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Bill Maher: Stop saying sorry!
The New York Times ran an op-ed today by HBO’s Bill Maher in which the liberal comedian chimes in on the “white first lady” joke Robert De Niro made at a Democratic fundraiser this week.
After Michelle Obama‘s press secretary called the joke “inappropriate” and Newt Gingrich called it “inexcusable,” De Niro apologized for the joke, saying it wasn’t “meant to offend or embarrass anyone.”
From Maher’s column:
I don’t want to live in a country where no one ever says anything that offends anyone. That’s why we have Canada. That’s not us. If we sand down our rough edges and drain all the color, emotion and spontaneity out of our discourse, we’ll end up with political candidates who never say anything but the safest, blandest, emptiest, most unctuous focus-grouped platitudes and cant. In other words, we’ll get Mitt Romney.
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Posted on March 22, 2012 at 12:31pmI believe that this is the first time I have agreed with Maher with his comment about speech in general but also his portral of Romney.
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littlefish
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 12:01pmTime for some inappropriate Bill Maher jokes:
Yes It’s true . . . .Bill Maher has had a lot of Girlfriends . . .
unfortunately they all tend to leave him once they are old enough to drive.
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Bill Maher once wrote his own joke. I went something like this:
Bill “Knock Knock”
Audience “Who’s There?”
Bill ” I forget”
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Bill Mayer is and Atheist because he is Pissed.
He wanted to be GOD . . .but he couldn’t pass the drug test.
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