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Bill Maher Bizarrely Compares Anthony Weiner To Governor ‘Fat Fatty’ Christie

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He might have resigned, but if you’re talking about politics on television, all roads still lead back to Anthony Weiner. Bill Maher brought up the disgraced ex-politician on his show in an attempt to demonstrate this Weiner’s self-control issues, when compared with those of some other politicians, really aren’t so bad at all. Specifically, Maher had two names in mind – former Vice President Dick Cheney, and New Jersey governor Chris Christie.

Maher’s objection to Cheney: his pheasant hunting, which he called “so much more psychotic than anything Anthony Weiner ever did.” In particular, Maher seemed to be referring to this episode – a “canned hunt” in which Cheney reportedly shot 70 pheasants in a day that were released solely to be hunted. While we see what Maher was getting at, the comparison of hunting to tweeting pictures of one’s penis is an odd one.

And it wasn’t the only odd comparison drawn…Maher then said the lack of self-control evident in New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s weight far outstrips any inability on Weiner’s part to “control his appetite.” Maher piled on the fat jokes (“He should be Governor Fat Fatty;” “This guy is a sumo wrestler”), while guest Kevin Nealon noted that “there’s a difference between tweeting pictures of your penis and [Christie] just not being able to control his weight.”

We’ll agree that there’s a difference – so much so that the two aren’t even worth comparing. Weiner’s actions were more indicative of a runaway ego, for example, than a guy having weight problems. Weiner’s actions constituted being unfaithful to his wife, and he lied about them. (We don’t recall Christie ever claiming he was skinny.) It wasn’t just the sending of the penis pictures themselves that did Weiner in – this was more than a case of, as Maher put it, being “horny.”

Plenty of horny guys have refrained from sending pictures of their penises, while married, to women they’ve never met, and then trying to lie their way out of it. As panelist Ross Douthat said, the weight struggle is a whole lot more relatable. Both Weiner’s and Christie’s may be self-control failings, but only Weiner’s was a moral failing as well. Video of the discussion below, via HBO.

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  • Pablo

    Bill Maher is insane? Who knew?

  • seek

    Maher would rather “shoot up” than shoot pheasants.

    What a dumb jerk – he’s about as stupid as the night is long.

    p.s. I’m not into hunting but whoever is, it’s a sport like any other. I don’t have to partake and I don’t have to dun the ones that do.

  • billyweeds

    Both Weiner and Christie are addicted–Weiner to sex, Christie to food. Both have control issues, Christie no more nor less than Weiner, and neither has a moral failing, this article to the contrary.

  • slickerwick

    Well, Maher has gone completely off the rails. Not to mention the fact that he’s just antagonized any overweight people who watch his show. Which means he has a self-destructive streak himself. He may not be fat but he sure as hell is a fathead. The childishness and craziness of his attacks… he’s not even funny anymore, unlike Jon Stewart who is funny whether you agree with his politics or not.

    Doesn’t it seem recently that the left are self-imploding at an increasing rate? There’s a sense of desperation. It’s probably due to Obama’s sliding poll numbers and the midterm losses suffered by the Dems and the Weiner scandal.

  • felixw

    Governor Fat Fatty? This is the state of liberal punditry? What’s next for Maher? Maybe he can start calling people retards, and claiming that Republicans have cooties.

    A few years ago, liberal thinking was at least operating at a high school level. It is now working most of the time at 3rd grade level, and sinking fast.

  • billyweeds

    slickerwick said:

    Doesn’t it seem recently that the left are self-imploding at an increasing rate? There’s a sense of desperation. It’s probably due to Obama’s sliding poll numbers and the midterm losses suffered by the Dems and the Weiner scandal.

    Hmmm. And what’s the reason the Republicans have been imploding for the last two years?

  • seek

    billyweeds said:
    Both Weiner and Christie are addicted–Weiner to sex, Christie to food. Both have control issues, Christie no more nor less than Weiner, and neither has a moral failing, this article to the contrary.

    ok then. Who knew? fat = pervert

  • slickerwick

    Bill Maher a.k.a. Donkey Face.

  • turk281

    billyweeds said:
    Both Weiner and Christie are addicted–Weiner to sex, Christie to food. Both have control issues, Christie no more nor less than Weiner, and neither has a moral failing, this article to the contrary.

    Moral equivalencey, my favorite creation of leftists.

    Pol Pot murdered millions of his own people, but who are we to judge? After all Americans murder millions of chickens every year for food.

