“I’m a comic” is no more a valid excuse for crude and nasty behavior than “I’m a Nazi” excuses anti-semetic behavior.

Joy and Bill aren’t funny, or they wouldn’t constantly whip that tattered, tired, pathetic card out.

BILL MAHER:  Well, If I had known you were going to be such a c*nt about it now, no..I wouldn’t have said it.

LMFAO! Classic Bill!

Some harsh words from the conservative darling most famous for getting bug bites on “Survivor”…

Real comics don’t have to rely on making fun of others to get some laughs. But that’s Mahers MO…. Real comics can see the absurdity and humor in everyday life without name calling.

Thats all I’m goin to say. 

lol…all comedians go over the line sometimes.

Let the Maher hatefest begin. (Ironically, it will be lead by all the same people who are Limbaugh apologists.) 

WOW … talk about equating two things that are not even REMOTELY similar. The lengths conservatives will go to in order to try and desperately make a point.

You need some lessons on perspective, my friend.

Ohhh, poor Elizabeth’s feelings were hurt.  

Bill Maher’s a friggin comedian – which means ALL public figures (including hosts of The View) are potential material in his routine. Deal with, Hasselbeck. She’s just pissed that the right-wing doesn’t have any comedians to counter someone like Maher. (except Dennis Miller and Larry the Cable guy, whom fail miserably at matching wits with left-leaning comics)

Yeah, let’s rely on conservatives, the least funny people on the planet, to decide what is humorous and not.

lol at Elizabeth saying it wasn’t about “her”.  Suuuuuuuurrrrre it wasn’t.

An annoyed-seeming Maher quickly responded that he does a comedy show, she’s a public figure, and, as such, she’s “fodder for comedians to make comments on.”  If it was actually funny he might have been able to hide behind the “comedian shield” You can tell when Maher does his intro monologue that even the simpletons in his audience don’t find it all that amusing and just clap instead of laugh because that’s what all the other  monkeys are doing in the live audience.

Didn’t know a bunch of seals were sitting in the View audience. 

Wow, Godwin’s Law shows up in the first comment!

So, ‘Mediaite’ considers it “uncomfortable” when a woman “confronts” misogynist, potty-mouth creep Bill Maher? O.K., we get the picture. Poor Bill.

Maher is no comic…he is the lowest form of scum!!
No wonder why the vile left idolizes him so much!!

he’s a comedian, get over it. I’m Jewish, I laugh at the virulently anti-semitic character Cartman…it’s a comedy show you uptight olinger.  yes, your last name seems like a dirty word.

Elizabeth still has her panties in a bunch and is mad because he made a joke about HER, and yes Elizabeth it was funny.

Maher’s not funny, in the opinion of ‘Chrissy Olinger’. Hallelujah!

Who, in your comedic wisdom, do you find funny?

That guy is soooo ugly! That’s why he hates the world. Judging by the women he makes laugh they’re in the same boat. Ugly people support ugly people.

Jon, it probably wasn’t your intent, but some of your language is as disappointing as it is sexist.  I watched that tape, and I didn’t find Hasselback to be “upset” (let alone very, very, very upset), nor did I find that she had any kind of “temper”.

She had a disagreement with a guest – as other hosts are frequent to do, particularly with more conservative guests – and Hasselback articulated what her differences were with Maher.  Isn’t that the whole point of the show – particularly when the show is titled “The View”.

I’m not even a fan of Hasselback; I think she’s way too strident for my tastes, but in this matter, I found her calm, reasonable (but tough) and assertive.  She was neither upset nor did she lose her temper.

I do agree with your observation that Walters was (politely) somewhat condescending.

You clearly didnt read the article…or  else you wouldnt make such a remarkably stupid comment.
Mediaite or Jon Bershad didn’t consider it uncomfortable that a woman confronted Bill Maher…what was uncomfortable was how she took over the segment to avenge a personal gripe and that her co-hosts didn’t support her resulting in an awkward, uncomfortable SEGMENT.

Then why doesn’t he ever comment how ugly Muchell is and how dumb her husband is. Now that would be funny.

Wow another conservative who can’t take a joke when its directed at them-from a comedian no less.

Let her get a taste of what Obama has to deal with from non comedian politicians.

Shut up Hasselbeck and go back to your ivory tower.
 

We should have traded the Egyptians your mother for Lara Logan.  Pretty funny shit, huh?

 Really? You mean like Rush Limbaugh?

GET OUT OF HERE!

I’d hit it.

Ick.  Conservative old farts like you should just stick with “Matlock” reruns. 

Boy, those liberals are brilliant!  Brilliant!

It was obvious she was spitting mad.
She couldn’t sit still until she confronted him and when she did she had a definite attitude.

I can only surmise you never had a girlfriend if you can’t tell when a woman is so obviously pissed off.
If I got that tone of voice and hand movements from my lady I would grab my car keys and head to the local pub until she calmed down.

The fact that this greasy little sourpuss has any significance at all says more about the denizens of Liberalville than anything else.

Elizabeth should have said,” Now, Maher, sit still while I bring out our next guest , Todd Palin”.

Elizabeth Hasselback was on Survivor… how did she become so important?   Self righteous B, IMO

Lard Limbaugh goes over the line every day and he’s a genius but a guy who does it for a living is scum? Teabaggers & Hasselbeck are a bunch a dumbfucks.

That would be racist regarding the fact that Obama is one of the most articulate black men of our time and Michelle is a fashion icon. What other than racism would give anyone a reason to call them the opposite of what they are?

Sorry to play the race card but I am just trying to understand why….
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Maher is a comic. You are just mad that he ridicules the right!

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At least she didnt walk off the set.

I admit that’s not as funny as a “Poison Nancy Pelosi” joke or a “This fence will kill you” joke.

I wish life were as simple as the “logic” behind your posts. What I’m curious to know is: If the right wing in America is your devil… what makes you believe the left in america isn’t? Power corrupts… etc. 

Oh, Lizzie, honey… unpurse your lips and unclench your butt cheeks.  Are you really that humorless and self-important?  You’re only just embarrassing yourself (as usual).

What does the Todd Palin thing even mean here greasy little donahue?

You’re right BFD. It was all about you. The fact that you have that smirking jack-wagon( who has been in govt longer than most of the occupiers have been alive) as your avatar speaks volumes about you.

WHAT OTL? It was a fair joke, one the audience got immediately, but obviously a joke, since it was said by a COMEDIAN not a pol on a COMEDY show not in Congress or in a policy speech.

What is the MATTER with you people? Elizabeth herself probably laughed at the joke, now The View producers make into a joke them for mostly nothing TALK show, pretending to take the joke seriously, and here Mediaite comes along and treats it as SERIOUS.

We have so, so, so many problems right now, this does even provide decent comedy relief from all the crap we’re in. 

Comedians are funny Mahar is not.

The reason why you say that is because they’re liberals. Just admit it. It’s not about comedy. You probably love Rush Limbaugh’s “jokes”.

the real uncomfortable part came after this when they actually got to real topics.

She’s a Republican. Of course, she lacks humor.

And turnabout is fair play.  Hasselbeck sat next to him and crossed her pretty legs in his direction, then took him apart.  If you go to the View website and watch the whole thing, poor Bill was trying to curry pity from the audience and other panel members at the end.  She completely ruined his segment.  Now the little prick will think twice before he makes a joke at her expense.  Laugh that off, Bill.

Because that wouldn’t be funny. He knows his audience(mostly liberal) so to make fun of the Obamas would be harmful for him.

And it’s not a joke to say someone is ugly. That’s just an insult.

Hey Lizzie shut  up and get a life, your claim to fame is what? oh you were on a crappy reality show. you’re as dumb as a box of rocks, and while you’re at it your husband sucks as an analyst on ESPN.

Go suck off Mahar you little bitch.

See what you’ve done here, Jon Bershad? This was YOUR doing. You know damn well Mediaite is a site for commenting on media commentary, and instead gets converted in this temporary tent city as a basis for carrying on The Phony War. You could have at least TRIED to provoke your readers into considering how media works to set up phony celebrity confrontations [No he DI'N'T; No she DI'N'T], since this isn’t even hesaid-shesaid, it’s he pretendsaid-shepretendsaid. It’s like you pulled the fire alarm bell in a drill, then set a fire. You really are irresponsible.

