It is fairly self evident that if you work for someone who was caught on tape bragging about grabbing women by their genitals, you lose your moral authority when it comes to calling out sexism. This was apparently lost on Kellyanne Conway, who went on Fox & Friends to imply that ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 1, 2019
• Opinion

Early this morning, president Trump tweeted the following statement to his army of red hats:  The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess. They have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 15, 2018

The Banter Long Read: Last week, Jimmy Kimmel once again found himself the unlikely spokesperson for the anger Americans feel towards the Republicans who offer thoughts and prayers in the wake of mass shootings, but nothing else. Before 2017, he had been one of the least ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

When I wrote my article yesterday about voter suppression in Alabama, I was resigned that Yellowhammer State would elect Roy Moore - a racist, misogynistic, pedophile - to the Senate seat formerly held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. But as I read reports on Twitter about the ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

Recently, Teen Vogue continued its tradition of not treating America's youth like fragile spun glass and published the following article.. To continue reading this article, please go here. A Banter Membership gets you access to the magazine and all our Members Only content. Your ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Nov 9, 2018

The Republicans don't want you to know what they're doing. "The Silent Treatment" seems to be the new strategy driving the congressional GOP as well as the Trump White House.  And their most loyal disciples don't care. But they should. We'll return to this presently. The strategy ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Conservative commentator Matt Lewis (who is, by way of full disclosure, an old friend of mine) caught all kinds of hell Friday night on Real Time when Bill Maher suggested Hillary Clinton choose Sen. Elizabeth Warren as her running mate, and he responded like this: Elizabeth ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Sen. Rand Paul has a white supremacy problem, and it isn't MSNBC's (completely true) "lousy lies" about the Civil Rights Act, or his defense of the Southern Avenger, or his dad's racist newsletters. Instead, it's with his devotion to protecting the white supremacist status quo, ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) threw a hissy fit on MSNBC's The Cycle Wednesday afternoon over coverage of his 2010 remarks about the Civil Rights Act, and the inflammation was still raging hours later when he spoke to a group of young libertarians about how the "cranks and hacks" at ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Few things have been quite so insulting to our national intelligence lately than Texas Gov. Rick Perry's "comeback tour." In case you missed it, Perry has been doing the rounds on the media circuit now that there's an immigration crisis on the border with Mexico. It's a thinly ...read more

• By Tom McKay
  Nov 9, 2018

In the first ever gay marriage in the state of New Jersey, Newark Mayor Cory Booker officiated the marriage between two of his friends at City Hall at 12:01 a.m. this morning. Following the law, Booker asked whether there was anyone present who objected to the union of the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

In a special election in New Jersey, Cory Booker defeated tea party Republican Steve Lonegan by more than 120,000 votes and a margin of 55 percent to Lonegan's 43 percent. Booker will become the only elected African American senator in Congress, and only the ninth in history. ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

In an interview with Talking Points Memo, a senior strategist for the Steve Lonegan campaign, Rick Shaftan, ranted about a Twitter exchange between Cory Booker and a stripper. You might be thinking, "Uh-oh. Booker was chatting with a stripper? Is this another Anthony Weiner ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

• By Guest Contributor
  Feb 17, 2016

For the past couple of years I've spent a lot of time talking about political reality, as in the need to understand that it exists and to behave accordingly. I generally bring this up whenever the petulant utopian left is throwing a tantrum over one thing or another not being ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Nov 9, 2018

Newark Mayor Cory Booker sailed to victory in the Democratic primary last week, which surprised no one though about four people voted and that's always a bit sad so now he is on to the general which will be on October 16, 2013. So who is his GOP opponent?  So glad you asked!  I ...read more

• By Alyson Chadwick
  Nov 9, 2018

Newark, New Jersey mayor Cory Booker is one step closer to being the next senator from the Garden State. He won the Democratic primary on Tuesday by a significant margin over his rivals, Rep. Frank Pallone, Assembly Speaker Shiela Oliver and Rep. Rush Holt. Historically ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Welcome to this weeks edition of The Daily Banter Mail Bag!!! Today, Bob, Ben and Chez answer readers questions on the effect of Super PACs on the Democrats, what single issue grass roots movement we would support, and superstar Mayor Cory Booker's unfortunate snub to Obama ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018