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...on the Las Vegas Sun website. For example, there's a Las Vegas Sun story about his being a target of Democrats looking to exploit his ties to various right-wing causes for political advantage. Below the story is a comments section, and about a third of them have been removed. Surely, not all of them threaten his existence, but this isn't surprising since Adelson is noted for being overly litigious.
Maybe if he would've spent more time with his sons rather than honing in on all those talking about him, maybe their lives wouldn't have felt so empty, that they wouldn't have become drug addicts.
I'm not flaming this man because of his politics. I'm not so petty as to boycott a place because of one's politics, hell, I'm pretty loyal to MGM Grand casinos, whose CEO Terry Lanni is a prominent Republican benefactor. But Adelson is just so fricking reprehensible.
I didn't even like the Venetian before I was fully aware of the kind of person Adelson is. Rather than being an homage to Venice, it's more like a cheap knockoff and not only that, but it appears someone fed the Venetian after midnight and dropped water on it, budding the Lego-like Palazzo next door (then again, at least it's not the Trump International--really, Donald, you couldn't fricking design something that looks like a rejected draft of THEHotel at Mandalay Bay)?
Right now, I'm reading Winner Takes All by former WSJ reporter Christine Binkley and it details how Gary Loveman, Kirk Kerkorian, and Steve Wynn shaped modern Las Vegas. Some wonder why Adelson was left out. From what I've read, Binkley just dismisses Adelson as not important to modern Vegas, but she probably just wanted to avoid the headache of pending lawsuits for libel.
Maybe if he would've spent more time with his sons rather than honing in on all those talking about him, maybe their lives wouldn't have felt so empty, that they wouldn't have become drug addicts.
I'm not flaming this man because of his politics. I'm not so petty as to boycott a place because of one's politics, hell, I'm pretty loyal to MGM Grand casinos, whose CEO Terry Lanni is a prominent Republican benefactor. But Adelson is just so fricking reprehensible.
I didn't even like the Venetian before I was fully aware of the kind of person Adelson is. Rather than being an homage to Venice, it's more like a cheap knockoff and not only that, but it appears someone fed the Venetian after midnight and dropped water on it, budding the Lego-like Palazzo next door (then again, at least it's not the Trump International--really, Donald, you couldn't fricking design something that looks like a rejected draft of THEHotel at Mandalay Bay)?
Right now, I'm reading Winner Takes All by former WSJ reporter Christine Binkley and it details how Gary Loveman, Kirk Kerkorian, and Steve Wynn shaped modern Las Vegas. Some wonder why Adelson was left out. From what I've read, Binkley just dismisses Adelson as not important to modern Vegas, but she probably just wanted to avoid the headache of pending lawsuits for libel.
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