"When times are tough, you tighten your belts," the president said. "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."
Posted on 02/08/2010 5:48:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama made a couple of stupid little jokes about Vegas. He uses our Las Vegas as a symbol. Everyone knows what Vegas means. Doc Pomus wrote "Viva Las Vegas" for Elvis years before Doc ever visited Sin City and got everything right.
Vegas means ... wild, irresponsible, what-happens-here-stays-here. Smoke cigars, have sex with strangers, get wasted and see stupid shows with stupid Elvis impersonators doing stupid impressions of that stupid hillbilly.
That's an image we know and love in Vegas. It's the image we spend our stupidly low tax money to promote. "What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" was an official slogan.
It's the Vegas image Katy Perry has in her video, "Waking Up in Vegas," and Penn & Teller do a cameo in that video. We all promote that image. In Vegas, our service industry services that nutty image. We make money off people thinking Vegas is a place to get stupid and waste money.
I know a joke when it bites me in the a$$. And I've done plenty of jokes biting other people's a$$es. It's my job.
It seemed like Obama was off-prompter for his Vegas bashing. His attacks weren't like Ford trashing New York City (I lived in NYC when Ford was doing all the Big Apple trashing - maybe it's ME the presidents hate). Gerald Ford and Jesse Jackson meant it about NYC.
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!(continued)
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This is so stupid its niggardly.
Sweet.
He acted stupidly again. Maybe he should write “don’t dis Vegas again” on his palm.
What Obama said about Vegas didn’t stay out of Vegas.
He’s saying Zero’s Vegas bashing is all wee-wee’d up.
Indeed. Take a flying [insert colloquialism for fornication here] at the moon.
He’s also saying that bashing Vegas is not a nice payback for all those SEIU workers that Vegas employs.
Nor for the Teamsters that keep it alive by bringing in dang near everything Vegas (and the rest of Nevada) eats, drinks, wears; buys, sells & pawns; or puts in their tanks & crankcases.
IOW, he’s saying Obummer is forgetting that he is hurting some of his major constituencies, and not doing any favors for Dingy Harry & cohorts.
Or go to Vegas to see stupid magic shows with a obnoxious boar like you, Penn.
I just thought that statement was uncalled for.
Jillette, magician, entrepreneur, risk taker, and one of a very few entertainers willing to admit in public that Obama is a horse's ass; does NOT like having the president of the USA specifically cite his venue when telling the rest of us what not to do...
I'd be a bit testy if I were in his shoes.
He admits that Vegas (a place I avoid) is frivolous but seems to argue that frivolity is sometimes appropriate (I'd have to agree). It is true that real people, not all wealthy entertainers, suffer when a frightened corporate America cancels conventions, or plain folks in need of some jollies reroute themselves to Puerto Villarta, because their fuhrer told them Vegas was wrong.
You might consider his money quote: "It's the image we spend our stupidly low tax money to promote." and think again about "stupid".
Agreed. ‘Stupid Hillbilly’? Please.
penn didn’t either.
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Penn is an idiot...
He’s a small government libertarian who doesn’t think much of Obama regardless of his Vegas jabs. Penn&Teller do a hilarious bit about the TSA in their act. I don’t agree will all of Penn’s views, but his idea of what Amaerica is (or should be anyway) is a pretty healthy one IMO.
“It’s the Vegas image Katy Perry has in her video, “Waking Up in Vegas,” and Penn & Teller do a cameo in that video. We all promote that image. In Vegas, our service industry services that nutty image. We make money off people thinking Vegas is a place to get stupid and waste money.”
Funny. I’ve never enjoyed gambling and we don’t drink. So I see Las Vegas as a cheap, weird weekend with a lot of free entertainment.
“When times are tough, you tighten your belts,” the president said. “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.”
Unless, of course, you’re Barak Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Then it’s “Presidents Gone Wild” and “Congress Critters of the Corn.”
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