You citric idiot!!!

To alleviate the otherwise super-serious tone of this blog, I've thrown in a funny article I read in Private Eye about Gordon Brown's supposed citrus hurling antics. By supposed of course I mean completely false and swallowed hook, line and sinker by the Murdoch rags, The Sun and The Telegraph, which leads with the spectacular headline:

"GORDON BROWN ACCUSED OF THROWING A TANGERINE"

A hoax perpetrated by Robert Popper that became surprisingly popular in illustrating that zesty brute Brown's vicious bullying streak. Except it didn't happen. Modern journalism. The fourth estate is truly alive and well.

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame&issue=1257

P.S. here is the original article in full....oh wait, the Telegraph seems to have taken it down for some mysterious reason...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/gordon-brown/7297028/Gordon-Brown-accused-of-throwing-a-tangerine.html