FLASHPOINT for Feb 11, 2007

What would be worse - picking tomatoes or making beds in Las Vegas? According to Karl Rove, the president's closest adviser quoted in National Review Online , both are terrible to contemplate: "I don't want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas," a congressman's wife quoted Rove as saying . The quote was exploited by an anti-immigration writer to make the case that Rove's boss is proposing amnesty for illegals so they can do those horrible jobs. And it was used to tear apart Rove by Rep. Shelley Berkley. It shouldn't surprise Las Vegans to hear that comment. We haven't seen the president much since he became a candidate in 2000. Maybe that attitude about our little hellhole explains why.