Posted on 05/07/2017 9:56:23 AM PDT by drewh
There is no line that Bill Maher won’t cross. It is part of what makes him an unpredictable comedian, and an at times problematic one. His most glaring blind spots concern transphobia—where he shares common ground with alt-right fellow traveler Milo Yiannopoulos—Islamophobia, and casual sexism. Disagree with her politics and shameless opportunism all you want, but repeatedly branding Sarah Palin a “bimbo” is not a good look. Maher seemed to cross that line again on Friday night.
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inRead invented by Teads During an exchange with New York magazine reporter Gabriel Sherman on his HBO program Real Time, the political satirist made an incest joke about first daughter Ivanka Trump and her father, President Donald Trump. “What do you make of Ivanka and her efforts to sort of humanize her father?” Maher asked Sherman of the first daughter, who is currently flouting ethics rules in promoting her new book, Women Who Work. You see, Sherman has become the leading media voice when it comes to Fox News, and his tireless reporting led to the ouster of Fox News overlord Roger Ailes. “We see all this misogyny at Fox News, we see it in Donald Trump himself,” continued Maher. “A lot of us thought: Ivanka is gonna be our saving grace. When he’s about to nuke Finland or something, she’s gonna walk into the bedroom and—‘Daddy, Daddy…’” he said, mimicking Ivanka giving her father a handjob. “‘Don’t do it, Daddy.’” “Is that how you see Ivanka?” Maher asked Sherman. “No,” replied the red-faced reporter. “I think, again, she’s on the margins trying to save us—to the degree that she can—but Donald Trump doesn’t listen to anybody, including his own family.”
It’s not the first time Maher’s told his Ivanka-Donald incest joke. On the night of November 2nd, less than a week before the election, the comedian broadcast his stand-up set from L.A.’s Largo comedy club on Facebook Live. Towards the end of the 45-minute set, Maher addressed the bizarre relationship between President Trump and his eldest daughter. In the past, the POTUS has said that he might “be dating her” if she weren’t his daughter, that he could be sleeping with her if he “weren’t happily married and, ya know, her father” in a Rolling Stone interview, and that time he gave shock jock Howard Stern the OK to call her “a piece of ass.”
Cue Maher: “Be nice to Ivanka, she’s our only hope—because she seems like she actually knows rationality, but she’s [Trump’s] kid, and she’s the only one who can get to him, and you know he loves her,” said Maher. “If he’s going to do something nutty, we’re going to depend on Ivanka going into that bedroom. Daddy”—cooed Maher, mimicking Ivanka giving Donald a handjob—“Daddy, you have to apologize for that tweet where you called Angela Merkela a ‘c*nt.’ You have to apologize, Daddy!” Ivanka Trump is a problematic, puzzling figure, but if liberals are going to castigate Donald Trump for his boorish, sexist behavior, they shouldn’t behave in a similar fashion.
BOR has to leave TV. Maher can stay.
Unless some entity goes after advertisers.
I find nothing funny about him or his so-called joke’s. I refuse to call him a comedian.
At least the battle lines are being drawn. As crude as some of these “comedians” and other public figures are being, everyone gets to see exactly who they are. The Trump haters love it, but it just repulses most other people.
Misogamy is OK when a liberal espouses it.
File this under this pig and Bill Clinton.
Anybody who watches Bill Maher's show must be sick in the brain.
Why any Conservative would go on it is beyond me.
Sorry, there is no “line” to cross when attacking Conservatives or Republicans.
That Ship sailed long ago.
No imagine the same Joke with Obama and his Daughters Malaria or Sushi.
He is neither unpredictable nor comedic.
Remember Bill’s Halloween outfit mocking the Dead “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin?
They have no moral compass, they don't believe in God, they helped to take God out of our Country, which it was founded on, they behave like gutter trash, their language is worse, their actions are disgusting...
Whoopie Goldberg, Cher, Maria Carey, Bill Mar, haven't got enough education or sense to make one complete human brain...
Francis the talking poop is off to make Globalism the greatest thing on earth, all the while hiding deep in the Vatican behind walls to protect him instead of leading the ‘flock’ he's leading ISIS...
Clintons, Bushes, Obamas, Di-Fi, Pigolsi, Schumer, RINO RYAN, McPain, Linda Graham, they are the toilet paper of our Nations Capitol...
They accuse people that have God in their lives, are decent, care about other people by their standards...if you listen to a mental liberal you will know what their next move is because they have done it...and want to ‘attach’ it to you, God fearing decent people...
I think there's one, and it's called Obama.
The leftist play actors and song and dance men must ratchet up their vile attacks because fewer and fewer even care what these losers think anymore.
It’s the only way they can get their names out there is to out-slander the next play actor poser.
This from a country where it’s now vogue for mentally ill leftist to call for the assassination of the President of the United States on a daily basis.
Looken sharp democrats.
Why Ivanka cozies up to leftists is impossible to understand. They are sick, vile, despicable people.
“I find nothing funny about him or his so-called jokes.”
How can you find fault with a brilliant, really-really smart,
highly-intelligent, all-knowing, intellectual, Progressive genius?
/Sarc/
IMHO
What would happen to Dennis Miller if he told a joke about Bill Clinton not 'tucking' Chelsea into bed when she was young - that he _ucked her into bed? I'm guessing the hypocrites at the Washington Post would NOT find it funny.
Sushi....You misspelled ‘Sharia”.
I never watch Bill Maher or whatever show that is he is on but to read he did that is reprehensible.
That man was a much beloved man and had a family with a baby who suffered his loss.
Heartless.
I’ll blame Spellcheck. LOL
And he will get away with it. But no jokes were tolerated about bammy. None.
Bravo!!...(at least one father has had enough...)
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