An ABC reporter was taken in Tuesday by a fake transcript of former President Bill Clinton calling the Disneyland castle a “beer crate full of s—” in a conversation with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Foreign correspondent Alexander Marquardt tweeted an image of the alleged conversation Tuesday morning.
As it turns out, however, the ABC reporter fell for one in a series of parody White House transcripts put together by comedian Michael Spicer.
My top five favourite Blair-Clinton exchanges. https://t.co/1KobW98snr pic.twitter.com/5jKgE8majc
— Michael Spicer (@MrMichaelSpicer) January 8, 2016
Spicer appears to have been inspired to put together the fake conversations after more than 530 pages of authentic transcripts from Clinton’s and Blair’s terms in office were released earlier this month.
In Marquardt’s defense, the fake conversation wasn’t entirely unbelievable: Clinton apparently had a penchant for rambling and humorous asides.
“Mr. Blair was often forced to push the conversations back on track after the U.S. president’s tangents, which include asides on cashmere jumpers, golf, bananas and what the former Prime Minister would look like naked,” the U.K’s Independent reported.
Nevertheless, the fake transcripts are very much fake.
“[T]o our knowledge, President Clinton never beat up a ham, ran bowling competitions for the unemployed, mastered plate spinning or genuinely believed he was talking to Tony ‘Blare,'” The Independent added.
“Ah crap,” Alexander Marquardt said later after being notified that the supposed conversation between the two world leaders was, in fact, not real. “Deleting.”
(h/t Twitchy)
