7 People Who AREN'T Who They Say They Are! #BowWowChallenge

Here are people who aren’t who they say they are!
7 - Rick Ross When you’re in the rap business, street
cred is one of the main things that’s gonna help a rapper make it in the business.
Or at least, it was until the early 2000’s, when Ja Rule’s career was basically put
to rest by 50 cent.
I’ve gotta hand it to Rick Ross, don’t hate the player, hate the game.
He’s made a huge career on make believe.
I’m not really hating, I’m just saying.
He took his rap name from “Freeway” Ricky Ross, a real life drug dealer who built a
drug empire in Los Angeles and his real name is actually William Leonard Roberts.
In his albums, many of Rick Ross’s lyrics include claims of drug dealing, guns, and
other illicit things, and obviously what he rapped about helped him to be a superstar.
In 2008, his credibility took a hit when pictures leaked showing Ross clad in a security officer
uniform, working as a correctional officer.
He was so adamant on keeping his rep intact that he claimed the picture was photoshopped,
and that someone took his high school pictures and put it on someone else’s body.
Of course, nobody believed his story, and soon after, details about his salary, the
exact dates of his work and the place of his training saw the light of day.
Ahhhhh the beauty of the internet!
After everything was out, he still lingered for a few more months until basically he had
to just admit he actually worked as an officer in the mid-nineties.
He accepted that it was him in those pictures, but that he was only doing his job.
Somehow, someway, Teflon Ricky Ross didn’t go the way of Ja Rule, as he’s still one
of the superstars of rap today.
6 - Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson One of the worst things that can happen to
any company, is finding itself in the middle of a huge controversy only to be blindsided
by another huge hit to its public image.
Well, that’s exactly what happened to Yahoo back in 2012.
During a complicated time in which newly-appointed CEO Scott Thompson announced the company would
reduce its employee force by 14%, which translated to roughly around 2000 people, the world found
out that Thompson had actually never earned the degree in computer science he claimed
he got in his resume.
Yahoo hired Thompson as CEO back in January 2012.
Activist investor Dan Loeb, CEO of Third Point LLC, sent a letter to Yahoo’s Board of Directors
citing a Yahoo SEC filing stating that Thompson "held a Bachelor's degree in accounting and
computer science" from Stonehill College.
Loeb stated that he had reason to believe that the degree was "in accounting only".
Loeb questioned if Thompson had "embellished his academic credentials" and questioned whether
the Board had even bothered to exercise appropriate diligence and oversight in one of its most
fundamental tasks, which is hiring the Chief Executive Officer of the company.
Yahoo's filings with the SEC did match what Loeb claimed.
In 2008–10 proxy statements for eBay, Thompson's former employer, Thompson was noted having
only an accounting degree.
In fact, Stone Hill College didn’t even offer a major in Computer science until many
years after Thompson had graduated!
Yahoo’s response claims that it was an “inadvertent error”, but really it was just them admitting
not doing their due diligence on the most important position at the company.
They didn’t fire Thompson, but Thompson excused himself after barely four months in
the job.
Seriously, was having an additional computer science degree what pushed Thompson to the
position of CEO?
I highly doubt it…..it’s just a really dumb move to embellish official documents
in such highly public positions.
5 - Bill Cosby Back in his heyday, Bill Cosby was pretty
much THE all-American clean and proper stand-up comedian famous for The Cosby Show, as well
as Fat Albert and the Cosby kids.
While many comics at the time were using the growing cultural freedom to explore material
that was controversial and off-color, Cosby was instead making his reputation with humorous
recollections of his childhood.
He became the All-American dad on television, as he was the clean, proper, and highly educated
obstetrician Dr. Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show.
However, even decades of building up a rock solid reputation can come crashing down when
not one, not two, not even twenty, but over 60 r@pe accusations were put on Bill Cosby.
That’s…….a lot.
As far as r@pe accusations go, with Cosby they’re all over the place.
It appears that Cosby has been a s3xual predator for decades, and only his victims knew of
his true character although I’m sure there have been rumors behind closed doors over
the years.
As a matter of fact, accusations span the entire length of Cosby’s public career.
I’m not gonna go over all the cases, as that could take up this entire video and then
some.
A couple of times the accusations did reach a courtroom, but they’ve always been settled
behind closed doors and without a trial.
The issue really came to light when, in 2014, video of comedian Hannibal Buress using Bill
Cosby’s sexual misbehavior as part of one of his routines quickly went viral, and everything
really took off after that.
The allegations affected Cosby’s career: numerous organizations have severed ties with
him, and even titles and honors have been revoked.
Cosby still claims he’s innocent.
Maybe one day we’ll be able to know the truth, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
4 - Milli Vanilli Any 80’s babies up in here?
I know you guys can remember Milli Vanilli, the German R&B duo of Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus.
They won the grammy for best new artist way back in 1990, along with other awards as well.
If you don’t know, Milli Vanilli was wildly successful and huge in the late 80s and early
90s: they sold millions of records those years and they certainly appeared to be on their
way to becoming actual musical legends.
They topped Billboard charts and had six platinum singles.
The first signs of a big lie were brought up by Beth McCarthy-Miller, then an executive
with MTV.
She said that Milli Vanilli’s first interview with MTV gave her and her team doubts as to
whether they had actually sung on their records, as they both didn’t speak English very well.
The first public sign that the group was lip-synching came in July 1989, during a live performance
on MTV.
As they performed onstage live in front of an audience, the recording of the song "Girl
You Know It's True" jammed and began to skip, playing the lyrics “Girl, you know it's..."
over and over on the speakers.
