To me this was clearly written with tongue firmly planted in cheek.
sat-ire
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in hich human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.
In other words, it was a joke.