"Alabama's the Confederacy," Fran Liebowitz said on Real Time last year, correcting Bill Maher's assertion that it was the heartland. Its long association with slavery, racism, and pedophilic Senate candidates will take a long time to shake. Its current governor, Kay Ivey, ...read more

It's hard to put a positive spin on this given how destructive every sane economist believes the GOP's tax plan will be. Reported the New York Times on the plan that just passed in the Senate:  Republicans took a critical step toward notching their first significant legislative ...read more

Last Tuesday, Alabama voters sent a message to the world: “If we are forced to choose for U.S. Senator between an upstanding former Democratic prosecutor and a racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, homophobic Republican pedophile, with thousands of volunteers and millions of dollars ...read more

In this scintillating episode of The Bantercast, Ben and Michael discuss the insane election in Alabama, net neutrality, and the Republican war on reality. How far will the Trump administration go to maintain its hold on power? Have we reached the point of no return? What can we ...read more

Alleged pedophile Roy Moore is still refusing to concede the Alabama Senate election to Doug Jones. "In this race, we have not received the final count to include military and provisional ballots," Moore told his followers in a defiant video posted to YouTube. "This has been a ...read more

Early Wednesday, following Doug Jones' surprising victory over accused child rapist Roy Moore in Alabama, Donald Trump tweeted this: "If last night’s election proved anything, it proved that we need to put up GREAT Republican candidates to increase the razor thin margins in both ...read more

After pedophile Roy Moore's crushing loss in the Alabama Senate race to Doug Jones last night, it turns out that Alt-Right guru Steve Bannon is not the evil genius many believe him to be. He's just plain evil -- and also a giant loser.  Bannon spent an inordinate amount of ...read more

When I wrote my article yesterday about voter suppression in Alabama, I was resigned that Yellowhammer State would elect Roy Moore - a racist, misogynistic, pedophile - to the Senate seat formerly held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. But as I read reports on Twitter about the ...read more

It's OK, you are allowed to watch a room full of hateful white bigots who worked for a racist, misogynistic man who sexually assaulted children, wander glumly around coming to terms with their extraordinary loss.  You can revel in their misery knowing any decent higher ...read more

Thank you, Alabama, for electing Democrat Doug Jones, a decent man who has stood up for the poor, women and minorities his entire life. Thank you Alabama, for rejecting the disgusting politics of Roy Moore, a racist, misogynistic, sexual predator, who targeted and abused children ...read more

There are two possible outcomes for today's Senate race in Alabama, and both spell disaster for the GOP in both the short and long term. While Donald Trump and his band of lunatics in the White House are betting big on accused pedophile and notorious bigot Roy Moore, the ...read more

The Senate race in Alabama to fill the seat once occupied by Jeff Sessions is a microcosm of last year's presidential race. On one side we have Doug Jones, a sane, good-natured liberal; on the other we have Roy Moore, a rightier-than-right-wing Republican who believes, among ...read more

On Sunday, (now former) Evangelical Republican Peter Wehner penned an op-ed for the New York Times lamenting "Why I Can No Longer Call Myself an Evangelical Republican". In it, he's astonished at how how sick and diseased both Evangelical Christianity and the Republican Party ...read more

White evangelical Christians overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump for president in 2016, believing that a man who confessed to sexually assaulting women, denigrated immigrants and ran on a vicious campaign of bigotry and hatred would be preferable to a woman who, well, wrote ...read more

In an eerie echo of Donald Trump, Republican candidate Roy Moore chose violent Russian dictator Vladimir Putin over his own country, calling the United States "evil" and finding common cause with the murderous strongman: In an interview with the Guardian’s Anywhere But ...read more

The Banter Long Read: Yesterday was a dark day for Al Franken and the Democratic Party, saved only by the party's responsible behavior in the wake of several new allegations against Franken... To continue reading this article, please go here. You'll get unrestricted access to all ...read more

Dear Kellyanne,  It came to my attention today that you are now vigorously defending president Trump's decision to endorse accused pedophile and sexual deviant Roy Moore for the Senate in Alabama. When Chris Cuomo stated that "it seems like you have no standards of morality, ...read more

For anyone who has spent time in rural America, the notion that the pro-life movement is going to disappear in the near future is completely ridiculous. It is well funded, well organized and as culturally acceptable in red states and rural areas as gay marriage is in San ...read more

I genuinely believed this could never happen in a supposedly civilized country like America. If electing a sexual predator to the presidency wasn't bad enough, Republicans in Alabama are now working diligently to put an accused pedophile into the Senate, and trotting arguments ...read more

Roy Moore is going to be the next senator from Alabama. Believe it. Barring last minute divine intervention (unlikely) or a massive groundswell of anti-Moore voting (possible but I wouldn't bet on it), he's going to win by a few points. It won't be the kind of blowout victory he ...read more

