Last night, Sheldon Adelson went to mind-boggling extremes and into the realm of the sort of rhetoric one associates with some of the worse regimes of modern history, advocating a unilateral, first-strike, nuclear attack on Iran. “Then you say, ‘See! The next one is in the middle of Tehran. So, we mean business,” he (or that thing on the back of his head) crowed. “‘You pick up your cell phone and you call somewhere in Nebraska and you say, ‘OK let it go.’ So there’s an atomic weapon, goes over ballistic missiles, the middle of the desert, that doesn’t hurt a soul.”
(At least Sheldon has the foresight to spare potential customers of Venetian Tehran.)
Executives at Las Vegas Sands weren’t long to see that Fearless Leader had stepped in a rhetorical cow-plop. “As one of the country’s most successful entrepreneurs, he was using hyperbole to make a point that — based on his nearly seven decade-long experience negotiating business deals — actions speak louder than words,” offered Ron Reese by way of a lame explanation, adding that the CEO “was obviously not speaking literally.”
I don’t believe it. And would someone bring Adelson up to date on “roaming charges” — or radioactive fallout — please?
(At least he’s made one fan among the younger generation … but don’t even get me started on all the fallacies in Shirley Leung‘s argument.)
