This is still going on unabated.
Test item is a 2001 snark piece set up as Peter the Rabbit interviewing Socks the Cat.
That... White House cat.
Title is "Hillary Left Me For Dead."
Back in the day 19,533 newspapers and magazines ran this piece and logged it on their sites.
Last fall I found 6,800 copies through google links.
Now there are two links, one at dailykos.
"America must know the truth about how Hillary tried to kill me."
"At first I really liked Hillary," Socks said. "she was cold, calculating, and utterly indifferent to the feelings of others. She was like a soulmate to me. But then she changed. Every time she was angry at Bill, she took it out on me."
Definitely sophomoric.
Still, free speech.
Dirty tricks + paranoia + narcissism == zero respect for political humor.
How big is this "Billary" Dirty Tricks project?
Who is running it? Who's the new Donald Segretti?
And who's the new John Mitchell coordinating it?
Tax returns, sure thing.
Full blown interference with Free Speech, not exactly trivial.
Here's the text:
Socks the rude, dumped, shot White House cat.