Kanye West's recent statements make him appear like a permanent resident of the Sunken Place. The hip-hop giant recently got back on Trump's favorite social media outlet to send out a series of missives that have baffled his fanbase, most notably his praise for Candace Owens, an ...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
Fox News is many things, but “Fair and Balanced” has never been one of them. I used to find it bewildering that a cable news channel that so obviously plays the role of Republican mouthpiece had the gall to pretend to be unbiased - and that viewers bought it. Eventually I ...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
Thanks to Derp Night At The White Power Corral, Sarah Palin is marginally relevant again, which resulted in Jake Tapper being forced to make sense of the word salads shooting out of her mouth this afternoon. And amazingly, Tapper somehow managed to sift through a nonsensical ...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
First things first, a few weeks back I wrote a column titled "Bill O’Reilly Isn’t Going Down: Fox News Doesn’t Care About Women People." Whoops! In my defense, Bill O'Reilly has gotten away with racist, sexist invective for years, so I never once considered the possibility that ...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
On November 8, 2016, America went from a nation that was admittedly rife with problems — albeit problems that we were slowly overcoming — to a goddamn dystopian horror show in the blink of an eye. To make matters even more terrifying, Donald Trump, the squinting, carrotoid ...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
If you write about politics, you figured this would be overwhelming. You knew going into it that the Trump administration would be a daily deluge of incompetence, irrationality, corruption and general surreality. You probably even assumed that no matter how bad you imagined it ...read more
Bill O'Reilly has once again stirred up controversy by spending a segment of his show "The O'Reilly Factor" whining about his white privilege being attacked by liberals. On Tuesday evening, the Fox News host discussed what he thinks is the "hidden reason" Democrats want to get ...read more
Only on Fox News would you see this kind of reaction to First Lady Michelle Obama's triumph of a speech at the DNC Monday night. If you recall, she used the line about the White House being built by slaves, a reference she's used before: Leave it to Bill O'Reilly to boil that ...read more
On Wednesday, Montel Willliams was set to appear on The O'Reilly Factor from the Republican National Convention in Ohio, but due to an unannounced change in topic, the TV host walked out just before the segment began. In typical O'Reilly fashion, the loudmouthed Fox News host ...read more
You just can't make this stuff up, because why would you ever want to? Bill O'Reilly asked Donald Trump if he really, truly thinks he understands the black experience in America, and Trump literally said this with his mouth: Even O'Reilly is like "Wait, what?", although you have ...read more
In in a dramatic turn around for the right wing Fox News host, this was Bill O'Reilly speaking out about the need for gun control on his show last night: Now, the right wing responsibility. There is too much gun crime in the USA, and high powered weaponry is too easy to get. ...read more
If you're a regular listener to the podcast I do with fellow Banter-ite Bob Cesca, cleverly titled "The Bob & Chez Show," you know that as far as I'm concerned there's no one on the planet who more richly deserves a righteous ass-kicking than Fox News ambush reporter and ...read more
One of the most insidious forms of racism comes from people who genuinely do not believe they are racist. Their prejudice and xenophobia is so deeply ingrained that they create a distorted world view to justify their warped beliefs about race. Bill O'Reilly is a classic ...read more
Bill O’Reilly had his best friend Donald Trump on his show last night, ostensibly to prove that of the two of them, he was the bigger racist asshole. While Trump has made some outlandish statements about 'the blacks', Mexicans and the Chinese, nothing compares to what O'Reilly ...read more
Bill O'Reilly is great at confronting minorities, women and people with less power and money than him. But when facing off against a whiter, angrier and considerably richer version of himself, the 6ft 4 Irishman apparently turns into a shy little boy who wants to hide behind his ...read more
There's no single person on the planet more in need of a really satisfying beating than Jesse Watters. If there's a master template for creating douchebags out there somewhere, he was burned directly from it. As Raw Story's TBogg recently wrote, Watters has a face that always ...read more
What you get when you put three old white men in a room to talk about gender identity? Answer: a lot of offensive nonsense. On Bill O'Reilly's show last night, he brought in known gender identity experts Bernard McGuirk, the executive producer for 'Imus in the Morning', and Fox ...read more
Who could have seen this one coming? From one angry old white man to another, Bill O'Reilly came out swinging in defense of his buddy Donald Trump last night. Calling it 'The Vilification of Donald Trump' O'Reilly spent close to 10 minutes fumbling all over the place, misleading ...read more
Last night, Bill O'Reilly ran a segment on his show about New York City's Penn Station's homeless 'problem'. In what transpired to be a truly vile piece of reporting, the Factor sent snazzily dressed reporter Jesse Watters to gawk at black homeless people while asking commuters ...read more
For as long as recorded history, men have used sex and violence as a weapon against women to assert their dominance. While much of the world has made little in the way of progress when it comes to the treatment of women, the west has much to be proud of when it comes to ...read more
