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
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
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
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
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
The news that White House staff secretary Rob Porter resigned today amid allegations that he physically abused two ex-wives is hardly surprising given the type of characters Donald Trump likes to keep around him. Even less surprising it the fact that the Trump administration ...read more
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
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
Donald Trump’s life represents the worst ramifications of money, fame and white male privilege. It’s already public record that Donald Trump is an unrepentant sexual predator and disgusting human being. But the latest news stories are another manifestation of Trump’s lengthy ...read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When it comes to naming, shaming and prosecuting sexual predators, there are no sacred cows. While certain high profile figures may be well loved, if there are women claiming they were assaulted by them, they should be believed. Period. This means we take the claims against the ...read more
Most of my friends were vehemently opposed to Donald Trump for one reason above all others. While disgusting xenophobic rhetoric was appalling and his lack of intellect deeply troubling, it was his attitude and behavior towards women that made Trump a mortal enemy. This was ...read more
The Alt Right's favorite schoolboy Tucker Carlson was given a ruthless beating on Twitter after attacking Hillary Clinton for not responding fast enough to the Harvey Weinstein yesterday, and deservedly so. Tweeted Carlson: Forgetting the somewhat inconvenient fact that he not ...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
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
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
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
In the past month, Donald Trump has been accused of sexual assault by an ever-increasing number of women. At least a dozen at last count. Trump himself is on video, via Billy Bush and Access Hollywood, confessing to "grab[bing] them by the pussy." The operative word being "them," ...read more
After The New York Times published two women's account of being sexually assaulted by Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president did what he always does when held to account for his actions and threatened to sue the paper. Trump’s attorneys wrote to the Times ...read more
