From the Daily Caller:
Liberal comedian Bill Maher
— wait! Stop right there. In fairness, Maher identifies as a libertarian. It’s just that he’s the kind who believes in a powerful central government, socialized health care, a State-run, command-and-control economy, and the removal of free speech, freedom of conscience, or free association rights of those groups whose messages he doesn’t approve. Which fuels the confusion.
Now that we’ve got that cleared up, digression over:
ridiculed the group of World War II veterans for visiting the barricaded World War II memorial, telling his audience that the Greatest Generation wasn’t the “brightest generation.”
“The other that was apparently so important for the Republicans to keep open was the World War II Memorial in Washington. That was closed, so a bunch of the World War II vets knocked down the barriers and stormed it,” Maher said on his Friday HBO “Real Time” program, making a sardonic face at the audience.
“And then I love this — they posed for pictures with Michele Bachmann, who showed up. Michele Bachmann — one of the people most responsible for shutting the fucking thing down. They’re the greatest generation. Nobody said they were the brightest generation,” he said.
Yes. Michele Bachmann is one of the individuals responsible for shutting down an open air memorial by directing the NPS to barricade it. Not only that, but her ransom demands — that everyone receive the same one-year “waiver” that Obama has handed out to interest groups and cronies; and that Congress be required to live under the same law it demands we live under — mark her as the kind of noxious and presumptuous twat that Maher so profoundly hates. Because as a “libertarian,” to Maher such demands as those being made by the Republicans — as well as the move to beat back these never ending CRs that are the result of years of Democrat Party refusal to pass a budget — are clearly worthy of scorn.
After all, what good libertarian isn’t all for crony capitalism, special waivers, a fascist methodology to insure a Marxist system take root, and the perpetual denigration of opinionated women who attempt to aid WWII vets and who are fighting for the survival of the Constitution — the very thing that provides us a stable rule of law and protects individual liberty that, under the Founders’ and Framers’ theory of government (which was a truly radical movement at the time, something lost on the contemporary radical chic statists who are literally trying to make subjugation hip), cannot be undone by man. Or The Man.
Whom Maher has decided to provide cover for.
Maher is a crude puppet of the political mainstream. Nothing more.
And as an aside, I’ll note this, which I posted previously to Twitter, and with the caveat that I can’t confirm its veracity: still, rumor has it that the (poorly) aging Maher has taken to eating nothing but veal. Because it’s the only young meat that he can eat these days that isn’t completely sickened by the sight of him.
Plus, it’s cheaper than barely-legal prostitutes. And Maher is nothing if not frugal.
Maher identifies as a libertarian
You spelled “libertine” wrong. He’s cool with whatever the gubmint does as long as nobody cuts off his hookers and blow.
Those are his limits and none other.
I have not seen the clip, but I assume more than a few members of the audience laughed or applauded. One wonders whether any of those people had grandfathers or granduncles who served in that war. The fact that they have no appreciation of history and true sacrifice causes me to despair.
If he is to be seen as “libertarian” at all it is with the big “L” since the Party seemingly had an internal coup during the “oughts” like the Dems had in the 60s-70s.
That said he is even then part of the “vanguard” of the big “L” which are progressive LINO agents of influence working to change the definition of “libertarian” like they earlier did “liberal.”
Coming soon “liberty = slavery.”
Heh, just ran into a colorized photo of the great Hooker hisself this morning, a-settin’ up on his horse.
Yes. Allowing the drug issue to take front and center was the biggest mistake the L party ever made.
I would greatly enjoy watching my grandfather (winner of a paid vacation to the Philippines at government expense, with a bonus prize of malaria that fucked with him for the rest of his life) bust this cocksucker right in the mouth.
He’s not with us any more, alas, but I can still enjoy the mental image.
I’d bet he had at least 30 IQ points on Bill, too.
That’s all you needed, right there.
He never talked about the war much, though there was one exception. On one of the islands, the local women went topless (I think that’s still the case on some of those islands today, actually).
They hired some of the women to work on the base. Some prudish party pooper in the brass decided that the topless thing just Wouldn’t Do, and arranged for them to be issued Army t-shirts.
They were delighted with their new finery — wore them all the time. No need for enforcement of the new rule.
However, they found them a bit…confining…so they soon cut two holes in the front.
Heh.
Oh. In othe words, he’s one of those guys who wants to get stoned and bang tranny hookers without The Man hassle.
Damn you, HTML!
Trying again:
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Was he ever funny?
He was worth not slapping the shit out of in DC Cab, but that’s about it.
Joke stolen a few decades later by Mean Girls.
“Maher identifies as a libertarian”
I identify as a deep sea diver. Best not to do diving with me on my word alone though.
So, what part of the “Libertarian” Liberal does bacon come from, anyway?
It’s sort of like “self-identifying” as a woman when you’re actually a man, I guess.
Which is cool, and all, but you can’t demand that other people respond to you that way.
If that’s the new rule, I’m going to “self-identify” as Czar of All the Russias, and tell Putin to get the hell out of my Kremlin.
Am I the only one who thinks the better argument with Bill Maher types begins and ends with a buttstroke to the chops?
No, you’re not.
I caught an interview that Evan Sayet did with Wayne Dupree (newsninja2012) on his show. Sayet wrote for Maher way back when, when Politically Incorrect was on on Comedy Central, and Maher sounded a lot more like what we would recognize as “a libertarian”.
The question to Sayet was “what the hell happened to that Bill Maher?”
Sayet pointed out that in those days, the show was taped in NYC, and the sort of working-class people in NYC that Maher would bump into (doormen, taxi drivers, pizza guys, etc.) were of generally a NY Post attitude.
These days, Maher’s show is in Hollywood. He’s driven to the studio by a driver, does the show, and then goes back to his palatial estate. As Missing Persons observed, “Nobody walks in LA”. Practical upshot is that the only people he bumps into these days are rich Hollywood celebrity idiots, not people who work for a living.
Maher is a narcisist who craves adulation from those around him. Both then and now, he’s just saying what he thinks the people he interacts with want to hear. He is the city of Oakland made flesh. (cf. Gertrude Stein)
Not that it much matters; he’s still a colossal douche.
cranky, there’s really no room for dialogue any more, is there? The left just continues to double down on stupidity, cupidity and inanity.
Sorry, SBP – I’m Tsar Of All The Russias.
Am I the only one who thinks the better argument with Bill Maher types begins and ends with a buttstroke to the chops?
What’s funny is that “buttstroking” is the sort of thing Maher would advocate for. At least until he found out what it really meant.
Bill Maher must have lost out at the casting call for the television host in Hunger Games.
“Maher is a crude puppet…”
Whose hand is up his ass?
“Maher is a narcisist who craves adulation from those around him.”
Everybody’s hand.
” Sorry, SBP – I’m Tsar Of All The Russias.”
What about MicroRussia, AntiRussia, and InverseRussia?