The funniest news item last week was also, if you think about it, the scariest: FARS, Iran’s official news agency, ran the headline: “Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama.”
The story, datelined Tehran, cited no source, but a little digging established that it had been lifted word for word from the Onion, which FARS’s cracker-jack government reporters failed to recognize as a satirical publication.
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