Oh my...how embarrassing for me...that was satire?
Having heard the piggy radio talk shows, the sports reports on the news (yes, it's the lead story and the fourth story, and a good portion of the weathercast, and the ending human feel-good story and THEN they have a sports section that rehashes all of it), reading the local newspaper, etc. I was convinced it was completely accurate and probably a biography at that. I thought maybe you knew one of my neighbors.
They haven't done it so far this week that I know of, but they are known to break in to regular "prime-time" television shows to tell us some inane "breaking news" story that ends up being about the hogs. Seriously? It couldn't have waited 20 minutes for the 10 o'clock news?