Said comic has a political show with political guest, all whom make political comment (and jest).  Simply a comic? As if he is in a stand up routine in front of 50 people.  Millions watch him. Just a comic?  Bill is far more serious than Stewart who is a clown.

so miller can’t match wits with whoopi?…  yeah, right…

fail miserably, indeed…

that would be must see tv…

Not ROTFLMAO funny, just barely clever funny. Lara Logan has social value, Elizabeth Hasselbeck does not, thus the joke, since Hosni Mubarek would be assumed just to want someone who looks like a young blond American woman to get off on, let’s at least give him one that has less social value. 

But it was a THROW-AWAY, something Maher does 100 times a show, and surely no one considers Elizabeth Hasselbeck serves any social utility or cannot be replaced in 10 minutes. 

Oh, did I strike a nerve? Have I insulted your masturbating material? Don’t worry, your Hasselbeck/Coulter fantasies are safe and sound in your pretty little little head.

Image that she didn’t like a joke about her being raped. Do politics really blind people this much. Hasselbeck may be a idiot but that doesn’t mean shes open to jokes about her being raped.

lol………………..wrong……..Hasslebeck ruined her own show!

I’ll tell you what hurts me this dumb broad supporting lock and barrel the disastrous Bush foreign policy which created two of the three longest wars in American history. She joins Bush, Krauthammer, O’Reilly and all the Republicans who deserve absolutely no sympathy for anything from anyone for the rest of their lives.    

 Hey look, two other people speak stupid.

Do you find humor in people who degrade women?

*crickets + fail… step your game up.

since bill mahr starred in “cannibal women in the avocado jungle of death”, i concede your point that he clearly has the superior credentials……

This reminds me of that time Norm appeared on The Daily Show and started off on a routine about Condi Rice up in eastern Canada with some young uptight looking Canuck cabinet minister doing a joint press conference talking about how the night air was so ‘refreshing’ and Stewart asking Norm, since he’s Canadian so knows everything about Canuckistan (goes the joke) if maybe the two pols had got it on or something, would it be ridiculous to suggest the Canuck pol would ‘hit’ on Condi, and Norm said, That guy would f**k anything. 

The left is screwed up in its own way and I make no apologies for their nuts. 

The key difference is that on the right, those nuts are put front and center, not sidelined to the fringes where they belong. Just look at the GOP roster of candidates and tell me that the animals aren’t running the zoo! Bachmann? Cain? Perry? Gingrich? Santorum? There was a time when the party’s leaders never would have let this crew past the front gate. Now they’re all vying to be Leader of the Free World — and they’re being cheered on by the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter and O’Reilly. 

The right wing is a total freak show now and anyone with a pulse knows it.

Do you say that anytime someone makes a joke about a conservative woman?

..and they say liberals are the sensitive ones.. lol

Amazing how the true comics don’t need profanity or the like… Robin Williams curses, but it’s not what he relies on… just sayin’

Awww are the wittle babies upset, awwwwwwww, it’s gunna be  OK :)

I think it is impossible to relate three or more sentences about Nancy Pelosi and achieve a humorous result.  And as far as that fence goes, it’s about as practical as electing the guy who made the remark.  And if you live in Austin, our economy is supported by the cheap labor of mis vatos, who wire $8B/mo. to Mexico, keeping those vatos over there.  I’ve traveled extensively in N. Mexico.  You see people living in adobe huts with sheet-iron roofs.  And no running water because the government water pump needs a $50 part.  You can get in your car and drive a few hours and be back in Texas.  And your house never looked so luxurious.

You mean like “Princess Nancy” comments?

You could be right

I don’t think anyone really cares about a softball ABC segment that was awkward because of Hasselbeck. I’m going to buy Maher’s new book first thing I get the chance. 

Stay.On.Topic.Loser

Maher is an idiot.

Someone tell Dildo face that if he considers himself a comedian that would make just about everyone on MSNBC comedian except in reality that they are so detached from along with most libtards they are not very funny.Jimmy Kimmel funny Dildo face not funny.Eddie Murphy Dildo face not funny see the pattern libtards.
Only a libtard finds rape funny

No, not at all. I was just being funny like Mahar. You didn’t think I was funny? I guess you just don’t get Mahar’s comedy. Stupid liberals have no sense of humor.

This is a class example of the double standard against conservative woman. Not even Elizabeth’s co-hosts would stand by her, very shameful. Especially Whoopi when she was rolling her head.

Kinda finishes your input for this life cycle, don’t it? Set up some limits for comedy, slap hands, another life cycle justified, I. am. outta. here. Hey, Maher makes fun of himself more than he does any other person, living or dead, so he knows self-deprecation. 

Again – this was a little throw-away, funny but only by a about one thousandth of an oogie.

(The basis unit of humor is measured in oogies, per the well-known Shrodingbat Unsettle’em Principle, per classic quantum humor mechanics, per the 1928 Conference in Solway, Denmark, when Ludwig Einsteen challenged Nilson Schmilson Bore to a whoopie cushion dual, and Wolfgang Paulie de la Shore let out the first measurable suspected wet one from the front row, eventually to be resolved nearly 25 years later by the Bull Theorem. Oogies degrade into dry and wet, strange and exotic oogrinos, and their companion snoogrinos, and are currently the subject of 13 different experiments at the LHC in CERN, on the theory that at some point snoogrinos glide on Giggles Bosoxons just along the barrier of between the apparently albeit actually illusory because measurable state we call “reality”, and actual but almost entirely unfathomable and otherwise undetectable but actually in no way illusory “gag” world of which this illusory “real” world is formed, per, but of course, gag theory. Physics cats can tell you this is different from string theory, which is hours more fun but essentially pointless, not to mention waveless – no waves, no point.) 

I usually like Elizabeth and really dislike Bill Maher. But she looked petty in this. She needs to let this type of thing go.

A little unfair; Maher wrote some really terrific symphonies and some great song cycles. Was it his fault the Vienna Philharmonic was full of dicks?

Be careful the libtards get all of there news from him how else could they be so enlightened can’t get all your slanted news from Mediate and Puffington Post.

Dennis is pretty up and down these days, with some fairly decent Millerial rants like we haven’t heard for a while. Thing is, when a comedian decides to work the heroin circuit, he shouldn’t be surprised at not being invited to Carnegie Hall.

You’re kidding, right?

Il Douche without his teleprompter is a balling idiot. Even with … see “corpse-man” as proof. And Moochelle? She’s so ugly that when she went to the top of the Empire State Building, airplanes began to attack.

I’d never want my kids to grow up to be either of them.

A little unfair; humans broke off from the ape line 6 million years ago, and apes broke off from the monkey line before that. Those folks might have been Neanderthals, except that FoxNews tends to keep that bunch in Nielson cages.

That’s the thing.  It actually wasn’t a joke about being raped, although Hasselbeck pretends it was.  When Maher made the joke, Logan had just been released from detention by Mubarak–this was about a week before the assault happened on Tahrir Square.  So Hasselbeck’s timeline is all wrong, but I suspect she did it so she could make a (false) rhetorical point.  The joke was that detaining a useless blonde like Hasselbeck is fine, but not someone like Logan.

I love Bill, but I think it depends on how much he knew at the time he made the joke.  It wasn’t clear for a while what happened with Lara Logan and nobody would say that she being gang raped almost to death was funny.  If he was aware of the circumstances when he made the joke at Hasselbeck’s expense then no…I’m not with him on this one.

OH. SHUT. UP. 

All you want to do here is yak yak yak on about what ACTUALLY HAPPENED, 
and that is SO BOOOORRING. 

We all here want to talk about what each of would like to THINK happened – way more interesting and useful.

That’s the Leftist/Mediaite way. They reward bad behavior with positive stories, for example Colby Hall saying that the OWS scum had somehow “won” a victory (because schmuck’s like Colby gave them positive coverage, lol).

So you would prefer a world with Sadaam, Omar, and the like as opposed to the the one we created without them? Why?

Cartman is a mixture of schoolyard bully, authoritarian, sadist, Bircher and Young Republican, the best single fictional capture of those three, a true comedy classic – best thing on that show. 

I guess this was some kind of attempt at humor and I’m sure you know that Maher is a comedian (who I don’t find very funny) and Mahler was a composer.

Nice try to get me worked up, racist troll.

shouldn’t we hold our own to a higher standard than ol’ Limpbaugh?

The only problem I have with this comment is it’s way too high-minded, so intellectual, too … too cerebral. You should post a follow-up to explain some the dense technical terms. 

“I’d never want my kids to grow up to be either of them.”

Don’t worry…if your children are anything like you, I am sure they will be Darwin Award winners very soon.

I didn’t hear the original joke nor did I watch The View.  It would be difficult for me to decide which of the two programs I care less about.

