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Bill Maher defends Rush Limbaugh for 'slut' apology

I could say the same about your positions. Somehow you think Rush is a evil incarnate and somehow not an entertainer, but Bill Maher is not a pundit, despite having a show that that's all about political commentary. We even know, further, that Maher is politically active (donating a million bucks and all), but he's not a political commentator because he's on HBO and he's done stand up, and anything done during a standup routine is completely fair and cannot be criticized unless you, specifically, don't think it's funny. You're not the only one, WSS, who feels like you've landed in OZ. LOL

Why can you not just admit that you hold Rush to a different standard because you don't like him rather than try to say that anyone who doesn't buy your whisper thin distinctions is just being so unreasonable?

Look, I don't know anything about Bill Maher. Here is what I know about him:

1) He is a comedian.
2) He has a show on HBO where he talks politics.
3) He donated money to the DNC or a SuperPac.
4) He said some mean **** about Palin because he disagreed with her politics.

What do you want me to do? Boycott his show? I never watched it to begin with. But I won't get all outraged about a comedian saying something offensive because I'm not retarded. If Anderson Cooper called Palin a dumb twat and a ****, then I'd care. But he won't. Onto Rush:

1) He is not a comedian.
2) He has a syndicated radio show where he acts as a political pundit.
3) He holds arguably more sway with the republican party than any other person in the country.
4) He said some mean **** about some random woman because he disagreed with her politics.

*I don't see a similarity other than they both said something mean.

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And no, I won't admit that. If it was Wolfe Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, someone on NPR or any other political pundit I would agree. Bill Maher is a comedian with a show on HBO. WTF do you expect? Right after him probably comes that Penn & Teller show where they show gratuitous tits in between every scene.
 
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And you can't/won't answer the question... :lamo

I tried to by saying Richards wasn't making a joke. A black guy in the audience was talking or heckling and he just flat out ****ing lost it. Bill Maher, on the other hand, was reading off cue cards and it was part of a bit.

You want me to explain the difference between Michael Richards losing it on a black guy and screaming nigger and saying that he would be dead if it where 50 years ago and Bill Maher reading off a cue card that he thinks Sarah Palin is a ****?

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*Edit: I think there are 3 aspects to look at in this situation.

1) Who's saying it?
2) What platform are they saying it on?
3) Who are they saying it about?

That's why Imus got in so much trouble. If he had called Condoleezza Rice a nappy headed ho... no one would have cared. And not because Rice deserves it, but because she is somewhat famous and a politician and that's just normal behavior in America.
 
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Look, I don't know anything about Bill Maher. Here is what I know about him:

1) He is a comedian.

That's questionable. I think he is a hateful little putz.

2) He has a show on HBO where he talks politics.

Yep, and packs his audience with nothing but mouth foaming libs, and holds a panel with one weak conservative, surrounded by himself and usually two, or three other staunch libs....Much like any of the MSM sunday shows.

3) He donated money to the DNC or a SuperPac.

Yeah, that'd be a Million dollars $$ to an Obama SuperPac.

4) He said some mean **** about Palin because he disagreed with her politics.

Arguably worse names than Linbaugh called Fluke.

What do you want me to do? Boycott his show?

No, calling his sponsor and complaining like libs do when someone like Limbaugh does similar.

I never watched it to begin with.

That is a great testament to the draw of liberal tripe on the air.

But I won't get all outraged about a comedian saying something offensive because I'm not retarded.

Big opening there, but out of kindness I'll let it go...

If Anderson Cooper called Palin a dumb twat and a ****, then I'd care.

Did you care when Ed Schultz called Laura Ingraham a slut?

Onto Rush:

1) He is not a comedian.

Nope, he isn't in the stand up sense. What he is, is a thorn in liberals sides...Getting much right on the mark.

2) He has a syndicated radio show where he acts as a political pundit.

As an analyst he is arguably very correct most of the time.

3) He holds arguably more sway with the republican party than any other person in the country.

What is your evidence of this? I don't see any decisions being made with someone saying that they are doing such because Limbaugh said to do so....

4) He said some mean **** about some random woman because he disagreed with her politics.

Yep, and he apologized for it...Move on.

*I don't see a similarity other than they both said something mean.

You're right...Mahr's was worse. A comparable would be Ed Schultz calling Ingraham a slut.

And no, I won't admit that. If it was Wolfe Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, someone on NPR or any other political pundit I would agree. Bill Maher is a comedian with a show on HBO. WTF do you expect?

Parity in outrage from the liberal left. This faux outrage over Limbaugh, or any other right wing pundit saying something that the left uses to try and silence them is disgusting, especially when as more that comes out about this poor Georgetown law student, whom btw, is going to make $160,000 in her first year out of college, and that Pelosi, and Anita Dunn arranged to put out there with her sad sack story as diversion from the failing progressive agenda is beyond cynical.

j-mac
 
If Bill Mayer can speak for all liberals, can Rush speak for all conservatives? Because if you are making the argument that a pundit can speak for such huge groups of people there's about to a million more Rush topics, hell I suppose they'll be a million Mayer topics too.

