Jared Kushner Just Pissing Us Off Now
You know, when Jared Kushner, Harvard ’03, bought the New York Observer in July [Ed.: Private to non-news dorks and/or the poor: It's a pink weekly newspaper with often unbeatable stuff on Manhattan media, real estate and gossip] we were all up in his wheelhouse. Sure, he was a rich snot, but if we had that kind of loot we’d do exactly the same thing: buy a cool paper on the cheap and start raising hell. We wished the golden boy and his gold well.
Then we found out Papa Kushner bought Jared’s Harvard acceptance letter with a $2.5 mil bribe donation, and didn’t hear a lot of cool stuff out of Observer headquarters. And now the guy’s dropping $1.8 billion on a single office tower in Manhattan.
At what point does impressively rich become filthy rich? Yeah, probably somewhere around the time you buy a Manhattan skyscraper. Maybe real estate just doesn’t excite us as much as catty pink newsprint, but we’re a little worried our friend Jar Jar is jumping a whole tank of sharks with this move. It’s like we’re only 25 minutes into the movie, but Charles Foster Kane is already about to crash and burn.
