Of course you take it as a joke, TC, a liberal said it.  You’re a hypocritical blower of racist dog whistles. 

Liberals are the ones who bring up Obama’s race .

It’s the incompetence the rest of us care about .

Also the arrogance , laziness , spitefulness, the spending of millions on himself, the thuggery, the petulance, the nastiness, etc.

tommy gives maher the benefit of doubt, wow what a surprise

This black does (or at least did) crack; right?

I see, Maher is a racist liberal. Thanks T Chrisopher for the explanation.

Come on, repeat after me:

All whites who are not extremely liberal are racists!
All blacks who are not extremely rich are victims!

Got it? Now, let’s move on…

All those young kids that thought it would be cool to have a Black president are now seeing the consequences of their poor choice. They are the ones most affected by high unemployment and they do not see Obama showing that much concern.

No..I doubt it……….but if this comment was made by anyone who was deemed to be conservative..the word police would be FREAKING OUT!

Tommy said:

“Whatever you think of his policies, or his negotiating skills, the obstacles he surmounted to arrive there bespeak an undeniable strength of character”

No.

He hasn’t “surmounted” the obstacles he faced as much as he surfed over them, riding a wave of progressive and liberal enablers all the way to the top. There is a huge difference betwen genuine struggle and achievement and being the beneficiary of poltical correctness. connivance - and convenience.

He isn’t of particularly strong character, either. And time he’s faced with challenge or disgreement he reacts like a spoiled child. That doesn’t reflect great strength, it’s a reflection of pitiable weakness in a man who is in WAY over his head.

This is a man who learned to imitate intellect rather than develop his own, and he learned well. The left is still fawning over him despite his disastrous record as POTUS. He’s a very good con man, and he’s still got you on theleft buying his snake oil.

2012 can’t come soon enough.

Tommy said:

“Whatever you think of his policies, or his negotiating skills, the obstacles he surmounted to arrive there bespeak an undeniable strength of character”

No.

He hasn’t “surmounted” the obstacles he faced as much as he surfed over them, riding a wave of progressive and liberal enablers all the way to the top. There is a huge difference betwen genuine struggle and achievement and being the beneficiary of poltical correctness. connivance - and convenience.

He isn’t of particularly strong character, either. And time he’s faced with challenge or disgreement he reacts like a spoiled child. That doesn’t reflect great strength, it’s a reflection of pitiable weakness in a man who is in WAY over his head.

This is a man who learned to imitate intellect rather than develop his own, and he learned well. The left is still fawning over him despite his disastrous record as POTUS. He’s a very good con man, and he’s still got you on theleft buying his snake oil.

2012 can’t come soon enough.

The only way Obama can be re-elected is to motivate his base……..and the only way that will happen will be through FEAR of the right……and painting everyone who isn’t a supporter as a racist. He can’t run on his accomplisments.
So much for Hope and Change!

Oh, and Maher is a punk.

Unfortunately, Obama is symied by unrelenting House opposition. Nothing he would like to do will be acted on by the legislators because one party, the majority party, votes as a block “no” on anything Obama suggests. And the people know that so they are more upset with the republicans than they are Obama. 2012 will be a referendum on who the people blame, Obama or the republican house caucus.

Dosen’t this once again prove the point that Fox shouts “fire” in a crowded theatre, throws gasoline on the audience, blocks all the exits but one then points to the fire marshall as the culprit?  This is standard Fox fair which as any reasonable person knows is unfair.  They have, since the day Barak Obama appeared on the national stage, maligned,demeaned and told every lie imaginable about him.  Sadly they have an audience so consumed by the hatred of the character they’ve created of Obama, they’re now insatiable.  No one may even  utter true facts which may be deemed complementary to Obama on Fox, lest they be berated or demeaned themselves. 

that is what you got from this story, lol

What?

You forgot to blame Bush and Palin.

Sorry Val…….That doesn’t float…His First two years in office he had a Democratic House and Senate……he could have done anything he chose to do…IF he wanted to……and don’t bother with the “filabuster” talking point….he passed his healthcare plan..avoiding a filabuster with a procedural  trick….where there’s a will….there’s a way….and Obama doesn’t seem to have the will.

What a thoughtful reader your are..on another topic, exactly what color is the sky on your planet?

So..Bill Maher still is on television is what you’re saying? I didn’t know that–but they way he used to keep his name in the news so he could get paying live gigs–is to say outrageous dumb things that entertainment news shows would repeat. Then he’d be ‘famous’ for another week. Sound right?

Sarah Palin has cornered the market on saying outrageous dumb things to stay in the news.

Nobody spanks the right wing clowns like Bill Maher.

