There is a good argument to be made that the Alt Right movement spearheaded by the likes of Steve Bannon, Richard Spencer, Milo Yiannopolous, and the polemicists at Breitbart was a reaction to the rise of identity politics on the left. Much has been written about this, and the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 13, 2018

Breitbart.com loudly declared recently that "Americans 'Overwhelmingly' Believe Obama 'Improperly Surveilled' Trump Campaign'. According to the far right outlet, Americans are now ignoring the "disgraced" media that is failing to report on it and are turning to journalistic ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

At the Banter, we strive to provide our readers with well sourced, fact checked writing. If we make mistakes, we correct them. Poorly constructed arguments don't make it out of our editorial process (some of them mine), and we take great pride in upholding high standards. Why? ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 12, 2018

In the small minds of the Alt Right bros who write for Breitbart, Donald Trump cannot be a racist because he doesn't mind Asians coming to America to benefit the economy. After the shocking news broke about Trump decrying "shithole" nations like Haiti sending immigrants to the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 12, 2018

Steve Bannon is officially out at Breitbart.com, the internet haven for the insidious Alt Right movement that swept Donald Trump to power in 2016. Reported the New York Times:  Stephen K. Bannon is stepping down from his post as executive chairman of Breitbart News, the company ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 9, 2018

UPDATE: Given the importance of the story, we're running a 30 day trial on a Banter Membership so you can read "The Alt Right is Now a Movement Without a Cause" for free. Steve Bannon has been the major force behind the Alt Right movement for many years, and like his protege ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

One of the greatest pleasures anyone opposed to white nationalism can enjoy right now is the comments section on Breitbart.com. The racist cesspool of white resentment is in a state of deep shock and disarray after Donald Trump went to war with Steve Bannon after the shocking ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 5, 2018

After pedophile Roy Moore's crushing loss in the Alabama Senate race to Doug Jones last night, it turns out that Alt-Right guru Steve Bannon is not the evil genius many believe him to be. He's just plain evil -- and also a giant loser.  Bannon spent an inordinate amount of ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Although most of the Breitbart journalists are completely detached from objective reality, a sprinkling of them do seem to grasp certain aspects of just how bad the Mueller probe is going to be for Donald Trump, particularly with Michael Flynn's decision to cooperate with him. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

As much as Breitbart.com attempts to portray itself as a respectable publication catering to the “silent majority”, it has and always will be a front for vicious white supremacy. The editorial team at the Alt Right cesspit have struck upon a clever ruse that keeps enough ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 28, 2017

Fox News, AM Hate Radio and right wing hate sites reached a dangerous new level of propaganda this week when they simply pretended Tuesday's brutal electoral losses for the GOP mostly didn't happen: Fox News host Sean Hannity was flogged on the internet Tuesday night for ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Nov 9, 2017

One of the things that drives me nuts about the Left is that, more often than not, we allow GOP operatives to run roughshod over us with their stupid, unsourced arguments and talking points. Back in January, Chuck Todd (not a liberal but a good example of the phenomena) got ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

Breitbart.com is outraged by Hollywood rape culture in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, so outraged in fact that they've started a 'Livewire' on the front page of their site to highlight stories about women suffering in the industry:  Coming from the internet cesspool ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Oct 17, 2017

As the days drag on and the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico threatens to become a full-blown disaster, people have started to ask why the delay? Trump sent the the full force of the federal government into both Texas and Florida within hours of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Nov 9, 2018

As president Trump and the Democrats move closer on a deal that would ostensibly protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation, Trump's base is quite literally losing its collective mind. Ann Coulter, who now believes she "bet on a loser", ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The news broke yesterday that Andy Hemming resigned from the Trump administration as the White House communications team’s director of rapid response. Hemming's role in the administration was to find positive stories about Trump and distribute them as widely as possible. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Now that Steve Bannon is leaving the White House, the Alt-Right guru will be free to use his Machiavellian talents for his own purposes. Hamstrung by those opposed to fascism and white supremacy in the White House, Bannon has largely spent the past 6 months battling "globalists" ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Widely regarded as the brains behind Donald Trump's meteoric rise to the presidency, Alt-Right guru Steve Bannon was once untouchable in the president's inner circle. No more, as senior aides to the president have revealed the former Breitbart editor and filmmaker is getting his ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

To all you Alt-Right males out there, I hear you. I understand -- to a degree -- where you are coming from.  You believe in freedom of speech, you are sick of PC culture that you feel suppresses your right to be an asshole. I can be an asshole too, and I understand that activist ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

