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The saddest thing of all is that so many of us thought it could actually be true.

I called my husband who was in Scotland at the time and he shared his dismay with the current court, so your "story" was spread across the pond.

Well done, splendid.

And thankfully it isn't true, at least for now.

Geez, I'm really disappointed that this was just an April Fool's joke. I was all ready to start a bunch of corporations and move to Illinois and vote and vote often!!

To program such a disturbing and humorless "joke" is doing a disservice to your listeners. I'll never be able to trust you or your guests again. And exasperated at the waste of time spent checking the New York Times website 3 times today.

See how much I trust you, Brian--The whole time I was listening to your guests (especially the crazy answers from "Martin Gold"), I was thinking that YOU were being had and being made a fool of! You sneak, you!

Hey, Jack from NJ, #94 -- lighten up a bit!

It was pretty obvious that it was a spoof by about minute 3. For one thing the SCOTUS only rules on cases that are brought before it; they NEVER initiate something, although they may swerve away from the actual point of the case being heard.

Besides, as soon as it started getting really absurd, I knew for sure what day it was...

Kudos to Brian, Dahlia and the others for being able to perform the item without breaking into hysterical laughter!

NYC girl born and raised listening from my house in London thinking that I could never go home to the US again if such a thing were true! I remembered the date hours later, such a relief, I was going around chatting to my British friends about how ashamed I am to be American due to stupidity like this... best April Fools joke I've experienced in a long time.

The supreme Court just clarified its previous ruling - stating that only corporations that hire sexy women can vote!

I know you'll tell me to lighten up, but I don't think this was funny or appropriate. If I got out of the car 1 minute sooner, I wouldn't have known this was a joke and I'd have had a knot in my stomach for a week. I'd have checked Bloomberg and the WSJ and been incensed they didn't cover it. Should I have KNOWN this was a joke? Well, to see the stuff that has happened with the judiciary in the last few years, I don't think it's that obvious. There are probably a few people eating their guts out now because they missed the end and don't get the joke. Joke about something less disturbing next time.

You always keep it so cool during these! My favorite is still, "step across the Hudson to smoke" but his was pretty close!

Brian, this got me so bad that I was screaming out loud while walking down the sidewalk.

Amazing joke!!

I loved listening in my car earlier but didn't hear the entire program. When I got out of the car I thought about it and realized that the Supreme Court has made some bone-headed rulings in the past but they can't be this stupid. I have a lot of faith in the USA that this too shal work out....... then I realized it is April 1st. This is the best April fools joke/prank I have ever heard.
Nice job!!

I was driving when I hear about the Supreme Court ruling of April 1. I was so upset that I called my brother immediately. We were strategizing how we are going to protest the Supreme Court.

THen I had to visit my sickly mother. I decided to check my Iphone for what other newscasters were saying. When there was nothing on google, I realized I have been had.

I called my brother to tell him what happened. He said he will cancel his visa. He was raving and ranting with his customers what is this country coming to!!!!

The said thing is that wwith this court we can believe that they would take such outrageous position.

I ran into my house from my car (mowing over the kid and the dog en route to the computer) to make sure this was an April fool's day prank. Very well done!

You really got me, driving north from NYC until I was out of range. Well done, just close enough to our worst fantasies...and it was a sweet moment, a relief for my heart, to realize it was all about April Fools.
One way to really appreciate War of the Worlds.

Fooled me, Brian!! I was listening while driving and getting madder and madder and then about 2 minutes before the end I realized it was a joke!! Got me! The sad part is that I had already played my own jokes earlier so I should have been ready. See how much we TRUST you??!! Best to you, Florence

SO happy that this is a joke. You really got me. I was screaming about this. Phew. Good job!

Brilliantly done. I suppose laughter is the best medicine.

Huh, wha...AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE!!!! Who's gonna pay for these tickets to Canada I just bought?!?!

Okay, the vein in my forehead was popping as I listened to this. You TOTALLY had me. I pulled of the road so I wouldn't do something foolish! I guess I just expect news like this now. . . Time to relax and remember to laugh about our state of affairs. . .how else to survive it?

Well, you got me, Brian. I was LIVID, and ready to call/write/email everyone I know,
asking them to protest!
You remind me that several years ago, NPR had me just as upset, because I believed that we were selling Arizona to Canada, "for an inland port"!

Tuned in to this segment near the end and in the car. Fooled me. Sadder for the Court than for me that their rightward list in past decisions made your spoof shocking but not surprising. Wonder why they are still called Justices?

My favorite "fool" was Giuliani banning talking on the subway. That one really got people. Thanks!

Sorry, Brian. I fell for it, briefly. Just shows you (as you did with your opening comments) how many news stories SHOULD be April Fool's Day jokes these days, but they're all too real. Maybe that's the point you were trying to make.

You truly had me confused like a dear in a head light

Aren't you worried that the Tea Party folks aren't going to get the joke?

ha i've even noticed tweets going around with outraged people thinking this was real.

Hah! Got me!!

Good job - but if this was true, I have to say WNYC for President.....

wow. i got 'got'.

*I meant "it's scary how you'll are able to pass a falsehood as fact"....LOL

Had this been true, I would have suggested it's time to sue the court for malfaescance. Maybe it is anyway but then whom would preside??

Of course, the scariest part of this April Fool's prank is how believable it is.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You got me!!!!!!!!!!

I love this, kudos Brian for pulling this off and making me go, WTF ... and getting me all riled up. I checked the other news sources on line but didn't see this as their breaking news, so I then figured it out ... so Happy April's fool day.

So well written it wasn't Almost cruel.
And the bizarre comments held back for almost 10 minutes. Very cruel.

You took years off my life, Brian!

Well played, I must admit.

Okay, that was a good one. Totally got me!

