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  1. Well, considering that Bill Maher can call Sarah Palin a c - (rhymes with bunt) without any media blowback, it is clearly a case of selective outrage.
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    • One, Bill Maher is on HBO so there aren't advertisers. Two, politicians open themselves up to higher levels of criticism and ridicule (see the word Nazi tossed around for anyone people disagree with).
    • I agree, Maher doesn't have to worry about advertisers. Though I think Izzatso made the point that Maher is an insulting blowhard like Rush but doesn't have the media calling him out for it. Just because politicians open themselves up to being called a "Nazi" doesn't make the accuser right. The Georgetown woman was also open for criticism with her actions and beliefs. Rush and Maher make a lot of money with their arrogance, so they don't care.
    • @Chuck. I'm not saying calling Bush or Obama or Walker a Nazi is right, but I find the lack of history knowledge more offensive than anything. But to say Fluke deserves ridicule for suggesting that insurance companies and/or employers include birth control (something nearly every sexually active woman uses including 98% of Catholic women) in their health care coverage is ridiculous. Insurance companies should happily cover it anyway because it saves them a lot of money in the long run and Catholic organizations need to quit being naive and realize that their stance on birth control has not, nor will it ever, take hold.
    • Exactly Jimmy, Bill Maher and Sarah Palin have nothing to do with this.
    • Anytime one goes on the public record- to Congress, no less- to state his/her views for or against policy, that person becomes open to criticism- it doesn't matter if he/she is a politician or not. Having said that, Rush was foolish to make those comments- he did fine keeping his criticism to policy as it was, whether or not one agrees with his case.

      Also, the BS excuse Maher gave addresses advertisers fleeing (or not), but it in no way addresses why his more disgusting language wasn't given much press at all, relatively speaking. Nor does it explain why his audience laughed and applauded in approval. BTW, Maher once implied that the world would be safer if a former high-ranking politician were killed. Yet, given this track record, no characterization in pop culture as a hate monger. And even that didn't get the press this stupid incident did. If one side wasn't able to capitalize on this politically, it would've been in the news for 2 days, rather than for 5.
    • Shame your comment isn't true, Izzatso. I thought I remembered quite a bit of criticism of Maher for his comment last March, though it wasn't as sustained as the Limbaugh issue (of course, Maher made his comment on one show while Limbaugh continued his attach over four shows). I thought I would do some quick research and quickly found several pages of entries of news reports and op-eds split pretty evenly between sites leaning left and right.

      However, there is a difference: Maher is a comedian, while Limbaugh is a political commentator and some say the de facto leader of conservatives. Maher is expected to push against what is considered good taste, may often be offensive and unfunny for some, but is seldom repeated. Limbaugh has become the standard bearer for conservatives, sets a standard for political dialogue from the right and establishes the tone for much debate in this country.
  2. Ok according to the quotes I don't see where he blamed the left like the title claims. He said he sunk to the level of the left against his better judgment.
  3. Technically he's not blaming the left,but he knows exactly what he's pandering to with his audience.
    In other words,'the left made me do it'.
    So if the left didn't engage in this type of behavior I wouldn't have said it.
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  4. Pretty laughable listening to the fat B)T)H, whining like the stuck pig he is, after he got hit in the pocketbook, then threatens the advertisers with "don't want you or your business anymore." It is not like anyone believed the three apologies he made on his show anyway. So, where are all his Republican brethren, whom if I remember correctly, he was carrying water for all these years? Looking out for themselves, of course.


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