Is this why he’s now in jail for beating up an elephant?

http://thewashingtonfancy.com/2011/08/bill-maher-beats-elephant-to-death-at-san-diego-zoo/

This guy doesn’t stop

Maher pretty much stunk.  His only good joke was “Moody’s downgrading us from AAA to WTF”.  Funny.

He misled his audience on practically everything else & just plain lied about the FAA situation.

Heh.

Great site, funny stuff. Thanks.

You should be careful, you are getting into banning territory with criticisms like that.

Seems like that was your opinion even before Obama was elected, so I am not surprised that you feel that way now.

Bill Maher: Debt Ceiling Deal Shows ‘Black Does Crack’

…my neighbor’s cesspool backed-up yesterday, and guess what came oozing out ? Yep, more maher !

Anyone..anyplace EVER voted for Bill Maher? Ever? I mean besides the “Jerk of the Year” thing…can anyone imagine Maher being RESPONSIBLE for something? Or Someone? Does he even own a house or pay rent? or does he just move from hotel to hotel playing gigs and telling folk he’s smarter than they are while smirking like an 8th grade adolescent. He must be an acquired taste as “comics” go, because I have never met anyone who either liked him OR thought he was funny. Still–you tell me he’s on TV I gotta believe ya..(I’m posting about his press coverage here!)..so he must be “famous”, infamous or quotable. Say whatever happened to Roseann Barr? She used to remind me of this guy.

Biiol, if Barry had only carried a gun in this pants as you suggested a black president should do!!

Look, you can use Fox methods you’ve assimilated through your viewing habits or you can think for yourself.  Attacking the person does nothing to diminish that person but it does everything to diminish you.  And oh, blue.

Maher is just playing dumb to get conservative fans. Ignore him, he’s an idiot. When the republicans won the house so decisively, that ended the ability of Obama to do anything, legislatively, on his initiatives. Check it out, republicans in both houses oppose every little thing, with the same cut throat approach as they used during the debt ceiling debate, voting as a block against virtually everything. Blocking appointments for petty reasons, fillilbustering at a record pace, extorting concessions from Obama by threatening to blow up the economy. And then the republicans, and Maher, and his new fans, want to blame Obama? That’s fuking stupid.

How does settling on a plan with hardly any cuts to it at all to avoid a crisis that was never going to take place, equivalate itself to a ‘black man cracking’? What did Maher really want Obama to push the dept ceiling to default, or raise this nonsense without congressional approval accomplishing pretty much the same thing that we have now? Lets just forget the fact that we are digging ourselves deeper into a hole and losing our credit rating because of it.

Dude, there are no republican candidates that really scare Obama. And you will be lucky if a third party does not show up to complicate your life further.

Obama was opposed all the time by enough senators to stymie his health care bill and just about everything else. That’s not deniable.

Maher can go (expletive) himself. Just because he’s a liberal doesn’t give him the right to be a racist POS.

This is not a story about Fox you moron. Take your drivel somewhere else.

I am no fan of the president, but what Maher said was offensive. Luckily Maher has one of his sheep in Tommy to defend him.

The Republicans isn’t who he should be afraid of. He should be afraid that the american people will vote for the Republicans because he stinks as a president.

Bill Mahrer is the worst type of racist a Black person can encounter.  They pretend they like u but will undermine u just because of your race.He is disgusting.

Been there done that.  They don’t scare me. 

Sounds like the 3rd party candidate may come from the left. 

Everything is about FOX is you are obsessed with them. 

Imagine Greg Gutfield saying what Maher said….

It’s time for this guy to be booted into next year.

stymied?…..Last time I checked…he got it passed…and THAT’S not deniable.

BTW…sorry…..you can’t use the word stymie anymore……too many negative connotations

All those bleeding heart Libs obsessed with calling Tea Party members ‘racists’ suddenly can’t find their voices when Maher makes his (constant) racist remarks. Where have all the good Libs gone? Sheesh!

Bill Maher is a dickwad who rows Obama’s boat.
No doubt both of them smoked crack in the White House courtesy of the American taxpayer.

There have been a few comments here from readers who apparently cannot read. What could any of you possibly see in this piece as a “defense” of Bill Maher’s remark? Seriously, I don’t get you people sometimes. 

Tommy, go away.  You’re nothing but a liberal schmuck.  And what adult calls himself “Tommy”?

you dont….fox nation should apologize cause its racists or throwing darts at a board……..maher so called “joke” you dont want to over-analyze….no tommy why would we think you are not applying a equal standard?

look @ the ignorance here. These right leaning websites post more Bill Maher videos than HBO.

