...In which your humble blogger realizes he's been had.

The New York Times' Brian Stelter gets my utmost respect today: he reveals that the McCain Girls -- three women with window-cracking voices that did their best to ruin yesterday's classics in support of today's Republican nominee -- are the inventions of parody site 23/6. The goal was to make a bad video in the mold of Hillary4U&Me, an equally cringe-inducing (but real) homage to Hill.

"We were pretty amazed that after the video came out, people were confused as to whether or not it was real," said 23/6 President Sarah Bernard. "That's when I think we said 'Hey, can we actually pull off a hoax here? How long can we keep it going?'"

Yes you can, Ms. Bernard. I'm gonna miss those girls.