Opinion
Right Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise but We Have to Pretend It's Not
It hasn't been a great month for right wing extremists. They were crushed at the ballot box in November. Their Great White Hope is besieged on all sides by law enforcement. Their idols are losing their access to the public square. Like a body rejecting a virus, the United States ...read more
Racists Rush to Throw Money at Crowdfunding Campaign for Trump's Viagra Wall
On Sunday, December 16th, Brian Kolfage, a right wing personality that pops up in the news every now and then, started a Gofundme page to raise (insert Dr. Evil voice) One Billion Dollars moohoohahahahaha! Naturally, thousands of white Republican voters suffering from "economic ...read more
White Nationalists Are Infiltrating The Pro-Life Movement To Recruit Misogynists
Truthout reports on a new recruiting ground for white nationalists of the alt-right: The anti-choice movement. Attacks on reproductive rights are nothing new, but fascist groups’ infiltration of anti-choice groups and recruiting around anti-choice organizing in their genocidal ...read more
Facebook Is Not Just Destroying Journalism, It Is Wrecking The Fabric Of Society
The number of digital media outlets completely destroyed in the wake of Facebook's newsfeed purge earlier this year is unknown. We've experienced the devastating effects of their war on journalism at the Banter, and have been brought to our knees after they took roughly 70% of ...read more
Andrew Sullivan Wishes White Christian Men Were In Charge Again
Andrew Sullivan is a Never Trumper. He despises Trump and before that, he had begun criticizing the downward spiral he saw the conservative movement entering that led to Trump. But despite this, Andrew Sullivan is, first and foremost, a white conservative male and so he often ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: Tucker Carlson Spreads Grotesque Lies To Cover Trump's Crimes
(Image via NBC News) On his show last night, Tucker Carlson accused federal prosecutors of being on a "political mission" to take out Trump and overturn the will of American voters. His claims were based on outright lies and debunked conspiracy theories.... To continue reading ...read more
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Twitter Smashes Trump: 'My Covfefe Was Smocking Hot Today'
In the latest installment of what unbelievably idiotic/untruthful/criminally liable thing did Donald Trump tweet today, the president produced this incredible gem: Yes, you read that right, the president of the United States misspelled the word "smoking" not once, but twice. ...read more
Tucker Carlson Eviscerates Trump, Calls Him 'Incapable'
In a shocking turn of events, Fox News's preeminent white nationalist, Tucker Carlson, has trashed president Trump calling him 'incapable' and labeled his presidency a failure. In an interview with “Die Weltwoche”, Switzerland’s most popular German-language opinion weekly, ...read more
The Neo-Con Weekly Standard Is Being Murdered for Being #NeverTrump
To listen to the right on any given day, you'd think that conservatives are being censored on a daily basis and the First Amendment is dead. Just last week, far-right bigot Laura Loomer got herself booted from Twitter and handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter's headquarters ...read more
CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill Over Israel Remarks In Supreme Act Of Cowardice
If you want to understand just how cowardly the supposedly liberal corporate media is in America, witness the firing of CNN pundit Marc Lamont Hill over comments he made about the state of Israel. Speaking at a United Nations meeting on the International Day of Solidarity with ...read more
Tomi Lahren Tells Us Everything About The Inhumanity of Trump's Base
Yesterday, as most of the country and the world expressed how appalled it was at the actions of the United States, Tomi Lahren of Fox News tweeted how much she enjoyed children being tear-gassed at the border: I am not going to drag Lahren for her tweet. She's an attention ...read more
Did Glenn Greenwald Create A Parody Account Of Another Journalist?
When it comes to who is the most revenge-infatuated person in American politics, Donald Trump wins hands down. From sending annual hand tracings to Graydon Carter, who once dubbed him a "short-fingered vulgarian" in Spy Magazine, to ridiculing his political opponents with ...read more
Guardian Quiz Has Bernie and Trump as Mirror Image Extremists...That's Garbage
Just for fun, I spent a few minutes taking The Guardian's "How Populist Are You?" quiz. The first image is of several world leaders and populist politicians including Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump scattered on a chart of how populist they are and ...read more
Lou Dobbs Now Just Making Stuff Up, Claims Illegal Immigrants Voted In Midterms
Speaking to former deputy Trump campaign manager David N. Bossie, Fox Business host and notorious racist Lou Dobbs claimed 'many' illegal immigrants voted in the midterm elections. "Well we're watching, you know, millions of illegal immigrants cross our borders, and many of ...read more
Have No Pity For Tucker Carlson
I'm having a hard time feeling sympathy for Tucker Carlson right now after a group of about 20 protesters showed up outside his house and started chanting for him to "leave town" because he's a "racist scumbag." From the Washington Post: “Tucker Carlson, we are outside your ...read more
Trump Bans Jim Acosta From White House Signaling New, Dangerous War On Press
If you wondered how Trump was going to react to losing the House of Representatives in the midterms, we are starting the get the full picture -- and it isn't good. After threatening Democrats on Twitter and firing Jeff Sessions, Trump has now banned CNN's Jim Acosta from the ...read more
Desperation and Inbreeding Lead to the Failed "Plot" to Smear Mueller
If you haven't had a good belly laugh over it yet, take a moment to peruse the details of the unbelievably stupid "plot" hatched by right-wing super geniuses Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl. Between using headshots of famous actors and supermodels to "staff" their fake company ...read more
11 Dead Jews and We're Still Pretending Right Wing Terrorism Doesn't Exist
Vox asks and answers one of the most pressing questions about the continued rise of right-wing terrorism in America: Why won't the cable news networks say so? Actually, that's not entirely true. The article title says Domestic terrorism is on the rise while the article makes it ...read more
An Open Letter To Tucker Carlson
Dear Tucker, Yesterday, you tweeted the following statement to your followers about the increasingly bitter divide in America today: "How'd we get to a place where it's normal that two parts of the country despise each other That you can imagine the other side encouraging ...read more
Let's Just Say It: The Right Loves Terrorism
Last year, Rep. Steve Scalise and several other Republicans were shot by an angry man with a political agenda. He was universally condemned by both the left and the right. A few voices on the left made supportive comments but were generally ripped apart for it. This week, ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: Republicans Running on Racism Isn't New, Stop Acting Like It Is
The racism isn't new. This is who they are. This is who they've been since the Civil War and before. The party they infest changes every now and then (once upon a time they were, in fact, Democrats) but the racism is always there. They can't give it up because it defines them, ...read more
The Media Yawns At Political Assassination Attempts Now?
