Maryam Namazie

Maryam Namazie is a political activist, campaigner and blogger

They will believe anything

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…

Comments

4 responses to “They will believe anything”

  1. Steve R Avatar

    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.

  2. phil zombi Avatar
    phil zombi

    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.

  3. 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.)

  4. “rural white Americans prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama”
    I actually don’t find that too unbelievable, course I do live in Texas.

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