Um. Wow. Bill O'Reilly and Pastor Robert Jeffress just admitted on television that we live in a secular society and that arguments against marriage equality shouldn't, therefore, include citing biblical dogma. That's a pretty big deal. Too bad it was buried within a big steaming ...read more
Quite a while back I was the producer on a show, the anchor of which was a powerhouse in the business and certainly a legend in his own mind. From my very first day on the newscast I was told that I didn't need to change a thing or really exert any creative influence whatsoever ...read more
It's hard to not derive an immense amount of pleasure watching Bill O'Reilly's expanding stack of lies pored over by the press. The revelation that O'Reilly wasn't actually anywhere near the Falklands war despite claiming he 'saw combat' there, has now morphed into a long, drawn ...read more
When it was revealed that Bill O'Reilly probably lied about killings he'd seen while reporting on the Falklands War, I couldn't help but yawn as people lost their minds. After all, O'Reilly's been lying on Fox News every night at 8 p.m. for the last 19 years. So when Mother ...read more
There's a good story about the hypocrisy Bill O'Reilly displayed by going after Brian Williams even though he too may have seriously exaggerated the dangers he faced covering a war. There's a great and necessary story about the viciousness with which he's attacking and ...read more
Fox News and its marquee opinion host have been on a major PR offensive regarding Bill O'Reilly's false claims about his alleged war reporting, and have now expanded their efforts. They've gone from spoon-feeding spin to friendly outlets to threatening a reporter from an outlet ...read more
As the war rages on between Bill O'Reilly and reality (or 'guttersnipes' and 'far left zealots' as O'Reilly likes to call them), the American news media is coming under greater scrutiny for its role in informing the public. Can we trust the media? Do they have an agenda, and is ...read more
As we reported here last week, Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly is having his Brian Williams outrage fed back to him with toxic mustard on it by Mother Jones' David Corn, who has compiled a Bill-o-pedia's worth of documentation on O'Reilly's claims about harrowing experiences ...read more
If Bill O'Reilly had a modicum of shame, he would have kept himself well away from the Brian Williams saga. But then he is the Fox News network's major star, and you don't get on Fox by having any shame. Comically, O'Reilly laid into Williams after the news broke that he had ...read more
There will be no shortage of predictably batshit conservative reactions to President Obama's huge immigration speech last night, but most of those will be predictable, and won't have much of an effect. One remarkable exception was Fox News Chief White House Correspondent Ed ...read more
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is racking up serious honesty points for telling Tavis Smiley that the "white Republican power structure" (or as everyone else calls it, the Republican Party) is "afraid of black people," but as refreshingly obvious as that sentiment is, the context ...read more
To some extent it doesn't matter who O'Reilly is up against. He's one of the originals, up there with Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity as the kings of the conservative talk circuit, and it will take a serious contender to dethrone him. So Bob Beckel's a long-shot. But ...read more
Viewers of Wednesday night's The Daily Show were treated to a huge, steaming pile of stultified Bill O'Reilly, partially courtesy of Jon Stewart, but mostly of his own towering sense of privilege. Stewart's White Privilege lecture, however, was, itself, not devoid of privilege. ...read more
Let me preface by saying I like Chris Hayes and think All In is one of the best shows on cable news. Meanwhile, I usually find myself disagreeing with most of what Bill O'Reilly says on The O'Reilly Factor. But what happened on Monday night is yet another example of the ...read more
There's no way around it: The opening matchup of FOXTOBERFEST Of Stupid is the least climactic one of all 16 first round games. We all knew it. This one's a mere tuneup game for the lean, mean, malapropism machine that is number one-seeded Sarah Palin. If this were a college ...read more
Download the mp3 (55 minutes, 23mb) Hot For Teacher: On this week's Bob & Chez Show, the guys talk discuss how Bill O'Reilly is really angry; Sarah Palin is gonna sue Bob; Victimhood and teachers having sex with students; Secret Service asleep on the job; Bill O'Reilly's ...read more
Stephen Colbert has been relentless against "Papa Bear" Bill O'Reilly, most recently regarding the Fox News star's ludicrous idea for a 25,000-member mercenary army to fight Islamic jihad. The other night, Colbert compared O'Reilly's mercenary army to something a 4th-grader ...read more
If you were in a coma for the last six years, then suddenly awakened this past weekend to observe both John Oliver's Last Week Tonight on HBO and Bill O'Reilly's appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, you might assume they were talking about the military actions of ...read more
As we covered last week, Bill O'Reilly has repeatedly expressed a very specific rule for dissent during times of war: "You don’t criticize the Commander-in-Chief in the middle of a firefight. That could be construed as putting U.S. forces in jeopardy and undermining morale." ...read more
The biggest news of the week: President Obama launched the first sorties into Syria, targeting ISIS terrorists. Within 24 hours, however, Republicans everywhere decided to turn an awkward salute into a near-impeachable crime against humanity, thus violating one of their most ...read more
Bill O'Reilly figured out the solution to the Middle East's ISIS problem, and it doesn't involve American troops on the ground or in the skies above Iraq and Syria. O'Reilly's solution might as well be the A-Team -- bayonet-charging into Raqqa aboard a herd of screeching ...read more
