FUX Biz Reporter Falsely Claims Pulitzer Prize Nomination

[CTyankee]

6. But people have lost their jobs and their reputations over doing sh*t like this...

A coach at Yale was fired a couple of years ago for lying about his academic credentials on his resume. Really? Lying about your academic degrees to a school like Yale? What was he thinking?

If you remember the Joe Ellis controversy, here was another academic, this time a real Pulitzer Prize winning American Revolutionary War era historian told people he had fought in Vietnam and told these fabulous stories about being a platoon leader in jungle warfare and even getting to teach a course on the Vietnam War at the prestigious college where he had a Department Chair. He had a sterling reputation that was permanently marred when he was outed by a real Vietnam War veteran who challenged his assertions.

Maybe mental illness has something to do with it. Living in a fantasy world, I guess...