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On 1 August 2016, the web site Politicops (now Newslo) reported that TV evangelist Pat Robertson had commented at length on years-old nude photos of Melania Trump, a former model and the current wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, which had recently been republished in the New York Post. Robertson supposedly described the images as en [sic] epiphany for men around the world, and especially for her husband before going on to compare them to artistic masterpieces: That putative quote was eventually immortalized in memetic form: The quotes were wholly fictitious, however. Politicops and its companion site Newslo describe their content as hybrid news/satire, often running articles that begin with a factual paragraph before spinning off into no-holds-barred satire. In this case, the factual introduction pointed out, accurately, that Pat Robertson had addressed the controversy over Melania Trump's plagiarized RNC speech by observing on his TV show that she wore a beautiful dress and was absolutely gorgeous during her convention appearance: Previous satirical articles on Newslo and related websites have had Pat Robertson claiming that rock singer David Bowie was kidnapped by demons instead of dying and urging that gay people wear specific colors so they can easily be identified by straight people.
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