Local man garners national attention

Loyal Gleaner readers — both of you — will recall that for some time this little corner of the cyberwasteland has been wondering why oh why the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wasn't firing back at Freedom's Watch by unloading on bitchy little area megalomaniac Sheldon Adelson, you know, personally, in those districts where Adelson's propaganda arm, Freedom's Watch, has been attacking Democrats.

Turns out the DCCC has been doing just that. From Politico:

In Mississippi, a DCCC radio ad asked why (Republican candidate) Davis was accepting support from “the world’s No. 1 casino czar and one of atheist China’s top American business partners.” The DCCC referred to a massive casino Adelson’s Sands Corp. owns in Macau, just outside Hong Kong, as “an investment in a country that steals our jobs, persecutes Christians, uses forced labor and forces women to have abortions.

“And what has Greg Davis said about all of this?” the ad asked. “Absolutely nothing.”

In Louisiana, DCCC print and radio ads said Republican candidate Woody Jenkins had engaged in “amazing hypocrisy” by accepting the support of Adelson and Freedom’s Watch.

In one print ad, the DCCC superimposed a photo of Jenkins onto images of a slot machine and a singer wearing gold lamé. In another, the DCCC put Jenkins in front of a Chinese flag and proclaimed: “Woody Jenkins talks about family values, but a casino billionaire heavily invested in a country notorious for forced abortions is bankrolling ads for him."

A spokester for the Adelson-financed Freedom's Watch told Politico it was a "preposterous charge that [Adelson] is responsible for religious persecution and forced abortions."

And if anyone can speak authoritatively on preposterous charges — not only with regard to the degree of their absurdity but also their effectiveness during an election — it'd be a War Party apparatchik of the sort who would hook up with Adelson's outfit.

All in all, the DCCC's nastiness is most impressive. Except the reference to "atheist China" is confusing — isn't the idea to make China look bad?

Comments

[CollegeStudent]

The DCCC said all of Las Vegas was slot machines and gold lamé.
And the Gleaner said nothing.

[texexnv@gmail.com]

Thanks for the recognition as one of your two loyal readers; I'm blushing over it.

CS, it's well known everybody in Vegas wears a red vest, black bowtie, and deals from the bottom. Or wears one of those shorty-shorty skirts and gives away free booze to make the suckers lose more by diverting their attention. (That cows**t stuff about the north can work two ways)

I just hope the DCCC gives the same support to Titus. We can deal with winning CD2 in '10.

[Gleaner]

CS,
I admit I was surprised by the DCCC's characterization of my city. Usually when people inside the beltway talk about Las Vegas they get it wrong.

[The Penguin]

Wow, they beat the GOP at their own game -- they out-Roved them! Stick THAT in your yarmulke and smoke it, Shelly!