  • slickerwick

    billyweeds said:
    Hmmm. And what’s the reason the Republicans have been imploding for the last two years?

    How?

    And let me ask you, do you think it’s wise for a TV host to mock fat people and compare them to lying flashers? You don’t think that would piss off a portion of his viewership? Not only is the comparison a stretch, it’s insulting to probably a fourth of his audience. Did you read the article and the headline. The author put the word ‘bizarrely’ in there.

  • Resistance Is Futile

    seek said:
    ok then. Who knew? fat = pervert

    Fat does not equal pervert it equals a lack of self control and discipline as evidenced by Christie using a government helicopter to take his fat lazy but to his son’s baseball game at the public’s expense. It does not take a rocket scientist to understand Maher’s point.

  • GuessWhoSuka

    wooooooow….hehehe….

    O boy…..

    Well Billy-boy…..I usually agree with you on topics but this time buddy…..hehehehhohohohohohoho!!!!!!

    foot————>mouth……hahahahahahaha

    Better luck next time Billy-boy…hehe….

    *drink*

  • CAINtheBULL

    He’s talking about lack of self control. Weiner showed it in his actions. Christie shows it in his weight.

  • slickerwick

    Resistance Is Futile said:
    Fat does not equal pervert it equals a lack of self control and discipline as evidenced by Christie using a government helicopter to take his fat lazy but to his son’s baseball game at the public’s expense. It does not take a rocket scientist to understand Maher’s point.

    Wow. Sounds like you really despise overweight people. Do you call them fat and lazy to their faces?

    What the hell does a helicopter ride have to do with his weight? What do you think of Obama using Air Force One at taxpayers’ expense to go fundraising and campaigning?

  • TristramShandy

    Actually, Bill Maher is talking through is ass hole and the fools at Mediaite are the only ones who bother to watch him.

  • slickerwick

    CAINtheBULL said:
    He’s talking about lack of self control. Weiner showed it in his actions. Christie shows it in his weight.

    Idiotic and insulting comparison. Jeezus.
    And Maher shows a lack of self control in his asshattedness. He can’t control his urge to blurt out stupid and denigrating remarks. He’s an arrogant and mean-spirited s.o.b. I’ll take a fat person any day over a fathead or a bigmouth.

  • Zandandido

    Here are the differences to Buffalo Bill. Chris Christie is still employed, Anthony Weiner is not. Chris Christie is Governor, Anthony Weiner was a U.S. House of Representative member. Chris Christie has high approval ratings, Anthony Weiner does not. Chris Christie is being pushed to run for President, Anthony Weiner was pushed out of Congress. Get the picture Buffalo Bill?

  • Zandandido

    billyweeds said:
    Hmmm. And what’s the reason the Republicans have been imploding for the last two years?

    Hmm.. Didn’t I remember the Democrats got pushed out of Total Control, by losing the U.S. House of Representatives?

  • Laddy Go-Rod

    Although I’ll continue my search for ANY that are not, so far, I’m convinced that ALL LIBERALS are unstable and should be in straight-jackets.

    “Thank you” MEDIAite, for chronicling the idiocy of the worst offenders.

    -Democrats-destroying America since… . …well, pretty much, forever-

  • Zandandido

    billyweeds said:
    Both Weiner and Christie are addicted–Weiner to sex, Christie to food. Both have control issues, Christie no more nor less than Weiner, and neither has a moral failing, this article to the contrary.

    Who still has a job Billy Weeds? Chris Christie or Anthony Weiner? Remember Howard Taft was elected President and became U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice and he was the fattest President ever, if Christie were to run and were to win, he still would be skinnier than Taft.

  • Zandandido

    billyweeds said:
    Both Weiner and Christie are addicted–Weiner to sex, Christie to food. Both have control issues, Christie no more nor less than Weiner, and neither has a moral failing, this article to the contrary.

    Also.. Neither has a moral failing? ANTHONY WEINER IS MARRIED. He sexted girls who were not his wife.

  • GuessWhoSuka

    Laddy Go-Rod said:
    Although I’ll continue my search for ANY that are not, so far, I’m convinced that ALL LIBERALS are unstable and should be in straight-jackets.

    “Thank you” MEDIAite, for chronicling the idiocy of the worst offenders.

    -Democrats-destroying America since… . …well, pretty much, forever-

    wwwwooooouuuuhhhoooouuuuuuuu!!!!!!!

