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Critics Trash Bill Maher’s Sex Life To Defend Sarah Palin, But Cede Moral Highground

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Bill Maher has found himself in a familiar place. Hosting a program that routinely indulges in off-color political humor and taunts the lines of decency in our public discourse, Real Time may have crossed its own lines. The highlights of the program are already well-known: calling Sarah Palin‘s family “inbred weirdos,” speculating as to what Rep. Michele Bachmann‘s sex life is like, wishing Congressional Republicans dead. Yet sad as it is, Maher can count at least one battle won in the war for vulgarity, as some on Fox News have taken to speculating about his sex life in retaliation.

Last Friday’s Real Time has already etched a place for itself in modern media history as something akin to the famous “Happy Birthday, Trig Palin!” Wonkette post, and its contents well-known to anyone following political media, but it’s worth repeating them: Maher called the Palin family a bunch of “inbred weirdos”—a comment listeners were quick to equate to Trig Palin’s Down Syndrome. His panelists discussed what Marcus Bachmann was like in the bedroom– with Michele, of course– hoping the “repressed anger” did them some good (Rick Santorum got in on this conversation somehow, too). Oh, and lest we forget, Dan Savage admitted to wanting all Congressional Republicans dead, but by then the discussion was so far off the rails that it didn’t sound quite as jarring as it should have. It was not, to put it mildly, Real Time’s finest moment.

Most of the backlash has been on the mark. Greg Gutfeld’s monologue on The Five yesterday took care to attack Maher stridently for his hate, but kept his sharpest language for his audience—“cowards… an echo chamber, an effusive slophouse of flapping, approval-seeking seals.” On last night’s Red Eye, Ann Coulter—a recurring guest on Real Timelamented that the audience appeared to be rewarding the program simply for it’s faux-edgy profanity. Online, Big Hollywood’s John Nolte even went so far as to consider the comments against the Bachmanns and Sarah Palin herself borderline acceptable, as they “were directed at adults perfectly capable of defending themselves,” and targeted the “inbred weirdos” comment specifically as “astonishingly obscene.” The character judgments were left unspoken, as, to most, the words did all of the talking.

Unfortunately, in handling such noxious language, some have not been able to resist the temptation of fighting fire with fire. During that same discussion with Gutfeld on The Five, for example, panelist Dana Perino could not hold back her disgust, spitting out an HBO-style word off-microphone and proceeding to attack Maher as a sniveling, hideous nerd. “I don’t know who stuffed this guy in a locker in high school, but this guy is such a loser,” she railed, going on about how she “couldn’t imagine any woman” being interested in him, making the clear implication that his inability to seduce ladies was directly correlated to his attention-grabbing, unacceptable screeds. She was not alone, however– possibly topped by another high school reference later yesterday on Hannity.

In a segment discussing the same program, Andrea Tantaros– who, during the same discussion on The Five kept to the rhetoric– also took the liberty to speculate as to Maher’s private life. ” “I think it goes a lot deeper than politics,” she quipped. “He talks about sex all the time, you wonder… is this guy frustrated about something else? Did some woman in high school, or now, that looks like Sarah Palin completely blow him off?” Hannity partook more mildly in the same: “He hates God, hates religion, he smokes pot, he wants to be Hugh Hefner– hes not hard to figure out.” That exchange below:


The visceral, personal reaction is entirely understandable and very difficult to avoid– lie down with dogs, get up with fleas, as the aphorism goes. It’s acting on impulse, scratching an itch to do something about the atrocious insults on the screen. It comes from a good place. It is the sort of behavior that is perfectly acceptable for anyone sitting in their armchairs watching at home, or anyone sitting on Bill Maher’s armchairs watching themselves in the camera. It does nothing but strengthen the corrosive power of his discourse to use it against him. That’s not to say that the commentary on Fox News was morally on par with Maher’s– obviously talking about someone’s high school frustrations is not akin to going after a toddler with Down Syndrome. But the sentiment behind the statements– the desire to disparage someone’s private or sex life because they have said things that offend– is precisely the sort of unproductive, lowest-common-denominator raving that has made Maher a millionaire, its continued presence in venues other than Real Time an homage to his life’s work.

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  • Norbit

    And this tripe is what passes for intelligent humor in liberal circles.

    Evolved thinkers laugh at you, liberals, not with you!

