Weird how after Bill Maher defended Rush over the ad boycotting, the GOP targets him.

I'm sure Anne Coulter is conflicted.

I loathe Maher. He's the left's version of Limbaugh. Hell, he may even be the left's version of Michael Savage. He's that bad. But I give him credit because he has to know how much this resembles what he said about Palin a couple years ago. He's just covering his ass with a preemptive comment to avoid looking like a hypocrite.

Local Georgia political cartoon to the rescue!



~I would vote SuperFly for President.

Rush said one bad thing about some girl. That's it. He's no rightist version of Maher.

Keep in mind, Rush is on 15 hours a week for over 20 years. Maher has a Friday night show and that's it.

Rush is rarely vulgar like he was last week, and overall his record isn't bad. Rush and Hugh Hewitt have the best shows. Savage is good too, but he does not really have a background in politics. He is known for complaining about the threat of radical Islam.

What pisses me off is that advertisers avoid Rush and other conservatives yet they flock to Al Sharpton on 1600 AM, after all the things he has said and done. I won't go to Mc Donald's or Kohl's because they advertise on Sharpton's show. White people need to learn to organize boycott's for more than just the War on Christmas.

People listen to Sharpton?

~Call me ignorant, but I didn't even know that fat fuck has a radio show.

Yes. Al Sharpton has a radio show. It's mostly black people calling to parrot what everyone else says. Stupid stuff about Tea Party, Obama, FDNY, etc......

The funniest part of the show is when Al read a live liner for a supplement to raise "testosterun" levels. You see, Al does that on purpose to "keep it real". He's stereotyping his own people.

Well the Tea Party can go fuck themselves for all I care, but you have to give Obama this: After his election, he really made Sharpton and Jackson irrelevant. I consider that a good achievement.

Hell I can't even remember the last time Jackson surfaced. Gone are the SOUTH PARK days when he was the King of Black America.



Off-topic, but I've always noticed how entertainers or politicians of tribes crack jokes at themselves and their audience or at least the popular perception they hold about themselves even if it's a gross stereotype.

(Who were the biggest fans of Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck..." jokes? Rednecks. They may never have helped their rich cousin move the wheels off his home or bought a DVR because wrestling is on while they're at work, but they laugh. I do. And Larry the Cable Guy is a walking talking redneck stereotype, and they eat his shit up too.)

Aaaah, Sundays at Ronnie's house .

Amen to that.

Women's Group Presses Obama on Limbaugh/Maher Double Standard
ABC News
March 8, 2012


After making a point of standing up for women during the Rush Limbaugh controversy, President Obama is taking flak from one corner for not speaking out against "vile misogynist" and liberal Obama supporter Bill Maher.

Maher, a comedian who specializes in politics, is also a $1 million contributor to Priorities USA Action, a super PAC that supports Obama's reelection.

Penny Nance, president of the conservative group Concerned Women for America, said in a letter to White House chief of staff Jack Lew that Obama "needs to publicly disassociate himself from Priorities USA" until it returns Maher's money.

"President Obama cannot put forth the eloquent position he announced on Tuesday, while sending administration officials out to raise money for an organization that not only counts a vile misogynist as its largest single donor, but whose executives actively boast about that vile misogynist's support," Nance wrote in her letter to Lew.

Last month, in an about face, Obama approved support for Priorities USA Action, a super PAC backing his campaign, allowing senior White House officials to appear at Priorities fundraisers.

The move also drew a $1 million contribution to the group from Maher, though he is not the group's largest donor as Nance mistakenly noted. (Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg gave the group $2 million last year.)

Nance says Obama and his re-election campaign are advancing a double standard by singling out Limbaugh for criticism over liberal perpetrators of sexist speak. Limbaugh has been taken to task and later apologized for calling Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" for advocating for free coverage of birth control in employer health plans, which Obama favors.

What did Maher say that has drawn the protest from CWA?

Nance cites instances when Maher, a comedian whose show airs on HBO, reportedly called former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin a "dumb twat" and Palin and Rep. Michelle Bachmann "boobs" and "two bimbos," and said of a woman seen breast feeding in public, "don't show me your tits!" The comments were made in a satirical setting, but Limbaugh has said he was joking, too.

