I’ve seen Kathy Griffin perform live, and Joan Rivers and Lisa Lampanelli and Chris Rock — and they are all hilarious and edgy and daring comics who say outrageous things and go places that scare a lot of other comedians — but none of them can hold a candle to Bill Maher. Bill Maher is a shock comic who doesn’t say things just to shock: He says them because they are true.
Last night, at the Winspear Opera House, Maher spoke the truth for a nearly two-hour set, and, in my mind, established himself as the pre-eminent political commentator of a generation. He’s a comedian, too, of course. But really, he’s a voice.
The concert played out more like a rally than a comedian’s concert. “Your new theater isn’t gonna be clean for long,” Maher joked early in the set, before letting loose a parade of F-bombs and angry rants that touched on some easy pop targets (Justin Beiber, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen), but were most concerned with weighty issues including gay marriage (Maher said people in the military and the clergy have managed to scare people into thinking that just the sight of gay people will make you gay — in other words, “cock is like dessert at a restaurant — it’s what they’re known for, maybe I should try it”); Democrats’ wishy-washy leadership (when 75 percent of the American public supported repealing the ban on gays in the military, it “was still not enough political cover for these pussies”); his avowed atheism and even Lee Harvey Oswald (“Oh, yes, I went there — even in this town,” said the former North Texas resident).
It’s that fearlessness — he acknowledged that some people would probably be uncomfortable with some of his remarks about religion, not to mention calling Sarah Palin a “cunt” (“there’s just no other word for her”) — that makes Maher the most dangerous person in comedy. He’s painfully well-informed, which means he takes no bullshit from anyone. President Barack Obama took it on the chin almost as much as Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck. How dare the President say he would not settle for America being No. 2 — America is already out of the top 10 in most international lifestyle and human rights categories (health care, education, social mobility, women in high political positions). “I’d be thrilled if we were No. 2,” he ranted, noting it’s nice to be behind Bosnia in life expectancy (where the chief cause of death is wolfman attacks, he joked).
Every single Republican in the U.S. Senate, he noted, refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy of global warming. One of the reasons for this, he said, is that oil is very macho: “You’ve got to drill and take it. Wind is a very gay way to get our energy. It’s drill baby drill, not blow baby blow.”
Maher kicked off the evening, though, in defense of the gays, before a largely gay (and certainly gay-friendly) audience, and came back to it time and again. “Tea-baggers have taken a gay sex act — one man dragging his balls across another man’s face — and somehow turned it into something tawdry and disgusting.” Obama was criticized for demanding additional “readiness studies” before repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” (“How do they conduct those studies?” he wondered. “Johnson, get in here and blow me while I fire this rifle at a target and we’ll compare my scores to before”). His assaults on George W. Bush, the oil industry and all religion (especially the Mormons, though), was particularly pointed in Bible Belt Texas, where even flamers go to church every week. But that’s exactly what I loved about him. You don’t have to agree with everything he says to respect the way he says it — not just to be humorous but to make you think. If our politicians were so brave, we might not be in such deep shit. (Thanks to John Wright for writing down some of the jokes!)
I wonder what would happen if he said the same thing about Michelle Obama.
So will you book comedy where we call gays faggots, rump rangers, t*rd burglars and diesel dyke carpet munching homos?
Or only if we also call straight women c*nts and their families breeders? You “gays” AND STRAIGHT LIBERALS make America sick.
PS – Bill Maher is a shrimp dicked C-CK SUCKER. And yes, I heard it from his hairdresser who he does for a discount.
How very fearless of him to call women vulgar names.
@Joe: I was at the show and I didn’t hear him use any of the words you listed in your first sentence. And the only person he called a “cunt” was Sarah Palin. But your calling him a “cocksucker” indicates to me that you have a problem with gay people.
People actually pay to see Maher?
Why just limit it to Sarah Palin? What makes her so special? I wonder if he feels that way about all women, including his mother.
