Thursday, October 30, 2025

Story of the year

Twitchy: "Wrong Bill de Blasio Pranks Times of London With Fake Endorsement via Ring Doorbell—Real Bill seethes."

The Times of London asked a guy on Long Island named "Bill deBlasio" his opinion about the NYC mayor's race without ever checking to see if he was the former mayor.

Extra - National Review: "The Most Wonderful Journalistic Disaster of the Year." "Yet there was no fraud at play, only reputation-torching irresponsibility. Get this: the Times in its infinite wisdom apparently interviewed the wrong Bill de Blasio." 

1 comment:

Paul Sand said...

I'm pretty sure nobody remembers the old "Tony Randall Show" where Mr. Randall played a judge, Walter Franklin. There was a continuing character named "Mario Lanza". His initial meeting with the judge is the only quote memorialized at IMDB for the show:

Judge Walter Franklin: Your name is Mario Lanza? Any relation?
Mario Lanza: To who?
Judge Walter Franklin: To Mario Lanza.
Mario Lanza: I *am* Mario Lanza.