I do wonder why the hosts of The View are so quick to give a pass to a comedian who made a joke involving a woman who was gang raped.  Is Maher suggesting that it would have been okay had it been Hasselbeck?  Let’s get Lara Logan back and give them Elizabeth Hasselbeck instead?  My that is funny, isn’t it?

I think he knew that.

Bill didn’t reach over and stick his hand up her skirt Cain-style, did he?

She might be into that.

Hasselbeck needs to stop acting like a 2 yr old brat, if she wants to be on a talk show…It was almost like she was a mean girl in jr high school…Bill Maher was an invited guest, if she didn’t want to be around him she should have not come out, obviously she had it planned, because she changed seats to sit right next to him…Hasselbeck showed herself to be the idiot she is…..Grow up, she needs to make an apology to her audience, that wanted to hear about Bill Mahers book..

Saddam was not worth $2 trillion and 4400 US soldiers.

Obama knows how to kill a thug.

You felt the same way, I’m sure, when Whoopi and Joy Behar walked out on Bill O’Reilly.

It’s obvious that both sides are willing to give their own incompetent leaders and loud mouthed pundits a free pass. This “my side, right or wrong” attitude is the biggest threat to America right now. Anyone even willing to discuss compromising is called a traitor when our entire government is based on the spirit of compromise. Rational discussion has deteriorated into childish name calling and the saddest part is that most people can’t see how far their rhetoric has sunk. They call someone a name and think they’ve struck a  blow for freedom. Very sad. Our country is in BIG trouble, and it’s not the kind of problem Homeland Security can fix.

But where do all the conservatives get “there” spelling from?

Lara Logan was originally detained, for a day, by Mubarrek along with her crew and then released (insert he tells joke)…  Over a week later Ms Logan was taken from Tahrir Square and separated from her crew this time  where she was subsequently hand raped…  Elizabeth Hasselbeck misrepresented the joke and it’s timeline entirely ..  You can say an abduction joke is in poor taste ..  Although at the time he knew Ms Logan was safe and had not been injured or harmed from her 1 day detention.. You can not however say he made a rape joke at her expense which she implied..

Actually, real comics almost always are making fun of someone or something. It is what they do.

Lara Logan’s short detention (kidnapping) and Maher’s joke about it both happened a full week before the sexual assault so it never had anything to do with rape.

Why are teabaggers always so f*cking stupid.

Lara Logan’s short detention (kidnapping) and Maher’s joke about it both
happened a full week before the sexual assault so it never had anything
to do with rape.

Why are teabaggers always so f*cking stupid.

If your timeline is right, thanks for the clarification.  And Bill should have corrected her timeline then and there.

Maher lives for this stuff.

You will never ever ever hear me reference a woman to the “c word”!!!! “Princess Pelosi” term is not even in the same catagory as the “c word”!!

That word is disgusting. I am not shocked to find a disgusting liberal like yourself using it. I a guy ever called a woman that word in my presence I would knock the shit out him!! Bill Maher is a disgusting scum and I would love to knock the shit out of him and teach him some manners!!

How many liberals does it take to have sex? 3…2 to hold her down and 1 to rape her..funny stuff huh.

Also that’s what I get for not reading the article and just watching the video…says right up there somewhere what you said…the joke was definitely NOT that Hasselbeck should have been gang raped.  How dishonest of her.

lol at tough internet guy

F U Big Friggin Douchebag. Maher is a scum just like you. The vile, disgusting crap he spews and you libs just go right along with it. He is the perfect leader of your party and cause.

What don’t you people get about this. He’s a comedian which means he has a license to say anything he wants with little to no accountability.

Don’t Censor Creativity!!!!!!

Meanie-Head Rebulicans and their Decency.

Poison Nancy Pelosi?  Hmmm??   Why didn’t I think of that one?

Bill Maher is a brilliant comedian.  I’m a liberal, but I’m certainly not vile.  I don’t idolize Bill Maher either, but I can appreciate his perspective on current events.  I guess some people don’t get it, and that’s OK.  Continue living on the dark side.

Maher is funny as hell but so is Ann Coulter when she doesn’t get in over her head. You don’t really understand Maher, or probably even Coulter. You’re just opinated and biased because you’re conservative, you have to understand there needs to be underlying logic to your comments. If he wasn’t funny, the audience wouldn’t laugh, HBO wouldn’t hire him and he wouldn’t be on The View… with audience members laughing at Hasselbeck. If you ask me, this was yet another show where we get to see the reality of conservatism… it’s really just people that act like stubborn children and refuse to debate, or talk over you when you try to debate them or make a point htat goes against their  worldview.

Hasselbeck is from survivor, she’s not a brain surgeon, why defend such a dummy? lol.

Would you say the same thing about the bastard Glenn beck?

I don’t idolize the guy. I agree with him.  Plus he pisses off dried up prunes like you.  Added value!!

I have to agree with him Maher isn’t funny. That’s not what he’s doing. He’s like Ann Coulter. Maher’s job is to insult eveeryone

I think it’s genetic.    

Maher also has a Napoleon complex. He trise to make up for his tiny dick by making c**t jokes.

So angry!

Did anyone actually read the article? It points out he made the joke a week before the details of Logan’s ordeals were released to the public. I am a fan of Bill Maher(and no his stand up is not the funniest, but his show is AWESOME) but I do not think he would have made that joke had he known what had happened to her. As a matter of fact he even did a follow up (after the hasselbeck New Rule) so-to-speak on a later episode (Kevin Smith was guest on that show) discussing the horrid ways women are treated there(its on youtube if you want to see it) I have never heard him make a joke about a woman being assaulted ever. I challenge all of you who have posted here (both pro and con) to prove me wrong… Seriously, bring the proof! Otherwise move along. Thank you come again!

+1000

Matlock that was brilliant.  Based on Colorado’s avatar though Id say he is in on the joke ;)

Bill Maher HATES women. He’s a real misogynist. So, it’s funny to see the writer take pains to note Maher made the joke before Logan was raped. Maher would have made it after that happened without blinking an eye. 

Multiple ObamaGasms !!

I know you didn’t ask me…but this guy is hilarious !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpWB_ZiFy-Q

Maher is impotent and that is why he hates women.

Yer’ an idiot.

Ditto.  And thanks for clearing up “Muchell” – couldn’t figure out who he meant!  Why do Reps have such a difficult time spelling?

To the Underground Conservative who is living in a parallel universe – go back underground.  There is no place on earth that you could live a sane life with that kind of belief.  Perhaps slightly challenged… that might explain it.  It is true that Obama is one of the most articulate people, male or female, white or black, that you are likely to ever hear.  Perhaps you are unable to understand him since he often uses words with more than two syllables. 

You will always be an assclown…..perfect username

Maher crossed the line in regards to sexual violence and Hasselbeck was on target to bust him on it.

And I like Maher, and usually detest Hasselbeck.

Regardless, the whole thing is minor.

No, not a tough guy at all….but I am man enough to stand up to immature assholes who call women the “c” word!! It is obviously you aren’t!! Sounds to me like you find it appropriate for assholes like Maher to use that term to demean women!!

Good for Hasselbeck in keeping Maher accountable. Props.

Of course she’s completely fungible. But once in the catbird seat, she made herself something more than a pretty face.  I actually thought Maher’s original joke was funny.  But I’m not about to deny Hasselbeck her moment because I might be more to the left than she is.  Let a thousand flowers blossom.

He wasn’t funny before he started doing political”humor”. He is even less funny now.

Ummm….Maher’s joke occurred a week before any sexual violence.

Maybe you should read the article, fella.

Idiot Post Of The Week.

Why do people take jokes so literally?  I haven’t seen this many panties in a bunch since the last Jenny Craig walk-a-thon!

OH COME ON!  After how many divorces and girlfriends it can’t be a surprise to ANYBODY Maher is a FLOP in the bedroom!  His last girlfriend pointedly made the statement Maher can’t get anything up!

Good on Maher for defending humor. 

Maher dated a model nicknamed “Superhead.”  I doubt he is impotent, or hates women. 

“Princes Nancy?”  Gimme a break.

Wouldn’t “Big Friggin Douchebag” meet your criteria for “vile, disgusting crap”? 

BFD – That’s sad if Bill lives for stuff like this.

Bad spelling is a bipartisan issue. And far more liberals spell things wrong on this site. Just saying.

I am the spelling guru.

Some of us would rather turn that HBO money into a profit or a shoe.

Everyone but you knew who he meant. Most folks spell it Moochelle though.

