Asshole of the Week

This breaking news just in, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead, and Joey Vento is still an asshole. Yes, that's right, our favorite grease-slinging dipshit (oh, and he sells soggy cheesesteaks, too) was back in the news this week. This time, he wasn't bitching about his court victory (which earned him Asshole of the Week a couple weeks back). No, instead, he was joining the clusterfuck debate about what went down in the campaign leading up to this week's Pennsylvania primary. In Joe's case, he was actually bitching about what didn't go down in the campaign, namely that neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama got a cheesesteak from Geno's. (Clinton got a chicken cheesesteak at Boccella's in Conshy, while Obama went to Pat's. We're sure Vento loved that.)

Ostensibly, he's upset because not visiting Geno's denotes an unwillingness by the candidates to address immigration reform. Really, he's upset because he wanted the press coverage. So if the candidates weren't going to get the press coverage for him, he was going to make sure he got some press coverage by ripping on the candidates for not getting the press coverage for him. We don't think the candidates avoided Geno's because of anything related to the immigration issue. It's highly likely that they simply didn't want to deal with the flack they would undoubtedly get for patronizing Vento's establishment. (They are, after all the nominees of the excessively politically correct Democratic party.) And even more likely is that they just knew that Geno's steaks just aren't that good.

So, for his continued relentless pursuit of headlines and sales under the pretext of actual political commentary, Joey Vento is Phillyist's first-ever two-time Asshole of the Week.

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