In his 11-page resumé Vayner claims that he runs a charitable organization, is the CEO of an investment firm and has written a book on the Holocaust, among other things. Research by bloggers has shown many of these claims to be false:

* His investment firm's website lists a non-existent address, and the charitable organization is using an unauthorized Charity Navigator logo. The president of Charity Navigator publicly announced that he believed Vayner should be expelled from Yale for this.

* Excerpts of Vayner's self-published book, Women's Silent Tears, a "unique gender-focused perspective on the Holocaust in Eastern Europe" made available for free at Lulu.com show that at least some of its content had been plagiarized from an online Holocaust encyclopedia.

Before Vayner had even begun his freshman year his tendency to exaggerate was first discussed in an article in Rumpus, a Yale humor magazine. He apparently had visited as a high school senior, and told unbelievable stories about himself. Among his claims to people on campus, or to the public, since starting at Yale:

* He claimed that he "is one of four people in the state of Connecticut qualified to handle nuclear waste".
* He was employed by both the Mafia and the CIA during his childhood.
* He gave tennis lessons to Harrison Ford and Sarah Michelle Gellar.

In addition, Vayner apparently arranged for a film he had made about Zen Buddhism to be displayed in a Yale class on eastern philosophies. The film included a "b-roll of Vayner performing various physical feats of questionable veracity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Vayner

Oh man, good idea to have a drink before watching this.

I was tempted to go against it b/c it's so bad... but then it became so bad it's worth voting for... plus there's the "However, he admitted, he was "not certified in any Western sense of the word." line from wikipedia thing.

Awesome, I had read about this awhile ago on another website but the video wasn't linked. Thanks!

This guy is nuts.

the future leaders of america.... or is that harvard grads?

Why does this idiot have to be from my country.

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He sounds more like a graduate from a Tony Robbins course than Yale. Good stuff.

Maybe he'll be President someday too. Apparently, Yale will give anyone a degree.

this kind of stuff causes me pain to watch... I had to stop..,.. I'll take it in small bits and keep a hammer near by for smashing my fingers for some perspective

Holy...freaking...crap...

Theo, let me apologize for every disagreement we've ever had and tell you thank you...You're now the coolest person I know for posting this video....it has to be one of the greatest videos I've ever watched...simply unforgettable.

AWESOME!!

Incredible. Has to get into the top 15.
What a plonker.

This is hilarious. Sad to think that some people would follow people like him.

And I love the 'some people said I could not serve and volley, hmmmmm'

I think I saw this show at 4am when I was channel surfing the other day. Something about buying my book and "if you can conceive it, you can achieve it"

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