Bill Maher Hits Rock Bottom: Calls Palin C word
posted at 4:13 pm on March 29, 2011 by Howard Portnoy
[ Double Standards ]
It is unclear how low radical-left opinionator Bill Maher can go in his disparagement of Sarah Palin, but suffice it to say he has to train his gaze upward at this point to catch even a fleeting glimpse of the sewer he long ago passed on his descent into the realm of crude schoolyard taunts.
Maher’s latest attack of potty mouth occurred not on his HBO show but at a live performance in Dallas, during which, according to DallasVoice.com, he called Palin the c-word. In case there is some ambiguity over the depth of depravity to which Maher’s obsession with the former Alaska governor has sunk, the c-word in question is one used to name a central feature of the female reproductive system.
The unnamed blogger at DallasVoice, which describes itself as the city’s “premier media source for LGBT Texas,” has nothing but praise for Maher and seems to find nothing problematic in his ugly, puerile degradation of Palin. Always interesting when people struggling for acceptance and tolerance are so flippant about the trashing of others.
Then again, the writer describes Maher as
a shock comic who doesn’t say things just to shock: He says them because they are true.
In other words, this person thinks that Maher was being quite literal in comparing Palin with a vagina. Of course, it’s unclear whether Maher in fact thinks that himself. After all, he is quoted in the piece as having said “there’s just no other word for her.”
Although liberal women are finally speaking out against Maher (last week it was the National Organization for Women, this week moderate leftist commentator Kirsten Power), there is no indication he plans to desist any time soon with the irrational and self-debasing name calling. And why should when he’s got the approbation of “a largely gay (and certainly gay-friendly) audience” to fill his sails? As his moral fiber, or what is left of it, disintegrates, he can look forward increasingly to standing-room-only audiences—so long as he doesn’t mind playing to houses with 60 seats.
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The only lower place he could go is to wish death on her. Which he’s done with people like Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney. So I figure it’s only a matter of time before he sinks to that level with Palin(especially if she runs for President).
In fact, that makes me wonder. Say Palin were to run for President. At what point do these kinds of slurs become unacceptable? Calling a woman the c-word is just about the worst thing you can do(at least verbally). I know some women(including my wife) who would kick the living sh-t out of someone if they were to call them that.
So if Palin(and/or Bachmann) is a Presidential candidate, is this no longer appropriate? What if she’s the nominee? And what if she’s elected President? First Amendment notwithstanding, will there be any fallout from a so-called comedian calling the President of the United States the c-word?
Doughboy on March 29, 2011 at 4:30 PM
Nah, wishing someone would die is directed towards men. It’s enough to belittle a woman and heap shame on her. It’s a gender thing. Calling Sarah a c*nt is the same as wishing Dick Cheney would die of a heart attack. This is the pinnacle of hate. Unless someone wishes ill on her family. That’s not an escalation though, but at the same level.
Paul-Cincy on March 29, 2011 at 4:51 PM
Hillbillyjim Hits Rock Bottom: Calls Maher P****.
(He’s just jealous of her cojones.)
hillbillyjim on March 29, 2011 at 5:07 PM
They were never acceptable in the first place. This is not the first time (nor do I fear the last) that she has been referred to in this vulgar manner.
Bill Maher will run afoul of fate and karma. Just sit back and enjoy it when it happens. I just hope that there are no live boys/dead girls involved…
turfmann on March 29, 2011 at 6:18 PM
This is his feeble way of trying to stay relevant and in the spotlight. It is almost ironic enough to be amusing. I heard his live show right after 9/11 when he said that the terrorists were committed to their attack on NYC, I forgot his exact wording, but he lost his show from that uproar. Since then, he found his home at HBO. If he is using Sarah Palin and denigrating her with these extremely offensive slurs, that means his ratings must be plummeting.
Women guests should boycott his show, but liberal women won’t, they have no core principles. Which is in itself is ironic because female liberals identify themselves only through their uterus, and that is their pro-choice position.
Doubly ironic.
karenhasfreedom on March 29, 2011 at 6:32 PM
Where are ya, Todd? I’m just saying – if BM had called my wife names like that…
Midas on March 29, 2011 at 8:16 PM
Yeah, this calls for big Todd to issue a challenge. Maher, you swine, “I’m comin ta get you sucka!”
rightwingyahooo on March 29, 2011 at 10:24 PM
The right-side-up world can’t be reversed, no matter how many like to think it can. Exhibition of a slow-motion personal train-wreck is a kind of punishment; it is revealing of those who put it on the air, too.
In house programming is one reason we ditched “movie” channels years ago. Never mind so much of it is foul and disgusting.
The ongoing prominence of Sarah Palin has as much to do with us as it does actions by her. The people are starving for leadership of the healthy and normal and sick of having their noses rubbed in the opposite. Palin offers something valuable just by being there.
A healthy society needn’t persecute its misfits, but it can’t tolerate being bullied by them, either. I take the venom directed at the Palins as a good sign. The example of their lives inspires those who want liberty and mutual tolerance in a G-rated commons. It infuriates those who want coercion and sewage running in the streets.
The celebration of ugliness and chaos is coming to an end.
Feedie on March 30, 2011 at 5:46 AM
The “extreme” liberals are getting desperate. Just ask Chucky Schumer.
Rovin on March 30, 2011 at 7:20 AM
Imagine hating someone so much that you make a complete, irredeemable snark-imbecile of yourself in public. That’s the prison Maher lives in. This all comes back on him. Someday he’ll be too old for his ever-shifting under-30 audience. Time, if nothing else, drives viewers elsewhere. You can’t gain maturity and also tolerate Maher.
I agree with Feedie above: the celebration of ugliness and chaos is coming to an end. Before it’s all over, there is likely to be an even bigger paroxysm of it than we saw in Wisconsin over the last couple of months. But as the extended implosion tosses out its annoying spew, we have to remember that being drawn into a fight on someone else’s terms is a fool’s weakness.
The life of freedom, for ourselves and our children, is what counts.
J.E. Dyer on March 30, 2011 at 12:01 PM
Karma has a funny way of catching up to diseased mongrel d-bags like Maher. All he has to do is keep spewing his toxic bile.
ZK on March 31, 2011 at 11:36 AM