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Now i think we're beginning to better understand why Socialists/Progressives in this country are so hateful & ignorant. They get their 'News & Information' from bizarre & incompetent Media sources like CNN,The Huffington Post, and The View. What a bunch of nutters. 
HuffPo Ignites Class Warfare with Hoax Story
Last week, the Huffington Post ran with the story of a banker who, as a sign of contempt for the 99%, crudely tipped a waitress a mere 1% ($1.33 on a $133 bill) and scribbled in a snarky “get a real job” on the bill. A photo of the receipt, posted on an anonymous Wordpress blog entitled “Future Ex Banker” (now removed), allegedly by the banker’s subordinate/dining companion, noted:
I work in the corporate office of a major bank for a boss who represents everything wrong with the financial industry: blatant disregard and outright contempt for everyone and everything he deems beneath him. … Mention the ‘99%’ in my boss’ presence and feel his wrath. So proudly does he wear his 1% badge of honor that he tips exactly 1% every time he feels the server doesn’t sufficiently bow down to his Holiness. Oh, and he always makes sure to include a ‘tip’ of his own.
Needless to say, class warfare proponents everywhere salivated with delight over the story, proof positive of the ‘evil’ 1%. The story was picked up and posted by nearly every major news site. For several days, the story made the rounds, with Yahoo! still posting about it yesterday afternoon, in article entitled “Banker’s Insulting Waitress Tip Incites Class Warfare Between the 1% and the 99%.” [Interestingly, four paragraphs into that same article, the Yahoo! writer switches gears to discuss “a battle between environmentalists and big oil companies” about actress Lucy Lawless’s weekend arrest at a Greenpeace protest. Because, you know, a story about an "evil banker" goes hand in hand with a story about ‘evil oil companies.’]
Subsequent to its initial reporting, Huffington Post breathlessly continued to report on the matter, issuing such Pulitzer-worthy updates on the situation as: “UPDATE II: As many have noted, a true 1% tip correctly rounded to the nearest penny would have been $1.34, leaving this tip just shy of that threshold, mathematically speaking.” Well, thank heavens its readers were on top of that.
A CNN Panel, led by Soledad O'Brien, expressed their horror. "Some of these people (the 1%) really are who the anarchists in Zucotti Park think they are."
But on Monday night, the Newport Beach restaurant in question, True Food Kitchen, released its investigation’s findings. No surprise: the story is a hoax, the product of a photoshopped receipt. The amount on the actual bill/receipt? $33.54, not $133.54 (a “1” was clearly added). The actual tip? Over 20%. And no, there was no “get a real job” scribbled on.
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HuffPo Ignites Class Warfare with Hoax Story
HuffPo Ignites Class Warfare with Hoax Story
Last week, the Huffington Post ran with the story of a banker who, as a sign of contempt for the 99%, crudely tipped a waitress a mere 1% ($1.33 on a $133 bill) and scribbled in a snarky “get a real job” on the bill. A photo of the receipt, posted on an anonymous Wordpress blog entitled “Future Ex Banker” (now removed), allegedly by the banker’s subordinate/dining companion, noted:
I work in the corporate office of a major bank for a boss who represents everything wrong with the financial industry: blatant disregard and outright contempt for everyone and everything he deems beneath him. … Mention the ‘99%’ in my boss’ presence and feel his wrath. So proudly does he wear his 1% badge of honor that he tips exactly 1% every time he feels the server doesn’t sufficiently bow down to his Holiness. Oh, and he always makes sure to include a ‘tip’ of his own.
Needless to say, class warfare proponents everywhere salivated with delight over the story, proof positive of the ‘evil’ 1%. The story was picked up and posted by nearly every major news site. For several days, the story made the rounds, with Yahoo! still posting about it yesterday afternoon, in article entitled “Banker’s Insulting Waitress Tip Incites Class Warfare Between the 1% and the 99%.” [Interestingly, four paragraphs into that same article, the Yahoo! writer switches gears to discuss “a battle between environmentalists and big oil companies” about actress Lucy Lawless’s weekend arrest at a Greenpeace protest. Because, you know, a story about an "evil banker" goes hand in hand with a story about ‘evil oil companies.’]
Subsequent to its initial reporting, Huffington Post breathlessly continued to report on the matter, issuing such Pulitzer-worthy updates on the situation as: “UPDATE II: As many have noted, a true 1% tip correctly rounded to the nearest penny would have been $1.34, leaving this tip just shy of that threshold, mathematically speaking.” Well, thank heavens its readers were on top of that.
A CNN Panel, led by Soledad O'Brien, expressed their horror. "Some of these people (the 1%) really are who the anarchists in Zucotti Park think they are."
But on Monday night, the Newport Beach restaurant in question, True Food Kitchen, released its investigation’s findings. No surprise: the story is a hoax, the product of a photoshopped receipt. The amount on the actual bill/receipt? $33.54, not $133.54 (a “1” was clearly added). The actual tip? Over 20%. And no, there was no “get a real job” scribbled on.
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HuffPo Ignites Class Warfare with Hoax Story
It was a lie. Deal with it.
