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Dear Howard Schultz And Other Bored Billionaires, Please Go Away
Not content to destroy good coffee and wreck thousands of small businesses around the world, Star Bucks founder and billionaire "visionary" Howard Schultz now wants to give America another four years of Donald Trump. Schultz has waded into American politics with the grace of a ...read more
The Covington "Controversy" Is Pure White Privilege In Action
Over the last few days, we've been subjected to a grand "mea culpa" from the media who have suddenly discovered a world of nuance concerning the Covington students disrespectfully mocking a Native American on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. After all, if one watches the full ...read more
Least Shocking Revelation Ever: Faux-Centrist "No Labels" Org Funded by the Rich
Monday morning, The Daily Beast published a story with what had to be the least surprising twist since we found out Donald Trump actually was going to be an incompetent president: The organization "No Labels," which ostensibly exists to promote bipartisanship, is almost entirely ...read more
Liberal "Smugness" Is Just As Bad As Right Wing Hate Speech? F*ck You
Do you think liberals are smug and insufferable? Do you find our know it all attitude irritating? Do you wish we would stop lecturing people on why they're wrong with all of our verifiable facts and data? Do you think we're just as much to blame for the sad state of political ...read more
Trump Continues War On Reality By Calling Devin Nunes "A Great American Hero"
In the relentless PR war to convince America that there was no collusion, no Russian hacks and no need to investigate the president for crimes against his own country, Donald Trump tweeted this in support of the widely ridiculed Devin Nunes today:Â Nunes will go down in history ...read more
Hillary Protecting Staffer Accused Of Harassment Is Bad, But Let's Have Some Goddamn Perspective Please
The story broken by the New York Times today that revealed Hillary Clinton protected a male staffer accused of sexual harassment during her 2008 campaign against President Obama does not look good for the former first lady and Secretary of State. However, it is important to keep ...read more
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Lawrence O'Donnell Asks the Media a Very Important Question About Donald Trump
The Banter has long lauded Lawrence O'Donnell as one of the most important voices in the media during the Trump era. For almost two years now, O'Donnell has kept a laser like focus on the president and those complicit in allowing his rise to power. He has been utterly relentless ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: The Media is Not Reporting on What the Democrats Really Stand For
The Banter Long Read:Â The current common wisdom is that the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything other than running against Trump. The right wing says it. The Purity Left says it. The "liberal" media says it. So many people say it just has to be true. Except for ...read more
The Left Must Now Officially Accept That Clinton Would Not Have Been "Just as Bad" as Trump
With Trump's announcement that the US will be formally recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital and will be moving the US embassy there from Tel Aviv, it must now be officially acknowledged by all those on the far Left that Hillary Clinton would not have been "just as bad" as ...read more
Democrats Defend Blow Jobs, Republicans Defend Pedophiles
As far as I'm concerned, there simply cannot be enough articles written about the fact that Republicans and conservatives are defending Roy Moore. If it was simply "We don't believe it happened.", that would be bad but not outside of political norms. "Deny, deny, deny" is an age ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: Don't Blame "Tribalism" When Only One Tribe is F*cking Crazy
The Banter Long Read: The big new word of 2016 and 2017 has been "tribalism", the cool hipster way of saying "left" vs. "right"... To continue reading this article, please go here. You'll get unrestricted access to all our member's content, and your support directly goes to the ...read more
CNN, Please Fire Chris Cillizza Over His Outrageous Harvey Weinstein Accusations
I haven't commented on the revelation that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted and harassed multiple women over the years in Hollywood because it's not an industry I have much interest in and Weinstein isn't a person I know much about. Having read the stories, I'm almost ...read more
What The F*ck Is Wrong With David Sirota?
On Wednesday, David Sirota, in conjunction with Josh Keefe and Andrew Perez, broke a story about Republican New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez being involved in exactly the kind of "pay to play" scheme she was elected to stop. It's journalism at its best and even though it's ...read more
The Hill Wrote a Shitty Headline About Trumpcare, So We Fixed it
It's a little know fact that people tend to read the headline of an article and not the article itself. It's a sad commentary about how we consume news but it also means it's incumbent upon a news outlet to be accurate when crafting a title for an article. It sounds like an ...read more
Brian Beutler's Wake Up Call About the GOP's Political Violence is a Must Read
Now that Greg Gianforte has won a seat in Congress after violently attacking a reporter, the "liberal" press has been wringing its hands as the right wing media smugly enjoys yet another victory over decency. The New Republic's Brian Beutler justifiably finds the entire scene ...read more
No, Hillary's Leaked Speeches Are Not "Just As Bad" As Trump's Leaked Video, You F*cking Idiot
I swear to Dog, the desperate need for people on the far left to turn Hillary Clinton into the moral equivalent of Donald Trump is nauseating, not least because they consider themselves to be more "liberal" than the rest of us establishment, pragmatic "sheeple". The same day ...read more
There's Only One Big Story This Election and Hillary's Pneumonia Damn Sure Isn't It
Kevin Drum of Mother Jones said it best last week, mostly because he expressed what so many of us have kept bottled up inside this election season. In a piece titled, appropriately, "Tell Us How You Really Feel, Kevin," Drum let loose with a profanity-laden tirade meant to in ...read more
The Daily Banter Mail Bag!!! Fact-Checking Both Sides! The Election 2012 Movie! Punk Rock Frenchmen!
Welcome to this week's edition of The Daily Banter Mailbag! Today, Bob, Ben and Chez discuss the press and fake balance, the potential of an Election 2012 movie, and a bizarre marital situation. The questions: Why is the media trying so hard to find errors in the Dems' ...read more