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Fox News’ Keith Ablow Ridicules Bill Maher Over His ‘Horny’ Bristol Palin Comment

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Today on Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor and professional psychiatrist Keith Ablow gave his assessment of HBO’s Bill Maher based on his recent rant about Bristol Palin. Maher, you’ll recall, went after the younger Palin for a passage in her new book, Not Afraid of Life, where she describes losing her virginity to Levi Johnston, her then-boyfriend and father of her child. During his show, Maher asked Bristol to simply admit that that she was “horny” and shared that “Bristol Palin has to admit that the reason she fucked Levi over and over until a baby fell out is because she liked it.”

Ablow wonders whether Maher’s diatribe stems from an overarching hatred of women.

This guy needs his head examined, so it’s good that you called me in. Bottom line is, here’s a guy… You have to understand, her book is called Not Afraid of Life. Here’s a guy who never saw a life he didn’t question. For euthanasia. For the death penalty. For abortion. This is somebody who’s not affiliated with life at all. No children. So you have to look at him and say, “You know what, why is he so hostile toward women?” He has a deep-seated, it seems, hatred, to some extent, of women. Frequents the Playboy Mansion. All the girls that he dates – the women he dates – they have to be supermodels.

Bottom line is, you really have to wonder: Is he projecting onto her?

Ablow also notes that Maher “is very much divorced” from the “beauty” of birth, as evidenced by his comment about a baby “falling out” of Bristol, and that he seems to want to believe that “all women are sluts,” and so wouldn’t be able to believe that Bristol slept with her boyfriend out of anything other than lust.

Now, I’m generally not a fan of armchair psychology, because so much of it is based on pure speculation. Besides, it’s difficult, if not completely impossible, to gauge whether pundits like Maher are being completely genuine, or whether they are making wild, broad, sensational statements to drum up viewership or sell books or push movie tickets. Maybe Maher is a corrupt, twisted creep of a person whose heart resembles the floor of a Coney Island public restroom during the height of summer. Or maybe he’s a thoughtful and intelligent but somewhat ruthless individual who wants to play his viewers and others in the media to his benefit.

Suffice to say: His comments about Bristol don’t help his case, nor do they help his image. If this young woman and her mother are, as his weary head shakes and dramatic sighing seem to indicate, so silly and frivolous and unworthy of the attention they receive, why dedicate time to eviscerating the sexual experiences of a girl looking back on her teen years?

Look, I don’t know whether Maher hates women. I don’t know if he has deep-seated mother issues, or if he’s replete with self-loathing. And I don’t care. The psychology behind Maher’s comments is not the issue. Maher is simply a symptom of the culture we live in, where pundits are permitted – and expected – to hate others because they hate their political beliefs or what they represent. His comments don’t have anything to do with him as a person, and they likely have nothing to do with Bristol herself. This is simply a case of ideologically opposed public figures playing their parts to entertain an audience. And people like Maher will continue to feed into this cycle until viewers decide to change the channel. Until then, he’ll continue to say hateful and sometimes cringe-inducingly awkward things about the sexual proclivities of a teenage girl, and strangers will attempt to give him psychiatric assessments without ever having spoken with him.

Instead of bread and circuses, we have Triple Double Oreos and Real Time with Bill Maher. Slightly less blood, but just as gruesome.

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  • BatBoy

    Just because Maher used to beat his girlfriend doesn’t make him a bad dude…in his eyes!

  • seek

    Alex I have to commend you on a well thought out article. Might not agree with every point – but on the whole I’m impressed. You put a bit of thought into it instead of a knee jerk reaction. Thank You

  • cjd ohio 1

    not a fan of armchair psychology, and then alex does the same thing lol

  • Alex Alvarez

    seek said:
    Alex I have to commend you on a well thought out article. Might not agree with every point – but on the whole I’m impressed. You put a bit of thought into it instead of a knee jerk reaction. Thank You

    Thanks so much, seek! Very kind.

  • Alex Alvarez

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    not a fan of armchair psychology, and then alex does the same thing lol

    Commenting on the state of media =/= giving a psychological assessment of someone I’ve never met.

  • Jaurez

    The only women that go near maher are paid to do so. Nuff said.

  • Penguin60

    Maybe Maher is a corrupt, twisted creep of a person whose heart resembles the floor of a Coney Island public restroom during the height of summer. Or maybe he’s a thoughtful and intelligent but somewhat ruthless individual who wants to play his viewers and others in the media to his benefit.

    My money is on the Coney floor.
    He must have a Doctorate from the Keef Olberdork School of Misogyny.

  • BatBoy

    Alex wrote: And people like Maher will continue to feed into this cycle until viewers decide to change the channel.

    We need to add to the sentance… ” until viewers decide to change the channel and sites like Mediaite keeps giving him the press he needs!

  • cjd ohio 1

    Alex Alvarez said:
    Commenting on the state of media =/= giving a psychological assessment of someone I’ve never met.

    his comments dont have anything to do with him as a person, sorry alex, but it was a well written article

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Maher is an inconsequential greasespot who has called Sarah Palin a tw@t , and the like .
    He’s attacking her 20 year old child now .

