Hoax New York Times puts hoax version of Martin Eisenstadt on front page!
November 12th, 2008 . by MartyThrough the looking glass…. The hoax version of the New York Times put out by the infamous Yes Men actually put me on the cover, and then wrote a long piece describing how two losers are claiming to be me in order to pitch a TV show. Ridiculous!
As anyone who’s been reading my blog knows, I deny any and all accusations that I somehow don’t exist. I’ve posted it before, but it’s worth doing one more time, here’s the section of the BBC documentary, “The Last Republican” wherein I refute my naysayers (and of course, also see my responses to this series, too):
haha, the Yes Men? Now you’re trying to put a hoax on the hoax!
[…] Of course, Eisenstadt is denying it all. […]
What are you going to do with your blog and website now? They got you.
Say Goodbye to your traffic. LOL.
They got you.
Say Goodbye to your traffic. LOL.</em.
Have you learned nothing from this? Give it a week and he’ll put out a story that Joe the Plumber was hired for White House maintenance, or some thing. And hundreds of blogs will link to it as truth. And Keith Olberman will have a “Special Comment” on it.
The following sentence is true:
The prior sentence is false.
Thank you for exposing the reality behind “reality.” With all due respect to bloggers, I am so tired of their masturbatory urge to bloviate about the impacts and benefits of “new media.” If you want help with any future…endeavours…drop a line. Can write well, organize, and amuse self at other’s expense.
Just wondering what it feels like and smells like to be a pigs anus all the time?
Jesse’s comment only contains one sentence, but it actually works if you allow his logic to transcend the space of a single comment.
This is what I like about Democracy!
Citizens influencing government!
So why does the NYT (the paper of record) have you confused with Eitan Gorlin? I mean, you don’t look anything like him. Besides, anyone who has any familiarity with Gorlin knows that he’s not a McCain supporter. Self-hater that he is, he’s always been with the Obama campaign.
I know, I know, if you’ve said it once, you’ve said it a thousand-and-one-times, Marty: that the truth is stranger than fiction, and that fiction is often last refuge of the truth. But the NY Times? They could do at least a little bit of research before they malign you and the work you’re doing over at THI. I hope that you get them to retract the story, and de-bunk these would-be de-bunkers once and for all.
Back in ‘74, I was living in Madison, WI, and one of the so-called “underground” papers printed an edition of a local daily with the headline, “Nixon Suicide Attempt Fails” along with a subhead, “‘I wanted to join Checkers”, distraught exec says.”
This was about four months before he resigned. Then the headline was “They Fired the Shit Heard ‘Round the World.”
Mr. Eisenstadt/Gorlin, I am a recent college graduate looking for a job and I want you to hire me. What you have done is fucking brilliant and I want to be a part of whatever the hell it is you parlay this into. I hearby offer my services to you at any price - as long as there’s health insurance involved, of course. Resume and references available upon request.
Hoaxes are so unfunny. They’re immature and way too silly.
The first amendment to the US Constitution was designed to protect the sincere expression of deviant opinion from prosecution. The founding fathers never envisioned monsters like this perpetrating hoaxes they find amusing on an unsuspecting public. There ought to be a registry, like the one for sex offenders, of first amendment offenders like these guys, so that, even if they can’t be imprisoned for life for a crime, as they deserve, at least they cannot be hired for pay, by anyone, anywhere, who exercises due diligence in vetting prospective employees. I believe Sarah Palin is infinitely superior to them morally, and I feel she is a moral insect.
Even though I’m a Republican I have to say this is the funniest, best targeted hoax/satire I’ve seen in a long, long time. This whole shtick torpedoes our utterly unprofessional, nitwit media with a vengeance. It has been hilarious and gratifying to see the press - left, right and center - get their faces rubbed in their own lazy incompetence.
Brilliant; we need to bring you on the network.
Hmm…Eisenstadt and Sacha Baron Cohen have much in common. Their ethnicity.
Please continue the good work with the Harding Institute. Just because he is the fourth worst president ever doesn’t mean his ideas weren’t ahead of his time.
Simply brilliant! This is no “Rathergate”. It’s the surrealism of Politics. It’s HyperReal. Politics as a conceptual art piece!
Sarah Palin’s career has effectively been sunken by 3 Constructs - Conceptual art pieces - Parodies.
1) Tina Fey’s caricature
2) Canadian Prank callers
3) A manufactured McCain leaker
http://punditfight.blogspot.com/2008/09/stephen-colbert-for-president-al.html
[…] Turns out, Martin Eisenstadt isn’t real. He’s a fictional character. […]
Am I the only one who finds all this more than creepy and self-destructive?
Brilliant, and if they can’t take a joke…
[…] just like their creation Eisenstadt? It’s kind of mind-boggling. On Eisenstadt’s faux blog, he even calls the Times story itself a hoax, saying it’s a product of the Yes Men who themselves distributed a fake Times to New Yorkers […]
See, the thing is, for a hoax to work it has to seem plausible. Given that Sarah Palin displayed the most glaring lack of knowledge of just about everything during her brief public utterances, the idea that she didn’t know anything about Africa was (and I might add, still is) entirely plausible.
Of course Martin Eisenstadt is real. I know him personally, and ate lunch with him last week.
Darn!!
I thought that Warren Harding was finally getting the recognition as a great thinker and leader that history so far has conspired to deny him
Bravo!
Greatest troll ever
Eisenstadt just did what Obama did but without running for President.
He looks like a meatier version of Hank Hardy Unruh
you suck!! liar…. get a job!!!
Like an unfunny Ali-G
you assholes ought to knock it off. thanks for nothing.
Fact:
1.) “Tom Callahan” does not exist
2.) “Gig Faux” does not exist
3.) “Nick Burns” does not exist
Theory:
Ask Michael Rubin what I told him about Marty. Then call Bremer and confirm what I said. You will notice that a) I was vindicated b.) Tony Snow was wrong c.) Rubin was vindicated d.) Jeffrey Hart is in a whole lot of trouble.
Item #2 - Mort Kondracke and Ambasssdor Joe Wilson. - I was the first to prove the link.
Btw - That stuff that Sarah Palin said about naming Joe Crater to the Supreme Court was not her idea. It was first suggested by Randy because Randy had is ass in Tbilisi so deep that he forget what Steve told him (and everyone) about Crater when he was first nominated fot Appeals.
I was a fellow at the Harding Institute until Mr. Eisenstadt demanded that I give him a back rub. I just couldn’t get past the hair. Now I’m looking for work. Anybody need a Guantanamologist? Hope to start at $175K/benefits.
Good riposte! Except, dude, I went to college with this Perez-Peña guy from the Times. He was a five-time Jeopardy! champion, of all things.
“I went to college with this Perez-Peña guy from the Times. He was a five-time Jeopardy! champion, of all things.”
Mayve you are confused - John Podhoretz is the one who won Jeopardy.
Parez-Pena was a Clinton cabinet member. Trassportation, I think.
[…] entwickeln. Dargestellt wurde er durch den Schauspieler Eitan Gorlin, der dafür sogar ein eigenes Blog veröffentlichte und in YouTube-Videos als Eisenstadt auftrat. Gorlin alias Eisenstadt konterte auf […]
Mr. Eisenstadt, I laughed out load while alone and reading the NY Times exposure of your imaginative Harding Institute. “News organizations” like “The Onion” pumping out ficticious news they are probably analyzing your website right now to prepare for 2012. I live in Moscow, Russia and followed the NY Times spreading your entertaining disinformation world-wide. Great work and thanks for showing that Al Frankel is not the only comic successfully getting air-time commenting on U.S.politics.
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