"Advance ticket sales for last night's scheduled event in Sugarland, Texas, a suburb of Houston, were so dismal that prices were slashed by 90% for the cheapest seats. But even that level of discounting apparently didn't prevent another prospective sea of empty seats, such as the 83% empty arena in Toronto that had to be humiliating for the fading former first family." . . .
The contract between the Clintons and the tour-promoter, Live Nation, a publicly owned New York Stock Exchange-listed company with over ten billion dollars a year in sales, is confidential, so I don't know if the Clintons have a guaranteed minimum compensation. But it is a pretty safe guess that poor attendance and deep discounts for ticket prices mean that the tour is losing money for Live Nation with each poorly attended show. It is not cheap to rent stadiums, hire staff, provide security, and charter jets for the Clintons.How much money would a publicly owned company be willing to lose in order to save face for the Cintons, now that they are unlikely ever to regain use of the Oval Office?Full article here.
The Clintons Are Now The 'Spinal Tap' Of The Political World . . . "At one point in the movie "This Is Spinal Tap"— a "rockumentary" about a fictitious aging British heavy metal band on tour in America — documentarian Marty DiBergi asks the band's manager, Ian Faith, about the band's waning popularity.
Marty: The last time Tap toured America, they were, uh, booked into 10,000 seat arenas, and 15,000 seat venues, and it seems that now, on their current tour they're being booked into 1,200 seat arenas, 1,500 seat arenas, and uh I was just wondering, does this mean uh ... the popularity of the group is waning?Ian: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no ... no, no, not at all. I, I, I just think that the ... uh ... their appeal is becoming more selective."Based on the first leg of their big 13-city cross-country tour, the Clintons' appeal is becoming very selective, indeed." . . .
Source: Lucianne
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