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Bill Maher On Larry King Live: Virulent Anti-Obama Tea Partiers Are “Extremely Racist”

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Bill Maher was Larry King’s guest on Larry King Live tonight, and the results were…well, they weren’t surprising at all, if you know Bill Maher. There was talk about Obama, Republicans, Tea Partiers, birthers, “churchers” (a new one invented by Maher) and tonight’s most momentous primary result…but mostly, as there usually is with Maher, there was zero middle ground.

After John King interrupted Larry King’s broadcast to announce the Delaware primary for Tea-Part-backed candidate Christine O’Donnell, Larry king discussed the result with Maher. Maher’s takeaway was that “Democrats should be very happy” that the likes of O’Donnell are winning primaries, because:

“I think voters are generally conservative. And…when I say ‘conservative,’ I mean – they’re not comfortable with people who are out there, on the left or the right. And these teabaggers are out there.

[...]

Certainly Christine O’Donnell could not win in a state like Delaware. Because she’s just crazy…even people who are angry understand that crazy people are not gonna make it better.”

Time will tell, although the consensus certainly does seem to be that Democrats were just done a huge favor by the result. Talk then turned to anti-Obama sentiment. Maher first parodied birthers by recounting a recent conversation with Jay Leno where he said we can’t be totally sure Leno’s not a werewolf. Then, he unveiled his new term: “churchers,” for those who believe the president is not a Christian. Why do people believe such things? Maher’s response: “The internet makes people stupider.” Oh, and Fox News, too. It’s Bill Maher, after all.

But the biggest fireworks came when Maher was asked if there are racist overtones to Obama hate. His answer (“Yes, Larry, it’s extremely racist”) should surprise no one, and his follow-up zing was classic Maher:

“It’s funny, ’cause the teabaggers – the one thing they hate: when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people.

An extreme, unfair, over-generalization? Of course. A pretty well-delievered punchline? Well…actually, yes to that as well. Maher continued by ripping conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza (currently in the headlines for this), mostly for personal reasons.

And that’s the problem – Maher has talent. He can craft a joke, as well as good arguments when he doesn’t get too crazy. But too often, he’ll do things like go off on a tangent that Dinesh D’Souza didn’t support him enough one time, and it detracts from the overall point. Maher had his strong moments in his interview with Larry King tonight, but he had his own moments of craziness as well. Maher’s got to heed his own words – crazy people are not gonna make it better. Video of the post-Delaware announcement portion of the interview below.

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  • Patrick Henry

    And that’s the problem – Maher has talent. He can craft a joke, as well as good arguments when he doesn’t get too crazy.

    I have never understood how this guy got a show. I see no talent, just smugness. I feel the same way about Dennis Miller.

    He won’t give up the racist thing. It is getting old and people are going to get tired of it.

  • notsofast

    LOL

    Thank’s Bill, you moron, I take that as a compliment.

    Get a new shtick! America has caught on to the lib’s act.

    You took a perfectly deplorable word- racist- and have made it a badge of courage!
    Thanks again!

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    It is these kind of attacks that make it easy for the Tea Party to win. Maher is the kind of kook the REAL AMERICANS can’t stand. He is an arrogant fool that hasn’t got a clue he is stupid. He really thinks his views are mainstream. He thinks other people are stupid and the dems just don’t know how to sell their socialist views. The people don’t understand socialism is good for them.

    He thinks because he makes jokes about conservatives and his pothead audience laughs at them he is on the right track. They are laughing because when you are stoned anything sounds funny.

  • SteveMG

    Remember that it’s unfair and inaccurate – and it is indeed – to characterize all Muslims as violent because of the actions of some Muslims. We can’t judge an entire group based on the behavior of some. Very, very true.

    But all of the Tea Partyers are racist – excuse me, extremely racist – because some of them are (indeed, some are). Yes, guilt by association is fine here.

    How can the same people argue, correctly, the first point but completely miss the second?

    As a conservative, people like Limbaugh embarass me to no ends. But, lordy, I’d hate to have Mr. Maher on my side of things. Just absurd.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Wow, a leftist casts Tea Partiers as racist. Who’d a thunk? I’ll bet he’s the first to do that, too.

