This very disturbing video was voluntarily and deliberately put up on on the internets by Las Vegas Review-Journal Editor Thomas Mitchell in conjunction with a blog post he wrote about clean energy (long story short: he's against it).
"They looked at me with blank stares, like the addled uncle who was supposed to be kept in the attic..." Mitchell writes.
I've nothing to add.
OK, I'll be first to ask...
What the hell was that????
Posted by: That Anonymous Guy | 07/01/2009 at 04:50 PM
Somebody, quick -- go to YouTube and post something that says not all us Las Vegans are this batshit crazy.
Posted by: The Penguin | 07/01/2009 at 04:52 PM
OMG. This guy is loose?
Posted by: judy | 07/01/2009 at 05:04 PM
See what happens when you start teaching them computer and Internet classes down at the senior center?
Posted by: The Penguin | 07/01/2009 at 05:05 PM
@TAG : I think its a video made during karaoke night in the dementia ward of the senior center.
Posted by: Gus | 07/01/2009 at 05:13 PM
He's trying to save Gibbon's bacon after the vid's that the PervGuv posted on the state owned web server.
Posted by: CybScryb | 07/01/2009 at 07:03 PM
who said our power bills would skyrocket?
Posted by: yahooboy | 07/01/2009 at 08:31 PM
Is this snark? Serious question. :-p
Posted by: atdleft | 07/01/2009 at 09:46 PM
It can't be hard to be a newspaper editor.
Look who's doing it!!!
HOW HARD COULD IT BE???
Does Thomas Mitchell really want an answer to his question? Right now, solar power is more expensive than fossil fuels, while wind and nuclear are about the same cost as fossil fuels. As the oil runs out, the price of oil will rise and solar will become cost-competitive. And when the oil is really GONE, there won't be any choice left.
The RJ editorial page rants on and on about how the Kyoto Treaty would force the US to cut its carbon dioxide emissions by 80%, and this will hurt the economy. When the oil (and later coal) run out, carbon dioxide emissions will be cut by 100% !! If there are no sustainable energy sources developed by then, what will THAT do to the economy?
Posted by: Nevada_Ned | 07/02/2009 at 12:13 AM
PPphhhhhht hahahahahahahaha
Posted by: Gus | 07/02/2009 at 01:50 AM
Hey!!! Watch it with the senior jokes, got me so upset I had to eat a double portion of prune whip.
Posted by: Rich | 07/02/2009 at 07:51 AM
Gleaner, you're too kind. Mitchell spelled "addled" as "adled" [sic]. At 10:15 this morning, the typo was still there in all its glory. The R-J's war on literacy continues unabated.
Posted by: David McKee | 07/02/2009 at 10:22 AM
I never knew he was so sexy! I have a soft spot for the Magnum P.I. moustache. And he lip syncs...!!!! Like Milli Vanilli and Rip Taylor all in one glorious package of know-it-all Libertarianism.
Is there a song about the hypocrisy of criticizing sales and use tax, as well as legislation that mandates the publication of delinquencies, while accepting the sales tax exemption for paper, ink, and materials, and accepting corporate welfare for forcing taxpayers to pay for needless publication in an outdated format like a newspaper? I think U2 had a tune...
Posted by: Goldy | 07/02/2009 at 10:52 AM
Two commenters on YouTube heap praise on the musical stylings of Tom Mitchell:
mmmvegas:
very very strange.
divinemsjudy: No wonder the Las Vegas Review Journal is a worthless rag.
Posted by: The Penguin | 07/02/2009 at 10:56 AM
Watch this again; He can't lip sink...he is way out of whack with the music. Yes, stop with the senior slams...I am nearly 80 and have been making my living with a computer since 1985 when they were like Model T's. This guy is a whack job at ANY AGE. Why would he DO this? Makes no sense at all. Still since he works at the RJ...explains a lot. Talk about a newspaper from the Dark Ages!!!!
Posted by: Beverlee A. Couillard | 07/02/2009 at 01:49 PM
"Like Milli Vanilli and Rip Taylor all in one glorious package"
Goldy owes me a new keyboard.
Posted by: David McKee | 07/02/2009 at 01:51 PM
Michael Jackson he ain't...perhaps La Toilet?
Posted by: Rich | 07/02/2009 at 03:50 PM
I laughed so hard my cat woke up and started meowing at me in confusion. WTF?! And to think I once sat in this guy's office while he lectured me on how young journalists are too soft these days.
Do you think this is the online department's attempt at a coup?
Posted by: The Siren | 07/02/2009 at 05:29 PM
You are all missing the point. He's jerking off and nobody suspects. The twisted mind of the arch conservatiz!
Posted by: VegasTeaRoom | 07/02/2009 at 11:14 PM
Do you realize that in a lot of cities, intelligent adults edit the local newspapers? Well, they do have them at the Sun, at least.
Posted by: Michael Green | 07/03/2009 at 09:49 AM
Michael Green:
The best movie about newspaper editors is the old Cary Grant movie, "His Gal Friday." Cary Grant barks out orders, selecting stories for the next day's newspaper.
Sample:
"Keep the three-legged chicken story: it's human interest!"
I once heard a journalism prof. at a major university declare that her favorite movie. I said, stupidly, that the movie paints a very unflattering portrait of journalists. Yes, she said, that's why she loved the movie.
Posted by: Nevada_Ned | 07/03/2009 at 11:09 PM
"Talk about a newspaper from the Dark Ages!!!!"
Beverlee, in all fairness, ALL newspapers are now relics of the dark ages!
Posted by: The Penguin | 07/06/2009 at 10:33 AM