And still on the subject of the Iranians, this story is too good not to share.
Readers of Iran’s official FARS News Agency encountered a surprising headline today — “Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama”:
TEHRAN (FNA)- According to the results of a Gallup poll released Monday, the overwhelming majority of rural white Americans said they would rather vote for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than US President Barack Obama.
“I like him better,” said West Virginia resident Dale Swiderski, who, along with 77 percent of rural Caucasian voters, confirmed he would much rather go to a baseball game or have a drink with Ahmadinejad than spend time with Obama.
“He takes national defense seriously, and he’d never let some gay protesters tell him how to run his country like Obama does.”
According to the same Gallup poll, 60 percent of rural whites said they at least respected that Ahmadinejad doesn’t try to hide the fact that he’s Muslim.
The uncredited source for the item was, not shockingly, the Onion. To make things worse, FARS’s item is copied word-for-word from the Onion’s story, so it’s both inaccurate and plagiarized. The Tehran dateline is a nice touch, though.
This follows Iran’s great Jar Jar Binks debacle of May this year.
What a bunch of maroons!