  • Big Eddie

    The racist crap does not work anymore . Time to think up other nonsense . Maher is a greasy little no talent worm . No offense to talented worms .

  • shootfromthehip

    “Maher is a greasy little no talent worm.”

    yes, he has no talent. That’s why he has a show on HBO that millions watch every Friday and why he makes an salary that you will never amass in your life.

    Bill speaks for millions of us. He’s never afraid to tell the truth as he sees it.

  • shootfromthehip

    His annual salary alone is a number more than you will make your entire life.

  • notsofast

    SteveMG said:
    Remember that it’s unfair and inaccurate – and it is indeed – to characterize all Muslims as violent because of the actions of some Muslims. We can’t judge an entire group based on the behavior of some. Very, very true.

    You forget that one of the defining qualities of a liberal is hypocrisy

    Kerry, keeping his yacht in RI so he wouldn’t have to pay taxes as he voted time and time again to raise taxes.

    Ted Kennedy accusing Alito of having belonged to an “all male” club at Princeton while Kennedy CURRENTLY was still a member of a club that was thrown out of Harvard 20 years before after refusing to allow female members.

  • notsofast

    shootfromthehip said:
    es, he has no talent. That’s why he has a show on HBO that millions watch every Friday and why he makes an salary that you will never amass in your life.

    And Beck and O’Reilly could buy his pathetic ass!

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    Bill Maher says he is a Libertarian… I’m a Libertarian. I have friends that are Libertarians, Hell I know people I don’t personally like that are Libertarians. We all agree. Maher is no Libertarian.. I’ll just settle for Media Whore… Yep thats his party, “The Media whore party” You can Include Olbermann, Colbert, and Lady Ga Ga and every other Sociopath that caters to such self indulgence as this clown does…

  • Mr.Papshmer

    shootfromthehip said:
    Bill speaks for millions of us.

    That’s cool. You must’ve been pretty elated that Bill called out the Tea Partiers as racist. No one’s done that yet, and all you people who felt that way were probably feeling disenfranchised.

  • notsofast

    shootfromthehip said:
    His annual salary alone is a number more than you will make your entire life.

    Yes, and a McDonald’s worker’s annual salary is a number more than you will make in your entire life.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    shootfromthehip said:
    His annual salary alone is a number more than you will make your entire life.

    He must be one of those stinkin’ rich guys. We should just surround his house and protest the fact that he makes so much. Nothing worse than the wealthy.

  • notsofast

    Bill Maher On Larry King Live: Virulent Anti-Obama Tea Partiers Are “Extremely Racist”

    Hey Bill, did any of the TPers say this about BHO?

    “I was expecting a “real black president”– you know, the kind that “lifts up his shirt so they can see the gun in his pants.”

    Bill Maher on how he expected BHO to act with BP

  • gar

    I guess when you spend your entire adult life fucking strippers and prostitutes it gives you the right to label the general population of americans as moronic. Maybe a STD has spread to his brain. Another sorry excuse whom the lamestream media gives an outlet for him to express his righteous views.

  • CosmosDan

    Burnnotice said:
    Bill Maher says he is a Libertarian… I’m a Libertarian. I have friends that are Libertarians, Hell I know people I don’t personally like that are Libertarians. We all agree. Maher is no Libertarian.. I’ll just settle for Media Whore… Yep thats his party, “The Media whore party” You can Include Olbermann, Colbert, and Lady Ga Ga and every other Sociopath that caters to such self indulgence as this clown does…

    Fight the Media whores!! Don’t watch any at all. Only the nightly news show from now on.

  • gar

    Bill speaks for you Shooter. Shows a lot of character on your part.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    Well guess what, Billie? Since 46% of the Democrats believe Obama is not a Christian that means over half of the party are his “churchers”. Dammit, now he has to demonize BOTH parties as zealots! Who’s he going to hate now?!

  • felixw

    It’s Bill Maher who is obsessed with the color of people’s skin.

  • murf

    Rumor has it Maher opposed SB1070 in AZ , for fear that his skank hookers would be deported .