Bill Maher gave a rousing, enduring performanace until the end of his set. Bill is very well educated, being an Ivy leave grad.- Cornell to be exact. For the record, from a straight guy- he is known far carrying one of the largest penises in Hollywood and it was obvious at the Dallas show, as it sort of made it’s limp, coke-can apperance notably even in loose jeans. My girlfriend was reminded of me when she joked about it on our ride home and we had a great night following the comedy show, needless to say. On the gay thing: I can recognize a handsome guy, yet not be attracted to him. I would jack myself off, but never another guy. I can see a guy on a stage who is packin’ from 15 rows away because it’s sort of right there and headlevel, being as much as a visual performance as it was auditory. Doesn’t everyone check out what performers are wearing? Grow a big dick, non-liberals!
Painfully well informed? Yes because all well informed people debate others by calling them cunts. Smart people are able to make an argument without calling their counterpart names. But I guess that is what makes him “fearless”. He’s not afraid of showing his ignorance.
I love how peple have to justify waht they watch by immortalizing the morons who try to entertain them. Oh wait I said entertain. Something Bill Mahnuer doesn’t even understand. It’s all about his and their justification. Spineless and amuzing at worst.
He did the same in Austin on Saturday night. These ‘ladies’ (and I use the term lightly) deserve what they get. They want to speak their mind, and they say things even my wife calls “stupid”. My wife also feels she is smarter than Palin and Bachman put together. In his same standup Bill also said the Democrats (re:Liberals) need to ‘grow a set’ and stop sugar coating everything. I agree. If the Dems showed some backbone, and reversed the GOP (re:conservative) attacks back to the sources, then the voters can make the right decisions at the ballot, and not be marshaled (misinformed) as they were in the 2010 election(s).
LMAO! I can picture Bill saying those things. I think that’s why he is so popular and has lasted so long in the entertainment industry, and will probably last even longer.
He’s obviously well informed, more than the average person and much more than the average Tea Party nitwit. Especially a Texan Tea Party Nitwit.
And Lou Sarah is no ‘cunt’. A cunt has a purpose in life.
NewsBusters: Bill Maher Calls Sarah Palin a Vagina Again – This Time Beginning With a ‘C’
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/03/29/bill-maher-calls-sarah-palin-vagina-again-time-beginning-c
Maher’s just another low-life liberal skidmark who thinks he’s funny.
Would be nice to see Todd Palin deck the son of a bitch.
What Esteban and Nick said above. Mahar simply would not say the same things about any prominent Democrat woman because his career in Hollywood would be cut short. He knows that there are certain political boundaries he can’t cross, and his criticism of Obama was probably gentle and from the Left.
He makes his bones by attacking approved Regime Targets and keeping the Base in line for the Democratic Party. This man is NOT Lenny Bruce. Not by a long shot. Bruce never hesitated to highlight the
hypicrisies of liberals. This guy is just a court jester for the Democratic Party with a foul mouth.
Who would have know that being vulgar and throwing around a few curse-words would make you really smart. When I listen to Maher, all I can say is “wow, how witty!” He does cross some boundaries and he is so brave to do so. I bet it took him years to assemble all those bumper stickers, I mean, what better source of informed commentary. And I’m sure Sarah is really upset.
Who’s Bill Maher? Never heard of him.
Maher is a faggot with a misogynist streak—-as long as the woman is good-looking and fertile. I’m sure he has the hots for Kathy Griffin or other lez-bean losers.
This guy thinks its hip to dig Bill Maher?
@Feech LaManna.. You are probably one of the teabaggers Maher talks about, with low intelligence, and a desire to gt Sarah in the sack. Your kind is helping the Koch Brothers put the middle class out of business. Get over it, Bill Maher is a comedian that does political commentary. If you are not mature enough to handle that you really need to get a life, and a higher IQ.
Gray, it appears that you are not mature enough to handle, you’re the one responding negatively to Feech laManna. Doesn’t Feech have a right to an opinion as you and Maher (as small minded as that may be from you and maher)? What’s your IQ Gray?!
Bill Maher is like kryptonite to stupid. I don’t think Section 9 has ever seen Bill Maher. If they had, they would know that nothing is safe – even liberal politicians. Bill Maher has excoriated quite a few.
