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
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
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: Nunes will go down in history ...read more
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
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
The Banter Long Read: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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