  • libra blue

    I watched this mess. Two homely old white guys waiting for the undertaker.

    If Larry King was a professional and had any respect for his audience, he would have told Maher not to use the term “tea bag”, but he just cackled away when Maher said it. We all know King’s “situation,” but if Maher wasn’t rich no one would “do ” him.

    King made a big deal about Maher’s Hollywood star, but we all know that every piece of crap in Hollywood has a star on that walk because they paid for it, not because they deserve any honor.

  • jbeast

    This shtick is so tired.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    I was in

    libra blue said:
    I watched this mess. Two homely old white guys waiting for the undertaker.

    If Larry King was a professional and had any respect for his audience, he would have told Maher not to use the term “tea bag”, but he just cackled away when Maher said it. We all know King’s “situation,” but if Maher wasn’t rich no one would “do ” him.

    King made a big deal about Maher’s Hollywood star, but we all know that every piece of crap in Hollywood has a star on that walk because they paid for it, not because they deserve any honor.

    I was in Hollywood a couple of years ago. Stood there at Hollywood and Vine. Couldn’t believe how filthy everything looked.. Then I remembered. “Hey” I’m in Hollywood…

  • libra blue

    @felixw, “It’s Bill Maher who is obsessed with the color of people’s skin.”

    He loves him some “brown sugar”! Didn’t his black girlfriend Nancy “Coco” Johnson sue him for 9 million?

  • jk76

    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/243543/why-liberalism-dangerous-william-voegeli

    I can’t ever figure out where he stands. Libertarian? then he should sympathize with some of the Tea Party stuff. Anarchist? possibly. Socialist? seems that way sometimes. He seems to believe in the Constitution. Maybe he’s a floater, or just a rabble rouser. Progressive? maybe but that conflicts with Libertarianism and Anarchism.

    i gotta look him up, he’s honest and I’ll never fault someone for that.

  • Patrick Henry

    shootfromthehip said:
    Bill speaks for millions of us. He’s never afraid to tell the truth as he sees it.

    Shoot, are you serious? He speaks for you when he spouts all his condescending crap?

  • Patrick Henry

    shootfromthehip said:
    His annual salary alone is a number more than you will make your entire life.

    No argument there. I wonder if he has chipped in any extra on his taxes to help the government out?

  • Arkansas Steve

    Bill Maher just laughs his ugly head off before he falls asleep every night.

    He insults conservatives with inflammatory words.
    He insults liberals intelligence without their realizing it.
    Liberals are his TOOLs.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    jk76 said:
    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/243543/why-liberalism-dangerous-william-voegeli

    I can’t ever figure out where he stands. Libertarian? then he should sympathize with some of the Tea Party stuff. Anarchist? possibly. Socialist? seems that way sometimes. He seems to believe in the Constitution. Maybe he’s a floater, or just a rabble rouser. Progressive? maybe but that conflicts with Libertarianism and Anarchism.

    i gotta look him up, he’s honest and I’ll never fault someone for that.

    Already covered this earlier. I can only repeat “Media Whore” basically what ever is hip at the moment….
    I guess he thinks Libertarianism is hip. God is he ever wrong. Also he has never met me. If he ever does, he is in for an major awakening….

  • Alz

    Everyone should watch the video by one of Maher’s former writers, Evan Sayet. Evan’s talk is called “How Modern Liberals Think” and he explains the goofy mindset of liberals. Make sure you watch the Q&A at the end too.

    It’s very good! Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c

  • felixw

    Liberal elites like Maher think they can treat tea party issues as if they are a big joke. The people want fiscal responsibility — ha, ha, ha! They want government accountability — chuckle, chuckle, chuckle! They don’t want trillion dollars passed without being read first — guffaw, guffaw! This ploy will backfire. In fact, it’s already happening. The arrogance here will turn the vast majority of the electorate against the elites who treat reasonable demands with such undisguised scorn. Maher won’t be laugh on November 3.