Painfully well-informed? Did you see Maher a few months ago on the panel for ABC’s This Week, touting Brazil for what he claimed was its progressive, green-energy policies? Only to be promptly and thoroughly embarrassed by (the actually well-informed) George Will with the fact that Brazil is drilling for oil offshore like there’s no tomorrow. Maher hasn’t been back on that panel since.
A completely feminized leftist fairy like Bill Maher spoke before “a largely gay audience”? Birds of a feather ….
Maher is the tree hugging, shit for brains dumbass who actually “thinks” that “Brazil got off oil in the last thirty years.” https://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bschaeffer/2010/05/03/george-will-skewers-bill-maher/ Imagaine that! According to Maher, Brazil has all of its cars and trucks powered by gerbils spinning their wheels. Anyone who attributes “fearlessness” to Maher is as much a moron as he is. Maher appears before nothing but identically minded leftist dingbats similar to the Dallas audience or CNN, A-Mess-NBC, ABC et al., and some imbecile calls that “fearlessness”? Maher is as big a pussy and coward as the members of his mind-numbed audience are.
Maher is saying that tea bagging is disgusting. It is shockingly anti-gay. I am a gay man that is not disgusted my my partner’s body, nor anything he does with it and me for pleasure. Maher wants to disgust his listeners, though, and shock them, and disparage the tea party, so he throws a gay sex act under the bus to get his laugh and political points. For him, death by bunga-bunga. Now that is funny.
“Yes because all well informed people debate others by calling them cunts”
Estaban, there was no debate here. No one was giving winks and saying “can I call ya, Bill?” This was a vulgar comedian calling a public a name and then watching the feelings of all the nice right wingers get hurt, so much much that the insane and inane (daveinboca comes to mind. He is made up of 100% pure wingnut) would cry for our Alaskan Evita. She doesn’t want your tears, Estaban, she wants your cash
@Nicholas Nick: The difference is, Sarah Palin IS a cunt; Michelle Obama is a great woman. It would be like calling Michelle Obama German or vegan or 33 years old — she isn’t. But if the quitter hat fits…
@Joe: You are thinking of Lisa Lampanelli. Who I WOULD book because she uses the terms ironically and loves gay people.
Bill: My wife also feels she is smarter than Palin and Bachman put together…
@Bill: No doubt about that. Your wife is a bigger c-nt than them both, I agree. And you didn’t have anything to with those mammoth underworld dimension either.
Does Bill Maher use a farm to breed those idiotic, America-hating, freakshow freaks in his audience or did that whore Maher calls his “mother” give birth to all of those freaks?
“I’ve seen Kathy Griffin perform live, and Joan Rivers and Lisa Lampanelli and Chris Rock — and they are all hilarious and edgy and daring comics who say outrageous things and go places that scare a lot of other comedians — but none of them can hold a candle to Bill Maher. Bill Maher is a shock comic who doesn’t say things just to shock: He says them because they are true.”
This is a classic, man. I wish I could frame ya. You are a real piece of work. Oh, there are many words to describe you.
So the “premier media source for LGBT Texas” thinks that Maher “established himself as the pre-eminent political commentator of a generation. He’s a comedian, too, of course. But really, he’s a voice.”
i don’t agree with Maher on most things but I don’t mind his comedy bits. It’s what comedians do. That said, this site should be embarrassed for throwing its weight behind classless vulgarity — regardless how funny it might be.
I applaud the fight for gay rights. This post is setting that effort back. The site’s editors ought to have more sense than to publish this.
One more thing for Arnold Wayne Jones: How the hell do you think you’re helping your cause by labeling her a cunt? Why use the word cunt? Christ man grow up. (Forgive me for using the word Christ. I know all mentions of Jesus must scare the hell out of you. I fear I am a cunt for doing such a thing.)
Wow, so much for that “new era of civility.”
There is nothing edgy, new, exciting, interesting, intellectually provocative, insightful, funny, or otherwise in going “Sarah Palin is a cunt HAHAHAHAHAH.” Good one, Bill. It took a while for me to realize that being liberal and an atheist doesn’t exempt you from being a dumbass or a misogynist.
BM for brains if you think hurling insults, cursing and hatred shows informed truthfulness. Is the author a slow-zombie or a fast zombie?
