffets and strip clubs, what else is there?
“The President needs to lay off Las Vegas and stop making it the poster child for where people shouldn’t be spending their money…Las Vegas is suffering through one of the highest unemployment rates in the country and we cannot afford for the president to bring us down any further.”
OK, then by Reid’s logic, we should stop telling kids to “Just say no” to drugs (drug dealers in the inner city employ at-risk youth who would otherwise be unemployed.) And feel free to use the services offered by your local streetwalker (she could be a single mom, who would otherwise be unemployed.)
But at least he is focused like a laser on getting Americans back to work…
[re=507158]S.Luggo[/re]:
Limbaugh suggests Obama may have made remarks about Las Vegas because he “got rolled by a hooker there”
As opposed to Rush, with whom none of the hookers want to roll, even for money…
Another politician who has nothing better to do — or dare not do or say anything of substance. Impeach ‘em all.
Pardon my ignorance, but what does “rolled by a hooker” even mean?
What is needed is a backlash against the backlash!
How about a “HELL NO WE WON’T GO (to Vegas)” campaign?
[re=507082]proudgrampa[/re]: The pinball hall of fame, an M&M store and (allegedly) a dairy, though the concierge at the casino looked at me funny when I asked to take a tour…
He pisses off Vegas one more time, & the Mafia is going to kill him — & the Mormons won’t convert his soul to Latter-day Sainthood thereafter.
Oh, who am I kidding? They weren’t going to convert a dead Barry, anyway. He’s African. Wrong brown for Mormony. (They only like Samoa. In fact, when they go on mission, they request, “Gimme Samoa”.)
[re=507158]S.Luggo[/re]: Allah forbid rush rolls on a hooker. Then we have Joe Scarborough problem ..except messier with hooker guts and brains.
[re=507208]OCKerouac[/re]: You, my friend, are obviously a Vegas aficionado. I LOVE that M&M store.
Hey, Vegas has Penn and Teller. Now THAT’s something!
@ DemmeFatale..
“Rolled by a hooker” means that you paid for a hooker and she ended up robbing you.
[re=507114]El Pinche[/re]: I feel for ya. I live over the hump from you, it’s even worse here if you’re in need of employment.
Las Vegas, isn’t that where they had the Maul of America?
I believe Michael Steele will be weighing in on this subject shortly, as hey, its Vegas, baby…
As soon as the the pumps at Lake Mead are sucking mud and the very last of the foot-long frozen margaritas are consumed, the normal day-to-day business of lizards, snakes, and desert rats getting by can resume in “The Meadows”, once the abomination Bugsy started up in ’46 blows away…
Until then, all Obama suggests is extending your play, maybe play only 3 lines on a 9 line penny video slot or play 2-4 seven card stud over at the Monte Carlo.
(cue Matthäuspassion)
[re=507048]bureaucrap[/re]: Barry would tell them to bet on black.
live by the sword, die by the sword my man goodman.
i meant to add this part (hate clumsy commenting):
in a 4th grade classroom:
When asked what he would bring if marooned on a desert island, the mayor replied “a showgirl and a bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin.” Further, when asked about his hobbies, the mayor named drinking Bombay Sapphire Gin as a favorite. Later, when asked to comment, Goodman was unapologetic: “I’m the George Washington of mayors. I can’t tell a lie. If they didn’t want the answer, the kid shouldn’t have asked the question.”
i approve this mayor and wish he was running my cities.
[re=507237]TheCoolestGuyInTown[/re]: I see that you attended Rutgers.
This is all a big misunderstanding. He was actually talking about Las Vegas, New Mexico.
[re=507186]mumblyjoe[/re]: “Besides the gambling, hookers, buffets and strip clubs, what else is there?”
You people and your lack of culture–tsk, tsk, tsk. Museums, my friend. Las Vegas is the home great cultural institutions, such as the The Liberace Museum!
When a city’s ad campaign becomes so common that my four year old granddaughter wears a pink, “What Happens at Grandma’s, Stays At Grandma’s” shirt–and everyone knows the origin and what that particular phrase means, you have to suck up the fact that your city lives and dies on sin. They push sin. You laugh at the president’s comment and say, “yeah, but losing in Vegas would be fun,” and let it fucking go.
And judging by the shit all over hizzoner’s desk, I’m thinking he’s retarded. He damn looks retarded. Retarded fucker. (
[re=507051]bitchincamaro[/re]: I served temporarily on a native American board that oversaw gambling. That’s what I called it, at least, until everyone gave me disapproving frowns. Gaming? I thought that’s what you do on those video game thingies that I don’t understand. Who knew?
[re=507213]Long Form Def Certificate[/re]: Back in Uni, I had a Mormon friend who somehow got to do his Mission in SE Spain – suspiciously close to Ibiza, and only a rail-ride away from Amsterdam…
But yes, I agree that Barry must be careful dealing with the Vegas Mob – look what they did to JFK!
