Recently, the New York Times was forced to run a particularly embarrassing correction after one of its columnists quoted extensively from a fake interview with Kanye West.
The interview appeared on the 100% fake news site the Daily Currant and concerned Kanye's thoughts on the sudden ubiquity of his wife's bare butt. Here it is as excerpted on the Times' website:
"'I don't understand why everyone is focusing on Kim's booty,' Kanye said in an interview on Chicago rap station WGYN [Editor's Note: Not a real radio station.], adding that he certainly loves it. 'That's why I married her,' he said. But, Kanye added, nobody has a rear end like his own. 'My booty is like Michelangelo level, you feel me?' Kanye said. 'It's like a sculpture. It's like something that should be sitting in a museum for thousands of thousands of years.'"
It wasn't the first time a fake Kanye quote fooled people who should have known better.
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