    This little worm would scream like a banshee if Todd Palin ever walked up and tapped him on the shoulder .

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Haha so this is how Fox News does it? What a bunch of wimps. First they say Jon Stewart is racist, now Bill Maher hates women, hilarious.

    Get ready for your big presidential loss because that’s whats going to happen if the GOP focuses on media personalities instead of presidential candidates.

  • Penguin60

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    This little worm would scream like a banshee if Todd Palin ever walked up and tapped him on the shoulder .

    Big money maker for Pay Per View.

    Snowspot said:
    First they say Jon Stewart is racist, now Bill Maher hates women, hilarious.

    Truth hurts, eh?

  • Jaurez

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    This little worm would scream like a banshee if Todd Palin ever walked up and tapped him on the shoulder .

    I’d pay big bucks to see that! maher would be in the fetal position so fast he wouldn’t know what to do.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Penguin60 said:
    Big money maker for Pay Per View. Truth hurts, eh?

    Truth hurts? If Jon Stewart is racist, I support racism.

  • Alex Alvarez

    BatBoy said:
    Alex wrote: And people like Maher will continue to feed into this cycle until viewers decide to change the channel.

    We need to add to the sentance… ” until viewers decide to change the channel and sites like Mediaite keeps giving him the press he needs!

    Excellent point.

    If Bill Maher didn’t make sensational, gross comments, I wouldn’t be writing about him and what his comments indicate about the media landscape in general. That said, if I (and Mediaite in general) chose not to write about the gross, sensational comments made by political pundits (and the reaction to these comments by others in the media), it wouldn’t necessarily mean that Maher and his ilk will stop making them.

    Plus, as I see it, hating that something exists doesn’t make it unworthy of discussion. Y’know?

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Just make sure you tell me what racist things that Jon Stewart thinks, so I can believe them too.

  • skyfet

    Can you get any dumber?

  • felixw

    Hmmm, a psychiatrist looks at Bill Maher and his attitudes toward Bristol Palin. Thanks, but I think i will pass on this story.

  • Jaurez

    Snowspot said:
    I support racism.

    Like we didn’t already know that…

  • LeviCoultify

    lol these fox “news” segments never fail to be the dumbest things on television… how anyone can watch this an not laugh is beyond me, and not only that but both of these guys managed to squeeze in like 15 lies each in a span of 3 minutes.. must be some kind of record.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Jaurez said:
    Like we didn’t already know that…

    Yeah I only talk in a Herman Cain voice at my house, it’s pretty fun.

  • W.I.S.C

    Alex said:
    Maybe Maher is a corrupt, twisted creep of a person whose heart resembles the floor of a Coney Island public restroom during the height of summer. Or maybe he’s a thoughtful and intelligent but somewhat ruthless individual who wants to play his viewers and others in the media to his benefit.

    I’d say he’s quite a bit of both.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    LeviCoultify said:
    lol these fox “news” segments never fail to be the dumbest things on television… how anyone can watch this an not laugh is beyond me, and not only that but both of these guys managed to squeeze in like 15 lies each in a span of 3 minutes.. must be some kind of record.

    In Fox Country, lies are truth, racists are victims of racism, and Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann are the smartest people in the room.

  • BoomShakalaka

    “why dedicate time to eviscerating the sexual experiences of a girl looking back on her teen years?”

    Maybe because she wrote a book where she implies date-rape and then went on TV to deny it?
    I thought that was Bill’s point,as “gruesome” as it was…that she implies it, but stayed with that guy and got pregnant?So she liked him after all…but in her book the whole thing sounds sleazy..like she was raped or something….
    That would be my take on why Bill said that,but hey that’s me.I could be wrong,maybe Bill hates women.

  • Jaurez

    LeviCoultify said:
    both of these guys managed to squeeze in like 15 lies each

    So, you can break them all down one by one?

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Snowspot said:
    Get ready for your big presidential loss because that’s whats going to happen if the GOP focuses on media personalities instead of presidential candidates.

    The very last thing the Republicans want to do is focus upon their present field.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    This all happened because that wimp Bristol Palin said Levi “stole her virginity”, more of the Palin victim complex.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Hey Alex . Check out one of the charming commenters here last night :

    Nacho says: June 28, 2011 at 9:32 pm

    ( On Glenn Beck’s family being attacked : )

    …I would have kicked his daughter in the mouth with my steeltoes …

    Nacho says : June 29 , 2011 at 1:50 am

    Beck needs to apologize to his daughter for being an inflammatory hateful pig fuccker …

  • The Lantern of Truth

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    The very last thing the Republicans want to do is focus upon their present field.

    Here’s another one :

    TheReal Royal King says :

    June 24 , 2011 at 3:02 pm

    BTW. Your mother said to tell you she went down to Arcola and had a conjugal visit with your uncle last weekend . He’s got hopes for the new appeal .

