Australian Prime Minister's Spoof "Apocalypse" Speech Goes Viral In China

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 13, 2012 @10:21PM from the believe-it-or-not dept.

brindafella writes "Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, recorded a spoof speech about the Mayan calendar apocalypse several days ago, for radio station "Triple J". Gillard said in part, 'Whether the final blow comes from flesh eating zombies, demonic hell beasts or from the total triumph of K-pop, if you know one thing about me it is this: I will always fight for you to the very end.' The speech has been picked up in China on Sina Weibo (China's Twitter) and has achieved well over 23,000 repeats, without anyone picking up the irony." This comes on the heels of the online version of China's Communist Party newspaper picking up an Onion story about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un being named the "Sexiest Man Alive."

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Re:Shit by ciderbrew · 2012-12-13 23:09 · Score: 4, Informative

Too much salt will make you a ghost and or zombie. High blood pressure is a killer!
Re:K-pop? by samoanbiscuit · 2012-12-14 00:24 · Score: 5, Informative

Korean pop has been called K-pop (and Japanese pop called J-pop) long before Gangnam Style was a twinkle in PSY's sunglasses.