The entire basis for Fox News host Sean Hannity's existence is the moral superiority he has assigned himself by virtue of his religion and political affiliation. Hannity has spent decades hammering liberals for their godless depravity, extolling the moral virtues of the ...read more
After twenty years of bloviating about Judeo-Christian values, it turns out you were quietly subverting just about all of them. Which is fine. Outrageous hypocrisy is a great American pastime, and though your time has now passed, you had a nice run there for a while making angry ...read more
Do not fuck with Jake Tapper. That's the message Bill O'Reilly learned today in what has to be the best public takedown of the loudmouthed conservative in years. Perhaps in an attempt to remain relevant after he was booted out of Fox, O'Reilly figured it would be a good idea to ...read more
We've been writing about Hillary Clinton a fair bit here at the Banter lately, not because she's done anything in particular, but because she remains the focal point of right wing ire. A crazed killer murders 60 people in Las Vegas using high powered artillery? Let's jump on ...read more
The Alt Right's favorite schoolboy Tucker Carlson was given a ruthless beating on Twitter after attacking Hillary Clinton for not responding fast enough to the Harvey Weinstein yesterday, and deservedly so. Tweeted Carlson: Forgetting the somewhat inconvenient fact that he not ...read more
In the latest employee scandal at Fox News, it was revealed by the Huffington Post that Eric Bolling, co-host of “The Five,” was recently suspended from the network for sending lewd text messages to colleagues. This should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone vaguely ...read more
Perquita Burgess came forward yesterday to speak out about her claims of sexual and racial harassment against recently ousted Fox News host Bill O’Reilly“ on The View”. Burgess, who worked at Fox as a temp for a colleague of O'Reilly's, had remained anonymous until her ...read more
On his nightly MSNBC show, Keith Olbermann used to spend an inordinate amount of time going after Bill O'Reilly, a man he viewed as being a misogynistic, dishonest fraud. On Wednesday though, Olbermann, who now works as a special correspondent for GQ Magazine, was not in a ...read more
Given we're unlikely to ever see wild boar impersonator Bill O'Reilly on the air again, we thought it fitting he be remembered the right way. So below is his greatest moment on television (although unfortunately for him, he didn't realize it was going to be broadcasted): It was ...read more
The Wall St Journal is reporting that Fox News is finally about to dump Bill O'Reilly. After it was revealed that there were multiple reports about O’Reilly sexually harassing several colleagues, the network has been unable to stem the flow of advertisers leaving the nightly ...read more
Bill O'Reilly is finally getting the humiliation he almost certainly doled out to the many women he has worked with over the years after the details about the multiple women Fox paid off to keep quiet about him harassing them became public. Not only has he gone on (permanent?) ...read more
In the wake of a mass advertiser exodus from his show, it looks increasingly like the end is nigh for Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. From NYMag: Embattled Fox News host Bill O’Reilly announced tonight that he is taking a vacation. O’Reilly’s decision to go off the air in the midst ...read more
While decent Americans have been beating themselves up over the presence of a misogynistic reality TV star in the White House, they would do well to remember that the majority of them not only voted for the first female presidential candidate, but are also willing to take ...read more
On Saturday, The New York Times published a “bombshell” investigation on the million dollar settlements Bill O’Reilly and Fox News have paid over the years to several women who were allegedly sexually harassed by O’Reilly. And I put “bombshell” in quotes because literally none ...read more
You might've heard about the allegations reported by Gawker that Bill O'Reilly dragged his now ex-wife down a flight of stairs by her neck. While divorce proceedings always feature an ugly story or two, knowing O'Reilly's short fuse it's not difficult to image a very large ...read more
