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Bill Maher mocks Middle Americans as 'less affluent and educated--they want to be us'
foxnews.com ^ | 2/24/19 | Paulina Dedaj, Fox News

Posted on 02/25/2019 5:54:25 AM PST by Liz

Bill Maher derided Middle Americans in red states as envious of their blue-state counterparts.....Maher blamed Amazon's Bezos for pitting wealthy cities against one another in a battle over the next Amazon headquarters, while ignoring states that would benefit most from thousands of new jobs......after the deal NYC deal fell through.

“We have a problem in America called spatial geographic inequality which means the most affluent and educated people are clustered in just a few cities,” he said. He said there are “two Americas” .....states that historically vote Democratic vs ones that skew Republican.

“We have orchestras and theaters districts and world-class shopping. We have Chef Wolfgang Puck, they have Chef Boyardee. The blue parts are having a big prosperity party while the big sea of red feels like their invitation got lost in the mail -- and they still use the mail.”

The comedian went on to say. “The fly-over states have become the passed-over states, that’s why red state voters are so pissed off. They don’t hate us, they want to be us.”

Paulina Dedaj is a writer/ reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter @PaulinaDedaj.

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To: Liz

Aw jeez Bill...just go outside and play Hide and Go F*** Yourself. Or just play in traffic.


41 posted on 02/25/2019 6:19:12 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Atrophy of science is visible when the spokesman goes from Einstein to Sagan to Neil Degrasse Tyson.)
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To: yldstrk

“Maher is a dimwit oaf.”

I disagree. I believe Maher is as smart as the next guy maybe smarter And he’s quick witted. But that being said he suffers from what many in Hollywood and elsewhere suffer from.....A monumental ego that governs their entire existence.

He is so self involved, self righteous and maintains such an overinflated opinion of himself and his abilities that he believes every thought, even a fleeting one has just got to be pure Gold. people that look at life, government, faith, anything differently than himself are rubes, uninformed simpletons that can’t possibly understand absolute truths the way he does because he and his likeminded self absorbed narcissist’s know all the answers with unmitigated certainty.

Everyone has been exposed to a “know-it-all” in their life and they’re insufferable. You can’t rationally debate with them because the best you’ll get are sardonic platitudes dripping with condescension.

They know and you don’t period. It’s best to just ignore them and let them serenely reside in that flawless utopia which is their own head.


42 posted on 02/25/2019 6:20:00 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Liz

Bill Maher is a mental midget. I would suspect he spends more time in front of his dressing room mirror than in front of the camera desperately trying to convince himself of his delusions of grandeur.


43 posted on 02/25/2019 6:20:00 AM PST by John 3_19-21 (The left would rather be the leaders of lies, than servants of the truth.)
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To: Liz

This guy is perfect for Ann Coulter.


44 posted on 02/25/2019 6:20:10 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Liz

Watch what happens when the taxpayers are no longer enough to pay for the urban underclass’s benefits. Have fun while your cities burn.


45 posted on 02/25/2019 6:20:46 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Celerity

$80 Broadway tickets? Where?


46 posted on 02/25/2019 6:21:26 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Liz

The last thing we want around here is to be anything like Bill Maher.
He can take all his evil uppity ilk and ideas and shove him up his “wherever the sun don’t shine”...but the SOB would probably like it.
He’s a evil, useless POS...always was, is and will forever be.


47 posted on 02/25/2019 6:23:21 AM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: All

Here's Maher starring in the 1989 hit movie: "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death."

WIKI---The film sends up many pop culture motifs and societal trends, including feminism (and feminist movements' fragmentation around various issues), B movies (particularly Cannibal Holocaust), celebrities, major writers and political figures.......

PLOT The U.S. government grows worried for the nation's avocado supply after some confrontations with the "Piranha" tribe of cannibal women, who live in the mysterious "Avocado Jungle" (westernmost outpost: San Bernardino) and ritually sacrifice and eat men. The government recruits Margo Hunt (Tweed), a professor of feminist studies at a local university ("Spritzer College"), to travel into the Avocado Jungle and make contact with the women to attempt to convince them to move to a reservation/condo in Malibu.

