-- force high-profile Tesla Death Cultist and social media bully "Montana Skeptic" to delete his Twitter account, Clean Technica writer Zachary Shahan had a lot to say, in his very recent article "
Also interesting that Mark B. Spiegel, another high profile long-term Tesla Death Cultist -- one who actually used to post to InsideEVs comments before he got kicked off for (if I recall correctly) blatantly promoting (and linking to) his own short-seller Seeking Alpha blog posts -- put his oar in on Twitter, in rushing to the defense of one of his fellow Tesla Death Cultists, as reported below.
Tesla shorts and multi-year critics, on the other hand, seem to be a different breed. They either have a stubborn but genuine logical bias for some reason or another and have not learned to let go of it, or they know they are wrong and spout misinformation to deceive people.
We’ve had a couple of good pieces on the possibility that Jim Chanos, perhaps Tesla’s most influential short seller and critic, fits into the latter camp. Another longtime, prominent critic on investment channels goes by the name Montana Skeptic. It has been reported by sleuths on Twitter (unconfirmed by me or others in the press) that he’s managing director at The Stewart J. Rahr Foundation and has invested heavily in the oil industry in that role. According to the reports, when his activity was revealed to his billionaire boss, he was told to cut it out and get off of Twitter.
A week ago @shortshorterhmm exposed @MontanaSkeptic1, a fierce Tesla critic, as Larry Fossi – managing director of The Stewart J. Rahr Foundation. Rahr heavily invested in oil. Today Larry was forced by his boss to close his Twitter account. #Transparency $TSLA $TSLAQ
— Tesla Bull ?? (@TeslaBull) July 23, 2018
Does Montana do Stewart's bidding in his quest to short Tesla, or has he gone rogue? pic.twitter.com/VdWolVFY0D
— whowearsshortshorts (@shortshorterhmm) July 14, 2018
For those of you who missed it, I present you with your Montana Skeptic pic.twitter.com/8ivlSvD4ej
— whowearsshortshorts (@shortshorterhmm) July 15, 2018
Anyone wonder why @MontanaSkeptic1 is so interested in
@Tesla failing? Could it be that his livelihood depends on the success of oil? pic.twitter.com/JxY1mres5d
— whowearsshortshorts (@shortshorterhmm) July 12, 2018
One of our findings indicates that the person posting as Montana Skeptic is managing a company that is funding deployment of Oil Platforms. Just one of the recent contracts he personally signed was for $60M+
@Tesla $TSLA $TSLAQ pic.twitter.com/0QhrzlOCfH
— Montana Skeptic Dossier (@SkepticMontana) June 8, 2018
Two of Montana Skeptic’s most prominent Tesla-trolling colleagues seemed to confirm this:
Guys – I'm beside myself & before you ask, this is NOT a joke – I just got off the phone with Montana Skeptic. He told me that he voluntarily deleted his Twitter account after Elon Musk personally called his boss to complain. I asked for Montana's permission to Tweet this. $TSLA
— Quoth the Raven (@QTRResearch) July 23, 2018
Okay, I didn't want to go there but @QTRResearch did and I can corroborate it: Musk called his boss and asked him to make Montana stop writing about $TSLA. Now we REALLY know where this is going.
— Mark B. Spiegel (@markbspiegel) July 23, 2018
Is it odd that someone who has managed an enormous amount of money in the oil industry has been trolling Tesla for years? Is it odd that someone invested in the oil industry has been shorting Tesla and doubling down on his criticisms of the company even as previous claims and projects were proven wrong?
Before going further, based on my own online discussions with all three of these people, I wouldn’t take any statement on face value. I’ve seen far too much twisting of the facts and what seemed like outright lies to believe anything they claim without actual proof. But whether all of this is true, it’s interesting that one of the top “Tesla trolls,” one of the most outspoken Tesla shorts, has shut down his Twitter account and may also be dropping his Seeking Alpha activity. (If he was told to get off of Twitter, one would think he was also told to get off of Seeking Alpha.)