I'm old enough to remember just a few months ago when the political media came to a screeching standstill because the left was rude to high profile people on the right. People yelling at Mitch McConnell, asking Sarah Sanders to leave their restaurant, flipping Steve Miller the ...read more
White Power Social Media Platforms Are Growing and It's Going to Get Ugly
A few years ago, the right tried to make its own version of Twitter and Facebook. They were tired of having to talk to all of those pesky liberals and really just wanted to be able to share racist memes with each other and talk about the good ol' days where the darkies knew ...read more
Tucker Carlson Can't Eat Out Anymore? Too F*cking Bad
Take a moment to cry a teeny tiny tear for Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson. He can no longer eat out at restaurants because people scream at him: Fox News host Tucker Carlson said he's "not a restaurant guy anymore" because of the way he's treated when he dines out in ...read more
BANTER EXCLUSIVE: Interview With Scott Carter, Producer Of Real Time With Bill Maher
A few weeks ago, Real Time host Bill Maher invited Steve Bannon onto his show, after he was disinvited from the New Yorker Festival. The interview was criticized by the left, just as Bannon's recent appearance in The Economist's festival and his documentary with Errol Morris, ...read more
Thomas Friedman Speaks The Forbidden Truth About The GOP
There's an entire industry based of pumping out columns blaming "both sides" for the state of America's descent in fascism. David Brooks, Chris Cillizza, David Brooks, Joe Scarborough, David Fucking Brooks, and, at least until Trump, Thomas Friedman. All of them make a very fine ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: Bill Maher Is Not The Enemy, Part Two
My late colleague Chez Pazienza wrote about liberal fury directed at Maher in the last essay he ever published. He referred to it as a "circular firing squad" that saw the left cannibalizing itself over outrage directed at the wrong person. Just over a year late, here we are ...read more
Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 11/9' Sacrifices Truth for Hagiography
Last Friday, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 opened in 1,719 theaters across the country – the biggest opening for any of his films – but only made $3.1 million. Although it had the highest opening for a documentary in 2018, it was a letdown compared to the famous weekend in ...read more
Tucker Carlson: Sexual Assault Survivors Are 'Part of the Problem'
As the right furiously tries to justify putting a sexual predator on the Supreme Court, they've been flailing in all directions looking for something that will work. From claiming it didn't happen to the laughable claim it was someone else to flat out saying every boy in high ...read more
Michael Avenatti Is The Democrat We Have Been Waiting For
From refusing to unequivocally endorse Medicare For All to promising to find common ground with Donald Trump, the Democrats have had a very hard time convincing their base they mean business when it comes to rescuing American democracy from the grips of a madman. This theme has ...read more
How To Defame A #MeToo Accuser: A 21st Century Guide
The recent sexual misconduct allegations against [insert: famous male] by [insert: female accuser to be defamed] are all too typical of a movement that has outgrown its [insert: female undergarment]. We have, unfortunately, reached the point in our society where a successful ...read more
Women Who Support Brett Kavanaugh on CNN Revealed as Republican Operatives
Last Friday, Anderson Cooper 360 aired a panel discussion led by CNN correspondent Randi Kaye where she talked with five Republican women about the allegations made against Judge Brett Kavanaugh by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. She started out by asking if they believed Kavanaugh ...read more
The Roots of White Male Rage Lie In The Irresponsible Defense of Brett Kavanaugh
Salon's Lili LoofBourow has a particularly brutal takedown of the ongoing hysteria overtaking men during the Kavanaugh rape scandal. In it, she marvels to see men move beyond just pretending rape culture isn't real to flat out saying we should accept it as perfectly normal: We ...read more
Members Only: The Horrifying Panel Of “Normal” Trump Supporters
In what seemed like an effort to present some Trump supporters as normal, concerned Americans interested in the welfare of their country, CNN hosted a Q and A with six women who voted for the president in the last election. CNN's Alisyn Camerota spoke to them in order to find out ...read more
Rush Limbaugh Downplays Hurricane Florence Because Ideology Is More Important than Lives
Rush Limbaugh took to the air on AM Hate Radio to warn his listeners that Hurricane Florence is being overly hyped. In fact, the reason the media is sounding the alarm is, I kid you not, for political reasons. Rush Limbaugh has claimed that forecaster’s predictions that ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: Serena Williams And The History Of Double Standards
