There is an error in the article, it says:  Panelist Alan Grayson quipped that President Obama wouldn’t have been born, to which Maher retorted, “He would not be free.”

Grayson didn’t say ‘born’, Grayson said:  “Obama wouldn’t have been President”

*yaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnn*

Bill you’re an idiot. If the employer is being underserved by your comments then they have and should have every right to discontinue their relationship with you.

terabyte!

Bill has his right to believe What he wants. Freedom of speech sould be a stong right. But I don’t feel sorry for Hank Jr. He was born to an Icon . Got paid for being a so-so country musician. He was/is nothing special. He probably made more money on MNF song to be set for life. If he is any good he will rise above but I doubt it. He seems to be full of hate.

The “Obama would not be free” is a pretty stupid statement.  Last time I checked Obama is not a descendant of Black Slaves.  In fact, Obama’s descendant’s were more likely a PART of the slave trade (as in the one’s putting African’s into slavery).  Maher’s ignorance really shines in that statement.

This is a perfect example of why we’re all waiting for you rightwingers to give up the ghost. Maher in his hyperbolic fashion has once again put his finger on the hypocrisy of the right. For sure, Williams, really put his foot in his mouth and, maybe, shouldn’t have been fired, althought his ESPN football song is awful – but who cares what happens to a fool like Williams. Fun is fun, and Williams has never been a serious person, and has really lived in the shadow of his father, who was one of the great all time country musicians. BTW, Williams senior was taught and mentored by an itinerant Black musician, Rufus Payne. When it comes to good Christian values, you rightwingers are really somethin’.

I don’t think he said they don’t have a right, just that he doesn’t agree with them doing it.

Obama “would not be free.” – Bill Maher…this coming from the guy who 3 minutes earlier said n!ggerheads. Give me a break, racist liberals on TV (Larry O Donnell anyone?)

Bocephus should have known how in-the-tank ESPN is for the Golden Child.  You want to be a sponsor, or be involved in marketing, better leave your opinions at the door…   No conspiracy here, ESPN can do whatever they like.  

They are a corporation and they are protected by the 1st Amendment too!! 

It sounds like someone doesn’t know their history.  Obama descendants wouldn’t be part of the slave trade.  You’re showing your ignorance.  

How come no one is complaining that Williams compared Boehner to Netanyahu?

“Who will work at our waffle houses”? Ummm, negroes and mexicans? They’re also very good at assaulting our women.

As Lincoln had wished, the african slaves should have been freed and returned to Africa, where they would have been free to enslave and exploit their african cousins. They’d have been happier, I suspect.

Moron, the point is that Obama has absolutely NO connection to slavery in his family line.  If anything, given that black Africans were the original slave traders, the likelihood is greater that his family would have been a slaver, not a slave.  Can’t you handle even the simplest logic?

I see that Bill Maher aka Janeane Garafalo’s twin sister, is speaking again.

Hey Hank, “Are you ready for some Dem Purgin’?”
It’s only about a year away!
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Herman Cain will expose the 60 years of Democratic Party servitude Black Americans have endured. He’ll expose how the Democratic Welfare State obliterated the Black Family Unit, and perpetuated poverty throughout black inner city communities.It’s time the Democrats REPENT for what their policies have done to the spirit and hope of these continuously impoverished black communities. The Dems and Their Media have pushed the “Whitey is Racist” LIE to deliberately frighten black voters.It’s despciable…They’re Despicable!

Had they fired him for showing up on Fox and Friends for being all doped up that would be one thing but he never made the comparison to Hitler, the metaphor he used Hitler/Netanyahu is like comparing oil/water polar opposites…  that is what he was talking about when he linked that metaphor to Obama/Boehner.  

But I am sure that the left will continue to say that he compared Obama to Hitler.  Personally I don’t care as I don’t give a crap about Williams but I did like that song at the beginning of MNF. 

I think you over state the “full of hate” thing. But he’s a bonehead, no doubt. Plus some of his 80s songs ain’t half bad.

