Bill Maher's Tebow tweet prompts calls for HBO boycott

Tribune ^ | December 28, 2011 | Tribune News Services

[Mozilla]

Bill Maher has run afoul of religious conservatives yet again, after a Christmas Eve tweet the comedian sent about overtly religious Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow.

Following a 40-14 Broncos' loss to the Buffalo Bills on Saturday, Maher tweeted, "Wow, Jesus just ... #TimTebow bad! And on Xmas Eve! Somewhere in hell Satan is tebowing, saying to Hitler 'Hey, Buffalo's killing them'. (Adult language has been removed from the Tweet.)

Predictably, the dig from the atheist comedian didn't go over well with Christians. Fox Business' "Follow the Money" host Eric Bolling got things rolling with his Twitter response: "Bill Maher is disgusting vile trash. I can't even repeat what he just tweeted about Tebow..on Christmas Eve. #straighttohellBill."

Others have called for a boycott of HBO, which is the home of Maher's show, "Real Time."

[moehoward]

Used to be plenty of good to offset the garbage on HBO.
Boardwalk Empire is almost good sometimes, and that’s about it now.

[Sir_Humphrey]

If we really want to get our point across, then the only thing we can do is to organize an effective boycott of HBO. This is something the left has done effectively over the years. It's also something we can never quite figure out how to do. Until we do we will have to tolerate people like Maher.

Of course, spouting our indignation at each other is literally preaching to choir and will never get the situation changed but hey, we will fell better about ourselves after we vent.

[Elsiejay]

A passing comment: Our public discourse needs an adjective other than “adult” for describing words or verbal expressions that are indecent, vulgar and reprehensible.

[wild74]

It is a pure shame but HBO will not drop him and I can’t boycott HBO because I dropped them a long time ago before this fool even came on.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Maher is just jealous is all...
Tebow this bonehead^5
Freegards
Lex

[Sir_Humphrey]

I disagree. Maher wants people to call for a boycott but he wants those efforts to fail.

[Jim Scott]

Bill Maher, a so-called 'comedian' who was funny for 5 minutes about 20 years ago, is the poster boy for who the hardcore 'left' really is. He is ugly...inside and out. Maher's hatred for 'religion' - mainly Christianity - (he avoids mocking Islam, the coward) and his vile comments about political conservatives and anyone not on the liberal bandwagon are indicative of the loathing liberals have for the elements that have made America great, including the moral compass most religions give us. The 'controversy' Maher's nasty 'tweet' to Tim Tebow generated help cement his popularity with 'his' people (liberals) and give him the kind of publicity he would never get for his little-watched cable show. As always, although Bill Maher is an anti-religion bigot, his free speech rights allow him to say whatever he wants but that same right also gives his detractors (us) license to criticize and mock Maher, something that is very easy to do with a putz like Bill Maher.

[No_More_Harkin]

I’d like to know who has called for a boycott - a detail the Trib mysteriously leaves out.
If folks who are offended would just ignore this twit, he’ll dig his own grave, and his popularity will continue to wane until he’s nothing more then a sour memory.

Calls for “boycotts” of something HBO already knows Christians don’t watch does nothing but bolster Maher, HBO and their ilk’s over-inflated egos.

[Hacklehead]

The left respects no one’s opinions but their own yet they constantly lecture on “tolerance”

[DecentAmerican]

Maher is the pure poster boy for the ignorant, uneducated, racist, intolerant, hypocritical left. He bemoans Americans as “stupid” if someone like Palin can become President, yet fails to recognize the utter stuipidity at those who vote for the collasal corrupt failures of Hussein, Reid, Pelosi, Boxer, and Blumenthal. He has made numerous racist comments (like Hussein should go “gangsta” on congress....), yet the race card trash like Sharpton completely ignore this. He has called for violence on conservatives, yet the wacko left does not blink and instead blame the tea party for the Tuscon shootings.

And...he is a total coward. He has no problem insulting Christianity, but does he dare insult Islam? Why are you a coward Bill, if you hate all religions? Actually, imagine if he did make a joke about Islam, and not only would he instantly be fired, but he may suddenly “disappear” and his hateful body will be found strewn in pieces across the desert highway.

Trust me Bill, no one will miss you, you rotten maggot.

[CatherineofAragon]

I like Tim Tebow as much as anyone else——he seems like a fine young man, and I love his devotion to God. But has it escaped everyone that the offensiveness of Maher’s tweet lies not in its insult to Tebow, but its blasphemy of our Lord??

[itsahoot]

Good Friend

[faucetman]

I'm not a violent person, but when I hear Bill Maher’s name, it always makes me think of the lyrics to that song by Golden Earring......

“...........Where am I to go, Now that I've gone too far
Soon you will come to know, When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know, When the bullet hits the bone [bone, bone]
When the bullet hits the bone” (end of song)

[Road Warrior ‘04]

I won't boycott HBO, but I won't watch Maher, either. Ever since he called the hijackers, (that flew the planes into the Towers and the Pentagon and Pa.) heroes and our military fighting men, cowards, I've had no use for him at all! Apparently, neither did ABC, since they cancelled him after the comment.

Calling Maher a "f*cking idiot" would be too kind...

[Hot Tabasco]

Bill Maher has run afoul of religious conservatives yet again,

So, only conservative Bible Thumpers should be pissed off..got it.

[VideoDoctor]

One must keep in mind that what's his name on HBO is nothing more than a very minor character passing through.

This is one time that the phrase, "move along nothing to see here" has true validity.

[Gertie]

Bill Mahar has a strong K-9 ancestry on the maternal side and when his time comes, they should squeeze all the s**t out of him and bury him in a empty “Preparation H” box.

[democratsaremyenemy]

I boycotted HBO over 20 years ago, where has everybody else been? Oh I have also been boycotting Hollywood for years. If there were more people like me Hollywood would be a ghost town. I’d love to see tumble weeds rolling down Rodeo Drive.....

[beaversmom]

He used to make me want to blow chunks that’s for sure. I swear to goodness I can’t think of his name. It will come to me I’m sure. Probably when I’m sick to my stomach.

[Bellflower]

But has it escaped everyone that the offensiveness of Maher’s tweet lies not in its insult to Tebow, but its blasphemy of our Lord??

Yes, and may The LORD deal with him appropriately.