How ‘The Babylon Bee’ Predicted the Vibe Shift

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-03 22:47:46 | Updated at 2025-01-08 11:24:19 4 days ago

How ‘The Babylon Bee’ Predicted the Vibe Shift
The Free Press ^ | 3 Jan 2024 | Bari Weiss

Posted on 01/03/2025 2:04:30 PM PST by Rummyfan

There is something so delicious about a single, tight joke in one headline that captures the political moment, or even just the banality of our lives. Here are some examples: “Drugs Win Drug Wars,” “Nation Throws Off Tyrannical Yoke of Moderate Respect for Women,” “I Have Decision Fatigue, Says Woman Whose Only Decision in the Last 7 Years Was Not Going to Law School.”

These headlines are from satirical news sites The Onion and Reductress. Both are on the political left. In fact, for the last few decades, all of the big political comedy came from the left.

Until The Babylon Bee came along in 2016.

The Bee is a conservative, Christian satirical news site, which may sound like an oxymoron. It did to us. Until we read it and discovered it’s funny. Often really funny. While everyone else was busy criticizing and mocking the right, the Bee found success by filling a void. The Bee’s infamous tagline is “Fake News You Can Trust.”

Here are a few recent headlines: “Biden Cancels Aid to Syria After Finding Out Some Needy Americans Live There” and “Canadian Dentist Now Offering Euthanasia as Alternative to Cavity Filling.”

The crazy thing about the Bee is that the headlines are often not just satire, but prophetic. Here’s an example: In 2020 the Bee posted “Democrats Call for Flags to Be Flown at Half-Mast to Grieve Death of Soleimani.” And now Ivy League students are flying Hezbollah flags and mourning the death of the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah. In 2021, the Bee published the headline “Triple-Masker Looks Down on People Who Only Double Mask.” Later that same day, CNBC featured a graphic highlighting the higher efficacy of triple-masking.

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‘If it’s a joke we’re not supposed to make, it’s probably the one we should be telling,’ says the CEO of the conservative, Christian satirical news site.

1 posted on 01/03/2025 2:04:30 PM PST by Rummyfan

To: Rummyfan

The Bee’s infamous tagline is “Fake News You Can Trust.”

Next month’s news, yesterday!

2 posted on 01/03/2025 2:16:01 PM PST by FatherofFive (we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)

To: Rummyfan; All

“BW: There is an active discussion now about whether there is a “woke right” or not.

SD: So one of the things that you’ll hear from people on the right is that wokeness is inherently a leftist thing. And the reason I disagree with that is because the way I view and understand wokeness is like an operating system. It’s a methodology through which you view the world, and it’s characterized by a number of key features: the oppressed-oppressor dynamic, the critical consciousness awakening to see it, and having a scapegoat that you attribute all the bad things to.”

Interesting take on “Woke” thinking. Both Marxism and NAZIism are then defined as “Woke”, which makes a kind of sense.

Consider that Obamaism is a sort of fascism.

3 posted on 01/03/2025 2:17:06 PM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )

To: Rummyfan

“I Have Decision Fatigue, Says Woman Whose Only Decision in the Last 7 Years Was Not Going to Law School.”

I fell asleep halfway through that one.

4 posted on 01/03/2025 2:19:01 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)

To: Rummyfan

I thought of some ripping headlines for the Bee and wrote them to see if I can contribute, but they didn’t want me on their payroll.

5 posted on 01/03/2025 2:24:37 PM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)

To: Rummyfan

It’s a good interview. However, I think he may have fallen into a trap by discussing antisemitism from the right, without mentioning antisemitism from the left. It has been leftists who release funds to Iran, who then funds attacks on Israel. Look at the House of Representatives. There are openly antisemitic Democrats, not so Republicans.

6 posted on 01/03/2025 2:24:57 PM PST by ChessExpert (The Democratic party must be destroyed.)

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