After watching enough Ted Cruz on Sunday to crush the average soul , we all deserve a good laugh at Carly Fiorina, who bought it big time at a Ted Cruz rally on Sunday. Bonus: We have the fall from two different angles, one of which shows Fiorina is just fine, which means we're ...read more
If Ted Cruz somehow manages to scam his way to the Republican nomination (which he won't), it will be delicious to watch his running mate Carly Fiorina star in a Hillary Clinton campaign ad featuring bits from this 2008 video, in which Fiorina pretends to admire Hillary so she ...read more
Note to our readers: Members Only articles are long form, more in depth articles for Banter Members. With a membership you also get access to the weekly magazine 'Banter M'. Your membership helps us stay completely independent. In a desperate bid to further toss the GOP ...read more
Failed HP CEO, failed presidential candidate, and soon-to-be-failed Ted Cruz surrogate Carly Fiorina told a big fat whopper on Morning Joe Wednesday, which isn't that noteworthy on its own, but since it's a lie she's likely to tell over and over again, it's worth a thorough ...read more
You might think that, on the heels of a terrorist attack in which the gunman specifically stated he was inspired to act by lies and false accusations, it would be a pretty big deal for the media to find out that those accusations were once again proven false. You would think ...read more
The crummy mainstream media has found a way to spin this complete exoneration of Planned Parenthood into another "both sides" narrative about something completely unrelated and stupid, but Republican Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine has just completed his investigation into ...read more
The Republican party and the conservative movement as a whole deserve to be held accountable for their role in Friday's Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado. Simple as that. And maybe more than any single member of the GOP, Carly Fiorina shouldn't be able to pull the usual ...read more
My operating theory for this year's Republican presidential primary has long been that the GOP base isn't driven by a desire for an "outsider," but by unquenchable white male resentment. There were several moments at last night's debate that I think will put that theory to the ...read more
Now that Hillary Clinton is ahead of Bernie Sanders by a mile, and seems to once again have a handle on general election match-ups with Republicans, this is no time to get comfortable. The Republicans still have a stranglehold on the news cycle, so it's more crucial than ever ...read more
The job of mainstream political reporter, at least in its current practice, is getting tougher and tougher. The goal is to present "both sides" as equal and reasonable choices for Americans, and based on how close the general election polls still are, it's working to some ...read more
Welcome to our coverage of the third Republican Presidential Debate on CNBC, moderated by Carl Quintanilla of Squawk on the Street, Becky Quick from Squawk Box, and chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood. As before, we will have debate clips in near-real time, posted in ...read more
Here's a little appetizer to get you ready for Wednesday night's third Republican presidential debate. With all the serious issues facing our nation, the Republican candidates gathered at the University of Colorado Boulder, the site of tonight's debate, to whine about their ...read more
Former Florida Governor and Future Former Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush grossed out the entire extinct population of Krypton this week when he revealed his sweaty hots for Supergirl during a forum with the LIBRE Initiative, a Hispanic economic organization. Asked to ...read more
It must be a truly awful time for white evangelical conservatives. Once an ascendant and seemingly unstoppable political force that helped sweep Ronald Reagan and the Bushes into the White House, the Bible-thumpers are finding themselves culturally isolated from an ...read more
One of the great subplots to emerge from the 2016 presidential campaign has been the arc of former Hewlett Packard CEO and erstwhile Demon Sheeper Carly Fiorina, who went from basement-dwelling also-ran to third pillar in the GOP's Holy Trinity of White Male Resentment in the ...read more
The Washington Post is out with a pretty damaging piece about Carly Fiorina's 2010 senate campaign failing to pay off its debts for years. That's not so unusual; as the report notes, Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign debt wasn't paid off until January of 2013. Aside from the fact ...read more
Let's be honest: Chris Cuomo's one-on-one with the creator of the Planned Parenthood videos that have been at the center of so much controversy lately won't make one bit of difference in the big picture. The people who most need to fully comprehend just how devastating Cuomo's ...read more
The 2016 presidential race is a never-ending series of studies in contrasts, but few have been as clarifying as the one that's playing out this week. Failed Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina began the week by spewing out buckets of lies about Planned Parenthood and her own ...read more
There's an old saying that goes, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit." To an extent this somewhat corrupt approach to arguing a point has always been part of our politics, but like everything else about the national discourse what was once on the ...read more
If you wanted a perfect illustration of the media's 2016 election coverage, you couldn't have asked for better than this. On Sunday morning's Meet the Press, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former secretary-turned-CEO Carly Fiorina faced scrutiny from host Chuck ...read more
The roiling feud between Donald Trump and Fox News is roiling a little bit harder today over National Review editor Rich Lowry's comment that Carly Fiorina "cut (Donald Trump's) balls off with the precision of a surgeon" at last week's debate. The remark, made on Wednesday ...read more
Donald Trump took something of a beating at last week's debate, there's little doubt about that, but he's still riding high in the polls. In spite of that, the post-debate narrative has centered on Carly Fiorina's "success" on the GOP debate stage (the lowest bar imaginable), ...read more
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina isn't about to take any of Donald Trump's guff, and neither should other women, according to her new ad. Trump took a swipe at Fiorina's mug in a recent Rolling Stone profile, exclaiming "Look at that face! Would anyone vote for ...read more
Another day, another thing that's definitely going to end Donald Trump! Or maybe even two things! In a newly-published Rolling Stone article, Trump went after Carly Fiorina over her looks, and is also now on the attack against his nearest GOP presidential rival, Ben Carson. ...read more
To say that the ostensibly objective political media does a piss-poor job of evaluating Republican spin would actually be an insult to piss, which is why it's so wonderful when it actually happens. The reporter in me really wishes the phenomenon worked both ways, but what they ...read more
Former Demon-Shepherd and Kiddie-Table Debate winner Carly Fiorina is fed up with people asking her if she's only in this presidential race so she can ticket up with some big, strong man, and she's not afraid to say so. She first made the charge on Laura Ingraham's radio show ...read more
They may not have made the main event, but these 7 Republican presidential candidates will have a chance to make their mark at the Fox News "Happy Hour" debate, and subsequent viral video clips. See them here first. Of course, the first bit of pulse in this debate came when ...read more
Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has continued to take criticism for not taking questions from the media, even after she took questions from the media twice last week, so naturally, former Demon Sheep employer and Republican ...read more
A couple of weeks ago the men's rights group, A Voice for Men, held its first International Conference on Men's Issues, which is a thing, in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. If you're unfamiliar with Men's Rights Activists (MRAs), all you need to know is that they are men who blame ...read more
Here's John Sidney McCain, again playing backseat driver to President Obama: [flv:/files/jsm1.flv 320 240] Yes, Sidney reminds us that his economic brain was failed CEO Carly Fiorina, so awesome was she that she nearly destroyed HP and she was so great on the campaign trail for ...read more