  • cjd ohio 1

    Snowspot said:
    Haha so this is how Fox News does it? What a bunch of wimps. First they say Jon Stewart is racist, now Bill Maher hates women, hilarious. Get ready for your big presidential loss because that’s whats going to happen if the GOP focuses on media personalities instead of presidential candidates.

    GOP? focus on? where?

  • The Lantern of Truth

    And one last one on the young Palin girl .

    BFD says :

    June 26 , 2011 at 4:58 am

    Bristol should never be lumped in with the Obama kids … unless of course they become reality stars in their own right and cash in on spreading their legs .

  • cjd ohio 1

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    The very last thing the Republicans want to do is focus upon their present field.

    you and snowspot start from a false premise. GOP did not focus on maher

  • gar

    Snowspot said:
    Haha so this is how Fox News does it? What a bunch of wimps. First they say Jon Stewart is racist, now Bill Maher hates women, hilarious. Get ready for your big presidential loss because that’s whats going to happen if the GOP focuses on media personalities instead of presidential candidates.

    My guess is Obama could very well win again but the Republicans will own both houses. This will render Obama as impotent as you!

  • W.I.S.C

    Snowspot said:
    This all happened because that wimp Bristol Palin said Levi “stole her virginity”, more of the Palin victim complex.

    Why do you (and other politicos) care about what Bristol Palin says about anything?

  • LeviCoultify

    Lets inject some logic into this. Bill Maher says that Bristol’s sex was due to “being horny”, which in the eyes of this Keith Blow guy makes her a slut. So a woman being horny makes her a slut to you guys? No wonder you’re never able to get laid.

    This actually explains a lot more than just this one issue… hmm.

  • Jaurez

    THE FAKE ROYAL KING said:
    The very last thing the Republicans want to do is focus upon their present field.

    Keith Ablow is “the gop” Ok then.

  • Jaurez

    LeviCoultify said:
    Lets inject some logic into this. Bill Maher says that Bristol’s sex was due to “being horny”, which in the eyes of this Keith Blow guy makes her a slut. So a woman being horny makes her a slut to you guys? No wonder you’re never able to get laid.

    This actually explains a lot more than just this one issue… hmm.

    Where’s those 15 lies in 13 minutes you were talking about? Get on it, boy.

  • Jaurez

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    And one last one on the young Palin girl .

    BFD says :

    June 26 , 2011 at 4:58 am

    Bristol should never be lumped in with the Obama kids … unless of course they become reality stars in their own right and cash in on spreading their legs .

    He also said he wanted to kick Becks daughters teeth in the other day. Nice.

  • W.I.S.C

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    The very last thing the Republicans want to do is focus upon their present field.

    Bristol Palin is running for president?

    Both the right and the left appear to dwell in cult of personality rather than actual policy issues.

  • Alex Alvarez

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    Hey Alex . Check out one of the charming commenters here last night :

    Nacho says: June 28, 2011 at 9:32 pm

    ( On Glenn Beck’s family being attacked : )

    …I would have kicked his daughter in the mouth with my steeltoes …

    Nacho says : June 29 , 2011 at 1:50 am

    Beck needs to apologize to his daughter for being an inflammatory hateful pig fuccker …

    Thanks for the heads up.

    Edit: The original comments seem to have been deleted already.

  • seek

    Snowspot said:
    This all happened because that wimp Bristol Palin said Levi “stole her virginity”, more of the Palin victim complex.

    She never said any such thing – but if it makes you feel better, go with your version. When your life revolves around what a 17 year old girl was doing and how she describes it in retrospect and you have to add your 2 cents worth to claim she lied – it’s pathetic. Get a life.

  • LeviCoultify

    Alex Alvarez said:
    Thanks for the heads up.

    Hey Alex are you male or female?

  • W.I.S.C

    LeviCoultify said:
    Lets inject some logic into this. Bill Maher says that Bristol’s sex was due to “being horny”, which in the eyes of this Keith Blow guy makes her a slut. So a woman being horny makes her a slut to you guys? No wonder you’re never able to get laid.

    This actually explains a lot more than just this one issue… hmm.

    The motive of Bristol Palin loosing her virginity is now a (political) “issue.” This is where we’re at right now in this ideological war.

  • cjd ohio 1

    LeviCoultify said:
    Hey Alex are you male or female?

    she is female

  • Jaurez

    LeviCoultify said:
    Hey Alex are you male or female?

    Hey, how ’bout those 15 lies?

  • lazzzlo

    Alex Alvarez said (in a comment to batboy):
    If Bill Maher didn’t make sensational, gross comments, I wouldn’t be writing about him and what his comments indicate about the media landscape in general.

    That’s true. You both choose to play your role in this discourse. My only point of contention with your thoughtful post is your statement that

    His comments don’t have anything to do with him as a person, and they likely have nothing to do with Bristol herself.

    I think his comments speak volumes as any person’s comments would. Of course there’s a little artifice and self-righteous indignation but I think he is speaking to his true beliefs.

    That’s what makes him, in my mind, such a loathsome person. He offers a remarkable consistency to his own repugnance.