  • Anonymous

    Critics Trash Bill Maher’s Sex Life”

    Hey, if it weren’t for pickpockets or the spin cycle on his washing machine  Maher wouln’t have a sex life at all.

  • Anonymous

    Television faux-psychology is always comical. Especially from Sean Hannity, who has openly admitted to wishing he could play Ving Rhames in a real life version of Pulp Fiction.

  • Anonymous

    Television faux-psychology is always comical. Especially from Sean Hannity, who has openly admitted to wishing he could play Ving Rhames in a real life version of Pulp Fiction.

  • Anonymous

    And you already have.

  • Anonymous

    With your mom! hahahahahaha

  • Anonymous

    No it isn’t what passes for intelligent humor.

    And are you one of those evolved thinkers?

    By the way, Bill Maher would like to thank everybody who took/will take the time to comment on his show.

  • Anonymous

    She is a he- I’m sure she/he enjoyed you- all your holes.

    MG- a lib resorts to mom jokes.

    Are you 2 yet?

  • Anonymous

    YAWN!

  • Anonymous

    its ok until somebody does it to maher frances, come on ………….quit whining

  • Anonymous

    Why does Mediate give so much attention to a scumbag like Maher when that is exactly why he acts like a scumbag so he can get attention?

  • Anonymous

    Why does Mediate give so much attention to a scumbag like Maher when that is exactly why he acts like a scumbag so he can get attention?

  • Anonymous

    They have some ownership in his show.

  • Anonymous

    They have some ownership in his show.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    it must be some sort of contractual agreement..it’s surely not due to his comedic relief..

  • http://twitter.com/reeree766 Kevn Reader

    I watch his show and when he said “inbred weirdo” the first thing that popped into my head was laughter.  It isn’t until now (reading this) that I even thought about any correlation to the comment and Palin’s son. I don’t feel that his comment was intended as a reference to her son, but her as a person.

  • Anonymous

    Why does Mediate give so much attention to a scumbag like Limbaugh when
    that is exactly why he acts like a scumbag so he can get attention?

  • Beth

    I love Bill Maher.  His humor is too cerebral for the average American, though, so I’m not surprised by any of this.  

  • Anonymous

    Very mature, Rondell.

  • Anonymous

    Only Frances could have written this….I shake my head in complete disgust that Frances is actually critical of anyone other than Maher as it relates to this discussion. 

    Geeze Frances; you must be a member of NOW or something.

  • Anonymous

    I wanted to make sure your benighted meager corpuscle of a lib brain could understand.

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    He already has the #1 show on radio and has had it for years!

    MG- you are incapable of original thought.

  • Anonymous

    His humor is designed for mildly to profoundly retarded and brain-damaged lib people who have no lives or jobs.

  • Anonymous

    Why liberal people? Anyone can listen and laugh, well except if you’re a Republican AND a wuss. I know Republicans that watch and don’t sit around calling Maher “retarded”.. he’s a guy that talks viscerally and says what he thinks. He’s also pissing the people in power off, it’s a nice thing to see.

  • Anonymous

    calling Sarah Palin’s family “inbred weirdos,” speculating as to what Rep. Michele Bachmann’s sex life is like, wishing Congressional Republicans dead.”

    Yes, I’m sure that is considered acceptable, rather perspicacious and thought-provoking dialogue  by libs.

    Yeah- whatever you say- I mean sure, I believe ya- Quick, call Security and get the sedative!!!

  • Texan

    As does Glenn Beck on the previous thread. ;)

  • Anonymous

    This site’s comment section has turned into such a worthless shithole, even more than it already was.

  • Redmrlove

    Maher finally made it, but let’s not make him out to be more than he is. Bill was a moderately successful comedian before he stumbled on to the political thing and made a mint. His standup performances are still excrutiatingly unfunny and he still thinks he’s in his middle twenties. I don’t begrudge his success. He found an angle and he ran with it. Good for him. But he’s not nearly as smart or as funny as most of his acolytes think

  • Redmrlove

    Maher finally made it, but let’s not make him out to be more than he is. Bill was a moderately successful comedian before he stumbled on to the political thing and made a mint. His standup performances are still excrutiatingly unfunny and he still thinks he’s in his middle twenties. I don’t begrudge his success. He found an angle and he ran with it. Good for him. But he’s not nearly as smart or as funny as most of his acolytes think

  • Texan

    Must be why you lurk 24/7 in hopes of making the first post on every thread, right dummy?

