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Wynn vs Lin: Casino mogul Steve Wynn blows up at Inquirer, saying "I don't like the tone of your voice!"
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Wynn vs Lin: Casino mogul Steve Wynn blows up at Inquirer, saying "I don't like the tone of your voice!"
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Yes, it's a week late – but is it ever too late to watch videos of ultra-rich casino moguls blow up at reporters?
Hmm?
Exactly. So check out this video, taken by the mysterious and very diligent dude behind "Roxbury News," of Inquirer reporter Jennifer Lin trying to ask Steve Wynn about his proposed casino at last weeks Gaming Board hearing.
In the clip, Lin (hands-down one of the hardest-working reporters in town) asks Wynn a few basic questions about his proposed casino, like how he plans to get a building permit and whether he's heard of the recently-issued "civic vision" for the waterfront.
What's clear from the interview is that Wynn's own understanding of Foxwoods' troubled history on that site is . . . let's say, limited.
Lin wound up explaining to Wynn that Foxwoods had faced opposition to its waterfront site, and that because of delays in getting a building permit, the casino tried to relocate to Market East, near Chinatown.
"I wasn't part of that deal, I'm only part of this one," Wynn replied.
A few more highlights:
Jennifer Lin: Are you familiar with the two-year long process to come up with a civic vision for the waterfront, that the mayor paid for and endorsed, and that included –
Steve Wynn: No, No, I answered you, no.
. . .
Wynn: Are you lecturing me or interviewing me?
Lin: I'm interviewing you and I'm asking you a question.
Wynn: Then please change the tone of your voice ma'am. I'm trying to be polite and I don't like the tone of your voice.
Lin: The finding of the civic vision was to have a more open waterfront and not build big box structures like casinos, home depots etc. Are you familiar with that, you said no. Are you curious what that vision was that was articulated?
Wynn: Well, it's clear that whatever that articulation was at some point in the past, that civic vision changed.
Perhaps in this case one might ask oneself, did he have a point? Was there a question in all the rhetoric? Is there such a thing as a run-on question? If not Ms. Lin has just invented it, so bravo darling. I think what most fail to realize in all this is that Steve Wynn has a superior level of intelligence and vision that the average Joe cannot even begin to acknowledge, let alone comprehend. They say if you ask a stupid question, you get a stupid answer. So what then do you get when you don't really ask a question at all? Oh yes, that's right, "a lecture". I suppose some of our friends who have unfortunately suffered from the dwarfed intelligence caused by lack of education and culture might call it a score for an arduous reporter standing her ground. I suppose had her thoughts and questions actually had any intellectual substance in foundation one could, yet after perusing it several times, alas, I cannot find it as though it were a needle in a haystack. (The intellectual substance in case you were lost). So once again my friends, my advice to all; let's all be grateful for the blessing of having a man of such character and extraordinary vision working in such fashion to better our ailing nation, instead of spending all our time attempting to belittle his genius with such unfounded thoughts born of ignorance. I pray someday more people will see that. Mazeltov "Uncle" Steve Wynn, we are blessed to have you in our lives.
I thought it was a good, tough exchange between two professionals. The media in this town (with the exception of Lin) pretend they are such such hard asses and as soon as someone stands up to them they whine like little bitches. Wynn is huge step up from the Barnes assholes.
I wish she was wearing a big honkin ring...so that when she finally hits him, he goes down, hard. She showed more cool and confidence than I could next to such a schmuck. Btw, I hope this exchange is a lesson to anyone who has't been hit over the head with the pitfalls of entrusting local civic visions to anchorless, predatory developers. He doesn't know navy yard from a hole in his head.
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