I just did two minutes of research on Tommy Christopher.  He actually works as a White House correspondent.  And he “live-tweeted” his own heart attack last year.  Can you believe this guy?  A friggin’ moron if there ever was one.  Tommy boy, your press credentials should be revoked and you should be sent into exile with that other uberliberal and skank Helen Thomas. 

I just did two minutes of research on Tommy Christopher.  He actually works as a White House correspondent.  And he “live-tweeted” his own heart attack last year.  Can you believe this guy?  A friggin’ moron if there ever was one.  Tommy boy, your press credentials should be revoked and you should be sent into exile with that other uberliberal and skank Helen Thomas. 

So tired of the race card! The man is a walking dysaster. Has nothing to do with him being black. If he was purple, orange, green, he would still be incompetent. Enough with the black thing. Let’s not forget he’s half white. Let’s then criticize that half if it makes the left feel better!

Welcome to the ugly world of progressives guessing at who’s blowing dog whistles the loudest.  Which brings me to my next point.  Only dogs hear dog whistles.

We have a black president, progressives, and he’s going to receive criticism, some of it which may seem racially tinged.  Get over it, or never reference another person’s preferences or proclivities.  If the next president takes to polo, you’d better keep your traps tightly shut.  Sometimes a basketball game is just a basketball game.

Palin is painted as an idiot on the liberal stations. As well as Obama is painted as a brilliant man. Your talking points have been given to you about Palin, and Obama and like a good pupil you regurgitated them as expected. However one thing you’re forgetting is that Palin is not running this nation. And why the left goes after Palin is because in order to make Obama look brilliant, which we know that’s not the case, they must paint other people as stupid or idiots. If the conversation is about Obamas incompetence, then the way the conversation is changed is, Palin’! You have attempted to do this here. Very predictable, however it’s not working. The only thing that is very obvious is that the Soros media got you to buy into the biggest scam put forth on america. I would make the argument that youre the one thats been had.

Palin is painted as an idiot on the liberal stations. As well as Obama is painted as a brilliant man. Your talking points have been given to you about Palin, and Obama and like a good pupil you regurgitated them as expected. However one thing you’re forgetting is that Palin is not running this nation. And why the left goes after Palin is because in order to make Obama look brilliant, which we know that’s not the case, they must paint other people as stupid or idiots. If the conversation is about Obamas incompetence, then the way the conversation is changed is, Palin’! You have attempted to do this here. Very predictable, however it’s not working. The only thing that is very obvious is that the Soros media got you to buy into the biggest scam put forth on america. I would make the argument that youre the one thats been had.

Mr Christopher, you are correct in that you did not directly defend Maher’s remark.  However, any criticism of his remark was tepid at best and made in passing.  Instead most of your comments were directed at something which was not the main subject of this piece – namely a Fox website’s characterization of Obama’s birthday party.  Given the scant attention paid to Maher’s remark versus the extended criticism of Fox I think it was natural for most readers to come to the conclusion they reached.

Of course you get it Tommy.  A liberal said it.  If a conservative said it, you’d be hearing your infernal dog whistles again. Hypocrite dbag.

Justic Eric Holder once called the United States “a nation of cowards”,
for being afraid to discuss matters of race.  I believe the recent stories posted on Mediaite on phantom racism are a prime example of why an honest conversation can not be had.  There are certain groups in this country that like to max out the race card for some short term, perceived political gain.  When you have everyone from politicians to reporters to T.V. hosts calling a group of folks that they’ve never met in their lives, racists, you have a radioactive football that nobody dares to touch.

I was looking around the web and found an interesting piece on this very issue…

http://bigjournalism.com/klarrey/2011/05/11/race-er-and-mediaite-editorialist-tommy-christopher-has-trouble-keeping-dog-whistles-straight/

I don’t want to insinuate either way about T.C’s motives for posting these stories, because I don’t know what’s in the man’s heart.  I just resent the notion that because we oppose this president, that we somehow oppose him because he’s a black man.

Maher is so fascinated with his own “fascinating characterizations” that he doesn’t recognize his own foolishness. Poor man is making himself a comic has-been fast!

Wow. That’s cool. Same here on earth. Mostly.

So does that assume that YOU have changed your opinion of McCain/Palin since then?

I know a lot of adults who call themselves “Tommy,” but zero who call themselves “CallingLibsOut.” And this is my house, so if you don’t like it, it is you who will have to go away. There’s the door.

