Milo Yiannopoulos is very distraught. On Saturday, he was just minding his own business, trying to have lunch, when a group of people at a bar in Manhattan recognized him as one of America's leading purveyors of racism and hate. They started chanting "Nazi scum get out!" and ...read more
There is a good argument to be made that the Alt Right movement spearheaded by the likes of Steve Bannon, Richard Spencer, Milo Yiannopolous, and the polemicists at Breitbart was a reaction to the rise of identity politics on the left. Much has been written about this, and the ...read more
Early on in our working relationship, I must confess to being somewhat intimidated by Chez. He was an award winning producer, author of a book praised by the likes of Arianna Huffington (who wrote the foreword to "Dead Star Twilight"), and a writer so gifted media moguls like ...read more
I remember feeling pissed off in February 2017, when Bill Maher invited Milo Yiannopoulos on Real Time. As someone who'd followed his show since high school, I'd always hated when Maher would bring on some idiot Republican to do nothing but stir the pot. But at least many of ...read more
UPDATE: Given the importance of the story, we're running a 30 day trial on a Banter Membership so you can read "The Alt Right is Now a Movement Without a Cause" for free.Steve Bannon has been the major force behind the Alt Right movement for many years, and like his protege ...read more
The Banter Long Read: There's a virus rapidly overtaking the Republican Party. It's called Trumpism, and it's killing the party. Don't get me wrong, I'm perfectly satisfied to see the current Trump-dominated GOP commit slow motion suicide, (hopefully) to be replaced by a party ...read more
The Banter Long Read: In the wake of the 2016 election, stand-up comedian Patton Oswalt wrote a sobering status on Facebook that I've been thinking about a lot recently. Oswalt (whose new special, Annihilation, is streaming on Netflix now) has always been something of a polymath, ...read more
Breitbart.com is outraged by Hollywood rape culture in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, so outraged in fact that they've started a 'Livewire' on the front page of their site to highlight stories about women suffering in the industry: Coming from the internet cesspool of ...read more
In a sane society, Thursday's damning report from Buzzfeed would be the end of Steve Bannon as a face on cable news and in the mainstream press. The report, ironically relying on a large number of leaked emails, details how Steve Bannon, at the behest of the billionaire Mercer ...read more
Earlier this year, Swedish gaming celebrity PewDiePie (real name Felix Kjellberg) was on top of the world. He had the most subscribed-to channel on YouTube, where people could watch him play video games while he did commentary, and had a deal with Disney's Maker Studios. Then ...read more
Much like the man he calls 'Daddy', Milo Yiannopolous's rise and fall from grace has been spectacular. As Trump rampaged through the GOP primary, Yiannopolous rode his new found fame as the poster boy for the surging Alt-Right movement. When Trump beat Clinton in the general ...read more
Now that Steve Bannon is leaving the White House, the Alt-Right guru will be free to use his Machiavellian talents for his own purposes. Hamstrung by those opposed to fascism and white supremacy in the White House, Bannon has largely spent the past 6 months battling "globalists" ...read more
A recent report from Digiday doesn't bode well for the Alt-Right's favorite cesspool of misinformation and hate, Breitbart.com: Today, Breitbart is facing traffic declines, advertiser blacklists, campaigns for marketers to steer clear and even a petition within Amazon for it to ...read more
It appears to be dawning on the Alt-Right movement that Donald Trump is turning on them as fast as does his marriages. They aren't serving his needs any more, so like every narcissistic sociopath, he's simply forgetting about them and moving on. Over the past week, he has removed ...read more
It has been a very, very rough week for the Trump administration as it careens from one spectacular disaster to another, and an even rougher one for the Alt-Right movement that saw it's most prominent PR flak disintegrate in the space of 48 hours. And who better to remind them of ...read more
I've managed to go the length of my time here at the Banter, and as an internet writer in general, without mentioning the name Milo Yiannopoulos other than once in the context of a larger piece about Donald Trump's relationship with Twitter. This was by design, because it always ...read more
It's been quite the 48 hours for Milo Yiannopolous. After comments surfaced of him explicitly and unequivocally advocating pedophilia on a podcast, he was removed from CPAC's speaking lineup, had his book deal with Simon and Schuster terminated, and was forced to resign from the ...read more
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On Monday evening, publishing company Simon & Schuster canceled Milo Yiannopoulos' book "Dangerous" after a tape surfaced of comments he'd made that unambiguously advocated sexual relationships between men and boys. The white nationalists of the alt-right, unable to admit that ...read more
The Alt Right's favorite online troll Milo Yiannopoulos was evacuated from the University of California at Berkeley after student protesters threw smoke bombs, smashed windows and lit a massive bonfire when he arrived to give a speech yesterday....To continue reading this ...read more
Author's Note: I wrote this in the morning and by evening there's already an entirely new scandal the incoming Trump administration is dealing with. Get used to it, folks. This is how it's going to be for the next four years: There will be so much corruption coming at so fast a ...read more
John Gilmore is, to put it mildly, a bit of a prick. Back in 2011, the right-wing activist and writer harassed two Muslim women on the street and when the police showed up to deal with him, he threw a temper tantrum and got arrested. The charges were later dropped but Gilmore has ...read more