  • axel360

    One of the things I liked about the summer was that Maher was on vacation the entire time and I didnt have to hear his moronic rhetoric. Why cant he be on vacation for good off the air? Does he even know who O’Donnell is? Better question. Does he even know who shes running against?
    And Obama a “centrist liberal?” Where the hell does he even get these points from?
    I guess I take offense to this because I am black and no one who proclaims themself as a tea party member ever acted in any sort of way around me. I actually feel more comfortable around them then Obama supporters. Those are the real racists.

  • shootfromthehip

    “Maher won’t be laugh on November 3.”

    Nope, sorry. He will still be laughing at retards.

    As will most educated people.

    You can have your redneck army of Fox news zombies, the rest of us know the GOP are fake as fuck and just as bad as many Dems.

    If having an IQ above 120 makes me an “elite,” than guilty as charged.

    And anyway, who are these people who “want fiscal responsibility” you speak of? Oh, I see. The Republicans. Republicans such as Bush 1, GW Bush and Reagan–all of whom LEFT MASSIVE DEBTS IN THEIR WAKE.

  • zumpano

    LOL THIS THREAD

  • gar

    Hey shooter, I asked previously what college you went to so I make sure my 2 daughters don’t apply.With you it’s all education, how much money people make,the status factor. Unfortunately you come across as a Koolaid suckup. Does you boss give a cubicle away from the general population because of your great people skills?I know you have a boss because your lack of tolerance would make you a poor leader of men. I’d tell you to take that 120 IQ and get on your knees for Maher but Bill likes them around the 75 range.

  • zumpano

    Maher’s T-Bagger racism joke was funny, but NOT AS FUNNY AS THE COMMENTS IN THIS THREAD

  • shootfromthehip

    By the way, cons, did you know I wear your pathetic thumbs downs as badges of courage!

    Thumbs down!

    Yeah that will show ‘em!

    Just because you fucktards do nothing 24/7 but jerk off to Mediaite means nothing.

    I’ve had a busy past week working on a project for work and haven’t been here in a while.

    No surprise you sad wastes of skin are still here on every god damn thread like cockroaches.

    Do you have lives?

    Do you have wives?

    Just wondering.

  • shootfromthehip

    “Does you boss give a cubicle away from the general population because of your great people skills?I know you have a boss because your lack of tolerance would make you a poor leader of men.”

    I do have a boss. He went to Brown. Great school. And we get along very well. Thanks for asking. Also, I manage a team of six at work, so I’d say I have pretty decent people skills.

    Best of luck to your daughters. You thinking of sending them to Oral Roberts University? Great choice. Do it!

  • zumpano

    No, please send them to ORU. ORU chicks were the sluttiest (and so demure!) when I lived in Oklahoma.

  • C.Moore

    Big Eddie said:
    The racist crap does not work anymore . Time to think up other nonsense . Maher is a greasy little no talent worm . No offense to talented worms .

    “Racism is what it is. Some people on one side try and act like it doesn’t exist, and people on the other side, well, they know it exists.”
    The right is on the side that thinks racism no longer exist. that there’s no such thing as opposing a black president because he’s black, that the right has NO racists in their mists. typical right-wing denial. Racism still exist and it’s digusting to deny it. there’s also slealth racism: that means denying racism.

    axel360 said:
    I actually feel more comfortable around them then Obama supporters. Those are the real racists.

    So basically only the people on the left are racists? it was the left who carried racists signs at rallies? and spoke against blacks by using the n word? and tells people to “take the bone out their nose”?

  • shootfromthehip

    C More, do not try and reason with the right.

    They have their fingers in their ears.

    “LALALA we can’t hear you,” they say.

    That is about where most of the con commenters are on this website, with a few notable intelligent exceptions.

  • ImRubberYoureGlue

    notsofast said:
    “I was expecting a “real black president”– you know, the kind that “lifts up his shirt so they can see the gun in his pants.”

    Exactly. Not only is Maher a complete racist, but he is a supremacist and seems to believe that he is entitled to make racist statements as a white man and pretend to know what is in other people’s hearts because the white man knows best, *rolls her eyes.*

    He’a a hypocritical, pampered, elitist pig.

  • zumpano

    The people who scream the loudest that they’re NOT RACIST are always the MOST RACIST.

    HILARIOUS.