    And we got a winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!hehehhehahahahahohohoho

    Hey Laddy……stop sugar coating it and tell me how you really feel about those demonic liberals ok?

    hahahahahahahhahahahahahha…..wwwwoooooouuuuuuhhhhhhoooooouuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Good job Laddy…hohohohoho…… you truly are an open minded human being!!!!!!!!!ding!ding!ding!

    HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHA!!!!!!!!!

    *drink*

  • slickerwick

    GuessWhoSuka said:
    wwwwooooouuuuhhhoooouuuuuuuu!!!!!!!

    And we got a winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!hehehhehahahahahohohoho

    Hey Laddy……stop sugar coating it and tell me how you really feel about those demonic liberals ok?

    hahahahahahahhahahahahahha…..wwwwoooooouuuuuuhhhhhhoooooouuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Good job Laddy…hohohohoho…… you truly are an open minded human being!!!!!!!!!ding!ding!ding!

    HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHA!!!!!!!!!

    *drink*

    You do realize that no one reads posts that are incoherent splatterings across the computer screen, don’t you? Put down the bong or the booze or whatever it is you’re ingesting.

  • Dem4Ever

    Bill has made it clear that he doesn’t like Muslims, Gays, the Obese, Conservatives and Women.  What’s next..the elderly?

  • GuessWhoSuka

    slickerwick said:
    You do realize that no one reads posts that are incoherent splatterings across the computer screen, don’t you? Put down the bong or the booze or whatever it is you’re ingesting.

    hehehehe……

    Well my dear smoking baby…I thought my sarcasm there was pretty clear and coherent.

    How do you feel about the concept of irony?I know I like it.A lot.

    I also like Froot Loops…they are colourful cereals…hahaha

  • slickerwick

    I’ve said this about Maddow and it applies to Maher and most of these lib pundits. They come across as tone deaf, as if they have no comprehension of how most Americans think or what values most Americans have. All they succeed in doing is painting liberals as amoral, condescending, and snarky. It doesn’t seem like a winning strategy.

  • glenn113

    As much as I love Bill Maher the Weiner stuff is getting so old already. I wish he would back to the Tea Bagger jokes soon.

  • murf

    glenn113 said:
    As much as I love Bill Maher the Weiner stuff is getting so old already. I wish he would back to the Tea Bagger jokes soon.

    And ……That’s why we think liberalism is a mental disorder, dude wants more nutsack jokes .

  • BFD

    I’m sure if Christie could see his penis he would be sending it around too.

    Problem is, no one wants to see photos of stomach flap.

  • Laddy Go-Rod

    Maher is one of this countrys’ worst “s#it in my own pool” offenders.

    Let’s see him make a living espousing his lunacy in ANY other country on earth.

  • Yoda002

    glenn113 said:
    As much as I love Bill Maher the Weiner stuff is getting so old already. I wish he would back to the Tea Bagger jokes soon.

    What happen to the teabaggers are they still around?

  • rubberneck

    Ok, his little Napoleon Complex is in hyperdrive. SSDD.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    “B-b-but… REPUBLICANS!!!”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    billyweeds said:
    Both Weiner and Christie are addicted–Weiner to sex, Christie to food. Both have control issues, Christie no more nor less than Weiner, and neither has a moral failing, this article to the contrary.

    That might make sense if Christie spent a week and a half lying about ever having a between-meal snack.

  • Big Eddie

    Bill Maher Bizarrely Compares Anthony Weiner To “Governor Fat Fatty” Chris Christie

    Do they sprinkle sawdust on and around Greasy Greasespot’s chair when he leaves ?

  • billyweeds

    Big Eddie said:
    Do they sprinkle sawdust on and around Greasy Greasespot’s chair when he leaves ?

    “Greasy Greasespot” would be Chris Christie, right?

  • ChrisNH

    The biggest joy is knowing that this grease-monkey is pretty incensed on a nightly basis. If you despise Lib-rul-ism, you take great joy in the misery of Lib-ruls because it’s proof that nothing is going the way they wanted. And Lib-rul media hacks like this grease-monkey know that the failure of Lib-rul-ism is THEIR failure, too.

  • TfT

    Bill Maher is a sick puppy, like many of his leftwing media colleagues, his reach for stories/jokes/whatever, makes him the clymer. It amazes me how you lefties find this guy humorous.

  • billyweeds

    If Maher had compared Weiner with Olbermann and said Weiner’s sex addiction was analogous to Olbermann’s addiction to talking, Mediaite would have said, “Maher Intelligently Compares Anthony Weiner to “Gab Gabby” Keith Olbermann. Mediaite is wearing its political bias too clearly on its sleeve, and will soon become marginalized if it doesn’t move radically back to the center very soon.

