Contrary to his public image, we now know that militant free market capitalist Sean Hannity is in fact a big government socialist. The Trump propagandist, who spends every waking moment of his life trying to dismantle socialism for anyone not a millionaire or giant corporation ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Trump's favorite propagandist Sean Hannity has been taking Jimmy Kimmel to task this week for making fun of Melania Trump’s Slovenian accent in what can only be described as a breathless act of brazen hypocrisy. Hannity called him a “despicable disgrace” and an “ass clown,” and ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 6, 2018

At the Banter, we strive to provide our readers with well sourced, fact checked writing. If we make mistakes, we correct them. Poorly constructed arguments don't make it out of our editorial process (some of them mine), and we take great pride in upholding high standards. Why? ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 12, 2018

Why did the stock market crash today? Sean Hannity has the answer, and all you Democrat loving Obamabots aren't going to like it. Because guess what, it was the black man's fault! "The Obama economy was so weak all of these years we had just artificially cheap money," Hannity ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

An amazing thing is happening over at Fox News in the wake of the report yesterday that Donald Trump attempted to fire Robert Mueller back in June of last year. Parroting the president's assertion that it was a "typical New York Times fake story" hosts on the network immediately ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 26, 2018

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

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 12, 2017

Well this is something. Chris Ruddy, CEO of conservative platform Newsmax and close Trump friend and ally believes Fox News is so slavishly pro-Trump that it has zero credibility left as a news organization. From Politico:  If Fox has shifted to protect itself on the right, ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 10, 2017

In an astonishing story broken by NPR today, a lawsuit has been filed alleging that the White House collaborated with Fox News and a wealthy Republican donor push the fake news story about the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich.  Here's what we know thus far (via CNN):  The story ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Aug 1, 2017

With President Trump's inability to accomplish any tangible objective in office, Sean Hannity is turning on everyone he used to love in order to deflect attention away from the president's collapsing job approval numbers.  In an astonishing failure of political leadership and ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jul 19, 2017

What does Donald Trump's chief cheerleader Sean Hannity do when incontrovertible evidence arises that Trump colluded with the Russian government in attempting to destabilize the US election? Simple: he goes after Hillary Clinton.  Retweeting a 5 month old story from Hannity's ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jul 11, 2017

Sean Hannity is convinced the Trump administration has no ties to Russia and there was no collusion between his campaign and the Kremlin during the 2016 election. How does he know this? He keeps repeating it on his show over and over and over again until in his simple little ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jun 20, 2017

Fox News's amazing dedication to the distortion of objective reality is something historians will study for hundreds, if not thousands of years to come. That a multi million dollar, major news organization broadcasts verifiable nonsense to hundreds of millions of people every ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018