Maher is playing the race card again…..ooookay:

Bill Maher Hit With Palimony Suit
Ex accuses HBO star of physical abuse, “degrading racial comments”
NOVEMBER 11–Comedian Bill Maher was slapped yesterday with a $9 million palimony suit by an ex-girlfriend who alleges that the HBO star subjected her to physical and verbal abuse, including “insulting, humiliating and degrading racial comments.
She charges that Maher pulled her arm and shook her at one party, causing “injuries to her back and neck,” and later that evening warned he’d hit her on the head with a hammer “

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/bill-maher-hit-palimony-suit

Beating up girls and most likey calling them “n*ggers” and threatening to bash their heads in with hammers.
Whattaguy!

“I’d have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I’d ban all the ones made in China.”
anyone here think that the red can’t tell the different from China, Korea, and Japan. He probably can’t find Japan on the map.

1989? Really? wow…..

The Republican redneck hillbillies would still support all those things. LOL

We don’t have any Chinese cars!!!!

Are you kidding?  Rush Limbaugh should be the first one of anyone that should be discontinued. Maher at least is on HBO doing it as comedy. Limbaugh is on public airways doing everything that Maher doing except the language. Limbaugh lies and etc, etc. and is trying to be serious at the same time. As is Michael Savage and that other nut Joyce Kauffman are both on .am hate radio.

Bill, that guy that makes more money than both you and I combined. That Bill.

If the South would have won, the rest of the union would have been way better off.  Lincoln should have just let the south secede.  Good riddance.  

Don’t jump all over this just yet. I smell a gold digger. Are you new to the United States?

Wikipedia is free. And HEY LOOK – You’re on the internet! I heard they have a section on the history of slavery. Check it out man! It’s rad!

Wikipedia is free. And HEY LOOK – You’re on the internet! I heard they have a section on the history of slavery. Check it out man! It’s rad!

In the English language, comparisons are analogous from left to right: ”A is to B as C is to what?” Example, “Hand is to foot as arm is to ____?”

(the answer is leg.)’said of Obama’s outing on the links with House Speaker John Boehner: “It’d be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu.”‘Obama is to Hitler as Boehner is to Netanyahu.You could even use the process of elimination to disqualify other conclusions. Look at how silly the alternatives are:Obama is to Boehner as Hitler is to Netanyahu.Boehner is to Hitler as Obama is to Netanyahu. (well… that one, maybe not so silly.)If it IS an incorrect conclusion, it’s because this hick didn’t know what the hell he was saying, is as uneducated as he looks, and should refrain from using the English language until he learns how it’s spoken.

I have a horrible secret to share. I can’t STAND watching ugly people on TV so I can’t comment on this Maher faux pas. I don’t watch his show.

I think your barking up the wrong tree Onne…. or you just never paid attention in school. 

Civil rights were republican lead.  The party that wanted the end to slavery was Republicans. The Republicans were at the front of the civil rights Bill also. In fact the count for the bill at that time in 1964: 61 percent of Democratic lawmakers voted for the bill (152 yeas and 96 nays), and a full 80 percent of the Republican caucus supported it (138 yeas and 34 nays). ML King was a Republican. 

Hillbillies you talk about are the liberals now days! They are the one shouting hateful words and calling people names with no intelligence or facts behind them.http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/may/25/republicans-and-civil-rights-act/

Mac, and Dan K, you are really trying to read too deeply into a joke meant to shine light on the fact that the confederacy fought for slavery. I know how much some like to gloss over that when romanticizing the south.

Since you did go there though, it doesn’t matter where President Obama’s ANCESTORS were born. Had he, or his father, stepped foot in this country, during the time of slavery, society would have labeled them as “black,” the same way they labeled as “white” many of the European groups that immigrated here. The system of slavery, and oppression, in The United States directly related to your skin color. There was no hope of serving enough years and eventually going free. You wouldn’t serve your time and become a part of your master’s family afterwards. The factor which determined whether you were a slave, and oppressed, or not, was the race this society deemed you a part of based on the color of your skin. The only way to change your status would be to change the color of your skin. Even a freed slave could find their self enslaved again, because the black man had no rights whites were obligated to acknowledge. So it really doesn’t matter much where the prez’s ancestors were born, because once any of his lineage, on his fathers side, stepped over into this country, they would be instantly labeled as black and subjected to the same oppression associated with that stigma.

