In a movement that purports to be inclusive, tolerant and progressive, liberalism is often anything but. Sadly, some of the left's biggest obstacles don't come from the far right, but uncompromising idealists who insist their rigid interpretation of political correctness must be ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

Last week, Mark Ames wrote a blistering critique of Glenn Greenwald and what he called 'the privatization' of the NSA Leaks. Ames attacked Greenwald for partnering with eBay founder and billionaire Pierre Omidyar to start a new, for profit media venture, accusing him of using ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

As our readers may have noticed, we've done a fair bit of Glenn Greenwald bashing here at The Daily Banter. Our managing editor Bob Cesca has done some excellent work poring through Greenwald's writing on the NSA scandal uncovering error after error in his work, and we've all ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 24, 2016

Glenn Greenwald's astonishingly misleading reporting on events surrounding his boyfriend's detainment by British authorities last weekend has yet again distorted the truth behind a pretty important topic. Just as the clear overreach of the NSA has been obfuscated by the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

Forget about the beautiful stories in 'March of the Penguins' where the Polar birds find their soul mates and never give up on love - the truth about the sex lives of Penguins is a lot more sordid - and we've known about it for a lot longer than previously assumed. In a ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

Former editor of the British newspaper 'The Sun' Kelvin MacKenzie has written a forceful defense in the Guardian of his former paymaster and perhaps the most reviled man in modern media history, Rupert Murdoch. He writes: Sky is not Fox News and I have my doubts that in ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018