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October 9th 2006
Negreanu labels Frist a “slimy weasel”
Daniel Negreanu, the 2004 Player of the Year, has posted a blog entry on his MySpace web page in which he labels Senator Bill Frist, the architect of the recent anti-gambling bill, a “slimy weasel.”
Echoing the sentiments of many of the estimated 50 million Americans who play poker, Negreanu expressed his outrage at the new legislation, but went on to explain that he thought it would not cripple the industry as predicted.
“An attempt several years ago to discourage credit card companies from funding online gaming accounts caused a slight panic, but in the end, companies like NETeller and other third party companies made it easy for customers to fund their online accounts.
“The way I understand it, you will still be able to fund your NETeller account from your bank account. NETeller is NOT an online gambling company. Your bank would have virtually no way of tracing what you do with your funds after you send them to NETeller, which appears to be totally legal as I understand it.”
Clearly incensed, the Canadian born Negreanu criticised those responsible for the bill, saying they thought they could “govern the world” and suggesting that their actions had cost the American people “billions and billions in tax dollars”, money that he said could have been spent on education and welfare.
He ended his blog entry with the following rant about Senator Frist:
“The weasel (remember, that's Bill Frist), claims that online gambling is a way in which terrorists go about laundering money. Come off it? How do you say that with a straight face? Weasel, do you have any proof whatsoever that any terrorist group has used online poker accounts to launder money? Any at all?
"The weasel is a self-righteous douche bag who has decided to push upon us his moral agenda by claiming that online poker is "bad." Has he ever played poker? Probably not. Does he even understand that it's different from slot machines? Probably not. Does he even realize that many Americans put food on the table by playing online poker? Probably not, and I doubt he cares. He thinks 'gambling is wrong' so we all have to have the same view of it as he does.”
Submitted: 09/10/2006 10:27:34
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