Posted on 07/29/2022 4:11:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Babylon Bee: Fake News You Can Trust.
-The Babylon Bee’s Self-Description
The satirical site, the Babylon Bee (the Bee) has been fact-checked, criticized and and/or censored by Facebook, Twitter, Mailchimp, Snopes, Politifact, the New York Times and Slate on numerous occasions. This is literally incomprehensible since the Bee explicitly represents itself as a satirical “fake news” site. One cannot “fact-check” a joke. Why then do so many “liberal” sites insist on fact-checking explicit non-factual satire?
One might think the answer is simple: Liberals, like everyone else, just don’t like to be made the butt of humor. However, this cannot be the whole story. First, conservatives may not like it either, but do not tend to react in the same unhinged way to humor.
Second, liberals do not merely dislike satire. As the liberal reaction shows, they are so distressed that they cannot even recognize satire as satire. The liberal overreaction is not therefore just that they, like everybody else, do not like being criticized. There is something deeper, and quite illuminating, going on here.
In March 2018, The Bee published an article suggesting that CNN uses an industrial-sized washing machine to "spin" the news. Snopes fact-checked the article and rated it “false.” Facebook cited the Snopes’ fact-check in a warning message to The Bee and threatened to limit their content distribution and monetization. Adam Ford, who created the Bee, tweeted a screenshot of Facebook’s warning message to his followers, exposing Facebook’s overreaction. Facebook apologized and admitted that "there's a difference between false news and satire. This was a mistake and should not have been rated false in our system. It's … won't count against the domain in any way". Snopes also admitted that "it should have been obvious that the Bee piece was just a spoof."
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In October 2020, The Bee posted a story on Facebook with a link to a story about the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court titled “Senator Hirono Demands ACB be Weighed Against a Duck to See If She Is a Witch.” This is a reference to a bizarre Medieval-style test to determine if someone is a witch from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
In response, Facebook removed the post and demonetized The Bee’s page, citing their policies against incitement to violence.
Jonathan Swift
Nuff said.
Sophistry sounds pretty good until you analyze it. The Bee makes a lot of people say “Wait a minute....” It also fools a lot of people because some of its headlines are plausible, these days.
I remember sending a Coulter article to a lib friend years ago. In it, she suggested invading Muslim countries, killing the adult males and enslaving their women and children.
He was furious at such a statement, having taken it literally. I tried to explain that it was satirical reversal of the liberal acceptance of the Muslim doctrine, but he was gone off the deep end, never to return.
Libs aren’t humorless.. they just laugh at different things than conservatives do.
I was just thinking about Chevy Chase on SNL portraying Gerald Ford by falling down a lot. Such a laugh riot.
Can you imagine a TV comedian today trying to get laughs by portraying Joe Biden falling on stairs, falling off a bike, tripping over a dog, etc.? That would be a crime against the state.
Now that Rush has gone to his reward, his torch has been passed to others. They spluttered over Rush all the time. Now they splutter over Babylon Bee, Greg Guttfeld, and some of the comedians (Yes! There are funny comedians!!!) on Dry Bar. The golden age of conservative satire is just beginning. The chakra has reopened for laughter.
The Devil cannot stand ridicule
To be fair, it is sometimes difficult to tell if the Bee’s satire on dems is real or not.
The girlie boy Jonah Goldberg at NRO fired Coulter for that column. She lost a close friend who was on the plane that hit the Pentagon. I don’t think Anne’s column was satire. It was a demand for revenge.
The location of President Joe Biden’s bicycle fall last month in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, has been listed as a historical landmark on Google Maps named “Brandon Falls.”
The name is a reference to the “Let’s Go Brandon” chant that is often used to mock the president.
Go ahead, do a Google map search for Brandon Falls Delaware. pic.twitter.com/vrpZNUCv8b
Liberals think that they are gods
Galatians 6:7
King James Bible
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
“The Bee posted a story on Facebook with a link to a story about the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court titled “Senator Hirono Demands ACB be Weighed Against a Duck to See If She Is a Witch.”
That is freakin’ HYSTERICAL right there.
Whatever The Bee is paying their writers it ain’t enough. LoL!
Also, obama couldn’t stand to be made sport of......liberals truly are thin-skinned......that comes from never having to deal with real life trials and difficulties.
Didn’t know she was fired by Goldberg because of it.
Despised the guy before I heard that. POS.
P.J. O’Rourke once wrote something to the effect of “a liberal will tell you that you can’t make fun of something (disabled people, maybe), while a conservative will tell you that while maybe you shouldn’t, you most certainly can.”
The Left can’t meme.
Because they’re humorless pr*cks?
CC
The left has no sense of humor. The left is bitterly angry and obsessed with destroying this country. There is no room for humor in that.
The Left’s idea of comedy is saying things like “Republicans are so stupid!”
Chevy Chase looks a lot more like Biden these days, too.
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