Challenge: Spot the Satire
o-called transgenderism (including “trans-adjacent” things such as drag queens) has become so lunatic that the line between their “reality” and quality satire has vanished.
Continue readingConservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
o-called transgenderism (including “trans-adjacent” things such as drag queens) has become so lunatic that the line between their “reality” and quality satire has vanished.
Continue readingAre you smarter than a SNOPES fact-checker? So, put yourself in the shoes of some poor shlub at Snopes who has to determine which of the following is satire from the Babylon Bee, and which is straight news reporting? Choose before clicking (or hovering with the mouse) please. This is
Continue readingThis Leftist presidential candidate announcement is perfect satire as various bits and pieces could have been written by AOC-ward or other “woke” Americans. [give_form id=”59195″]
Continue readingThe finest satire site on the web is The Babylon Bee. While we wait for Bookworm to finish her legal research and turn her attention back to providing insightful and thought provoking posts on this blog . . . how about a laugh or two. I thought comedy dead with
Continue readingI was a little girl when the phrase “Question Authority” became the mantra for teens and young adults. To give that generation credit, even as they stopped bathing and warped their brains with drugs, they really did make an effort to challenge the shibboleths that the academic establishment and the
Continue readingDid you know that the military has it’s own version of the inimitable Onion? For those unfamiliar with the Onion, it is a brilliant satire site — and frankly, in today’s world, it’s very hard to maintain satire when the reality in which we live is so ridiculous and bizarre.
Continue readingCheck out this mash-up: It comes from Being Liberal Means Being a Hypocrite, a Facebook page that’s definitely worth “liking.”
Continue readingIt turns out that Iowahawk isn’t the only gifted satirist in the conservative community. Zombie’s got the goods on O’Donnell (satirically, of course).
Continue readingThe answer to the above question: When it’s impossible to distinguish the satire from the real thing. I received several emails today alerting me to a post at Power Line that purported to reprint a directive from a powerful person at a major media outlet, describing how to cover the
Continue reading….And everything that’s wrong with modern liberal political discourse is summed up in these two beautiful paragraphs that Michael Gerson wrote about Al Franken (emphasis mine): Our popular culture, of course, violates even these expansive boundaries of tastelessness with regularity. We laugh at comedies featuring the C-word, and at cartoons
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