As I recall, this gal is also one of the ex girl friends that told the world that
Bill Maher had a “tiny Dick”!
Now when you are as ugly as Bill Maher you better have a big dick!
It might help if he washed his hair occasionally, also.

Uh, something happened AFTER the Civil Rights Act was pushed through….yep, those racist Democrats (mostly southern) defected to the GOP and have mostly stayed there. 

Fact: One doesn’t need to watch ugly when they can post ugly thoughts so well by themselves!

Hey Maher . In the South , we respect women .

They’re not ” whores” to us .

We don’t call them tw@ts and c#nts because we don’t agree with their politics .

into dicks huh?

The thing overlooked in the Williams saga is that Boehner is who should be offended considering the amount of blood Netanyahu has on his hands

Who  the eff cares what this scumbag thinks?
Ugly AND stupid…a 2fer!

Then where would the Northern Liberals get their housekeepers and lawn jockeys?

All that money and still a fool.

Poor Bill- hank did not compare Obama to Hitler- he made an analogy on the extreme differences between Obama and Boehner and the analogy was incredible stupid at best.

So he’s one of those evil rich people?

Well Obama is half black and half white.  So he hates his white half for buying slaves and he hates his black half for kidnapping free blacks and then selling them to the white slave traders.  

Maher knows nothing of history, slavery had disappeared throughout the west and would have in the south even if warmonger tyrant Lincoln wouldn’t have destroyed the constitution for the sake of Wall Street by starting the Civil War. China is enslaving millions of Africans today, wheres the outrage, libtards? 

I think his 9/11 ‘coward’ comments were more notorious than infamous.

If Hank Williams Jr. was censored by ESPN, why is Bill Maher still on the air in spite of his foul, vicious, vile, putid remarks about Sarah Palin?  Hank Williams’ remarks were a metaphor; Maher’s a filthy, disgusting attack on a woman.  This shows what his network thinks of women.  Will never tune to it again.

You mean, defected *BACK* to the GOP. The south was heavily GOP until Lincoln freed the slaves, then it voted extremely (D) until the mid-1960s when the LBJ pushed through the Civil Rights act, then it flip-flopped back to GOP where it’s been since. Believe me, if Herman Cain gets the GOP nomination, they’ll flip-flop back to (D) faster than you can burn a bus that allows blacks to sit in front.

“…our women”?!? You are a sexist jerk.

He can’t help it… about 40 years ago, while drunk and high on whiskey and thorazines, he fell about 60 feet straight onto his face while mountain climbing (that’s right – the baggers’ hero doesn’t have even enough sense to not go mountain climbing while smashed)… THAT’s why he wears the big shades all the time – to cover up the scars.

Wow! And here I thought those glasses meant he had some weird man-crush on Slash.

You really CAN NOT be serious.. You place your ignorance on the window shelf for everyone to see? What else is in your magic bag? You are on the internet.. USE IT.. LEARN… the ANSWER To your dumb question is LITERALLY a few clicks and a cut-and-paste away.. IF your strange obsession with all that you know is so great that you are attempting to question if Bill having a job and Frank getting fired is motivated by some factor other than employee-employer relations.. RE-READ.. BILL was fired by the SAME COMPANY as Hank before he was hired by HBO (oops.. I may have given away SOME of the research help you should have done before letting us see your brain.)

YEAH!!! Without the CIVIL WAR, slavery would have been banned!! about three to four years ago.. maybe.. ROFL

analogy is a BIG word for dudes like Bill and TV/NFL executives.. PLUS it has the word anal in it and it scares the homophobes..