    Wasn’t Mark Williams being racist the SAME WEEK the NAACP/Pea Party Attention was happening?

    POT MEET KETTLE

  • zumpano

    ELITISTS ARE THE BEST.

    You know why?

    BECAUSE THEY ARE ELITE.

  • gar

    I think you lie Shooter. I can’t believe 1 of the 6 you manage hasn’t been able to take over your job. Must work for the government.

  • shootfromthehip

    They are all trying to take over my job, trust me.

    That’s why I have to keep the young whippersnappers at bay by buying them drinks every now and again…..

    And no, sorry, I don’t work for “the government.”

    And I don’t work for a union, either.

    I know that doesn’t fit your Fox meme.

    Sorry!

  • shootfromthehip

    “Exactly. Not only is Maher a complete racist, but he is a supremacist and seems to believe that he is entitled to make racist statements as a white man and pretend to know what is in other people’s hearts because the white man knows best, *rolls her eyes.* He’a a hypocritical, pampered, elitist pig.”

    Dear “Imrubbernotglue.”

    If you only news what everyone here in Los Angeles knows. Bill is far from a “complete racist.” He has had several long term relationships with (rather good looking) African American women. He has many, many many African American friends and employs some of them (his pal Christopher “Kid” Reid for example wrote the theme song for Maher’s HBO show).

    Now before you spout off at the mouth and embarrass yourself again, LEARN TO USE GOOGLE.

    You Repubs are pathetic. Really. You own yourselves with stupidity and ignorance.

  • shootfromthehip

    If you only knew, I meant to say (sorry was looking at something else online when I wrote that epic rant)

  • axel360

    C.Moore said:
    So basically only the people on the left are racists? it was the left who carried racists signs at rallies? and spoke against blacks by using the n word? and tells people to “take the bone out their nose”?

    First of all, I didnt say that. Secondly, race is a ploy the Democratic party has been using for more than a century. The democratic party’s platform was based on race (slavery). Conservatives dont falsely portray the left as racists. We bring up the fact that the left continues to bring up race as a cheap political point whether it is saying without proof congressman were called the N-word, making up racial Limbaugh quotes or taking them out of context, or irrelevant personal attacks.
    Now I’m not saying it doesnt happen on the right. It certainly does. But you and shootfromthehip live in this psuedo reality where the left is right and the right is wrong. And that is what is really wrong.

  • axel360

    shootfromthehip said:
    If you only news what everyone here in Los Angeles knows. Bill is far from a “complete racist.” He has had several long term relationships with (rather good looking) African American women. He has many, many many African American friends and employs some of them (his pal Christopher “Kid” Reid for example wrote the theme song for Maher’s HBO show).

    Now before you spout off at the mouth and embarrass yourself again, LEARN TO USE GOOGLE.

    You Repubs are pathetic. Really. You own yourselves with stupidity and ignorance.

    Oh yea, the video groupies that Maher gets sloppy seconds from are “rather good looking”. *rolls eyes*

    Anyway, a racist is not measured by the amount of interaction between other races. A racist is determined by the racial arson that they spew to wrongfully paint false discernments. A racist loves adding fuel to the fire and watching it burn.
    The difference between him and Limbaugh is that Limbaugh is purely satirical. i.e. calling George Steinbrenner a cracker because that same week when the Black Panthers case was a newstory, “cracka a– cracka” seemed to be the taglined video always shown. Maher on the other hand, outright calling a group of Americans the pejorative teabagger and labeling them as a whole an extreme racist group is dangerous.

  • http://bit.ly/bKGa13 dandmb50

    @dandmb50 – What the heck are “tea baggars”<b"" he mentioned it many times? Is he referring to the :tea parrty? What is a tea baggar, is this an attempt at resorting to name calling when you have nothing else to say with any intelligence. And yet he is still taking shots at Obama at the same time when he use to support his campaign. They are all running from Obama now.

    Daniel .. Toronto, CANADA
    http://bit.ly/bKGa13

  • shootfromthehip

    “Limbaugh is purely satirical.”

    Yes, sure. He is only “purely satirical” when it is convenient to say so. The other times he is a sage, right?