  • Anonymous

    Frances you should be ashamed of yourself.  Your ridiculous headline and the story indicate somehow that what the right said about Maher was  equal to what he said.  That is b.s.  

    Time for you to grow up Frances.  The foul obscene names that Maher has directed against Republican Women should be tasteless and repugnant to all women and men.  You seem to feel it’s fine and now poor pathetic Bill is being trashed.  

    Unbelievable.  Grow up Frances – or let someone with some credence cover this story because your coverage is worse than bad.  You’re just another left wing bomb thrower who can’t believe that Bill is getting the same treatment from the right that he meets out.  Well, it’s not even remotely similar.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    He was awesome in D.C. Cab.

  • Anonymous

    With you here, it sure has.

  • Anonymous

    Watch out- one of the guidelines is you may not take Mediaite authors to task.

  • Anonymous

    It’s called Twitter. Check it out sometime, it’s pretty sweet.

  • Anonymous

    This from the person who makes “mom” jokes.

  • Anonymous

    If Maher was in it, it should have been called” AC/DC Cab!!!”

  • Anonymous

    Do you use profanity and tell “mom” jokes there, too?

  • Anonymous

    Do you use profanity and tell “mom” jokes there, too?

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    “But cede moral highground”

    Wow, that had to be the biggest stretch I have ever seen you make Frances. And I have read quite a few from you.

    Quite the imagination.

  • Texan

    prolly where  he hooks up with under age girls…

  • Anonymous

    More like underage men.

  • Anonymous

    Maher is one person i would pay to see get raped in prison.. I bet he would get ratings than. In fact that would make a great reality show..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NUT75XKRMJZ2QZJUUWOYH7Y7TA Cincy

    I guess now that Keefy Olbermann ratings show he is sliding back into obscurity with his show on that cute little cable access station, Franny is turning to her other fantasy boyfriend for attention.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NUT75XKRMJZ2QZJUUWOYH7Y7TA Cincy

    I guess now that Keefy Olbermann ratings show he is sliding back into obscurity with his show on that cute little cable access station, Franny is turning to her other fantasy boyfriend for attention.

  • Cecelia

    I don’t think they ceded the moral high ground at all.

    They could only have done that if Perino and company had been saying such things from jump.

    Sooner …and in this case much later… it’s only logical that someone is going to wonder what the heck happened to a grown man with this sort of cheap shot hostility.   People are going to conjecture that perhaps it is “revenge of the nerds”. 

  • Anonymous

    Bill Maher is paid to be a vulgar piece of tripe and Palin and Bachman are paid to be political hacks and tramps.  What’s the difference.  They are all puke.

  • Nietzschean

    The best jokes about Bill Maher’s sex life (basically he trades his celebrity for sex with low-grade star-fucked bimbos) have been on the Howard Stern Show and from Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Maher won’t even go on Stern’s show anymore because Stern inevitably ridicules Maher’s unseemly promiscuity. In short Maher is smugly–a combination of smug and ugly.

  • Mlkbeat

    Surprise… you believe in evolution!

  • Anonymous

    “wishing Congressional Republicans dead” 
    this is NOT a comment he made, it was made by a guest and he can’t control what comes out of their mouths, eh?

    I think it’s so cute how you’ve admitted your complete and utter disdain of everything Bill Maher in the past and yet they let YOU be the one who covers his program. 

    I’m sorry his intelligence, depth and humor is beyond so many of you but eh that’s life.

  • Anonymous

    “wishing Congressional Republicans dead” 
    this is NOT a comment he made, it was made by a guest and he can’t control what comes out of their mouths, eh?

    I think it’s so cute how you’ve admitted your complete and utter disdain of everything Bill Maher in the past and yet they let YOU be the one who covers his program. 

    I’m sorry his intelligence, depth and humor is beyond so many of you but eh that’s life.

  • Anonymous

    hon, trust me on this, we don’t want or need you on our team ;)

  • Anonymous

    hon, trust me on this, we don’t want or need you on our team ;)

  • redleaf

    ““He hates God, hates religion, he smokes pot, he wants to be Hugh Hefner…”

    And that is why I love Bill Maher. Or, as Billy Joel says, “I’d rather laugh with the sinner than cry with the saints.”

