| Joe Obenberger |
12-17-2015 02:01 PM |
If he'd died, his three-day adventure in that cathouse - exactly what happened and who it happened with - would still be headline news - and on a fairly daily basis, more and more of a shocking nature would be coming out about the tawdry details of this little misadventure for hire out in the desert.
It is kind of amazing what dangerous fantasies and unbridled liberties $75,000 can buy. And the risk that each of them carries.
But, because he survived - if you can call that paralysis and G*d alone knows what other damage was done to him, survival - and because everyone with real knowledge clammed up early on, because very talented and savvy people took command of media relations, and because the media abdicated any responsibility to investigate (probably because this guy came out of the sports world, and sports journalism is notoriously lightweight), the tourist income of Nevada remains secure and this little embarrassment to it inevitably fades from public memory. Not a single criminal charge has or will surface despite quite public disclosures about the use and possession of controlled substances that would be likely to put people in prison in other circumstances. The Number One Google Search of 2015 has become a nonstory - by design.
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