So -- here's the New York Times on it.
After weeks of news stories and opinion pages denouncing the New York Sanitation Department union for slowing down work after the Christmas week blizzard ...
After hundreds of hours of cable news analysis, slanders of unions, Federal investigations, a grand jury investigation, accusations from Congress, speeches by the mayor, reports by consultants and investigators from the New York City Police Department, the FBI and lawyers who seek to file civil suits against the city ...
It turns out.
That the whole story was made up.
Here ya go:
And it occurred because one man, Councilman Daniel J. Halloran, Republican of Queens, said five city workers had come to his office during the storm and told him they had been explicitly ordered to take part in a slowdown to embarrass Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
...
Mr. Halloran said he had been visited by two supervisors in the Transportation Department and three workers in the Sanitation Department. But the two transportation supervisors did not back up his story in interviews with investigators, according to two people briefed on the inquiries. And Mr. Halloran has steadfastly refused to reveal the names of the sanitation workers.
The New York Times played a role in this ...
Don't act so innocent, you dumb muthafockers.
You'll print any story that makes a union or the working man look bad.
More from the story:
Mr. Halloran declined to be interviewed for this article.