Hardball | November 27, 2012
Chinese news site quotes The Onion, misses satire
A Chinese news website recently quoted The Onion for a piece on Kim Jong-Un, missing the fact entirely that The Onion is a satire news site.
Share This:
Hardball
-
Jansing: ‘The devastation is almost unbelievable’
Hardball
May 21, 2013 -
Surviving the storm underground
Hardball
May 21, 2013 -
Lt. Gov. Lamb: TV pales in comparison to the reality on the ground
Hardball
May 21, 2013 -
This isn’t Moore’s first tornado – and probably won’t be its last
Hardball
May 21, 2013 -
Storm chasers: Running in when most would run away
Hardball
May 21, 2013 -
The Moore tornado timeline
Hardball
May 21, 2013 -
Weather continues to make history in Tornado Alley region
Hardball
May 21, 2013 -
Bipartisan agreement about IRS overreach
Hardball
May 17, 2013 -
Attacks on Benghazi still ‘the worst scandal that never happened’
Hardball
May 17, 2013 -
Sideshow: Bachmann's really, really early campaign ad
Hardball
May 17, 2013 -
GOP strategy continues to be attack, attack, attack
Hardball
May 17, 2013 -
Medical research impacted by continuing sequester
Hardball
May 17, 2013
This content comes from Closed Captioning that was broadcast along with this program.
>>> finally, the other sexiest man alive. we all know about the people magazine version, but check out this headline from a chinese news website. quote, north korea 's top leader named the on on's sexiest man alive with 2012 with a as soon as possible shot of kim young un. the author did not catch the joke at all quoting the onion piece.
>> he has the rare ability to somehow be completely adorable and completely macho at the same time. they're not the only international news source that fell for the spoof. an iranian website ran an article about a gallup poll showing that rural whites in united states preferred their president mahmoud ahmadinejad to president obama . their source, "the onnone." i love this stuff.