    Or is he being sarcastic when he says the GOP will take the Senate back in November?

    You don’t get to pick and choose when he is being “purely satirical.”

    It’s a fucking cop out and you know it.

  • TCinAZ

    Yes I Am A RACIST! Except when it comes to Israel, Mr. Scheuer.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20016181-503543.html

    BUSH’S FAULT! Right Billdo?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlLaUCAQlQQ

    SWEET!

  • Some_Dude

    I absolutely LOVE Real Time. Bill Maher is a great satirist, funny as hell. And he’s entitled to his opinion, and by now, the things he says are rather predictable and shouldn’t surprise anyone.

    He’s also a mixed bag. An avowed atheist and proponent of logical thinking, but then he forwards absurd things like astrology and “alternative medicine”.

  • The Real Royal King

    This is the first I have heard about racism in the Tea Party. Disturbing.

  • The Real Royal King

    Some_Dude said:
    I absolutely LOVE Real Time. Bill Maher is a great satirist, funny as hell. And he’s entitled to his opinion, and by now, the things he says are rather predictable and shouldn’t surprise anyone. He’s also a mixed bag. An avowed atheist and proponent of logical thinking, but then he forwards absurd things like astrology and “alternative medicine”.

    Maher is very clever, but is he athiest or agnostic? I’ve never been sure. I do find the sacreligious nature of some of his humor unnecessary and troubling. The political satire is cutting edge, however.

  • Some_Dude

    The Real Royal King said:
    Maher is very clever, but is he athiest or agnostic? I’ve never been sure. I do find the sacreligious nature of some of his humor unnecessary and troubling. The political satire is cutting edge, however.

    I don’t interpret him as agnostic. Any true scientist doesn’t simply write off the existence of a god, because it’s unprovable. He is very clear that he doesn’t give ANY credence to the supernatural in that regard.

  • MichelleF

    Via the Dems:

    Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.

    Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei pointed out the NAACP’s role in fueling racial accusations: “If you think about this, where this thing started, the NAACP comes out and makes this charge against the tea party movement.”
    VandeHei rejected the NAACP’s claim of racism in the political movement: “It’s a very, very diffuse group. You cannot say that they are racist anymore then you can say the Republican Party’s racist or the Democratic Party is racist, so it creates this culture and it’s a dangerous topic, it’s a dangerous fire to light, and then when it happens this is the outcome.”

    YAWN!!

  • gar

    Shooter I only mentioned the government because they practice seniority, which would explain why you still have your job. My next guess would be some family nepotism.

  • Tony the Fist

    Ach. I liked him better in Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989). I still find it funny that he and Ann Coulter are drinking buddies.

  • Kitsune

    BS like this is a good reason I can’t watch political interviews on TV at all. It seems like the only reason they exist, on EITHER side, is to “poke the hornet’s nest”, so to speak, and see if they can incite the other side to say or do something to give them even more ammunition to continue attacking supporters of the other side.

    And even when they AREN’T doing that, now that there’s such a gigantic divide between the left and right, it just comes off as preaching to the choir, because people on the right aren’t going to take Olbermann, Ed, or Maher seriously, just as people on the left aren’t going to take Beck, Hannity, or O’Reilly seriously.

    I don’t see what’s being accomplished through all of the firebombing.

  • zumpano

    You’re asking R-Wingers to USE GOOGLE????

    HAAHAHAHAHA. LOOK SOMETHING UP?

    HAHAHAHA. That’s what Elites do! Elites verify shit.

    R-Wingers don’t need GOOGLE to verify anything. If it comes in their e-mail or on the FOX News; IT MUST BE TRUE!!! We don’t need those elitist FACTS getting in the way.

    We all know that the truth has a liberal bias

  • gar

    Zumpano hit it right on the nose. The elite need a road map to get out of a paper bag while the rest of us use common sense.

  • writer

    Bill abhors racism. That’s why, when he was shopping for a house, he looked in the Watts section of L.A. instead of Beverly Hills. Or was it the other way around? I forget.

  • Patrick Henry

    zumpano said:
    ELITISTS ARE THE BEST.

    You know why?

    BECAUSE THEY ARE ELITE.

