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Your Tuesday Night Convention Highlights
Here are some notable events to watch for tonight. Full schedule here. 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (LOCAL) Platform Video and Remarks The Honorable Cory A. Booker Mayor of Newark, New Jersey Remarks The...
It’s a Trap!
Jonathan Bernstein noted a pretty sneaky rhetorical trap set by Romney with his "are you better off?" question: Obama is being asked to compare the economy now to what it was like before he took...
Walking Away from The Election Is Not An Option
My Tuesday column questions the strategy of progressives who have decided to stay home on Election Day. Over the weekend, actor and activist John Cusack posted an interview he conducted with George...
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Cat Power - "Cherokee"
Romney Said The Economy is ‘Getting Better’
Romney made a big mistake by bringing up the "Are you better off?" question. Two reasons: 1) despite the pesky epidemic of political amnesia in America, people still remember when the economy crashed...
Cusack & Turley Discuss the Obama Record
I spent a considerable amount of time yesterday tweeting about this article in which John Cusack interviewed Jonathan Turley about the Obama foreign policy and civil liberties record, but I figured I...
Super Stupid
With friends like Governor Martin O'Malley (D-MD) who needs friends? WRONG! The correct answer is "yes" -- a very loud "yes!" -- by nearly every economic and social indicator. Goddamn. Watch for the...
Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?
My Monday column answers the question posed by Mitt Romney last week with a very loud YES! In a speech filled with misleading statements and nostalgic lines about how wonderful life used to be before...
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Neko Case - "People Got a Lotta Nerve" Live on QTV
Austerity Does Not Stimulate Economic Growth
The best evidence in support of Keynesian economics and against austerity continues to be Europe which, rather than investing in the economy, is freaked out about debt and has been actively cutting...
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Jefferson Starship - "Jane" (Famously used in Wet Hot American Summer)
Bill Maher Destroys Hack Dinesh D’Souza
Dinesh D'Souza, the producer of a new anti-Obama right-wing agitprop film, is one of those conservatives whose arguments are so full of holes, you can hardly wait for him to finish before jumping all...
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MST3K Saturday - "King Dinosaur" Light blogging today and tomorrow. It's been a crazy few weeks of editing The Daily Banter and covering the Republican Weirdorama. Meanwhile, listen to our podcasts...
The Daily Banter Mail Bag Needs More Angry White Guys
This week's Mail Bag questions for Chez, Ben and me. In light of Lindsay Graham's shockingly honest admission that there "aren't enough angry white guys" to fuel the GOP's current business model, do...
While Romney Was Joking About The Ocean Levels…
This was happening in Louisiana: The full photo gallery here. Predictably, Louisiana will overwhelmingly vote for Mitt Romney anyway. But if the people there hadn't been sifting through the remnants...
The Hilariously Inexplicable Clint Eastwood Transcript
In case you missed Clint Eastwoods insanely weird, um, performance art last night, here's the transcript. His bit? He spoke to an empty chair like a mental patient, and pretended President Obama was...
Headline: Romney Terrifies The World
The one thing that will stick with me about Romney's speech last night was the astonishing amount of war-mongering. He essentially pledged to invade Iran and went so far as to piss all over...
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Shawn Colvin and Alison Krauss - "Shotgun Down The Avalanche" Live
Republicans Who Accidentally Tell the Truth
Lindsey Graham speaks the truth about demographics and the Republican base: “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.” No, I'm not making that up.
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