  • Anonymous

    and you are correct, I not only thought the same thing, not only did the segment not relate to her son, but I for one have tweeted to him (like many others) about the “inbred Palins” and he picked up on all the comments from the thousands who follow  him.  I cannot speak for the others who speak of them as inbreds, but I for one never thought of her little son.. ever.  It never occured to me on that level.  We call her that because she’s batshitcrazy as is (apparently) her husband, the more we hear stories about him come out.

  • http://twitter.com/AllCreatedEqual Thomas Jefferson

    Bill Maher is hilarious, informed and incredibly entertaining, unlike the nitwits on that dumb show.  

  • Anonymous

    not possible 

  • oscar_leroy

    Please don’t inject reality here,it ruins the wingnut narrative buzz.

  • Anonymous

    Flagged you both for using innocent children in order to make pedophile attack jokes.

  • Anonymous

    “prolly” ?

    seriously, are one liners all you people have?

  • Anonymous

    Snoop Dog asked his Twitter followers to join him on Up Stream the other day.  There weren’t too many of us that responded but it was fun hanging out and asking him questions and having him give us a private concert. 

  • Anonymous

    Honestly, just because you don’t find him funny doesn’t mean he’s not, or that others of us DO find him humorous.  He’s not on par with Jon Stewart but he’s a different kind of political comedian and he’s doing just fine, has for years…

  • Anonymous

    “wishing Congressional Republicans dead”  Not said by Maher. 

  • Anonymous

    “The foul obscene names that Maher has directed against Republican Women should be tasteless and repugnant to all women and men”
    Well considering he’s never been foul or obscene to them, we have no problem with it.

    He’s never gone after intelligent responsible republican women like: Lisa Murkowski, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Olympia Snow, Susan Collins, Jan Brewer, and the many others who have served in Washington or in their home states.

    The fact simply is that Palin and Bachmann are batshitcrazy and we will endlessly, ruthlessly attack them…. for the sake of the country.

  • Anonymous

    “he hates god”

    We cannot “hate” that which does not exist, eh?

  • Anonymous

    Maher is a waste of human flesh. 

  • Anonymous

    It dosen’t change the fact that all members of the “liberal” collective wish for it.

  • Anonymous

    Your so miserably inadequate, Ellen.

  • Anonymous

    I love Bill Maher but I have to admit that was one of his worst shows due to the face that a woman had to sit next to Savage, Maher and that other comedian who sat down later. The language they used around her was honestly discusting and disrespectful. You could tell she was very uncomfortable and you can’t blame her. Other than that Maher is always spot on with his satire. And there is truth in satire. I think and I’m sure Maher realizes he would have done the episode differently if he could do it over again. Mark Cuban was the only guy who had any decency and everytime he tried to talk Savage would interupt him. I’m sure Maher won’t have Savage as a guest again.

  • Anonymous

    But the sentiment behind the statements– the desire to disparage someone’s private or sex life because they have said things that offend– is precisely the sort of unproductive, lowest-common-denominator raving

    Come on Frances, are you that clueless? Maher’s sex life isn’t private. The idiot Maher practically lives amongst all the herpes and hepatitis C floating around at the Playboy mansion’s Blue Grotto for crying out loud! He deliberately get’s his fugly face photographed there and printed in each issue of Playboy.

  • Anonymous

    I miss Glenn! His television show was one of the most amazing things I’d ever seen. But I’m not worried, because I know we’ll FIND EACH OTHER!!! See you in Jerusalem, patriot!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: I just don’t have words of wisdom for his kind other than hey it’s never to late for forgiveness in the eyes of the Lord. I can say this with an open heart. God bless America and keep us safe from all enemies both foreign and domestic. God bless the America military!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: I just don’t have words of wisdom for his kind other than hey it’s never to late for forgiveness in the eyes of the Lord. I can say this with an open heart. God bless America and keep us safe from all enemies both foreign and domestic. God bless the America military!

  • Anonymous

    So Frances, you’re telling me it’s ok Maher said what he said because he is Maher? Don’t try and feed us that BS. What he said was wrong and completely over the line even for his own SNAFU that he calls a television program. This is the same kind of lunatic ranting that got him fired from ABC and put him in the realm of premium cable where he has built his own personal echo chamber of nonsense and irrelevancy. 

