I am still amazed at what a racist statement that was.
Posted on 05/30/2010 11:12:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
If you thought Glenn Beck putting on an evil witch voice to imitate Malia Obama was offensive, this one is going to blow your socks off. Last night, Bill Maher lamented President Barack Obama’s “professorial” personality, noting with a hint of betrayal in his voice that he was expecting a “real black president”– you know, the kind that “lifts up his shirt so they can see the gun in his pants.”
No, that really is the entire joke, which you can watch below. After making a quip about former president George W. Bush making an unfortunate reappropriation of his famous Hurricane Katrina “heck of a job, Brownie” comment, Maher laments that Obama doesn’t bring a gun to BP meetings and “shoots somebody in the foot,” because that is what a “real black president” would do. He does not attribute this image of black people to racist Obama opponents, or do anything to clarify that this is not the way he believes black people should behave.
It seems almost unnecessary to make a list of every instance where Maher threw the “racist” tag on someone or a group of people that disgust him, but for the record he has attacked the Tea Partiers– actually, anyone that questions raising taxes– “anti-immigrant hoopies,” “older white people“… and it goes on. This is someone whose political identity is supposedly deeply rooted in a hatred of racism, someone who makes his paycheck self-righteously brandishing his tolerance, who just admitted on television that you can’t be a “real” black person without behaving like Tupac Shakur.
And that really is the sticking point here that makes this go from funny/offensive to just plain offensive. Some people have made a career of being “racist” comedians– and there’s no doubt that many black comedians use stereotypes for humor– but Maher seems to consider himself a serious political commentator, too. He appears on CNN to talk tell Wolf Blitzer how to fix the world. You can’t blur the line between satirist and commentator to that extent and expect people to let you off the hook for using minstrel show humor (which is really the only way to characterize a “haha, black people like to shoot people” joke)
Bill Maher is an A-hole and so is Obama.
Maher thinks he can say what he wants about black because he dates black trannies, however,,,,I find him offensive on every level.
Dante has a circle for him too.
So Maher thinks the typical black man carries a gun and is prone to resolving conflicts with violence. No racial stereotyping here.
Look at that picture and tell me how Obama gets away with claiming to be a “black” man. He must have been spending an hour a day under a sun lamp to maintain the facade until recently. In that picture he looks almost as light skinned as I do, especially his right hand.
Well we all know what is not in mac daddies pants, bal*s.
Who or what is a Bill Maher?
Yet if George Bush had been a real “cowboy” with a gun in his belt ...
Bill Maher isn’t a real comedian.
I don’t think he’s funny either
No, 0bama is an arrogant pos
Not to mention, American Social Decay and Meltdown at its Finest. Millions watch this guy...and believe him. There is something wrong with the country. It is decaying from the inside out, like a colony of maggots have gotten into the sacks in the rice storehouse.
I will say this for Mahr, he has captured the imagine that many of us have of the black culture.
Bill Maher pushes and pushes, and will do a Half Gaynor over the edge long before he realizes that there is an edge. Then he will join Imus in talk show host Palookaville, where he belongs.
Well, that explains a lot. Gays are resentful of black gangbangers and thugs because they tend to get attacked by them.
Maher is the typical phony liberal.It would be nice to see him beheaded by the Islamic radicals he carries water for.
Maher like all of his leftist ilk are the real scum of the earth.
Gays are resentful of black gangbangers and thugs because they tend to get attacked by them.
huh?....gays tend to be attacked by all types of men, not just gangbangers
bill maher is a homosexual?
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