Also, it helps to assume that, in order to be legitimate (whatever that means for a satire site) and funny, it needs to focus most of its attention on the sins of Citizen Trump, while ignoring all those freakouts about his existence seen in the highest ranks of the cultural establishment - especially the world of high tech billionaires and America’s entertainment, academic and journalism elites.Īll of that brings us to this Times overture that simply writes itself:įour years ago, in the heat of the Republican primary, a fledgling satire site jabbed at the party’s leading contender: “Psychopathic Megalomaniac Somehow Garnering Evangelical Vote.” The story proceeded to describe Donald Trump as “a man who would seemingly have no qualms obliterating hundreds of thousands of people for purely egotistical reasons.” This is actually a pretty interesting article, if one is willing to ignore the history of the Babylon Bee. But now it’s less about him and more about the people who can’t stand him. The comedy site, a conservative answer to ‘The Onion,’ used to have Trump squarely in its cross hairs. What ‘The Babylon Bee’ Thinks Is So Funny About Liberals Now, if Bee readers were going to write a New York Times headline about all of this - the evangelical subculture humor, the jabs at Trump and then the wisecracks about liberals - wouldn’t it look something like this epic double-decker? As another Bee headline noted: “ Reality Criticized For Not More Clearly Distinguishing Itself From Satire.”
The fact that I needed to add “so-called” in that sentence points to the complexity of the current age for satirists. Legions of people wanted to click a headline like this one: “ Trump Announces He Was Born Of A Virgin And Will Bring Balance To The Force.” Eventually, it was obvious that the Bee also needed to harvest the gazillions of clicks that would result from posts mocking blue-zip-code liberals who have been suffering from so-called “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Lots of core early readers clicked on classic headline like “New Prayer App Delivers Electric Shock Every Time User Says 'Just' ") or "Joel Osteen Sails Luxury Yacht Through Flooded Houston To Pass Out Copies Of 'Your Best Life Now.' " Hold that thought, because we will come back to it.
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You can see the Summa Theologica of that viewpoint in the book “ How to Be a Perfect Christian: Your Comprehensive Guide to Flawless Spiritual Living,” by Bee founder Adam Ford and Kyle Mann, the website’s current editor. “Previously, Times reporter Kevin Roose wrote a defamatory piece that claimed we ‘capitalize on confusion’ and that we have a ‘habit of skirting the line between misinformation and satire,’ whatever that means.”ĭillon also took issue with the Times’s characterization of Snopes’s coverage of the Babylon Bee.If you have been reading The Babylon Bee since Day 1, you know that its bread and butter has always been satire of evangelical Protestants of all kinds - from bearded Reformed seminarians who study theology in hipster craft-brewing establishments to megachurch musicians who yearn to play Eddie Van Halen solos during the 100th repetition of whatever praise chorus is currently all the rage. “These characterizations from the Times are nothing new,” Dillon said. īabylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon railed the Times’ smearing of the satirical outlet as a source of far-right misinformation as “defamatory,” and said the Bee’s legal counsel has contacted the paper. In 20, Facebook often dealt with far-right misinformation sites that used ‘satire’ claims to protect their presence on the platform, Mr.
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Isaac wrote the following, including an update to the article on March 22:
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