FIFA Official Cites "The Onion" in his Defense

[GradyPhilpott]

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