The Babylon Bee is not kind to Hillary — 20 Comments
I saw an interview a long time ago, and I don’t recall who or even how reliable it was, where someone said that in retirement Lyndon Johnson had a conference room set up and held faux cabinet meetings and daily briefings.
A fun person who watches disappearing videos on the dark web.
He was still very much “Mr. President” to the retinue serving him in retirement, including three round-the-clock Secret Service protectors, a Chinese butler named Wong, brought to Texas from the White House, two secretaries, a dozen former White House staffers, who worked at the library but could be tapped for other duties when the occasion demanded, as well as a dozen or so ranch hands who were kept scrambling. A phone call would dispatch an Air Force helicopter to carry him forty miles from his ranch into Austin, where a landing pad had been built on the library roof.
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Each Friday morning, a White House jet landed at the LBJ ranch, depositing foreign policy briefing papers prepared especially for Johnson by Henry Kissinger’s staff. On two occasions Kissinger himself arrived at Johnson’s door for personal briefings on the peace talks; twice he sent his deputy, General Alexander Haig.
No mention of “cabinet” meetings.
You know we’ve reached peak insanity when the Babylon Bee agrees with the Rolling Stone.
Everyone Is a Russian Asset
America laughed at Hillary Clinton’s remarks about Tulsi Gabbard, but her ideas fit perfectly in the intellectual mainstream
By MATT TAIBBI
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Hillary Clinton is nuts. She’s also not far from the Democratic Party mainstream, which has been pushing the same line for years.
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Everyone is foreign scum these days. Democrats spent three years trying to prove Donald Trump is a Russian pawn. Mitch McConnell is “Moscow Mitch.” Third party candidates are a Russian plot. The Bernie Sanders movement is not just a wasteland of racist and misogynist “Bros,” but — according to intelligence agencies and mainstream pundits alike — the beneficiary of an ambitious Russian plot to “stoke the divide” within the Democratic Party. The Joe Rogan independents attracted to the mild antiwar message of Tulsi Gabbard are likewise traitors and dupes for the Kremlin.
If you’re keeping score, that’s pretty much the whole spectrum of American political thought, excepting MSNBC Democrats. What a coincidence!
This troubling incident apparently preceded her confinement. Seems to have a thing about Costco, as she headed there again during her escape.
I’m only a modest fan of The Bee, as I believe that they have unresolved problems with failing to employing realistic news idioms, and especially in maintaining a consistent voice in some of their pieces: too often falling from parody, into a self-indulgent sarcasm which wrecks the overall effect.
I agree. The headlines are often brilliant, but the text doesn’t always keep up. Still, I’m happy to subscribe.
Thank you for that. That was hilarious. That clip from Harvey was great as well.
“…unresolved problems…”
To be honest, most of the MSM is, tragically, pure parody—actually beyond parody—and should be on the couch.
“The Bee”? It’s great, consistently so. (“The Onion” used to reign supreme, but has of late, it seems, become carmelized, though it still brings the occasional tear to ones eye.)
I think that “please don’t hurt us” Bee note was soon after Epstein “committed suicide”.
Recently I saw a headline about the death of one of the investigators into that suicide, but nothing else.
The Bee is probably doing more than most blogs or conservative writers in helping to slow the spread of PC madness and badness. Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon the “pen” can wield. I wish there was more of it, and better; and more directed at the PC BS folk.
“…sake…”
Indeed, they are making a supreme effort (though perhaps only because the Wrath of Hillary is boundless)
So, I clicked and went directly to the apparently humorous article on Hillary, but the first thing I noticed, was the “Visit Dubai!” banner ad. That was when I clicked out and back to here.
(…Keeping in mind that Google and other SEs scan for previously used—or searched for—strings so as to display “customized”, as it were, ads on one’s browser. Have you been dreaming about Dubai lately?)
And here’s more rip-roaring comedy (from one of the Chief Honchos of the Clinton Comedy Commissariat):
(Well, I guess it must have been fun while it lasted…. All those headlines. All those interviews. All those intercontinental flights. All those adoringly rabid crowds….)
“The Bee”? It’s great, consistently so. (“The Onion” used to reign supreme, but has of late, it seems, become carmelized, though it still brings the occasional tear to ones eye.)”
The problem with the Bee, as I see it, is not the ingenious parodies of news articles that they come up with, but with consistent execution.
Aside from the occasional effect spoiling lapses into obvious snark or sarcasm, certain failures of idiom and style – most especially as relates to the favored descriptive formulas employed in journalism – jar like big bumps in an otherwise scenic road.
Everyone here is obviously a big and longtime consumer of news. And we all know what the traditional idioms, vocabulary, formulas, and stylistic rules of journalism, at least looked and sounded like.
That said, the Bee’s writers seem to produce much less in the way of grating vocabulary-limited teenager like parodies, than when I first was directed there.
And yes, their stuff is really funny almost all of the time. I guess I’m carping because when I see something so largely good, I hate to see its intended effect spoiled by an avoidable blunder.
Babylon Bee has been great.
RE: Why should Babylon Bee be kind to Hillary?
