Regardless of what you might think of the Bush family and their political legacy, Barbara Bush was by all accounts a highly intelligent and decent woman in her personal life.  Furthermore, she was horrified by the emergence of Donald Trump in the 2016 election and spoke out ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

After Gene Simmons was banned from Fox News for life after behaving atrociously towards its employees this past week, defender of all things idiotic Sarah Palin took to her trusty Facebook page to denounce Fox and wreck the English language in the process.  It was a truly ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 18, 2017

If you're looking for a case study in what happens to old white men's brains after decades of watching Fox News and listening to right wing talk radio, look no further than vocal Trump supporter and actor James Woods.  A celebrity favorite of the hard right, Woods rantings about ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 6, 2017

The Banter Long Read: I suppose it was only a matter of time before my daily observations of Donald Trump's incoherent wrongness forced me to question the very nature of what it means to be an American...  Word count: 1336 To continue reading this MEMBERS ONLY article, please go ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

John McCain has brain cancer and if the diagnosis is correct, his remaining life expectancy can range anywhere between 12 to 60 months in the best case scenario. As an eighty year old man who was in the armed services, fought for his country in Vietnam, suffered through torture ...read more

• By Robert Covington, Jr.
  Nov 9, 2018

As you may have heard, Sarah Palin is suing the New York Times for defamation due to the publication printing a story that it “knew to be false.” Here's how the Times characterized the story and the impending lawsuit:  In the lawsuit, which was filed in the United States ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Thanks to Derp Night At The White Power Corral, Sarah Palin is marginally relevant again, which resulted in Jake Tapper being forced to make sense of the word salads shooting out of her mouth this afternoon. And amazingly, Tapper somehow managed to sift through a nonsensical ...read more

• By Mike Redmond
  Apr 20, 2017

As we speak, Donald Trump is once again the laughingstock of the world after lying about sending the USS Vinson to North Korea and causing a global panic about World War III to break out. He's also doing a pretty sweet job at repeating Chinese propaganda, which I'm sure has ...read more

• By Mike Redmond
  Dec 20, 2018

The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf explains why the right wing media helped tank Trumpcare and the repeal of the ACA: Over the last eight years, lots of responsibly written critiques of Obamacare have been published in numerous publications, and folks reading the aforementioned ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

When Donald Trump invited Sarah Palin to endorse him in Iowa last year, the former governor from Alaska and one time Vice Presidential candidate was visibly giddy with excitement. While no one really understood her very lengthy speech, it was clear this was Palin's ultimate ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The ongoing feud between Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin has escalated yet again, this week with Beck mocking Palin on his network and asking whether the former Alaska governor has "had a brain aneurysm". According to Beck, Palin has gone completely crazy after she turned on Donald ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

According to the latest reports, Donald Trump is considering former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin to head up the Veterans Administration (VA).  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, a woman who can barely string a coherent sentence together may well be in charge of the lives of military ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

During the 2009 debate about the new federal health care legislation created to cover uninsured Americans, Sarah Palin claimed that it would lead to a "Death Panel" of bureaucrats who would have the power of life or death over patients who needed urgent health care. She posted ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Sarah Palin, the quitta' from Wasilla, posted a word salad which started out with a startling admission that she is an "Obama admirer." Of course, she was going for the shock value of the statement and later said, "not THAT Obama, this one, Barack's brother Malik." She posted a ...read more

• By Jen Froderman
  Nov 9, 2018

Editors note: This article was originally published on Banter M, our digital magazine for members. I'm republishing it here in light of McCain's recent denouncement of Donald Trump and the withdrawal of his endorsement. While McCain might think this exonerates him from the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

For the most part, we've left Bristol Palin well alone here at Banter despite her mother's best efforts to parade her and her family in front of the media at any given opportunity. Bristol was a child when her mother decided to run for President, and the press wasn't ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

If you want to know what type of person will be voting for Donald Trump this November, Sarah Palin's Facebook community is an excellent place to do some research.  Palin is Trump's biggest supporter and has been using her social media reach to sway the election in his favor. So ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

If Sarah Palin was a nice, well intentioned person, we would likely leave her alone on this site for her many, many crimes against the English language and general intelligent discourse in America.  But she isn't. Sarah Palin is not only dumb, but mean, and proud of it.  So we ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In response to Sarah Palin's truly, truly insane facebook rant earlier this week that consisted of photos the head injury she sustained while jogging with a screed about Hillary Clinton doing Yoga, Stephen Colbert responded to the former Vice Presidential candidate in the only ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Aug 31, 2016

It's been a while since we talked about Glenn Greenwald and his insufferably haughty attitude about the American system of government and our, admittedly, weird yet effective political process. Frankly, since my brief and amicable exchange with Greenwald following the ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

As we've noted in recent times, Sarah Palin's presence on Facebook is becoming increasingly bizarre and unhinged. From dark rants about overthrowing the US government to unwisely taking on the likes of Bill Nye, Palin has been using the world's largest social media platform to ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Sarah Palin is in a very big tizzy over Donald Trump being called a racist, because in conservative-land Hillary Clinton is the true racist and Trump the lifetime equality promoter.  How is this possible? Mostly by ignoring facts and reality, but in no small part by sheer ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

I've known all along that Trump would swing left on policy in the general, but Sarah Palin is very disappointed in Trump for wanting to keep giving illegals free healthcare, free college, free phones, free Happy Meals, free anything. Yes, she said "free Happy Meals," because that ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Even for a Republican, Sarah Palin is a fucking idiot, and she can't go more than a few days without demonstrating it. On Facebook, she's trying to deflect attention away from Trump's joke about assassinating Hillary Clinton by pointing out the "Top 5 Most Violent Obama Quotes" ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

