We have been making, banana boy, obama the butt, no pun intended, of our jokes since novemeber of 2008.
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.
When you threaten to level the White House there should be consequences.
This is the so called humor of the Left. They have willingly welcomed demons into their lives. They relish in their blasphemies, booing God three times at the 2012 convention. They willfully acknowledge Satan as their lord.
We've got the picture!
We know all we need to without giving the Soros/Hillary/Obama/GOPe machine free exposure, internet hits and the opportunity for long term deep cover trolls access to a free conservative forum
DU is still open for business, right?
I am reluctant to label all relatively recent "Freepers" trolls, but their choice of subject raises my alert alarm.
We all are aware of the filth that late night "comedians" have sunk to, and what the remedy is.
We don't need a constant summary stream of their actual filth, thankyouverymuch!
I am specially instantly alerted every time someone posts a thread without any comment of the contents whatsoever.
I deem those stealth propaganda.
This is just the tip of an ugly iceberg.
More about this subject (the propaganda war, and the constantly changing techniques we are bombarded with) in a post I plan to pursue later today, with examples.
Planned title :
"What's wrong with this Picture?" Subtitle, "Subtle scary invisible techniques in the propaganda war."
Here are a few hints...
What is this?
Is this innocent trivia entertainment?
Why is there zero information on Wikipedia about it?
Who "owns" the site?
How is it funded?
Who are the principals?
Who provides the questions?
Who determinses the "correct" answers?
Who funds the site?
All innocent fun? Unrelated important food for thought:
What is the major source of funding for Wikipedia?
The Soros propaganda Industry is not only alive and well.
It is intensifying, getting filthier and more obviously fake news, but obviously determined, not so subtly, to create for the general public a mythological, creepier view of their country as the new "normal."
But but but Trump called a fat pig a fat pig!
Exactly. Can you imagine the outcry if a comedian made this type of joke about Obama’s or Clinton’s children? (though for the latter I suppose it was okay to joke about his illegitimate offspring...)
If it doesn’t bother the president enough to have him and schummer beat to death, well, then I reckon it shouldn’t bother me.
We have been making, banana boy, obama the butt, no pun intended, of our jokes since novemeber of 2008.
How do we know that Ivanka is not the leftist in the family? Trump made the mistake giving his family too much political clout in his administration.
Bill Maher is an attention whore — plane and simple!
He tries to be provocative.. and frankly, I don’t care what lines he crosses, he’s rarely, if ever, funny.
The late great Don Rickles crossed all kinds of lines and was hilarious.
He made us laugh at ourselves, whatever our persuasion or political party.
Maher can cross all the lines he wants but, as I said, I rarely, if ever, find him funny.
Bill Maher is not much of a comedian(IMO).
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I don’t think I have watched him for any longer then 5 minutes. I find him dull, predictable & tedious!
Maher crosses the line every time he steals oxygen.
Truly a good point. Maher captures the very audience willing to perpetuate such abhorrent thinking and speech, among the young.
Bill O’ may be innocent, we can not know in these days of “he said/she said” incidents, devoid of evidence and witnesses. At worst, if Bill O’ were even proven guilty, the deeds were confined away from a national and international audience.
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