As the left wing and the liberals continue to reveal just how degenerate they are…. no morals and no moral compass, living in the sewer, racists, sexists, liars, cheats, crooks, basically the scum of the Earth… the majority of Americans can look on in disgust and when it counts – as in 2012 – these low life pieces of crap will get the boot again and when a Republican is President and the Republicans have control of both houses, then the house cleaning will begin. Since scum accumulates everywhere is not cleaned up immediately, it will take at least two election cycles to scrub these useless human beings out of positions of any power. By that time Bill will have died of venereal disease from all the hookers he screws.
A pal who sat in the nosebleed seats said there was a heckler up there, smoking pot (in the opera house!) and yelling stuff. Ushers rousted him out. The other 2000 people ate Maher up with a spoon. He was hilarious, smart and provocative.
To Arnold: If you would study why Sarah Palin left office, you would find it was to save the state from frivolous lawsiuts. There is documented proof of her fight against corruption in Alaska, her taking on the oil industry to benefit Alaska’s citizens, etc Regardless of what you may think of Sarah Palin, no woman deserves to be called that. It denigrates all women, including Mechelle Obama.
Correction: Michelle Obama.
Ok folks. It is called comedy. Lighten up! Oh, and BTW Madonna calls herself a kunt in concert and in videos because she decided to take the word and give it her own power and meaning. Sara Palin, on the other hand, doesn’t own up to it simply because she is ill-educated, close-minded and downright evil. In this sense, she is a cunt!
Art — is close-minded defined as unwilling to agree with you? And how is she ill-educated? Didn’t go to an Ivy? Well I can’t believe we let her outside!!!! And downright evil, huh? How do you expect to ever persuade people when your argument consists of ad hominem/demonizing attacks?
Keep searching for power and meaning via Madonna. Another impressive facet to the life and mind of Art.
Well, if he makes people uncomfortable, could it be because the humor is falling flat? I have heard people complain that there are nights when Maher’s stuff is a little preachy.
1) Sarah Palin is a quitter. Fact, not opinion.
2) Sarah Palin attended about five sub-standard colleges and had a mediocre grade point average. Fact, not opinion. 3) Sarah Palin is a low information person. Fact, not opinion. “What publications do you read?” “Uhhhh….all of ’em.” She could even make up ONE name of ONE publication to BS her way through that Katie Couric interview, one of the most softball interviews I have ever witnessed.
Government is constantly criticized for being feckless, pointless, ineffective, dysfunctional. Is Sarah Palin the type of person that will change that type of impression of government, if she is elected to an office higher than that which she quit?
And yes, Bill Maher called her the C word to piss off those that it would piss off. You think wasn’t his purpose? Mission accomplished, Bill, once again.
Bill Maher is a liar and a hypocrite and a disgusting little hate-mongering pile of dog crap. Is this an insult? Yes. I have just insulted dog crap. Sarah Palin has more intelligence, common sense, decency and integrity than Maher and all the other filth-spewing lefty “comedians” will ever possess in their lifetimes. Isn’t this the same Bill Maher who spent lots of free time at the Playboy Mansion and has a weakness for teenage chicks?
Left-wingers spew lies and hate. Period.
@Jonsie. It’s 158, what’s yours? In the double digits? The neocon press tries to find another morsel to get upset about, and morons like you support them. You must be one of those teabaggin’ old men who fantacises about bedding Palin. Maher is a comedian, get over it, dumbass. Palin and Bachmann deserve all the heat they get as they are dumb as rocks, and try to use cuteness (and topical conversation) to overome their lack of intelligence.
Wow the anti Bill Maher / Sarah Palin fan club websites sure got a hold of this article fast. LOL
So I guess it’s now OK to use the “N” word to describe the Obama’s, right Bill? (j/k)
Maher is nothing but a pig and a misogynist.
And Palin is about 100x smarter than he will ever be.
I heard he also compared Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin with Ginger and MaryAnne from the show “Gilligan’s Island” which is ironic, as if the three of them ever found themselves shipwrecked, Maher would likely become unhinged and panic and cry and wail “What are we going to do?”
Meanwhile, Palin would build shelter, collect drinkable water, catch, kill, skin and gut dinner, and build a shelter, all of it saving Maher from starvation and hypothermia.
