When In Doubt, Fib

The Post takes much pleasure in reporting that mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer seems to have fibbed again regarding his personal experience with the city’s public school system — this after fibbing about it in a debate during the primary:

Fernando Ferrer yesterday got caught red-handed falsely claiming in a first-person account on his campaign Web site that he attended mostly city public schools.

“I was born in the South Bronx and educated in pubic schools for most of my education,” Ferrer wrote in a Sept. 6 personal blog entry posted on www.ferrer2005.com.

But the Democratic nominee for mayor was forced to remove the posting yesterday less than an hour Mayor Bloomberg’s re-election campaign blew the whistle on the tall tale — flunking Ferrer for rewriting his childhood history into fiction.

The statement to reporters from the Bloomberg campaign highlighted Ferrer’s public-school claim on his Web site — then listed the Catholic schools that he had attended beginning in the first grade and ending with his graduation from Cardinal Spellman HS in 1968.

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Some observers speculated that Ferrer may be trying to downplay his parochial schooling to court the city’s teachers union or to bolster his assertion that he understands the struggles of working-class New Yorkers.

Uh, you think?