  • Anonymous

    Cerebral?  Only if you mind is in the gutter sweets.  Not much cerebral about cu-t et al.  If that’s your idea of cerebral, you’re in major trouble there girlfriend. lol

  • Anonymous

    Never been foul or obscene to them – really?  You mean he’s one of those “brave” souls who tells everyone but is too much of a chicken shit to say it to their faces?  Really? lol

    Yah, they are batshitcrazy because you don’t agree with them and have no informed counter point except name calling.  That explains it all!

    Go put on your rouge and forget about making an informed grown up comment.  

  • Anonymous

    Frances wasn’t too concerned about the “lowest common denominator raving” when directed at a Republican.  She’s of the “intelligent” opinion that they must deserve or like it or something similar.

  • Anonymous

    Anyone that calls a down’s syndrome child an ‘inbred’ wishes death to political opponents and wishes sexual violence on presidential candidates has earned disgust.  Hard to contain, people are human…

  • Anonymous

    As soon as you accept rape imagery and hostility towards the disabled in political discourse, then you know you’re in the moral swamp.     I’d love to see him use the same rhetoric about gays or blacks and see if you’d be fine with a polite ‘that’s wrong response.

    The real point is the sicko craves publicity, they should ignore it…

  • Anonymous

    Moral highground? Fly-larvae such as Maher have no morals and never see any high ground. He isn’t fit to clean the moose-dung off Sarah Palin’s hunting boots.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Republicans make fun of Pelosi all the time.  

  • david r

    “Yet sad as it is, Maher can count at least one battle won in the war
    for vulgarity, as some on Fox News have taken to speculating about his sex life in retaliation.”

    Although it is hyperbole to state that Maher has won any kind of victory, moral or otherwise, you have a minor point about the newsbabes.  This is the risk you run when good looks are the primary qualification for getting the on-air job.  The sexual inadequacy pokes at Maher were unprofessional.

  • Michelle

    Yeah, that’s it.  We’re too dumb to find him funny. 

  • Michelle

    No, it was said by a man who whines about being bullied.

  • Michelle

    It’s hard to take your FAUX outrage seriously when you are defending Maher. 

  • Michelle

    Can’t you libs come up with anything original?  The “conservative woman are tramps” meme is played out. 

  • Dik Gozinya

    I got a picture of Maher’s mother and the ten guys he calls Daddy having a well-documented good time if you DemoKKKrats know what I mean. Anybody want to see the link?

  • Anonymous

    Absolutely unbelievable.
    Somehow is the morally inbred world of liberal ‘journalists’ like Martel calling someone a nerd crosses the line, but slaughtering republicans and raping conservative women isn’t. In Martel’s twisted world that is merely ‘not the show’s best moment’. Repulsive, thy name is Mediaite-Matters.

  • NeverWrong

    Gay, sissified, girlieboy, Billie Maher, along with her gay friends on Messynbc, Chrissy Matthews, Loraine O’Donnell and Edith Schultz, show us daily how much they all hate women. As bad as those idiots on MESSnbc are, the GAY billie maher is the worst. She is a sad and pathetic spokeswoman for Gays and Lesbians everywhere. If I were gay (and I am NOT) I would get him fired as the spokelesbian.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    When I heard of “inbred weirdo” I thought of Alabama. I never occurred to me that anyone might be referring to Palin’s child until I read some of the radical rightist commenters here. They are a terribly odd sort, aren’t they?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    What filth you are, Jeff Merrill. I just flagged you.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I felt sorry for you, so I gave you a “Liked” Michelle-in-Utah.

    I do feel your post is yet another shovel of manure to add to your vast kart o’ krap. When people say Palin is a tramp, they mean Palin. You’re the only one I see generalizing that to all conservative women.

  • Anonymous

    “Fact: I just don’t have words of wisdom ”

    Finally, we agree.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    So, how do you like the new name, Cecelia? It fits well.

    I have to say I marvel at how you extreme rightists are always attacking comedians. The only valid attack against a comedian is that his or her routine is not funny. Maher’s is not. To read some great manifesto into the routine seems rather silly, rather insulting to you own extremist ideology.

  • Kpyne52

    Now you get it.

  • Anonymous

    they do, do they?  They call her cu-t and whore and all the other special words the left has for Republican Woman?  Mind finding even one?  Just one – otherwise Staci, we will have to call you a liar.  We wouldn’t want to do that unless….

