Posted on 09/25/2015 6:05:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I suppose that headline is a bit optimistic -- the media is very good about suppressing stories that expose them as frauds; see the Gosnell coverage.
But we're coming to a point where the media's continue refusal to acknowledge the obvious is going to become very embarrassing to them.
IBD states the obvious. (I can't quote it because it's short, but it dispels so much of the previous myth-making here; do read it.)
Suggesting, to me, that we're about to hit the moment of Peak Media Embarrassment is the fact that the tech community is now openly referring to this as a hoax. They focus on the fact that this kid did not "invent" anything -- he took a mass produced clock, took it out of its case, and put it into pencil box that looked like a small suitcase to make it look like a "cartoon" bomb.
People who do tech know that no one, not even a ninth grader, would think he did anything of value here, unless he were mentally slow, which this kid is not said to be. Some in this thread call it simple "plagiarism." That is the exact analogy I used in talking about this: It would be as like a ninth grader simply xeroxing "The Old Man and the Sea" and then telling people "Look at my story."
No one who is not mentally slow would think that mere act of photocopying made it "his story," and no ninth grader who was not mentally slow would imagine that taking a mass produced clock out of its case and putting it into another case constituted making an "invention" or even "building" a clock.
Two videos to illustrate the difference between an electronics hobbyist building a clock and someone not building a clock.
First, here is someone actually making a clock:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Now, here is what Ahmad the Genius Clock Inventor did:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Anyone see a difference? A slight difference?
Why would someone -- apart from someone who is mentally slow -- imagine that the latter "invention" was worth showing off at school at all?
I was once a ninth grader. If I had, say, taken a bit of blue transparent plastic and laid it over the red screen of a digital clock, I would have made the numbers appear purple rather than red.
This would have been more of an "invention" than Ahmad achieved -- I actually would have changed, in a minor way, the performance of the device -- and yet I would never have thought for one second that such a minor, trivial, idiotic alteration was worth showing off to anyone.
Worth doing? Who knows; maybe if I were going through a Prince phase.
But worth showing off to multiple teachers?
Hardly. I'd think they'd think there was something wrong with me for being so proud of something that a baby could do.
But we are told that this kid is a genius -- so much so he's getting scholarship offers from MIT -- for a hoax, and for a plagiarism.
Why would anyone think was an "invention" worth bringing to school?
Hands-Up-Don’t-Shoot
The narrative has already been set...
What bothers me: so many supposed freepers rushed to slam us for disbelieving little Ahmed, or tried to insult and discredit anyone disbelieving little Ahmed.
Hmmm...
I must have missed that.
I saw FReepers calling Bravo Sierra from the get go.
The media doesn’t care if the clock-maker hoax holds up or not. Most Americans have a 20 minute maximum attention span and have already forgotten about it. (Just to clarify, their attention span increases to 40 minutes when the issue has to do with Kim Kardashian’s ass.)
Besides, Americans are all focused now on the five-year-old girl who singlehandedly defeated the Pope’s security just to hand him a note about her father who “galvanizes metal”!
It was done on Twitter, too, by some peeps I greatly respect as former Vets and intel ‘insiders’. They were cheering the kid on. SMH.
...most of whom have displayed a decided liberal bent in the past, consistently...
Election seasons never fail to bring out the limp wristed leftists on Free Republic. They scurry about like pissants on cue when some faggot muslim polishes a turd and calls it a gold watch
So little Ahmed was testing the system?
The Joe Biden award for originality in impractical design goes to...
Bet on it.
The media is very persuasive. We are barraged with their brainwashing, every second, every minute of every day. It's hard work to fight one's way through it. That's one of the great values of Free Republic. There's always someone at one point in time with the vision to see through that circus tent we're all inside that will remind us.
And we fight against it. Give them time, don't lose heart. My pet peeve is all those here who think it's fine and dandy for the government to say what chemicals are to be injected into everyone else's children or "we're all gonna die!" Aarrgh!
Brian Williams cut the wrong color wire once.
Was this an assignment?
If yes, what did other kids bring in?
What grade did you give Ahmed?
Were you "impressed" by it at all?
If no assignment, was Ahmed looking for some kind of extra credit?
Is that common in your science class?
For the school:
If this IS a clock, as has been proven, WHY did it go off in English class?
Alarm clocks are "set" to go off at a certain time.
Why English class?
For that matter, why have it set off at all?
I say every damn democrat can go rot - this is why they consistently beat hell out of us. We don't have the blood lust for carnage that they do. The democrats are like the The Terminator, you can't kill enough of them, they never stop - they just keep coming - and our side is like little Nancy Wetdrawers next door.
And there were also many freepers who said the teachers and principal were idiots and over reacted. They said it was obviously just a clock and the kid shouldn’t have been arrested.
It was a hoax bomb. Period.
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