Posted on 06/05/2017 12:13:25 PM PDT by drewh
It is illustrative of the severity of the problem #Bill Maher finds himself in that he was forced to offer a groveling apology for his use of the “N-word” during the most recent episode of his HBO show, “#real time.” HBO has condemned that statement and has sworn that the offending word will be expunged from all subsequent airings of the episode. Everything may be too little too late. Al Sharpton wants to hold Maher “accountable” for his racist language, even if he is a friend and a liberal. That desire can only mean one thing.
Al Sharpton wants to hold Bill Maher accountable
Writing in the Huffington Post, Sharpton lingers for a number of paragraphs over how the “N-word” has been used as a weapon to keep an entire race of people in subjugation.
In living memory, the use of that kind of language was far more acceptable than it is today. The great African-American comedian Richard Pryor would allow the word to pass from his lips with wild abandon until during one concert he announced that he would no longer use it for reasons that Sharpton sets out.
Even so, people who had used the word in the past, when it was considered more acceptable, are still asking for trouble, as Mark Fuhrman and Paula Dean found to their cost. These days, the only acceptable use of the “N-word” is in period dramas.
Bring me the head of Bill Maher
Sharpton does not mince words about what he wants to happen to Bill Maher. He ends his Huffington Post piece with, “Friends told me this morning that if you take this position, you may never be on Maher’s show again (and I have been on frequently).
My response is simply this: should Bill be on that show again?” In other words, Sharpton wants “Real Time” canceled and Maher to be fired.
The prospect of Sharpton driving Maher from the airways presents one with a quandary. On the one hand, watching the left eat its own is a delicious spectacle to behold. Maher has uttered a word that even the late, great George Carlin would have hesitated to use. It is the word that cannot be said on television or anywhere else.
On the other hand, any lover of the first amendment should be appalled. Bill Maher is a vile human being given to saying horrible things, mostly for shock value. But he is a poster child for what the first amendment is all about. Free speech is free speech, even if it is hateful speech. We do not preserve freedom of expression for the sort that we find comfortable with, but for the kind that makes us mad. It will be poetic justice if Bill Maher is brought down, not by one of the many conservatives he has launched against over the years, but by one of his own. #Al Sharpton
I wonder if the one on the right would like a little white in her
I knew a lawyer from Buffalo who would substitute “Canadian.” “Look at that bunch of no good Canadians just standing around.” It took me a couple times to figure out what she was saying. When I asked her about it, she said, “Hey, I’m allowed. I’m half Canadian.”
all of our dads of that age had the same name for them and its very appropo if you ask me
My Dad born 1921 and long passed used to call them the same thing _____toes.
looks like his wierner attracts flies either that of he just did a bunch of lotto scratchers and the two dudes on the left are they holding hands?
Cue Kid Creole and the Coconuts....
There’s a gentleman that’s going round
Turning the joint upside down
Stool Pigeon - ha-cha-cha-cha
He’s an old ex-con that’s been away
Now he’s back, no one’s safe
Stool Pigeon - ha-cha-cha-cha
If you wanna squeal, said the FBI
We can make a deal, make it worth your while
So he told it all and in return
He got a credit card and a Thunderbird
And the maximum security
Even after plastic surgery
So go on and squeal, said the FBI
We can make a deal, make it worth your while
He’s not getting paid millions and millions of dollars all these years because he has two viewers.
That is a very large Armani suit. Must have cost a fortune.
5.56mm
Never thought I would find myself saying this, but I have to agree with Al on this one.
Al doesn’t care who he gets head from.
White boy all look alike when you turn off the lights anyway.
Rev could rev his cred by holding up a likeness of Maher’s bloody head.
I read an article a long time ago that Canadian was the word used by waiters in restaurants to identify a class of people that didn’t tip very well.
Plenty of references with a Google search.
As I said in another post, I believe it’s an overreaction, but if it gets Maher fired, it’s okay by me.
AHHH! A job for Kathy Griffin! She can deliver it-and enjoy the humor while doing it!!
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