  • Anonymous

    You realize that all those “air heads” you refer to have a lot more education than you or Bill.  Just thought you might like to do a search on the “primary qualifications” for females working at Fox.  

    Get back to me on that o.k.?

  • Anonymous

    Maher is a grease monkey; he needs a bus to come along and bury him (that was my attempt at Bill Maher-style humor…if it doesn’t elicit a laugh, I guess I’ve succeeded).

  • Anonymous

    it’s not over even an ant’s head doofus.  If you think there is any depth to Maher then you have serious issues – real serious.

    You figure it takes special intelligence to use every foul word in the dictionary? lol

  • Anonymous

    you equate obscene with funny?  hmmm I would say if you find humor in calling people you don’t agree with obscene names – you have nothing, just a foul mouth and mind.  

    I think your extremist ideology needs to be examined and perhaps look for the reset button.  

  • Jerry Baustian

    I thought with this headline, that there would be more to the story. 

  • Texan

    “rather insulting to you own extremist ideology.”

    All day stooper, huh?

  • Texan

    Mark Schultz, puby is the peda, not me.

  • Cecelia

    Oh, blather!

    Of course one can analyze and critique the mindset behind political humor, be it from a comedian or a cartoonist. 

    To suggest that doing such a thing is somehow overwrought or misplaced is as transparent a bit of sophistry as your Emperor’s “new [old] clothes”…

  • Cecelia

     Yeah, he’s a wordsmith, isn’t he.

    I thought that he might use “extremist” a third time for the agitprop caricature charm…

  • Cecelia

    Jerry Baustian,  one of the few benefits of Disqus is that you can follow the comments of people that you enjoy.

    YOU are on my list!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BRXW5XYRDYVA5F6J2TDPC3CQEI gbearc

    What they’re really ridiculing isn’t that Maher is a slut, it’s that he has a long history of dating porn stars and strippers.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BRXW5XYRDYVA5F6J2TDPC3CQEI gbearc

    ‘Maher called the Palin family a bunch of “inbred weirdos”—a comment listeners were quick to equate to Trig Palin’s Down Syndrome.’

    Oh, for the love of…’were quick to equate to Trig Palin…..’. Seriously, this is just atrocious writing. Atrocious. 

  • Jerry Baustian

    Bill Maher sets the tone for his show and what people say about it, so he is responsible. One cannot imagine such things being said by guests of Steve Allen, Dick Cavett, or Johnny Carson. 

    In an earlier century, someone as crude, vulgar, and insulting as Maher would have received a note, delivered by a second, describing an insult perceived by someone like Todd Palin. It would invite an explanation and an apology, or else at meeting at dawn for some exercise with swords or pistols. 

    In those earlier centuries, they knew something about civility and how to maintain it. Today Bill Maher is allowed to participate in elite society without deserving that honor. Given that he cannot be killed or maimed, that means he should at least be shunned.

  • Anonymous

    Headline – OxyMORON – Bill Maher & sexlife

  • Anonymous

    As slow as you seem, maybe he was talking about you.

    Pe-pe-people li-li-like you ju-ju-just ma-ma-make me sta-sta-stammer.

  • Anonymous

    The civil war is over.

    But I must admit, my first impression was of an adult northerner in the dead of a snowy winter with nothing but family members and some dairy cow on the farm and nothing but time on their hands for 5 months.

    Seems to be more realistic to me! This is not about racism, but classism. And you have no class.

  • Dflojak

    Off subject as always, did Limbaugh call palin a c@nt. Nice try, but another swing and a miss from the left.

  • Dflojak

    See, here’s a prime example of why it’s impossible to take a lib or progressive serious. And inbred weirdo, which maher also attributes to anyone in the church or teaparty, is funny. It’s not, it’s a poor excuse at derogatory humor and shows Maher’s lack of intellect.

  • Dflojak

    Yeah, he’s a frickin genius. Just like you.

  • Dflojak

    progressive pussy, you’re hangin’ with snoop. I am impressed, who else was there, fitty, Chris, you all swearin’ up the ho’s and snortin a line together. Anybody that thinks this comment doesn’t put you at the level of a dumbass, not much else will. hey, did you get that tongue piercing so you can take care of yo man, and put the pole in the game room too? You  da bomb, baby.

  • Dflojak

    flag queen kitty hits the button again, what a crybaby.

