The answer is: hilariously.
As the New York mayor’s race approaches, The Times of London has accelerated its push for more, and largely hostile, coverage of Mamdani. That campaign has been driven internally by Margi Conklin [who]... reached out to an email address the reporter believed belonged to the former mayor of New York....
Semafor reached out to a Gmail address our sources believed to be the one used by The Times.
“You are correct. It was me. The real Bill DeBlasio,” the person who controls the email address responded. The person didn’t respond to further questions, and phone calls to two numbers associated with the email address went unanswered....
Apparently, there's someone else named Bill DeBlasio.
I got to this story from here:The London Times has taken its article down, but I was curious about what this other Bill DeBlasio had to say. So what were the quotes? According to Grok, "These quotes were published verbatim in The Times on October 29, 2025":the times of london emailed a guy named bill de blasio who is not THE bill de blasio. the guy clearly thought it would be hilarious to respond with shit BDB would never say and then the times RAN THE STORY.
this is so fucking funny. bill de blasio 2, you are a legend https://t.co/EeQQlGNnf6— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) October 29, 2025
On Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win: “I’m stunned. I thought Eric [Adams] had this in the bag. Zohran is a radical. He’s going to turn New York into a socialist hellhole.”
On Mamdani’s policies: “His rent control ideas are insane. He wants to freeze rents across the city. That’ll kill investment. Landlords will just board up buildings.”
On Mamdani’s background and electability: “He’s a 33-year-old activist who’s never run anything. He’s got no experience. And let’s be honest, a Muslim socialist? Good luck in the general.”
On the Democratic Party: “The party’s lost its mind. We’re handing the keys to the city to someone who wants to defund the police and give free stuff to everyone. It’s suicide.”
A real landmark in the decline of mainstream journalism.
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The reporter should have been suspicious, Bill DeBlasio has never had a logical opinion in his life.
How? The answer is journalism as an academic major.
"...As the New York City mayor’s race entered its home stretch this week, a reporter for The Times of London, Bevan Hurley, sent an email to Bill de Blasio....." - Semafor.
"...Bevan Hurley is a senior reporter (US) for The Times and The Sunday Times, based in New York. He was previously at The Independent US, writing features and news stories on politics, crime and social issues. He has worked at various publications as a reporter and editor in the UK and his native New Zealand during the past 20 years...."
Senior reporter.
BdB2 is onto something. He’s got a finger and he’s desperately searching for a pulse.
Ben Rhodes wasn't just describing US jurn-o-lists back then, I guess.
Yesterday's junior prick, today's senior reporter.
A real landmark in the decline of mainstream journalism.
Actually, Mr. De Blasio was 100% right. They just should have added a small correction. "The Mr. De Blasio quoted in this article was not the former mayor of New York. The Times regrets the error."
Compared to Donald Trump the Putin spy, or the Nazi, or the rapist, this was a tiny, innocent error. No biggie. Hardly a landmark of bad journalism. Just a mistake that was quickly corrected.
I smell a rat.
Was this some rando BDB who was fast on his feet or an organized effort to discredit negative coverage of Mamdani by the The Times?
Or 60 Minutes deceptively editing their interviews to make the Democrat candidate seem coherent.
Mistakes are human, and we all make them. Devious corruption and dishonesty is a whole different level of bad.
Maybe BDB2 should run for mayor of NYC? He's got name recognition. He's been featured in the Times of London. And his observations about Mamdani and the state of the Democrat Party are 100% correct. A star is rising...
Eric Adam's should be cruising to re-election. But the racist & insane idiot base want a Hamas representative and a fraud for their mayor.
Let me rephrase.
I smell a dead groundhog.
Well london is ruled by mamdani 1.0 so
Too sensible to be wilhelm
Was this some rando BDB who was fast on his feet or an organized effort to discredit negative coverage of Mamdani by the The Times?
It does seem suspicious. We’ve arrived at the exact time in the election cycle when political strategists roll out the Dead Hooker Story- early enough to attract voters attention, too late for the truth to get out. Someone’s behind and needs to ‘do something’, so someone is. I wonder who is behind? If only journalism didn’t immolate itself under Trump’s first go round…
More sensible than national review
https://x.com/Freesmith/status/1983637724331700744
That analysis is much too rational and intelligent to have come from the "real" Bill DeBlasio.
Let me rephrase.
I smell a dead groundhog.
Heh. Yup.
Revenge like with the squirrel
If You want random acts of Corporate journalism you pretty much have to go to foreign press. Corporate media in the United States is absolutely controlled and American Americans are the most propagandized people in the world.
If you want some real fun, go look at Kamala Harris‘s book tour in Australia, where a real journalist asked her some real questions.
A democrat like Mamdani would get absolutely destroyed by a real journalist Just like Kamal did. Actual discussion of issues is impossible for them, which is why they favor censorship.
So, Warren Wilheim Jr. stole some other guys name??
I love these stories of mistaking an un-famous person for somebody famous. I've told my own 2 stories a few times on this blog, so just briefly, I'll say my father was mistaken for Frank Sinatra and just went ahead and gave a Frank Sinatra autograph. And I was having dinner in a restaurant with my brother and his friend and some young lady came over to hug the friend and effuse about loving all his records. Later, I figured he did kind of look like Bruce Springsteen.
