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Mayor Oscar Goodman is on tv right now trying to explain that Obama, when he said that businessmen should not be going to Vegas on taxpayer’s money, actually confused people and made them think they should not go to Vegas at all, and it is a firm reminder that no matter how hard they try, Republicans are not the only ones pushing idiocy.

Also, is the color on my tv going, or was Mayor Goodman’s nose blue?

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  2. 2.

    Zuzu's Petals

    I heard he’s also looking for an apology from Obama.

    I’ll bet Lear Jet Inc. also wants an apology from Obama – and Congress! – for criticizing all those companies spending bailout money on their products.

  3. 3.

    Laura W

    Also, is the color on my tv going, or was Mayor Goodman’s nose blue?

    If the front flap of Fineman’s hair was orange on your teevee, it’s fine.

  5. 5.

    gbear

    Well I think the lesson here is that if you or I were personally staying in a luxury hotel in Las Vegas using taxpayer money, we should possibly reconsider. Maybe Goodman thinks that’s what everyone is doing…

    Personally, I’ve never gone anywhere more exotic than Bemidji using taxpayer money, but then I work for the state govt and had to go visit a project.

    Update: the most exotic thing about Bemidji is that the Dunn Brother’s coffee shop has free internet access. That plus you can currently by-pass downtown by driving on Lake Bemidji

  8. 8.

    jenniebee

    Usually, the maxim is that No Publicity is Bad Publicity. Las Vegas is a special case in that in the case of Las Vegas, it is virtually impossible to tell the difference between good and bad publicity.

  9. 9.

    ronathan richardson

    Ah, Oscar Goodman, the kind of thug who threatens to beat Bob Herbert with a baseball bat. I’m anticipating a coming libertarian argument that legalizing prostitution will cure the recession.

  11. 11.

    Stuck

    And I just heard Barney Frank come out of the closet and say the "liberal" word on national teevee. Oh noes, Are we in a backward time loopety loop. Where IS Superman anyways?

  12. 12.

    gbear

    And I just heard Barney Frank come out of the closet and say the "liberal" on national teevee.

    Ahh, my hero. (swoons)

  13. 13.

    joe from Lowell

    Zuzu’s Petals,

    I’ll bet Lear Jet Inc. also wants an apology from Obama – and Congress! – for criticizing all those companies spending bailout money on their products.

    You jest.

    If there weren’t libertarians, we’d have to invent them.

  15. 15.

    Stuck

    @gbear:

    I said it in a thread the other day. Barney ought to be the permanent TV dem congresscritter for teevee. He’s the only one who knows how to talk like dems aren’t afraid of their own shadows. The rest should stfu and listen and learn.

  22. 22.

    Brick Oven Bill

    Oscar Goodman. Now this is a Mayor. He tells the fourth grade class that if he were stranded on a desert island, he would like to bring Bombay gin and a showgirl. But Oscar cannot help Las Vegas. I agree with the President, Las Vegas sucks.

    If you want to go to Nevada, here are the two places to go, Elko and Ely. I recommend Stockmans in Elko and Hotel Nevada in Ely.

    If you stay at Hotel Nevada, ask for the John Schneider room. It is an extra ten bucks ($45 total) but you get glasses of wine upon arrival. I have signed my name to the long list of guests in that room. They have a really good restaurant off the casino, so you can just stay in the hotel. There is a special that is something like 2 T-Bone steaks, and six beers, for twenty bucks.

    Go to Garnet Hill in the morning, and you can find lots of garnets in a very beautiful setting.

    In Elko, the place to eat is The Star, across from Stockmans, where you should stay and gamble. This is, no kidding, the best meal I think I have ever eaten. It is around twenty bucks. While you are waiting, try a Pican.

  23. 23.

    Stuck

    @Laura W:

    I basically like Claire, but she’s a Blue Dog Dem moderate. They get paid to compromise simply for the sake of compromising, And I am not against compromise when it’s done sensibly, and not just for appearance sake. When she says the word "liberal" on TV then I’ll clap.

  24. 24.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Comrade Scrutinizer:

    I agree it was dead cool, I have been youtubing all of them and they are brilliant to be honest, who ever came up with that ad campaign is worthy of praise to be honest, it is stellar. It made ME want to join the Royal Marines…..

  27. 27.

    Brick Oven Bill

    My guess Zifnab, is that you could use the cool mountain air of Garnet Hill, crawling along the hillside with a rock hammer, prospecting for beautiful garnets. This is a deeply fulfilling physical activity, that you can bring a date along to, which emits no greenhouse gases. Ely is much better than Las Vegas.

    Stop being a ninny.

    There is nothing recommended in Laughlin, West Wendover, or Jackpot, other than amateurs from out of state. Ely and Elko are populated with ranchers and miners. These are the places to go.