Oh so now Rush doesn't speak for all Conservatives. :lamo

Maher is an asshole, but he's exactly right when he calls the sponser pull out, "intimidation".
 
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freudian projection there huh?

all your political opponents must be gay?

interesting.....


Nah...Just the progressives (said with a lisp) :LOL:


j-mac
 
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It proved for certain that the vewy vewy sensitive liberals that are just gosh darn it sad that Limbaugh called a woman a slut couldn't muster any outrage at all when a democrat supporter and nationally known 'comedian' and political commentator used the same language and worse....

that cause' unlike Conservatives, Liberals can take a joke.

case in point: many Conservatives actually believe Stephen Colbert is a TRUE Conservative.

:lamo
 
that cause' unlike Conservatives, Liberals can take a joke.

case in point: many Conservatives actually believe Stephen Colbert is a TRUE Conservative.

:lamo

Aw come on.....lol....Like who?

j-mac
 
I think when BM saw what running a vile mouth can do to your pocketbook, it scared him. I am not surprised he would circle his wagon around Rush. They are two of a kind. Sorta.
 
that cause' unlike Conservatives, Liberals can take a joke.

case in point: many Conservatives actually believe Stephen Colbert is a TRUE Conservative.

:lamo

Do you have any idea how many liberals believe Palin actually said she can see Russia from her house. LOL
 

Colbery reminds me of Col. Klink on Hogans Heroes. The story goes that he really hated the Germans and worked to make them look as stupid as possible.

His identification with Nazi roles notwithstanding, Klemperer was in real life the son of a Jew who fled with his family from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. When he was offered the Col. Klink role, Klemperer only agreed to do it if the show's producers promised that Klink would never succeed in any of his schemes. <snip>

Werner Klemperer - Biography

Colbert makes the conservatives look stupid in the same manner. And it surprises me none that many conservatives actually take him seriously and consider him to be one of them.
 
Colbery reminds me of Col. Klink on Hogans Heroes. The story goes that he really hated the Germans and worked to make them look as stupid as possible.

His identification with Nazi roles notwithstanding, Klemperer was in real life the son of a Jew who fled with his family from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. When he was offered the Col. Klink role, Klemperer only agreed to do it if the show's producers promised that Klink would never succeed in any of his schemes. <snip>

Werner Klemperer - Biography

Colbert makes the conservatives look stupid in the same manner. And it surprises me none that many conservatives actually take him seriously and consider him to be one of them.


Colbert only makes conservatives look stupid to the liberals he is addressing....Conservatives think he is just plain stupid himself.

j-mac
 
"Bill Maher defends Rush Limbaugh for 'slut' apology" - Proof that birds of a feather flock together. Remember the things Maher said of Palin & Bachmann?
 
How fitting, you post an opinion from a douche like Jason Linkins who has been banned from writing for the front page of HuffPo for ad hom attacks on others....:lol

Keep em coming Thunder, that's a hoot.


j-mac

Linkins was relying on a study from Ohio State. Has Ohio State been banned from Huffpo?
 
Echoing the sound of silence.


Rush Limbaugh’s advertising exodus is deep into its second week, and despite the radio host’s claim that the impact of 50 companies pulling their business has been negligible, listeners in the nation’s largest media market were treated to over five minutes of radio silence where Limbaugh’s advertisers once stood today. <snip>

Rush Limbaugh's Show Airs Over 5 Minutes Of Dead Air As Ad Boycott Continues

:violin
 
Bill Maher defends Rush Limbaugh for 'slut' apology - UPI.com


We'll be hearing stories of liberals jumping off buildings now, and millions of liberal heads just exploded.

:lol:

Good luck with your Rush-hatefest guys.

:lamo
Well at least Maher's consistent - he's made similar comments (ex. "MILF") about conservative politicians such as Palin and Bachmann, so if he were hear jumping on the "I hate Rush" bandwagon, his hypocrisy would be blatantly obvious.
 
What are you talking about? Wiseone is right on target. Maher doesn't speak for all liberals anymore than Rush speaks for all conservatives. Just because either one of them makes a claim, doesn't mean that others of that lean have to agree.
Wait wait wait, if Rush doesn't speak for all conservatives, and we establish this, then Why are liberals all jizzing over each other over Rush's slut comment? You see, this is one of those "No matter what, you lose" argument. If you say Maher doesn't speak for liberals, then there is nothing to talk about and you lose, if maher does speak for all liberals, then you lose because of the double standard you apply to rush. see?
 
Wait wait wait, if Rush doesn't speak for all conservatives, and we establish this, then Why are liberals all jizzing over each other over Rush's slut comment? You see, this is one of those "No matter what, you lose" argument. If you say Maher doesn't speak for liberals, then there is nothing to talk about and you lose, if maher does speak for all liberals, then you lose because of the double standard you apply to rush. see?

What does Maher have to do with anything!?!?!! Why the **** do you guys keep bringing him up?
 
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