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We're about 8 years past this point. They will discredit you with or without you actually saying anything, so limiting your strategy based on the assumption that you're denying them ammo is nothing but a self-inflicted handicap.
Everyone knows the couch story is made-up, and nothing here suggested otherwise; it's purely an irreverent jab at a clown who deserves no reverence.
More importantly, (in all seriousness) is that the joke has taken off the way it has because Vance strikes people as the kind of guy who would actually fuck a couch. It's just believable enough to make you actually check, because of who he is, where anyone else you'd dismiss it outright. It's not that he's really a couch-fucker, it's that he's a "couch-fucker-esque" guy. Which is almost worse.
And it's brilliant to exploit that when attacking him.