Proposed “Red Light Express” To Run From Disney To Brothel
March 26th, 2009 Posted in Bizarre, News, Prototype, VideoA U.S. Congressman interviewed by FOX News on Monday expressed outrage at Senator Harry Reid’s support of a railroad that would run from Disneyland to a brothel in Mound House.
Problem is, no such plan exists…
Representative Trent Franks (R-Arizona) accused Reid on “America’s Newsroom” of supporting a taxpayer-funded “Red Light Express” from Disneyland to the Moonlite Bunny Ranch.
“It’s astonishing to me, you know,” Franks told FOX News‘ Megyn Kelly. “At one point, we had the ‘bridge to nowhere.’ Now we have the train to the Moonlite Bunny Ranch.”
FOX News showed pictures of brothel workers during the interview.
The Moonlight Bunny Ranch is a legal brothel located in Mound House, Nevada.
“It’s a super-railroad, of sorts,” Kelly said. “A line that will deliver customers straight from Disney, we kid you not, to the doorstep of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Nevada.”
“The bunnies are very happy about this development,” she said.
Franks said Carson City voters rejected a tax for the railroad project.
Franks and Kelly might be confusing two of Reid’s proposals. The senator wants $475,000 in Congress’ 2009 spending bill for the V&T Railway tourist train. The railroad will run 18 miles from Carson City to Virginia City when finished. Carson City voters rejected a tax increase for that project in November.
Reid, the senate majority leader, has also said some of the $8 billion for high-speed trains approved in the economic stimulus bill should go to a train from Southern California to Las Vegas.
Bethany Barker, a representative for Franks, said Tuesday that the congressman doesn’t think the Bunny Ranch is in Las Vegas and didn’t confuse Reid’s spending proposals. Franks‘ district in northwest Arizona borders Nevada and California.
Juan Velasco hammers a spike into place while working on the V&T Railway. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., wants $475,000 in Congress’ 2009 spending bill for the V&T Railway tourist train. The railroad will run 18 miles from Carson City to Virginia City when finished.
Barker referred further questions to a statement that criticized $475,000 for the V&T Railway as “an example of waste.” The statement calls the railroad the Red Light Express because it runs through Mound House, home to Lyon County’s four brothels.
Richard White, A FOX News representative, said Kelly clearly stated there was no earmark for the railroad from Anaheim to Mound House. He declined to comment further.
Jon Summers, a representative for Reid, said the accusations about the railroad were an attempt to “gin up a lot of controversy.”
“What Sen. Reid cares about is Nevadans, and I think Nevadans see what is going on here,” Summers said.
Kevin Ray, a representative for the state commission building the V&T Railway, said a Los Angeles FOX News affiliate asked him Monday about the Red Light Express. Ray said he was surprised and told a reporter he didn’t know anything about it.
FOX News’ Megyn Kelly speaks with Rep. Trent Franks (R-Arizona) about the Red Light Express.
GAUX Wonders: I’ll bet those will be some expensive tickets, especially in first-class! Do you suppose you would get ’round-trip’ or ’round-the-world’ reservations? When I get to the ranch, can I request my favorite Disney character? …the mind wanders.
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8 Responses to “Proposed “Red Light Express” To Run From Disney To Brothel”
By Dapet on Mar 27, 2009
Fox once again is telling fantisy stories and bald faced lies rather than acurate news.
By Jenna's Bush on Jun 4, 2009
Only the most brain-dead partisan hacks believe anything on Faux “News”.
By Dave on Jun 4, 2009
Let me guess….you watch MSNBC for your news? You know I still can’t figure out which way Keith Obermann leans politically…he is so objective.
Ask yourself why Fox News has better ratings than MSNBC and CNN combined. Seems like your credibility comment is misdirected.
By carrierpigeon on Jun 4, 2009
There is nothing wrong with this piece. Any logical person watching this piece can easily see that the door-to-door reference from Disney to the Moonlight Bunny Ranch is NOT intended to be the actual route. The entire thrust of the piece is that Reid intends to charge all of America for rail projects with limited usefulness, like a tourist train from Southern California to Las Vegas. This heavily spun article uses far more spin than the Fox piece, AND it is not done in a sarcastic manner as the Fox piece is. So, yeah, go ahead and see if you can get anyone to believe that the obviously tongue-in-cheek Disney-to-Brothel references are reflect poorly on Fox News.
If you want to see genuine lack of credibility, spend a few moments watching Keith Olberman or Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. Of course the ratings for MSNBC vs. Fox News gives the real story. America TRUSTS Fox News. MSNBC can barely register on the same scale.
By John on Jun 4, 2009
Just more unpatriotic negativity from liberals who hate America, Ronald Reagan, the honest hardworking business leaders of America, and the troops.
By jason on Jun 7, 2009
What Reid is doing is exactly what he is supposed to do: Take the best care he can of the people he represents.
In a time when some of the steepest housing plummets in history are being recorded in the location where the majority of residents live, a public works project to encourage easy tourism is heads and shoulders above what many of our representatives do.
Think of what a few thousand weekend tourists would bring back to the ghost town that is the stip if they were tempted by the ease of the journey.
By curtis on Jun 20, 2009
Have you ever made the trip from SOCAL to Vegas? Sometimes bumper-to-bumper for 3-4 hours. A train makes alot of sense. 70% of vegas customers come from SOCAL, more than ‘a few thousand.’ As far as confusing the Vegas train and the ‘brothel’ train is Moundhouse is more than 400 miles north of Las Vegas. I would tell FOX news fans to look at a map, but maps are usually based on facts. That rules out FOX news fans!
By Clay on Jan 26, 2010
As a Carson City Resident Fox News did more to build this project than Harry Reid! The entire town is still laughing. And oh by the way Carrier piegon, Why did Franks claim he knew his geography just before his retraction?
Just tounge in cheek, i think not.. sunlight has a way of being accountability all by itself… I kid you not!
And for the record- the Carson City Residents voted against an “advisory question on wether or not they wanted a sales tax raised a 1/4 of a percent to bond for funding to finish the project- this went to vote in November when the Bush economy was at it’s peak- go figure the voters declined, The Board of Supervisors respected the vote… sounds like democracy to me.