  • seek

    billyweeds said:
    Both Weiner and Christie are addicted–Weiner to sex, Christie to food. Both have control issues, Christie no more nor less than Weiner, and neither has a moral failing, this article to the contrary.

    …and how do you feel about this?
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2004685/Chaz-Bono-readjusts-pit-stop-petrol-station.html

    I’m sure he’s fine because he’s a demo, right?

  • billyweeds

    seek said:
    …and how do you feel about this?
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2004685/Chaz-Bono-readjusts-pit-stop-petrol-station.html

    I’m sure he’s fine because he’s a demo, right?

    I have no idea what a “demo” is. In any case, Chaz Bono is seriously obese, no matter what his/her gender is.

  • gar

    Maybe Michelle Obama could use Bill’s ”LOGIC” in her fight against childhood obesity.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Bill Maher is an idiot. The people that lack self-control are the libs that post here. They can’t refrain from lying. Just look at poor ignorant RRK. He just lies all the time. I don’t know how he gets through the door his nose must be sooooooooooooo long.

  • billyweeds

    Conservatives (or, more accurately, “right-wing loons”) are delusional in ways yet to be defined by Merriam-Webster. They still can’t deal with the fact that Obama is president. Face it, loons, Michele Bachmann ain’t gonna do it for you. Nor is Mitt Romney, nor Tim Pawlenty, nor Rick Perry, nor Herman Cain, nor…

    Keep dreaming, loons.

  • Dave Richards

    Maher is just jealous that he didn’t think of tweeting pictures of his little dick.

  • Dave Richards

    billyweeds said:
    Conservatives (or, more accurately, “right-wing loons”) are delusional in ways yet to be defined by Merriam-Webster. They still can’t deal with the fact that Obama is president. Face it, loons, Michele Bachmann ain’t gonna do it for you. Nor is Mitt Romney, nor Tim Pawlenty, nor Rick Perry, nor Herman Cain, nor…

    Keep dreaming, loons.

    What a load of dog squeeze.

  • donalan

    ‘Bizarrely’? – this is what Id expect the Huffington Post to use as a stupid headline.

    Weiner didnt quit because he did something illegal he quit because he committed a cardinal sin. Thats right fellow pious Christians he Lusted.

    Remember the Deadly Sins? wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. Thus mentioning the Fat ASS from NJ is entirely logical due to his obvious gluttony.

    Gluttony: (Latin, gula) is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste. In the Christian religions, it is considered a sin because of the excessive desire for food or its withholding from the needy.

    As a side-note it is interesting to note our culture here in the US lauds most of these as virtues in my opinion.

  • RichS

    billyweeds said:
    Hmmm. And what’s the reason the Republicans have been imploding for the last two years?

    You mean they were imploding last year when they regained control of the House, removed the Dem’s super majority in the Senate and regained control of more than 500 state legislative seats across the country? Wow, image what they could do if they weren’t imploding last year!

  • writer

    Fat Fatty? What is Maher, three years old?

  • got a grip

    “The lines are long,
    and the fighting’s strong,
    and their breaking down the distance between right and wrong.”
    -Bob Dylan

    Makes one think about Bill Maher and Keith Olbermann, among others.

  • RichS

    Resistance Is Futile said:
    Fat does not equal pervert it equals a lack of self control and discipline as evidenced by Christie using a government helicopter to take his fat lazy but to his son’s baseball game at the public’s expense. It does not take a rocket scientist to understand Maher’s point.

    You mean he should have walked? He was wrong to emulate Nancy Pelosi but he did pay for the trip in the end. You also lack self control and discipline or you would stop making a fool of yourself with your comments.

  • RichS

    BFD said:
    I’m sure if Christie could see his penis he would be sending it around too. Problem is, no one wants to see photos of stomach flap.

    Oh, you mean you wanted to see pictures of Wiener’s penis? Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    donalan said:
    ‘Bizarrely’? – this is what Id expect the Huffington Post to use as a stupid headline.

    Weiner didnt quit because he did something illegal he quit because he committed a cardinal sin. Thats right fellow pious Christians he Lusted.

    As a side-note it is interesting to note our culture here in the US lauds most of these as virtues in my opinion.

    Um… no. It wasn’t that he “lusted,” it’s that he lied about it, insulted the press and the American people, and tried to blame others for his issues.