Palin is more of a “Man” than Maher will ever be.
Maher is nothing but an ugly (inside and out) little man who reads jokes written by others and uses crude, vulgar language to attack people who aren’t there to defend themselves.
Kind of like an “internet tough guy” flexing his internet muscles.
And if he ever ran into Todd Palin, Maher would likely defecate himself without Todd Palin ever touching him or saying a word.
Todd Palin would just leave him there, standing in a pile of his own shit.
Maher is a weasel and one of the worse kind.
Anyone who thinks he’s “clever” or “hip” or “cool” has issues.
He’s nothing but a loud-mouthed punk with a big head on a little body.
Bill Maher basically took a shit on stage, and the audience squealed in delight.
Speaks volumes.
“I wonder what would happen if he said the same thing about Michelle Obama.”
Well, if he said it about Michelle Obama it wouldn’t be -true-.
“Sarah Palin has more intelligence, common sense, decency and integrity than Maher and all the other filth-spewing lefty “comedians” will ever possess in their lifetimes”
Yeah, when I think “intelligence, common sense and integrity,” I think of the quitter who talked about Putin rearing his head over Alaska.
This man is no entertainer. He was only playing to his audience. What would you have done if he had slammed Gays? Mayer does not like man or woman. He jacks off while looking in the mirror.
Bill Maher grosses about $180,000 per engagement and doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks about him.. He is better educated and has a far better lifestyle than most who post on this site.. Any press is good press..
Posted aforementioned.. From someone who is a Bill Maher fan, no less..
@Peterson. Palin is a woman the last time I checked. Maher is a comedian, not a politician. I expect a politician to be smart. Plain Smart? Five colleges to get a degree!!.. I think not. People like you should stop dissing Maher because he speaks the truth about politicians that are not worth runing for any type of office. Idiots like you vote them into office, and help the Koch brothers attack the middle class, which is shrinking thanks to the conservative agenda of the AFP.
So you all think this is acceptable? I don’t have any position on Palin but I do know that she is a woman, my support is behind all women who participate in life 100% and I will not tolerate in my own life sheer misogyny which this is nothing but……and you support it. You have just lost a supporter here, as a councilwoman from Laguna Beach no less
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As a Republican city council member and former mayor in California, the entire LGBT community has lost your support because of a story you don’t like about a comedian appearing in Dallas that appeared in a newspaper in Texas? Really?
And as a Republican elected official you have no position on Palin? None? Really?
Or are you objecting to the paper repeating a word that was used in that performance? Or to the comedian himself? If that’s the case, he lives in your state. Contact him directly.
To El Pendejo: And what makes you think it’s true of Sarah Palin? Do you know her and Michelle that well?
I do wonder how Maher would feel if someone used that term in reference to his mother. From his humor, I wouldn’t be surprised if he called her that himself.
“Well, if he said it about Michelle Obama it wouldn’t be -true-.”
Oh, I see, some women are c-words, so it’s okay to call them that. Is that like some Afro Americans are N-words, so it’s okay to call them that? Or some gays really are f****ts so it’s okay to call them that? Okay, I get it. I should feel free to call any woman a C**t that I decide deserves. Okay, I’ll let you know how it goes
@Gray. Bill Maher does not speak the truth. In fact, he has spewed death wish comments against Dick Cheney and Glenn Beck. It’s obvious that years of drugs and sex have rotted his brain.
And the Obama Civility Scout badge goes to Bill.
Maher is a hyper-liberal sycophant and, no doubt, the Left’s most trusted source for political analysis.
@scott. It was In humor. He’d be the first to tell you that truth is not part of a comedic dialog. But the neocon blogosphere has gone viral on this. But really, if a comedian can not say something in a comedic dialog, where have our 1st amendment rights gone to. Maher does not take politics seriously, and that is apparent by his dialogs.
The conservative mind has selective memory. The truth about Maher’s “Cheney comment” was that all Maher did was comment that the readers on Huffington Post were dismayed that a Cheney assassination attempt failed. Maher never said he wanted Cheney dead, but did say if Cheney were to die it would save lives. That has been hashed out in the press. But really if a comedian can not joke about politicians, then
where have our First Amendment rights gone.
