These idiots don’t even know that the Babylon Bee is satire, so Trump never said there were very fine people on both sides at Charlottesville. The Bee was often labeled as fake news by mainstream fact-checking sites and this series of boners-the Bee is literally and intentionally fake news that is its whole reason for existing-made the Bee’s existence a convenient cudgel for people who were invested in undermining the very idea of fact checking. The Bee was founded seven months before Donald Trump took office and became popular mostly because many of the jokes were very funny-but also, if we can be honest, a little bit for purposes of lib-owning. From a left perspective, I can look at this and think it’s hilarious.” Examples of headlines pulled from the Babylon Bee on the day of the Editorial Review that displayed a Lean Right bias included: State Hailed As Progressive Hub Of Technological Innovation Can't Figure Out How To Keep The Lights On Oops! Public School Teacher Forgets To Remove Antifa Mask Before Logging On For Class Trump Drives Around Playing Mailbox Baseball In Latest Voter Suppression Scheme Kamala Harris Humbled To Have Been Chosen Exclusively For Her Race, Gender Party Of The Poor And Oppressed Nominates Old, Rich, White Man And Cop.Until a few years ago, the Babylon Bee was a niche humor site-the Onion for conservative Protestants. A team member with a Center bias noted the Babylon Bee “makes fun of Trump’s oafishness as a person, they don’t make fun of Trump’s policies or decisions, just how he presents himself.” Another team member with a Lean Left bias noted the Babylon Bee Bee is “consistently right, not in a way that is super vicious or malicious or polarizing toward the left. But right-wingers aren’t off limits at the Bee. The Babylon Bee typically pokes fun at current events from a right-leaning perspective, satirizing socialism, left-wing politicians and leftist activist movements. The Babylon Bee is transparent about its bias, calling itself “your trusted source for Christian news satire.” 2020 Editorial Reviewĭuring an August 2020 Editorial Review of Babylon Bee, the AllSides team was in universal agreement that the site has a Lean Right bias. Learn more about Lean Right ratingsīias Reviews We use multiple methods to analyze sources. A Lean Right bias is a moderately conservative rating on the political spectrum. Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Right display media bias in ways that moderately align with conservative, traditional, libertarian, or right-wing thought and/or policy agendas. It'll also have opinions, videos, personalities, memes, viral stuff, and more." What a "Lean Right" Rating Means Like the name suggests, it'll feature some absurd and hilarious (but real) news that seems like it should definitely be satire. The Babylon Bee also runs and an accompanying Instagram account, It's Not the Bee, which calls itself "a humor-based news, opinion, and entertainment site from the creators of The Babylon Bee and Disrn. Its content focuses on Christianity and other religions, as well as current events and politics, and has occasionally been subjected to fact-checks. 7, 2020 4:51 pm EST The Babylon Bee was founded in 2016. Unlike other satire sites, everything we post is 100% verified by ." If you would like to complain about something on our site, take it up with God. We focus on just the facts, leaving spin and bias to other news sites like CNN and Fox News. We have been the premier news source through every major world event, from the Tower of Babel and the Exodus to the Reformation and the War of 1812. The Babylon Bee was created ex nihilo on the eighth day of the creation week, exactly 6,000 years ago. We write satire about Christian stuff, political stuff, and everyday life. The Babylon Bee's About page includes a humorous description of the site: "the world’s best satire site, totally inerrant in all its truth claims.
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