{"id":193335,"date":"2021-03-03T20:34:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trickster-claiming-to-be-cory-booker-lands-khashoggi-interview-on-bbc\/"},"modified":"2021-03-03T20:34:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:34:07","slug":"trickster-claiming-to-be-cory-booker-lands-khashoggi-interview-on-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trickster-claiming-to-be-cory-booker-lands-khashoggi-interview-on-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trickster claiming to be Cory Booker lands Khashoggi interview on BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Trickster claiming to be Cory Booker lands Khashoggi interview on BBC<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A trickster claiming to be New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker bluffed his way into a BBC radio interview on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to a red-faced apology from the British outlet and tweets from confused listeners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>hour radio programme on Friday, a man claiming to be Senator Cory Booker was interviewed in what <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears to be a deliberate hoax,\u201d the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/articles\/5BLDCC5j1wV4h2JF1WnDpct\/correction-and-apology-friday-26-february-2021\">BBC said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cWe have apologized to Senator Booker and are looking into what went wrong to make sure it doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BBC noted that the interview only aired one time, on Feb. 26, and all traces of it seem to have been scrubbed from the outlet\u2019s site.<\/p>\n<p>That one airing, however, im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely caught the attention of listeners who \u2014 unlike the show\u2019s producers \u2014 saw right through the attempt to impersonate the Garden State Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@CoryBooker did you do an interview today with the BBC discussing the Khashoggi killing?\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Thorne4184\/status\/1365397568516161537\">tweeted one user<\/a> on Feb. 26. \u201cSomeone sounding nothing like you and without your speech pattern was claiming to be you today.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"The homepage of BBC Newshour features an apology for the broadcast interview\" class=\"wp-image-17463678 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/bbc.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/bbc.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/bbc.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/bbc.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/bbc.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The homepage of BBC \u201cNewshour\u201d features an apology for the broadcast interview.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">BBC.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/connie_traverse\/status\/1365398852279410692\">Added another user<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019m not sure who the BBC World Service just interviewed on Newshour about US relations with Saudi Arabia, but it definitely wasn\u2019t Senator Cory Booker\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear who was behind the prank.<\/p>\n<p>The real Booker did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Cory Booker bluffed his way into a BBC radio interview on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to a red-faced apology from the British outlet and tweets from confused listeners. \u201cIn our Newshour radio programme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/cory-booker-bbc.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[95984,6854,96072,73768,96073,96074,10294],"class_list":["post-193335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-3-21","tag-bbc","tag-cory-booker","tag-hoaxes","tag-impersonations","tag-impersonators","tag-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}