    Apparently that’s okay to some people (after all, he said he only did it because he was “embarrassed,” which I was unaware was a legitimate excuse)… but to the rest of us, we’d prefer our politicians don’t lie to us over trivial things.

  • RichS

    Dave Richards said:
    What a load of dog squeeze.

    Please be kind to billyweeds he seems to have skipped some of his medication.

  • RichS

    donalan said:
    ‘Bizarrely’? – this is what Id expect the Huffington Post to use as a stupid headline. Weiner didnt quit because he did something illegal he quit because he committed a cardinal sin. Thats right fellow pious Christians he Lusted. Remember the Deadly Sins? wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. Thus mentioning the Fat ASS from NJ is entirely logical due to his obvious gluttony. Gluttony: (Latin, gula) is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste. In the Christian religions, it is considered a sin because of the excessive desire for food or its withholding from the needy. As a side-note it is interesting to note our culture here in the US lauds most of these as virtues in my opinion.

    No, he quit because he lied. He lied to the press. He lied to those who elected him. But most of all he quit because he lied to the Democrat leadership. If you commit a transgression at work that might not cause you to be fired but lie to your boss about your chances of being fired increase. Anthony Wiener, in effect, was fired for lying to his bosses.

  • billyweeds

    And the Democrats, as usual, wimped out to the right-wingers.

  • donalan

    ImNotBlue said:
    Um… no. It wasn’t that he “lusted,” it’s that he lied about it, insulted the press and the American people, and tried to blame others for his issues.

    Apparently that’s okay to some people (after all, he said he only did it because he was “embarrassed,” which I was unaware was a legitimate excuse)… but to the rest of us, we’d prefer our politicians don’t lie to us over trivial things.

    ImNotBlue said:
    Um… no. It wasn’t that he “lusted,” it’s that he lied about it, insulted the press and the American people, and tried to blame others for his issues.

    Apparently that’s okay to some people (after all, he said he only did it because he was “embarrassed,” which I was unaware was a legitimate excuse)… but to the rest of us, we’d prefer our politicians don’t lie to us over trivial things.

    I respectfully disagree. I dont think if he had owned up immediately he would have survived either. I just dont see him pulling a ‘yea its my crotch and its none of your business’ and surviving. He was feeding the media raw meat (pun sort of intended) no matter what he did after he strangely and stupidly tweeted his tweeter.

    I wish we would get every politician that lied to quit. The only ones left in the Capital would be the janitors and I bet they would do a better job at legislating anyway…

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    donalan said:
    I respectfully disagree. I dont think if he had owned up immediately he would have survived either. I just dont see him pulling a ‘yea its my crotch and its none of your business’ and surviving. He was feeding the media raw meat (pun sort of intended) no matter what he did after he strangely and stupidly tweeted his tweeter.

    I wish we would get every politician that lied to quit. The only ones left in the Capital would be the janitors and I bet they would do a better job at legislating anyway…

    Again, I disagree. We’ve seen other politicians get caught in various situations like this, and still survive. I think had he come out quickly and said, “Yes, I took some goofy pictures. It was inappropriate, but it was between two consenting adults, and I believe what goes on behind closed doors, and outside the office is my business. This is embarrassing for me personally, but there are more important things to be focusing on at this time.” The media would have said, “okay,” and left the story to TMZ. Wiener could have continued to play the smug and angry instigator (the real reason why the left loved him so much), getting heated any time someone would ask him questions about it… but it would have eventually faded away.

    But when you lie to the public, and in the process attack the media (that was the real crime), the media will turn on you fast. Journalists have very large egos, and realize they can make or break someone relatively easily. If you lie to their faces, and make them look foolish for defending you (which they did when the story broke), they’ll punish you for it. And that’s what happened here. As always, it wasn’t the “crime” (not really a crime anyway), it was the coverup.

  • donalan

    You might be right, look at Vitter that is exactly what he did and survived. Maybe it is the hubris (that is what pisses me off the most).

  • Obeezy

    Bill Mahers family and anything living relative should be shot ASAP so as to make sure we never have another like him.. I would oay to watch him tortured and killed…

  • JR

    Bill Maher is part of a group of liberals that practice the politics of individual destruction. They don’t care what mud that they fling, if it even merely splatters an opponent, they feel like they’ve won.

    Maher wants Christie to go down because he’s perceived as a political threat, so he attacks the obvious. Can’t effectively argue the politics, so he’ll argue about the guy’s weight. He has no boundaries of human decency; if it will work, he’ll do it. He’s a smear merchant, and not even funny while he’s doing it.

