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Saturday, June 3, 2017

Liberals Outraged After Bill Maher Says "I'm A House Ni**er"

We may have hit the moment of "peak outrage."


After months of liberal anger focused on Trump in particular, and the conservative right in general which culminated with last week"s unfortunate attempt at "humor" by Kathy Griffin, in which a severed Donald Trump head reportedly cost her her career (in her own words), overnight Bill Maher did his best to take the heat off of Griffin by focusing the next round of social outrage - especially that emanating from the left - on himself.


As the Wrap notes, "the former Politically Incorrect host proved he’s still politically incorrect when Republican Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse invited Maher to “work in the fields.” Maher"s reply prompted outrage among the liberal half of social media, as well as a barrage of calls aimed at HBO to fire Maher. Discussing his new book on Friday evening, the following exchange took place:


“I’ve got to get to Nebraska more," Maher said to Sasse.


“You’re welcome. We’d love to have you work in the fields with us," Sasse replied.


“Work in the fields? Senator, I’m a house nigger. No, it’s a joke," said Maher.



Following the exchange, much of the audience laughed and clapped even as some audience members were heard to groan. Sasse kept quiet, before Maher said: “No, it’s a joke.” Neither Mr. Maher nor Mr. Sasse addressed the comments further, and the conversation moved to other subjects.


However, it was too late and the outrage was already flowing. DeRay McKesson, a Black Lives Matter activist and former Baltimore mayoral candidate, led the criticism on social media. “Bill Maher has got to go,” he wrote. “There are no explanations that make this acceptable” He added “And why does the audience think it was OK to laugh? And Ben Sasse doesn’t even flinch. What is happening in the world?"



Somehow Trump was also thrown into the mix: “Trump has undeniably moved the posts re: what is acceptable in political discourse but we can’t sit idly by, as discourse breeds actions.”


Others joined in: “He said ‘n—er’ with a HARD ASS Rrrrrrrrrruh, so that makes this extra offensive,” said The Root writer Monique Judge, who added: “His show needs to be canceled.”












Maher did not immediately comment in response to media inquiries. On Saturday, Sasse gave his view in a series of linked tweets. “Am walking off a redeye from [Los Angeles International Airport],” he wrote, before offering “three reflections on Bill Maher”.





“I’m a first amendment absolutist. Comedians get latitude to cross hard lines. But free speech comes with a responsibility to speak up when folks use that word. Me just cringing last night wasn’t good enough.



“Here’s what I wish I’d been quick enough to say in the moment: “Hold up, why would you think it’s OK to use that word?...



“... The history of the N-word is an attack on universal human dignity. It’s therefore an attack on the American Creed. Don’t use it.”



Will HBO follow in CNN"s footsteps, which last week terminated its relationship with Griffin, and let Maher go or confirm that all the pent up outrage - on both sides of the aisle - is nothing more than a theatrical act meant to whip up audiences into a "peak outrage" frenzy?  And if the use of the "N-word is an attack on universal human dignity" does that mean the regulators will ban hip hop songs where it just happens to be the most frequently used word for "commercializing" social anger, injsutice and hatred? So much hypocrisy, so little time.


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Update: accordinv to BuzzFeed, an HBO spokesperson said Maher"s comment was "completely inexcusable and tasteless" and that they would remove it from re-runs.



Which means that Maher gets to keep his job, and also that the much anticipated and long overdue "peak social outrage" moment has been postponed until the next "socially awkward" and "politically incorrect" misstep in a society just dying to be outraged each and every day.

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Saturday, April 1, 2017

Bill Maher: "Hillary, Stay In The Woods. You Had Your Shot. You F**ked It Up"

Bill Maher, host of HBO"s "Real Time," finally said something on his late night talk show that seems to make some level of sense.  Just as Hillary has started to take a more active role in organizing the Donald Trump "Resistance" movement, a move that has sparked rumors of yet another presidential run in 2020, Maher took to the airwaves to implore Clinton to go back to the woods where she "found" herself just a few weeks ago.