    Believe me, I would never accuse you of being elite.

  • SpineCrusher

    axel360 said:
    Oh yea, the video groupies that Maher gets sloppy seconds from are “rather good looking”. *rolls eyes* Anyway, a racist is not measured by the amount of interaction between other races. A racist is determined by the racial arson that they spew to wrongfully paint false discernments. A racist loves adding fuel to the fire and watching it burn.The difference between him and Limbaugh is that Limbaugh is purely satirical. i.e. calling George Steinbrenner a cracker because that same week when the Black Panthers case was a newstory, “cracka a– cracka” seemed to be the taglined video always shown. Maher on the other hand, outright calling a group of Americans the pejorative teabagger and labeling them as a whole an extreme racist group is dangerous.

    keep showing your ignorance…changing the definition for youself doesn’t consitute a change of what the true definition is.

    Racism is the belief that the genetic factors which constitute race are a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

    Get that “Superiority of your race over another”…that is racism…nothing more, nothing less

    It has absolutely nothing to do with “race-baiting” which is what Maher loves to do.

    keeping “spinning” your wheels

  • SpineCrusher

    The Real Royal King said:
    Maher is very clever, but is he athiest or agnostic? I’ve never been sure. I do find the sacreligious nature of some of his humor unnecessary and troubling. The political satire is cutting edge, however.

    it’s not sacrelige if you don’t believe in it.

    He’s stated publicly, many times, that he is an athiest. His movie “Religiolous” is hillarious!

  • SpineCrusher

    gar said:
    Zumpano hit it right on the nose. The elite need a road map to get out of a paper bag while the rest of us use common sense.

    you mean “talking points”

  • Founders_were_Liberal

    You’re right Bill Maher, TPers are the virulent strain of racism within the Republican Party.

    Where were all of you bots when Bush was spending one trillion dollars in Iraq in his quest to avenge and one-up Daddy-O? His ideological arrogance and willful ignorance set this country back a decade.

    TPers are racist tools mostly unknowingly funded by the billionaire Koch brothers who equate “freedom” with being able to peddle cancer causing formaldehyde without regulation or interference from the EPA.

  • axel360

    SpineCrusher said:
    keep showing your ignorance…changing the definition for youself doesn’t consitute a change of what the true definition is.

    Racism is the belief that the genetic factors which constitute race are a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

    Get that “Superiority of your race over another”…that is racism…nothing more, nothing less

    It has absolutely nothing to do with “race-baiting” which is what Maher loves to do.

    keeping “spinning” your wheels

    It is not ignorance. Have you ever experienced racism? Have you ever and/or your family been denied rights, been subjected by race-baiters to your face? My parents and I dealt with that on a daily basis where we lived. You have no right to lecture me on what racism is when I experience first hand. Just because you typed in ‘Racism’ in Wikipedia and copied and pasted the definition does not make you any more knowledgeable on the subject.
    Racism comes in different forms. Plain and simple. It’s ignorance to accuse someone of “spinning” and when theyre relaying life experiences.

  • CarmanK

    There is a big difference between calling a billion people of one religion but worldwide nationalities- all terrorists and some hundreds of thousands who come together deliberately, purposefully and methodically to demean the President of the United States. These groups rightfully sponsored by extreme right organizations like Freedom Works and Fox pundits are RACISTS. They gather together because they have this one thing in common and although they have other gripes and rants, the principle one is Obama is black and they are out to prove that those 600 million americans who voted for him are wrong. They can accept that the majority rules. They are RIGHT, those others across the country are wrong. They would not have the individual nerve, except for the WACKOS, to stand up and shout their bigotry, but it is easy to hide in the crowd and destroy anything in the path of a MOB and get away with it for a little while.

  • CarmanK

    Gee, I though “Churchers” would be the ones who claim to go to church on Sunday and live out the rest of the week in their private worlds of hypocrisy.

  • writer

    So when Keith Olbermann said Obama was wrong on his position on gay marriage, or for sending more troops to Afghanistan, he was only saying that because Obama is black.

  • DrFunke

    They are not racist. Stop it!