You can thank El Rushbo for that one.

You actually took the time and watched the video? Weird.

HotAir folks are far more funny than folks that comment on Huff Po.. Hands down.

 BELIEVE ME BILL MAHER IS AN ASSHOLE . I LAUGH WHEN I SEE HIM ON TV ,LOOK CLOSE, HE LOOKS LIKE ELMER FUDD OR IS IT MR MAGOO !!!!!!!!

You mean like the reaction when Bush made a crack about finding weapons of destruction?  You mean that outrage?  Seems it’s fine when the liberal crackpots to the left of Fidel Castro yell, scream, pout, and protest when a Conservative makes a crack they don’t like.  But then again; liberals will always be children – and hateful children at that.

Maher says woman are important in moderating men, yet he is the one who is accused of hating women. In Republican teabagger world, up is down, making fun of one woman supposedly makes someone a women hater. 

Hasselback is an uptight humorless biatch.

Go over the line?maher,goes over,disects,rolls on it,bleeds on it…get it moron?He is a woman hating,pimp,loves dem dark skin whores…he needs a good going over by a bull dyke with an attitude..pay to see that….

True comedians punch up, not down. Which is why Rush is a comedic genius. Maher rarely makes fun of anyone major that would make everyone go “oooooh” whereas Stewart at least does that.

I’d rather the dark side then the cesspool he(maher)swims in….

when Rush apologizes for his  ”humor” get back to me
Maher is the best

This is so true.  Maher specifically brought up that point on his last show, his point being that these all-male or male-dominated institutions would seem to have less problems if they had a little more female participation.  But I know Carlton isn’t reading this, because it’s not written in crayon. 

Just last week Maher openly wondered if some of these all-male or male-dominated institutions would be in far better situations if they allowed more female participation (the Catholic church, the Middle East, Penn State football, his examples not mine.) 

Just because he makes a joke that humorless people deem unfunny does not make him a misogynist.

You misjudge character all of the time. I can surmise that you were never taught manners or etiquette by parental figures.

Typical BFD attack: You liked Palin. You are bad. Blah, blah, blah.

His last girlfriend was a porn star.  I think her bedroom expectations might be a bit demanding. 

I’m a conservative.  I didn’t hear the rest of what you said, I was grabbing for my spittle guard. 

That long, rectangular-shaped key is called a spacebar. Use it.

She said all Maher was capable of was watching.

Oh boy, where to start…(this is your most clueless response to date)

“True comedians”? By whose standards? Yours?! And are you referring to Rush, as in Limbaugh? He’s a comedian now? 
“Maher rarely makes fun of anyone major”? His routine and schtick has consistently mocked politicians and those in power, he’s done this for years. As far as Stewart, he’s on Comedy Central, whereas Maher is on HBO. Different channels, different levels of “appropriateness”. Does vulgarity and obscenity offend you? If so, then that’s an entirely different debate. Sorry to trample on your puritan values.

Where was this a story about Bill Maher’s sexual prowess?  So he’s less funny because (if) he can’t get it up?   He can afford Viagra.  He probably just smokes too much weed to give a damn.  As long as he as funny as hell, I can live with it.

Game of Thrones is too good of a show to care what he does IMHO. Broadway Empire is okay too.

You seem far too interested in his sex life. 

Rush hasn’t insulted anyone in the despicable manner Maher has in the 15 years I have listened to him.  Rush disagrees and tells his audience why the person he disagrees with is wrong.  Maher just goes for the throat and calls anyone he disagrees with names.

If you think Maher is funny, you need to move out of your parents basement, get a job, pay some taxes, and find reality.

Feminism is like Racism to liberals – they USE it as a political tool to smear their opposition; it’s not women and blacks they really care about, only Democratic women and Democratic blacks.

They should re-title the show ” Elizabeth and Her Three Horsefaced Pigs”.

And how many times has Maher and his ilk cowered behind the “comedian” monicker whenever getting called on their hate-filled diatribes?

Did Hoopie and BayWhore walk off in protest of Elizabeth standing up to the repugnant little urchin?

I live on my own, have a job (and a staff of 50), pay taxes, live in reality (pretty sure), and I still find him funny. 

Here comes Norbit waving his race card furiously.

Just 50?  I employ 150, have two yachts, have a 5 million dollar estate on Torch Lake and another on Lake Tahoe, and already plan on leaving each of my 3 kids 25 million starting money for their future…..

1)  I am only 27

2)  You don’t have any of that

I’ll take this article seriously when you spell her name correctly.

List successful conservative comedians.  List successful liberal ones.

Matlock?  Really?

Thanks, that was good.

Conservatives are younger these days, you pompous lib.

“Rush hasn’t insulted anyone ”
hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WWWWWWWWWoooooohhhhhhooooooooooouuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right, look at her arms. Soooooooooo well toned! Ignore that 2axhandle ass!

She was acting like a spoiled brat and obviously can’t take a joke.
Walter’s should have put a muzzle on her. Better yet, if she’s going to
ruin the interviews, she needs to be fired.Bill Maher vs Elisabeth Hasselbeck on The View Fight Full Video: http://tiny.cc/Bill-Maher-vs-Elisabeth

What does Michelle’s looks have to do with anything? It sorta shows that you tea baggers don’t have much criticism besides really un-subtle racism.

And you idiots really think Obama needs a teleprompter? I know this is apparently a HIGH-larious running gag in tea bagger circles for some reason, but you guys really need to check out the debate Obama had with the house republicans back in Jan. 2010 where it was going so bad for the righties that Fox News cut away 20 minutes before the thing was over. I’d PRAY TO SAINT RONNIE that we would get more of those teleprompter-less back and forths. Of course, Obama’s not the one who’s backing down from them.

Rush is like the child hood bully..when someone calls him out his ”parents/dittoheads’ say “oh he didnt mean it you just dont understand him”

wow that sounds like Rush……NOW SERVING WIFE NUMBER 4

God’s speed to her husband o_O

Add Whoopie to that list and you nailed it!

Bill Maher is the Tonya Harding of political hacks.  Their common faith in trailer park rule #1: brute force beats talent every time; when you’re losing, hire a big guy with a club or use “f**k” often and loudly; when your career is over, cable will still pay an appearance fee; if life deals you the ugly card, use it as motivation to overachieve things you never had the talent for, so you can hire all the friends you want from adultfriendfinder.com.

When did you first discover your child like tendencies.  Serves you well, you don’t have to turn the channel often.  

hmmm funny and Bill Maher, an oxymoron, or maybe just for morons.  

Maher used to be a satirist and then the drugs caught up with his brain.  He hasn’t been “funny” in years.  He’s a shock jock and a bad one at that.  

Laura Logan will never recover emotionally.  The peril she was facing when Maher made his “joke” was tasteless, classless and indicated that Maher is scum with zero respect for women.  
You seem to enjoy all these attributes – speaks volumes about you and your character or lack thereof.  

a just detected a spark of humanity.  Thank you

At the time Maher made the joke – Logan was in great peril.  Nobody knew how great until a week later, but they all knew her life was in danger.  

You excusing bad behavior with your own bad behavior is suspect.  

or work

dictionary

youth dont last forever look at bill mahers face

he woulden’t get paid

Bill Maher is trailer trash who gives Jewish comedians a bad name.

I just liked hearing Walters say “I went through years of Baba Wawa.”

Isn’t Maher the guy whose dates all complained about his mini-manhood?

Ahhh, you’re just jeasous because he’s funnier than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh!

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And you too are just jealous because Bill Maher is funnier than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbagh..                                   

He cannot get laid if it was not for whores, hookers, and rufaline.

Rush is actually funny.

No, Rush is witty…that is why his humor is perplexing to leftwing meatheads.

Awww….maybe Rush is actually witty, while Maher is visceral…I know, go to wikidictionary and figure that big bad word out.

Yeah you have a staff of 50….do any of them speak English?

How come all women in porno are porn “stars”? How come there are no porn “character actors”?

She is good looking, which means she cannot be liberal.

Yeah, I am sure she dated him because he was handsome and witty….or in reality it was because of his largesse. He needs to whip out his wallet to get pussy.

No, I have a good sense of humor…that is why Maher is less funny than a SIDS death.

Yeah, and when Whoopi acts this way, you are silent…shaddap and go applaud the fat blacks on that show.

Probably better than you.

GOD it still seems some people here CAN NOT READ(or understand what they are reading)  It states plainly in the article that he made the joke( NEW RULE segment btw) a FULL WEEK before Logans assault made news. And the “NEW RULE” said nothing about the rape or anything sexual at all. Let me draw a diagram here for those that still want to trash Maher but can’t seem to comprehend what is laid out before them.

