FIFA OFFICIAL USES ONION SPOOF FOR DEFENCE
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FIFA OFFICIAL USES ONION SPOOF FOR DEFENCE
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Ex-FIFA Official Cites Satirical Article From The Onion in His Self-Defense
MAY 31, 2015
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By ROBERT MACKEY
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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, calling it evidence of an American conspiracy, in a video statement that was uploaded to the web and then removed later in the day.
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Jack Warner, a former vice president of world soccer's governing body, FIFA, released a video statement on Sunday in which he cited an article from The Onion. Jack Warner, via YouTube
The satirical article, published Wednesday under the headline, “FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Summer World Cup in the United States,” mockingly suggested that, to placate American officials, the governing body had added a new tournament, which would begin the very same day.
Holding up a printout of The Onion piece as if it were a genuine news report, Mr. Warner told viewers of the video posted on his personal website, Facebook page and YouTube channel, “All this has stemmed from the failed U.S. bid to host the World Cup.”
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Jack Warner, a former vice president of FIFA, soccer’s world governing body, pointed to an article from The Onion in a video posted on his website on Sunday. Credit warnertv.net
Mr. Warner, the leader of Trinidad’s Independent and Liberal Party, went on to suggest that American officials were primarily motivated by losing a bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
“The U.S. applied to hold the World Cup in 2022 and they lost the bid to Qatar — a small country, an Arabic country, a Muslim country,” he said.
“I could understand the U.S. embarrassment,” Mr. Warner continued, but it is important, he added, to “take your losses like a man.”
He then speculated further that a second goal of the criminal investigation that has ensnared him was to force “Russia to give up the World Cup,” which it is hosting in 2018.
“Why is it,” Mr. Warner asked, the American prosecutors “believe that they have a right to the World Cup?”
As dramatic background music swelled, he went on, holding up The Onion article again, to accuse the United States of hypocrisy for accepting the right to host the (entirely fictional) “Summer World Cup, 2015, from the very same organization that they are accusing of being corrupt. That has to be double standards.”
In the video, Mr. Warner also said he was “consoled by the fact that many of you on the blogs, on Twitter, on Facebook, on other channels, throughout were very supportive of me and still are.” He assured his supporters that, “At the end of the day, all of the allegations against me shall be proven to be unfounded.”
“You see, it is not when you’re up that you know who your friends are,” he said, “it’s when you are perceived to be down.”
After Mr. Warner’s error in mistaking The Onion for a news source was mocked on social networks, the video disappeared without explanation from his website and social media accounts.
Two hours later, it was replaced by an edited version, missing 63 seconds and all references to The Onion.
Mr. Warner is far from the first person to mistake The Onion for a genuine news source. In 2012, an Iranian news agency backed by hard-liners reprinted an Onion poll that found rural voters in West Virginia preferred Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to President Obama.
A version of this article appears in print on June 1, 2015, on page A4 of the New York edition with the headline: Ex-FIFA Official Cites Satirical Onion Article in Defense Against Graft Charges. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/world ... .html?_r=0
Americas
Ex-FIFA Official Cites Satirical Article From The Onion in His Self-Defense
MAY 31, 2015
Open Source
By ROBERT MACKEY
Continue reading the main story
Share This Page
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, calling it evidence of an American conspiracy, in a video statement that was uploaded to the web and then removed later in the day.
Continue reading the main story
Jack Warner, a former vice president of world soccer's governing body, FIFA, released a video statement on Sunday in which he cited an article from The Onion. Jack Warner, via YouTube
The satirical article, published Wednesday under the headline, “FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Summer World Cup in the United States,” mockingly suggested that, to placate American officials, the governing body had added a new tournament, which would begin the very same day.
Holding up a printout of The Onion piece as if it were a genuine news report, Mr. Warner told viewers of the video posted on his personal website, Facebook page and YouTube channel, “All this has stemmed from the failed U.S. bid to host the World Cup.”
Photo
Jack Warner, a former vice president of FIFA, soccer’s world governing body, pointed to an article from The Onion in a video posted on his website on Sunday. Credit warnertv.net
Mr. Warner, the leader of Trinidad’s Independent and Liberal Party, went on to suggest that American officials were primarily motivated by losing a bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
“The U.S. applied to hold the World Cup in 2022 and they lost the bid to Qatar — a small country, an Arabic country, a Muslim country,” he said.
“I could understand the U.S. embarrassment,” Mr. Warner continued, but it is important, he added, to “take your losses like a man.”
He then speculated further that a second goal of the criminal investigation that has ensnared him was to force “Russia to give up the World Cup,” which it is hosting in 2018.
“Why is it,” Mr. Warner asked, the American prosecutors “believe that they have a right to the World Cup?”
As dramatic background music swelled, he went on, holding up The Onion article again, to accuse the United States of hypocrisy for accepting the right to host the (entirely fictional) “Summer World Cup, 2015, from the very same organization that they are accusing of being corrupt. That has to be double standards.”
In the video, Mr. Warner also said he was “consoled by the fact that many of you on the blogs, on Twitter, on Facebook, on other channels, throughout were very supportive of me and still are.” He assured his supporters that, “At the end of the day, all of the allegations against me shall be proven to be unfounded.”
“You see, it is not when you’re up that you know who your friends are,” he said, “it’s when you are perceived to be down.”
After Mr. Warner’s error in mistaking The Onion for a news source was mocked on social networks, the video disappeared without explanation from his website and social media accounts.
Two hours later, it was replaced by an edited version, missing 63 seconds and all references to The Onion.
Mr. Warner is far from the first person to mistake The Onion for a genuine news source. In 2012, an Iranian news agency backed by hard-liners reprinted an Onion poll that found rural voters in West Virginia preferred Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to President Obama.
A version of this article appears in print on June 1, 2015, on page A4 of the New York edition with the headline: Ex-FIFA Official Cites Satirical Onion Article in Defense Against Graft Charges. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Re: FIFA OFFICIAL USES ONION SPOOF FOR DEFENCE
maybe he was spoofing them
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Re: FIFA OFFICIAL USES ONION SPOOF FOR DEFENCE
Chief Ogbunigwe wrote:maybe he was spoofing them
I highly doubt it. Jack Warner is a clown.
Evans Bipi, had declared to the press, “Why must [Governor Amaechi] be insulting my mother, my Jesus Christ on earth?”
Re: FIFA OFFICIAL USES ONION SPOOF FOR DEFENCE
For this guy to have an executive at FIFA is quite damning. South Africa's $10 mil went to this clown for supposedly improving grass roots football for Africans in the diaspora. WTFplatinum wrote:Chief Ogbunigwe wrote:maybe he was spoofing them
I highly doubt it. Jack Warner is a clown.
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Jack Warner made a complete and utter fool of himself.
Arsène Wenger at Arsenal, 1996 to 2018. I was there.
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Waffiman wrote:Jack Warner made a complete and utter fool of himself.
No be today. Anyone who was involved in the organzation for Nigeria 99 will tell you firsthand stories. Total cunny man.
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platinum wrote:Chief Ogbunigwe wrote:maybe he was spoofing them
I highly doubt it. Jack Warner is a clown.
Das right, he was clowning...
AFCON 2019 sweet o
Barren for 37 yrs no good o
New member and Titled Chief, Distant Gunners Consortium.
"This is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water."
Barren for 37 yrs no good o
New member and Titled Chief, Distant Gunners Consortium.
"This is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water."