Times Runs Hoax Letter

During the election, Sarah Palin embarrassed herself by accepting a prank call from “Nicolas Sarkozy,” but it turns out she’s not the only one who can’t spot a French impostor: The New York Times printed yesterday a letter supposedly from Bertrand Delanoe, the mayor of Paris, but it turns out that it was a hoax. "We French can only see a dynastic move of the vanishing Kennedy clan in the very country of the Bill of Rights. It is both surprising and appalling," the letter read. The Times has since published an apology on its website. “This letter was a fake. It should not have been published. Doing so violated both our standards and our procedures in publishing signed letters from our readers.”