The mother of all investments.
Posted on 12/15/2014 7:18:24 PM PST by Signalman
It didn't take long for New York Magazine's story on a 17-year-old stock whiz with a rumored net worth of $72 million to make a splash. But the story's juicy premise unraveled almost as quickly. Wapo.com Jessica Pressler wrote the profile of Mohammed Islam, a senior at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, for a feature called "Reasons to Love New York." After getting an advanced look at Pressler's piece, the New York Post put the improbable story on its Sunday front page. By Monday morning, Islam's story was one of the hottest on Facebook.
Then it fell apart. In an interview with the New York Observer published Monday night, Islam admitted that he fabricated the whole story and has never actually made a return on any investment. "So it's total fiction?" asked the Observer. "Yes," Islam said.
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A minority hits it big? Great!
Obama saves the day? Wonderful!
College students are rapists? Everyone knows that!
Republicans are rich and sleazy? Extra! Extra!
None of this needs to be true. As long as it sounds good.
Read Kyle Smiths article from the NY Post from a few days ago: “2014 is the year of the liberal lie”. This is just one more example out of the other billion lies the press has been spewing out all year. I guess they are taking a cue from their God Obama.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/13/2014-is-the-year-of-the-lie/
“Pressler, who will be heading to Bloomberg News next year to lead a financial investigative unit ...”
She’s no ordinary reporter. She specializes in financial investigation.
Think of all the clippings about making 72 million dollars, that he can frame and use for years to impress his dates.
I wouldn’t mind having a clipping like that to pull out when I’m talking to a girl in nightclub.
He’s got the Taqqiya thing down pat.
I hate it that someone always beats me to the best replies!
Can you a imagine a more muzzie name than "Mohammed Islam?"
Is that a pseudonym, or just a "nom de lie?"
I second the ‘tude. It pisses me off to no end to invest ear/eye time in something that ends up being bulls***. It doesn’t happen often, mainly because if it’s from something online I can cross check it 5X, but when you hear the story on the radio or TV, at least until now you’d figure the idiots running with it would freakin’ check the damn story out for it’s core truth or not...
She must have gone to The Clifford Irving School of Journalism.
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When Google went IPO in 2004 I was insane enough to buy 1000 shares at $100. I put up $50k which was everything I had and the other 50 on margin and I got too scared and sold at something like $104. Next thing I know the thing is hitting $200 which got me sick, I quit stocks entirely, then one day I see it’s $600 then $700 then $800 then hit $1000. I was on a train a few months ago talking to a guy who worked in finance and told him what I did, and you know what he says to me? “Why do you sell? EVERYBODY knew it was going that high!”
She will get a promotion to being Obama’s next speech writer.
The mother of all investments.
Don’t forget “Hands up, don’t shoot!” and “I heard wet grass.”
Oh, come on, you can bulls*** people easily. Thinking up some really bizarre caper top pull off on school administrators takes talent and planning. He invested 5 or 10 minutes of make believe to an idiot that passed it off with their own (former) journalistic credibility.
IMHO, that doesn’t hold a candle to guys who reassemble a VW on the roof of, or deep inside, a school. ;-)
They all have Teenie Weenie Syndrome.
There seems to be a signifigant lack of imagination whem it comes to names in the Islamic world. With almost every other male being named Mohamed it must be a class A pain in the butt to keep things straight. I daresay you could throw a rock into a crowd in any Islamic country and hit at least 6 or 7 “Mohameds”.
CC
Boots and Coots Wild Well Control :-) 4 bagged my whole self directed IRA with it. Went back in afterwards with part of that and held 50K shares through the 4-1 reverse split for a subsequent cash and stock buyout by Halliburton.
Rolling Stone Fact Checking
I wonder what that idiot fool of a writer would have written about the fake UVA rape case? I think we all know already.
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