Step 1-go to youtube

Step 2- do a search(that is that little blank space at the top of the screen with the word “search” beside it) and type in Bill Maher Lara Logan.

Step 3-watch it

Step 4 watch the video on youtube that has the arabic words by it. It also shows up when you do step 2. This is the show that airs AFTER the news of Logan’s assault was released to the public. He has Kevin Smith on that episode as second chair, so if you cant find the video typein Bill Maher Kevin Smith realtime

Step 5-stop bashing him over a rape joke he NEVER MADE!!!

I posted a challenge to all of you that called Maher all these names to post just 1 video or any kind of proof that Bill Maher has ever made a joke about an sexual assault on a woman…and yet nobody has taken the challenge. If you are so sure he has made a rape joke please please prove me wrong by posting a link…. otherwise stop trolling… this is starting to look like a fox news messageboard.

Oh and Bill Maher is not Jewish(this is info for the oh-so-smart poster below)was born into an Irish Catholic family who attended mass until he was 13. Is it too much to ask these days to do some research before you post??? I mean 10 seconds on google??

Just sayin…

Okay riiiight… Maher is woman-hating, but you’re the one grunting about “dark skin whores” and “bull dyke[s].”

He wasn’t born into an Irish-Catholic family, he was born to an Irish-Catholic father and a Jewish mother, and he was raised Catholic.  (His mother never converted to Catholicism, and didn’t accompany the husband and kids to church.)

Of course the three clowns on Fox and Friends just reported on this and surprise surprise they left out the fact that Maher made the comment BEFORE the facts came out about Logan.

You need to read your your history or Shakespeare my friend. The comic (or fool) was the only one who could speak truth to power without repercussion. They were able to mask real criticism and speak openly using the device of comedy or satire. Satirists fromJonathan Swift  Mark Twain to Will Roger to Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, who used their wit and intellect to challenge. The liberal arts don’t mean Liberal politics. I wish your side was smarter so this didn’t have to be explained again and again.   

let’s see how funny he be after a ass kickin’

Only Just admit it. It’s not about comedy. You probably love Rush Limbaugh’s
“jokes”. !!!!
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I sincerely hope you don’t expect an honesty answer from the conservative wingnuts over here. They’re not as bad as the racists and idiots over at Fox Nation but they come close. And yes they are indeed racists. Not even closeted. These people are not smart. Accept that premise and you’ll be able to process their racist, nativist hate masked as patriotism without a nary a worry.

He is certainly more crude, more obscene, more objectionable than Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck.

Funnier? Not so much.

And no person in his/her right mind would be “jeasous” of this washed-up pornographer. 

0bama is certainly the most articulate half-black guy with a teleprompter providing words written by somebody else, for him to read.

Michelle is a fashion icon for the overweight and obese thunder-thighs with bosom size of eggs. Sunny side up, that is. 

Next Mahr will be praising Sandusky.

He is a sexist pig and it always amazes why he gets any media attention. The best thing that can happen to him is he just leaves the stage.

She is obviously the strongest supporter of the Second Amendment. You know, to bare arms.

Or else she is an unsuccessful Larry The Cable Guy wannabe.

At least they are not moral cowards like the Democrats.

If you can tell me in clear conscience as a Democrat that ALL Democrats are happy with 9.1% unemployment, 15 trillion dollars debt, diminishing international reputation, riots on the streets, record number of food stamp recipients, poll after poll indicating that the country is heading in the wrong direction, then it is understandable that not a single Democrat stepped forward to challenge this unmitigated disaster in the White House, with a primary.

Are they all chicken-shit cowards and afraid to be called racists?    

Our women are better looking than your woman.
 

It is hypocritical for those that tell minorities to get over the politically incorrect racist rants to then say that Maher was out of line in this case.

I guess its OK except when a Tgag is the target!

Any ‘comedian’ that has to rely on, absolutely depend on and can’t get a snicker out of and audience without vulgar profanities, is not a comedian.

Bob Hope never needed any. Paul Lynde never needed any. Rodney Dangerfield, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, and many others never needed profanity to be funny. To be fair, I am even cheesed off with Dennis Miller sometimes, when he resorts to swear words, where they are not needed.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not a fuddy-duddy. I worked at mine camps, lumber camps and factory floors when I was young, so profanity is not something that offends me for simply being profane. It offends me because the indiscriminate use of profanity is a sure sign of immaturity and normal people grow out of that mindset by the time the reach the age of 20 years.

After that, if they still insist on being rude, they are nothing but immature punks. 

As I suggested before, the show currently known as “THE VIEW” should be called : “The Beauty and The Beasts”.

I love how when Bill Mahr gets called out for his bad jokes in poor taste its always “I’m a comedian. I do a comedy show.” Yet, he waxes moronic about politics on every news network as if he is the Dali Lama of American politics. Which is it?

If she doesn’t like it she should step down from the show and live a private life. 

You’re right, it wasn’t funny. Trading Ann Coulter would have been funny! 

Hey James Watson, that’s your opinion and a bad one. 

Why don’t put that sweet little thing in your avatar in Hasselbeck’s position.  Would you have thought it funny if Maher said your loved one should have been raped instead of Lara Logan?  Well, laugh out loud!  Would you have put a muzzle on her if she confronted Maher about it?  Ho, ho, ho, isn’t this getting so funny?  Everything is fair game when it comes to Maher’s comedy skits, eh?

You are right, Maher passes off his ugly remarks as comedy and expects no repercussion.  Toooo bad for him people in this century are not stupid.

Why Elizabeth Hasselbeck is still on that joke of a show is beyond me. Nobody has even taken it seriously, and Barbara Walters very early let the show turn into a hatefest, further turning it into a joke and a parody of itself.

But on the other hand, Hasselbeck’s claim to fame is a stupid reality show and being married to a never-was NFL quarterback. So it’s a stretch to think that she’s fighting the good fight or something and much more believable that she’s just a media whore — as is everyone else on that show.

But that all being said, Bill Maher is a bigoted misogynist, nobody is here to argue against that. And if Hasselbeck actually had a spine she would’ve walked off the show and never come back.

You are a pos!

Very well said!  Vile language is a sign of ignorance, immaturity, lack of conscience and standards.  My aunt used to describe Maher’s type of humor as bathroom humor, where you go when you need to stink up the place.

Oh, that’s sooo much better, and funnier, so much more humorous that instead of the rape story it’s being jailed because you are a useless blonde;  told as a joke by a useless, vile,  homely troll.  Why can’t everyone see the humor in that?

How about Ellen or Oprah, wouldn’t either of those two women have elicited a guffaw or two?

Saddam did not cost $2 trillion yet, he killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people and remained a threat to this country and our interests abroad until we went in.  He also was not responsible for the deaths of all the troops we lost in Iraq,  being as though al Qaeda and other terrorist orgs were there before we got there.

I’d never want your kids to reproduce.    Your gene pool really needs to die ASAP.

Everyone but you knew who he meant. Most folks spell it Moochelle though.

No, most folks spell it correctly.   Only racist pigs like yourself refer to the First Lady as “Moochelle.”

Let the Maher hatefest begin. (Ironically, it will be lead by all the same people who are Limbaugh apologists.)

… and by the same people who remained curiously silent when right-wing blogger Debbie Schlussel (who, unlike Bill Maher, knew all about the reports of the sexual assault on Lara Logan and found them to be, in her own words, “heart-warming”) wrote:

” … How fitting that Lara Logan was “liberated” by Muslims in
Liberation Square while she was gushing over the other part of the
“liberation.  Hope you’re enjoying the revolution, Lara!”

Maher could call Elizabeth Hasselback a “c**t” every night for the next 20 years, and it still wouldn’t be anywhere near as offensive or misogynist as what Schlussel wrote about Lara Logan.    

ok i dont think its about bein funny or sayin a teastless joke (but a funny teastless joke) Its about elizabeth hasselbeck bein very tacky for venting on the show. Its makes her look like a big joke. She could of said something behind the seen not on the show.

Gee, as the writer of this piece, I have to congratulate Jon Bershad on being such a TOOL for the far Left. Then again, ever since we entered the election cycle, pretty much all of the writers at this site have decided to “up their game” and earn their paychecks by becoming mouthpieces for DNC command. As a result, Bershad did a great job of writing this piece using all of the core spin catch phrases possible — probably from notes supplied by Bill Maher’s press agent.

