Victor Epstein was cruising his Facebook timeline alone Thursday afternoon, buck naked in the privacy of his living room, when the break in the social media clouds he’d been hoping for finally arrived.
The editor of the Cynical Times news and satire website had just been approved to join the President Hillary Clinton Facebook page. The steely eyed Bernie Sanders loyalist faced a difficult choice with his coffee cup nearly empty and his bladder about to burst: Attack the unsuspecting Clinton loyalists below or head for the relative safety of his bathroom?
Bracing himself for the task ahead, the lone humorist chose to roll the dice and throw caution to the wind
“I caught those elitist Moes with their pants down, bigtime,” Epstein said afterward during an exclusive interview in his team's newsroom. “The page moderator was out to lunch or something and the green troops in the discussion section were helpless against me. I had my way with them for a full 13 minutes, strafing everything in my path.”
The Bronx native started out in classic attack position, approaching the enemy from out of the sun where he was virtually invisible. The result was a sustained satirical assault that Occupy Wall Street group moderator Craig Boehman described as the most one-sided, prolonged attack on a fortified Facebook Page of the 2016 presidential campaign.