This article was previously published in Banter M, our digital mag for members.  As I get older I have generally grown more tolerant and more understanding of those with diametrically opposed belief systems to my own. I count religious fundamentalists, atheists, radical ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In the midst of a gigantic political storm that could literally topple Donald Trump's run at the White House, the Republican nominee's allies are nowhere to be seen.  After months of touting Donald Trump as America's next savior and gushing over her guided tour of his gold ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

As much as I dislike Sarah Palin, it really pisses me off to see Nicolle Wallace forge an entire career out of shit-talking Palin, when Wallace's entire career is predicated on having tried her damnedest to fool America into voting for Palin (also, that's clearly not how to spell ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Sarah Palin's absence from the Republican National Convention is proof of an unjust God, but thankfully, she's still got a keyboard, and doesn't have the sense to stay off of it. Here she is either trying to compliment Cleveland Pastor Darrell Scott's RNC speech, or crying out ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

The son of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has entered a guilty plea to a weapons charge in connection with a January domestic violence arrest.Track Palin entered into a plea deal this week that should allow him to avoid jail time, according to the Alaska Dispatch News: Court ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Sarah Palin has been Facebookin' again, and if her vitriol against Black Lives Matter didn't make her racism obvious, then her comments on the radio yesterday remove all doubt: At this point, she ought to just go ahead and use the n-word out loud, instead of just in her empty ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

In her latest installment of increasingly unsettling conspiratorial social media posts, Sarah Palin has quite literally declared war on her own government.  In a rambling post published today about the FBI's recommendation that Hillary Clinton not be prosecuted for her use of ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Part of me feels slightly bad consistently laying into Sarah Palin for her transgressions against civility, general decency and the English language -- she is after all another human being with thoughts, feelings and emotions.  Then again, her presence in the national dialogue ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

IF you happened to catch any of Sarah Palin's panel at this weekend's Politicon, you probably had to shut it off after five minutes of wanting to punch James Carville for wasting an hourlong shot at the dipshit from Wasilla by being barely more comprehensible than she was. Those ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Leave it to Sarah Palin to utterly mangle the Brexit debacle in Europe by not only falsely equating it with American independence, but adding a completely insane conspiracy theory about a 'One World Government'.  Palin posted this latest little rant on her facebook page in the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jun 27, 2016

In the latest installment of "What dumb f*cking thing did Sarah Palin say now?", we have a statement from the moose huntin' former Vice Presidential candidate that really is a special kind of stupid.  In a post on facebook titled "OBAMA IS A SPECIAL KIND OF STUPID" (yes, she ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Two days ago, British Labour MP Jo Cox was brutally murdered by a Tommy Mair in West Yorkshire. She was stabbed, beaten, and shot to death in broad daylight despite passersby's attempts to stop the assault. While details are still emerging about the horrific case, we know that ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jun 17, 2016

Sarah Palin was derping predictably about the Orlando shooting earlier this week, when she made this rather stunning declaration about the narrow purposes of government: That would come as a surprise to the Sarah Palin who attacked Barack Obama as a Marxist dictator over his ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

In addition to coining a perfect nickname for Donald Trump, Sarah Palin spewed a hateful pack of lies about President Obama's speech in Hiroshima this week. Palin accused the President of “apologizing,” and of “dissing our vets with claims that the greatest generation were ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Welcome to this weeks' Sunday show highlights, which kicked off with the usual Slap-Chop slam poetry of former Alaska Governor and current Olivia Newton John Album Cover Sarah Palin. Amid all the usual folksy pro-Trump derp, though, was a moment of self-awareness and insight so ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Steve Schmidt seems like a good guy. Between his thick Maryland accent, his moderate conservatism and the fact that he pronounces "Clinton" as "CLI'in," he appears earnest and personable, in spite of his politics. Like Michael Steele, he's an MSNBC conservative, and therefore ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

There's something especially ridiculous about the following contradiction. Many religious conservatives strongly believe in the existence of God, Heaven, Hell, the Devil and the literal interpretation of the Bible, even though zero evidence exists proving any of it really ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Rightwing hate site Breitbart.com is vying to become one of the major sources of anti climate change propaganda with its regurgitation of lies spread by prominent media figures like Sarah Palin and ludicrous documentary films like "Climate Hustle".  Breitbart's latest foray into ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 20, 2016

Although it should go without saying that climate change is the deadliest threat to human civilization, sadly in American in 2016 it is still apparently necessary to dismiss those who deny its existence and danger.  Sarah Palin, for reasons no sane person can truly comprehend, ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 18, 2016

Speaking on a panel at the premiere for a right wing propaganda documentary 'Climate Hustle', Sarah Palin inexplicably went after Bill Nye the Science Guy over his lack of scientific credentials.  “Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I am," Palin told the audience that had ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 15, 2016

Just when the world needs more anti-global warming nonsense, the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) - an organization funded by an extremely shady far right donor group - has put together a film called Climate Hustle.  The film apparently "exposes" climate change for ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 12, 2016

It's really, really easy to find the exact text of the First Amendment. Anyone with a phone can do it. And yet too many Americans simply don't understand the free speech clause contained therein. I suppose it's begrudgingly acceptable for average Americans to misinterpret the ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Poor Glenn Beck -- his favored lunatic in the Republican primary is losing to Sarah Palin's favored lunatic, Donald Trump -- and Beck is beside himself with grief.  The former friends have had a rather nasty falling out over the warring GOP candidates, and the ongoing drama took ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

It makes perfect sense that Sarah Palin has offered her anti-establishment hot-take on Mitt Romney's devastating remarks about Donald Trump. There are two specific reasons why. 1) It's ironic since Palin owes her entire fortune to establishment Republicans who risked their ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018