However, since I actually do live and work in Liberal La-La Land and deal with nut jobs like Maher all the time, please allow me to translate Hollywood-ese into common sense English…

1)  “An annoyed-seeming Maher…”

TRANSLATION: “How DARE you challenge me, b*tch! Don’t you know I’m a goddamn STAR (well, at least in my own mind). That means you should ALWAYS kiss my ass…ALWAYS recognize your subservient place in life to me…Oh yeah!  And you should ALWAYS make sure there’s premium bottled water on hand, as well as a bit of cocaine, for when the urge hits me.”

2)  “…quickly responded that he does a comedy show, she’s a public figure, and she’s “fodder for comedians to make comments on.”

TRANSLATION: “I’m a die-hard Hollywood Lib and all my friends — most important of all, those who bankroll my show  — are die-hard Libs too. Which means if you’re a Republican or even a right of center Independent, I have two words for you: F*CK and YOU. Since you lean right, it’s time to enact a “scorched Earth” policy to belittle and humiliate you, and — hopefully — to drive you from existence. That means it’s open shooting season on you…your wife…your kids (no matter how young)…your parents (no matter how old)…your friends (even if they have nothing to do with things)…your job… DEFINITELY your religion…your sexuality…and whatever the hell else I can think of.

Why? Because I’ll use “comedian” as a shield and cover for any hate speech I say.
And it is just THAT because — trust me, since you lean Right — I really do HATE YOU.”

3)  “What made the moment so uncomfortable is that Hasselbeck seemed
completely by herself.”

TRANSLATION:  She’s a Righty who actually stood up for herself. And Hollywood Libs — who believe they should own and control ALL of the media at ALL times — absolutely, positively can’t tolerate THAT.

4)  “Not only did some of the audience seem to chuckle
at the joke…”

TRANSLATION: note that they didn’t actually laugh in a good-hearted way, which is the reaction that a GOOD joke would have on a live audience. “Chuckle” is Hollywood spin code for “the joke totally bombed, or even made people uncomfortable.”

Still, in show biz settings — for example, like taping a live show — usually a few audience members will continually “chuckle” at things, since they’re trying to enjoy being at a taping. The problem is, deep down inside and with each passing minute, they’re actually starting to realize “Holy sh*t. These people really DON’T look so great up close (and owe A LOT to make-up and camera angles) and really AREN’T all that talented or personable or funny (at which point things get fixed in editing, especially with a fake laugh track added).

5)  “…to not seem entirely rude, her co-hosts seemed peeved she even brought it up…”

TRANSLATION: “Elizabeth, we’re ALL libs here too. So don’t you DARE talk back to one of our own.
Remember your place here, young lady!”

6)  “Joy Behar joined Maher in defending the right of comedians to walk the line of good taste…”

TRANSLATION:  Wow!  What a shock!  Never saw THAT one coming! (insert mocking eye roll here) Go back and re-read Translation #2. Oh, and in cooking terms, be sure to add a pinch of “arrogant, elitist bitch” since we ARE talking about the ever-talentless Joy Behar here…

7)  “While Barbara Walters reminded Hasselbeck that she had had to deal with years of “Baba Wawa”…

TRANSLATION:  Riiiiiiiiight.

Because being called Baba Wawa, which was simply a joke on the way that Walters TALKED and would flub certain words — back in the day, at the same time Saturday Night Live was getting started (which was when Gilda Radner created that routine) is somehow EQUAL to saying (about Hallelbeck) “We should take you out and let an unruly mob spit on you and gang rape you.”

You know, calling Walters “Baba Wawa” to this day might still be appropriate because, with such a WEAK and LAME ASS comparison and defense of Maher, she pretty much is showing that she’s among TV’s STUPIDEST women.

The lesson here is that rape jokes are only funny if they are at the expense of Republican women. Maher can make those kinds of jokes about women like Hasselback knowing the powers that set the parameters will not rush out to defend her the way they would if she were not a Republican. Bill Maher has ALWAYS been politically correct. 

>> Evan: “I do wonder why the hosts of The View are so quick to give a pass to a
comedian who made a joke involving a woman who was gang raped. Is Maher
suggesting that it would have been okay had it been Hasselbeck?  Let’s
get Lara Logan back and give them Elizabeth Hasselbeck instead?  My that
is funny, isn’t it.”

>> BFD: “Lara Logan’s short detention (kidnapping) and Maher’s joke about it both
happened a full week before the sexual assault so it never had anything
to do with rape. Why are teabaggers always so f*cking stupid?”

100%…absolute…postive…history rewriting BULLSH*T.

I’m used to BFD spinning things to back his liberal beliefs in posts, but here he is being an outright LIAR.

Anyone with a functioning brain or an IQ above 12 that was following the
news of Logan’s “detention” knew EXACTLY what had REALLY happened,
since reports of her being gang raped leaked INSTANTLY.

The TRUTH is that news of Logan’s rape spread IMMEDIATELY online, fast
and furious — it was just that CBS did it’s best for a week…the week
that BFD is citing…to try and bury the story. Perhaps because they
wanted to do the right thing by Logan and protect her privacy…

…though, truth be told, the whole REASON the story picked up momentum
is BECAUSE the details of her attack leaked right away. At which point
CBS started to feel the ever-growing heat and ever-mounting criticism
for the fact that they had let Logan go into the field without the
slightest bit of security watching over her. Which was ESPECIALLY
grievous given her attractive, blond, American, just paint a bulls-eye
on her forehead status, as she waded into out of control crowd
situations that were occurring at the time.

Hell, over on 4 Chan — one of the Net’s most notorious sites —
computer hackers and sexual geeks were not only immediately on top of
things, but they were working hard to track down…and post…any
captured cell phone footage OF Logan’s attack.

So, this whole notion that Maher (or someone on his writing staff)
didn’t know about the rape till a week later is, as I said, utter 100%
absolute positive BULLSH*T.

Not to mention, let’s say it even was true that they didn’t know. And
all they knew is that Logan was FORCIBLY detained by Muslim soldiers.
What, you’re saying it was STILL an appropriate joke to say “Hey,
Hasselbeck’s blond and cute. Let’s put HER into a situation where they
would OBVIOUSLY mistreat her as either an American and most certainly as
a woman.”

What a CROCK. I always love how two-faced Libs will SAY they’re against
things like Gitmo, detentions, water boarding, treating people bad —
you know, all the usual bleeding heart CRAP they spout. But if it
involves doing it to someone from the right — hey, no prob!  Go Gitmo,
detain, water board, and treat them bad away!

BDF asked the correct question, but got it backwards like he usually does.

Why are LIBERALS so f*cking stupid?

Elizabeth Hasselbeck…..The View’s little right wing bimbo.  She is another living example of the fact that right wingers are the most dysinformed people on the planet who make the mistake of confusion their twisted right wing ideologies with fact or truth.  But for the record…..she’s kind of cute.  Otherwise…she’s just your typical right wing idiot.

I have been registered democrat my whole life. but Maher and view make word independent look better and better

Can anyone really justify a political persona poking fun at sending any woman over to get brutally raped?? WOW I am republican but I would not justify or find it funny in way if it was said about  a liberal. I am shocked at how desensitized some people have become. What an a–!!!

I have been reading posts by ordinary people for the last ten to fifteen years.  When you’re my age, one tends to lose track of time.  I sometimes find these posts more interesting and/or informative than the original article. 

Really smart intellectuals wouldn’t spend more than a few seconds reading the types of posts that I read on a regular basis.  You see, I’m 81 years old and retired from the realities of your work day where some, if not all, of you posters use company time writing clever and sometimes wise acre remarks in these little posting boxes.  I could be wrong about what I just wrote, but it isn’t that important one way or another.

I admit that I spend several hours per week reading the postings as well as the original articles, however, I’m no longer an employee of the high school district where I taught teenagers for over 42 years.  Quite frankly, I’d rather be young and still teaching than filling up my daytime hours reading stuff like these postings on my desk computer.   However, doing this is a heckuva lot better than pushing up daisies like some of my former teacher friends are doing!    

Every once in a while, I get the urge to get involved in the word wars taking place on my computer, so I try to write something worthwhile.  I’m not too good at this posting business, but I’m getting a little bit better at it the more I post.  I guess that is my contribution for today.  To all you regular posters, I wish you well.  Thanks for providing some interesting entertainment for this old man.  If you’re interested you might Google this Internet Site: Hogue/Johnny Lee Clary

Maher is a coward and an idiot.  He makes crude remarks that demonstrate his stupidity, holds panel discussions with people he knows will kiss his behind, then when confronted by anyone else he hides behind his comic mask.  I’d like to see a bunch of Egyptians take turns at his genitals.  “Oh, they were just joking. In fact I kind of liked it.”