    Excellent post.

  • LeviCoultify

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    she is female

    So Alex, how do you feel about this, being a conservative woman? Sexual urges classify you as a slut in your party.. does it make you at all uneasy having to defend the people who fundamentally believe that you as a person aren’t allowed to have physical desires because you’re female? Or did the whole concept of sex get brainwashed out of you at an early age? Just out of curiosity..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Denny-Flojak/1550780778 Denny Flojak

    LeviCoultify said:
    Hey Alex are you male or female?

    you too stupid to look at the picture, or a rocky maddow fan and having a hard time with the “pat” thing going on.

  • Hugo Daun

    Hard to take any psycho-sexual commentary seriously when it comes from a dude that looks like a penis in an expensive suit.

  • Jaurez

    LeviCoultify said:
    both of these guys managed to squeeze in like 15 lies each in a span of 3 minutes.

    Well?

  • Alex Alvarez

    lazzzlo said:
    I think his comments speak volumes as any person’s comments would. Of course there’s a little artifice and self-righteous indignation but I think he is speaking to his true beliefs.

    That’s what makes him, in my mind, such a loathsome person. He offers a remarkable consistency to his own repugnance.

    Excellent post.

    I do harbor an intense dislike for Maher based on things he’s said and joked about on his show and elsewhere – which is, quite honestly, why I don’t routinely watch his show and don’t plan to unless I have to for work. (So, yeah. I’ve made my bias and personal opinions regarding Maher clear.)

    I do hesitate to take most opinions – especially the most hateful and attention-grabbing – espoused by TV personalities at face value, though, since I know they’re out to get people’s goat or preach to a particular choir that will rabidly consume their books and movies. Which is why I would draw the line on commenting on his psychological state, as Ablow did.

    Would I grab a beer with Maher? Probably not. Would I call him a disturbed jerk with mother issues? I’m not sure if I have enough information to say so definitively.

    (So glad you enjoyed the post!)

  • BatBoy

    Alex Alvarez said:
    Excellent point. If Bill Maher didn’t make sensational, gross comments, I wouldn’t be writing about him and what his comments indicate about the media landscape in general. That said, if I (and Mediaite in general) chose not to write about the gross, sensational comments made by political pundits (and the reaction to these comments by others in the media), it wouldn’t necessarily mean that Maher and his ilk will stop making them. Plus, as I see it, hating that something exists doesn’t make it unworthy of discussion. Y’know?

    Alex, thanks for the reply. I just have NEVER been remotely called a fan of Maher. Also I am relieved to see you describe him as “Ilk!” He sure deserves no better description.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Denny-Flojak/1550780778 Denny Flojak

    LeviCoultify said:
    So Alex, how do you feel about this, being a conservative woman? Sexual urges classify you as a slut in your party.. does it make you at all uneasy having to defend the people who fundamentally believe that you as a person aren’t allowed to have physical desires because you’re female? Or did the whole concept of sex get brainwashed out of you at an early age? Just out of curiosity..

    Hey Bill, bill clinton, is that you. I new you were on these sites somewhere stalking the young girls. Dude, give it up. I’m telling all my friends. Hey, that eatin ain’t cheatin thing you set up for the rest of us, really working out. Smoked any good cigars lately, wink wink. I’ll check in with ya later. Dude, so cool.

  • LeviCoultify

    Denny Flojak said:
    Hey Bill, bill clinton, is that you. I new you were on these sites somewhere stalking the young girls. Dude, give it up. I’m telling all my friends. Hey, that eatin ain’t cheatin thing you set up for the rest of us, really working out. Smoked any good cigars lately, wink wink. I’ll check in with ya later. Dude, so cool.

    Denny! How are you my bff??!

  • Jaurez

    levi, post those lies were were babbling about or you’ll be the liar, again.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Denny-Flojak/1550780778 Denny Flojak

    Love ya, Billy boy.

  • LeviCoultify

    Denny Flojak said:
    Love ya, Billy boy.

    Not as much as I love you Denny

  • cjd ohio 1

    Denny Flojak said:
    Love ya, Billy boy.

    LeviCoultify said:
    Not as much as I love you Denny

    does anybody else feel like a hug? lol

  • Jaurez

    levi=lyin sock puppet

  • Jelperman

    This shrink is a liar. Bill Maher did NOT say the 9-11 bombers were braver than US servicemen.

    While we’re at it, since when is someone who hangs out at the Playboy Mansion anti-woman? It’s like saying a person who hangs out at the BET awards hates black people. If Maher hated women, he’d hang out with Larry Craig in a men’s room.

  • Jaurez

    Jelperman said:
    Bill Maher did NOT say the 9-11 bombers were braver than US servicemen.

    Yes, he did.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

    Maher just wishes he could find a man to get him drunk on wine-coolers, and treat him rough.

  • TeaPartyNation

    Don’t dignify another piece of disgusting slime from gutter-dwelling, sewer rat maher by using more than one word to describe it: “GARBAGE”.