April Fools! this is funny but scary, because it is not so far from the truth...

The got me! Damn! You know what's really sad though? It's kind of believable...

You got me for sure!

Holy f**k, it took me so long to figure out that this is an April Fools' joke - I was ready to rant about how America has become a corporate fascist state. I guess I would've thought that Orson Welles was reporting on an actual alien invasion.

Maybe corporations should be register for the draft, so that they have the potential obligation to die in foriegn wars for minimal compensation.

Since corporations can be foreign owned, does this now mean that foreigners are voting in our elections?

LMAO....Brian...you old dog...I was really like believing this and was like WTF?!?!?...you'll scare me with how well you are able to pass of the truth as fact. But a Happy April's Fool Day to you too!!! LMAO

I wish this weren't so close to reality. I love the Berk-Hathaway formula.

This is the most highbrow April Fools joke I've ever heard.

HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I am rolling around in my seat-

Signed- hopeful corporate citizen

Happy Apr 1st!

Can dummy corporations vote too?
This will definitely up Delaware's electoral count.

fabulous.

Let's draft them too! Send AIG and Goldman Sachs to Afganistan! Good job Dahlia...you lie like a lawyer.

I think this is a wonderful way to experntialize my political leverage. I'm going down to the county court house with a fist full of filing fees and setting up 20 new LLCs. Buy the way can these things be sold in open or closed markets. Can you bundle these together into Dark Pools and derivitives? I smell revenue streams!!!!

They had me til the employer called about the caucuses.

I nearly flipped my lid. Then I remembered the date. Very good Brian. Giving listeners heart attacks.

they have civil unions for same sex corporations

How will the formula for calculating how many votes my company gets factor in my illegal employees? Do they count?

ooops... I fell for it

Brilliant!

Ok,
I've been screaming at the radio for about ten minutes...is this a joke?

Please, please say it's a joke.

April Fool's! Love it!

Brian, if you are joking, you better say so right away!! I'm so angry I might cry right now...

Let corporations vote. One man, one vote! So the half million corporations would have a have a half million votes, and no more. As for running for office, only one human can occupy that seat, so if Microsoft wins the election, only Bill gates or the CEO could actually occupy the position. Otherwise, an entire corporation consisting of 100,000 workers would only have a single vote.

You had me for one full minute! Best gag since the one about the release of wolves in Central Park!

Ok - this has to be a joke.

Yeah, I hope this is an April Fools joke.

Do corporations need to be eightteen years old to vote?

This is an April Fool's joke, no?

wow. I was fooled for a while.

And yes, I do recognize Marty's voice.

They totally got me

okay, april fool.

but just in case - what's everybody getting all worked up about? as we know, a vote is not worth much. See Bush v. Gore.

I almost ran my car off the road when I heard this. Thanks alot...

I REALLY hate these April 1 time-wasters.

Regarding the Supreme Court ruling that companies can get the right to vote: PLEASE tell me this is an April Fool's joke. I heard the Murray Hill piece you did the other morning and I thought it was a just a critique, similar in spirit to The Onion. This is a dark day for our country. I am ashamed.

While it may seem that a corporation's right to vote will be of no actual consequence in terms of counting votes, we should recall that a typical large corporation is actually a collection of hundreds -- even thousands -- of incorporated subsidiaries and affiliates. Will each one of these smaller units have voting rights? Will corporations be able to create scores of newly incorporated entities in anticipation of a close vote in a particular district?

I thought this morning that I'll keep my eyes open today so I could witness one of those more elaborate pranks. Ears, it turned out.

I can't wait for the first prosecution of sexual infidelity (with the spouse of a member of the opposite party, no less) by a corporation. How about corporations participating in ice dancing in the Olympics?

Is this really a joke? Please tell me it's really a joke.

HA! Phew I was scared there for a second...wouldn't put it past the court though.

Joke yes? I hate April Fool's Day.

Wow! This is awesome! I own a company, so I get 2 votes!! I'm going to keep incorporating companies and getting more and more votes!

Maybe I'll run several of them for office!

Ugh this is frighteningly real!

I think Murry Hill ink can likely merge with an older company and still run.

Brian: What did you mean by "blah blah blah, all that negativity'?? Did I miss some irony or were you making fun of a appalled, passionate dissenting reply to an appalling decision?

read this in the Onion..must be true!

ha i was googling all over the web to find something on this. i was about to run out in the streets and start a riot.

I was slow!!! But loved it. Happy April Fools!

What about moving Corporations to *swing states*? How does this affect where companies set up shop?

Yup, you had me for a minute!

This must be a joke. Let's draft GM. Personally I would like to send AIG and Goldman Sachs to Afghanistan.

April Fool's everyone!!

If this were real it would be all over the MSM. I think it's highly unlikely WYNC scooped everyone on this one.

Think about it, and listen to the commentary.

Ha! You really had me for a minute!

Ha! Ha! Very good! You had me for a minute or so. And still very well done. Dalia is nice touch of verismo!

You had me going for a few minutes, great joke! I love it!

Nice try guys! Funny and well done though!

Corporate America votes Easter Bunny!
Happy April Fool's...

What day is it? HA!

You must be following the Murray Hill Inc. campaign to run for Congress.

"Murray Hill Incorporated is Running for Congress. Corporations are people too!"

Check this out: http://www.murrayhillincforcongress.com/

Thank got the bankers are making money again

Thank you Obama

Boy, you're good! Almost had me.

Are you effing kidding me?!?! This is absurd!!! I'm moving to Canada.

April Fools...

Got me for a sec. Happy April 1!

Not on ny times...must be an april fools joke.

please tell me this is an April Fool's joke

And April Fool to you, Brian, and crew. Good one!

This must be an April Fool's joke....