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GradyPhilpott · 1 June 2015, 07:45 AM

I'm not a soccer fan, so a lot of this has gone over my head, but still this is pretty funny.

Jack Warner, a former vice president of world soccer’s governing body, FIFA, defended himself against corruption charges on Sunday by citing an article from The Onion, apparently unaware that it was satire.

Mr. Warner, 72, who was arrested last week in connection with a wide-ranging criminal investigation by the United States Justice Department, held up the faux news report as evidence, he said, of an American conspiracy, in a video statement that was uploaded to the web and then removed later in the day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/wo...s&emc=rss&_r=0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=323&v=1rhLFDF516Q

joli160 · 1 June 2015, 07:56 AM

What a silly buggar

watchwatcher · 1 June 2015, 11:15 AM

Rock · 1 June 2015, 12:01 PM

I'm always intrigued by who gets on these 'Boards' and how they get there.

s.justinlee · 1 June 2015, 01:44 PM

could he have been citing it as satire of satire?
meta-satire
maybe the joke's on us

Old Expat Beast · 1 June 2015, 01:52 PM

Chinese newspapers have 'syndicated' Onion articles a few times, thinking they were for real. The People's Daily ran a 55-page colour feature on North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, to tie in with his being named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive in 2012. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-20518929

Rock · 1 June 2015, 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Old Expat Beast

... his being named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive in 2012.

This gave me a big belly laugh.

GB-man · 1 June 2015, 10:23 PM

That's good stuff

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