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In Major Deal, The Babylon Bee Purchases Competing Satire Site CNN (Satire)
babylon Bee ^ | 1/25/2020

Posted on 01/25/2020 12:10:16 PM PST by Old Man From WV

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"We've long admired CNN's ability to parody leftist media organizations so effortlessly, and we're thrilled to have them under The Babylon Bee's umbrella," said site CEO Seth Dillon. "When you can't compete with hilarious satire like CNN, you obviously look for ways to get them on your team, and an acquisition seemed to make the most sense." The new conglomerate organization will be called BNN. CNN writers and hosts will be instructed to simply keep doing what they're doing. "We don't want them to change anything since you don't try to fix satirical content that's already incredible," Dillon said. "They'll just keep churning out incredibly skewed content in order to satirize the leftist media's inability to report anything without bias or prejudice." Brian Stelter will produce satirical videos for The Babylon Bee, moving the site into the realm of video content for the first time. Again, though, his show's content will remain unchanged. CNN will also benefit, as their content will now be clearly labeled satire, protecting them from getting sued to high heaven for their skewed coverage. Site founder Adam Ford was against the move, but nobody listens to him anymore.

Personally, I think they over paid. They should have had Donald Trump negotiate the deal.

1 posted on 01/25/2020 12:10:16 PM PST by Old Man From WV
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To: Old Man From WV

These guys are really good!


2 posted on 01/25/2020 12:12:21 PM PST by falcon99 (qu)
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To: Old Man From WV

Snark lords!


3 posted on 01/25/2020 12:14:04 PM PST by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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I don’t always find the Bee funny..but this one was very funny!


4 posted on 01/25/2020 12:15:33 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: Old Man From WV

Please refrain from abusing the news forum and activism sidebar with Satire.


5 posted on 01/25/2020 12:20:39 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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Waiting for CNN to get Snopes to debunk this in 3, 2, 1....


6 posted on 01/25/2020 12:21:53 PM PST by beef (Caution: Potential Sarcasm - Process Accordingly)
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These guys are really good!

And really effective at countering leftist opinion.

7 posted on 01/25/2020 12:22:12 PM PST by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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Can we get these guys on every monitor in an airport 24/7?


8 posted on 01/25/2020 12:23:59 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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Personally, I always thought The Babylon Bee had more accurate content. At least they’ve never pretended to be a serious news outlet.


9 posted on 01/25/2020 12:26:08 PM PST by Viking2002 (Epstein and Ukraine Airlines Flight PS752 didn't kill themselves. Yeah, I went there.)
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Would have been a better article if the price had been stated as $120,000.


10 posted on 01/25/2020 12:27:59 PM PST by Real Cynic No More (Make America Great. Prosecute Dems who break the law!)
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I didn’t know that CNN was for sale.


11 posted on 01/25/2020 12:32:02 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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When the Bee first started out I was not impressed.

The snark was there but to be good satire has to contain elements of truth and I just was not seeing it.

They have gotten much better.

12 posted on 01/25/2020 12:32:41 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
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CNN writers and hosts will be instructed to simply keep doing what they’re doing.


Hah — love it!


13 posted on 01/25/2020 12:42:33 PM PST by Yardstick
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The Admin Moderator is like the high school librarian who always came by to break up the group if we were having a little too much fun.

"Yes, Miss Crabistar"

14 posted on 01/25/2020 12:44:32 PM PST by fhayek
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At some point within the past year, Babylon Bee surpassed The Onion as the best satire.

Are these the same people?

15 posted on 01/25/2020 1:26:02 PM PST by SamAdams76
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I agree they are hit or miss but when they hit they hit like a ton of bricks. :)


16 posted on 01/25/2020 1:28:14 PM PST by xp38
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Expect CNN to whine and complain about this article. Seriously, they do not find Babylon Bee funny. No sense of humor.


17 posted on 01/25/2020 1:37:45 PM PST by dhs12345
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But doesn’t the name of the combined company, BNN, belong as Breaking News. CNN could be renamed BWN, that might be more apt given what they sound like.


18 posted on 01/25/2020 1:40:12 PM PST by freeandfreezing (Do I need the sarcasm tag?)
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Can’t wait for Snopes to fact-check this...


19 posted on 01/25/2020 2:00:11 PM PST by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
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yes they do! :)


20 posted on 01/25/2020 2:05:21 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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