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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When the party got under way, Ken Herman of Cox Newspapers, a Texan who has known McClellan more than 15 years, read a fake briefing as if he were McClellan. "As part of our new openness policy, I wanted to announce that we will be allowing the press to get an up-close, personal and full immersion view of our secret prisons in Eastern Europe," Herman said with McClellanesque matter-of-factness. "That will be pool only. The poolers will be Helen Thomas and David Gregory." Then, referring to persistent questioner Raghubir Goyal of the India Globe, he added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Press Secretary's Final Answer | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

...point in the fake controversy over Stephen Colbert's performance at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner came when Gawker - the cracked mirror by which much of the media views its navel - ran a poll to determine whether, in fact, Colbert's routine was funny. The poll determined that Colbert was an American hero, which may or may not make him funny, but the fact of the poll's existence sure is. Talk about the politicization of comedy. Next we'll get focus groups and image consultants ("Those clown shoes need to be three inches longer if you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Stephen Colbert Funny? | 5/4/2006 | See Source »

...Fake Watch By David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...China, Taiwan and Hong Kong were allegedly involved in a sophisticated piracy ring that produced around 50 different types of electronic equipment, including DVD and MP3 players, which the counterfeiters then hawked as NEC products. The pirates even went so far as to design their very own line of fake NEC goods. The fact that NEC hadn't designed them didn't stop irate buyers calling the Japanese firm with complaints when the counterfeit devices occasionally proved defective. Pirates, it turns out, don't stand by warranties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...been swimming with fake trailers and videos and songs created for the film, and here YouTube compiles a library of Snakes footage, real and fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Guide: Snakes on a Plane | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

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