Along the way, she and her travelling companions — male chauvinist guide Jim (Maher) and ditzy undergraduate Bunny (Karen Mistal) — meet a tribe of subservient men (must be Democrats).

48 posted on 02/25/2019 6:24:24 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: John 3_19-21; Liz

-——Bill Maher is a mental midget.——

The man is self made nothingness, fluff, jetsam

Like AOC, he believes he is relevant


49 posted on 02/25/2019 6:24:36 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: JudyinCanada

“This guy is perfect for Ann Coulter.”

Yup, like a anal wart, Bill Marr is perfect for her.


50 posted on 02/25/2019 6:25:18 AM PST by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: Liz
The fly-over states have become the passed-over states, that’s why red state voters are so pissed off. They don’t hate us, they want to be us.”

Uniformity-of-profit principle: In a free market, there is a tendency toward the establishment of a uniform rate of profit on capital invested in all the branches of industry. The free market is self-correcting. If higher rates of profit can be earned in a certain area of the country, capital will flow there.

The red states want more capital invested but they do not want to be like leftards. Those are two separate unrelated things.

51 posted on 02/25/2019 6:26:35 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Beagle8U

*Bill Maher.


52 posted on 02/25/2019 6:26:37 AM PST by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: lgjhn23
I wonder if Maher was on that Coast Guard guy's list
53 posted on 02/25/2019 6:27:57 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Liz

One thing about leftist elites, they thrive on, and desperately need,the approval of their fellow elites. Elites are told what to think by the herd of elites. If you continue to travel with that herd, you have their permission to publicly look down your nose and ridicule anyone who is not in the herd . . . hence their perpetual air of superiority . . . at least in their own minds.

Quote from Rita Mae Brown: The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

. . . at least everyone in the herd still fakes liking you. The impression I get from Maher is that he spews his arrogance about what we should think and do, but he seems about as miserable as anybody I have ever seen. I think Bill hates who he has become.

Guess what, Bill . . . we folks in Red country don’t give a rat’s a$$ what you think. We don’t take orders from anybody about what we think. We don’t take orders from our social peers. We are not imprisoned by the need to make a lot of money. We don’t assume the misguided arrogance to criticize others for what makes them happy. We don’t live Maher’s version of the world because we have chosen not to live that way. For someone who fancies himself as so brilliant, Bill really has some stupid ideas.

Our nation has gotten really screwed up in terms of values because of the influence of social worms like Maher. Just imagine how unlivable our nation would be if folks in Red states actually signed on to Maher’s view of the world. Scary thought. Maher enjoys many of the benefits of his privileged life expressly BECAUSE most of us do not think like him. God help us if we ever do!!


54 posted on 02/25/2019 6:29:08 AM PST by RatRipper
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To: Beagle8U

“This guy is perfect for Ann Coulter.”

Actually they are very much alike. Both suffer from the same mental affliction (see post #42)

Coulter has just a bit more common sense in my opinion though. But that’s not saying a lot as Maher is virtually devoid of that particular attribute.


55 posted on 02/25/2019 6:30:05 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Liz

If he only knew. But he doesn’t. I don’t think he wants to understand the people. He feels secure in his hole, afraid to get out. He is pitiful


56 posted on 02/25/2019 6:30:38 AM PST by Karoo
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To: Free in Texas

I don’t hate him. Hating him would be a total waste of energy on a completely unworthy subject.

I don’t want to be him, either.

I suspect he’d be truly shocked to find how few people spend any time at all thinking about him one way or the other.


57 posted on 02/25/2019 6:30:56 AM PST by susannah59
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
When the jihadists catch up with Maher for his past remarks about Islam, the millions upon millions of Americans he's gratuitously abused wll just point and laugh. And maybe dox all his producers, advertisers, and members of his family, just to make sure the jihadists haven't missed anyone.

58 posted on 02/25/2019 6:31:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Liz

MAGA bad, Haiti is great

59 posted on 02/25/2019 6:31:06 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Liz

Maher is saying, I think, that he is afraid of businesses getting a better offer from Red states.


60 posted on 02/25/2019 6:31:31 AM PST by BlackAdderess (Why did Bernie Sanders and Maxine Waters both vote against the Magnitsky Act?)
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