 “Hillary, stay in the woods. Okay. You had your shot. You f*cked it up. You’re Bill Buckner. We had the World Series, and you let the grounder go through your legs. Let someone else have the chance."



"This to me — the fact that she’s come back, it just verifies every bad thing anyone’s ever thought about the Clintons, that it’s all about them. Let some of the other shorter trees get a little sunlight.”





Of course the comments reference a speech that Hillary gave to "The Society of Irish Women" at a St. Patrick’s Day speech in Scranton, Pennsylvania a few weeks back saying that she"s finally ready to "come out of the woods."  And while that comment could be interpreted in a whole bunch of different ways, we assume that it was simply a hint that she"s ready to return to public life in some capacity.





"Our country seems so divided right now. I do not believe that we can let political divides harden into personal divides.  And we can"t just ignore or turn a cold shoulder toward someone because they disagree with us politically."



"We"ve gotta keep trying to listen to each other, to reason together and try to work to help people have better lives."



“I’m like a lot of my friends right now. I have a hard time watching the news, I’ll confess.  I am ready to come out of the woods and to help shine a light on what is already happening around kitchen tables, at dinners like this.”





Unfortunately, while Hillary is all too willing to encourage the rest of us to "listen to each other", she"s apparently not yet ready to listen to the advice of the 60+ million people around the country, plus Bill Maher, who have decided they would prefer she not be an active participant in public life any longer.

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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Orgy Enthusiast Bill Maher Defends Statutory Rape On Several Occasions - "The Crime Is That We Didn't Get It On Videotape"

What an interesting turn of events. Days after outspoken Trump-supporter Milo Yiannopoulos appeared on Bill Maher"s panel of idiots where he was subject to a liberal hit-job, the left decided to execute operation McMuffin; a collaboration between liberals and former CIA "never-Trumper" Evan McMullin to strategically release dredged up flippant remarks Milo made about homosexual grooming - which led to a canceled book deal and his resignation as tech editor for Breitbart. With over 1500 sex trafficking and child exploitation arrests in the first month of Trump"s presidency, this was clearly the left"s desperate attempt to try and insinuate some sort of hypocrisy on the right concerning pedophilia. Weak.


The MSM, predictably, wasted no time attacking Milo - a strategy which surely couldn"t backfire:



Salon.com even deleted a pro-pedophilia article so they wouldn"t look like total hypocrites when they ran an story quoting Bill Maher, who took credit for kicking off the Milo smear campaign:




Hours later, thanks to 4chan and Reddit - the tides are turning, and Bill Maher"s about to get blown the fuck out...


Turns out the 61 year old host of HBO"s Real Time With Bill Maher, who attends a $75K / year elite Los Angeles sex club, is also a huge fan of pedophilia as long as the abuser is a woman - as told in a 2007 issue of Playboy magazine:



This isn"t the first time Maher has defended statutory rape. While the official DSM definition of pedophilia has an age cutoff of 13, the HBO host vehemently defended former teacher and convicted statutory child rapist Mary Kay Letourneau for having a sexual relationship with one of her students, which began when the boy was 12 - firmly putting Maher"s advocacy for the relationship in pedo territory.


(Note how Henry Rollins is completely on point?)



  


Karma Bill, karma. Oh, and about that sex club mentioned earlier; it appears Maher is into some Eyes Wide Shut shit. While normally I wouldn"t care - the hypocrisy of his ivory tower judgment of a gay conservative, and the fact that he piled on and took credit for kicking off Milo"s "downfall" for the exact same practice he"s advocated several times, makes it fair game to point out that the HBO host loves him some expensive orgies!





At a swanky party in a Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion last Saturday, I spot Bill Maher in a sea of beautiful young women and make my approach.



“Are you a Leo?” I ask the host of HBO’s “Real Time,” while eyeing a lion pendant around his neck.



“No, they make me wear this stupid thing because I’m a member,” he replies, stroking the back of his date, a pretty younger woman in a short black leather dress.



Single men pay $1,850 per party, or $1,500 if they come with a female partner. For the erotic elite, there’s an annual Dominus membership for $75,000, which includes admission to all parties, a sterling-silver necklace with a lion pendant and access to private rooms at parties and Lawner’s network of sex experts.