I guess you missed the part of the story that said “It is important to note that Maher made the joke a week before those details were released.” Is it too much effort to read past the first paragraph before commenting on an article?

your just jealous because Bill Maher is funnier than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh.

what makes Limbaugh and Beck so funny is that they are trying to be serious.

On another note, it’s absolutely reprehensible that Barbara Walters would dare to equate the good-natured ribbing of SNL’s “Babwa Wawa” days to that of Elizabeth being brutally assaulted, molested and repeatedly raped by vile Muslim animals.Sure. It’s the same thing.

sounds like your sense of humor is on the same level as EH, did you even hear what he said?

It was in the name of humor…?

Kind of like Warren Jeff’s saying raping little girls is okay because it’s my religion.

The “View” has 4 dems and 1 rep….. Just to keep the playing field level.

Mahr =’s imbecile.

Another bigoted liberal, pretending to be enlightened.  You know nothing about me or what I think is funny.  You want to believe that conservatives all listen to Rush and County Music, so you can feel superior to someone.  You put people in little categories and color code them so as not to overtax your brain.  You get your intellectual stimulation by watching “Dancing with the Stars” and you have a secret tape of Nancy Grace’s wardrobe malfunction.  You loathe black people, but voted for Obama because it was the “Cool” thing to do.

Hasselbeck was accidentally born into an attractive fleshbucket.
And that’s all she’s got.

You’re wrong and completely misunderstanding and stating the issue.
Maher is hilarious.

Uh, you are obviously illiterate. The article says Bill’s joke was a week before any of those things

happened. Swing and miss. 

Bill Maher is brilliant and smart and skillful at satire.

Rush and Glenn are NOT funny.
What’s worse, they are those embarrassing kids in school that THOUGHT they were funny.
Sad.

Why are you righty-tightie too stupid to understand that Maher’s joke had nothing to do with raping anyone. I can’t believe that people as clueless as you manage to live this long without walking off a pier accidentally or something.

That was the longest most boring piece of idiocy I’ve never been able to slog through.

She IS a big joke. Okay not big. She’s just a joke.

Maher is a genius and isn’t just funny but meaningful.

Hasselbeck is porous as styrofoam.
And even more annoying when rubbed.

He is the Dali Lama of humor.
He and Jon Stewart aren’t just funny, they are insightful and meaningful.
Ever hear of Wil Rodgers? Richard Pryor? George Carlin? They are funny in a pointed way.
Most conservatives simply don’t understand the subtleties of good humor.

You are so wrong I can’t believe you’ve managed to survive this long without forgetting to breathe or something. 

Those on the right are not only often racist, sexist, and homophobic but illiterate.

They CHAMPION being stupid and not being able to read!
It’s jaw-dropping that they are proud to be idiots.

Again, so wrong i isn’t even a valid opinion. 
It’s like you’re calling a dog a sofa.You don’t even understand the concept.It’s better to be quiet and thought a fool that make a post like that and remove all doubt.

Norbit consistently has no idea of the sewage seeping out of his foam-trap mind.

He has only 3 concepts and explains them ineptly over and over.And not understanding wit is proof of a low IQ and lack of refinement.

Rush is funny like a festering boil. Ha ha.
He is disgusting, sweaty, mouth-breathing, bucket of pig slop.People who think he is funny also are not.

That is SO not true I can’t believe you didn’t explode into a shower of bullcrap.
Bill is smart and insightful and sharp as a tack
Rush is a fat pig with an inability to grasp fine humor.

He is only witty to the right half:   that makes Rush a half wit.

What show were you watching?
Maher easily destroys that piece of bleached puffery every time.

She is good looking, and that;s all she’s got.
Liberals require brains.

Did you notice how Hasselbeck tried to make his comment about her an attack on “women” as though she represents everyone with a vagina? If that’s her logic, then Maher is even more anti-male since most of his targets are men.

lol  you seem to think you know alot about me…   A registered Independent.   lol 

What’s funny about Rush and Glenn is that they pretend to be real. And neo-nuts on the right take them serious. That is funny.

You are spot on. Thank you.

I do feel bad for her though when everyone gangs up on her no matter how misinformed she is. But hey, for the amount of money she’s being paid I’d take that gig.  Cute?  no  Hot yes.

“can’t take a joke”
If you DO take that “joke” as something funny or appropriate to say, you are a despicable worm.

You know what ELSE is important to note, “Pieter B”? That the woman was missing and the assumption was HORRIBLE things were happening to her, and maybe she was dead. Shove your excuses.

If you think Maher isn’t vile, *YOU* ARE.

You are evil.

Oh, what’s this? A bunch of liberals angry at a conservative for joking about a liberal’s appearance. And calling it “racist” on top of that. The same liberals who defend the noted evil-scumbag Maher. Hmmmm. Can someone say “double standard”?

@shamsky24 Because “moo” is a racist term, or something.. Heck, EVERYTHING is a racist term if it goes against a black person. Well, unless the black person is conservative, but they’re just Uncle Toms, amiright?

I have more evidence that YOU are racist than you could ever have that I could be. Your ilk wants to push institutionalized racism.

Two wrongs make a right, eh?

1) There are plenty of conservative comedians. 2) Many liberal comedians don’t bank on being hateful scumbags. 3) Anyone who does bank on being a hateful scumbag should be rejected, regardless of their politics.

Granted, you’re likely a moral relativist and thus a horrible judge of what is and is not okay, but those of us with actual morals can attest that Rush Limbaugh’s jokes don’t involve that filth unless he’s deliberately making a point about liberals’ hate “jokes.”

Why would you need to when he doesn’t make vile jokes like that day after day after day? You people are truly incapable of intellectual honesty.

You don’t make “points” and valid criticism by making vulgar hate “jokes” and comments. Twain, Swift, et al didn’t “joke” about how eeeeeeeeeeevil and stuuuuuuuuupid all his political enemies were and how we should send them overseas to be abused (even with the full story about the rape unknown, more than enough was known to assume horrible abuse was going on).

Point proven. Maher is scum, and so are you.

Republicans tend to be happier than Democrats by far. Statistically proven. Conservatives tend to be more moral than liberals. They make better neighbors and they donate more to charity. Those are facts. They’re simply better people. The fact that scum calls something “humor” doesn’t make it funny.

Because joking about kidnapping and the certain abuse involved there makes it A-OKAY, right?

Heck, why am I asking you? You are one of the most intellectually and morally bankrupt radicals on the site.

Because it’s ever so ”petty” to confront people who joke about sending people overseas to be abused because they’re your political enemies..

Your timeline is inaccurate. Yes, the full details came out later, but it wasn’t quite as you say. In any case, this hate “joke” wasn’t justifiable even if that were accurate. That you sick Leftists think it’s oh-so-funny to joke about sending political enemies overseas to be imprisoned is telling enough, but plenty of you scumbags are actually defending Maher under the assumption that it WAS after the full story about the rape was broken.

Pales in comparison to Maher’s filth.

More proof the Left not only doesn’t need evidence of their smears to believe them, they’ll believe smears that weren’t even sourced to anyone but random Internet commenter trolls.

Stylin – MMM -  That doesn’t sound like a name that would be chosen by an Independent.  Stylin is the name of a flamboyant type who voted for Obama and will do it again. Stylin is the name of one who is only Independent in terms of registration and in order to posture at cocktail parties and stimulate exciting conversation with lots of hand gesture. 

A person who was truly Independent would not be so myopic. 

But I won’t tell.

This is what happens when dumb presidents push for net neutrality.  High school drop outs can afford to get on line.

Mentioning Maher’s name on the same page as Jon Stewart, Will Rodgers, Richard Pryor or George Carlin shows us who you really are. 

About 15 years ago, when he first hit the scene I thought Maher was funny and inventive, but in order to maintain his fame he started relying on vulgarity, blasphemy and hatred to cause people to mention his name.  Now, his biggest fans an stupid people.  Enough said.

good for you. I won’t either. TT?

Elizabeth Hasselcunt is so endearing in her ignorance.

I have all that too.  Except for the staff.  Good for you, a job creator at 27!!!!

I guess they can keep picturing us as basement dwelling slackers and we can picture them as toothless roadkill eaters.

oooh is that show still on? What about murder she wrote?

