Onion's Obama-Ahmadinejad 'poll' cited as fact in Iran
Onion's Obama-Ahmadinejad 'poll' cited as fact in Iran
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An Iranian news agency picked up — as fact — a story from the paper about a supposed Gallup survey showing an overwhelming majority of rural white Americans would rather vote for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than President Barack Obama. But it was made up, like everything in the just-for-laughs newspaper, which is headquartered in Chicago. The English-language service of Iran's semi-official Fars news agency republished the story Friday, several days after it appeared in The Onion. The Iranian version copied the original word-for-word, even including a made-up quote from a fictional West Virginia resident who says he'd rather go to a baseball game with Ahmadinejad because "he takes national defense seriously, and he'd never let some gay protesters tell him how to run his country like Obama does."Comment: Onion article: Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad To Obama
Update: FARS image from Irish times
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