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Best Comedy Blog: Christwire
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing. —Poe’s Law
The bad news about a free and open Internet? Sometimes you get had by brilliant satirists. Christwire: 1; TRMS: 0 —Rachel Maddow, on Twitter
Should Sarah Palin support a U.S.-led invasion of Egypt? It was a question that could’ve come from any number of conservative websites, but TV host Rachel Maddow chose the wrong article to highlight on The Rachel Maddow Show earlier this year. Like several liberal commentators before her, she found herself duped by Christwire, a site devoted to satirizing right-wingers in outlandish ways that maybe, just maybe, could be legit articles. Writers Bryan Butvidas and Kirwin Watson rarely break character, and when they do, you can expect a riposte along the lines of “L.A. Weekly Tries to Challenge Christwire to a Gay Fight.”
Click here for the entire list of Los Angeles Best of the Web 2011 winners.
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“L.A. Weekly Tries to Challenge Christwire to a Gay Fight..." And you people know you'd lose that fight... Whether it be barechested wrestling or a pool hall showdown, we'd make you vacate yourselves in shame.
Well, God bless my friends.
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