Boy, she’s a moron. And I thought Republicans were against minorities using the fact they are minorities to accuse people of being racist/sexist etc. Although I’m not sure how women are minorities since they’re the slight majority in this country and seem to be doing much better than men these days.

Oh gosh…pointless dribble……

insane! 

HAAAA!  Along with Father Dowling Mysteries, Murder She Wrote, and Masterpiece Theater!

Took him apart ? Really ? All I got from it is that she didn’t think the joke about her was funny. I didn’t either, but so what ? If you’re going to be in the public eye, that kind of mockery comes with the territory.

I’m a fan of Maher, but he does take more cheap shots than he needs too, IMHO.

Isn’t calling someone a hateful scumbag a sign of being a hateful scumbag?

This isn’t a republican or democratic issue. It’s a girl who can’t take a joke.

Mahr is a comedian. He is joking; there was no malice.

Wait… Who told Bill Maher he’s a comedian? Wouldnt that require him to be funny?

Once again the liberal double standard comes into play! Had a Republican or conservative person said that Joy Behar desrves to be raped the left would be up in arms. I’m not saying that Republicans are perfect however the previous Democratic President was a Rapist, A currently deceased Democratic Senator was a murderer, Our current Democratic Head of the IRS cheated his taxes, our current democratic House Minority leader has been accused now of insider trading and because of lack of space in this post i can’t list all the BS that our current President has been accused of. You libs should take a long long long look in the mirror before you decide to start throwing stones!

Think about the joke he made. Funny innit?
Would it be funny if he made the same joke regarding your mother, wife, or sister? It was a bad joke and in terrible taste. I respect his right to make bad jokes in poor taste, but “lol…its ok it wuz a joke” regarding something so horrible, suggests certain things about your personality that are none too flattering.

The “right” thing wont work on me, son. I’m not a member. Answer my question..Is it funny if i make a joke about some woman that you love (assuming that you love someone) getting raped? I’m genuinely curious. Is rape funny? Can rape be cute if the smarmy “comedian” that spoonfeeds you the rhetoric of your choice leads the joke? Is the idea of your wife, child, ma, being gangraped hilarious as long as an established media darling makes it in front of a few million mouthbreathers?

You know what? Don’t answer… I can find plenty of bad rebuttals with “FOX news” featured prominently in the punchline elsewhere. This isn’t about right and left, it’s about the simple fact that rape isn’t fu_king funny.

Sure, but they should then have the good sense to admit they went over the line and apologize.  The guy who hangs out at the Playboy mansion should either have apologized or, instead of hiding behind “I do a different kid of show.  All his years of objectifying women and dehumanizing women have made it so he couldn’t even man-up….. What a repulsive jerk…. And no, I don’t especially care for Hasselbeck’s politics.

they were the kids who got beat up in school

if his humor is perplexing..pee wee herman was a genius

and dont forget Dragnet and Roy Rogers…is it true fox news is gonna rerun Death Valley Days w/Ronald Reagan?

Vacuous reply from a vacuous mind.
With no sense of humor to temper it.

Oh is that how you got here? Maybe someday you can get your GED.

Oh is that how you got here? Maybe someday you can get your GED.

Wow the first contard posts and he jumps the shark by breaking Godwin’s Law. As numerous as the idiots are around here. I refuse to believe that 72 likes for you absolutely worthless post are real. You must be running a vote bot on this thread.

You avatar says it all, you are a hateful, selfish unfunny little man.

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Bill Maher is trash. 

Given that jokes represent a comedian’s personal view, Maher’s comment is almost three years late, since there already is a black family in the White House.

Maher’s jokes represent his personal views, so I am surprised that he didn’t notice that his joke is almost three years late, since there already is a black man in the White House.

You are right, is was only a joke, only he should have said that they should send your mother, not Hasselbeck.

So true… what he should have said is that next time they should send your mother, since Hasselbeck can’t take a joke.

If Hasselbeck does not leave that show soon she will have proven to America that she has no respect for herself. And, if I have to listen to Behar justify comedians’ racism and misogny with “comedians walk the line one more time…”

Very modern thinking.  Next time, suggest to Maher that he can use your mother as the subject for his jokes, since people like Hasselback just can’t take a joke.

You are sooo right!  Next time Maher should use your mother for one of his jokes instead of a dried up prunes like those who complain about his funny jokes.

I think you are right about CanofSand, he is just jealous.  I think Bill Maher should use either your mother or Michelle Obama for his next joke, since Hasselbeck can’t take a joke.  At least we will be able to laugh without having to put up with so many complaints.

Funny! I think you should write down your jokes and when you have enough, try to get on Fox as a counterpart to Maher.  There problem is that most comedians are left-wing, racist, repulsive creeps, but there is  no one on the right  to give their side a dose of the same medicine.

Bill “called him out” ?? Hardly, he handled Perry with kid gloves the whole interview.

haha.    Bill Maher doesn’t know my mother and there is nothing to really to make fun of about Michelle Obama..so try better next time.  that wasn’t even a funny one….ok?

Maher never said Hasselbeck should have been raped.

That was no take apart. Hasselbeck looked like an idiotic fool – just like when Kathy Griffins was on the show. It was so bad, she took time off the following day.

I can’t stand Maher but she came off as thin skinned, petty and immature in this.

He didn’t need a teleprompter when he took down the Republicans at their own retreat. Each. and. every. one. of. them.

But keep repeating that right wing talking point. I actually think it helped a lot when it was said during the 2008 election. People expected Obama to not be able to debate McCain and were unpleasantly surprised when he came off looking and sounding  phenomenal.

Why did the dingbat take a day off the next day?

In 20 years, Maher will be remembered as a voice against goose-stepping right wing fascism and duck-waddling lefty goofiness. Who will even remember a show called : the view? Those who hate him can’t stand the feeling inside their hearts and minds when their most cherished “beliefs” are peeled back as silly, ridiculous, and totally shallow. It’s much more telling to see the visceral reactions that those who hate Maher have when he exposes the weakness of their thoughts and flaccidness of their rhetoric. It’s a beautiful thing to apply the Voltarian treatment to Americana’s lumpen punditry … hASSalbach being just a sophomoric example.

Consider the source.  Maher and Behar are a couple of aholes who will do anything for a laugh and to get attention. They are laugh whores.

Actually, if you’re talking about my exes, now THAT would be comedy.  Seriously, the joke that rocked the world was aired before the rape occurred.  Logan was a hostage at that point in time and had not been raped as far as the world knew, but I totally get your drift and I agree, to an extent.  But I do think the joke is funny becuase Hasselbeck strickes me as a bit of an immature narcissist whose credentials from “Survivor” tend to call her journalistic creds into question.

Liberals like you should have some class.  That’s why I vote the opposite of when someone is trashed personally. 

“Maher is no comic……”?????

Yes, he is.

I’d really like to know whom conservatives think is a funny comic, one who is also a conservative.  I wonder, because there are very few conservatives if any that I know of.  Dennis Miller claims to be a comedian, but I see him often on O’Reilly’s program, and the guy simply isn’t funny. 

I think Adam Sandler might be a Republican, and I think he’s funny…..but please name others.

I like Bill Maher a lot, although I do not agree with everything he says; I do not believe everything he believes in.  Overall, he tells it like it is, and he is damned funny.  I don’t really care what CC thinks.

And, as far as the “lowest form of scum,” I can name plenty of other people who fit this description to a “T”.  To start with, I’ll say Rick Santorum, rush the vile pig limbaugh (who, by the way, is no “entertainer”), sean insannity, neal boortz, michael wiener savage, and many others…..all conservative douchebags. 

Yes, Bill Maher has a political show, which happens to be a funny show.  Yes, he has political guests who all make political comments and jests….and these include guests who are liberal; it includes guests who are conservative. 

That’s one thing about Maher….he does have both sides present their arguments on his program.  While he strongly disagrees with them most of the time, and while he may get testy with them, in the end, he seems to respect and even like the conservatives who appear on his show.  \

Jon Stewart is great!  Both Jon Stewart and Bill Maher rule!!!  They tell it like it is.

I haven’t read or seen, yet, exactly what Maher said, but it may have been over the line.  But it was at least an attempt at what possibly was a poor joke.

Yes, “I’m a comic” is a valid excuse……it’s a far more apropos statement coming from someone like Bill Maher than the statement Limbaugh often makes that he is just an “entertainer.”  It is a far more apropos statement than the statements conservatives like Ann Coulter, Limbaugh, beck, and many others say to the effect that what they said was “satire” or a “joke” in order to defend themselves.  These people are not “entertainers;” they certainly are not comedians.