  • Dflojak

    i watched a bit of his standup on hbo or comedy central the other night and eve HIS audience only laughed at half his jokes, and not because they “didn’t get it, he was too cerebral”, but because he wasn’t funny, over the edge.

  • Dflojak

    What is funny here is that lib’s don’t see the connection between inbred weirdo’s and trig, but they all equate bad president with racist. Funny, and confusing.

  • Anonymous

    That is your quotation not mine.  One of my best friends is a former female Republican Congresswoman and she is not  a tramp, a political whore, or any of their other things that put Palin and Bachmann in a special class of their own where lying and making outrageous statements is common.  Thank God, they do not represent conservative women.  You don’t have to be liberal to know the difference between a real candidate with scruples and two political whores.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ON4HHDYPEEDF3USYEBHZ7CJBCU potvin

    Ignore Maher…maybe he’ll go away. One can hope.

  • DrKnowe

    Someone’s obsessed with homosexuality.  It’s the only thing that seems to be on your mind.

  • DrKnowe

    Murphy0071- a rare voice of sanity and reason amongst people venting just to be venting..
    Good show, good show.
    *tips hat*

  • DrKnowe

    Wow.  6 people admitting to wanting to pay to see male-on-male forced sex.
    I guess we know what’s on your hard drives.

  • Cecelia

    “In an earlier century, someone as crude, vulgar, and insulting as Maher
    would have received a note, delivered by a second, describing an insult
    perceived by someone like Todd Palin. It would invite an explanation and
    an apology, or else at meeting at dawn for some exercise with swords or
    pistols.”

    I think we should return to this earlier practice, only with a modern application.

    Allow Mrs. Palin to defend her own honor.

    Maher wouldn’t stand a chance…

  • timburns116

    Not to mention not ture, since I didn’t equate it until I read that.

    Nothing take offense more quicky than a conservative

  • timburns116

    Man bites dog:  Sean Hannity, ass kisser to Newt Gingrich and Palin, etc, doesn’t like someone who doesn’t respect his heroes, his religion, or his politics.

  • timburns116

    Maher appears on CNN on occasion.  I’m pretty sure you are, thus, wrong on him being on MSNBC and being gay.  0 for 2

  • timburns116

    I’ve got a similar picture of Marcuth Bachman and the ten guys who call him “Daddy.”  Want the link?

  • timburns116

    oooooooh, an appeal to authority from a member of a movement which has nothing but disdain for education and higher learning,  The irony is wonderful

  • timburns116

    Uh, Sarah has TV producers to clean that off long before anyone else could there.  What is with you people that you don’t understand she’s a fraud?

  • timburns116

    His attacks, which weren’t his, but his guests’ (BTW), are directed at individuals, not groups.  You want an attack on a group, go listen to Hannity lecture us on atheists, gays, minorities, liberals, or the poor

  • Nietzschean

    That’s not really a contradiction of what I said. It’s more like a “and moreover…” I’ve heard people call into the show (Stern) with Maher sightings and what they make fun of is that he’s always out and about with some star-struck bimbo. Trey Parker and Matt Stone made jokes how they don’t want to be “that guy” (i.e. Maher) when they’re his age. This was in response to a question some one asked them about relationships and marriage.

  • Mjm02

    I love Bill Maher. he should be on seven nights a week.He only tells it like it is.That Palin women needs to take care of her own kids. and not go showing how uneducated , she is. 
    Nancy Baily

  • Anonymous

    When you grow up you will understand what respect means. That won’t come until you are no longer a liberal.

  • Anonymous

    Really, a disdain for education and higher learning?  How do you come to that brilliant conclusion?
    Oh, I know – you’re one of the “brilliant” ones who thinks throwing good money after bad solves a problem.

    Well, hate to inform you, but we spend more per child than any other Country – and our system sucks.
    What is your brilliant answer.

    p.s.  Those attractive women on Fox – very educated.  
    p.p.s.  My kids – very educated and guess what?  I payed for their education myself!  What a concept.

  • Anonymous

    Really, a disdain for education and higher learning?  How do you come to that brilliant conclusion?
    Oh, I know – you’re one of the “brilliant” ones who thinks throwing good money after bad solves a problem.

    Well, hate to inform you, but we spend more per child than any other Country – and our system sucks.
    What is your brilliant answer.

    p.s.  Those attractive women on Fox – very educated.  
    p.p.s.  My kids – very educated and guess what?  I payed for their education myself!  What a concept.