UH OHHH, WE MAY HAVE A WINNER IN TODAYS “I’M STILL IN THE SIX GRADE, I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I CONTEST OF IDIOTS”… “who teh eff cares what thsi scumbag things? Ugly AND stupid.. a 2fer”.. I think I just heard two little kids on the street make more profound and intelligent statements. Did YOU think of this, or did your child?

CLASSIC coming from the group (the SOUTH) that had to be YANKED into the age of women’s rights and the reality of them being considered to be “full people of independent thought”… But what is history anyway.. its all made up right?

Sweet dreams are made of theeeese….

Sweet dreams are made of theeeese….

yeah, cuz from what I’ve read and seen in my life, from story to story, y’all need as much help as you can assaulting YOUR women and holding any kind of job.. ROFL (my ENTRY into the SIXTH GRADE STUPID IDIOT I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I” contest.. THE winner already got his prize above..

Maybe Hand and others think with a name like Boehner, perhaps he is jewish? and the comparison was a little more credit-worthy than blaming a half black dude with a good old German boy?

You are still showing your ignorance.. because from what you’ve written, my assumption is you think other than OBAMA, MOST blacks and their families were part of the slave trade.. way to go.. 

No, not at all!  He is constantly fighting for the little guy and the middle class. He wants the rich to pay more in taxed and wants healthcare for everyone, etc, etc. He doesn’t take the same opinion of the greedy fat cat Plutocrats who have no problems taking advantage of us. Like, Rush Limbaugh, the best example of an evil rich person.

not according to domestic homicide and violence statistics

http://www.silentwitness.net/states/us_map.htm

I love how the repubs keep quoting that to hide their racism.
Racist dems (like strom thurmond) left the party for the Repubs after civil rights and the party has never been the same since

maybe just sit home and cry I want my country back

hehehe

Duh
How many women has he been know to be with?
And only one has stated this?

Thats where I was going.

Chattle?

and that he’s wasted

petabyte

Bill, don’t take it so hard, they were looking for a reason to get rid of him and this one was better than any other they could come up with.

Funny how you lefties hate freedom of speech ,unless you are doing the talking,
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/seton-motley/2009/08/13/cnn-video-2006-bush-hitler-mustache-no-outrage-called-look-alike

Hank was making an anology of the situation,Obama golfing with Boener,is like hitler golfing with Netanyahu ,meaning this should not happen and if it is happening something is very wrong with this picture.That is not comparing Obama with Hitler.
Either way it does not matter as Obama has proven himself  to be a failure.

If your avitar is actually you ,you should be an expert on ugly after looking at that in the mirror for the last eighty years.

You said:

“Boehner is to Hitler as Obama is to Netanyahu. (well… that one, maybe not so silly.)”

So that shows if this had been a lefty directing this at a conservative you would have been just fine with it.

Dont you have to get to an occupy wall street ,cause I dont like to work and everyone who has worked hard owes me something and Im a commie protest.

You are making comparisons,Hank was making an analogy of a situation that looks suspicious at best,It may be you who needs to brush up on your interpretation of the english language,and stop trying to make everything so P.C.
In your little mind Im sure everyone from the south is a hick.

Obama lied,the dems chance in 2012 died.  HA Ha  eat  your  dam n     peas.

BS!! He most certainly did compare Obama to Hitler.
Do you really think maybe he was talking about BONE-ER  being Hilter?

Maher was raised in River Vale, New Jersey, and graduated from Pascack Hills High School in Montvale in 1974. He received a B.A. in English and HISTORY from Cornell University in 1978.

How about you?

Maybe BONE-ER was suppose to be Hitler?

:-(

Your republikkkan governor use those federal educational dollars to stuff his pockets too?

:-(

It happens.

:-(

Vote democrat.

Look fool. You ain’t getting none of this good stuff, you understand!? Now step off!

 You’re spelling of Boehner dismisses anything that otherwise may have been intelligent in your statement

SUGGESTION: Try just once to back up your talking points with a source.
It gives substance to your rantings.

