The Iranian version copied the original Onion article word for word, including a quote from a fictional West Virginian.
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CHICAGO — A joke by the satirical newspaper The Onion appears to have gotten lost in translation.
The English-language service of Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency picked up and published — 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 the just-for-laughs newspaper, headquartered in Chicago.
The Iranian version copied the original word for word, including a quote from a fictional West Virginian who says he'd rather go to a baseball game with Ahmadinejad because "he takes national defense seriously, and he'd never let some gay protesters tell him how to run his country like Obama does."
The Iranian version of the article leaves out only The Onion's description of Ahmadinejad as "a man who has repeatedly denied the Holocaust and has had numerous political prisoners executed."
The English-language service of Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency picked up and published — 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 the just-for-laughs newspaper, headquartered in Chicago.
The Iranian version copied the original word for word, including a quote from a fictional West Virginian who says he'd rather go to a baseball game with Ahmadinejad because "he takes national defense seriously, and he'd never let some gay protesters tell him how to run his country like Obama does."
The Iranian version of the article leaves out only The Onion's description of Ahmadinejad as "a man who has repeatedly denied the Holocaust and has had numerous political prisoners executed."
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