Blogs 4 Brownback
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Blogs 4 Brownback[1] (also known as B4B), launched on February 23, 2007, is an ultra-conservative blog which pretends to support ex-Presidential Candidate Sam Brownback. This website is a hoax. [2] [3]
The site tackles subjects such as abortion, homosexuality, American foreign policy, "hippies" and science, among other Brownback related topics. In doing so, the site parodies other conservative websites; it has strong nationalistic, general anti-science, xenophobic, misogynistic, fascist, geocentric, flat-Earth, YEC and fundamentalist undertones.
Right-wing conspiracy theories are also a common theme in the website's essays. The most prolific parody writer of this blog uses the pseudonym "Sisyphus". Another important contributor is "Psycheout".
Other known contributors (according to the website's Team Page) are Deltared, Jess1992, Lyssie (Larissa B.) and Relee (Randal Smithson). Mrs. T.D. Gaines-Crockett, of Baptists for Brownback, has also contributed articles to B4B.
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[edit] Reactions to Blogs 4 Brownback
[edit] Reception
Essays are often followed by lengthy discussions on science and scripture.
Reactions to this website are often negative; many even believe it to be an ingenious parody:
"I think Sis is spoofing us. Nobody smart enough to breathe can be that stupid."
- – Paradee
"I can’t tell if Sisyphus is serious or not, but I’ll leave those who are still undecided with this: The Jerry Springer show is no less fun to watch whether you know that its real or know that its fake."
- – Brandon D.
Whether Sisyphus is a fake or not, there seem to be a number of contributors who genuinely support B4B.
[edit] Blogs 4 Moonbats
RationalWiki has started its own response blog, Blogs 4 Moonbats, which will combine parody and debunking. It's now fairly defunct; for goodness' sake, trolling doesn't need a wiki unto itself!
[edit] Links to related websites
Several contributors refer to Conservapedia and Answers in Genesis as their sources.
On the right margin of every page of the site is a list of links to creationist, conservative and Christian websites. It must however be noted that the views of most of these websites, although conservative or even creationist, do not necessarily track with Blogs 4 Brownback's more extreme views such as geocentrism, or the site's xenophobia, expressed in numerous paranoid, derogatory and hostile comments about foreign countries and cultures.
[edit] See also
- Sisyphus -- B4B Contributor and Science Correspondent (known for his theory that subatomic particles are conscious entities, electrons being good and protons being evil.)
- Psycheout -- B4B Contributor and Political Corresponent
- Lyssie (aka Larissa B) -- B4B Contriubutor
- The Artist Formerly Known As Baptists for Brownback -- Affiliated Website
- Moonbat
