don leman and chris cuomo were just telling you about, they are lying. it's a fraud. hate hoaxes by contrast are common.by the media spends a lot of time denying that which is your first tip that it's real. "the new york times" wrote a headline that began "hate crime hoaxes are rare." rolling stones most famous story ever was a hoax assures us that false reports of hate crimes are exceedingly rare. all the rest of the newsroom lemmings nod their heads in agreement, don't believe youroo eyes, this stuff never happens. it does happen, it happens regularly. the higher the profile the hate crime, the more likely it is to be fake. those racist messages at the air force academy, the general began an anguished response that seemed sincere and it went viral. the fake victims did it to themselves.ee how about those three university of albany students who were attacked by a white supremacist