The Onion made a joke about rural white voters preferring Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Barack Obama, and the Iranian news agency FARS ran with it.
Unable to avoid a good pun, David writes:
How appropriate that the agency's name can be pronounced "farce."
Sometimes the jokes write themselves, and sometimes commenters write them.
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