Excuse me “YOUR spelling…..”

Who really cares what Maher thinks and why does Mediaite have a fixation on this clown?
Bill Maher is an HBO stooge and nothing more.

I wouldn’t be too sure of that. Have you seen the demonstrations all over the U.S. ? Why? because the 99 percenters are rising up. They are (me included) are sick of this country being run by the wealthy and corporations. Capitalism was once a good word. But after many years of the greedy and the corporatists have capitalism into a plutocracy which is what the GOP nominees stand for. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and as you can see in the polls 70% to 80 % want the wealthy to pay a 5% tax increase to help with the deficit. I want to see a Republican run on the platform of “Corporations are people my friend.” Lets see how than flies with the rest of the middle class.           just saying.

And at least most people know how he got circumcized….                         Someone kicked his sister in the jaw.

He also said that the president and vice president are “the enemy”. Disagreeing with a person politically is one thing but to deem two very patriotic men as the enemy, after comparing the president to Hitler and Boehner as Netanyahu is also beyond reasonable and so very wrong. This president would have been killed under Hitler for his skin color and his mother would have more than likely been killed too just because she married a black man. Doesn’t anyone remember Jessie Owens when Hitler refused to acknowledge him even though he kicked butt against all those Aryan runners in the Olympics?

Exactly. I’m not from the South, but if I was I would be pissed. Why is it that it’s ok to bash “Rednecks”,”Hicks”, “Southerner’s”, but if you dare make a remark about any nationality, race, religion, etc., you are a bigot, or racist, or hateful. It is always open season on Southerners. Hello? Isn’t that being prejudiced? 

You know that white men came to Africa and bribed tribal men to betray their own people and members of other tribes. But we can’t change how history actually happened. While many different peoples from all over the world enslaved others, white men were the first ones trafficking Africans to “the new world” and to the island countries south of what is now the United States.

As to any lineage the president may have related to slaves in America; it is very possible that he had ancestors that ended up as slaves. We know many men in there prime were taken by slavers and no doubt many of them left behind children in Africa, as well as parents, siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles.. Just because he doesn’t have a direct decendant connection to America’s slaves here doesn’t mean he isn’t of the same blood as some here.

I find it curious that the Republicans are trying to rewrite history since this president took office. While their have been those trying to teach creationism instead of evolution forever, some of this is new, including trying to make it like white people weren’t at fault for slavery. Just like Texas is trying to downplay Thomas Jefferson’s importance in our history, they want to change all the bad things white people here in the America’s have done to others. There is no denying what white people did to the Native Americans after we came to this country. But our history is our history and wanting it to be something else just doesn’t fly.

I think some of why the extreme right in Texas (like Perry) want to downplay Jeffersons part in our history is because of his words don’t match what the tea party and other extreme right try to claim about the Constitution and the founding fathers. In a letter to a friend in 1816  he mocked “men [who] look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched”; “who ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.” “Let us follow no such examples, nor weakly believe that one generation is not as capable as another of taking care of itself, and of ordering its own affairs,” he concluded. “Each generation is as independent as the one preceding, as that was of all which had gone before.” 

I know you are just pulling legs, you don’t mean what you’ve just said. 

You mean corporations like solyndra?
Taxing the rich will not put a dent in the deficit,the problem is out of control spending,and unbalanced trade agreements.The “99 percenters “are really about 5 percent.

You would still suport the president who is the worst disaster in the history of the U.S. and you think I’m uneducated?And you had to throw the kkk in there too to show you prejudice against Americans from the south.
What a dunce you are.

How does one pronouce BAINER when your name is Boehner (BONE-ER)? LOL

Corporations are people,even my small business is a corporation,and when I file I dont file as a corp,I file a personal tax return with gross business figures.that makes it appear I have made a ton of money,but in reality most of it was business expenses such as labor ,materials,fuel,etc.. educate yourself.