  • Jaurez

    Maher claimed that the 9/11 terrorists had more courage than Air Force pilots and/or Navy commanders. “We have been the cowards. Lobbing cruise missiles from two thousand miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building. Say what you want about it. Not cowardly. You’re right.”

    ABC FIRED Maher after that statement, leading to his HBO show.

  • BoomShakalaka

    Jaurez said:
    levi=lyin sock puppet

    Jaurez=lying, sock fetishist…….Always with the socks man……I don’t wanna know dude ok?

    Keep your sock fantasy BS to yourself buddy……thanks a lot.

  • BoomShakalaka

    So this thread is already a “Bill Maher is a disgusting pig and we’re gonna bash him no matter what,oh and we hate Levi also,that rapist, and every liberal too while we’re at it ” thread huh?
    Allrighty then……

  • Azarkhan

    Maher must obviously feel the same way about Barack Obama’s mother, who got pregnant out of wedlock. Or as Maher would so delicately put it:

    “Ann Dunham has to admit that the reason she f**ked Barack’s father over and over until a baby fell out is because she liked it.”

    Turnabout is fair play, don’t you agree Leftists?

  • Jaurez

    Hit a nerve did I? ;)

  • BoomShakalaka

    Jaurez said:
    Hit a nerve did I? ;)

    nah man…I’m just curious about your obsession with socks…kinda creepy.:)

  • BoomShakalaka

    Azarkhan said:
    Maher must obviously feel the same way about Barack Obama’s mother, who got pregnant out of wedlock. Or as Maher would so delicately put it:

    “Ann Dunham has to admit that the reason she f**ked Barack’s father over and over until a baby fell out is because she liked it.”

    Turnabout is fair play, don’t you agree Leftists?

    When did this thread became about Obama’s mother?
    Oh yea ….when he got elected and you started obsessing…..sorry I forgot…as you were nutjob…

  • Azarkhan

    BoomShakalaka said:
    When did this thread became about Obama’s mother?

    Boomshakalaka!

  • Jaurez

    Azarkhan said:
    Boomshakalaka!

    Boom!

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Good article, Alex. I’m still naive enough to believe that “evil will out if good men remain silent.”

    As long as we put up with and reward behavior like Maher’s we will continue to see more of it.

  • BoomShakalaka

    Azarkhan said:
    Boomshakalaka!

    Well…I’m the Boom man…you ain’t the Boom…

    Just stick to your “I’m gonna bash on Obama’s mother no matter the subject, cause I’m a creepy MF who doesn’t like white women banging black men especially when they become President” routine dude…after all it’s the only thing you’re good for in here…

    Boom.

  • BoomShakalaka

    Jaurez said:
    Boom!

    You done with your sock smelling session already?

  • seek

    BoomShakalaka said:
    Well…I’m the Boom man…you ain’t the Boom…

    Just stick to your “I’m gonna bash on Obama’s mother no matter the subject, cause I’m a creepy MF who doesn’t like white women banging black men especially when they become President” routine dude…after all it’s the only thing you’re good for in here…

    Boom.

    Clean up your act or you will be reported.
    Not interested in reading your filth

  • struckgld

    *** The father of Bristol’s baby, Levi, is typical of young mentally immature boys full of testosterone. With them it doesn’t matter what you told the girl just as long as you got her panties off. You could promise her the world, tell her she is the one, get her boozed up, whatever it took to get her panties off.

    Maher is a very sick man.

  • BoomShakalaka

    seek said:
    Clean up your act or you will be reported.
    Not interested in reading your filth

    ????

    Clean up my act?….Me?…WTF?Are you insane?
    Hey why don’t you go ahead and report me ok?
    Thanks.

  • Sanders Youth

    seek said:
    Clean up your act or you will be reported.
    Not interested in reading your filth

    Are you going to call the Internet Police?

    CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN~!!!!!!!!!!!~!

  • Sanders Youth

    This dude’s name is Ablow?

  • Sanders Youth

    Did the writer of this article actually write of “bread and circuses” and not include the TMZ of politics, Mediaite? Me thinks someone is up on a very high horse.

  • Sanders Youth

    I for one am glad to be kept up to date on all things Lindsey Lohan, Bristol Palin and Casey Anthony, bread and circuses indeed.

  • Alz

    Maher should be studied.

    He’s like a cancer that grows especially deep and fast and, because of this, we can use this information to understand many other liberals.

    Another analogy is it’s like watching a car wreck in very slow motion: we can see all sorts of things that otherwise aren’t visible.

    In any case, it seems more and more people see that he has some sort of psychosis.

  • tiredofbs

    Thank You Very Much: Alex Alvarez | 4:10 pm, June 29th, 2011

    I had to read post /article twice looking for sarcasm,
    or maybe I didn’t believe my eyes>? Loved it.
    Very real, dignified, down to earth article on a sad reality.
    Maher has serious social issues, I don’t think anyone including
    Maher would argue.. His overwhelming need & frequency to which
    he ‘s been doing this and why the need to to be perverse
    w/children/young innocent family members of (R) any Political stripe
    is what I found alarming …

    You Mr. Alvarez have gained new respect.
    Not sure what Glenn Davis thinks of you now but…lol

  • catfishjuggling show

    Wait. Isn’t this the guy who is raising a kid with his domestic partner or something.

