This post would be more aptly named:
THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
The Prince being Saudi Prince Alwaleed and, of course the
role of the pauper will be played by Jimbo.
For those unfamiliar with the story, this week Forbes came
out with its list of billionaires.
Forbes ranked Prince Alwaleed as tied for 26th spot in their
list, claiming the Prince had a net worth of which he could barely rub two $10
billion bills together. Prince Alwaleed
issued a press release asking that he be removed from Forbes’ list with
assertion that Forbes’ evaluation process was flawed, inaccurate and biased
against middle-eastern investors. The
Prince’s assertion is that he has a net worth of much more than $20 billion.
My assertion is this:
If the Prince says he is worth more than $20 billion, I believe
him. After all, why in the world would
anyone who was richer than hell try to convince us that he was even richer than
that?
I read the entire story on Forbes rebutting the Prince’s
argument and wondered why Forbes was so excited about bad-mouthing the
man. After all, who knows better what
the guy is worth than the Prince himself?
I would bet that Forbes would not be able to determine my net worth, and
I am an elderly man on a fixed income. I
would bet the Prince’s electric bill exceeds my net worth in a week.
However, the thing that jumped out at me from the Forbes
article was mention of Prince Alwaleed’s press kit that he sends to anyone who
writes about him. Apparently it is pretty
impressive and it struck me that I would like to have one. Since I know the Prince probably has people
scanning the internet on an hourly basis and since I know I have a big
following in the Middle East , either he or one
of his people should see this. Since I
am writing about him, it should qualify me for one of those cool press kits.
Since the thing would have to come from Saudi Arabia
I would ask that the Prince or his people just go to my
profile and send me an e-mail and I will advise the physical address to which
to send the press kit.
You can find my profile down there by my picture and the
line about me being an elderly man…
Well, I guess I have sort of worn out that phrase today,
haven’t I?
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