The Guys Behind Christwire, Creating Parody From ‘Glenn Beck on Steroids’
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Adam Pasick
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In the world of
Christwire, the Glenn Beck rally made Martin Luther King Jr. proud, Hurricane Earl is headed toward the Gay East Coast to reap God's vengeance, and the recent increase in
pet-on-pet rape is a pernicious consequences of same-sex marriage.
This is, of course, satire: Completely over-the-top, but mimicking some extreme religious-right talking points so well that several mainstream news sites have been hoaxed. In a competitive and superheated news climate, a religious site calling for a
boycott of Bill Murray, "murderer of lambs," was, for
NBC Los Angeles, too good to not be true. The advice column "Is My Husband Gay?" (Does he "travel frequently to big cities or Asia"?) was, as the Atlantic Wire's John Hudson discovered,
taken at face value by the Huffington Post.