  • Jerrylosh

    they will break befor we melt down, could we be so lucky to bury them in there own shit.let the crazy have it there way then the country up.

  • Googolplex

    I think you’re mistaking him for Bill Maher.

  • Googolplex

    Yes, I’m sure we can sell it to liberals for a hundred bucks or so.

    They’d love it.

  • rv.ronald e.barrow

    oh,evolve.or go the way of the dinosaurs.better still,justGO AWAY!

  • bccacher

    Wow you republicans are one stupid bunch, Hannity… what a dolt! I would never take this guy seriously.
    Bill Maher for president = goodbye to ridiculous religion in politics
    Imagine what a beautiful world we would live in without religion, no wars no hate No republicans…Ahhh!

  • Anonymous

    That greasy looking man has a sex life?  With what? 

  • Tan

    Yeah, I agree. Maher is controversial but he would never insult a toddler in that manner, particularly one unfortunate enough to have Sarah Palin as a ‘mother’! I hate how moronic wingnuts think we hate Trig when we adore him…it’s (some) members of his stupid family we hate. I am 99.9% sure that Maher was referring to the Wasilla culture and likely Bristol and the fact that her and her ex- would be sister in law have shared lovers (yea lovers, you think Bristol is abstinent? Haha, her own ex has refuted that one! No, not Levi) and so have Bristol and some of her friends…so ew, yeah, that is a culture thing in the meth capital of Alaska, yeah.

    Wingnuts make me sick, putting this on poor Trig. Down Syndrome isn’t the result of inbreeding, anyway. It just shows what sick evil thoughts are at the top of their minds to suggest that’s what Maher meant, attempting to assign motivations without any evidence or thought.

    Frances, you are an idiot for presuming that the wingnuts were correct in making this about Trig. Why do you cover these shows at all? The articles are just you uninspiringly and unintelligently writing verbatim quotes and explaining the jokes…why don’t they just fire you and post the videos without your stupidity attached? Please consider this Mediaite!

  • Tan

    As well as Sarah’s eldest child, Track, being fathered by their neighbour at the time rather than Todd and Todd having a child with another woman in a nearby town whilst married to Sarah. Yeah, it’s not inbred, but it’s laughable enough to be jokingly refered to as that! Yes, these people are disgusting and they are NOT like most of us.

    Another thought I had. I don’t usually like to comment on personal appearance but since it’s relevant to the joke I’ll make an exception. I know wingnuts are going to scream at me that I’m ‘jealous’ but I’m really not, I’m young enough to be her daughter so I really don’t want to look like Sarah…here goes…Sarah Palin….looks a lil ‘inbred’ at times. Her eyes are crossed, and that ha always traditionally been an inbred joke. I mean that as no offence to anyone with crossed eyes as I don’t believe it myself, but it’s what some mean people say. I think Maher could have been playing on that one too. Combine that with her screechy voice and backward ideas and divisiveness and she’s a caricature. She’s Cletus, the slack jawed yokel. And I’m being nice here, Cletus is one of my favourite characters!

  • Badwolf Py

    “…get up with fleas.” You mean like the fox news “talent,” right? No? …ok.u

  • Bill_Kills

    Wow.

    Hannity = Middle School Girl

    Maher murders him head to head. But that’d never happen would it Sean? Grown man shit, get your career done while we watch… Bill would ghost you like J.Stewart did Tucker Carlson and you know it. Best stay on the porch with your sewing circle talking ’bout, “Momma, there go that bad man again.”

    So weak it makes me smile – even Ann Coulter can get down with my man.

  • Djbobby

    Hannnity said conservatives dont say these kind of things about Liberals……..

  • indrid-cold

    what kind of sick mutant hell whore would have sex with bill maher????????????/

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/OV73UNFBSF4VILTTSM4N6453GA Iknow

    You have to understand why Maher is so unsettled, he was born without a penis I’ve been tole, so his involvement with women is limited.  He was abused with laughter about this all his life, so he strikes back at only decent women.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/OV73UNFBSF4VILTTSM4N6453GA Iknow

    Is it true that Maher is a woman and this one of the best kept secrets.  This is what angers him about women, only the decent ones, is he is trapped in his female body.  hmmmm would explain a lot.

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