OMG - Cleveland Promo Videos

For the record: I'm really not one of those frequent Cleveland bashers. I love northeast Ohio, the people, the parks, the places...but I am realistic about the differences elsewhere and the mother ship.

Example: at most airports, it's a quick trip to shuttles or rental cars or parking garages from the terminal. At Hopkins, one must quickly step through the stench of the smoking zone, leap-frogging over stubbed butts and hundreds of chewing gum circles on the filthy sidewalk to do the same here. After leaving the terminal, one is immediately greeted by the sand casting ashtray across the freeway where the debris left over from the Ford Engine Plant is piled up. If heading east on Brookpark, welcome to the porn zone.

We don't exactly make this easy, do we?

That doesn't mean stuff like this video, below, should go unanswered. It's from YouTube and posted by someone calling themselves bishopvids and all humor to the contrary takes a pretty direct shot at life in Cleveland under the cover story they were paid millions by the Visitors Bureau to come up with this tourist ad:



There are already more than 457,000 views with over 1,100 comments posted. As if that isn't bad enough, version two notes all of the fish in Cleveland have AIDS thanks to the quality of the war and the only bright spot in the economy is LeBron James...there is an upbeat ending to this one, however:



I don't think this is going to sit well with Cleveland Plus.