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Friday, September 28, 2012

Iranian News Agency fell for Onion article: “Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama

Details at Politico.

Onion editor Will Tracy released an equally satirical statement about Fars’ slip-up.

“The Iranian news agency, Fars, is a subsidiary of The Onion. They have acted as our Middle Eastern bureau since the mid 1980s, when the Onion’s publisher, T. Herman Zweibel, founded Fars with the government approval of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. The Onion freely shares content with Fars and commends the journalists at Iran’s Finest News Source on their superb reportage,” Tracy joked.

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