Bill Maher, Bigot

Human Events ^ | 04/25/2008 | Gary Bauer

[SandRat]

I did say that bigot was the kindest thing I could say. Anything after that would make an old west mule skinner cringe and the course words and an old school longshoreman want to take notes so he could use the epithets against Union Scabs at the next strike.

[kellynla]

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Excellant analysis!

[Old Phone Man]

All Maher’s trouble stems from the way he looks....He’s so effin’ ugly even his mother coudn’t love him ....

[bukkdems]

[i]I guess her payoff from convicted felon Charles Keating is without substantiation huh. As was her dalliance with the Duvalier and Marcos dictatorships. The woman was a fraud and a crook. Hitchens and Maher are spot on in their criticisms.[/i]

Thanks for the truth arrow. I shall follow.

[supremedoctrine]

Thanks, and I’m thinking of copyrighting the final sentence which is as good a line as I’ve ever come up with.
It takes someone as icky as Maher to inspire me to conjure up a line like that.

[fight_truth_decay]

Bill Maher, Bigot

...with ugly hair

I can never discuss Maher with any seriousness, as he is so inconsequential to any part of my life. I flip by his show, catch two seconds, laugh at the idiocy of the panel (hoping to eventually catch their mouths moving and a lag in voice over), sigh in disappointment and move on.

[elhombrelibre]

Maher is the typical effete and anile dweeb who is not funny, interesting, or anything more than a lowbrow bigot.

[Senator Goldwater]

If Maher ran down the Pope while I was near him, I’d kick his ass.

[Bigg Red]

You can’t hit yourself in the head with a hammer then blame the hammer for your headache.

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Exactly.

I like dropping in on threads like this to see what people are saying in answer to the post, but I really wish various writers would just ignore comments from jerks like this. Like Rosie O’Donnell, Maher says outrageous things just to get attention, and a piece like Bauer’s gets him plenty of attention.

[IronJack]

Maher says outrageous things just to get attention

The same with this ridiculous so-called "artist." Warhol had it almost right; everyone is after their fifteen minutes of fame ... or INFAMY. That's all these clowns are after, some kind of notice. If they can't be noticed for doing something worthwhile, they'll settle for something outrageous. As long as they're NOTICED.

Don't notice them. They're not worth it.

[imintrouble]

There is nothing more pathetic than a labelled ‘comedian’ whose jokes are simply not funny - nor does he have a sense of humor residing inside.

How he arrived at his limited and undeserved fame is beyond me unless his family ‘bought it’ for him when he was an unknown.

Hopefully he will soon be unknown yet again.

It must be creepy to be him.

[bpjam]

I think Bill Mahers’ life on a public network was just a matter of time. They guy is such a degenerate that he was going to revert to Howard Stern-esque depravity at some point so the idea of putting him on the public airwaves was a mistake which was going to be evident eventually.

The decision to put him on HBO was just an affirmation that as a liberal he can continue to say whatever he wants short of calling for OBL to blow up Cheney’s winter home in Wyoming.