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
This week, to the shock of absolutely no one, former BernieBro extraordinaire H.A. Goodman, who built his brand on mindless, conspiracy-laden hatred of Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, has come out as a Trump supporter. In a tweet to his followers released Friday, April 20th, ...read more
So, Hillary beat that ass Tuesday night, and over at The Young Turks' Bernie Bunker, Cenk Uygur is facing facts. Well, sort of. Cenk now acknowledges that Bernie's only shot at the nomination is for catastrophe to befall Hillary in the form of an FBI indictment. If you want to ...read more
There was a time when Salon was the go-to site for thoughtful, intelligent analysis from the left on subjects ranging from politics, to the media, to pop culture. That, however, was long ago; these days all that's left of that storied era are a few really terrific columnists ...read more
If you have survived the digital media industry for a decent number of years, you begin understand how the not-so-ethical business works. The successful players generally make the majority of their revenue from repackaging viral media trends and gaming facebook algorithms, while ...read more
We have gone after Salon over the years for their relentless campaign to destroy liberalism in America from the inside. The site's incessant screeching over hugely important issues like inherent transphobia of Roald Dahl's Maltilda and Patricia Arquette's non-existent racism has ...read more
Well, this doesn't look good for Marissa Janae Johnson, the activist who disrupted a Bernie Sanders rally over the weekend in order to call his supporters racist and white supremacists. In a post on facebook page, the "Radical Christian Mullatinist" (whatever that is) revealed ...read more
Salon columnist Sonia Saraiya admitted on Twitter that she made a mistake. She quietly fixed the mistake in her column. One of the people who first called out the mistake says that's good enough and doesn't want to pile-on. But for the sake of posterity, and more than a little ...read more
How Salon fought the urge to headline its new interview with Patton Oswalt with the kind of thing you see above will be pondered for years to come. I'd say that it's a sign of progress, but then in a couple of hours there will almost surely be an angry follow-up piece posted ...read more
(Photo: Michelle V. Agins/NY Times/Redux) Us liberals, comedy is our best weapon, and if you’re going to take that away from us and make Margaret Dumonts and let the right-wingers be Grouchos, we’re completely fucked. I don’t want to sound like a supervillain, but I won’t ...read more
In 2009 I went to a Halloween party that I have pretty powerful memories of to this day. I was still mourning the painful death of a relationship at the time and had spent the months since that breakup turning my back on the world, so my disposition was -- to put it mildly -- ...read more
Last week I published something here that was, for me at least, unusual. Let me explain by way of some background. I was taught years ago by a writer for The Miami Herald whom I respected a great deal that if you take up the mantle of a critic -- no matter what kind -- you have ...read more
"I can't write a parody of these people that even begins to hold a candle to the real thing." - Chez Pazienza referring to Salon.com Our very own Sam Doloncot has penned a highly useful essay on how to have a socially just, and cultural appropriation-free Halloween. But in ...read more
Dear Salon, On Friday morning, Godless Spellchecker's Blog highlighted several instances of plagiarism in articles written by C.J. Werleman for your site and also Alternet. Suspecting there might be more, I scanned Werleman's pieces myself, and sure enough, there were. Those ...read more
Updates below It was not my intention to write more about the allegations of plagiarism swirling around atheist writer C.J. Werleman. This is partly because I didn't wish to pile on, and partly because I imagined that Werleman would admit wrongdoing and offer an earnest ...read more
On Monday I wrote about the obsession many white people have when it comes to looting or rioting by black people when racially-charged tragedy has once again struck a black community. We're seeing this now in Ferguson, Missouri, where the police's killing of Michael Brown -- an ...read more
The Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS), which controls the area in and around Mosul in northern Iraq, is denying it ordered that all females between the ages of 11 and 46 undergo female genital mutilation, contrary to earlier reports. Although FGM predates Islam, Muhammad ...read more
Right now, HBO is using a show called The Leftovers to fill the hole in our hearts where Game of Thrones should be, and while it remains to be seen how successful it will be at that particular mission, the show's premise raises the question (spoiler alert): How would the ...read more
Well, now it's official. There is literally nothing Salon can't blame on white guys. Perhaps Westerners see in the Asian man — and by extension his penis — what they expect to see, what in some ways they need to see. Let’s be honest: many Western men derive enormous comfort ...read more
When some lunatic spews garbage on a fringe website like InfoWars or The Daily Caller, no one really pays attention, but print the same garbage on a site with a more legitimate reputation, and suddenly, it's "even Mediaite says that "blah, blah, blah." With that in mind, it was ...read more
For a guy who made his intentions and motivations pristinely clear, it's surprising how blank a canvas Elliot Rodger is turning out to be for many in the media punditocracy. If you're someone with a specific agenda who's made a career out of warning the masses of the threat ...read more
In addition to being a damn brilliant comic, Patton Oswalt has made a name for himself lately thanks to the creative ways he's figured out to piss off the internet. You can make the argument that he's the ultimate Twitter troll, but his desire to use his own infamy in certain ...read more
As soon as Patton Oswalt began cleverly trolling Twitter last Wednesday afternoon, it was only a matter of time before Salon had a comment about it. Patton's little online experiment involved tweeting out apologies for past tweets he claimed to have deleted because they were ...read more
As you know, unlike some Philistines who work here at The Daily Banter, I am an avowed fan of Salon.com. I find the site to be a vital resource in cataloging the various daily injustices that every true liberal should be poised to stand against by way of turning them into catchy ...read more
There were somewhere in the neighborhood of 832,000 internet think pieces written last week attempting to examine or comment on the most recent episode of Game of Thrones. One of the columns that got a lot of traction was posted at Salon, as part of its Flight 370-level coverage ...read more
Happy Thursday! There's a light at the end of the tunnel! Here's what's happening on the interweb: 1. Russia Didn’t Share All Details on Boston Bombing Suspect, Report Says The Russian government declined to provide the F.B.I. with information about one of the Boston ...read more
You're not going to believe this but apparently we're still talking about Suey Park. Actually, let's make a clarification that's much easier to believe: Salon is still talking about Suey Park. It's not exactly surprising that the internet's most powerful engine for turning ...read more
One of the best and worst things about the Comment of the Week, besides the fact that it has the monetary value of an expired coupon, is that it is completely subjective and at the mercy of whatever mood we here at the Banter are in when picking them. Sometimes that means I ...read more
Liberal-on-liberal outrage was in ample supply on Twitter Thursday night as Stephen Colbert drew the ire of politically correct progressives. It was a seemingly endless onslaught of the kind of self-righteous indignation you only get when a liberal steps out of line. That’s ...read more
Mary Elizabeth Williams writes for Salon and has appeared in the pages of The New York Times and The Nation. As part of our “10 Questions With…” series, we talked to Ms. Williams about New Jersey Catholics, cynicism v. optimism, bacon chocolate, and "smart tabloids." The Daily ...read more
Your Stupid Salon Thing of the Day provides what could be definitive proof that there's some kind of outrage quota over there that all regular contributors to the site are required to meet. Andrew O'Hehir is nominally Salon's movie critic; to his credit, he's at times insightful ...read more