After a white supremacist plowed his car into a crowd of anti-fascist protestors, one would think that responsible media outlets would cover the story quite extensively. Not so if you're Breitbart.com -- the internet's thinly disguised home to America's White Power community. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Aug 14, 2017

Every rational analysis of every version of Trumpcare the GOP has attempted to replace Obamacare with leads to the horrifying prospect of thousands of Americans dying because they can no longer afford health insurance. These are not fictional statistics, but real world effects ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jul 25, 2017

Last month, Breitbart editor Alex Marlow went on Real Time with Bill Maher to explain to the HBO host why Breitbart wasn't a cesspool of racial hatred and misinformation. “The Breitbart editors are the most wonderful, diverse, influential journalists on the planet, and no one is ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 3, 2018

Right-wingers like Ann Coulter love to accuse the Left of playing victim, but their skills at playing victim are on par with Daniel Day-Lewis. All you have to do is read any one of The New York Times' profiles of Trump voters who live in blue states and have a hard time to see ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Jul 5, 2017

Yesterday Delta Airlines pulled its sponsorship from New York’s Public Theater over their production of Julius Caesar which depicts Caesar as Trump. The first of this summer’s Shakespeare in the Park productions, Delta said that the production “does not reflect Delta Air Lines’ ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Dec 20, 2018

A recent report from Digiday doesn't bode well for the Alt-Right's favorite cesspool of misinformation and hate, Breitbart.com:  Today, Breitbart is facing traffic declines, advertiser blacklists, campaigns for marketers to steer clear and even a petition within Amazon for it to ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jun 7, 2017

Steve Bannon was thought to be the most Machiavellian, most diabolical and most mysterious behind the scenes presidential advisor in American history. In a bid to wreck the state, destroy the environment and kick of World War III, the doughy Alt-Right Super Villain was seen to ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

So James O'Keefe, whom you may remember from such comical roles as "A$AP Chad, Frat Pimp," "Jail Inmate Behind the Great Mary Landrieu Office Break-In Caper," and "Guy Who Tried and Failed To Lure a Female CNN Reporter Onto a Yacht Filled with Dildos" is in the news again -- ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 23, 2017

I've managed to go the length of my time here at the Banter, and as an internet writer in general, without mentioning the name Milo Yiannopoulos other than once in the context of a larger piece about Donald Trump's relationship with Twitter. This was by design, because it always ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Nov 9, 2018

Steve Bannon stepped away from his alt-right propaganda provocateur website, Breitbart.com, to be Trump's campaign CEO. He has not sat down to do any interviews. But he was recently on a plane with CNN's Brooke Baldwin and Brian Stelter who said he was happy to answer questions. ...read more

• By Jen Froderman
  Nov 9, 2018

Really, Ann, tell us why you invited that nice Uber driver to your Breitbart book party: Okay, I guess its possible that the Uber driver was listening to CNN, but does Coulter expect us to believe the guy didn't pepper-spray her after that creepy invite? I used to get a lot of ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Rightwing hate site Breitbart.com is vying to become one of the major sources of anti climate change propaganda with its regurgitation of lies spread by prominent media figures like Sarah Palin and ludicrous documentary films like "Climate Hustle".  Breitbart's latest foray into ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 20, 2016

There is an almighty bust up going on at right wing hate site Breitbart.com that can only be described as an epic case study in the law of Karma.  Early this morning Breitbart posted, and then deleted, an amazingly nasty piece ripping in to former editor Ben Shapiro, who resigned ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Mar 14, 2016

A few weeks back I wrote a piece for The Daily Banter that lambasted the American political press for not putting its foot down when it comes to Donald Trump. While it's true that the media bears an immense amount of responsibility for Trump's rise, given that they can't say no ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Apr 4, 2016

The yet-to-go-through-puberty editor at Breitbart and generally annoying douchebag Ben Shapiro is making quite the name for himself working as an unpaid spokeschild of the Israeli government, and CNN is doing its best to help him. After absurdly criticizing CNN (on CNN) for ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Movies like The Purge: Anarchy are meant for high school students. They use the scare-factor as an excuse to touch each other, but then be able to sound smart by dissecting the political nature of the movie afterwards over milkshakes spiked with some Bailey’s they stole from ...read more

• By Jessica Huseman
  Feb 17, 2016

Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger whose posting of a sexually explicit photo of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner led to the congressman's downfall, has died, his attorney confirmed Thursday. He was 43. Joel Pollak, editor-in-chief and in-house counsel for Breitbart's ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018