They continued to pretend to sing and dance onstage for a few more moments, but then they
both ran offstage.
MTV VJ Downtown Julie Brown said that fans attending the concert seemed neither to care
nor even notice what had happened and that the concert continued as if nothing unusual
had happened.
What really brought down the group was when one of the actual singers on the albums revealed
that he was one of the three singers for the group and that Pilatus and Morvan were impostors,
and this began the public of who actually sang in the group.
As a result of American media pressure, Milli Vanilli's Grammy was withdrawn four days later.
However, their three American Music Awards were never withdrawn because the organizers
felt the awards were given to them by music consumers.
The duo finally had to come clean, and revealed personally that they didn’t sing any of
the songs that had made them famous.
3 - Senator Joseph McCarthy Back in 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy became
the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread
Communism.
He was well known for alleging large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers
inside the federal government and elsewhere.
Ultimately, the controversy he generated led him to be censured by the U.S. Senate.
The term "McCarthyism" was born in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, and was
soon applied to similar anti-communist activities.
Today, the term is used in reference to what are considered reckless, and unsubstantiated
accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.
Nevertheless, McCarthy built his political career over his supposed outstanding war hero
record.
In 1947, his campaign was based off the nickname “Tail-Gunner Joe”, using the slogan “Congress
needs a tail-gunner”, in evident referral to his service in the war as a, you guessed
it, tail-gunner.
However, he falsely claimed 32 aerial missions in order to receive the Distinguished Flying
Cross and numerous awards of the Air Medal.
Apparently the Marine Corps chain of command decided in to approve the medals because of
his political influence.
McCarthy even claimed that he received a letter of commendation from then Chief of Naval Operations,
Admiral Chester Nimitz.
However, Nimitz later said that McCarthy written the letter himself, and he signed it while
signing many other letters and that it basically slipped past him.
McCarthy also claimed a "war wound", a badly broken leg that McCarthy had made the subject
of varying stories involving airplane crashes or anti-aircraft fire.
But McCarthy’s broken leg was actually the result of a crazy celebration aboard a ship
for sailors crossing the equator for the first time.
Really?
How did people just get away with these stories back then?!
I guess he was just doing the bow wow challenge way back before bow wow!
2 - Bill Nye the “Science” Guy If you were a kid in the 90s, then you probably
got your periodic dose of science through TV’s super famous show “Bill Nye the science
guy”.
The show aired on PBS on from 1994 until 1999 and was also syndicated to local stations.
Known for its quirky humor and rapid-fire MTV-style pacing, the show won critical acclaim
and was nominated for 23 Emmy Awards, and won nineteen of them.
However, surprisingly enough, Bill Nye isn’t actually a scientist!
Yep, just like many scenes in reality TV, the title Bill Nye the Science Guy is really
just a façade.
You guys know how Bill Nye got his stage name?
While performing on a sketch comedy television show in Seattle, called “Almost Live!”
throughout the 1980s, Bill Nye cultivated a science-explaining TV persona.
He got his stage name when he corrected another host, John Keister, on his pronunciation of
the word "gigawatt", and when Keister responded, "Who do you think you are—Bill Nye the Science
Guy?”, that’s when the name stuck.
Yeah, I’m sure millennials everywhere are devastated over this, but Bill Nye isn’t
exactly a science guy, but rather a mechanical engineer, as he received his degree from Cornell
and worked at Boeing after school.
After his incredible TV success, Nye continued working in the field, becoming CEO of The
Planetary Society and writing several best-selling books on science, such as Unstoppable: Harnessing
Science to Change the World and Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation.
The biggest problem is, he doesn’t have any formal education in any of these areas.
Bill Nye never actually graduated with a degree in the sciences.
In 2017, a new show premiered on Netflix featuring Bill Nye, called “Bill Nye tackles the world”.
The aim of this show is to tackle the scientific aspect of a variety of issues ranging from
climate change to sexuality.
During one episode on the show, he really went outside the box on gender issues that
didn’t exactly get rave reviews, and to be honest, it was just weird as sh*t.
It was weird not because of the subject, because let’s face it, social justice warriors talk
about gender issues all day long, but it was weird in the way that he was trying way too
hard to resonate with millennials.
While he does call himself a “science communicator” when he gets called out, I guess it’s fine
when he’s doing it for entertainment on a TV show, but he’s for sure skating the
line when he’s somehow being selected to represent real scientists who do real work
at commencement speeches and such and just happily does so without a second thought.
1 - Brian Williams Reporters have been known to spice up their
stories a little.
News is supposed to be something that makes a lasting impression on the viewer, and news
will always follow some sort of editorial line.
But Brian Williams took it a little too far.
Or actually really far, to be honest.
Brian Williams was one of the most recognizable news anchors in the US.
He captivated audiences nationwide by retelling a story about being a passenger in a military
helicopter that was downed by ground fire in Iraq.
He claimed that a military helicopter he was traveling in had been quote "forced down after
being hit by an RPG."
Soon after it aired, Williams's story was criticized by Lance Reynolds, a flight engineer
on board one of the three Chinook helicopters that had actually been attacked.
Reynolds and other crew members said they were forced to make an emergency landing,
and that Williams's Chinook arrived a half-hour to an hour later.
Williams hadn’t been anywhere near the fallen helicopter.
Williams confessed to have made a small mistake on his recollection.
Uh, yeah, it’s called a blatant lie.
Following his little faux pas, he was suspended for six months without pay.
Somehow, someway, he’s still chief anchor for MSNBC.
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