Because people who make trouble for the Clintons have a tendency to die — suddenly.
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I saw an interview a long time ago, and I don’t recall who or even how reliable it was, where someone said that in retirement Lyndon Johnson had a conference room set up and held faux cabinet meetings and daily briefings.
A fun person who watches disappearing videos on the dark web.
From the Atlantic, a former speechwriter recounts LBJ’s retirement.
No mention of “cabinet” meetings.
You know we’ve reached peak insanity when the Babylon Bee agrees with the Rolling Stone.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/clinton-gabbard-russian-asset-jill-stein-901593/
This troubling incident apparently preceded her confinement. Seems to have a thing about Costco, as she headed there again during her escape.
https://babylonbee.com/news/hillary-clinton-asked-to-leave-costco-after-repeatedly-accusing-sample-lady-of-being-a-russian-agent
When is Snopes going to tell us that this is Fake News? Inquiring minds want to know. 🙂
Raw footage of Hillary’s recapture.
I’m only a modest fan of The Bee, as I believe that they have unresolved problems with failing to employing realistic news idioms, and especially in maintaining a consistent voice in some of their pieces: too often falling from parody, into a self-indulgent sarcasm which wrecks the overall effect.
But I liked this one despite the problems: https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-propose-creation-of-national-trump-voter-registry
I agree. The headlines are often brilliant, but the text doesn’t always keep up. Still, I’m happy to subscribe.
Thank you for that. That was hilarious. That clip from Harvey was great as well.
“…unresolved problems…”
To be honest, most of the MSM is, tragically, pure parody—actually beyond parody—and should be on the couch.
“The Bee”? It’s great, consistently so. (“The Onion” used to reign supreme, but has of late, it seems, become carmelized, though it still brings the occasional tear to ones eye.)
As for me, I eagerly await a Bee-ish article (psychological “issues” and all) on how the US should be more like Sweden…
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/why-cant-america-be-sweden/?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=81586558446D4095B5BBB2FA5ACBA0AB&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL
https://spectator.us/bomb-attacks-normal-part-swedish-life/
Please remember for Babylon Bee’s sake:
https://babylonbee.com/news/we-would-like-to-state-for-the-record-that-hillary-clinton-is-an-upstanding-citizen-and-a-fine-human-being
I think that “please don’t hurt us” Bee note was soon after Epstein “committed suicide”.
Recently I saw a headline about the death of one of the investigators into that suicide, but nothing else.
The Bee is probably doing more than most blogs or conservative writers in helping to slow the spread of PC madness and badness. Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon the “pen” can wield. I wish there was more of it, and better; and more directed at the PC BS folk.
“…sake…”
Indeed, they are making a supreme effort (though perhaps only because the Wrath of Hillary is boundless)
Nonetheless, the comic impulse is so fast and furious (and fertile) that in the interest of appearances, if not basic decency, it seems that they have begun to outsource:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/zombie-nation-democratic-party-dead-and-everyone-knows-it-them
So, I clicked and went directly to the apparently humorous article on Hillary, but the first thing I noticed, was the “Visit Dubai!” banner ad. That was when I clicked out and back to here.
F**k Dubai.
“…**…”
Well yes, no doubt. But take heart…
I’m pretty sure that “Visit Dubai!” is part of “The Joke”!!
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/scandal-without-end-is-the-clinton-foundation-a-fraud/
(…Keeping in mind that Google and other SEs scan for previously used—or searched for—strings so as to display “customized”, as it were, ads on one’s browser. Have you been dreaming about Dubai lately?)
And here’s more rip-roaring comedy (from one of the Chief Honchos of the Clinton Comedy Commissariat):
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blumenthal-russia-probe-book
P.S. For the uninitiated, Lee Smith’s very valuable twitter site is:
https://twitter.com/leesmithdc?lang=en
And might as well mention that Mollie Hemingway is, as usual, “on a roll”:
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Extra! Read all about it:
Greta’s been Scooped:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7612873/No-country-fully-prepared-deadly-pandemic-report-finds.html
(Well, I guess it must have been fun while it lasted…. All those headlines. All those interviews. All those intercontinental flights. All those adoringly rabid crowds….)
The problem with the Bee, as I see it, is not the ingenious parodies of news articles that they come up with, but with consistent execution.
Aside from the occasional effect spoiling lapses into obvious snark or sarcasm, certain failures of idiom and style – most especially as relates to the favored descriptive formulas employed in journalism – jar like big bumps in an otherwise scenic road.
Everyone here is obviously a big and longtime consumer of news. And we all know what the traditional idioms, vocabulary, formulas, and stylistic rules of journalism, at least looked and sounded like.
That said, the Bee’s writers seem to produce much less in the way of grating vocabulary-limited teenager like parodies, than when I first was directed there.
And yes, their stuff is really funny almost all of the time. I guess I’m carping because when I see something so largely good, I hate to see its intended effect spoiled by an avoidable blunder.
Babylon Bee has been great.
RE: Why should Babylon Bee be kind to Hillary?
Because people who make trouble for the Clintons have a tendency to die — suddenly.