    As to Weiner, seriously, no one ever really wanted to see a pic of this guy’s dick. No one. This applies to his groupies, the public, and probably even his wife. Even married to the guy no woman is going to find that interesting or appealing. Only a certain group of men think that women would be thrilled by the prospect. And that is not about sex, it’s about being a narcissist.

  • valkyrie101

    Usually Maher does not let us down and has some fun outrageous stuff to talk about on the weekend, but this time he has left the realm of comedy and entered the world of esoteric hair splitting.

    An over weight person lives an average of 7 years less because of being over weight. Over weight people often crowd people on air planes and movie theaters. Over weight people are often ridiculed and are the butt of jokes. Over weight people tend to be more jolly and are often named after food dishes (e.g. Meatloaf, Porkie, John Candy,…), or food recepticles (The Fridge). The number 1 reason a person is over weight? They like to eat because the experience of eating food is pleasurable.

    As for weiner freak, masturbation has been known to cause blindness, though recently Ernest Borgnine attributed it to his longevity. Masturbaters are also the butt of jokes. Some people, specifically religious people, consider sex to be bad, and masturbating while thinking about having sex to be morally just as bad as having sex. People do it because they enjoy the pleasure of getting off.

  • GoneFishing

    donalan said:
    ‘Bizarrely’? – this is what Id expect the Huffington Post to use as a stupid headline.

    Weiner didnt quit because he did something illegal he quit because he committed a cardinal sin. Thats right fellow pious Christians he Lusted.

    Remember the Deadly Sins? wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. Thus mentioning the Fat ASS from NJ is entirely logical due to his obvious gluttony.

    Gluttony: (Latin, gula) is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste. In the Christian religions, it is considered a sin because of the excessive desire for food or its withholding from the needy.

    As a side-note it is interesting to note our culture here in the US lauds most of these as virtues in my opinion.

    You should have chosen Door #2, Reality was in there. Weiner got tossed because he Lied, what part of that dont you get? At any and every opportunity for over a week he blamed, lied, and played the victim, before finally being called out and forced to own his actions. Like most Americans, I don’t give a damn what he does with his penis… But when you step in front of the Nation, accuse others and lie your ass of, well thats a deal breaker. You gotta go.

  • tatboy

    So much for that “liberals being smart” thing.

  • david r

    tatboy said:
    So much for that “liberals being smart” thing.

    I was going to register my indignation, but this sums it up.

  • donalan

    tatboy said:
    So much for that “liberals being smart” thing.

    Actually this proved the ‘liberals’ are smart – you see they would not buy the likes of him saying ‘I have asked/prayed for and been given forgiveness’ (Vitter) or ‘I have a wide stance’ (Craig). Those bullsh*t cop-outs are exclusively for mouth-breathers.

    Now please go back the bowling alley and complain about Al Gore mmmkay…

  • writer

    Liberals only breathe through their noses.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    donalan said:
    Actually this proved the ‘liberals’ are smart – you see they would not buy the likes of him saying ‘I have asked/prayed for and been given forgiveness’ (Vitter) or ‘I have a wide stance’ (Craig). Those bullsh*t cop-outs are exclusively for mouth-breathers. Now please go back the bowling alley and complain about Al Gore mmmkay…

    Can you say Self-Aggrandizing Condescension?

    Tatboy is spot on!

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Maher – and his ill-informed, lemming-like viewership – is an Obama Administration-approved, Media Mouthpiece & Democratic Shill for the Radical Left!

    When is the Democratic Party going to abandon these bitter, hate-mongers like Maher?

    2012 – Bring the country back!

    End the 3-year Obama-Democratic Party DEPRESSION!

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Yo! INEPT Republicans,

    Do you even have a clue at how EFFECTIVE the mantra of “Obama Depression” can be?

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  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Calling someone you disagree with “Fatty” is a perfect encapsulation of the Leftie thought process…

  • slickerwick

    Dem4Ever said:
    Bill has made it clear that he doesn’t like Muslims, Gays, the Obese, Conservatives and Women.  What’s next..the elderly?

    Or the disabled? Or children (if their Palin’s.)

    Also, he’s never had a longterm relationship with any woman. He prefers to hang out at the Playboy Mansion and get his jollies. That’s how he views women–as pieces of meat.

    Like Weiner who disapproved of a statue because he thought it was sexist. But he sexted women like they were cheap whores. Isn’t it telling that the feminist left have so many sexists in their ranks? I remember when Palin was first announced and the DailyKooks bloggers were putting up misogynist and sexist photoshopped pics of her. Hypocrisy to the nth degree.

