President Barack Obama held key meetings this week to defend his economic policies in, of all places Las Vegas. The city, not known for being spendthrift, may have held some appeal to Obama’s handlers but still, I mean come on. Metaphorically speaking Las Vegas isn’t exactly the best place to hold an economic summit. Nothing reminds people of Obama’s message that we need to all work together and tighten our belts for the difficult times ahead like a city where you can walk into a fully realized Roman throne room and buy a fifteen foot tall solid platinum gorilla. I can only imagine the sound of slot machines didn’t do much to add an air of credibility to Obama’s message that he feels confident he can get all the money back that America spent on the bailout.
I mean, if you’re going to hold a press conference on fiscal responsibility in Las Vegas, why not go all the way with it and have the conference take place in the middle of a Cirque Du Soleil show taking place on the head of the MGM Grand Lion while Blink-182, Wayne Newton, and Mike Tyson sing a song about buying a Maserati in the background.
I can only hope that the United Nations doesn’t take a cue from the misguided Obama administration as regardless their lack of thought about the effect of one’s surroundings and hold the most important meeting on Global Warming in history in an incredibly cold and snowy part of the world, like Copenhagen.
But this isn’t the first, or the worst time that an important meeting has been held in an ironic location. Here are just a few more:
1. 2003, PETA’s “Why Animals Are People Too” summit, held at Porky Dave’s BBQ N’ Gulp: PETA, in an effort to save money, found the restaurant that had the absolute cheapest rental fee in the city of Austin for a meeting of their top brass to discuss how to promote animal rights in a more effective way to the population at large. The meeting had to come to an abrupt ending when two employees carrying a barrel of pig knuckles tripped over a microphone chord and spilled one hundred and thirty pounds of pig knuckles all over Brooke Shields, who had been scheduled to chair the meeting.
2. 1998, Los Angeles Police Dept.’s “Books Not Guns: How To Get Kids Interested In Learning And Out Of Gangs”, at Snoop Dogg’s House. Snoop Dogg generously donated the west-wing of his Compton mansion (as part of his community service) to the LAPD so that they might have a quiet environment in which to discuss their new program. High level LAPD officers accepted the offer, out of touch with popular culture, believing Snoop Dogg to be some sort of avid Peanuts fan. The meeting took a turn for the worst when a bunch of area Crips stopped by to play pool. The subsequent shootout left three gang members badly injured, two police officers had their hats shot off, and the program had to be shut down for two years before it could be resuscitated.
3. 1974, The World Premiere of the movie “Jaws”, held inside the mouth of a giant shark. No one knows why they thought this would be a good idea. But after Roy Scheider was quickly eaten going inside the shark for the premiere, everyone else hesitated to go in, and they decided to re-evaluate their original plan and have the premiere at a theater in New York instead.
Comments
kyle
February 21st, 2010 - 5:12:02 AM
good one.
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