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jaunte11/26/2012 9:33:08 pm PST

No, Andrew W.K. is Not the State Department’s Cultural Ambassador to the Middle East

…The US government appointing a rocker-diplomat—known for partying til he pukes, covering himself in blood, dabbling in the My Little Pony-based subculture of “bronies,” and sing-screaming about the McLaughlin Group—to represent American interests in the Kingdom of Bahrain? That sounds totally plausible! Nevertheless, a host of media outlets ran with the news without bothering to check with State Department, including UPI, the Huffington Post, New York magazine’s culture blog “Vulture,” Pitchfork Media, breitbart.com, Mediaite, DCist, NME, Gawker, and Russia Today.