NYPost - "Happy Hour Ban Happening". Mayor Bloomberg - "WTF they on about?"

Today's NY Post has an awesome (-ly made up) article about how NYC is planning on banning Happy Hour, because, well, it'll reduce alcohol consumption or something. 

Happy hour in the city could end if Department of Health policy party-poopers go ahead with a proposal to outlaw beer and booze specials at bars and restaurants, sources told The Post.

“It’s absolutely been discussed,” confirmed a department source. “It goes to show you the spirit with which they operate. Everyone is a child.”

High-level conversations have gone beyond merely “throwing pencils on the ceiling and seeing what sticks,” another Health source revealed.

When said Department of Health was asked directly about this, they tried to throw the NY Post off the scent

Agency spokesman Sam Miller denied existing “plans to pursue any policy around discount-alcohol sale.”

But fear not dear reader, since those fearless news-hounds were on the case - they went right back and asked their "sources" who went on to instill even more fear

But sources said the anti-booze sentiment at the agency has reached a fever pitch, with officials recently asking state officials about the “legality of liquor in ice cream,” referring to potent products infused with bourbon, rum and tequila.

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“DOH will advocate for policies that reduce access to alcohol by adolescents and for limits on sales practices in communities and campuses that promote drinking among adolescents and heavy drinking amon adults".

Huh? 
Whut?
Nothing about Happy Hour, or anything really evil, right? 
Could it possibly be that, well, The NY Post is making shit up?
Never!  Can't be!

Lets get the answer straight from Mayor Bloomberg shall we?
When asked about this, his response was "WTF are you guys talking about?  Get a real job!"

Actually, he didn't quite say that.  He went one better, and said

You know, it’s good that- what one paper’s done because, as you remember, this year the committee did not award a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Now we have one - with irresponsible journalism - for next year. The Health Department has no plans. We told them we have no plans. It is a totally fictitious, made-up story, and it’s just not what I would call responsible journalism.

The NY Post.  The second finest bastion of journalism after The Onion...