  28. 28.

    That Anonymous Guy

    "Ely and Elko are populated with ranchers and miners."

    How can you bring up Ely and Elko without mentioning hookers? Both are home to a couple of legal brothels, if memory serves correctly. Now there’s a unique tourism draw.

  29. 29.

    That Anonymous Guy

    And yes, John, Mayor Goodman’s nose WAS blue. The dude has a $100,000 endorsement deal with Bombay Sapphire, and is usually sauced by noon on most work days.

    Once, while speaking to a group of fourth graders, Goodman was asked what he’d want if he was stranded on a desert island and could have only one thing.

    Goodman told the kid he’d like a bottle of gin.

  30. 30.

    pseudonymous in nc

    jenniebee wins the thread.

    Oscar Goodman is good for what he’s good for, which is selling Vegas on television, and one thing Vegas is good for is the deductible junket.

    How can you bring up Ely and Elko without mentioning hookers?

    I bet they have an injunction out on BoB.

  31. 31.

    Brick Oven Bill

    I don’t pay for it, but have worked in the vicinity of the business.

    They are independent contractors, used to make a very good living, and give a percentage to the house. Prices are way, way down. Last datapoint, down 80%.

  34. 34.

    TheHatOnMyCat

    BOB googles Nevada and cuts and pastes his great discoveries here!

    BOB goes to Nevada so you don’t have to.

  37. 37.

    Rome Again

    I’m sorry BOB but after having been a Vegas resident for nine years, you can keep Ely and Elko. I’ll go back to Vegas anytime.

    You go ahead and stay in your rancher paradise while I eat the prime rib specials and check out all the Cirque shows.

  39. 39.

    Brick Oven Bill

    But I did have a memorable night in Black Canyon City, back in 2005. There was an evening in a joint to the east of I-17, that was named after some large rodent. We talked construction back then when we were all geniuses. I cannot remember the name of that rodent.

  41. 41.

    TheHatOnMyCat

    I cannot remember the name of that rodent.

    Was it the Rat’s Ass?

    The one nobody gives about your google wanderings?

  42. 42.

    Brick Oven Bill

    This is because the dollar is disintegrating and the suppression of gold is failing Rome Again. The American West has a bright future.

    Gold; Nevada

    Shale Oil; Utah, Wyoming, Colorado

    The professions need to hang in there.

  43. 43.

    Stuck

    But I did have a memorable night in Black Canyon City, back in 2005. There was an evening in a joint to the east of I-17, that was named after some large rodent. We talked construction back then when we were all geniuses. I cannot remember the name of that rodent.

    LOL. You know some people here think your crazy BoB. Me, I think you just swallowed a dictionary and had the notion to spoof.

  44. 44.

    That Anonymous Guy

    You go ahead and stay in your rancher paradise while I eat the prime rib specials and check out all the Cirque shows.

    Cirque’s going strong, but they cancel Frank Marino’s drag show at the Riviera. Is this really a Vegas we want to live in?

  45. 45.

    Rome Again

    Frank Marino’s drag show at the Riviera

    La Cage was getting too old anyway, everyone has seen it more than enough times. I was in the audience on New Years Eve 1994/95 (while I was six months pregnant – that’s how I remember the year so well).

    I also knew a stagehand who worked on that show. He died a short time after I met him. He’s been deceased for about fifteen years now.

  47. 47.

    OriGuy

    You go ahead and stay in your rancher paradise while I eat the prime rib specials and check out all the Cirque shows.

    Pretty soon all of the shows on the Strip will run by Cirque du Soleil. It’s a French-Canadian plot to take over the USA, starting with Las Vegas. They’ve got the Beatles, they’ve got Criss Angel, pretty soon they’ll have The Amazing Johnathan.

    They’ll put him in Spandex.

    It won’t be pretty.

  48. 48.

    Glocksman

    Jeezus, am I the only one who saw the Mayor’s name and thought of Oscar Goldman?

    I’m really showing my age here.

    Further showing my age, when I lucked out and managed to score a Close Up foundation trip to Washington DC back in 1985, the tour guide pointed at one of the Congressional office buildings and said ‘That’s where Oscar Goldman’s office is, and the window zeroed in on was actually that of a restroom’.

    I don’t know if it’s true, but it was a funny anecdote nonetheless.

  49. 49.

    Steeplejack

    This is because the dollar is disintegrating and the suppression of gold is failing Rome Again. The American West has a bright future.

    Gold; Nevada.

    Shale Oil; Utah, Wyoming, Colorado.

    The professions need to hang in there.

    I can’t help it, but when I read BOB’s stuff I hear John Candy as Mayor Tommy Shanks from SCTV. It helps a little.

    Also this is a test of the quoting facilities.

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