Oh boy oh boy.
The left-wing media today had a field day regarding the supposed ticking off the Mayor of Baltimore gave Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling for claiming that some British cities were becoming like the television crime show 'The Wire' (which is, I suppose, set in Baltimore).
One small problem. The statement released by the 'Mayor' is a hoax. Someone set up a fake Mayoral website and put the fake statement up. And the media (including the Guardian) fell for it and wrote stories based on this entirely false source.
Great job to Guido and Cheryl Smith at Sky News for picking up on that! And big thumbs DOWN to the Baltimore Sun who put a story up about it despite surely knowing it was a different website and also without checking the story before printing.
To be, or not to be: that is the question
11 hours ago
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