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

Adding insult to injury on a day when it looks like the future of women's rights in America are coming to an end, president Trump mocked former Minnesota Senator Al Franken for resigning after sexual misconduct allegations were made against him.  "Boy, did he fold up like a wet ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Last night's primaries in Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, and West Virginia garnered more attention for who lost rather than who won. In Ohio, Dennis Kucinich, the former Congressman and perennial Presidential candidate lost the nomination for governor this fall. Although his old ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  May 9, 2018

When the results came in in November 2016 that Donald Trump had won the Presidency, it was a serious blow to women. And not only because he got more electoral votes than Hillary Clinton, but because it was unfathomable to so many women that a man like Trump could be America’s ...read more

• By Michele Zipp
  Nov 9, 2018

The discussion about Donald Trump’s hair creeps into conversation often enough -- or depending on which way the wind blows. And the winds were strong the other day when Trump boarded Air Force One to head to Mar A Lago. This resulted in a lot of commentary on his questionable ...read more

• By Michele Zipp
  Nov 9, 2018

On Friday, March for Life organizers gathered in Washington to spread their anti-abortion messages, filled with alternative facts and incorrect findings, with the aim to shame women and take away our control of our own uteruses. President Donald Trump was there, making him the ...read more

• By Michele Zipp
  Nov 9, 2018

According to details released by Mother Jones magazine last weekend, Donald Trump asked porn star Stormy Daniels to spank him with a copy of Forbes Magazine. Adding to the story's ridiculousness, she claims that she spanked him with an issue of Forbes that featured him and his ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

by Michele Zipp Just about everyone with a moral compass wore black to the Golden Globes on Sunday evening in a show of protest against sexual assault and harassment. It’s one of the many responses to the #MeToo movement and its follow up #TimesUp. The drivel of “who are you ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Jan 8, 2018

Liar in Chief Donald Trump took to Twitter this morning to propagate yet more lies about the women he sexually assaulted by lying about the Democrats and lying about the motivations of the women accusing him who are now demanding a Congressional investigation into his behavior: ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The Banter Long Read: Yesterday was a dark day for Al Franken and the Democratic Party, saved only by the party's responsible behavior in the wake of several new allegations against Franken... To continue reading this article, please go here. You'll get unrestricted access to all ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

I genuinely believed this could never happen in a supposedly civilized country like America. If electing a sexual predator to the presidency wasn't bad enough, Republicans in Alabama are now working diligently to put an accused pedophile into the Senate, and trotting arguments ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

When you're a 70 year old sex offender running for political office, it's probably not a great idea to engage in a Twitter war with a professional comic who is a) smarter than you, b) funnier than you, and c) not a sex offender.  But no, Alabama's Roy Moore seems to think he can ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 1, 2017

The New York Times piece published on Saturday looking into Donald Trump’s repulsive decision to endorse alleged pedophile and sexual predator Roy Moore for the U.S. Senate revealed another truly terrifying insight into the mind of the president.  According to the Times, Trump ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Had alleged pedophile and sexual abuser Roy Moore been a Democrat and Barack Obama the President of the United States, Moore would have been condemned and told in no uncertain terms to pull out of the Alabama Senate race. But Roy Moor is a Republican and Donald Trump, who is a ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

I hate writing this, but Minnesota Senator Al Franken has no other choice but to resign in the wake of a second allegation of inappropriate sexual behavior towards a woman. Reported the Huff Post:  Lindsay Menz, 33, told CNN in a report published on Monday that Franken ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In this controversial episode of the Bantercast, Ben and Michael ask themselves a very important question in the wake of the #MeToo sexual harassment scandal currently engulfing the Western world: should men be ashamed of themselves? We talk about Al Franken, Bill Clinton, Roy ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 20, 2017

I have very little confidence that white Alabama voters will do the right thing and send Democratic Senatorial candidate Doug Jones to the United States Senate. On December 12th, I am anticipating that the special election results will show Republican Senatorial candidate Roy ...read more

• By Robert Covington, Jr.
  Nov 9, 2018

Donald Trump is the master of distraction, a bonafide expert in creating so much chaos around him that no one can remember the last appalling thing he did forcing us to move on to whatever he did today.  As 'liberal' Hollywood reels from the Harvey Weinstein scandal and ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 17, 2017

Earlier this week, I published a piece for Banter Members arguing that Bill Clinton was likely a rapist and that now was the time for the left to denounce him. I've received a lot of flak for the piece on two fronts, firstly that I attacked a Clinton, and secondly that I ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The entire basis for Fox News host Sean Hannity's existence is the moral superiority he has assigned himself by virtue of his religion and political affiliation. Hannity has spent decades hammering liberals for their godless depravity, extolling the moral virtues of the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 12, 2017

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

• By Ben Cohen
  Oct 10, 2017

In his first major interview since departing Trump administration, former White House chief strategist and current Breitbart editor Steve Bannon discussed a number of highly revealing issues on "60 Minutes" with Charlie Rose. There's much to dig into, but one particular ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

A big round of applause for Samantha Bee for this gem:  In response to it being International Women's Day, the president tweeted out the following: Which is of course why he has called women fat, dogs, slobs, disgusting animals, talks about grabbing them by their genitals, has ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Mar 8, 2017

Donald Trump's propagandist in chief Kellyanne Conway was confronted by a teenage girl at an event in Washington, D.C yesterday about her support of a candidate who has been accused of sexual assault.  The Hill reported that 17 year old female high school student Maaike ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 2, 2016