Bill Maher, in unhinged fashion, thinks Sarah Palin would react to another 9/11 on the basis of whether it took place in red or blue America:
Honestly, if Sarah Palin were president and terrorists struck New York again she would say two things. First, is Mount Rushmore okay? And two, well at least they didn’t hit the “real America.” Democrats don’t do this. Jerry Brown doesn’t stand under the Hollywood sign and say “Now, I don’t know if this will play in Texas or down on the farms where they have no values and f*** chickens. But you here in Hollywood are the real Americans.” It never happens.
But it does happen, especially in the case of Michael Moore, honored guest at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and a heartthrob of the Left during the last decade. It was not Sarah Palin who thought that 9/11 terrorists hit the right spot, but Michael Moore who wrote that it was the wrong spot:
Many families have been devastated tonight. This is just not right. They did not deserve to die. . . . If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him. Boston, New York, D.C., and the planes’ destination of California — these were the places that voted AGAINST Bush.
What a perfectly vile person that Maher is. Frankly, I wish you wouldn't quote him on a decent website like this.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHard,
You beat me to it! I was just entering the comment that Bill Maher was the most vile person on TV (and that's really saying something!).
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHow about floods? Grabby politicians gave New Orleans every benefit of victim status when the Dem gov/mayor botched that city's storm prep. But a few years later when the Red River flooded in a different part of America... crickets.
I guess you need to be steeped in learned helplessness to be "real America" to a Dem. Let's blame Sarah Palin.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOf course, Maher is gliding past the fact that the actual 9/11 occurred in Manhattan, a solidly blue fortress amidst a blue state in a blue region.
Though as somebody who's lived in suburbs, big cities, small towns and exurbs, I have to say I think Sarah Palin promoting geographical divisions is pretty tiresome. But nonetheless I still like her, if only because she continues to confound the conventional-wisdom muckety-mucks by (largely) ignoring them.
Her bitterness is her worst quality; worrying about urban elites and taking offense at the media may be a normal reaction, but it makes even normal people come across as defensive and petty. Her best quality is the smiley, sing-song way she approaches everything else.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBill Maher, unhinged? What will happen next - gambling at Rick's?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseVictor,
You lost me at "Bill Maher...thinks".
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMany folks of the right/libertarian portion of the political spectrum would have immediately thought of Moore's comments. Very few of the folks who follow Maher ever knew of Moore's comments. Such is the state of our country.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMr. Moore's comment was offensively absurd. Mr. Davis Hanson should take his own advice re unhinged rants and offensive partisanship when he writes the next post that has anything to do with Mr. Obama and the rest of the non-right wing.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis is another example of why Bill Maher is probably the worst comedian and talk show host in the history of television. For all the smug, self-satisfied smarminess he projects, Maher is neither the least bit funny, nor the least bit witty, The reason is his "comedy" bears no relation to reality and has no grounding in truth. Unlike a George Carlin who could have you laughing in the aisles even as you disagreed with everything he said, Bill Maher is there simply to toss strips of raw read meat to his pro-drug, pro-promiscuous sex cult following who swallow it all whole and clap like the trained seals they are. The fact that a fellow traveller like Micheal Moore had already negated the "truth" of Maher's "comedy" never occured to either Maher or his audience. They simply need to believe the worst about Palin -and conservatives in general-in order to continue to feel superior.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThere needs to be a serious slander suit filed against Maher. Even for the most outre comedian this goes well beyond the pale.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis is yet another example of why Bill Maher is the worst "comedian" to ever host his own talk show. He is neither the least bit funny, or the least bit witty, His "comedy" is simply not rooted in reality and bears no relation to truth. Unlike a George Carlin, who could have you rolling in the aisles even as you disagreed with everything he said, Maher exists simply to throw strips of raw, red meat to his drug and sex addled cult following, who swallow every bit whole and clap wildly like the trained seals they are. That a fellow traveller like Micheal Moore had already negated the "truth" of Maher's "comedy" never occured to either the host or his audience. They simply must believe the worst of Palin and all conservatives in order to feel superior. Maher is indeed vile.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOf course, Moore foolishly thinks that the terrorists are mad at Bush, Idiot. He'd be the first to have his head cut off under their regime.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMichael Moore is not a democratic politician - he's a filmmaker. It's not like Maher was holding Republican politicians accountable for Tedd Nugent or Chuck Norris. He was talking about the most recent Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency of the United States of America.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOh yeah, it happens.
I have a picture from the internet, sorry I collected it back in 2003 or so. A protest of George Bush et al. in New York City.
The protestor had a sign, a map of the US, with Texas indicated (no other states) and an arrow pointing to it, with a note that read: "Dear Terrorist. George Bush is from Texas. Texas."
For those slow on the uptake reading this, the implication is that you, dear terrorists, should strike Texas and leave NY alone.
The correct caption for such a picture as a whole is of course:
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"F***wad New Yorker Opening a Can of Whoop**s"
Maher is a fool, of course. But Palin could be forgiven if she gave such a pass in the event of an attack on Berkeley. Shuck, even I might ululate in that event.
Cordially...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMr. Hanson, please don’t mix it up with Bill Maher, he's a celebrity driven suck-up who’s not worth responding too. Leave him to the like minded narcissists who seem to enjoy his company.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBill Maher is still around? Who cares what he thinks?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt's instructive that Maher holds up "Hollywood" as the idealized opposite of the "real America where they F chickens". Talk about narcissism! I wonder how many California Democrats would even agree with that?
I would tend to agree with Hardcastle that you shouldn't bother to quote this "comedian" around here -- it lowers the tone, and we already know that "Hollywood punditry" is ridiculous and worthless, so you really don't have to point it out.
You can also spare us from commentary by Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Matt Damon, Ed Begley jr, Robert Redford, etc. Leave the celebrity stuff to fluffy lifestyle publications like Rolling Stone magazine!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhy would you bother listening to or reading Maher enough to quote his nonsense? Life is just too short to spend it thinking about petty people.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBill who?
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