Pranksters Publish Fake New York Times

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

In an elaborate hoax, pranksters distributed thousands of free copies of a spoof edition of the New York Times on Wednesday morning at busy subway stations around the city. The spurious 14-page papers, dated July 4, 2009, reported the end of the Iraq War, the availability of national health care, a rebuilt economy and a national oil fund to study climate change.

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This site rrreeeaaalllyyyy needs an edit button. . .

Posted by NoGov4Me at 2008-11-12 04:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

You can read it here. . .

www.guerillartivism.net

Posted by NoGov4Me at 2008-11-12 04:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

I thought this was going to be yet another gay marriage thread.

Posted by kerrin57 at 2008-11-12 04:41 PM | Reply | Flag:

I thought Bush got his Oil Deal signed.

Posted by Zap at 2008-11-12 04:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

That's every bit of dumbass you're getting out of me today, I promose.

Posted by NoGov4Me at 2008-11-12 05:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

I promose.

#5 | Posted by NoGov4Me at

Except for that! Gawt dimmit, I'm phuct today.

Posted by NoGov4Me at 2008-11-12 05:12 PM | Reply | Flag:

Believe none of what you read and half of what you see and you'll be just fine.

Posted by COMMONSENSE at 2008-11-12 10:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

This is funny. Good Blog!

Posted by Unclesam at 2008-11-12 11:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

The great part about this is that no one can really tell anymore what the REAL NY Times prints is real or made up as well...

Posted by k_g_beekeeper at 2008-11-13 12:12 AM | Reply | Flag:

This so-called "fake" NYT was probably printed by the clowns at the NYT as a list of demands when Barry takes office for helping Barry get elected.

Posted by fwthom at 2008-11-13 12:35 AM | Reply | Flag:

"Iraq War Over"

Hopefully someday soon that headline won't be just a prank in the NYT but the real news.

Someday...

Posted by CalifChris at 2008-11-13 01:32 AM | Reply | Flag:

NY Times and BSNBC both got duped. But why read fiction anyway.

Posted by aclusux at 2008-11-13 07:49 AM | Reply | Flag:

"glad someone thinks The New York Times print edition is worthy of an elaborate hoax."

Worthy of a hoax... Pleeeeease the NYT is going out of business because their agenda is to make the news not report it. The liberal NYT would not recognize a news story if it flew up and bit them in the ass. What a rag I would not even use the NYT to line my bird cage, these dumb asses actually believe they are Worthy of a hoax when the reality is they are being made fun of and are so arrogant and stupid they can not see the realty, how pathetic is that. Good luck in the unemployment line you all deserve it

Posted by ATaxpayer at 2008-11-13 09:04 AM | Reply | Flag:

This is no prank.

Obama photo on ABC live in India.

abclive.in

Posted by KBM at 2008-11-13 10:04 AM | Reply | Flag:

urbanlegends.about.com

Posted by 101Chairborne at 2008-11-13 10:10 AM | Reply | Flag:

urbanlegends.about.com

#15 | Posted by 101Chairborne

Uh oh. Looks like KBM went KaBooM again.

But he had me going for a minute there.

Posted by SanAntonioRogue at 2008-11-13 10:17 AM | Reply | Flag:

The fake news probably had more readership.

Posted by nmg_no at 2008-11-13 11:37 AM | Reply | Flag:

>This is no prank.
>
>Obama photo on ABC live in India.
>
>abclive.in
>
>#14 | Posted by KBM

Where can I get one of those telephones with the cord on the top side of the handset?

Posted by libertarian_gi at 2008-11-13 02:43 PM | Reply | Flag:

Biased fake news stories? Excuse me, but how on Earth would you then tell the fake New York Times from the real New York Times? No wonder readers couldn't tell the difference.

Posted by utastaff at 2008-11-13 05:11 PM | Reply | Flag: