Its first coup was taking in a Norwegian television network (we think) with an imaginary threat by North Korea to rain missiles on Cyprus.
Is the DPRK account the only parody account you run? Are there others? Is it common knowledge that this account is a Popehat thing? You can say I'm a "data analyst" when I'm not "Popehatting." I say it's because I'm too busy, but really I'm secretly cowed by the other writers. I'm TECHNICALLY a blogger at Popehat, but I only really write during a presidential election season. Ken is the only one of us who blogs under his actual name.ĭerrick Popehat: I feel that we can't mention Popehat without mentioning Ken, whose prolific and hilarious writing is the beating heart of the blog. The most prolific, and best, blogger at Popehat, the founder of our site, is Ken White, a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles. We met through the forum of a defunct gaming site that, for some reason, drew an older crowd of professionals who also play computer games. Derrick is not an attorney but works in an allied profession. The Popehat blog was begun in 2005, aborted because we have lives, and restarted in or around October 2007. You're bloggers at Popehat, correct? What do you do when you're not Popehatting? Here's what they had to say in response to emailed questions. The bloggers declined to give their real names but go by Patrick Popehat and Derrick Popehat. Turns out the account's authors are bloggers for, a libertarian law blog founded by Ken White, a former federal prosecutor. So we reached out to the men behind the mask. That's a pretty good track record for a parody account. The Washington Post, Reuters, The Huffington Post, Verge, Buzzfeed News and others have all cited tweets by as official statements by the government of North Korea. To be fair, Newsweek was not the only outlet to have fallen for the parody account. I’m a writer, but the platforms that publish me are not affiliated in any way with this newsletter.Oops. I’m a podcaster, but this newsletter is not affiliated with KCRW or Legal Talk Network and those entities do not manage, approve, or support its content. I’m a lawyer, but this newsletter is not sponsored, funded, endorsed, or affiliated with my law firm, which has no role in its content or management.
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