Iran news agency duped by the friggin' Onion?

LonghornFan · Sep 28, 2012

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Seriously? Not sure is this is D&D worthy, but if this is real...Just lulz.

Iran's leading news agency published a mock poll that claimed rural whites in the U.S. favored Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over president Barack Obama.

The mock poll was originally published on a popular U.S. media site, The Onion.

The FARS news agency—which touts itself as Iran's leading independent news agency while others note its ties to government—published much of the made-up poll that first appeared in the U.S. parody website.

The Onion site quoted a fictitious Gallup Poll that noted "77 percent of rural Caucasian voters...would much rather go to a baseball game or have a beer with Ahmadinejad...than spend time with Obama."

FARS led its story with that statement and even quoted someone from the Onion piece, West Virginia resident Swiderski, saying of Ahmadinejad, "I like him better."

Oops.

Word of duping the Iranian agencies made its way through media sites and was also picked up by media blogger Jim Romenesko.

The Onion had a little fun with it, too, it seems, adding to the end of the article, "For more on this story: Please visit our Iranian subsidiary organization, Fars."

The story was live on the FARS website early on Friday afternoon but was no longer available by 1:30 p.m. ET. The link to FARS goes to an earlier screen grab of the story that had been on the FARS website.
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napalm06 · Sep 28, 2012

LOL. Classic..

KingCheetah · Sep 28, 2012

First Stephen A. Smith now Iran... oh Onion you so cleva.

Apps · Sep 28, 2012

Actually, Stormfront has a pretty sizeable Ahmadinejad fan club. They still hate him for being a non-white, Muslim, Jew-look-alike, but if you were to ask any of them which they'd prefer as a leader, I'm sure most of those morons would say Mahmoud.

Pizza_Da_Hut · Sep 28, 2012

Steve A Smith was duped by them too, what does that mean?

da_juice · Sep 28, 2012

I think this is more of a case of the Iranian govt hoping their citizens would fall for the Onion and not the other way around.

Dairy Ashford · Sep 28, 2012

Apps said: ↑

Actually, Stormfront has a pretty sizeable Ahmadinejad fan club. They still hate him for being a non-white, Muslim, Jew-look-alike, but if you were to ask any of them which they'd prefer as a leader, I'm sure most of those morons would say Mahmoud.
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Assuming they actually know what the hell a damn Aryan is, maybe. Plain as day in my sixth grade social studies textbook.

plcmts17 · Sep 28, 2012

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Qball · Sep 29, 2012

New riots in Iran due to this report: http://dailycurrant.com/2012/09/28/bachmann-we-ban-falafel-school-lunches/

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