Posted on 06/05/2017 2:12:33 PM PDT by drewh
Bill Maher is out one big guest for his next live show on HBO this Friday -- Senator Al Franken just canceled his appearance.
Franken announced Monday he won't be appearing alongside Maher for Friday's episode. A spokesperson for Franken said Maher's use of the n-word last week was the reason.
A spokesperson for Franken tells us, "Senator Franken believes that what Bill Maher said was inappropriate and offensive ... He was glad to see Bill, who the Senator considers to be a good friend, apologize and express sincere regret for his comment."
This would seemingly be the first real professional consequence Bill has faced since using the racial slur. As we reported, HBO isn't going to can him ... and his tour dates are fine for now.
Ice Cube is also scheduled to appear on Maher's show this week. Unclear if he'll go through with it.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
Stupid.
Maher can be offensive and Griffin’s Schtick is to be exactly culturally and socially abrasive.
Get over it.
Hey Al—glad to see you got your buddy’s back....
Oops.
Bill Maher and Kathy Griffin soon to announce they are taking their show on the road. Bill will dress up in blackface and do his routine with Kathy holding severed bloody heads of different people.
And at least Maher does go after the Islamo-Fascists.
I hate to say it, but we would lose a big voice against Islam if Maher loses his job.
So the white guy virtue signals about how much he cares about racism and refuses to go on to demonstrate his progressive creds.
But the black guy does the show...
What’s that say?
He stands with Kathy ‘The Blade’ Griffin but not edgy comic Bill Marher?
So there are limits?
Or does it just depend on the target of a joke?
I thought Maher was implying Sasse was a plantation owning slave master and Bill Maher was too good for outdoor labor.
Was there an a on the end?
That’s the contemporary excuse.
Lenny Bruce “ ... its the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.
Dig: if President Kennedy would just go on television, and say, I would like to introduce you to all the niggers in my cabinet, and if hed just say nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger to every nigger he saw, boogie boogie boogie boogie boogie, nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger til nigger didnt mean anything anymore, ...
then you could never make some six-year-old black kid cry because somebody called him a nigger at school.”
Idiot liberals like Franken demand that the word “nigger” remain the hateful word that must never be uttered, but they don’t hesitate calling us racists, those of us who may agree with Bruce that it should not remain an empowered, hurtful slur ... protected by guys like Franken, reprehensible hypocrites who use the word when they think no one is listening.
Seems the esteemed Senator Frankens’ friends are a bunch of violent, hateful racists...
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