{"id":520868,"date":"2021-05-18T08:06:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T12:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=520868"},"modified":"2021-05-18T08:06:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T12:06:49","slug":"babylon-bee-ceo-how-the-left-is-killing-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/babylon-bee-ceo-how-the-left-is-killing-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Babylon Bee CEO: How The Left Is Killing Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbabylon-bee-ceo-how-the-left-is-killing-comedy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=520868&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-13-at-1.07.49-PM-1200x800-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>In a recent 5-minute video for PragerU, Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon breaks down how the Left is making it harder to write satire, in part by attempting to censor humorous content. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Founded in 2016, The Babylon Bee has quickly made a name for itself as a Christian conservative website on the cutting-edge of satire for politics and other current events.\u00a0<\/span><span>But in the years since its founding, the Bee and its satirical headlines and stories have been coming true with \u201castonishing regularity,\u201d notes Dillon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Back in May of 2017, the Babylon Bee ran a satirical headline that read, \u201c\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/2-2-4-insists-close-minded-bigot\">2+2=4,\u2019 Insists Closed-Minded Bigot<\/a>.\u201d Yet only three years later, The Washington Examiner, a right-leaning newspaper based in Washington, D.C., published an article headlined \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/math-professor-claims-equation-2-2-4-reeks-of-white-supremacist-patriarchy\">Math professor claims equation 2+2=4 \u2018\u2019reeks of white supremacist patriarchy<\/a>.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Another Babylon Bee story, says Dillon, was published in August of 2020 and titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/blm-rioters-awarded-nobel-peace-prize\">BLM Rioters Awarded Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>.\u201d Several months later, at the beginning of 2021, the Guardian published an article about the Black Lives Matter movement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/29\/black-lives-matter-nobel-peace-prize-petter-eide-norweigan-mp\">receiving a Nobel Peace Prize nomination<\/a>. (The winner of the prize won\u2019t be selected until October 2021).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Truly great satire, argues Dillon, only becomes harder to write as reality becomes crazier \u2014 counter to what some people might think. This is because \u201csatire exaggerates the truth to make a point,\u201d says Dillon. \u201cBut when reality is this absurd, and extreme views and behavior are commonplace, how do you go a step beyond it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAlmost anything we publish now ends up being believable. And much of it ends up actually coming true, as you\u2019ve just seen,\u201d he adds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But there\u2019s also another way the Left makes it difficult to write satire in this day and age: By running clearly satirical stories through the fact-checking apparatus. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Fact-checks on satire, as seen in articles about the Babylon Bee, are merely a \u201ccreative\u201d and \u201cconniving\u201d way to justify censorship of conservative ideas, argues the Babylon Bee CEO.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u201cIf they can successfully lump us in with fake news then they can shut us down,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He provides an example of a clearly satirical piece the Babylon Bee published in 2019 about CNN and fake news. The headline of the article? \u201c<span><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/cnn-purchases-industrial-sized-washing-machine-spin-news-publication\">CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Left-wing fact-checking website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/cnn-washing-machine\/\">Snopes<\/a> rated the story false (although it later rated the story as \u201csatire\u201d after blowback).<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt should go without saying that there\u2019s a big difference between fake news \u2014 which is meant to deceive \u2014 and satire, which is meant to entertain and inform through mockery, humor, and irony,\u201d says Dillon. \u201cBut the left benefits by blurring this distinction. If they can successfully lump us in with fake news, then they can shut us down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSatire ridicules bad ideas. And now, more than ever, bad ideas need to be exposed for what they are before they gain an even bigger foothold on our minds and hearts\u2014especially on the minds and hearts of young people,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Killing Comedy | 5 Minute Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ISHGeiXPh68?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent 5-minute video for PragerU, Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon breaks down how the Left is making it harder to write satire, in part by attempting to censor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278397,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-13-at-1.07.49-PM-1200x800-1.png","fifu_image_alt":"Babylon Bee CEO: How The Left Is Killing Comedy","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-13-at-1.07.49-PM-1200x800-1.png","fifu_image_alt":"Babylon Bee CEO: How The Left Is Killing Comedy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}