Beck, he is another story. Talk about drugs and sex, and a big time liar. Beck has got Maher beat by miles in that department, and people believe him. The neocon knuckle-draggers need to get a life and do something other than attack comedians for their comedy.
@Scott, you need to get your news from places other than Newsbusters, Newmax, pajamamedia, gatewaypundit, or any other basement blogger liar sites.
@Lynn.. No he is a comedian who makes fun of the conservative mindset, and how stupid it can be.
@Gray . Since you can’t seem to let it go and move on, your defensiveness shows you’re not really sure of your position. If you have to do that to justify it, that’s fine. We understand.
@nick. No, I just get miffed by conservatives who think they have too trash someone who does not think like they do. Maher is an entertainer. He is supposed to make people laugh, and these miscreants go overboard for political reasons. George Carlin used to have the same problem, as did Lenny Bruce. Maher was funny. But these neocon knuckle-draggers guys can’t get past the fact he called Palin a ‘c’, and has made equally offensive statements before, of which they (the neocons) have lied about (i.e. Cheney comments).
@Gray. I see your point. It just sickens me to see any woman called that name. To me it’s no different than using the “n” word. I guess everybody has their own opinion about what’s funny.
@gray. “It was in humor…”
I am sick of people using that excuse to justify the most evil, hate-filled comments you can possibly imagine. You call that humor? I don’t.
Trying to explain away Maher’s comment about Dick Cheney is a waste of time. It was a death wish comment. Period. Utterly vile.
“Beck is another story…” That is still no excuse for “joking” about “Hey, you know that Pentagon shooter who the police had to shoot dead? Why oh why couldn’t that shooter have been Glenn Beck?” Utterly vile again.
Sandra Bernhard once “joked” about how if Sarah Palin ever showed at her neighborhood, she just might be “gang-raped by my big black brothers”. Ever stop to think just how outraged people would be if some conservative comedian (or any comedian) cracked the same “joke” about Michelle Obama?
It is the left-wing hate-spewing comedians that are dragging their knuckles.
@scott. Well, Scott, come to think of it there are very few, if any, conservative comedians. Like Nick, I do not like anyone who uses those comments when it isn’t couched as part of humorous skit.
I can’t help it if what Maher says offends you, but you are a fool if you think he’s evil.
Palin’s supporters released an advertisement depicting gun-sight targets placed on a US map (with 3 in Arizona), and a list of candidates (of which Giffords was one) , and on Facebook said “Don’t Retreat, Instead-RELOAD!”. Palin isn’t a comedian, and has yet to apologize for the inappropriate ad, and comment.
If you do not like a comedian’s schtick, don’t listen. That is your choice. I was listening to some Carlin today, and he was just as rank on Dan Quayle calling Quayle “F***ing stupid”. Rodney Dangerfield used to do an obnoxious skit. Did that make him or Carlin evil? NO cuz Comedians tend to make comments that are topical, and that is what makes some of them popular and others not so popular. I remember Leno making a comment of “where is a pretzel when we need it” referring to the close call GWB had with a pretzel. Does that make Leno evil? No.. Just laugh and move on. I suggest you do the same. You are too focused on calling too many people evil, like Beck does.
@gray. I didn’t call anybody evil. I said that their comments were evil.
Sarah Palin has no need to apologize for that advertisement or for her “Don’t retreat, reload” comment, unless you are ready to say that Barack Obama needs to apologize for once saying in 2008, “If they bring a knife, we bring a gun”. Both of those comments are called metaphors. Politicians have been using those types of metaphors for ages. Everybody with the brains of an artichoke knows that nobody is implying violence with those types of comments.
The crosshair-style graphic used in that ad is very similar to one that the DLC used in 2004. And so how does the radical left respond? They ignore the DLC ad. And somebody used the crosshairs in a protest sign against Scott Walker. But here is the big difference. The Palin ad was used on a map, and it was clearly meant to say, “Target these districts for Republican victory at the ballot box.”
The protest sign against Scott Walker? It had the crosshairs plastered directly over Gov. Walker’s face. Sounds like somebody didn’t listen to President Obama’s memorial speech.
