{"id":9414,"date":"2012-08-08T11:50:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T19:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9414"},"modified":"2012-08-08T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T19:51:18","slug":"quote-of-the-day-440","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-440\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8806\" title=\"Macau Sands New Casino\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Blofeld-145x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Blofeld-145x150.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Blofeld-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Blofeld.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" \/>&#8220;A swift letter from [<strong>Sheldon<\/strong>] <strong>Adelson<\/strong>&#8216;s lawyers produced an apology, and the removal of the offending [<strong>Democratic Congressional Committee<\/strong>] blogs. That made Adelson happy, according to a spokesman, who added, &#8216;More broadly, this should serve notice to those who would attempt to smear Mr. Adelson by repeating the false and inflammatory statements of a fired employee &#8211; that is a very slippery slope.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Actually, when it comes to Adelson, that&#8217;s an entire mountain range.&#8221; &#8212; <strong>S<\/strong><em><strong>teve Sebelius<\/strong>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/opinion\/on-adelson-no-apologies-165046396.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>detailing just a few<\/em><\/a><em> of the <\/em><strong><em>Las Vegas Sands<\/em><\/strong><em> CEO&#8217;s many iniquities. Vegas malefactors, beware! Like an elephant, Sebelius never forgets. Just ask the cronies and mountebanks behind the <strong>Las Vegas Monorail<\/strong>. And yes, I have rescinded my <\/em>fatwa<em> against the <\/em>Las Vegas Review-Journal<em> and its misshapen, insolvent spawn, <\/em><strong><em>Righthaven<\/em><\/strong><em>, persecutor of cat blogs and defender of porno flicks<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A swift letter from [Sheldon] Adelson&#8216;s lawyers produced an apology, and the removal of the offending [Democratic Congressional Committee] blogs. That made Adelson happy, according to a spokesman, who added, &#8216;More broadly, this should serve notice to those who would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-440\/\">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":[28,26,140,12,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414"}],"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=9414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9416,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414\/revisions\/9416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}