This thread from pro-Trump memesmith Carpe Donktum is a few days old, but we wanted to get back to it for a couple of reasons. First, it nicely fills out a post we did on CNN’s Brian Stelter earlier, in which he was called out for tweeting a few years back that The Onion News Network was “perhaps the best parody of cable news anywhere,” whereas in a new tweet he called The Babylon Bee “a fake news site” whose writers like to call it “satire.”
That was just one pair of tweets, but Donktum has been busy searching through Stelter’s online history and pulling up other examples of him praising The Onion.
THREAD: Watch @brianstelter transform before your very eyes.
— Carpe Donktum? (@CarpeDonktum) August 16, 2019
Back in 2010, Brian used to LOVE satire, he shared lots of stories from @TheOnion and he looked forward to their content. pic.twitter.com/S6iDdgNDP2
— Carpe Donktum? (@CarpeDonktum) August 16, 2019
He defended it, they were just jokes and nothing more. pic.twitter.com/TRC2kRdlmd
— Carpe Donktum? (@CarpeDonktum) August 16, 2019
It's SATIRE!! pic.twitter.com/TsLnWqa7sl
— Carpe Donktum? (@CarpeDonktum) August 16, 2019
Pulitzer worthy Satire! pic.twitter.com/JnzNUSlV9u
— Carpe Donktum? (@CarpeDonktum) August 16, 2019
And then came The Babylon Bee, a Christian, conservative-leaning satire site:
Then sometime after 2016, the love affair with Satire ended. His tweets of satire dried up and he came to a new understanding… SATIRE WAS THE ENEMY pic.twitter.com/w2Rz6VCOD3
— Carpe Donktum? (@CarpeDonktum) August 16, 2019
“It tries to trick people?” But The Onion “was a joke, and only a joke,” and everybody seemed OK with that.
Like a jilted lover, he scorned satire.
It was Tricksy, it was false. THE SATIRE STOLED THE NEWS FROM US.
Yes Precious.
— Carpe Donktum? (@CarpeDonktum) August 16, 2019
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And of course, we have fact-checking site Snopes.com seriously investigating claims that CNN purchased “an industrial-sized washing machine to spin the news.”
Satire is OK when his team is in power.
— Jeff Tidwell (@RealJeffTidwell) August 16, 2019
Bingo!
— JamieRJN (@JamieRJN) August 16, 2019
Is Brian Stelter not a satirist? I’m confused
— Corey Adkinson (@coreyadkinson) August 16, 2019
Not on purpose.
— Carpe Donktum? (@CarpeDonktum) August 16, 2019
Requesting rights to use as my thesis on TDS. ?
— Adam Croney (@ACCroney) August 16, 2019
I though Brian Stelter was make believe, like a kids action figure. You mean he isn't?
— Nighthammer (@clearlight34) August 17, 2019
Action?
— SteveV (@SteveV23953113) August 17, 2019
— Jed (@whatjedsaid) August 17, 2019
I love being a conservative now.
We have reality on our side. #WalkAway
— Hip Hop Conservative Kay-Lib (@HipHopConserva) August 17, 2019
Even today, @brianstelter will re-tweet Colbert, Bee, Meyers, Kimmell whenever they make a biting Trump joke.
But whenever someone on the right tells a joke, out comes the fact checks as tsk-tsk-ing.
— Bryan Farris (@SaveFarrisLSU) August 17, 2019
When the POTUS was elected and he dubbed them Fake News it changed his and all of their lives forever.
— Don Mallett (@don_mallett) August 17, 2019
Now journalists practically melt down when they see Forever 21 selling biker shorts with the words “Fake News” on them.
OK, another reason we wanted to feature Carpe Donktum; he has an announcement:
ANNOUNCEMENT!
I am pleased to announce the launch of https://t.co/0szGDfsnLe!
This site is a collaboration of some of the greatest meme minds on Planet Earth!!https://t.co/eoPQK0qBSp
— Carpe Donktum? (@CarpeDonktum) August 20, 2019
We haven’t yet visited memeworld.com, but if it contains material as we’ve seen so far, we’re in. How long until CNN mounts a campaign to have it taken down? How long until it’s accused of being a Russian troll farm? Stay tuned.
Related:
CNN’s Brian Stelter: The Onion is a great parody site, but The Babylon Bee is straight-up fake news https://t.co/joi7hpdreV
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 31, 2019
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