  • Prom Night Dumpster Baby

    These were just stupid comparisons. Being a borderline sexual predator is in no way comparable to simply being obese because you can’t control your eating habits. You’d have to ignore so much nuance to make that comparison.

  • tatboy

    donalan said:
    Actually this proved the ‘liberals’ are smart – you see they would not buy the likes of him saying ‘I have asked/prayed for and been given forgiveness’ (Vitter) or ‘I have a wide stance’ (Craig). Those bullsh*t cop-outs are exclusively for mouth-breathers. Now please go back the bowling alley and complain about Al Gore mmmkay…

    No. You just have a guy (Ted Kennedy) drown someone while driving her to his fav BJ spot and then run away and say nothing for 12 hours when he could have saved her.

    No go play with your blocks little boy/girl.

  • tatboy

    writer said:
    Liberals only breathe through their noses.

    Nice one….

  • david r

    donalan said:
    Actually this proved the ‘liberals’ are smart – you see they would not buy the likes of him saying ‘I have asked/prayed for and been given forgiveness’ (Vitter) or ‘I have a wide stance’ (Craig). Those bullsh*t cop-outs are exclusively for mouth-breathers.

    Now please go back the bowling alley and complain about Al Gore mmmkay…

    No, Maher is ridiculing Christie because of his weight. That is silly and immature, and so is trying to defend him. Vitter, Craig, Ensign. Skunks all. But Vitter’s constituents are OK with it. Like Barney Frank’s. And Charles Rangel’s. And how Adam Clayton Powell’s were. This is why I thought Weiner did not have to go, and why I thought Pelosi and Wasserman-Schultz were gutless. They should have let his constituents decide. I think the deck is stacked against him in the special election coming up, but he might run again and win. Let’s see if he makes a good Dad.

  • eyemjustsayin

    Gov Christie’s ego appears to be even bigger than his girth. Its called do as I say, not as I do. Told a constituent it was “none of her business”, why he sent his kids to Catholic school. Well, who’s business is it? He uses govt resources to go to baseball games, cozy up with GOP big wigs. He is loud, offensive to people who challenge his decisions. He needs to work on his weight as a symptom of how unhappy he really is. If he was alright with himself he would no be so disrespectful, arrogant, and dismissive of the people who elected him. The GOP may want his as a GOP contender, I don’t even want him as governor of NJ. He needs to go to the school of life and learn some manners.

  • seek

    david r said:
    No, Maher is ridiculing Christie because of his weight. That is silly and immature, and so is trying to defend him. Vitter, Craig, Ensign. Skunks all. But Vitter’s constituents are OK with it. Like Barney Frank’s. And Charles Rangel’s. And how Adam Clayton Powell’s were. This is why I thought Weiner did not have to go, and why I thought Pelosi and Wasserman-Schultz were gutless. They should have let his constituents decide. I think the deck is stacked against him in the special election coming up, but he might run again and win. Let’s see if he makes a good Dad.

    His ex constituents can still decide. There is nothing stopping him from running again and if the people vote him in, he’s back in.

  • seek

    eyemjustsayin said:
    Gov Christie’s ego appears to be even bigger than his girth. Its called do as I say, not as I do. Told a constituent it was “none of her business”, why he sent his kids to Catholic school. Well, who’s business is it? He uses govt resources to go to baseball games, cozy up with GOP big wigs. He is loud, offensive to people who challenge his decisions. He needs to work on his weight as a symptom of how unhappy he really is. If he was alright with himself he would no be so disrespectful, arrogant, and dismissive of the people who elected him. The GOP may want his as a GOP contender, I don’t even want him as governor of NJ. He needs to go to the school of life and learn some manners.

    It is absolutely nobodies business where Christie sends his kids to school. That is a private family matter. The woman was itching for a fight and she didn’t get it. He answered and he didn’t have to.

    Learn some manner? How about someone who just wants to create a scene? Any manners required there?

