“Because what good is being the first female president if you still have to be a dick?” – Bill Maher EVERYONE is a Clinton critic, Bill Maher one of the most offensive in past years. Bill Maher worrying that Hillary might “still have to be a dick,” like any man has done over two hundred [...]
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Bill Maher Goes Off
OTHERWISE KNOWN as the quote of the day. Now, if I were a Washington pundit, I’d launch into some boring speech about how both sides are equally to blame, and then I’d call it a day and we’d all meet at Katherine Graham’s house for cocktails. Which is weird because Katherine Graham is dead. But [...]
First Amendment Takes Another Hit
I think it’s interesting because I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words “heroes.” Why do I feel so [uncomfortable] about the word “hero”? I feel comfortable — uncomfortable — about the word because it seems to me that it is [...]
Listening to Men on Easter
“The problem is you’re sober.” – The Lives of Cowboys, Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keiller “I don’t consider Andrew Sullivan to be a religious authority, okay?” – Rick Warren, ABC “This Week” I love the boys, but I’m tired of hearing them preach. Why do we care what Rick Warren thinks? Not to pick [...]
Bill Maher: Please Stop Apologizing
Mr. De Niro was speaking at a fund-raiser with the first lady, Michelle Obama. Here’s the joke: “Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?” – Bill Maher Why the first lady’s press secretary bothered to say Mr. De Niro’s joke was “inappropriate” [...]
Romney Blasts Maher After Giving Limbaugh a Pass
I’m officially sick of this subject, but some details matter. Sean Hannity served up the quote from Mitt Romney, which the National Journal reported: In an appearance on the Sean Hannity radio show, Romney said, “Frankly, what Bill Maher said, and I finally read the transcripts, I was offended, outraged that a person would say [...]
Bill Maher on Sarah and the ‘C’ Word
Jake Tapper has a discussion with the self-described potty mouth comic. But comparing Maher’s “c” word attack on Sarah Palin to what Rush Limbaugh said about Sarah Fluke, he’s having none of it. To compare that to Rush is ridiculous – he went after a civilian about very specific behavior, that was a lie, speaking [...]
Bill Maher Loses Axelrod
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. From Politico: David Axelrod will not be appearing as a guest on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” despite reports last week that he was scheduled to [...]
International Women’s Day, Rush Limbaugh and Bill Maher
**updated** The 2012 theme of International Women’s Day is “Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures.” But when you look at what’s been playing in politics the last week or so in the U.S., you’d be smart to add a subheading to the theme that warns girls and women to “always stand tall and be prepared to defend [...]
Why Can’t Mitt Romney Stand Up to Rush Limbaugh?
**updated** “It’s the worst kind of cowardice,” Imus said. “Maybe he’s still jacked up on the Oxycontin, or whatever it is, but you can’t say stuff about somebody and not, 1) own up to it, and, 2) have guts enough to go sit down with her and say, ‘Look, I’m sorry and I won’t do [...]
Sunday Sermon: Jeremiah Wright, Baptizing the Dead, and Aspirin Between Her Legs
Ironically, Lawless noted, all the attention to contraception at the moment may end up boosting the overall public standing of the 2010 health care law. Free preventive health care, whether it’s a cancer screening or the pill, may well become as popular as provisions like allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ health plans [...]
Occupied Thoughts from Howard Zinn, Boots Riley, and Bill Maher
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. In addition to Zinn, Riley and Maher, I’m including some thoughts from a “where we are now” post at OWS. First, the late historian Howard Zinn obviously didn’t have the Occupy movement specifically in mind when he was included in The Nation’s February 1, 2010 [...]
Bill Maher: Qur’an ‘hate-filled holy book’
**UPDATED** As an avowed atheist, Bill Maher is harsh on all religions, but he has a particular disdain for Islam. He’s taken out against Muslim men and their treatment of women before as well. But last night on “Real Time” Bill Maher exhibited Islamaphobia akin to Peter King. Mediaite did a good synopsis so I [...]
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