Bill Maher is an idiot

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Dennis Miller is a comedian too, do you think he could have gotten away with this?

take it one step further and have Miller say it during his weekly segment on Bill O'Reilly's show. The hysterical leftists like LG would be shouting from the treetops.
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I hate PC crap so I won't blast him too hard for this but:

1. He conveniently hides behind "comedian" with controversial statements while being a political commentator for other comments. I remember his musings about how less people would be dead if Cheney had been killed and even though he said "I'm serious" it was passed off as a joke. At the same time the right-wing witch Ann Coulter make a joke about John Edwards being gay and it was clearly a joke but she was attacked for being a hater since she is a political commentator and he's a comedian.

2. There is a tremendous double standard with racially sensitive comments.

Bottomline, I'd like to see equal and limited reaction to statements like this.
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I agree there is a double standard with the racist stuff. Call me naive though, if it was clearly a joke I think Miller would get away with it too. The only people crying about it would be the libtards on Huffingtonpost and the like, just like I'm sure the right wingers cry about the Maher and his humor. Any reasonable person (which there are very few in the political world) would see the humor, or attempt at humor. MSM included in the idiot category in this regard.

Although I don't agree with it, but much of the anti-gay humor from the left gets a pass because they are generally not the ones that are calling it a sin and waging the war on morality. Like it or not, the only ones seeing homosexuality as a perversion of morality are the conservative christians, of which all conservative get unfairly placed in this same group. Coulter, being a legit conservative christian nutjob, gets slammed because she can be seen as really believing Edwards being gay as an insult. Likewise and equally unfairly IMO, all liberals get placed in the same category as those that view it as nothing more than an imaginary crime that really doesn't matter or hurt anyone. I'd venture to say all liberals in every other sense of the word doesn't feel that way either.

I do agree however, Maher is an idiot of the first order. Outside of his statements on religion, I don't find anything he says that I completely agree with or find funny. It's legitimately painful to hear him talk about economics and civil rights.
 
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volinbham said:
the reaction should be about the same - it won't be though. Beck will be castigated and Maher will be defended.
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Beck will be castigated by whom? Maher will be defended by whom? These are important questions. Refer to any number of right wing outlets and this statement is reversed. In large part, the MSM probably won't give either more than 5 minutes at the end of a news segment.
 
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It was obviously an attempt at humor, and he nailed it imho. Dennis Miller would have pulled it off too.

Now if Glen Beck tried that... He'd be massacred... I'd pay money to see that.
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no one saw him make fun of tebow?

note: i dont watch the show normally, but anyone who gives tebow **** usually moves up a few points in my book
 
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Bill Maher is like Al Franken, they both think they're funny but they're not.

Both think people like them but they don't.

Both think they're smart but they're not.
 
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gsvol said:
Bill Maher is like Al Franken, they both think they're funny but they're not.

Both think people like them but they don't.

Both think they're smart but they're not.
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Come on gs!! You gotta admit Al Franken is funny! Stewart Smalley... C'mon man!
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gsvol said:
Bill Maher is like Al Franken, they both think they're funny but they're not.

Both think people like them but they don't.

Both think they're smart but they're not.
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Franken had a pretty good career on SNL, Maher has been on television for over 10 years. Evidently enough people think they are funny to justify their careers. Not agreeing with them does not equal them not being funny necessarily.

I don't agree with Maher on a number of issues, but he levels one every once in awhile I find humorous.
 
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Vol Doll said:
So let me guess, if you think Bill Maher is an idiot, then you must think Glen Beck is an Einstein?
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That's part of the problem with our country today. When someone has a differing opinion, they're labeled "idiots" and "morons" and nothing ever gets discussed or resolved. People become obsessed with putting the other person or group or party down. Too many closed minds across the board. From Message boards to Congress.
 
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OWB said:
That's part of the problem with our country today. When someone has a differing opinion, they're labeled "idiots" and "morons" and nothing ever gets discussed or resolved. People become obsessed with putting the other person or group or party down. Too many closed minds across the board. From Message boards to Congress.
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I had a specific reason for starting this thread. If you and Vol Doll want a thread dealing with Glenn Beck's idiocy, Lawgator has about 50 of them.
 
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MG1968 said:
I had a specific reason for starting this thread. If you and Vol Doll want a thread dealing with Glenn Beck's idiocy, Lawgator has about 50 of them.
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Nah that's ok. I'll just hang out in this one. Thanks though. :hi:
 
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