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Washington, Sept. 29: Iran’s state media has fallen for a made-up poll from a satirical US website claiming that a majority of rural white Americans would vote for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over Barack Obama.
Fars News Agency, a semi-official mouth piece of the Iranian regime, earnestly published a word-for-word duplicate of an article from the Onion, a spoof news organisation based in Chicago.
The satirical article cited a fake Gallup poll which found that 77 per cent of white, rural voters would rather go to a baseball game or have a beer with Ahmadinejad than with the US President.
It went on to cite a made-up West Virginian named Dale Swiderski, who said that he preferred the Iranian to Obama because: “He takes national defence seriously, and he’d never let some gay protesters tell him how to run his country like Obama does.”
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