CUNNINGHAM: Will this town burn down if he loses?

CO-HOST: I don't know. What do you think?

CUNNINGHAM: Yeah. I think there will be 100 cities burning if Barack loses. Yeah, that's what the black intelligentsia says.

Huh. Ok! But which 100 cities will they burn? Honestly are there 100 major cities with large militant Black populations? Based on census numbers, it looks like we can be pretty sure some of these cities will be burning but will it really get to 100? Will St. Paul honestly burn? Fort Lauderdale?

No, we can confidently say that should Obama lose no more than a dozen cities will be burned to rubble by violent mobs of militant black rioters. Cunningham, we call on you to correct your claim.

"i am currently a student at FIT and was volunteering at the Twinkle show this morning. After the show i decided to pick up Womens Wear Daily, and spotted Bill Cunningham. i decided to approach him after he had finished taking photos of the Carolina Herrera on the TV screens in the main lobby.

I was quickly dismissed with the slight [wave] of his hand, then looked up and down as he walked away. I am severely heartbroken. Now, I can never read or watch his contributions to the New York Times Style section without cringing and recalling how I was dismissed by a grouchy old man. sigh..."

Oh, honey!

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His name is Peter Gianquinto, I encourage you to google him. He has a long history of posing as various managers/photographers as well as a more serious connection to the recent DC sniper shootings. He is a career con man and I have seen him put food in plastic ziplock bags from events. He always wears a hat has long blonde hair in the back and is almost always in a suit and tie. I know this for a fact as I met him at an event once and he later contacted myself trying to send emails from fake addresses, I never spoke to him again. He is marked by many of the high level security agencies GSS etc as being a fraud.

Fake Bill called my office a few times about some really strange events in the Fall—things the NYTimes would never cover. Plus, the guy sounded like he was 10 years old. Bill's a little more ... mature. At the time, I remember thinking he was an idiot to try to crash parties as Bill Cunningham. If you are going to crash a party, the LAST person you should pretend to be is Bill Cunningham! Dude should have just pretended to be a wire photog...

Just got a call from a guy who sounded suspiciously like Fake Bill, same voice, same tone, same energetic "hey, you have an event tomorrow night; where's the after-party!" Just way too excited about it to be a real photog, and not even the standard inquiries that real wire photogs are usually concerned with. Anyway, now he says he is Robert Preston from Getty Images. So I turned him down and then called Getty—no Robert Preston there. I don't have Fake Bill's number anymore, and my caller ID said withheld.

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