You're either on the bus or off the bus.
Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.
If you label it this, then it can't be that.
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.