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October 9, 2009

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This one comes courtesy of the good folks at Fark, who repurposed a just-the-facts-ma’am CNN headline announcing President Obama’s Nobel win–“Obama awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize”–into this:

“NewsFlash: Barack Obama linked to terrorist Yasser Arafat”

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Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.