Iranian Fars News Agency Punked By The Onion
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, September 28, 2012, 3:55 PM
The Iranian Fars News Agency fell for a phony poll posted at The Onion satire website today. The Onion poll said a majority of rural white Americans would rather go to baseball games with Ahmadinejad than with Barack Obama.
Fars thought the Onion poll was legitimate.
The Politico reported:
No joke. Iran’s semi-official government news agency on Friday picked up a bogus poll story by The Onion that said a majority of rural white Americans would rather go to a baseball game with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than President Barack Obama.
“Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama” reads the article by Iran’s Fars news agency.
The Onion posted its satirical article Monday.
“According to the results of a Gallup poll released Monday, the overwhelming majority of rural white Americans said they would rather vote for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than US President Barack Obama,” it reads, adding that 77 percent of rural white voters said they “would much rather go to a baseball game or have a beer with Ahmadinejad, a man who has repeatedly denied the Holocaust and has had numerous political prisoners executed, than spend time with Obama.”
The regime has since pulled the article from its website.
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Ghost commented:
the best satire leaves you wondering because it’s so close to the truth.
this is funnier if it substitutes Academic Elite for rural white…
how many times have you said to yourself that you can’t tell the difference anymore between Real News and The Onion?
Redwine commented:
Fars = Farce
ab01 commented:
I have a feeling that a real poll would have much the same result.
Ghost commented:
#3
your feelings are only important to you.
you’re entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.
so, uhhh, what facts do you have to support your ‘feeelings’?
*crickets* *crickets* *crickets*
and who would you trust to conduct an accurate, honest poll? huh?
y’see lamebrain, this is why you have to sit at the little kids’ table.
BuddyG commented:
Freakin’ Idiots
Jim commented:
Being a rural white person, I actually rate them the same!
ab01 commented:
#5
chill out jerk…do I need to add SATIRE. Any way, your reply sucked.
dba_vagabond_trader commented:
Another parallel with their lefturd allies; no sense of humor or irony.
Ghost commented:
#9 zyoi
your feelings are important only to you
when you’re not a good writer then, yes, you DO need to explain,
which of course, ruins the joke,
but then you can always say anything you want and claim you’re just a comedian,
albeit a poor one
l.barney commented:
HA! As if these people thought any SANE person would want to be anywhere near IMADINNERJACKET!
Sean commented:
I would buy him a kosher hot dog at Cominskey Field.
Patty commented:
I am sorry but this is what is wrong with all the problems we and middle east are facing.
The truth seems to be a lie and the lie is the truth. Who knows anymore with such inaccuracies on the web and in the media. Now, jokes. Icing on the cake and the cake taste like dirt.
paul52 commented:
I’d go to a cage match with the both of ‘em IF they were on the card. (Yes, that is sarcastic.) Would actually take the two of ‘em out fishing here on Lake Michigan.
eddie commented:
Did they really believe it, or did they print it regardless because it fit their narrative? You know . . . like our own MSM.
Tom T commented:
Love the part about Ahmadinejad “doesn’t try to hide the fact that he’s Muslim.”
Arkie commented:
I’m having trouble seeing what the big deal is with them being punked once by the Onion when our press gets punked (and worse) by Obama on a regular basis.
Limousine Barry commented:
Let me be clear, even with Davy Asselrod working with the Iranians a few mistake slip through the cracks.
Take this satirical site… and shut it down. We need to control the press. I have Asselrod screen all of my MSM pieces but it is not enough! The First Amendment must go!
If I am reelected, I promise to gut the First Amendment and adopt Sharia law. It’s so much more efficient to just kill people who write things that I don’t like.
If you hate the US Constitution then vote for me. And, this is really important! Send me $3.00 before midnight. My campaign is running out of money.
Jay-Z wants his 0bama donation refunded. As do many of my other donors. I promised them I would refund their money in exchange for a pre-filled-out Absentee ballot. Send me more money now! I must get the Muslim vote!
donh commented:
FOOLS !….This is an insult to YOU…Leon Panetta transforming the CIA into an impotent juvenile gang of prank phone callers….and MOCKING the beliefs of rural white americans to boot….. The realities of Iranian nuclear holocaust are nothing to joke about and will not be deterred by circus clown heckling. Once again the bigger enemy of the state proves to be the PC incorrectness birthir believing rural whites who think Imam Obama is a muslisim.
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