Fake News You Can Trust – Deadline at the Babylon Bee
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Guest Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, discusses winning the Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship, the creation of its satires and parodies that expose corruption, and the censorship it faces over its work.
Movie review of “Deadline – U.S.A,” the 1942 classic film noir starring Humphrey Bogart as a crusading newspaper editor who works on a story exposing a gangster’s crimes at the risk of his life.
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| 0:00.0 | Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself. |
| 0:04.8 | This is Hans von Spakovsky, and this is Case in Point, and our title today is |
| 0:12.8 | Fake News You Can Trust, Deadline at the Babylon B. |
| 0:17.5 | Political satire has a very long history in Western democracies, but not elsewhere, a creation of political satire has a very long history in Western democracies, but not elsewhere. |
| 0:23.2 | A creation of political satires in particular in other countries like Russia and China can not only get you arrested but possibly killed. |
| 0:31.5 | One of the most famous satirical publications, of course, was the British Weekly Punch, which started in 1841 and continued until |
| 0:39.5 | 2002. Punch was well known for its political satire and parodies, and as I understand it, |
| 0:47.3 | the word cartoon actually came from the first drawings in Punch. Well, we have the American new and improved version of Punch, |
| 0:57.8 | and that's the Babylon Bee, which uses as its masthead the fake news you can trust. |
| 1:04.1 | Now, satire is very important in a democratic society. |
| 1:09.7 | Humor and satire parodies are often a much more effective way of criticizing |
| 1:16.1 | government officials and others who provide their opinions in the public arena. It, in fact, |
| 1:23.4 | can be more effective than just regular serious criticism. |
| 1:30.3 | The Babylon B excels at this. |
| 1:36.0 | Its humor is often so close to real life that it's hard to tell that it's really satire, |
| 1:39.3 | which is a guy to tell you a compliment to you. |
| 1:46.4 | Talking about the violent attacks and riots on law enforcement in LA, for example, recent headlines were Marines deployed to another third world country full of hostile foreigners talking about |
| 1:52.9 | L.A. And L.A. rioters sad, as he can't find any houses to burn down since they all burned |
| 1:58.6 | down in the wildfires. But that's also why politicians |
| 2:02.0 | hate the Babylon Bee. And some states recently have passed unbelievably unconstitutional laws to try |
| 2:11.1 | to restrict what it does. The Babylon B is so important that the Heritage Foundation has awarded it its Salvatory Prize for American Citizenship. |
| 2:23.2 | And our guest today is Seth Dillon, who's the CEO of this newspaper, which apparently is a real troublemaker to politicians all over the place. Congratulations on winning it. You've been |
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