Here’s another Walter Mitty story -- boy investment genius,
not yet out of high school, makes $72 million trading stocks on Wall Street. His
name is Mohammed Islam and he goes to Stuyvesant High School on the lower East
Side of Manhattan and has seemingly acquired all the trappings of a multi-millionaire.
Perhaps these trumped-up trappings are what influenced Jessica Pressler to write a quite typical New Yorker magazine flivver story
about this wunderkind … see: New Yorker Story.
Alas, it was all a great big teenager prank and the New Yorker magazine
is embarrassed … see: The Observer Exposee ... and Jessica Pressler has moved on to browner pastures … see: Capital Story.
I actually think she should have taken a shot at Rolling Stone.
My first reaction was, "Smells fishy." Especially when there are no details about the strategy. Rush thinks this is another example of Lefty Liberal reporting because libs love Muslim success stories and hate conservatives.
ReplyDeleteI think that it typifies what has happened to journalism in America over the last 45 years. Facts are irrelevant and "making a difference" is what is all important
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