You’re not making any sense. Maher’s remark was, in fact, a joke (the biggest clue was its inclusion in a comedy monologue). I said I didn’t want to over-analyze the joke’s premise, because any way you slice it, it was ugly. Still not hearing the defense. You’re just pissed because I dared to call bullshit on Bill Shine? Those are the breaks. Get a helmet.

lol, “made in passing?” As you point out, it was “the main subject of this piece.” There was no “defense.” The criticism was made “in passing” over the course of eight paragraphs. The real problem seems to be that I dared to criticize Fox, as well. Noted with amusement: none of the Fox fans even tried to argue the substance of that criticism. Hang in there, the Wahhhhmbulance is on the way.

Obama IS black, He even reiterated this on his latest cencus form, by purposely omitting being half white, on the inside, from his cencus form.

 Don’t you think it’s ‘ high ‘ time you libs get over it……and yourselves for that matter?

That was not Obama’s health bill, he wanted single payer like most other civilized countries.

No, I still have the same opinion: One is too old, and the other just plane silly.

Not likely, my girl. Fear the wrath of the Lord.

Maher and his panel called Fox Nation out for this, with Salon’s Joan Walsh commenting that “Every chance they get, they want to show you that he’s black.”

This is a load of crap that maybe made sense the first time he ran. Anyone that decides to not vote for Obama just because he is black does not need to be reminded.

Why don’t you try discussing his policies and job performance Joan. I think that’s more important to most Americans.

why make the comparison to Fox, if you dont judge with equal standards………is maher’s show a comedy show?

“That was not Obama’s health bill, he wanted single payer like most other civilized countries. “     Then why did he sign it? In its final form….The Health care bill only benefits Drug companies and Insurance Providers.

The problem is the subject was Maher’s “joke”.  Since your lead paragraph and the paragraphs where you actually discuss Maher’s statement had nothing to do with Fox, the references to Fox could very easily have been left out and your points would have been more salient.  I assume you are not limited in the number of topics you can submit for this site so an additional commentary concerning Fox Nation’s headline or one whose subject is actually comparing and contrasting the two is available to you. 

I made no comparison. I pegged Maher’s remark to his criticism of Fox to illustrate the degree to which one undercut the other. If you can find a passage where I indicate that one is better or worse than the other, I’m listening.

I’m also not limited in the number of related topics I can cover in a single piece, and most of my readers asren’t limited in their ability to digest them. To the extent you see a problem, it is based on your own biases, as evidenced by your inability to support the claim that I “defended” Maher. It’s just…a “feeling” you get because I criticized Fox News. 

No, my “bias” is the fact that this was about Maher and I disagree with the way you presented it and with your reaction to people who criticized your presentation.  Had you left Fox out or had combined more of your concluding paragraphs with your introduction I would probably not have said anything.  You chose the manner in which to present your ideas and I disagree with your decision.  Your wanting to criticize Fox has nothing to do with this.  I just think you can write better.

Here, though, the “cracking”  is not of the skin, but apparently, of will. Why explain his joke, we know it was a racist comment. And by the way, I didn’t say you were defending, I said you give maher the benefit of the doubt because you think he is acting as a comic. I understand that you can’t see the bias in your article, but thats cool 

Dude it’s simple, take your dumb a$$ on over to Hannity’s site or turn on “Oxycotin” Rush. You’ve obviously wandered onto the wrong website. On the other hand if you simply must make a fool of yourself, by all means keep posting.

Imagining Gutfield saying anything even remotely funny would be far too time consuming.

Maher sure knows how to get the dummies crying!

And for some reason, they love it!

Enjoy!

http://www.billmaher.com/

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Wait, wait … did he actually do sme cencus reiterationating?  Omitted his half-white insides?  Whoa, Nelly, nuthin’ gets by you righties.  No need to get over any of yourselves, you got it goin’ on. Yessir.  

Bill Maher is a comedian who has an admittedly biased political viewpoint.  Fox News claims to be a news reporting organization that is “fair and balanced.”  Maher’s joke was racist, but so what?  He’s a comedian.  News organizations are held to a different standard. 

Mentioning that Bill Maher criticized Fox Nation for being racist in the same show is relevant.  It could be interpreted to show a degree of hypocrisy on Maher’s part.  I disagree though, since Maher isn’t a reporter, but a political satirist with well known liberal leanings.  His show isn’t on a news network, but on a subscription based premium cable channel.  Despite my opinion, talking about Maher’s criticism of Fox’s article is clearly germane to the article, and wouldn’t have made his points more “salient.” 

All tea partiers are racists….don’t you know…LOL!!!

Eric Holder is Attorney General, not a jurist.  I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you happened across the big journalism piece and aren’t familiar with the site, but that site is the brainchild of Andrew Breitbart, the guy who edited video to force the resignation of Shirley Sherrod.  However biased you think Tommy and Mediaite are, that site is 100 times worse.

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