"They sold 48 million iPhones, 23 million iPads... Their slaves could barely keep up!"

FORTUNE -- Comedian Bill Maher had fun last week mocking some recent Apple (AAPL) headlines:

• Can Apple's stock recover without Steve Jobs? (Gizmodo)
• Investor's appetite for Apple sours (LA Times)
• Why Apple is ailing (Fox News)
• Five reasons Apple is doomed doomed doomed (Computerworld)

He might have made a stronger point if he'd had his facts straight. (Apple just had a $54 billion quarter, not a $42 billion one.)

But Maher wasn't as far off as HuffPo's Arianna Huffington, who seemed to think that Jeff Bezos is so frustrated with Wall Street's valuation of Amazon (AMZN) ($125 billion on earnings growth of -45%) that he's taken the company private.

Catch it on YouTube before it gets taken down.

See also: The Apple reality distortion field's fun-house mirror