Today, Donald Trump endorsed Republican Alabama Senate Candidate Roy Moore – religious fanatic, anti-gay marriage, Islamophobic, pedophiliac Roy Moore, the most dangerous Senate candidate since David Duke. For the past few weeks, the President has soft-pedaled around a firm ...read more

When you're a 70 year old sex offender running for political office, it's probably not a great idea to engage in a Twitter war with a professional comic who is a) smarter than you, b) funnier than you, and c) not a sex offender.  But no, Alabama's Roy Moore seems to think he can ...read more

The Federalist just became the latest in a growing list of right wingers to not only support Republican Roy Moore, the child molesting Senate candidate from Alabama, but also to actually defend the practice of grown men sexually assaulting underage girls. No, that is not a typo. ...read more

Just when you thought The New York Times couldn't sink any lower than their piece lionizing conservative Ben Shapiro, and then another one about Ohio Nazi Tony Hovater (who likes Seinfeld, Applebee's, and ethnic cleansing) their magazine, not to be one-upped, said "hold my beer" ...read more

(WARNING: SATIRE!) Deep into the strike by The International Association of Societal Bar Adjusters Hell, Inc. represented by the law firm of Asmodeus, Baphomet, and Schwartz filed an injunction to prevent the lowering of the Morality Bar any further.
 “While Hell sympathizes with ...read more

In what should be a bombshell report but will undoubtedly change absolutely nothing, the Washington Post just published an account of how James O'Keefe's hilariously misnamed "Project Veritas" spent weeks trying to trap one of their reporters in one of their infamously dishonest ...read more

The New York Times piece published on Saturday looking into Donald Trump’s repulsive decision to endorse alleged pedophile and sexual predator Roy Moore for the U.S. Senate revealed another truly terrifying insight into the mind of the president.  According to the Times, Trump ...read more

Had alleged pedophile and sexual abuser Roy Moore been a Democrat and Barack Obama the President of the United States, Moore would have been condemned and told in no uncertain terms to pull out of the Alabama Senate race. But Roy Moor is a Republican and Donald Trump, who is a ...read more

I hate writing this, but Minnesota Senator Al Franken has no other choice but to resign in the wake of a second allegation of inappropriate sexual behavior towards a woman. Reported the Huff Post:  Lindsay Menz, 33, told CNN in a report published on Monday that Franken ...read more

In this controversial episode of the Bantercast, Ben and Michael ask themselves a very important question in the wake of the #MeToo sexual harassment scandal currently engulfing the Western world: should men be ashamed of themselves? We talk about Al Franken, Bill Clinton, Roy ...read more

I have very little confidence that white Alabama voters will do the right thing and send Democratic Senatorial candidate Doug Jones to the United States Senate. On December 12th, I am anticipating that the special election results will show Republican Senatorial candidate Roy ...read more

[SATIRE WARNING: THIS IS SATIRE. SORT OF...] Controversial Alabama Republican Senate Candidate and two time former State Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore released a how to guide on “courtship and feminine etiquette”. “I felt, with the way my name has been maligned in the media, ...read more

The Banter Long Read: As hard as it might be to swallow for the left, it is now the time to disavow Bill Clinton and exorcise him from public life. After the wave of naming and shaming high profile celebrities and politicians for their grotesque behavior towards women, there can ...read more

If you haven't heard by now, a robocall has been making the rounds in Alabama claiming to be from a Washington Post reporter named "Bernie Bernstein". "Bernie" is offering money for dirt on Roy Moore, presumably with the intent of ending his run for the Senate. Of course, no ...read more

(WARNING: SATIRE! MAYBE!) Wheeling, West Virginia The recent Republican nomination of disgraced former Alabama State Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore has sent shockwaves among political circles. Accused of sexual misconduct by, as of this writing, five women when they were ...read more

On Sunday, Kayla Moore, Roy Moore's wife, posted what is supposed to be a letter from 50 Alabama pastors in support of Moore against the evils of the liberal media and establishment Republicans and other "Oh woe is me" persecution nonsense that the right gobbles up like ice ...read more

The entire basis for Fox News host Sean Hannity's existence is the moral superiority he has assigned himself by virtue of his religion and political affiliation. Hannity has spent decades hammering liberals for their godless depravity, extolling the moral virtues of the ...read more

As far as I'm concerned, there simply cannot be enough articles written about the fact that Republicans and conservatives are defending Roy Moore. If it was simply "We don't believe it happened.", that would be bad but not outside of political norms. "Deny, deny, deny" is an age ...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

What the fuck just happened in Alabama? Roy Moore, the bible-thumping super-Christian was accused by three women (so far) of being "romantically pursued" by him in his 30s while they were in their teens. While Moore is denying this, one Alabama Republican doesn't see a problem: ...read more