Ryan Seacrest: Hello and welcome to the first annual Trump Parade. Jenny McCarthy: Here we are on New York’s famous Fifth Avenue, where not only are we hoping to witness a fabulous review of Donald Trump’s life, but possibly even a shooting that will add to the President’s ...read more
At the very least, you have to commend anti-vaxxers who are willing to put their money where their mouth is and commit to independent verification of their claims that vaccinations lead to autism. Sadly, this didn't turn out too well for autism advocacy organization SafeMinds ...read more
We've covered the idiocy of anti-vaccinators quite a bit here at the Banter, largely out of the goodness of our own hearts. Not vaccinating your kids puts everyone else in danger, so our relentless mockery of the likes Jenny McCarthy is sort of like a public service (okay, maybe ...read more
Watchers of The View on Wednesday were treated to quite the caterwauling session when the ladies discussed public prayer after a group of women in Georgia were told to stop praying inside a private shopping mall. As expected, self-loathing atheist S.E. Cupp stole the show by ...read more
"Well, maybe he has his girlfriends and she has her girlfriends. You never know. Maybe they have an arrangement.” -- Jenny McCarthy on Hillary and Bill Clinton, this morning on The View It's always important to keep in mind that not only is Jenny McCarthy a tireless crusader ...read more
By now you’ve heard about the house-cleaning over at ABC's The View. In addition to Barbara Walters' departure, Jenny McCarthy and Sherri Shepherd are also exiting, leaving only Whoopi Goldberg until replacements are found. The good news for Whoopi and fans of The View is that ...read more
Singer Toni Braxton is getting a lot of attention for her new book, Unbreak My Heart, and not all of it is good. The R&B mainstay and reality TV star has become something of a star among anti-abortion conservatives, and a subject of ire among autism advocates, over ...read more
Everything you're about to read might be a waste of copy space. That's because it will either confirm what you already know to be 100% true or simply bounce off the titanium hull of your own ignorance, since it's doubtful that you or anyone else is still on-the-fence when it ...read more
Jenny McCarthy recently tried to put one over on planet Earth. She did this by insisting she's not "anti-vaccine." In an op-ed in the Chicago Sun-Times a little over a week ago, the person almost universally acknowledged as the celebrity face of the anti-vaccine movement -- a ...read more
Recent pro-vaccine convert and co-host of ABC's The View Jenny McCarthy has taken a long, well-deserved beating in these pages for her dangerous campaign of misinformation about vaccines, but if you needed further proof of just how disconnected McCarthy is from reality, check ...read more
There's been a lot of pressure on Jenny McCarthy lately. With every new report that surfaces making it clear that the anti-vaccine movement is causing real damage, helping to resurrect diseases long thought conquered and making full-on outbreaks of measles and mumps a reality in ...read more
According to Wikipedia, a conspiracy theory is defined as "an explanatory proposition that accuses two or more persons, a group, or an organization of having caused or covered up, through secret planning and deliberate action, an illegal or harmful event or situation." To me ...read more
Both Jenny McCarthy and Kristin Cavallari have been in the news recently for their stance on vaccines, reigniting the tiresome debate over the risks posed by vaccinating your child. McCarthy was hilariously put down last week by Twitter users who answered her #Jennyasks ...read more
Well, here's your bonus quote of the day: "Listen, to each their own. I understand both sides of it. I've ready too many books about autism and there's some scary statistics out there. It's our personal choice, and, you know, if you're really concerned about your kid get them ...read more
The Los Angeles Times published this a couple of days ago and it is, in a word, devastating. The graphic below was provided by the Council on Foreign Relations and it illustrates in shockingly easy-to-understand visual language the impact the anti-vaccination movement is having ...read more
"Dirty, lying little piece of big business funded, corporate scum. Tell your children that tonight." -- Eric144144 responding to Slate's column, "'The View' Hires Notorious Anti-Vaxxer Jenny McCarthy" This column isn't about how Jenny McCarthy shouldn't be given a nationwide ...read more
This is going to be fun to write about. On the one hand, it involves an almost flawless confluence of media trends that I've brought up and predictions that I've made throughout the years; on the other hand it also involves a series of media properties and personalities so ...read more
Liz Ditz writes to let me know that my blog has been targeted by an anti-vaccine listserv as one of the blogs "trashing Wakefield" where they should go and comment. If only these people showed some interest in how Andrew Wakefield sought to enrich himself via dead children, and ...read more
No, you shouldn't take medical advice from Playboy models, or at the very least Playboy models who don't have a medical degree. Here is Jenny McCarthy writing on Huffington Post, pushing back on the findings that Andrew Wakefield's study connecting vaccines and autism are a total ...read more