    They are just supported and loved by racist
    They allow racist signs and slogan at their meetings
    They are whores with passive aggressive racism
    They play stupid with racial talk

  • writer

    Dr, you are talking about the NAACP, right?

  • CAconservative

    Poor guy, he couldn’t make it as a comedian, and it’s obvious he’s not making it as a political analyst either.

  • Nachi

    “Racist”?? That’s an understatement. Most of today’s uneducated, cultist Repugs still find a ROPE an acceptable form of Voter ID.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    CAconservative says: “Poor guy, he couldn’t make it as a comedian….”

    Maher is returning for his ninth season on HBO. THAT is not making it as a comedian? CAconservative, when you become an intelligent and honest observer of reality, let us know. Until then, I’m just embarrassed for you.

  • Snidely

    And we should take a leftist TV comic – who uses an obscene sexual epithet to describe basically middle class conservatives – seriously why? OK, he’s on TV, but what else does he have going for him? He wouldn’t recognize a real racist if he met one. “Racist” to him is a person who holds views of which he disapproves.

  • FearMonger

    Nachi said:
    “Racist”?? That’s an understatement. Most of today’s uneducated, cultist Repugs still find a ROPE an acceptable form of Voter ID.

    JUST THOUGHT THIS DESERVED REPEATING. AND THIS…..

    shootfromthehip said:
    You Repubs are pathetic. Really. You own yourselves with stupidity and ignorance.

    shootfromthehip said:
    Bill speaks for millions of us. He’s never afraid to tell the truth as he sees it

    No doubt SFTH. That’s the point. And btw…. the next time you start lecturing about the lack of intelligent discourse here….. point that finger at the mirror.

  • crwrjw

    I don’t see one word about Bill Maher saying that “Christine O’Donnell will get her Christian Ass kicked.” I’ll bet that if hr had said her Jewish or her Muslim ass it would have been all over every news station. Just goes to show you that slamming a Christian means that you won’t get killed or smeared like you would if you slammed another religion. Maybe we Christians ought to start to take some serious offense to the disparaging remarks made about us and “kick some ass.” Why couldn’t he had said she will get her ass kicked without the religion added in?
    I cannot believe these types of people are paid an asinine amount of money to be stupid. I guess this really is America!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Helen-Nordo/100000884291530 Helen Nordo

    I am so glad that I can comment on this loser Bill Maher. Now that he is aging, he is pulling this “I know it all” attitude, eliciting some snide jokes, on the side. Bill, do you remember your first stint on the “Johnny Carson” show. I do..You had great talent..it was your first appearance & I believe your were mostly appearing in New York Supper clubs practicing your trade?. OK, your idea of humor was to imitate your dog when you would arrive at home from work, tongue out, panting & all, hopping all over the stage..& the big joke was that…no matter how many times you entered the door, the dog would greet you as though you never left & then you went into the same routine, pant, beg, tongue out….real clever humor? I thought you were a jerk then & I still think you are a jerk…only bigger. Carson was a gentleman & laughed at your jokes but then he would laugh at anybody’s jokes. You are a liar..I was up late one night and heard you say the words..and they were YOUR words…”I don’t know, I think it took an awful lot of courage to fly those planes into those towers”…Now, nine years later, you throw it on somebody else…weakling! It destroyed what little you had of a career so now you are using your sarcastic wit to demean good people, who want to help change America.,or should I say “improve America” since it’s too late for change..it’ll take another 2 yrs. Bill, YOU are the racist, you are against your own people, using them as a stepping stone to aid your “career?”. I am shocked at Larry King who kept feeding you the questions, knowing full well what your answers would be..but his career is over anyway, he has enough money for his 7 ex-wives, the old Grinch. The tea party members will take over Washington, & it is about time, I don’t trust Repubs. or Dems. they are old politicians, who have been getting their way all these years…they promise one thing and do another. We need new blood that will appreciate their status & big paycheck, the days of cronyism is over. Bill, what will happen to your career when “sincere” people run the govt. will you warn all the blacks & muslims to beware..or will you join them in your quest for those 7 virgin…BOYS? You didn’t get that big mouth from talking too much…I have my own ideas..you creep!!!

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