The sex club also has an interesting initiation:





Dominus members sign a “blood oath,” involving blood and a paper document, to join — but Lawner won’t go into details. -NY Post



What??? AIDS tests are in the back of the store at the pharmacy counter, Bill.


The crickets are warming up for yet another prolonged silence from the MSM.



  

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Friday, December 30, 2016

Anthony Bourdain Slams "Privileged" Liberals For Their "Utter Contempt" Of Working-Class America

Celebrity chef and host of CNN’s Parts Unknown Anthony Bourdain is no fan of Trump, and he made as much clear in today"s interview with Reason. When asked what concerns him about Trump, he responded: "what I am not concerned about with Trump? Wherever one lives in the world right now I wouldn"t feel too comfortable about the rise of authoritarianism. I think it"s a global trend, and one that should be of concern to everyone."



However, while a liberal bashing Trump is hardly news, what was more noteworthy is that the celebrity chef also unloaded on "his own side", when he called out elite east coast liberals - of which he admitted he is part of - saying that their “utter contempt” for working-class Americans was unhelpful and nauseating.





The utter contempt with which privileged Eastern liberals such as myself discuss red-state, gun-country, working-class America as ridiculous and morons and rubes is largely responsible for the upswell of rage and contempt and desire to pull down the temple that we"re seeing now.



Bingo. It is also why the "shocking" Trump presidency is nothing more than the public"s revolt to "Eastern liberals" shooting themselves in the foot by overly believing their own BS.


But Bourdain did not stop there, next lashing out at the tidal wave of artificial political correctness sweeping over the nation: "I hate the term political correctness, the way in which speech that is found to be unpleasant or offensive is often banned from universities. Which is exactly where speech that is potentially hurtful and offensive should be heard" Bourdain said.


He continued:





The way we demonize comedians for use of language or terminology is unspeakable. Because that"s exactly what comedians should be doing, offending and upsetting people, and being offensive. Comedy is there, like art, to make people uncomfortable, and challenge their views, and hopefully have a spirited yet civil argument. If you"re a comedian whose bread and butter seems to be language, situations, and jokes that I find racist and offensive, I won"t buy tickets to your show or watch you on TV. I will not support you. If people ask me what I think, I will say you suck, and that I think you are racist and offensive. But I"m not going to try to put you out of work. I"m not going to start a boycott, or a hashtag, looking to get you driven out of the business.



But it was his commentary on the arrogance of the liberal superclass that all other liberals (and conservatives) should note and learn from, and it is 100% accurate.





I"ve spent a lot of time in gun-country, God-fearing America. There are a hell of a lot of nice people out there, who are doing what everyone else in this world is trying to do: the best they can to get by, and take care of themselves and the people they love. When we deny them their basic humanity and legitimacy of their views, however different they may be than ours, when we mock them at every turn, and treat them with contempt, we do no one any good. Nothing nauseates me more than preaching to the converted.



The self-congratulatory tone of the privileged left—just repeating and repeating and repeating the outrages of the opposition—this does not win hearts and minds. It doesn"t change anyone"s opinions. It only solidifies them, and makes things worse for all of us. We should be breaking bread with each other, and finding common ground whenever possible. I fear that is not at all what we"ve done.



Bourdain is, of course, correct, although we fail to see how America manages to cross so many great divides - racial, ethnic, social, religious, and of course, wealth - in the near future, no matter who the president is, in a peaceful manner.


Finally, in an amusing twist, Bourdain despises such shining examples of self-righteous liberals as Bill Maher even more than he hates Trump. When asked what he thinks of Bill Maher, his answer was emphatic:





Insufferably smug. Really the worst of the smug, self-congratulatory left. I have a low opinion of him. I did not have an enjoyable experience on his show. Not a show I plan to do again. He"s a classic example of the smirking, contemptuous, privileged guy who lives in a bubble. And he is in no way looking to reach outside, or even look outside, of that bubble, in an empathetic way.



In retrospect, if more people could see the world through Bourdain"s eyes, there may still be hope.

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