I stand to be corrected. Yes, even as a progressive I don’t agree on all issues with them. I am with the Republicans on immigration and am for the death penalty as long as there is no doubt the person is guilty. even this vid kinda shows where I am on most issues:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Kuo8lb6Bg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPk4NTp-Lmk

Wow! He called the president the enemy, and you are taking exception to that?  How about the president calling every american who disagrees with his policies the enemy, are you going to express outrage at that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnnwJ1rgCnM&feature=related

Whatever if that is what you care to see in his statement then that is what you are going to see.  Like I said, I really don’t care about this guy as I am not a fan of his music and it is clear from this interview that his mind and probably his life are so filled with drug and alcohol abuse that he is a mess.  

What I hear him say is that Obama and Boehner are polar opposites, I do not hear him disparaging president Obama.  But like I said, if you want to take the energy to make more of this then go right ahead, I think that it matters little, as this guy is just a burned out entertainer who matters little on the national stage. 

When one combines comparing the president to Hitler and as the enemy, I take offense. But of course he is free to say anything he wants with the exceptions allowed by law- such as yelling fire in a crowded theatre or other place the public may be gathering. The only thing Williams forgot is that others can hold him accountable for his words, which is what ESPN did. I say good for ESPN. They don’t want their brand tainted by such bad judgement.

and so people that make more money are the ones to be respected?

lord…what a confused little numnut you are little bean…

im a lifelong dem and have worked in politics and media in DC for 20 years and have met maher on various occasions, he know as much about politics as my cat.  

he just regurgitates whatever the trendy uninformed ones are saying and thats why the even less informed hobbyists like you just love him, because he makes you think you know what you are talking about, which you dont…

god i hate this kind of nimrod….im sure you picked obama over hillary for all the cliche stoopid azz reasons too –  huh cliche boy???

fix new?  thats sooooo 2004 bubba….

hows about “Im sorry” as your motto for 2012?

m

yeah, his chickens are coming home to roost, right??…

oh youre so educated that you intentionally misunderstand his meaning huh?

yeah, thats just brilliant…

hey 1989 called –  it wants its hick hipster look back…

what a dick thing to say …

ill vote democrat when we have one running.

obamacrats are not democrats…

ask bill clinton.

these people are so unaware of their own hypocrisy its truly amusing :)

good point…

What I find funny about Hank Williams Jr. being blown out at ESPN is that they got a “Black” guy to replace him tomorrow night. That’s funny.  Anyway, Hank has freedom of speech, but he doesn’t have freedom FROM speech.  The mothership, as glossed by Dan Patrick, is a private enterprise and they can do what they want with people that are employees or vendors.  The fat hillbilly bumped his gums about 44 and Moe Howard, I mean Adolph Hitler and they whacked him. Pure and simple.  He’ll land on his feel.  He’ll get a lot of traction telling his fellow rednecks that ESPN is a liberal korporation, blah, blah, blah,

Nice comment, from an Anglo-Saxon.  Hey Darr Darr, do you think one of the Anglo-Saxon CONservatives would pick Cain as a running mate to insure that they’ll never get assasinated

“The “99 percenters “are really about 5 percent.” ……………….Wow ,that makes feel a lot better.    

Your a dick.

Well, you at least got the first and last four words right!

Hey well thanks for the attention you give to my comments.   eh’  pluty

your a lifelong dem as much as I’m a lifelong teabagger.. nice try though.

Well let’s not pick on you poor poor Southern folk because there is just NOTHING racist about anything you have ever done[as my eyes roll to heaven!]

Educate these fools please!

Oh please!! First off Lincoln did NOT ‘free the slaves’ he did that purely for show Lincoln didn’t give a RAT’S ASS about freeing slaves as for your assertion about ‘helping’ white people bring Africans to this country does NOT absolve the part white people played in it which was you know the MAIN part! And as for raping ‘your women’ what color is Phillip Garrido stupid or the a##hole who raped and murdered Chelsea King

What hair?!! Oh you mean the hair he is losing and is just months away from a comb over.