Iranian news agency uses 'Onion' article as fact
An Iranian news agency picked up -- as fact -- a story from the paper about a supposed survey showing an overwhelming majority of rural white Americans would rather vote for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than President Obama. But it was made up, like everything in thejust-for-laughs newspaper, which is headquartered in Chicago. The English-language service of Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency republished the story Friday, several days after it appeared in The Iranian version copied the original word-for-word, even including a ...
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