{"id":2482,"date":"2010-03-08T13:14:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T21:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2022-12-03T09:26:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T17:26:46","slug":"did-my-eyes-deceive-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/did-my-eyes-deceive-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Did my eyes deceive me …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… or was that the skeleton of Echelon<\/strong> which was used to illustrate Nevada’s economic woes in the TV spot that Sen. Harry Reid<\/strong> (D-NV) is running this week? That’s no outrage in and of itself: Echelon was<\/em> a casualty of the Great Recession, even if that wasn’t the main reason it was put into a coma. General Growth Properties<\/strong>‘ bankruptcy and Morgans Hotel Group<\/strong>‘s attempted withdrawal were the primary causative events. However, the ad (which I’ve not been able to find on either YouTube<\/strong> or Reid’s campaign site) then shifts to cheerful footage of CityCenter<\/strong>, for whose completion Reid takes credit.<\/p>\n

Whoever crafted the spot appears willing to push Boyd Gaming<\/strong> under the campaign bus whilst throwing in a big-ass product placement for MGM Mirage<\/strong>. Since Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> has publicly endorsed Archon Corp<\/strong>. Treasurer Sue Lowden<\/strong> for Reid’s seat, wouldn’t it have been more apt to use Adelson’s St(ump) Regis<\/strong> as the poster child of Strip malaise, especially since it, unlike Echelon, ground to an involuntary, ignominous halt when money ran out? Besides, when both Reid and Sen. John Ensign<\/strong> (R-NV) were making calls to the banking industry on CityCenter’s behalf, contemporaneous political and business coverage reported that their efforts were fruitless. For the record, MGM CEO Jim Murren<\/strong> begs to differ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… or was that the skeleton of Echelon which was used to illustrate Nevada’s economic woes in the TV spot that Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) is running this week? That’s no outrage in and of itself: Echelon was a casualty … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,60,56,28,14,26,52,53,11,33,12,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32003,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/32003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}