    Hold on, let me find it.

    Yeah, here it is:

    http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2010/11/beckfront.jpg

    It got better.

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

    Just look at the snearing snarky character and lack of honesty and integrity in this guy, Maher.

    Talk about superficial, vacuous persona – he exemplifies the condition!

    - but you can say about nearly all of the cretins who dominate today’s Democratic Party.

    2012 – It’s US against THEM!!! – and don’t you forget it!
    NO COMPROMISE – WE DEFEAT THEM!!!

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Clearly Maher is doing something right when all these conservative are turned into crying women when their Bristol or Sarah are criticized.

    The Palin family is a national joke, Bristol had premaritial sex with levi, Sarah quit her job, they were on dancing with the stars. anyone that supports these people are losers.

    You support Sarah Palin? You’re a LOSER. Just deal with it, Maher will be important longer than Sarah Palin will be it’s because he’s smarter than her, he’s smarter than most of you, and we have free speech in our country, even if you little babies can’t handle it.

    I just hope young girls don’t see this idiot prancing aroudn with her mom and think this is “normal” the palin family is so far from normal, it’s a little like the family has a.. psychosis.

  • Azarkhan

    Snowspot said:
    Bristol had premaritial sex with levi,

    Obama’s mother had premarital sex with his father. Guess she was a hoe, no?

  • seek

    Snowspot said:
    Clearly Maher is doing something right when all these conservative are turned into crying women when their Bristol or Sarah are criticized.

    The Palin family is a national joke, Bristol had premaritial sex with levi, Sarah quit her job, they were on dancing with the stars. anyone that supports these people are losers.

    You support Sarah Palin? You’re a LOSER. Just deal with it, Maher will be important longer than Sarah Palin will be it’s because he’s smarter than her, he’s smarter than most of you, and we have free speech in our country, even if you little babies can’t handle it.

    I just hope young girls don’t see this idiot prancing aroudn with her mom and think this is “normal” the palin family is so far from normal, it’s a little like the family has a.. psychosis.

    You’re normal? All the hate and smearing is normal? OK then, at least we know how lying and spewing vitriol is normal in your household.

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

    Snowspot said:
    Clearly Maher is doing something right when all these conservative are turned into crying women when their Bristol or Sarah are criticized. The Palin family is a national joke, Bristol had premaritial sex with levi, Sarah quit her job, they were on dancing with the stars. anyone that supports these people are losers. You support Sarah Palin? You’re a LOSER. Just deal with it, Maher will be important longer than Sarah Palin will be it’s because he’s smarter than her, he’s smarter than most of you, and we have free speech in our country, even if you little babies can’t handle it. I just hope young girls don’t see this idiot prancing aroudn with her mom and think this is “normal” the palin family is so far from normal, it’s a little like the family has a.. psychosis.

    Correct me if I’m wrong snowflake, but it sounds like you may be tenative in supporting Sarah Palin should she decide to run for Marxist Agitator – oh I’m sorry, that’s the current White House resident – I mean, President!

  • Bill Huggins

    HAHAHAHAHA

    I’m sure Maher is REAL UPSET about this while he’s banging the HOTTEST WOMEN IMAGINABLE

    Something Ablow will NEVER EVER DO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    MAHER WAS CORRECT

    How else do you explain her sex with Levi? Oh…that’s right, she blamed it on the AL ALALAL ALALALCOHOL

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    seek said:
    You’re normal? All the hate and smearing is normal? OK then, at least we know how lying and spewing vitriol is normal in your household.

    up

    I’m done feeling bad for the Palin’s, they whine about everythign while desperately seeking the limelight, they deserve what they get verbally. There’s no reason to treat them like America’s sweethearts when Palin says stuff like Obama is “Paling around with terrorists”. … honestly who cares about her feelings, she literally makes shit up and you guys eat it and then wonder why people insult her… she’s a liar and you’re all really gullible, that’s why. She’s the dumb hot housewife you secretly want to screw and quite frankly, how embarassing for your side, that a woman with no ideas and only looks is the leader of the party. Disgraceful when you used to have people like Reagan.

  • BFD

    I remember when the teabloggers went apeshit when CNN fact-checked Saturday Night Live.

    It seems Fox has made it their own full-time job debunking comedians like Maher and Stewart. lol

  • Jaurez

    BFPuppet said:
    t seems Fox has made it their own full-time job debunking comedians like Maher and Stewart.

    Full time is quite the stretch, patsy. Somebody has to keep the far lefties in check, right? Is media matters doing it? Nope. Think Propaganda? Nope. After all, that’s the real reason you jack-booted thugs hate Fox News, it’s because they call you on your bull$hit just like I did earlier to “levi.”

  • Jaurez

    Billdo Buggins said:
    while he’s banging the HOTTEST WOMEN IMAGINABLE

    Pay no mind to the fact he’s paying them. He’s a d so I guess it’s ok, right, billdo?

