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Indicted Ex-FIFA Executive Cites Onion Article In Rant Slamming US
schwit1 writes with news that former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner has evidently not heard of The Onion. In a video on his Facebook page, Warner holds up a printout of an Onion story titled “FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Summer World Cup In United States” and says: “Then I look to see that Fifa has frantically announced, 2015, this year [...] the World Cup, beginning May 27. If FIFA is so bad, why is it that the USA wants to keep the Fifa World Cup?” The next World Cup is not due to be held until 2018 and there have been no games in the U.S.. Warner is facing extradition to the U.S. on corruption charges. Time further reports: Even Sunday wasn't easy, when Warner needed two attempts to get his message across by telling followers that the latest accusations against him stem largely from the U.S. being upset that it did not win the rights to host the 2022 World Cup — which went to Qatar. In an eight-minute Facebook video, which was quickly deleted after numerous news reports picked up on the gaffe, Warner held up a printout of a fictitious story from The Onion bearing the headline: "FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Summer World Cup In United States." The fake story was published on Wednesday, hours after Warner was indicted in the U.S. and arrested and briefly jailed in Trinidad. Warner asked why the story was "two days before the FIFA election" when Sepp Blatter was re-elected as president.
I wonder if The Onion had ever published a story about real life people or new organizations referring to Onion stories as if they were true?
That is all I see when I went to the linked article. How long will it take Youtube to allow safe viewing of all its content?
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
We all saw this "news" on Sunday in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. And you got to all this length of stealing the bit and posting it on slashdot just to miss the punchline? Well, for those who have not seen it here it goes:
"Only a FIFA official could be corrupt enough to think the Onion article is not a joke, but something that could actually happen."
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Mentally disturbed people are unable to recognize sarcasm, and many nerds are affected by mental disturbances. I learned this by watching the "Big Bang Theory".
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
The sports have turned into financial powerhouses that operate without any form of oversight for a few decades now. It all started, as far as I remember, with the tenure of one Juan Antonio Samaranch, a first-class crook with ties to various shady organizations in Eastern Europe, in the late 70s, who was instrumental bringing the Olympics to the heart of the Empire of Evil -- Moscow in 1980.
This guy invented and implemented the magic "Olympic" formula -- re-incorporation in a tax haven, away from control -- and the business model consisting of three legs: selling TV rights for events and pocketing all the revenues, distributing small pittances of the said revenues to national committees in exchange for them electing him forever, and peddling the next Olympics to the people, willing to shell the largest bribes.
Unfortunately, this model has been successfully emulated everywhere since then. While the US trying to sue is a welcome development, it is also quite deficient, because it is mostly happening for political reasons and not of aversion to bribery.
That's why I don't watch sports, and I don't buy shit from companies that advertise or sponsor sports events by the crooks.
If you weren't such a liberal racist fucker, you'd know that Warner isn't just some "foreign black man" from the sticks. He's from Trinidad and Tobago which, according to Wikipedia, is "the third richest country by GDP (PPP) per capita in the Americas after United States and Canada. Furthermore it is recognized as a high income economy by the World Bank. Unlike most of the English-speaking Caribbean, the country's economy is primarily industrial,[10] with an emphasis on petroleum and petrochemicals. The country's wealth is mainly attributable to its large reserves and exploitation of oil and natural gas". Also according to Wikipedia, Warner served as TT's Minister of National Security and in Parliament. He's no rube. In fact, its thought that his some of his behavior post arrest, including use of the Onion article in a Facebook video, is a mental incompetence dodge against the corruption charges leveled against him.
Ah Yes, Let's play the race card and the stupid, Highly educated foreigner card.
This 'onion' issue is but a side-show of the indictment of FIFA officers by the Obama Administration
While everyone knows that FIFA is corrupt, we must also acknowledge the fact that the indictments from US is a kind of a long-stretch, for all I know FIFA does not belong to USA alone
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Good luck with that defense. Rube.
The Onion is a great satire publication and it contrasts greatly with hate literature Charlie Hebdo that The Left considers to be satire.
I learned this by watching people get especially butthurt while watching The Big Bang Theory. Lots of people find it hilarious until something they hold dear is lampooned. The biggest complaints came from fans of Babylon 5; the Church of Joe apparently still has its strong adherents...
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When I hear of executives or board members of organizations get the facts about their organizations incorrect, like this gentleman citing a parody article claiming that a wrong-year World Cup has been awarded, it makes me wonder how much of a contribution they really make to the organization internally, versus how much they're just schmoozing third parties externally, if even that. To me such a person looks like an incompetent boob that has managed to land a cushy position that provides well for them, without any real game besides helping themselves.
It's not necessarily fair to expect a highly senior member of an organization to literally know the nuts and bolts of everything that their subordinates know and do, but it's reasonable to expect that they have a handle on the big picture. If they don't have such a handle on the big picture then it looks like they're even more corrupt, simply living the high-life without providing.
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Is that a US style "world" cup? so that would include a few US states right?
In real life I learned that folks who readily accuse others of being mentally disturbed are usually projecting their own issues onto others.
Jack Warner was apparently kicked out of office back in 2011, because of corruption. He started his career as a schoolteacher, then later became president of FIFA, I have no idea how.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
The Onion is more accurate and more relevant than Fox News.
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What I find most disturbing in the video is how he is actually begging for money. ....
The way he thanks all people who have supposedly supported him, explaining exactly how: you should send him your property and even blank cheques because he supposedly has no access to his own money any more
This guy is a creep.
