Well word has it that it was insane. Mike Signorile went toe-to-toe with Seattle-area bible beating fantasist homophobe Ken Hutcherson on Sirius OutQ today.
Listen and learn about Pastor Hutch’s master plan to bring Bill Gates to his knees by asking evangelicals buy up enough shares of Microsoft to have a majority vote and run the software giant in the bible-based tradition they believe in. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention and religious pundit Gary Bauer are already signed up for the effort!
[J]ust to gain a 1 percent stake in Microsoft, about 31 million people would each have to spend $104 to buy three shares. Microsoft has about 9.36 billion outstanding shares, and its largest holder is Chairman Bill Gates, with 858 million shares, or 9 percent of the total. Capital Research and Management Co. follows with nearly 557 million shares, or 6 percent.Part of the master plan is, of course, a fundraising effort — Rev. Hutch wants his fundie flock to buy three shares and give him one to help support his selfless mission.
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Oh please.
A million links to nowhere. Suddenly Satan pops up and gives you this virus from hell. Bill Gates says it’s your fault.
No wonder Jesus hates him.
This guy is crazy like a fox. He’s going to wait a year until the publicity dies down, cash in his donated shares and then say God told him to buy a mansion with the proceeds.
Sing with me,brothers and sisters!*claps hands*
Welcome to the Church of Fraud/
Hallelujah,praise the Lord/
Give us your money,you’ll be amazed/
Send cash now if you wanna be saved/
Church of Fraud…/
Church of Fraud…
He wants to raise over 3.22 Billion dollars. Or rather, have 10% of the US population raise it for him. That’s… well, insane is putting it mild.
Never underestimate the power of the pious.
That would just get 1%. He’s looking for majority ownership, which would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $160 billion.
Hey, it could happen….
Pastor Hutch’s master plan to bring Bill Gates to his knees
Snicker.
“Don’t be thinkin’ I’m thinkin’ you’re the darkest hole, brother…”
Oh, dear. A dirty mind is its own reward.
Fixed.
What Rev. Hutch wants is money, pure and simple. Nothing wrong with wanting money, but it sounds as if he wants swimming pools of cash - or in this case, stock, that he can convert to cash. What I want to know is, with all the megachurches squeezing money out of its members, how they expect to get even more money from them. If they did buy the stock and give him a share, and down the road the stock loses money, he sells out before they do, he’s a rich man and he’s just fleeced his flock. Unless his church is about getting people who are really, really rich.
[snark] What a novel change from the old days, where they just asked you for money! [/snark]
Maybe he should find someone to sue the RCC for that kind of money.
There is, of course, one teeeeeensy little flaw in his plan, other than his being batshit crazy and whatnot.
I’m no stock market wizard, but assuming that he COULD inspire a massive buy up of MS stock (unlikely), that would drive up the price, yes? Do you usually try to hurt your enemies by increasing their net worth?
Not to mention that the stck price goes up as you buy more shares. Sure the price might be $40.00 but when you get to buying more and more shares then the demand goes up and, so does the cost per share.
He’s been smoking crack if he thinks he has a snowballs chance in hell of getting away with this. Plus Microsoft could start a 1 for 4 or 1 for 5 reverse buyback making the price of a share of stock skyrocket.
Plus the board has to approve any ‘buyout’ which is unlikely to happen.
He’s just a side show. A very odd one at that…
If he actually managed the takeover, Microsoft software would get even more buggy. It reminds me of a quote that I don’t remember the attribution for:
Further proof that God is on the bekabot’s side.
‘Cuz why: I have only to utter the words “three-card monty” when suddenly:
(The ’selfless mission’ in question being, of course, Pastor Hutch’s selfless mission to further the well-being of a man than whom Pastor Hutch knows none worthier, whose name would be—what else?—Pastor Hutch.)
You really did hear it here first.