  • MediaWhorse

    Alex, you’re taking this Ablow blowhard seriously? As if he weren’t told before the segment to criticize Maher because he dared make fun of a Palin?

    Do you also take seriously the “body language experts” that O’Reilly has on that pretend to see things that don’t exist?

    One would thing that working for Mediaite, you’d know the Fox game by know. May want to study up.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Jaurez said:
    Full time is quite the stretch, patsy. Somebody has to keep the far lefties in check, right? Is media matters doing it? Nope. Think Propaganda? Nope. After all, that’s the real reason you jack-booted thugs hate Fox News, it’s because they call you on your bull$hit just like I did earlier to “levi.”

    It may not be their full time job… but they think it will be a successful way to take down the left, since comedians can say stuff the news can’t. So now Fox News is trying to dispute whether Maher and Stewart are comedians.

    I hope Maher and Stewart just continue to rail on Fox. Fox actually isn’t wasting it’s time attacking these two, these two are a big threat to Fox. In fact, the entire Fox false narrative is on the edge of being exposed, everyone sort of knows Fox is corrupt now, everyone knows Fox is shady and they aren’t news and they want Republicans to win…. so their name is already tarnished, Maher and Stewart are making it worse though, so much worse.

  • lane

    Dr. Ablow confirms what we’ve all assumed. Maher needs a therapist and shouldn’t be invited on cable news shows to spread his hatred. If he said the same about races, he’d be barred. Rightfully so.

  • Jaurez

    Snowspot said:
    Fox false narrative is on the edge of being exposed, everyone sort of knows Fox is corrupt now, everyone knows Fox is shady and they aren’t news and they want Republicans to win…. so their name is already tarnished,

    Everyone knows? Really? Hmm.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Jaurez said:
    Everyone knows? Really? Hmm.

    Yes, even by other news outlets, that’s why Fox makes an enemy of the “mainstream media” when Fox is actually #1 in cable news. They have to hate other networks because other networks report the truth about things and the moderate view, and moderates are now considered “extreme leftists” on Fox News.. just watch, anyone with any sort of vaguely liberal view is part of the EXTREME LEFT… it’s such a joke on that network.. and everyone knows but the hardcore viewers.

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

    lane said:
    Dr. Ablow confirms what we’ve all assumed. Maher needs a therapist and shouldn’t be invited on cable news shows to spread his hatred. If he said the same about races, he’d be barred. Rightfully so.

    If Maher needs a therapist, what will Matthews require? lol

    Like Obama’s America, the Democratic Party is in freefall!

  • The Lantern of Truth

    BFD said:
    I remember when the teabloggers went apeshit

    BFD on the job to police the area of evildoers :

    BFD says :

    June 26 , 2011 at 4:58 am

    Bristol should never be lumped in with the Obama kids … unless of course they become reality stars in their own right and cash in on spreading their legs .

  • Skippy

    Jaurez said:
    Full time is quite the stretch, patsy. Somebody has to keep the far lefties in check, right? Is media matters doing it? Nope. Think Propaganda? Nope. After all, that’s the real reason you jack-booted thugs hate Fox News, it’s because they call you on your bull$hit just like I did earlier to “levi.”

    Seriously, Jeffy. You ought to seek professional mental help.

    I told you once, I told you 1 million times. According to you, now I am BFD and Puby too.

    Have you alerted your boyfriend the hermaphrodite?

  • Fokker News

    Hey Alex,

    It is really bad form to accept a compliment from somebody who is a proven political hack and liar. Most of the people who hang out in this comment section are more interested in seeing their political agendas furthered than they are in seeing “good writing”, by you or anyone else who writes for this blog.

  • Jaurez

    Peanut Butter, you already admitted to being the big fuggin dummy. You’ll eventually admit to being pubic, too. Give it time, cakes.

  • Jaurez

    Fooker, you forgot to accuse Alex of “packing water for Fox News.” ;)

  • BFD

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    BFD on the job to police the area of evildoers :

    BFD says :

    June 26 , 2011 at 4:58 am

    Bristol should never be lumped in with the Obama kids … unless of course they become reality stars in their own right and cash in on spreading their legs .

    I love it when you re-post me.
    It gives my posts extra mileage.

    Keep up the good work!!!!

  • Jaurez

    3 minutes to change names? You’re laggin, cakes.

  • Fokker News

    BFD said:
    I love it when you re-post me.
    It gives my posts extra mileage.

    Keep up the good work!!!!

    I don’t get his crybaby shtick. He had multiple comments deleted by Lizzie, and he complained about the injustice of censorship and said he was done posting at Mediaite. Of course, a few days later he resumed commenting.

  • Skippy

    Jaurez said:
    Peanut Butter, you already admitted to being the big fuggin dummy. You’ll eventually admit to being pubic, too. Give it time, cakes.

    I did?

    You muckin foron. Are you aware that comments on Mediaite are being moderated?

    They are probably too busy laughing at your stupid claims, Jeffy.