So then your notion is that it's perfectly reasonable to believe that a World Cup will suddenly be held starting the very next day. Are the teams frantically packing their bags and rushing to the airport in order to make the opening kickoff?
Even if it were true, how can he think that FIFA giving the USA a 'World Cup' could possibly absolve him and other allegedly corrupt officials of the charges? Just that reeks of old 3rd world bribery or the plot of a bad movie circa 1930.
Who gave him the printout in the first place? I doubt strongly that he searched for it, so one of his staff or personal fan handed it to him.
It is a display of gross stupidity for starters and for him to think that the World Cup would start in the US in a few days?
Just goes to show how insular this FIFA vice president is, completely disassociated from reality. On that basis alone, FIFA has no gravitas anymore.
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Hmm... Halfway down this article, there's a picture with a green border. The picture shows Jack Warner pointing to the Onion article. In that picture, it looks like the lower half of his right arm, and his right hand, are missing - it looks like the index finger to his right hand is joined to his arm where his elbow should be.
Am I mixed up, or did someone do a bad job Photoshopping the image?
The Onion may be satirical, but it's fact-checking is about as good as mainstream 'journalists'.
According to the CIA World Factbook, Trinidad and Tobago has a population of about 1.2 million people, or about the size of Dallas, TX. Not exactly a huge place population wise - only 159th in the World.
If you look up the screen, you will see a nice big "back" button, press that, and off you go an play in the next article, and leave the grown ups alone to get on with thier discussion...
It might not interest you, but others are more well rounded individuals, and we can cope with hold a discussion of a corrupt official using youtube ( a technology much loved and loathed by nerds ) to beg for money and display his stupidity.
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The fact that he thought the Onion story was real and that he was trying to use it to back his argument is a hell of a lot funnier than any Onion article I've actually read.
It shows a shocking lack of awareness of how the world works, the kind of awareness you take for granted when talking to another adult.
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but isn't the inability to reckognise blatant sarcasm an indcation of some sort of psychopathy? (schizophrenia?)
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"Liberal racist fucker"? It's the LIBERALS that are racists now? LOL.
"Liberal racist fucker"? It's the LIBERALS that are racists now? LOL.
Oh yes, they can be. Should I provide you with examples? Now, I have no dog in this fight as of who is better or worse, liberals or conservatives. But anyone who thing racism is strictly a non-liberal trait is full of shit.
According to the CIA World Factbook, Trinidad and Tobago has a population of about 1.2 million people, or about the size of Dallas, TX. Not exactly a huge place population wise - only 159th in the World.
But since its quality of development (and the discussion herein) centers in its GDP per capita, it kind of doesn't matter a flying turd if its population is just 1.2 mills, does it?
What's that supposed to mean? That the 1994 World Cup wasn't held in the US?
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
Are any of you surprised?
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Is that a US style "world" cup? so that would include a few US states right?
Not true! We'll probably allow one or two Canadian cities to play along, to give the World Cup(tm American Soccar League) "that international" feel.
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So, I heard this story on the radio at 5:45 PM CDT yesterday. Slashdot, you were scooped by NPR. (On bot this story and the one on US Airport Screeners).
Who cares about fifa, Look @ the news. their day is over.
They are all lame.. their position in life has de-materialized..
Perhaps at one point in time made sense.. But since then to many people have perverted its mission statement, and deliverables..
Moving past that, how is this related to "news for nerds"
Once again overlords you have managed to messs it up again.
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Jack Warner's job was actaully organizing the World Cups on the ground. For him it is not a joke. Like, as there is a saying in a military: "Who served in the army does not laugh in a circus."
dude, really?? are you all that bord?
Really i can find many other ways to waste electricity..
come one guys,, please.. try not to rise to the level of your incompetence.
I feel bad for those youngsters reading this, and somehow getting their world "moulded" in some way, shape or fashion by the utter nonsense that this waste of time article really conveys.. No to mention the aggression related in the responses to this waste of time article.
I would rather ponder the notion of fornicating with my self, versus trying to absorb whats being conveyed by this sad, and trivial article which is misplaced..
I wonder whom in the Over-lord group has made the most money from this "tid-bit"?
You realize that all of this is extremely whitewashed euphemisms used to describe a country that's essentially an extremely corrupt despotic kleptocracy?
T&T is what happens when organized crime literally runs a country.
US Soccer lost a bid. The US at large doesn't give a shit, and would on the balance prefer to not have their regular traffic/TV coverage messed with over a niche sport only played in the suburbs by children. I'm perhaps exaggerating, but not by much.
You are exaggerating by "much". 25 million people in the US watched the USA-Portugal match last summer. No fewer than four sports network families available on cable show soccer matches from around the world (and NBC paid $250 million for the rights to just one foreign league for three seasons). And perhaps you've never heard of the MLS? Two expansion teams this year, and three more confirmed in the next three years, and the franchise fees are approaching $100 million for each. I get that most people still watch the other four team sports more than football, but it's hardly, "a niche sport only played in the suburbs by children".
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It's rare to find an exec (or person, for that matter) who has every skill. Some are good at negotiating, others are good at motivating underlings. Some have 'vision.' One who knows how to lead a manufacturing firm might be clueless in the hotel industry.
This guy's skill seems to have involved getting good contracts through 'soft skills.' His gullibility to this is reminiscent of 419 eaters.....those who scam fall hardest to scams because of their greed.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
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