Last weekend, a fire broke out on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan, injuring six firefighters and killing 67-year-old resident Todd Brassner. The President took to Twitter that evening to congratulate the brave firemen who safely contained the blaze. The tragic irony ...read more
Donald Trump's entire campaign for president has, from the very beginning, been based on his ability to successfully bullshit. His legion of red-cap-wearing reactionary zombies love him precisely because he's not a politician and is a gleeful bomb-thrower who takes an inordinate ...read more
The Melania Trump plagiarism scandal actually touched a nerve on me. After The Donald’s wife was caught having lifted a section of text from a 2008 Michelle Obama address, Melania explained it away by saying that she’d simply taken inspiration a little too far. “A person she has ...read more
Andrea Peyser, the New York Post's resident hate monger, penned a lengthy diatribe against recently deceased Philip Seymour Hoffman yesterday because goddammit he's been dead long enough for her to piss all over his grave with her political agenda! The article, one long ...read more
Prepare yourself for Hat-gate. The New York Post (motto: "The Best Bird Cage Liner in the Tri-State Area") published a story yesterday with the comically alarmist headline "Obama wants Marines to wear ‘girly’ hats." Basically, the Post is peeved over a proposal to change ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline grab (from the L.A Times): News Corp. reported a nearly $1.6-billion loss in its fiscal fourth quarter, reflecting the declining value of its publishing businesses — a beleaguered unit that it intends to spin off into a separate publicly traded ...read more
By Ben Cohen: On most issues, I agree with former Congressman Anthony Weiner. His unashamed liberalism has always been refreshing and he was a force for good in a political system that rarely produces anything to write home about. But Weiner let himself and his side down with ...read more
