The welcome news that video scammers from the "Center for Medical Progress" have been indicted in Texas follows months of news that Planned Parenthood has been cleared of wrongdoing by state after state. Unfortunately, the news comes too late for the people who were killed in ...read more
“I think I’d rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That’s just the way it goes and I don’t think I’m any great champion of anything, but if they’re going to ...read more
After two weeks of simmering, both on the air and off, the Great Islam Bash-Off was revived this weekend when Bill Maher took another shot at the religion on his HBO show, only to be slapped back by his guests' insistence on relating "facts" and "information." As Rep. Barbara ...read more
The continuing barbarity of ISIS gave Bill Maher and Real Time guest Sam Harris another opportunity to bash the religion of Islam Friday night, and while Gone Girl star Ben Affleck did his best to push back, he didn't quite connect the dots. Affleck ably explained why we ...read more
The death of Eric Garner was back in the news this week when the medical examiner ruled the killing a homicide, giving more white people the opportunity to say something stupid about it. While Garner's chokehold-related death at the hands of police has raised concerns about ...read more
On Friday night, Real Time host Bill Maher took a too hard, too soon shot at Republicans during his opening monologue when he joked that Congressional Republicans are acting like children, and "someone needs to leave them in a hot car." Maher was referring to the legislative ...read more
Conservatives hate Neil deGrasse Tyson because he's smarter than them, but on this week's Real Time, the Cosmos host also proved he's smarter than liberals, too. The National Review's cover story this week features an article on the irrepressible astrophysicist headlined ...read more
Criticism of President Obama's Ukraine policy, like most Republican criticism of the President, is long on dumb shit and short on better ideas. On this weekend's Real Time with Bill Maher (Special "Book Conservatives Whose Names Sound Like Fraggle Rock Characters" Edition), the ...read more
HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher is shaping up to be a sort of Drunk Black History, with the host blithely explaining, last week, why black people love their Cadillacs, and this week, delving into the shockingly recent origin of the slur "nigra." While Maher was dead wrong to the ...read more
During a discussion of Ta-Nehisi Coates' epic Atlantic article The Case For Reparations on Friday night's Real Time with Bill Maher, one of those truly comical awkward moments occurred when Bill Maher explained his understanding of the "black guys love Cadillacs" stereotype to a ...read more
Edward Snowden media sherpa Glenn Greenwald doesn't have too many fans around these parts, so Daily Banterers probably sensed a giddy disturbance in The Force Friday night when IAVA founder Paul Rieckhoff got into it with Greenwald, but When Greenwald demanded evidence of lives ...read more
The current crisis in Iraq will surely have numerous side-effects, the least of which will probably be its propensity to make people say really stupid shit about it. Although Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is the current gold medalist in this event, National Review Online's Tom ...read more
One of the many tangents to the Bowe Bergdahl story is the persistent problem of what to do with the detainees who remain in the prison at Guantánamo Bay, but one former Bush official has an idea you've probably never heard before: throw two billion more people in with them. ...read more
As if liberals weren't already having enough fun with weird Christian beliefs this week, Faith and Freedom Coalition head and Casino Jack Abramoff henchman Ralph Reed decided to test his luck as a guest on Über-Atheist Bill Maher's Real Time. Reed was there to promote his new ...read more
A 2009 University of Pennsylvania study on "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness" has been getting a bit of a workout in the media lately, largely as an antidote to the attention being paid to equal pay. The study is used to suggest that feminism has made women less ...read more
It's getting more than a little deep in here. No one should be surprised that Newt Gingrich called the ouster of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich a product of "new fascism" (same great taste?), joining other right-wing luminaries like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck in Hitlerian ...read more
Standup comic and Real Time host Bill Maher makes a regular habit of joking about President Obama's race in ways that promote black stereotypes, and this week was no exception. In his opening monologue, Maher zinged white people for waiting until the last minute to sign up for ...read more
