Chinese Communist Paper Quotes Onion on Kim Jung Un as Sexiest Man Alive
These regimes are so disconnected from reality they don't recognize satire
The official voice of the Chinese Communist Party appears to have been had.
The People's Daily newspaper, which for more than six decades has sternly spouted the party line, on Tuesday posted on its website a 55-photo slideshow dedicated to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Eun. The occasion: The satirical newspaper the Onion earlier this month declared the double-chinned Mr. Kim the "sexiest man alive for 2012."
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