This news comes as a shock to 2008 Carl Icahn.

In response to Icahn telling Bloomberg he neither likes, nor respects the Pershing Square founder, Bill Ackman got a couple important points of his chest, the first being that 1. The feeling's mutual, buddy! And 2. You can tell Carl Icahn is lying if his lips are moving.

If Apple doesn't hit $216/share, his name isn't Carl "King of the Queens Schoolyard" Icahn

When Mark Hughs founded a multi-level marketing company called Herbalife in 1980, he probably thought it had the power to do a lot of things. Help people lose weight. Makes others rich. Shake up the diet industry. What he mostly likely did not expect, however, was that his li'l company that could would reignite a feud between two billionaires that would devolve into a flurry of press releases quibbling over who was dying to be friends with whom, shouting matches on live TV, and, we predict, someone telling someone else he has a right mind to "Rip the eyes out of your head and piss into your dead skull! You messed with the wrong hedge fund manager!"

...but to take the first in a series of steps that will ultimately lead to its CEO maybe being replaced by one of Carl's choosing.

We know Carl Icahn is such a tough guy he’ll sue his friends and fellow billionaires to win deals. But, has the outspoken sultan of shareholder rights been silenced by Washington lawmakers?