  • Miroco

    I recall Maher actually having been funny once, I believe it was in the eighties. The tragedy is that along the way he stumbled into the intellectual trap that one can be a liberal and still retain an intellect. Do WE run around pointing out his shortcomings, no, not those, weiners and Mahers’ lack of weiner, silly, we refer to the requirement that one must exhibit substantial brain damage to become a liberal. Do we point out that it is insanity to predict positive results from failed policies? Nothing of the kind. We do reserve the right to consider the source, a failed comedian who has totaled his mirth gene so must resort to name calling and working blue to preach to his shrinking choir.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-A-Kirkland/1082430232 Brian A. Kirkland

    I think what Maher was getting at was the idea of people who, like T. D. Jakes (and his wife, who’s also a porker), Christie and others, who are clearly eating more than their share of food; eating enough for many people; eating food wasted as fat, telling the rest of us how to live is as absurd as Weiner being called out for a lack of morality. Isn”t glutony one of the 7 deadlies? Is one sin worse than another?

  • CAconservative

    This is the kind of convoluted thinking Mahar and the Progressive Left live in. They will use any twisted hypocrisy, no matter how flimsy, to justify their position. In this case, Mahar is trying to justify the unjustifiable by comparing Christie’s girth to the sick sexual exploits of Weiner. If ever there was a good example of just how inconsequential this idiot is, this ridiculous attempt at rationalizing Weiner’s behavior is it!

  • GoneFishing

    david r said:
    No, Maher is ridiculing Christie because of his weight. That is silly and immature, and so is trying to defend him. Vitter, Craig, Ensign. Skunks all. But Vitter’s constituents are OK with it. Like Barney Frank’s. And Charles Rangel’s. And how Adam Clayton Powell’s were. This is why I thought Weiner did not have to go, and why I thought Pelosi and Wasserman-Schultz were gutless. They should have let his constituents decide. I think the deck is stacked against him in the special election coming up, but he might run again and win. Let’s see if he makes a good Dad.

    I do not know if he will run, but that option is still open to him. If he is re-elected, well. It is what it is.

  • GoneFishing

    Brian A. Kirkland said:
    I think what Maher was getting at was the idea of people who, like T. D. Jakes (and his wife, who’s also a porker), Christie and others, who are clearly eating more than their share of food; eating enough for many people; eating food wasted as fat, telling the rest of us how to live is as absurd as Weiner being called out for a lack of morality. Isn”t glutony one of the 7 deadlies? Is one sin worse than another?

    Their share? Wow, thats some ego you have…So who died and left you in charge to decide anything for anyone but yourself. Thats the whole problem with the Progressive mind, it ignores Personal liberty and freedom of action and substitutes collective oppression and the abrogation of individual responsibility. It is the tyranny of the majority or the dictator, and in the end, they are one and the same. Be careful what you wish for.

    Here’s a suggestion; Mind your own business, and demand others mind theirs as well. That is the American Way, and it is the proven path for Freedom and Liberty for All.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Danny-Ross/100002149217620 Danny Ross

    Bill Maher should be drug tested before being allowed on TV.

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  • Nature Freak

    Bill Maher, I love your sense of humor but this wasn’t funny by any stretch of the imagination.

    As a Democrat, I wish others of my ilk would stop apologizing for Anthony. What Weiner did was reckless and showed terrible judgement. Others have done worse and have gotten away with it. That does not take away from the fact that Anthony was a foolish idiot. Weiner screwed up big time and I hope his Democratic replacement shows better judgement.

    Huma is so classy, smart and beautiful. Anthony is a fool.

  • seek

    Nature Freak said:
    Bill Maher, I love your sense of humor but this wasn’t funny by any stretch of the imagination.

    As a Democrat, I wish others of my ilk would stop apologizing for Anthony. What Weiner did was reckless and showed terrible judgement. Others have done worse and have gotten away with it. That does not take away from the fact that Anthony was a foolish idiot. Weiner screwed up big time and I hope his Democratic replacement shows better judgement.

    Huma is so classy, smart and beautiful. Anthony is a fool.

    do you think she’ll stick with him?

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  • justanotherconservative

    if you’re doling out insults, maher, look in the mirror. you look like a platypus. on a good day.

  • justanotherconservative

    seek said:
    do you think she’ll stick with him?

    of course she will. it has to do with power and money, not love. after all, they sought counseling from the clintons, of all people……

  • justanotherconservative

    Nature Freak said:
    Huma is so classy, smart and beautiful. Anthony is a fool</blockquot

    she is probably also shrewd, clever, rich, power hungry, and manipulative. so, don't waste any sympathy on her. she can't be that innocent.

  • http://none pyrope

    Everything Maher does is bizarre. What’s new?

  • Tom

    Come on, Chris Christie is not a good example for the children of America.  We are trying to prevent becoming a nation of blobs.

  • Tom

    Come on, Chris Christie is not a good example for the children of America.  We are trying to prevent becoming a nation of blobs.

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