One of my least favorite traits about Democrats is that we tend to get dissatisfied with our leaders pretty quickly. In the year following Obama’s inaugural, major news outlets were already writing articles saying Obama was disappointing them, despite the fact that he hadn’t even ...read more
This Monday, the Trump Administration began a new policy denying visas to same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and UN employees. It used to be that only spouses in traditional marriages to UN employees were allowed a G-4 visa: this policy was extended to gay couples in 2009 by ...read more
In the wake of New York Magazine's profile of Glenn Greenwald, we spent much of yesterday dissecting Greenwald's nonsense about the supposed lack of evidence for Donald Trump's collusion with the Russian government. As Bob Cesca wrote, it is important not to let intellectual ...read more
The Banter has long lauded Lawrence O'Donnell as one of the most important voices in the media during the Trump era. For almost two years now, O'Donnell has kept a laser like focus on the president and those complicit in allowing his rise to power. He has been utterly relentless ...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
Last week, I wrote about Susan Sarandon's retweeting a meme made by Queen Bravenak, an African-American woman, that led the Purity Left to turn her mentions into a garbage fire. The same thing happened to me - after my article went live, I spent 24 hours blocking and reporting ...read more
By now, the trick is getting so old one would think the left might have learned its lesson. Donald Trump tweets something horrendously offensive, the left reacts with outrage and gives it a ridiculous amount of attention, then Trump moves to do something even more horrible behind ...read more
There are many ways to look at what happened in the special election for a Georgia house seat on Tuesday night. Republican Karen Handel beat her Democrat opponent Jon Ossof in the traditionally red district for the seat vacated by current Health and Human Services Secretary Tom ...read more
I've never personally met Lenny DeFranco, The Daily Banter's most recent addition to the roster, but from what I can tell, Lenny is a solid writer who, like the rest of us, has been gloriously endowed with the gift of gab. However, I'd like take a little time today to clarify ...read more