Did you hear the one about Fars News Agency (a state-affiliated media outlet of the Islamic regime of Iran) publishing a satirical piece from The Onion as fact?
And that’s not even the funny bit.
The piece they published practically verbatim was about a Gallup Poll finding that rural white Americans prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama: ”Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama“.
Seriously?
I guess if you believe the al-Mahdi is coming soon, you will believe anything…
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richardelguru
October 2, 2012 at 12:53 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
“rural white Americans prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama”
I actually don’t find that too unbelievable, course I do live in Texas.
F
October 2, 2012 at 11:45 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Yes, I read it somewhere else in the network here. I frequently find this sort of thing surprising and unsurprising at the same time. (Like, maybe I should be surprised, but I’m not.)
phil zombi
October 3, 2012 at 2:16 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
To be fair I am pretty sure that this has happened before. I think it was a Chinese news outlet that republished from the Onion as though it were the real thing. It is still funny though.
Steve R
October 7, 2012 at 3:31 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
This looks like a variation on Poe’s Law:
It is not possible to write a parody of fundamentalist Christianity that will not be mistaken for its target.
The first time I wandered into the Landover Baptist Church site, it took me a while to realize that it was a parody. I’ve had too many people tell me some of the same shit in all seriousness. Only extreme concentration of Christian BS at Landover gives it away.