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| Type of site | Satirical blog |
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| Available in | English |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Current status | Inactive |
Christwire is a satirical website that published blog-style articles intended to ridicule excesses of American Christian conservatives. Recurring topics include homosexuality, atheism, Hollywood, and other purported threats to American culture.
Like similar satirical websites, Christwire's stories have sometimes been erroneously taken at face value. According to co-founder Kirwin Watson, their target is not Christians but "those who do not question what they hear on the news".
Topekas News
Due to the wide public attention at the name Christwire, the site also runs topekasnews.com.
One satirical news article by "Haywood Bynum III" pronounced that "Edible Marijuana Candies Kill 9 in Colorado, 12 at Coachella." The Drug Abuse Resistance Education anti-drug organization copied the article onto their website without fact checking the satirical article.
See also
- Adequacy.org
- Landover Baptist Church
- Poe's law
- List of satirical magazines
- List of satirical news websites
- List of satirical television news programs
References
- John Hudson (August 19, 2010). "Satirical Christian Site Hoodwinks the Huffington Post". The Atlantic Wire.
- John Hudson (February 1, 2011). "Rachel Maddow and NBC Struggle With Satire". The Atlantic Wire.
- Katla McGlynn (August 18, 2010). "9 Signs Your Husband Is GAY, According To ChristWire.org (PHOTOS)". Huffington Post.
- "Line of inquiry crosses a line". The Sydney Morning Herald. August 19, 2010.
- Oppenheimer, Mark (September 3, 2010). "A Niche of the Unreal in a World of Credulity". The New York Times. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
- "Heathen TopekasNews Liberals Detest Reaganomics". ChristWire. Archived from the original on 2015-03-17. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
- "Christians Review, "Scooby Doo, The First Atheist Brainwashing Cartoon" - Topekas News". topekasnews.com.
- "Scooby Doo, The First Atheist Brainwashing Cartoon Reviewed". ChristWire.
- "The Popular Story of the Kansas City Prayer Booths Is False, But the Brilliant Artist Behind the Booth is Genuine". Friendly Atheist.
- Marijuana Cures Republican Pastor of Stupidity Archived 2015-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
- "Edible Marijuana Candies Kill 9 in Colorado, 12 at Coachella". D.A.R.E. America. Archived from the original on 4 May 2015.
- Christopher Ingraham (4 May 2015). "D.A.R.E. gets duped by anti-pot satire". Washington Post.