Adelson’s pathetic flunky, Andy Abboud likely realizes he’s playing for a losing team. Coach Adelson sent him into the ball game to take yet another snap, even though the game is over. Online poker is here to stay, and will certainly gain a foothold in additional states as more and more people begin to realize that all the false hysteria created by Team Adelson was fabrication based on self-interest.
Sheldon Adelson’s coffee boy is making a fool of himself again.
Some empty suit named Andrew Abboud, a Senior Vice-President of something or other for the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, recently issued a dire warning that he and his hack army of paid mercenaries — and by this, I mean burned out ex-politicians who will do anything for a buck — will soon be going state-by-state in a nationally-coordinated attempt to defeat initiatives to legalize online poker and gambling.
In other words, instead of letting the good citizens and properly elected officials in each state make decisions in their own self-interest, Abboud and his clones are determined to use Adelson’s bulging bankroll as a sledgehammer to sway the conversation and consequently, squash the rights of all individuals, including poker players.
“We are going to make it the plague,“ Abboud candidly told veteran Las Vegas political reporter Jon Ralston. The quote appeared on Friday, January 24th.
Wow….just wow.
Does this guy know how to turn on the charm, or what?
The plague? Really? The plague?
What next, releasing botulism into our water supply?
READ JON RALSTON’S FULL REPORT HERE
Just listen to their scare tactics. A slot machine in every living room. Children stealing credit cards to gamble. Families declaring bankruptcy. Crack cocaine. Now, the plague! What next — the end of the world?
One might have expected that after getting thoroughly humiliated before a congressional subcommittee last month, in rambling testimony that did far more harm than any good to Adelson’s pet cause, Abboud would be begging his boss Adelson to get removed from the case. Read the hearing testimony. It’s like listening to Baghdad Barney. I mean, doesn’t this man have any pride in himself or have any sense of what’s real?
To be fair, Abboud might be a very nice man who was just dealt a really bad hand. He can’t possibly believe Adelson’s line of bullshit. Can he? I have no proof of this, but something tells me that if Abboud was working for Caesars or Stations instead of the Sands, he’d be singing quite a different tune. Some of these guys you see are just like the Muppets. The guiding hand and mouth movements belong to the puppet master– namely Adelson.
Indeed, Abboud likely realizes he’s playing for a losing team. Coach Adelson sent him into the ball game to take yet another snap, even though the game is basically over. Online poker is here to stay, and will certainly gain a foothold in additional states as more and more people begin to realize that all the false hysteria created by Team Adelson was fabrication based on self-interest.
Adelson is no stranger to putting his money where his mouth is, the billions at his disposal earned from the very same activity he’s avowedly opposed to when conducted online (translation: when gambling at a non-Sands owned property). Adelson blew $100 million on Newt Gingrich’s 2012 flop of a presidential campaign and didn’t even blink an eye. In fact, Adelson’s support probably hurt Gingrich in the primaries. But he still doesn’t realize that. He’s become so delusional, he seems to think his name and money can alter the natural course of events.
Well, sometimes it does — and sometimes it doesn’t. In the case of online poker, Adelson won’t matter in the long run. He’ll be remembered as the guy selling kerosene lamps when the rest of the world was going electric. Not only are Adelson’s days numbered by age (he’s 80), his brand of fear-mongering doesn’t line up with 21st Century thinking and the obvious and inevitable advantages of living the high-tech age and accepting the fact that a substantial number of people want the option to do as they please when it comes to an online experience.
Then, there’s the obvious hypocrisy of Adelson’s position — which is has been pointed out by just about everyone, including those congressmen at the hearings. But wait, there’s more. Last month, just as Adelson was warning the entire world of the dangers of “money-laundering” associated with online gaming, his own company was slapped with a hefty $47 million fine for, you guessed it, money laundering. Oh, the bitter irony.
And now, here we have Adelson’s minion warning us that the plague is about to be released.
Paging Andrew Abboud — Mr. Adelson needs more cream for his coffee. Pronto!
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