Allowing the pubic to post anything they desire without consequences of what they are saying results in a loss of credibility for this publication. Any publication that does not take the responsibility to review comments before they are posted losses credibility.
When it comes to palin he sure knows what he is tlking about.
That woman is a numb cunt.
Oooo bill maher is so fearless..please. a coward at best. he gets a free pass for everything. attacking bush and palin does not take guts. its a joke that only stupid fools laugh at. it gets old Maher… I wish the pussy would spend that much energy attacking Islam or how about reality show tv stars, how about hefner? what apanzy
I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or Republican, Bill Maher is an absolute IDIOT! He slants stories with half truths and partial information and is a flat out liar! People like Bill Maher are a cancer to our country and only dividing the two political parties further apart.
Jones, you are such a fucking turd chomper I’m not surprised you licked his ass.
I would say it sounds like Bill Maher has dragged his balls across Arnold’s face a few times.
For another great laugh, check out the first two sentences that Dick wrote right up at the top. Awesome. lol
Bill Maher is a national treasure – he has done MORE for America than the silly, greedy, crooked GOP Congress and the moronic GOP presidential wannabes ever will do. Those of you who are complaining about him have probably never even watched Bill Maher. Nor have most of you ever served in an armed service. Most of you complainers are the products of the GOP’s strategy to cut funds for schools at ALL levels for the past 47 years – because they know that ignorant, superstitious, gullible people tend to vote overwhelmingly FOR the GOP. Our country is in debt and way below 20 or 30 other countries in education, technology, health care and a dozen other areas, thanks to the GOP’s anti-school and help-the-rich policies. I’m a 72-yr-old Army vet who is disgusted with the divisiveness of the GOP, none of whom have ever served in the military and ALL of whom have govt. health care paid for by you & me, as well has HUGE govt. pensions, also paid for by you & me.
I was not aware Maher was a comedian. I guess you learn something new every day. That is something I never would have suspected in a million years. When did he come out of the closet? He surely hid it well all of these years by being so dimwitted, predictable and tiresome.
@Chris Hitchens Dude, you are *NOT* the real Christopher Hitchens! How *DARE* you fucking use his name like that?! What the fuck, dude?!??! Actually be brave enough to use your real name, OR DON’T FUCKING POST, DUDE. Don’t be an ass!
If that actually _IS_ your real name, tho, I apologize. Lol, you must get asked questions about that *ALL* the fuckin’ time! lol!
Also, @gray made a mistake up above. You *CANNOT* have a mature discussion about vulgarity, cursing, politics, and comedy with a person SOOOOOOOOOOOOO fucking immature that they actually use words like “c-word.” It is just impossible to discuss nuance and appropriateness with someone who has been conditioned into a childish, immature, gut reaction when hearing the syllable “fuh” immediately before the syllable “ck!”
I mean, you just cannot have such a discussion talking about differences in nuance, tone, and history of use between “curse” words like “shit” and “fuck,” and *TRULY* negative ones like “faggot” or “nigger.” Those last two, which have been used by many to inflict some SERIOUS harm and hurt on people IN RECENT MEMORY, tho I don’t wince or shy away from the words’ use, I can really only use just in talking about the words’ use. Those are two…erm…”curses,” if you will, that really are off limits in a way. “faggot” being much worse than “nigger,” of course depending on usage and context.
“Cunt,” however, is _NOT_ one of those words. “Cunt” is just the female equivalent of “dick.” *THAT’S IT*. Well, actually…ok, in one sense that is true, but in another sense they both mean essentially the same thing, the two words only differing in severity. (As in, cunts are bigger dicks than dicks. lol) Kinda like how “bitch” and “bastard” really mean two _different_ things, but bastard is usually used like the female version of “bitch,” and vice versa.
But yeah, the point I’m trying to make is that it is *IMPOSSIBLE* to have this kind of mature, nuanced discussion about cursing and appropriateness with someone who is *SO* fucking immature they actually use words like “c-word.” Hell, I usually *MOCK* most ADULTS who do that out of the presence of children! lol
All and all, reminds me of why I moved out of the South. ;~D lol