Mr. Wrong often pretends to be Mr. Right

THERE’S little chance you’ll ever again encounter an American public broadcaster more demonstrably dishonest, transparently ego-deluded and just plain fraudulent than Mike Francesa. Tuesday, reader Bobby Nardi sent an email noting what many noted: Francesa’s total dismissal of a caller who suggested Joe Girardi will be out. Francesa, naturally, mistreated the caller as a know-nothing. After all, he and “Joe” are tight — as if Girardi’s regular phoners with Francesa were based on Francesa’s extraordinary allure rather than WFAN’s payments.

I replied to Nardi that Francesa will next claim he was the very first to know that Girardi was out. I was only marginally kidding.

Thursday, after Girardi’s removal was announced, Francesa came through! He claimed he knew as far back as July that the Girardi-Yankees relationship was near its contentious end! And he knew it when their eyes met during the ALCS in Yankee Stadium!

Also, Tuesday, Francesa made the fantastic claim that he was among the very few — the only? — who knew that Tom

Brady, drafted 199th in 2000, was going to be a superstar. Of course, had he ever made such a claim on the air, he’d have said so repeatedly since Brady became a starter in 2001.

The caller pressed him to explain how he knew such a thing back in 2000. Francesa said

Bill Parcells told him Brady will be special.

But as seen and heard through Funhouse’s Twitter/YouTube entry — the section devoted to chronicling Francesa’s persistent, self-inflating dishonesty is cleverly named Back-afta this — Parcells’ 2014 appearance on Michael

Kay’s show was heard, a session in which Parcells was asked about Brady.

Parcells said no one he knows — and certainly not him — had any idea Brady was going to be good, let alone great. Brady’s stardom came a complete surprise to him, not to mention the rest of the NFL.

Francesa’s dishonesty in transparent service to his delusional expertise and human superiority remains staggering.