Christwire is a fine fine website. It's called for a
boycott of Bill Murray (as
reported in NBC-LA), provided help in
outing gay spouses (as reported in
Huffington Post and
The Frisky), and suggested an
invasion of Egypt led by Sarah Palin (as
reported on MSNBC), among other fine insights. One of its main writers,
Stephenson Billings, is, in fact, a
prolific presence on the
internet whose
blog alone is worth frequent visits for its "specialness." But, alas, know one knows who he or she actually is? Stephenson Billings is a pseudonym. Don't you
hate that? Christwire itself is satire. Via
boingboing,
New York Magazine, and
excellent coverage in
The Atlantic. And, BTW, one thing that emerges from this is how sleezy the Huffington Post can be: it modified its story to make it seem like it knew Christwire was a parody, according to
The Atlantic and the
New York Times, when it was really hoodwinked.
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