"It's never appropriate to degrade women, no matter whose side you're on," said Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt.

Neither Maher nor a White House spokesman immediately responded to ABC News' request for comment.

http://news.yahoo.com/womens-group-press...--abc-news.html

I can't stand Maher anymore but the reason he doesn't take the flak Limbaugh does is because most people actually agree that his views (no matter how explicitly expressed they might be) are atleast an attempt at a moral and utilitarian end.

This lady is trying to promote contraception coverage in an effort to prevent the serious health problems that many females (MOTHERS) face years after engaging in unprotected intercourse.

And I could not empathize more. I know ladies who've suffered and died from cancers in the reproductive region, cancers that possibly could have been prevented with better access to contraceptives.

Rush turned it around and tried to make it as though she's a nymphomaniac, looking for a cheap thrill at the expense of the tax payers.

That's why he's a jackass, who needs to take himself and the rest of the tea party extremists out of circulation before they sink the whole damn party.

Looks like Obama is going to have to return Maher's money.

This is fascinating. The advertising exodus from Rush has now gone horizontal and affected his fellow radio show hosts with advertisers not currently wanting to be associated with "controversial" programming.

Overreaction?

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203100003

Mediamatters is not a very credible source.

Truth is, "leading national advertisers" (LNA's) have not been on Rush or other talkers for years. There is no mass exodus now. They left years ago.

Is Al Sharpton controversial? To me he is. Yet for some reason he does attract companies like Geico and McDonald's.

So what is really happening is this: If you're a white man with conservative views, advertisers will boycott your show. If you're a black man who was eyeballs deep in the Tawana Brawley case, Duke Lacrosse, and a Harlem firebombing, we'll support you because blacks now have that kind of power.

btw- LNA's never really got behind Rush. That's why I say there is no mass exodus. His show has always been gold ads and other 1-800 crap.

When I talk about Sharpton I am referring to his show on 1600 AM in NYC. I won't go to Kohl's because they are on his show.

You know Vinny, I've read most of your posts since you joined the Board recently. In those posts, race seems to be one of your important motivations for the words you use. Why is that? Despite the wide variety of Board member characteristics, I would have to struggle to remember any of their posts that seemed to have such a racial tone to them as your's do.

Maher is a comedian who has a foul mouth, no sponsors, and does not attack "private" perons in the First Amendment sense.
There is no comparison between him and Rushbo.

What have I said in particular that bothers you?

He attacked Joe The Plumber and attacks the Tea Party.

There is a comparison. Both are political commentators.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF20QT8agec

NJ Governor Chris Christy also insulted a law student last week.



The fat fuck (Christy) should have his mouth welded shut.

Agreed, SC. His popularity will never extend beyond his New Jersey conservative base. The guy is a loudmouth and a boor.

That a man who lives in the public eye cares so little about his weight and appearance speaks volumes.

OMG! I heard about it but didn't watch the clip til just now. What did the kid do to deserve to be called an idiot?

And the right are itching for this guy to run for President?? You gotta be kidding me right?


TIS

He has too much baggage, Tis. And like I've posted before, he's just too fat .

Joe the Plumber isn't even a Plumber, but he is a ublic figure.
The Tea Party is a group of people who are also a public figure thus subject to ridicule more than a privtes figure....and when did Maher say he wanted to see a sex tape of either of these?

And Sandra Fluke is a public figure for testifying on behalf of the Democrats. If Joe the Plumber is fair game, so is Sandra Fluke.

Yes, but since when is calling someone a slut and a prostitute and demanding that they appear in sex videos considered "fair game"? It's not. It's a disgusting way to treat a fellow human being.

Rush went too far calling her a slut.

But it was OK to demand sex tapes? Or call anyone who demands insurance payment of birth control a prostitute?

What about men who have insurance coverage for Viagra or any other ED med? Is that not being paid for sex? How is it different?

I really don't have much of an opinion on weather or not health insurance should pay for the pill or Viagra. It's not something I ever gave much thought to.