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Bill Maher says his Trump-orangutan jokes are not the same as Roseanne's 'ape' tweets
Fox News ^ | 6/2/2018 | Stephen Sorace

Posted on 06/02/2018 2:22:36 PM PDT by antidemoncrat

"Real Time" host Bill Maher defended himself Friday night after critics spent part of the week equating his past jokes -- likening President Donald Trump to an orangutan -- to Roseanne Barr's Twitter post about a former adviser to President Barack Obama.

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To: Retired Chemist
Libs used to equate George Bush to a chimp and the same excuse was used.

Because it's not the same. If you called me (white guy) a ni**er and a black guy a ni**er would that be the same?
21 posted on 06/02/2018 2:46:59 PM PDT by LanaTurnerOverdrive ("I've done things in my life I'm not proud of. And the things I am proud of are disgusting.")
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Yep! Exactly why virtue signaling liberals are easy to troll; they DO believe that black people look like apes - and since they are two dimensional thinkers, they scream and scream and scream. This was a rare event that gave them orgasms.


22 posted on 06/02/2018 2:58:27 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: antidemoncrat

23 posted on 06/02/2018 2:59:39 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: antidemoncrat

Maher accused Trump’s mother of bestiality, which is at least as reprehensible as what Barr said.


24 posted on 06/02/2018 3:02:48 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: antidemoncrat
Of course, each individual has their own reason for why they thought the joke was "funny." Humor is as personal as is anything else, which is why others often don't find the humor in a joke that the teller thought was funny.

For Maher to say this his joke was different from Barr's joke, is to fall into the same trap that says that he knows how the listener will discern the distinctions, which he obviously doesn't.

-PJ

25 posted on 06/02/2018 3:08:33 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

VJ is only an 8th - 16th black. Every drop of blood counts when your yelling RACIST
She is 100% red however. So that does make her colored.
(Check out the FBI files of her ancestors connection to the communist party)


26 posted on 06/02/2018 3:16:49 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT Q)
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To: SecondAmendment

You just made me realise that. Good point. Terrorists, like M-13, are just alright with the left.


27 posted on 06/02/2018 3:19:28 PM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Actually, the comparison comes from Darwinian Evolution (DE). which claims that: The most primitive peoples are more directly descended from primates than the more civilized peoples. The Nazi regime thought that the Jews were “ape like” as the Muslims still do. The followers of DE thought the aboriginal people in Australia were barely people and put some in the zoo. This idea that man is made in the image of the monkey rather then in the image of God is directly traceable to DE.


28 posted on 06/02/2018 3:20:06 PM PDT by cotton (one way, one truth, the life.)
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To: antidemoncrat

It’s not the same because Maher is a leftist and can say whatever he wants. Trump supporters can’t.


29 posted on 06/02/2018 3:20:57 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: TigersEye

“He deserves a good old fashioned beat down for it.”

Civility in the media would easily go upward off the charts. Perhaps a bit much to hope for but it might even encourage a positive behavioral change in Congress.


30 posted on 06/02/2018 3:23:22 PM PDT by Huaynero
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Is racism (or ascribed racism) the only offense which matters? You can insult someone’s mother in the most vile, crude way, a woman who never did a thing to you and lived out of the public eye (unlike Jarrett), but because it wasn’t “racist”, it’s OK, it’s “politically correct”? That’s like the disingenuous meme that it’s OK to insult a white person in a racial manner because they’re white.


31 posted on 06/02/2018 3:24:14 PM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: antidemoncrat

Bill Maher is employing the toxic technique of Gaslighting. It is a tactic a person uses to gain more power by maniipulating them into questioning their own reality. In this case one is made to question whether the metaphor of Roseanne’s ‘ape’ is the same as Maher’s orange orangutan joke that said that Trump was the spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan. Anyone with reasonable reasoning skills would say that both metaphors were in the same vain. The techniques is used because gaslighting works much better than you may think. Anyone is susceptible to gaslighting, and it is a common technique for abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders. Many times the victim doesn’t even realize how much they’ve been brainwashed.


32 posted on 06/02/2018 3:24:20 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the new cult of the Left.)
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To: antidemoncrat
What if he had said that Barack Obama’s mother had sex with an orangutan? Would that be O.K.?
33 posted on 06/02/2018 3:25:12 PM PDT by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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To: LanaTurnerOverdrive

For years I chose to let it go (because, frankly, I really don’t care) if I was called “cracker” or “honkey” by a black person. No more. Nope. We’re going to have EQUALITY in this country, dammit, real equality, and I’m going to do my best to help ensure it. You call me a name like that now, and if it’s in the correct context, I will make your life a misery to the fullest extent of the law that I can. That’s EQUALITY.


34 posted on 06/02/2018 3:29:26 PM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

35 posted on 06/02/2018 3:40:52 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Wonderful theory, wrong species)
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To: antidemoncrat

Maher doesn’t know the difference between a bicycle and a fish.


36 posted on 06/02/2018 3:48:30 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: mrsmel

Good point. To libs, racism IS the only offense that matters.


37 posted on 06/02/2018 3:50:19 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Planet of the apes movie was science fiction. Not the same as saying she was an ape.


38 posted on 06/02/2018 3:52:04 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Chim chim er ree)
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To: antidemoncrat

Our old friend Joy Behar also called Trump an Orangutan.


39 posted on 06/02/2018 3:56:32 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: antidemoncrat

Of course they are not the same.....Trump is both a Republican and white.


40 posted on 06/02/2018 4:12:07 PM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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