This is the way it works in politics. Limbaugh made Maher the issue and it worked. Always be attacking.
Maher already lost the Democratic gig in Alabama, now this.
David Axelrod will not be appearing as a guest on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” despite reports last week that he was scheduled to do the show in the next few weeks.
“He’s not scheduled to go on at this time,” said Ben LaBolt, the press secretary for President Obama’s reelection campaign.
Bill Maher started taking heat when Rush Limbaugh made his pro-Obama Super PAC $1 million donation an issue, because Maher had called Sarah Palin the “c” word.
Bill Maher stood up for Rush Limbaugh and that ticked off alot of people also, setting himself up for this. Sexism is dying and it can’t come fast enough. Yes, there will always be sexism out there, but hopefully more and more people reject it.
Sexism is not dying, it’s growing like weeds. The left had better open their eyes and see what’s going on. This country has moved to the right for the last 30 years.
Rush and the right did not totally turn the Titanic around. There is a rupture in Rush’s ship and it is taking on water fast and sinking.
So some of the water splashed on Bill but you won’t find me playing violins for Maher. Maybe if he had watched his mouth but then again, liberals will go to their graves holding to the belief that it is OK to use this kind of language against women in the public eye as long as you do so as a comedian and in a paid per view venue that is considered comedy. Yet you would never find the same liberals making the same case for racial slurs in comedy routines.
What is tragic is that the left’s defense of Maher is so missing the point. It is saying that sexism is OK if you do it in the right way, at the right time and in the right place.
It’s an over-simplification to say this happened only because Maher called Palin the C word. Not only does Maher have a pattern of verbal nastiness when it comes to women and more than once has tossed out sexist slurs using humor as his justification, but Bill also defended Rush. Bill Maher endorsed Rush’s right to conduct a 3-day diatribe against a woman and chided anyone who didn’t forgive Rush’s lame, non-apology apology. Who in the heck does Bill Maher think he is?
Bill can continue exercise his freedom of speech in his comedy to use words that are demeaning and derogatory towards women. He can also expect a lot of people to tune out and not listen. I haven’t had HBO for years and tuned Bill out the day he made that awful joke about Hillary. What amazed me was Bill’s reaction to some in the audience who gasped in shock. You could see the wheels spinning. He was astounded and just couldn’t fathom why many in the audience didn’t get his “hilarity”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyg31Wf18yc
If we are going to tend the rising tide of sexism in this country (I agree with TPAZ it is getting worse not better) then we have got to call it out when it happens and not as liberals support all of these rules and conditions that make it OK in some cases and not in others.
We have got to stand up to it and speak out against it and say it is NEVER OK.
Absolutely, LW: “it is NEVER okay.”
Thank you, Ladywalker,
Very well stated.
It’s basically what I have tried to communicate on this site in a previous blog, though, not quite as eloquently as you, but, being the fiscal conservative that I am, I got totally beat up by some others that write here, because they wrongly assumed that I was giving limbaugh a pass.
But thank you very much, I am always pleased when I and my liberal sisters and brothers can agree on something. Especially, something as important as this.
Let me be another who appreciates what ladywalker wrote.I get Taylor’s point about the right’s ability to change the subject and redirect the criticism. My thinking is while we are on the subject all who practice sexism for personal gain should be shamed, including Maher. As I have said before wrong is wrong.
ladywalker attempts to make a rational, logical and sane but flawed comment regarding sexism, Maher and limpwithnoballs.
That is most decidedly NOT what you attempted to do. Your contention was if it was OK for Maher, which NO ONE here tried to say then the bloated one’s hate spewing was OK also.
YOU tried to make it a direct equivalence.
First ,and this is also to Ladywalker, I haven’t read/heard ANYONE here say it was OK that Maher said the ugly things he has, the c word incident was just the most blatant in a pattern of misogynistic utterances from him. NOR has anyone said it was OK that ANYONE on the left has indulged in this ugly, counter productive devolution to this level of garbage. They have consistently and pretty much universally been condemed HERE every time it has come up.
To equate limpwithnoballs conduct ,slander/libel of a private citizen, with a comedians routine, sexist and hateful but STILL a comedians routine directed at a PUBLIC figure is absurd at best and frankly dishonest.
I have castigated Maher and every lefty who sank to the level of sexism displayed in the past…..but NONE of them came even CLOSE to lumpy. Not even CLOSE.