By GINNIE GRAHAM News Columnist on Nov 28, 2012, at 11:11 AM Updated on 11/28 at 11:11 AM
GINNIE GRAHAM
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Poor Chinese journalists didn’t get the joke yesterday, and we Americans laughed at the gaffe.
When
The Onion ran an article naming North Korea’s leader Kim Jung-Un “Sexiest Man Alive,” it was clearly a dig at the pudgy dictator.
We get satire and have a wealth of court decisions backing our right to use it.
It’s too bad when a country lacks such ability laugh at itself.
The online version of the
People’s Daily , which is controlled by China’s Communist Party, picked up the story as the honest truth.
It included a 55-page photo spread showing him riding horseback, picking out produce and being kind to elderly people.
Unnamed staffers say they now realize it was satire and have taken it off its website.
It’s a sad story though.
Sarcasm, comedy and biting humor make my life fun.
To live a country where you don’t recognize a dig at a political leader, it would be depressing.
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