NYT prints ultimate BRTD-baiting article: strip clubs at RNC

[Mr. Morden]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/us/strip-clubs-in-tampa-are-ready-to-cash-in-on-gop-convention.html?_r=1

As Tampa gears up for the Republican National Convention, the biggest party it has ever held, the city and its businesses are primping and polishing for the August arrival of tens of thousands of visitors. Like it or not — mostly not, for city officials — Tampa’s well-known strip clubs have joined the welcome wagon.

Club owners here say they have schmoozed with their counterparts in former host cities, like Denver, and have been told that revenue pours in during conventions, sometimes quadrupling earnings from a Super Bowl week. As for party affiliation, this is one place where the country’s caustic partisan differences fall away, owners say.

[IDS Legislator Alfred F. Jones]

Apparently the Republicans give them more revenue than the Democrats. Interesting...

[WhyteRain]

Only an idiot would think that the NYT will run a similar article about Charlotte.

[Speaker Dereich]

Only an idiot would think that the NYT will run a similar article about Charlotte.

Its probably taken for granted. It isn't the Democrats who campaign on legislating Christian moral behavior.

[Simfan34]

Any Republican seen frequenting such establishments should immediately be expelled from the party. Sadly parties in the US do not work like that...

[True Federalist]

Only an idiot would think that the NYT will run a similar article about Charlotte.

Only a idiot would think Charlotte has strip clubs worthy of writing an article about.

[So the Heroes Fall]

As I had to deal with our other city hosting the RNC last year this doesn't surprise me. Some might remember me making a thread about boycotting a certain strip club because of an ad describing it as "RNC Party Headquarters", and remember an ad for an adult store that said "elephants have sex too" which was kind of a cute way to advertise in regards to the RNC yet also not excessively alienate the overwhelmingly liberal readership of the City Pages.

Only an idiot would think that the NYT will run a similar article about Charlotte.

Only a idiot would think Charlotte has strip clubs worthy of writing an article about.

It's got some decent ones per the site I reference on the matter....

But yeah, it's not hypocritical for Democrats to patronize strip clubs.

[Angel of Death]

I don't see Ralph Nader being mentioned anywhere in the article.

[© Tweed the Younger]

Only an idiot would think that the NYT will run a similar article about Charlotte.

Only a idiot would think Charlotte has strip clubs worthy of writing an article about.

why wouldn't any semi-major city have strip clubs?  'worth writing an article about' is a fungible standard.