{"id":8070,"date":"2011-12-12T10:46:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T18:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8070"},"modified":"2011-12-12T10:46:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T18:46:01","slug":"whats-wrong-with-this-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/whats-wrong-with-this-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s wrong with this picture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"315\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tO2i_mMZfz4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tO2i_mMZfz4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nTV watchers have\u00a0 been getting a heavy dose of commercials from <strong>British Petroleum<\/strong>, promoting tourism along the <strong>Gulf Coast<\/strong> (which, not so recently, BP was responsible for befouling). What grabs my eye is that <strong>Margaritaville Casino &amp; Restaurant<\/strong> COO <strong>Karen Sock<\/strong> is billed instead simply as member of the &#8220;Gulf Coast Business Council.&#8221; Combine this with brief, elliptical references to &#8220;the gaming industry&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vb0_w43tfFc\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">in a previous Sockumentary<\/a> and you get the distinct impression that <!--more-->BP thinks casinos are something of which to be ashamed. If ever the pot called the kettle &#8220;subfusc,&#8221; this is it. After all, the casino industry never did anything remotely like &#8230;<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"315\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-gtn-nHfRIA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-gtn-nHfRIA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV watchers have\u00a0 been getting a heavy dose of commercials from British Petroleum, promoting tourism along the Gulf Coast (which, not so recently, BP was responsible for befouling). What grabs my eye is that Margaritaville Casino &amp; Restaurant COO Karen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/whats-wrong-with-this-picture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070"}],"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=8070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8071,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions\/8071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}