{"id":9797,"date":"2012-10-10T12:13:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T20:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9797"},"modified":"2012-10-10T16:46:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T00:46:26","slug":"black-man-frightens-steve-wynn-mgm-time-to-forget-harmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/black-man-frightens-steve-wynn-mgm-time-to-forget-harmon\/","title":{"rendered":"Black man frightens Steve Wynn, Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Update<\/strong>: Today, Wynn got into the act in the ongoing Big Bird<\/strong> charade. As Steve Sebelius<\/strong> points out, it’s meaningless posturing<\/a>, nothing more<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Life’s been good to Steve Wynn<\/strong>. How good? Well, if you or I talked like a crazy conspiracy theorist broadcasting via ham radio from our Pahrump<\/strong> bomb shelter, people would avoid us in the street. But whenever Wynn throws a temper tantrum, Jon Ralston<\/strong> posts a blog entry about it, or better yet, earmarks an hour of TV time for Wynn’s hyperbolic rhetoric, of which a foretaste follows<\/a> …<\/p>\n

Come off it, Steve!<\/strong> You haven’t created a job in America since 2008, when you opened Encore<\/strong>. (OK, maybe a handful of caba\u00f1a boys at your new high-end pool, but \"\"that’s about it.) Sure, you feinted at Philadelphia<\/strong> and Atlantic City<\/strong>, played footsie with Massachusetts<\/strong>, but always cut and ran when the going got tough. When it comes to stateside investment, you may talk like a street tough but you throw like a girl (and that’s<\/em> a libel on girls; my apologies, ladies). And if you’re going to resurrect the bedtime story that El-Ad Properties<\/strong> was going to hire you to build an arena and resort, and you didn’t do it because you’re “frightened” of the Evil Black Man in the White House<\/strong>* (a favored Wynn trope, freshly tinted with race-baiting … “anti-colonialist” being the new code for “uppity Negro”) … don’t piss on my head and tell me it’s raining. Although the complete interview isn’t yet available online, we get printed excerpts that also display Wynn’s misogyny in full, putrid flower<\/a>. (Oh, the stories I could tell on that subject … )<\/p>\n

\"\"First, whatever it cost<\/strong> to redevelop the New Frontier<\/strong> site would, by Wynn’s own telling, would have been passed on to El-Ad. So that’s not his problem. Second, El-Ad is writing down the acreage, effectively throwing in the towel, so this talking-point-of-last-resort is a pig in a poke. Third, there is no market for a $2 billion resort — a lowball figure, to be sure — now and there hasn’t been for five years. And Wynn knows<\/em> that. He’s a smart guy, not some Gary Loveman<\/strong> type who can’t read the market.<\/p>\n

So in other words<\/strong>: Steve Wynn, you’re full of crap. Besides, to listen to him mew about how the wonderful Communist Chinese (with their iron-fist economic policies and snail-paced bureaucracy) make him able to subsidize Wynncore<\/strong> just makes you want to puke. At times, he sounds more like Reps. Ron Paul<\/strong> (R-TX) and Dennis Kucinich<\/strong> (D-OH), all but calling for an audit<\/a> of the Federal Reserve<\/strong>. Like that’s gonna happen under a new president. Dream on, sir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: Today, Wynn got into the act in the ongoing Big Bird charade. As Steve Sebelius points out, it’s meaningless posturing, nothing more. Life’s been good to Steve Wynn. How good? Well, if you or I talked like a crazy … 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":[23,148,56,3,15,66,133,28,42,14,26,4,59,81,7,62,112,11,102,78,95,124,33,25,74,57,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797"}],"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=9797"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9800,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions\/9800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}