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Thread ID: 7350 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2003-06-14
2003-06-14 18:56 | User Profile
It was said that Myer Berlow strapped clients into the chair, then David Colburn beat the stuffing out of them to make millions for AOL.
By Alec Klein Sunday, June 15, 2003; Page W06
A high-pitched whine emanated from the man at the microphone. Heads turned instantly. The screeching voice, like fingernails running down a chalkboard, was a rude summons back to the main event. Sooner or later, David M. Colburn, he of the slow nasal drawl, was bound to take center stage. As president of America Online Inc.'s business affairs division, Colburn commanded attention wherever he went, which was especially true at his own holiday party that December day in 1999. Besides, he had paid for the festivities out of his own pocket, as he usually did. He had earned the right to grab the mike. Decked out in jeans and cowboy boots, his legs spread wide, Colburn stood on the low platform stage in his airy back yard in Potomac and addressed his business associates, some 80 people who had gathered to celebrate not only the holiday season but also the growing triumph of AOL, the undisputed Internet giant of the land.
Colburn lauded his people -- the deal makers under his charge -- for doing a great job in bringing greater glory to the AOL empire. And then he introduced three men dear to his heart. They were middle-aged, short and dressed casually. Little distinguished them, except this: They were rabbis.
Colburn, who considered himself a devout Jew, asked the three men to join him onstage.
"I brought you here not just because I want to see you," Colburn said. "You're here to help us, to pray for us."
The rabbis seemed happy to oblige. There was a catch, though. With Colburn, associates said, there was always a catch. Sometimes, the catch was a minor clause to his advantage buried deep in a revised contract, a provision Colburn had negotiated for a multimillion-dollar business deal.
But in the matter at hand, the catch was put out there for everyone at the party to witness: The rabbis weren't there just to pray for AOL souls. Colburn wanted them to pray for AOL stock. He offered a deal: If each rabbi agreed to pray for AOL's shares to rise to a certain level, and they hit that level, Colburn promised to donate $1 million to a Jewish cause.
"So you have skin in the game," he explained, cackling.
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2003-06-14 19:13 | User Profile
Reading that article I can't help but notice the admiration of the Jew author for Jew characters in the article. They can't help but continiously promote and write books about themselves, how talented and adoringly obnoxious and generous to Jew charities they are. Of course, not a word about Jew chroniism, nepotism and favoritism.
While the goyim squabble over how best to defend their interests, Jew have never had a problem sticking together.
2003-06-14 23:10 | User Profile
So true Madrussian, so true. The myths continue because the jews stick together, endlessly promote each other, endlessly help each other, and rightfully expect that any aid they offer a fellow tribesman will be returned in some fashion. Hell, jewish criminals are held in such high regard when it's a jewish author expounding on their talents. Look at the myth of say, Bugsy Siegel. "The man who invented Las Vegas". Actually, one of those darn goyim, W.R. Wilkerson created, dreamed up Vegas. Then the mob tried to kill him as they took over. A side note, Wilkerson also created the Hollywood Reporter (the "competitor" to Variety), and the jews don't like to mention that either. Now, about Einstein ...
2003-06-14 23:30 | User Profile
Hell, jewish criminals are held in such high regard when it's a jewish author expounding on their talents. Look at the myth of say, Bugsy Siegel.
Or Trotsky.
2003-06-15 02:06 | User Profile
Again Madrussian, you speak volumes by writing so little. ;)
2003-06-15 19:34 | User Profile
** "Colburn and his prodigious parties became industry lore. They even made it into an episode of HBO's popular sitcom "Sex and the City," when Samantha, one of the main characters, was hired as the publicist for a wealthy girl's bat mitzvah. After Colburn learned of this apparent reference to his own familial indulgences, he screamed, he cursed, and then he called up a bigwig at HBO and ordered 50 copies of the episode."**
"You've [u]discriminated[/u] against me! DO IT AGAIN!"
That $8 million figure soon vanished in a crumpled piece of paper in his fist. Then, dashing off a quick calculation in his head, he threw out a number on the fly. "The price is supposed to be $16 million . . .The Music Boulevard executives were perplexed. This was a final review of the contract, [u]to which they had already agreed[/u]. And the price tag was $8 million.
This sort of behavior is one of the reasons you rarely hear of a "gentleman's handshake agreement" these days. :angry: