Las Vegas Ads Salute Prince Harry, Denounce the Traitors in His Midst

A perfect scandal for Sin City

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In a pretzel-like bit of exploitation masquerading as outrage, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has released a flood of marketing materials in the past week pretending to be angry about the Prince Harry scandal—not over his behavior, of course, but over the behavior of bystanders who took photos of Harry's naked backside and posted them everywhere, callously ignoring the rule that what happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas. "For shame! To those who traded in their pledge to their Las Vegas brethren, we deplore you," the LVCVA says in a full-page ad in USA Today.

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