The Jersey Backup is the latest incarnation of what has been a long and proud lineage of muckraking publications. It all started in 1879 with the Bloomfield Bullshitter, which bravely noted former general and current Gov. George Brinton McClellan lost a key battle during the Civil War to a herd of poorly shorn sheep.
In the ensuring years, the publication bounced around the Garden State and was variously known as the Denville Dissembler, the Hamburg Humbug and the Jersey Journal. All the while, its staff kept true to the enduring belief that all New Jersey residents should know that what they’re reading is absolutely, positively, 100 percent true.
The Editors
