Satire site re-enacts Mr and Mrs Tony Tan fake compassion during 2011 PE

[Leepotism]

Remember the 2011 Presidential Election when a boy fainted and Mr and Mrs Tony Tan came to his rescue?


[h=1]Fake report of woman fainting on Nomination Day makes rounds[/h]
by Irene Lee
inSing.com - 17 January 2013 12:38 PM | Updated 18 January 2013 12:31 AM
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<CITE>A picture of a woman lying on the ground was used in a hoax article that surfaced online during Nomination Day for the Punggol East by-election on 16 January (Photo: Screen grab from New Nation website)</CITE>
*UPDATE*
You can call it a by-election by-product – when online bystanders kiss goodbye to genuine news and played a prank for some laughs.
The result? The usual online ha-ha to laugh at others for falling for the prank.
New Nation, a satire site that writes “fake news half the time”, released an article titled ‘Woman faints to unite Singapore’ along with a picture of a woman on the ground and people attending to her.
The unidentified woman was quoted as saying: “Dr Chee pulled SDP (Singapore Democratic Party) out of the race to promote opposition unity. I am doing the same. I fainted so that all political parties can put aside their differences and attend to me.”
The New Nation article also featured other pictures of President Tony Tan and Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan going to the aid of "Singaporeans in time of distress" during previous elections, and it alluded to how the acts seem like political stunts.
The article created such a buzz on Facebook that even Straits Times Online Mobile Print (STOMP) published its own version of the fainting incident – just hours after the original was posted – on its website, without knowing that it was a spoof.

 

[Bigfuck]

The discontent is so great against Leegime, this will do damage to them.

 

[batman1]

The 2011 PE is flawed.U see 35% president Tony Tan,he knows he is only 35% and he cannot keep his head high with dignity and can only show his fake plastic smile.What would foreign dignitaries comment on our 35% Tony Tan ?

 

[eErotica69]

The 2011 PE is flawed.U see 35% president Tony Tan,he knows he is only 35% and he cannot keep his head high with dignity and can only show his fake plastic smile.What would foreign dignitaries comment on our 35% Tony Tan ?

Who have you voted for in PE 2011?

 

[Leepotism]

Voters of PE should show Leegime the middle finger and vote for the opposition.

 

[Leepotism]

The 2011 PE is flawed.U see 35% president Tony Tan,he knows he is only 35% and he cannot keep his head high with dignity and can only show his fake plastic smile.What would foreign dignitaries comment on our 35% Tony Tan ?

Tony Tan's smiles are indeed very fake.

 

[blackmondy]

Same old pattern.

Why not have her being demon-possessed ? See whether any pee-a-pee scum dare come to exorcise her.

 

[blackmondy]

Tony Tan's smiles are indeed very fake.

For someone who's paid 4 million dollars doing practically nothing, having a genuine smile is hardest job for him.