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Home Front: Culture Wars
In Major Deal, The Babylon Bee Purchases Competing Satire Site CNN
2020-01-26
[BabylonBee] U.S.‐The Babylon Bee has been the world's best satire site for thousands of years, spawning dozens of secular knock-offs that just aren't quite as good.

The site announced a new acquisition this week, one that immediately made the site the largest satirical site on the planet: a purchase of competing satire site CNN for $12 billion. The move more than quadrupled the site's catalog of hilarious, satirical articles.

"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.
Posted by:Mullah Richard

#5  The best part is picturing the crew a Snopes trying to figure out if this is true or not.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-01-26 13:36  

#4  Down goes Fraziuh!
Down goes Fraziuh!
Down goes Fraziuh!
Posted by: Lex   2020-01-26 10:29  

#3  One of many excellent responses to the attacks on the Bee by the left to deplatform them - great job, and keep up the good work!
Posted by: Raj   2020-01-26 07:20  

#2  The price of $12 billion is the funniest part.
Posted by: Airandee   2020-01-26 07:06  

#1  Holy crap. Another punch or two like that and I'm gonna be crying and yelling at the ref to stop the fight. Brutal.
Posted by: Chinegum the Great4821   2020-01-26 01:44  

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