Things are tough over at crackpot conspiracy site InfoWars -- so tough that fruitcake in chief Alex Jones is using every possible gimmick in his limited arsenal to sell useless nutritional products to keep the lights on.  In what must go down as one of the most reprehensible ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Aug 25, 2017

After a tumultuous week that included calls for boycotts, advertisers dropping out, and a leaked recording of a pre-interview phone call, Megan Kelly’s 17-minute special on Alex Jones finally aired. Kelly was more than critical during her questioning of the radio host and ...read more

• By Alyona Minkovski
  Jun 19, 2017

NBC's Megyn Kelly is catching an enormous amount of heat for interviewing the modern-day king of conspiracy theorists and all round lunatic Alex Jones... To continue reading this article, please go here. It is crucial that independent media is funded properly, and your ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jun 15, 2017

The internet's biggest virus and host of conspiracy theory site 'InfoWars' Alex Jones made a claim yesterday that he was personally invited to the White House by Donald Trump. According to Jones though, Trump was so busy "winning so good" at everything he does, Jones decided not ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jun 9, 2017

Chances are you've heard the name Jerome Corsi before. He's been linked to many of the most ridiculous and, in some cases, offensive conspiracy theories around. We'll cover some of those theories momentarily. But we learned today that Corsi was able to somehow acquire day-pass ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Most rational people know that Alex Jones is a carnival barker who should never once be taken seriously. With even just the tiniest amount of digging, it's not that difficult to figure out that his entire schtick is ginning up conspiracy theories for the express purpose of ...read more

• By Mike Redmond
  Apr 17, 2017

In the aftermath of the April, 2015 unrest in Baltimore, and just about a month before Donald Trump announced his campaign for president, I made a rather ominous prediction regarding how he'd handle the crisis: "Trump also promised to 'fix it fast,' so I suppose that'd mean, what ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

In a truly extraordinary article by The New Yorker editor David Remnick, the veteran journalist recounts the time he spent with President Obama in the lead up to election night and in the days after.  Remnick, who authored the 2010 biography The Bridge - The Life and Rise of ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 18, 2016

We have assiduously avoided saying anything about convicted criminal Dinesh D'Souza's latest propaganda film about dastardly liberals, but the endorsement he received recently, we believe, is worth mentioning.  Because what could trump a recommendation from Alex Jones' highly ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Aug 15, 2016

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the craziest conspiracy theory of 2016. In an amazing 10 minutes of utter lunacy from 'InfoWars' nutjob Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist lays out why he genuinely thinks Beyonce's latest video 'Lemonade' was paid for by the CIA in order to ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 20, 2018

On Sunday night's Last Week Tonight, John Oliver busted Fox News for its coverage of the European migrant crisis, which included a Sept. 9 segment in which "hard news" correspondent Kristin Fisher reported on a "terrifying" new video of migrants chanting on a train, and ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Feb 17, 2016

Now can we finally lay this awful lie to rest? I doubt it because no matter how often a ludicrous GOP lie is debunked, it will continue on and on as a Zombie Lie. And besides, the lie has already traveled around the world a million times by now, the facts are simply incidental ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

In case you're just joining us, Chez Pazienza and I have been covering the saga of a former semi-pro wrestler named Dan Bidondi who made a name for himself by interrupting a press conference after the Boston Marathon bombing by shouting "false flag!" at law enforcement ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

This week's show: "Shooting Skeet" -- Donald Trump is Officially Running for President; The Clown Car Has a Driver; Trump's Announcement Speech; Lindsey Graham Shooting Skeet; Crazy California Politician Blames Drought on Abortion; God is an A-hole; Ben Carson is the ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Feb 17, 2016

Our Thursday show! Circular Reasoning: InfoWars Sidekick Dan Bidondi Rants About Seat Belts While Driving Recklessly; Carly Fiorina and Rick Santorum Beclown the Clown Car; Trump's Big Announcement; Duggar Update; The Duggars Are a Cult; TLC Developing Duggar Spin-Off; The ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Feb 17, 2016

(Photos: AP) Most people in the United States who aren't living in Texas can barely put up with Texas. It may not be the most ignorant state in the union in terms of concentration, but simply by virtue of it's size it has the largest volume of pure, weapons-grade stupidity and ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Nov 9, 2018

For several years now, those of us who've been following the political career of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) have noticed that he's not the brave, principled destroyer of the left/right paradigm. Rather, he's a melange of several related ingredients: 1) A dash of Ron Paul's ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Those of you who've been following The Daily Banter and, in particular, the podcast I co-host with Chez Pazienza, are probably familiar with the name Dan Bidondi. He's the hairless, semi-literate stooge from the ranks of Alex Jones' InfoWars.com conspiracy theory empire whose ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Download the mp3 (56 minutes, 23mb) On this week's show, Bob and Chez cover the Syria airstrikes; GOP and Fox News focus on Obama's coffee salute; Undermining the Commander-in-Chief; Silly Scandals; Meme Culture takes over; Eric Holder resigning; NSFW! - InfoWars Conspiracy ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Feb 17, 2016

Download the mp3 (55 minutes, 23mb) Kobayashi Maru: Brand New Dan Bidondi Tape: Gun-Grabbin’ Senator Part 2; Obama’s Plan for ISIS and Syria is a No Win Situation; The Middle East Conundrum; Domestic Chez Goes to PTA; Remembering 9/11 and Replaying it on Television; Michael ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

The great thing about America is that almost anybody can run for public office. The frightening thing about America is that almost anybody can run for public office. Let's say you're somebody who once interrupted the question-and-answer portion of an important post-Boston ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

"I think part of the problem of why we're having so many wars and fighting is because people carry around trauma that they haven't processed and that manifests itself into anger and in lying, cheating, and stealing. So if everyone is able to have access to these medicines to ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

It's not breaking news to repeat that Alex Jones is a bottomless cup of crazy. Today, as the clock winds down to the end of open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act, Jones thought he'd squeeze in some last minute Obamacare trolling. Ever since October, the far-right has made ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Feb 17, 2016

One of the interesting things about columns on conspiracy theories is that they tend to have a very long half-life. I can write a piece mocking Alex Jones and his insistence that every tragedy under the sun is a "false flag" attack by the government, and a year later Jones's ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016