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Bill Maher on Islam spat with Ben Affleck: “We’re liberals! We’re not crazy tea-baggers”
Salon ^ | October 6, 2014 | Elias Isquith

Posted on 10/06/2014 12:49:36 PM PDT by EveningStar

... I think Sam and I and Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Salman Rushdie and everyone who is basically making the same point, I think we all feel frustrated because I think we feel like the people who are arguing with us are not listening.

We’re liberals! We’re liberals. We’re not crazy tea-baggers, y’know, and so it’s kind of hard to be making this case — based on facts, based on polling, I think based on what everybody really knows… I mean, do the people arguing with us, would they really open a lesbian art gallery in Ramallah? [Laughs] Or Karachi? Or Cairo? I don’t know if they would back up what they’re saying with actions.

We are not bigoted people. On the contrary, we’re trying to stand up for the principles of liberalism! And so, y’know, I think we’re just saying we need to identify illiberalism wherever we find it in the world, and not forgive it because it comes from [a group] people perceive as a minority...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benaffleck; billmaher; hollywoodreds; homophobe; islam; teabaggerslur; teaparty
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Bill Maher answers Ben Affleck Islam uproar
1 posted on 10/06/2014 12:49:36 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
Liberalism, Can/Will get you killed.

2 posted on 10/06/2014 12:50:55 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...Pres. E'Bola/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: EveningStar

If you ARE a Liberal you ARE crazy!


3 posted on 10/06/2014 12:50:57 PM PDT by Renegade
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To: EveningStar
Bill Maher is a DUMB TW*T
4 posted on 10/06/2014 12:51:34 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: EveningStar

He uses that term quite a bit. Must be an integral part of his life.


5 posted on 10/06/2014 12:51:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: EveningStar

This crazy tea-bagger will match wits with both of those libtards any day, any time.


6 posted on 10/06/2014 12:51:59 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: EveningStar

When the Muslims cut off his head, Bill Maher will still be explaining to them that he’s a liberal, fer gosh sakes.


7 posted on 10/06/2014 12:54:03 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: EveningStar
On the contrary, we’re trying to stand up for the principles of liberalism!

Alrighty, then. Just what are the principles of liberalism?

prin·ci·ple noun \ˈprin(t)-s(ə-)pəl, -sə-bəl\

: a moral rule or belief that helps you know what is right and wrong and that influences your actions

8 posted on 10/06/2014 12:54:37 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maher’s teabagger fixation definitely has freudian overtones.


9 posted on 10/06/2014 12:54:57 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Renegade

What is that saying, if a person is insane they think they are perfectly normal and everyone else is insane? Hello Bill Maher. If you think about it, what is there to be against when it comes to the Tea party? Freedom? So they are against freedom? I would say that’s pretty insane.


10 posted on 10/06/2014 12:55:23 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama Will Say 'War on Women' But Not 'War on ISIS)
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To: EveningStar

I have to disagree. These two bozos are crazy, tea-bagging liberals!


11 posted on 10/06/2014 12:57:08 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Got Ebola? Come to America!)
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To: EveningStar

I wish the Tea Party were called the Patriot Party or the Constitutional Party so that these gay fantasizers would quit refering them as Tea Baggers.


12 posted on 10/06/2014 12:57:34 PM PDT by Old Yeller (D.A.M.N. - Deport All Muslims Now! Starting in the White House.)
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To: skeeter
Some times a tea bag is only a tea bag.

Unless, of course, you are Bill Maher, Anderson Cooper or some other liberal.

13 posted on 10/06/2014 1:00:59 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Cicero

Maher actually agrees with the Right on Islam.

However, what he’s saying in effect here is that when he and other libs criticize Islam, it’s OK, but when we do it, we’re bigots.


14 posted on 10/06/2014 1:01:17 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: skinkinthegrass

They are Crazy Bags of Horse Puckey!!


15 posted on 10/06/2014 1:02:39 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: EveningStar

I don’t understand. I thought the left loved the tea-bagging members of their party?

God I’m so confused!


16 posted on 10/06/2014 1:03:16 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Linux rocks. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: EveningStar
Bill Maher:

“What it comes down to is there is one religion in the world that kills you when you disagree with them and they say, ‘Look, we are a religion of peace and if you disagree, we’ll fucking cut your head off,’ and nobody calls them on it. There are very few people that will call them on it. You know, it’s like if dad is a violent drunk and beats his kids,” Maher said. “You don’t blame the kid because he set dad off. You blame Dad because he’s a violent drunk.”

And if you are a female within the religion of peace, they will cut your F'n clitorus off!
..no reason needed.

17 posted on 10/06/2014 1:03:48 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: EveningStar

Did Maher actually see his head on the “Chopping block” so to speak????

He has woken up it seems, but a majority of liberals are still asleep on islam, why? Becasue like the scorpion, it is their nature to be self deluded...


18 posted on 10/06/2014 1:04:27 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: EveningStar

Maher is kiss beginning to see that “liberals” only give lip-service to liberal principles. Their colleges are only indoctrination centers that have forgotten the meaning of “liberal arts.”


19 posted on 10/06/2014 1:04:37 PM PDT by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He uses that term quite a bit. Must be an integral part of his life.

It rubbed off when he was dating Ann Coulter.

20 posted on 10/06/2014 1:05:49 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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