I almost fell for that one, but then I looked at Twitter and saw Matt Zoller Seitz bragging about how he'd fooled me.
One of the biggest unanswered questions in the Stockman case is how he apparently fooled Uihlein twice.
Former Navy Secretary Gideon Welles argued that not only did Seward lack principles, he was unable to understand how he had fooled Lincoln into thinking that he did, and gained entry to the Cabinet.
How did he fool his wife for more than a dozen years, using her money to buy a New Hampshire estate and 23 cars?
So how'd he fool us, too?
"Ben and I and Steve had been friends for years, and I thought the viral things he made were really interesting, how he'd fool people into thinking they were watching reality".
The first is about how, in Chicago in 1922, he fooled Houdini, who boasted of being able to figure out any card trick, with a version of the routine called the Ambitious Card.
The manager told him how he had been fooled into tearing down a wall between two apartments.
This most erudite of cities, where Mr. Gerhartsreiter had made his home since 2006, will be watching closely when he goes on trial here this week, seeking an explanation of how he could have fooled his former wife, a graduate of Harvard Business School, and so many others for so long.
He recalls, for example, how he tried to fool the Rorschach inkblot test used by Harvard to decide whether to readmit him after a breakdown.