    Just like I am.

  • Jaurez

    Skippy said:
    Are you aware that comments on Mediaite are being moderated?

    Yes, they are fully aware of all of your ip spoofers from different countries.

  • Skippy

    Jaurez said:
    Yes, they are fully aware of all of your ip spoofers from different countries.

    I do?

    So, according to you, the comments by BFD and Puby go through the same obscure filters I use. But they all are one and the same, you ol’ pal patsy.

    Dang it. I didn’t know I am THAT good.

  • Bill Huggins

    Jaurez said:
    Pay no mind to the fact he’s paying them. He’s a d so I guess it’s ok, right, billdo?

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    Equating SUPERMODELS with prostitutes? HAHAHAHAHAHA
    NICE TRY

    VITTER IS
    STILL IN ORIFICE THOUGH

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • The Lantern of Truth

    BFD said:
    I love it when you re-post me.

    If you’re going to be a dirtbag , be a proud one !

  • Rokker

    LOL

    Maher just dislikes selfish, narcissistic, deceitful grifters like the Palins.

  • darladoon

    i think my favorite line from this idiot is:

    “here’s a guy who isn’t affiliated with life at all”

    if that doesn’t make your head spin really fast for about 3 seconds…..

  • kit9

    Anyone who has watched Maher for years knows he is a raging misogynist. He hates women. HATES. But, Ablow is wrong about one thing-Maher doesn’t date models, he dates porn stars and strippers.

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  • Worp

    Maher, Stewart, Letterman same dude, same mob following. Sick freaks one and all.

  • NonElite

    I’m no mental health expert, but Bill Maher makes Chris Matthews look relatively sane sometimes. It seems pretty obvious that both of them have personality disorders and Ablow’s analysis of Maher wasn’t necessary to point that out.
    It makes you wonder about the people who think Maher is a great comedian and intellect. They’re running around unmonitored.

  • bigbrainbrad

    Worp said:
    Maher, Stewart, Letterman same dude, same mob following. Sick freaks one and all.

    sort of like the Mob that follows Rush, Hannity, Beck, Levin, Boorst, and FNC

  • Bill Huggins

    Too bad Fox is too CHICKEN to invite Maher on to talk about it.

    Then again, THEY DON’T LIKE THEIR STRAW MEN TO FIGHT BACK

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    COULD BE ANOTHER STEWART SITUATION

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    STAY BRAVE FOX!!!

  • rockloper

    Fox News is so ridiculous they’re funny. How can any take them seriously with garbage like this!

  • LAPhil

    Bill Huggins said:
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Equating SUPERMODELS with prostitutes? HAHAHAHAHAHANICE TRY VITTER ISSTILL IN ORIFICE THOUGH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    Hey, laughing boy: have you ever tried “LOL” or “LMAO” instead of HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA?

  • LAPhil

    Bill Huggins said:
    HAHAHAHAHA I’m sure Maher is REAL UPSET about this while he’s banging the HOTTEST WOMEN IMAGINABLE Something Ablow will NEVER EVER DO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA MAHER WAS CORRECT How else do you explain her sex with Levi? Oh…that’s right, she blamed it on the AL ALALAL ALALALCOHOL

    How long have you had this stuttering keyboard problem?

  • Perdido

    The King has often criticized Bristol for being an unwed mother. The King has also told us that he’s 62 years old, and that his mother was born in 1935. So she had him when she was fourteen.

  • LAPhil

    Bill Huggins said:
    Too bad Fox is too CHICKEN to invite Maher on to talk about it. Then again, THEY DON’T LIKE THEIR STRAW MEN TO FIGHT BACK HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA COULD BE ANOTHER STEWART SITUATION HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA STAY BRAVE FOX!!!

    As if Maher ever invites anyone on Fox News on his show.

  • Bill Huggins

    LAPhil said:
    As if Maher ever invites anyone on Fox News on his show.

    Apparently you never watch his show.

  • Bill Huggins

    LAPhil said:
    How long have you had this stuttering keyboard problem?

    I was quoting the Jamie Foxx song “Blame it on the Alcohol”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Kennedy/1439463341 Bruce

    LAPhil said:
    As if Maher ever invites anyone on Fox News on his show.

    Well I don’t watch Fox News, but I know Andrew Breitbart(sp) was on Maher’s show. Now Breitbart(sp) may not be a Fox News regular, but he certainly shares a common ideology with Fox. I also saw someone named Hutchins(sp), who admittedly is an anti-theist, (his word), who may not be your typical Conservative, but he was a staunch supporter of George W. So if your point is Fox News employees only, then I guess you have a case. But if your point is Conservatives never having been on Maher’s show, then you would be incorrect.

  • CAconservative

    Both Mahar, and Palin are culpable. Ms.Palin for opening her mouth about private family business that should have been kept within the family, and Mahar for being his usual repugnant self making comments in a TV studio he wouldn’t dare say in front of her father without getting his ass kicked.

  • http://twitter.com/sarahdsmom Melanee

    Maher is a comedian.

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