In 1772, Phillis Wheatley was tried in the city of Boston for writing poetry. It wasn't the content of her poems that they objected to; it was the fact that she was a black woman, and a slave (since the North had not yet abolished slavery). The white men who tried her were ...read more
Serena Williams: Summer Of Sexism, Racism, And Her Humanity
Serena Williams is the greatest women’s tennis player in a generation, and when her career is over, she’ll likely be recognized as the best to have ever played the game. Serena has one of the best serves the women’s game has ever seen, and her ability to adjust her game based ...read more
Racist Cartoon of Serena Williams Slammed by Critics
There's been a great deal of debate over Serena Williams' loss in the U.S. Open this weekend to Naomi Osaka, with some arguing that the penalties leveled on her by umpire Carlos Ramos were merited, and others arguing they were the result of his racial blindness. While I stand on ...read more
Chris Hayes Clowns Himself With Stupid Eddie Murphy Tweet
Despite the lengthy list of facts showing that the Trump regime is infested with white nationalists, pushes a white nationalist agenda, openly uses white nationalist rhetoric, praises white nationalists, and has numerous ties to white nationalists, the mainstream media is still ...read more
Steve Bannon Throws a Hissy Fit When America Tells Him to F*ck Off
On Monday, word got out that the New Yorker had invited Nazi sympathizer Steve Bannon to headline, not just talk, but fucking headline, its annual festival because, I dunno, maybe David Duke wasn't available to spew hate speech? Whatever the reason, the reaction was swift and ...read more
California's Net Neutrality Law Passes Assembly and Senate
This past week, California's State Assembly and Senate passed Senate Bill 822, the most comprehensive set of Net Neutrality protections enacted in this nation since FCC Chairman Ajit Pai removed them at the federal level last December. The bill now heads to Governor Jerry Brown, ...read more
Why Trump's New War On Social Media Is So Frightening
Donald Trump has opened up a new war on reality by going after another medium used to disseminate facts and news about his presidency: social media. In evidence free assertions, the president has attacked Google, Facebook and Twitter for being 'biased' and 'fake'. Trump has ...read more
White Male Reporter Is Upset White Men Are Being Punished by 'Identity Politics'
i·den·ti·ty pol·i·tics noun a tendency for people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc., to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from traditional broad-based party politics Identity politics according to "nonpartisan" Arizona reporter Robert Robb: ...read more
My 8-Year-Old Daughter Is Part of MLK's Dream
55 years ago today, August 28, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his most famous speech. In this speech, he railed against the racial injustice that still pervaded America; an injustice that still persists to this day. He railed against the denial of full rights to the black ...read more
After the Jacksonville Shooting, We Need to Talk About White Male Rage
Less than 24 hours after a white male went on a killing spree and then killed himself after losing a tournament, the media is struggling to find a narrative that can explain what happened without discussing the fact that yet another white male went on a killing spree. The ...read more
Breitbart Has A New, Very Clever Code Word For 'Muslim'
I check up on the Alt Right media fairly frequently for the sole purpose of trying to understand the minds of the sad racists who sent Donald Trump to the White House. I used to not pay the site any attention as I had long believed it to be a glorified message board for right ...read more
Watch A Raging Tucker Carlson Literally Have A Debate With Himself
Tucker Carlson brought on Alex Nowrasteh, a senior immigration policy analyst at the CATO Institute, last night in order to debate the supposed liberal whitewashing of immigrant crimes against Americans. It was without a doubt one the most ridiculous interviews Carlson has ever ...read more
Sean Hannity Is Genuinely Rattled By Manafort And Cohen Convictions
Sean Hannity is not in a good place, and his opening monologue on his show last night was a spectacle in how not to take bad news. In fact, Hannity was so rattled by the stunning conviction of Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who was convicted of eight of charges, ...read more
Ex-Fox Analyst Calls Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity "Prostitutes" For Trump
In an extraordinary interview on CNN’s Reliable Sources this past weekend, former Fox News Analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters told Brian Stelter that former colleagues Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity were essentially "prostitutes" for Donald Trump. “I am convinced that the president ...read more
Alex Jones Incites Violence: "This Is It. Get Your Battle Rifles Ready"
The debate raging over Facebook, iTunes and Spotify's decision to boot crackpot conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his lunatic site 'InfoWars' from their platforms is continuing to heat up. Many right wing media figures are incensed that Jones, a man who claims the massacre at ...read more