Sounds like New Yorkers elected the wrong deBlasio.
What leftists and some idiots on the "right" think. Insane.
Those are all true statements
Apparently, the reporter had literally no clue about the former mayor's policy stances- I mean, that is just sheer ignorance. The very first clue that this wasn't the e-mail of the former mayor is that all of the statements contradicted the politics of the former mayor. I mean, it isn't like Mayor DeBlasio has had a stroke like John Fetterman and started sounding rational.
"A democrat like Mamdani would get absolutely destroyed by a real journalist Just like Kamal did."
You think the media *likes* Mamdani? He's seems hated the same way (and by many of the same people) that hate Trump (and Bernie) and anyone outside the uniparty. And, they exaggerate the lies about him the same way they exaggerate the lies about Trump. Trump is a Nazi and a fascist and Mandami is an agent of Hamas? Really? Sorry,
Derpies gonna derp. You cannot stop the derp train.
My brother in law looks just like Clint Eastwood. He is forever signing Clints name to various scraps of paper and napkin.
Liars have to tell the truth... sometimes.
The Times should have emailed Warren Wilhelm Jr., Bill de Blasio's real name?
I hope Zohran wins because all the billionaire moneychangers are pulling out all the stops to defeat him.
The "real" Bill De Blasio is actually Warren Wilhelm, Jr., a great name for a Midwestern politician, but of little use in New York City. His high school classmates in Massachusetts noted his keen interest in politics and dubbed him "Senator Provolone," also a good name in NY politics.
Howard and his Death Wish VII: The Reckoning
"money changer" is code for "the Jews."
After Mamdmani(D) chases all those evil money out of NYC - who will he tax rape?
Always with the drama, Carmella
Reporters for outlets like these don't have to be good, just politically reliable.
Why is the other BdB being labeled the real one?
THIS guy is the one famously quoted by the London Times.
wendybar said...
“So, Warren Wilheim Jr. stole some other guys name??”
Thank you. The guy the Times reporter emailed should be called “The OG Billy D” in a sane world.
The answer to today's trivia question is:
Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, and Kitty Carlisle.
Is the question who wants To Tell the Truth?
Hezbollah howard
who will he tax rape?
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Trump exempted tip income <> did NY? AOC on the hook?
Mistake or not, everything I've read or heard leads me to believe that the British understand nothing about American politics. And, increasingly, very little about British politics.
I'm no journalist, and I do not play one on tv. Had I received an email with those statements purported to be those of the former mayor, I would have immediately sent it into the spam folder as fakery.
- Krumhorn
I heard Mark Halperin say last week that he has information that a last-second bombshell is coming out on Mondami, and that it may be disqualifying in nature.
https://x.com/profstonge/status/1983927129721933872
How is not chased out of four of the five boroughs
Sources without evidence... confirmation is a hallmark of modern JournoLism. Occasionally, Anthropogenic Intelligence (AI) is even known to hallucinate with ulterior motives.
Wade Miller on X: "@mrddmia @AndrewCMcCarthy My question for Andrew is… I was a Chief of Staff for Chip Roy on J6. I wasn’t involved in J6, I did no work on elections, so why did the FBI subpoena my pay records in 2023 with connection to a J6 investigation? I’m going to go out on a limb here and venture to guess McCarthy" / X https://share.google/4u289QgLOmK0ymHz9
Woke Colleges Deny TPUSA Chapter Requests – PJ Media https://share.google/FuMBcauMgsjNZlHoU
I would much prefer to have all Congress and other critters wear live body-cams since they already have their hands in our pockets!
At least 6 senior Trump officials living on military bases for their safety.
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do they still get to eat in mess/cafetaria after Nov 11?
Not McCarthyism with Democratic leaders, but Palmerism et al with Democratic leaders, and their Frosty progressions.
Woke Colleges Deny TPUSA Chapter Requests
They're angry that Kirk exposed their Choices, wicked solutions, including DEIsm (i.e. institutionalDiversity), homophobia and simulants with a lifetime of maintenance, sexual dysfunction, and entertaining abortive ideation of selfie and others.
Woke colleges are Soviet brat factories
That said, the "real DeBlasio" is not a real DeBlasio; it's his adopted name, selected for political purposes to present himself as less German and more Queens NYC. The "real DeBlasio" faker also has a fake wife who is a lesbian. Only in NYC, and great preamble to Eric Adams, and now Mamdani. Go for it.
D.D. Driver said...
"A democrat like Mamdani would get absolutely destroyed by a real journalist Just like Kamal did."
You think the media *likes* Mamdani? He's seems hated the same way (and by many of the same people) that hate Trump (and Bernie) and anyone outside the uniparty. And, they exaggerate the lies about him the same way they exaggerate the lies about Trump. Trump is a Nazi and a fascist and Mandami is an agent of Hamas? Really? Sorry,
Derpies gonna derp. You cannot stop the derp train.
And if Mamdani wasn't a retard he could answer questions from the idiots in our press corp who "hate" him intelligently and make them look bad.
But you on your little derp train are kinda stupid and you aren't be able to figure out what the point of my comment actually was.
He is an evil demon that will lay waste to gotham and encourage others they have to reach rock bottom and even they they wont get it
You look at london, how many years has khan been mayor and they never learn
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