Adelson’s anti-online gambling arguments “dishonest or uninformed”

A new video exposé aims to shine a harsh(er) spotlight on Sheldon Adelson’s online gambling hypocrisy.

Late Thursday night, blogger Tim James (pictured on the left) released the first episode of his new TheTimJamesShow.com. Last weekend, James had released a video teaser detailing the comparative ease with which underage gamblers could gain access to the casino floors of Las Vegas Sands’ properties, where they were allowed to gamble and consume alcohol.

The teaser went on to show the difficulties these same minors had while attempting to register and gamble on Nevada-licensed online poker sites. James maintained that this pokes Titanic-sized holes in claims by Adelson and his Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling that Sands’ brick-and-mortar casinos are better equipped than online sites to screen for underage patrons (although hefty fines seemed to have already settled this argument).

In Part 1 of his debut episode, James reveals that he was prompted to act after receiving a form letter from his local US Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA), a supporter of the Adelson-backed Restoration of America’s Wire Act, which would eliminate most forms of online gambling in the US. Feinstein cited the alleged ability of minors to easily gamble online as part of her justification for supporting RAWA.