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Iranian News Agency Apologizes For Publishing The Onion’s US Gallup Poll That Said Rural Whites Prefer Iranian President To Obama As Fact

NYTimes – Iran’s Fars News Agency admitted on Sunday that its report, “Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad To Obama,” was copied entirely from The Onion, a satirical American publication the editors in Tehran mistook for a news source. An editor at the Iranian agency, which is close to the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, said in the long, somewhat grudging apology: “The news item was extracted from the satirical magazine, The Onion, by mistake and it was taken down” from the agency’s English-language Web site within two hours. The unnamed editor went on to argue that the premise of the Onion report — that Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is more popular with white, rural Americans than President Obama — might even be accurate, if fictional. “Although it does not justify our mistake,” he said, “we do believe that if a free opinion poll is conducted in the U.S., a majority of Americans would prefer anyone outside the U.S. political system to President Barack Obama.” He also did not acknowledge that there was anything wrong with the agency copying text from other publications without attribution. Large chunks of the apology itself appear to have been copied word-for-word from American news sites.

Unbelievable. No not that Iran plagiarized this article from the Onion. No not that they don’t believe in plagiarism. No not even that they plagiarized their apology to the plagiarized article. It’s the fact they admitted it was fake and they made a mistake at all. Since when does Tehran apologize for anything? Like they will literally hijack an airplane and throw a parade for the guy who did it. And yet they are apologizing to the Onion? Bizarre. What is Iran getting soft or something? Come on Iran be better than this.

PS – What percentage of rednecks do you think would vote for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over Obama? 10%?

Double PS – You know what is a pet peeve of mine. When countries who hate the West use things like twitter and the Internet. Hey if you hate us so much Far News Agency don’t use our shit. Go live in a cave and rant and rave about how sucky we are.

By elpresidente posted October 1st, 2012 at 3:03 PM

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by @KingBlackDude on October 1, 2012 at 3:07 pm
PS – What percentage of rednecks do you think would vote for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over Obama? 10%?i am going with 50%, dick heads like charlesweetheart and patsfan26 dont like blacks
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by edrooney on October 1, 2012 at 3:11 pm
I think the 10% is low and maybe the Iranians finally realize that Netanyahu is two seconds away from dropping a nuke onto Ahmadinejad's palace personally.
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by stro on October 1, 2012 at 3:14 pm
0% he's brown. Duh!
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by wilburham on October 1, 2012 at 3:16 pm
10 percent is way to low, slap the word repubilican infront of a tin can and half the idiots around here would vote for it. Not voting for obama = 1 million dollars a person cash. simple economics really
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by icculusisdead on October 1, 2012 at 3:16 pm
If I had to choose between both I would probably write in Batman.
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by @KingBlackDude on October 1, 2012 at 3:20 pm
wilburham shut the fuck up you dickheadps jackie robinson flick coming out! cant wait, black powerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCduxL8ELwQ&feature=player_detailpage
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by wilburham on October 1, 2012 at 3:21 pm
youre an idiot black dud
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by sofaking on October 1, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Trade one muslin for another? Can't see any difference except Ahmadinejad is open about his hate for all things American, where Obama tries to hide it.
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by bagelsandlocks on October 1, 2012 at 3:29 pm
Neil's voting for Jill Stein
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by @KingBlackDude on October 1, 2012 at 3:33 pm
wilburham , how about you suck my dick you faggot
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by wilburham on October 1, 2012 at 3:34 pm
your an idiot black dud did you even read my first comment, can you even read?
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by cfoggot on October 1, 2012 at 3:36 pm
it's really funny that people think obama is a muslim, or that it would matter
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by @KingBlackDude on October 1, 2012 at 3:36 pm
ah my bad bro! #team obama, i need to learn to read comments with detail, bff's still?
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by allinreraise on October 1, 2012 at 3:43 pm
I hate commies and Russia but I love vodka. Should I stop?
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by SoftAsSatinDavidPatten on October 1, 2012 at 4:07 pm
Someone should really tell Stephen A Smith, he's gonna be pissed about this
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by SoftAsSatinDavidPatten on October 1, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Go figure @KingBlackDude, Stephen A is one of yours too
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by ilovebarstoolsports on October 1, 2012 at 6:14 pm
second time i've heard about iran this week on BSS. is there problems with them too? i thought that was 1980s beef...
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by luosing on October 1, 2012 at 6:24 pm
i like that the onion has inadvertently become international trolls
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by tom bradys left nut on October 1, 2012 at 7:59 pm
I love how people like Wilburham act like the Democrat voters aren't the modern day Jonestowners.
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by piratesalsa on October 2, 2012 at 2:12 am
Flip Flopney and his magic underwear are going to save the day!
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