Damn! Sometimes I miss all the fun!
George Clooney stormed away during his fancy Vegas dinner with hotel tycoon Steve Wynn after Wynn called President Obama an asshole and trashed Obamacare. Now the two are crapping all over each other via the media.
Wynn says Clooney got drunk on tequila shots and when Wynn attacked the President ... he says George hurled an F-bomb and left. Clooney says Wynn was trashing the Affordable Care Act. He says "I said that the President was my longtime friend and then he said, 'Your friend is an asshole.'" Clooney adds, "At that point I told Steve HE was an asshole and that I wasn't going to sit at his table while he was being such a jackass."
Norm Clarke of the Las Vegas Review-Journal talked to both parties:
The two-time Oscar winner issued the following statement in an email sent through his publicist: “There were nine people at that table ... so you can ask them. ... Steve likes to go on rants.
“He called the president an asshole ... that is a fact ... I said the President was my longtime friend and then he said ‘your friend is an asshole.’ ... At that point I told Steve that HE was an asshole and I wasn’t going to sit at his table while he was being such a jackass.On the other side:
“And I walked out. There were obviously quite a few more adjectives and adverbs used by both of us. Those are all the facts. It had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character.”
The incident occurred two weeks ago at Botero restaurant, inside Wynn’s Encore hotel.
Clooney was in Las Vegas to promote his Casamigos tequila during the Wine &Spirits Wholesalers of America convention.
Dinner had ended, and “the place was empty,” Wynn said.My Mom, of blessed memory, always said there were three sides to every story--one guy's, the other guy's, and the truth.
Clooney took exception, Wynn said, when one of the CAA execs told a joke about former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev.
“He stood up and threw a hissy fit” at the CAA guy, Wynn said in a telephone interview, his first comments on the dust-up.
“Then he sat down and started talking about the Affordable Care Act, and that’s when I spoke up,” said Wynn, a frequent critic of Obamacare. “He didn’t like that either. I think my discussion about the Affordable Care Act was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
“When he’s drinking, he considers himself a close personal buddy of the president.
“He got up and said, ‘I don’t have to listen to this (expletive) stuff. The only person who got excited at the table was George, and he ran off to another bar.”
Clooney’s partners were “mortified,” Wynn said.
“Clooney’s fun to be with when he’s sober,” Wynn added. “If you have a chance to drink with him, you want to get there early, and don’t stay late.
“Everybody who’s in my business, the casino business, knows to take actors with a grain of salt.”
Perhaps Wynn was trying to demonstrate why the RNC should have their 2016 convention in Vegas. Perhaps Clooney was trying to get free publicity for his new tequila during the Wine &Spirits Wholesalers of America convention.
In the end we will never know the truth...but it is fun to see them trash each other.
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