I visited Las Vegas on my Overseas to your fair continent; my lasting impression is that it is the border-zone between California and America….
Barry is totally screwing with fucking retards.
Brilliant!
The place is a dump.
It’s a collection of Disneyland style comic book architectural punch lines that are all Wal-Mart with slot machines on the inside. Houston is a world class cultural paradise compared to Vegas.
I’ve been there twice, once to see the Grateful Dead, and the other time to get married.
The place is even boring when you’re tripping, which is nearly impossible, I guess you need a Vincent Black Shadow and a few gallons of ether and some ibogaine to get past the Blur and Snoring in Las Vegas. It’s like a coma surrounded by desert populated by reptilian primates and wrinkly hippos like the guy in the video with all the chins.
Vegas just rejected stimulus money for that statue of Moe Green.
I like to go to Vegas and collect those trading cards with pictures of naked women that those illegals hand you on the street. They don’t have that kind of fun shit in New Hampshire.
[re=507195]Allyson[/re]:
Once Limptesticles, after a deep, porcine snore and an earth shaking, odorus fart, turned belly-up on the curiously stained Sealy PosturePedic, it would be imposible for a working girl, no less a doe-eyed, slim, Dominican boy, to defy Newton’s Law of GOP Inertia in order to get at Rushbo’s wallet absent use of C4.
Hey, betting your college tuition on slots is no dumber than privatizing Social Security. So I can see why the Repuglicans would be angry.
[re=507306]DustBowlBlues[/re]: How did you explain the shirt to her? “Well honey, Las Vegas is a place where grown-ups can do what they want, as long as they go to the prostitutes with police blessing or they bribe the cops; and grandma’s is a place YOU can do whatever you want! – as long as you don’t break my china.”
[re=507329]Diana Davies[/re]: There’s phone numbers on the pieces of paper..don’t call them. They lead to a world of mysterious ass pimples. So I hear… ahem.
[re=507320]scooterKPFT[/re]: I like Reno, even though it is pretty dumpy. At least you have the mountains, and tahoe, and if you are looking for a good place to trip, the Peppermill would be AMAZING.
This is all part of Obama’s plan to get O.J. out of jail. He’ll continue to tell people to boycott Nevada until the Juice is cut loose.
[re=507056]sezme[/re]: Imagine if the mob had to run a bake sale . . .
[re=507363]Darkness[/re]: Perhaps “Chicago Thug” Obama should hire the Mob to bury Reid out in the desert… then everybody wins!
[re=507079]thesheriffisnear[/re]: He just meant, “Don’t blow your money on Vegas like Clark Griswald did with that smarmy little white dude blackjack dealer at the Mirage.” Obama will save everyone at the end when he hits that giant slot machine and gives us all new cars. Like Rusty did. And Oprah. Also.
[re=507342]Crank Tango[/re]: “I like Reno, even though it is pretty dumpy.”
I guess we like you too, even though it’s pretty clear you’ve never seen any of Reno except the scummy downtown and Lake Tahoe. But keep coming! Gaming tax collections depend on you, friend!
[re=507320]scooterKPFT[/re]: Hey, I dropped acid for my wedding, too!
[re=507158]S.Luggo[/re]: Remember that old joke about the difference between a lawyer and a hooker? Limpdick is living proof of the punchline: There are some things a hooker won’t do.
Besides, a Las Vegas official whining about his fair city being portrayed as a place where folks’ spending can sometimes be described as…er ‘irresponsible’, is a little like Idi Amin complaining about the popular negative view of his human rights record…
[re=507398]joementum[/re]:
That’s funny because both times I was there I did psychedelics. I’m not planning on changing wives or becoming a republican or anything, but if I DO get married again, I probably won’t drop acid. It’s bad enough when you THINK everybody is staring at you, but it’s worse when they are.
[re=507342]Crank Tango[/re]:
I did a dose up at Pyramid Lake for a weekend. I thought I was on a different planet before I got high, that place is really weird.
quote FAIL above
Our Kenyan president doesn’t know our culture. You don’t blow the nut you saved up for your kids’ college in Vegas–that’s what you do with the money you saved for the massive balloon payment on your fraudulent ARM.
The kids’ college fund? You blow that in Atlantic City. Duhh. Or maybe Foxwoods. Or in that shitty little Indian casino three miles outside Solvang, Calif., the fuckers.
Now that I have seen the urn behind Mayor Goodman, I know where Jimmy Hoffa’s ashes are. (Never heard of Tony the Nose, Pinche, though No Nose DiFronzo is said to have run the Chicago Outfit, inspiring me to remark that No Nose is Good News).
Eliminating Las Vegas would just pour more money into organized crime coffers as men looked for their vice elsewhere; it’s not the world’s oldest profession for nothing. Better that stockholders get at least a slice of the action via Atlantic City, Reno and Vegas, and that formerly destitute tribes get a leg up via the foibles of the bourgeosie that almost obliterated them. There is some karma there.
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