Fake Radiohead Email From Fake Radiohead Manager "Leaked"

Thom Yorke attempting to enter this year's meeting of the Bilderberg Group (via commenter "Far Left")

After yesterday's Radiohead Occupy Wall Street no-show in Zuccotti Park, the protests' now-official spokesman Patrick Bruner sent out an email apologizing for what happened and described it as a "hoax" emanating from an email sent by someone purporting to be one of the band's managers. Everyone on the press email blast received the fake email in question under the words "OFF THE RECORD." However, Norman Mailer's newspaper has published it, so you can decide whether or not the prose is "Radiohead managery" enough.

Our source at this year's Bilderberg conference told us that the Voice was ordered to publish the contents of the email in order to "expose the adorable fatuousness of the proletariat." Attendees voted unanimously to screw with any protest targeting corporate interests that sprung up. "Initially we were going to send a guy pretending to be a rep for Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver, but we decided to really punch these jobless Chaco-wearing mace-eaters in the gut." He added, "We'd recommend those who are upset with the status quo to just relax. Watch some episodes of New Girl. Nothing will ever change," before climbing into the $330,000 Bentley he paid the New York Times to favorably review.

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By Christopher Robbins in News on October 1, 2011 1:50 PM

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fnulnu1

"Update 5:28 p.m.: Despite what you might read in Gothamist's confusing post
on the subject, we'd like to reiterate that we were given explicit
permission to publish the fake Radiohead email from a source inside
Occupy Wall Street. Next time, they might want to get in touch before putting us in a post."

Burned.

DJLunch

In English, please.

matteus

TV is the people's drug.. in 1% of the time we spend collectively watching TV each year, we could build 1,000 Wikipedias. (source: Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky)

Raymundo Az-Tek Valentin

Yeah, Radiohead sucks...

NVRMOR

Radiohead should get on their bikes and head on down to visit the protesters, this way the holy trinity of Gothamist will be achieved.

splicernyc

Can someone please decipher the article for me? It's full of too many inside references and I'm not sure if it's pro, con, neutral or talking about something else.