As the article suggests, if you search Google for German language pages with "Sitzfleisch" and "Merkel" you will get pages of links from the last few years usin

As the article suggests, if you search Google for German language pages with "Sitzfleisch" and "Merkel" you will get pages of links from the last few years using the term. It could be an example of "newspaper German" like people sometimes make fun of the Frankfurter Allgemeine for.