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:
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Now, here is what Ahmad the Genius Clock Inventor did:
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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?
The usual Muslim test run for the next mission.
Media massively discredited ,,,?
I don’t think so either..
It’s a never ending sideshow,
Breaking News Alert,
Action News,
This Just in,
It’s all junk,trash or fluff and completely controlled.
As for Me,,
I’m awaiting the Mother Ship from Middle Earth.
oh yeah the little hispanic girl who who went up to the Pope to hand him a handwritten letter written in Spanish and English asking him to push immigration reform. The one who was trained and instructed to deliver that letter. The little girl who was allowed to slip through security...mmm hmm
Lol
it will be very interesting to see the photo op with Obama... if it ever takes place
They should send all Muslims to mars and leave them there.
The MSM doesn't do "embarrassed." The MSM doubles down on lies that promote the agenda.
In a few years, leftists will still contend that Ahmed invented a clock, took it to school to display his creativity, and was singled out for harassment just for being a Muslim.
Ahmed and his father have created an oppression fantasy that is sufficiently useful to leftists that they will continue to treat it as a fact.
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
How about a starting point in that thread? I didn’t notice an empathetic post. And yes, I read past the first 5.
Did you see post 8 at that thread calling the teacher and idiot and hysterical?
No?
Reread it.
Or how about post 19?
Or how about post 34?
MIT? Perfect reaction.
Uncle RC/dc. Right?
Apologies, didn’t follow the thread you linked.
#19 seemed sarcastic, and you’ll notice that I replied to the absurd #34. No excuse for #8.
So, we’re looking at marginal sympathy, no?
Yeah, saw your post 83 over there.
Read it, scratched my head and said, “wait, he saw the same stuff. Wait..was my link right?”
So I just got done looking at my link!
Lol.
Yup, at least marginal sympathy.
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That little video is barely that. It is someone assembling a clock from a purchased kit. It demonstrates a certain amount of manual dexterity and the ability to follow printed instructions, but nothing more.
>> “Wait..was my link right?”
And as I thought, “jeez, this silly post #34 looks familiar...”
G’night, FRiend. It’s quite late for me...
I’m posting from a mobile, so link copying is a unique hell.
Goodnight, see everyone tomorrow.
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