![]() 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. "No, North Korea Did Not Offer Support for Noted Scholar Donald Trump". "Why Do Media Outlets Still Fall Victim to Twitter Parody".
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