Bill Maher Defends Limbaugh: ‘Liberals Looking Bad Not Accepting’ His Apology
- Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:53am by
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No, folks. This isn’t an Onion headline. Comedian Bill Maher has come out in support of radio host Rush Limbaugh. The seemingly never-ending Limbaugh versus Sandra Fluke debacle hasn’t lost much steam, which seems to be the catalyst for Maher coming to the host’s defense.
On Tuesday evening, the comedian sent a tweet that read, ”Hate to defend #RushLimbaugh but he apologized, liberals looking bad not accepting. Also hate intimidation by sponsor pullout.”
This, of course, wasn’t the first time Maher weighed in on the debate. Last week, he took to his “Real Time” show on HBO to poke fun at Limbaugh, while distinguishing his own past comments about Sarah Palin from the radio host’s harsh words about Fluke.
On Friday, he said that the difference between him and Limbaugh is that he doesn’t have sponsors. Maher also joked that the first company to abandon Limbaugh was Sleep Train, a mattress business. “Sluts use a lot of mattresses!,” he joked.
It seems Maher’s tone — and vocal appreciation of free speech — has changed.
(H/T: Gateway Pundit)
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Comments (151)
HorseCrazy
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:57ambill maher, the troll that crawled out from under his bridge and got a show on hbo.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:45amRush should NOT have apologized in the first place.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:07amAgree .. he should have reinforced his reason for what he said .. without an apology … btw accepting an apology is a CLASSY thing to do .. and we know the Dems are not classy .. and Ms. Fluke didn’t accept it and we know what she is also ..and also not CLASSY!
As for Bill Maher .. he knows the next time he calls a Republican woman vile vile things (way worse than what Rush said btw and is TRUE) we are NOT GOING TO TAKE IT! Anyone who thinks this man is vile should cancel HBO if they have it!
Report Post »libtardian-refugee
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:05pmSo if Miss Fluke had accepted the apology, she would be a classy slut???
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:25pmRush is doing this for the money. He’s a total shill. That’s why he riles you people up over every single thing he can and rakes it in. He calls people who apologize “spineless” but the second he starts losing sponsors, he’s on the air apologizing.
If you can‘t see that he’s just a red meat machine then you’re blind.
Report Post »satanicmechanic
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:13pmCATB I already did that over a year ago. If it isnt free im not paying for it.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:39pmIt was priceless to hear Rush blame (the left, the source) and make excuses. It‘s been almost as funny hearing O’Reilly, Beck, and Malkin trying to get in on the action, and seeing the rw pundits’ response (Obama admin set the trap for Rush and SNAP!) ~ not to mention the yellow-bellied candidates (except Paul) cowering at the foot of Mt.Rush. The attack on women’s rights has been a Repub theme since 2010.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:11pmAnd even more priceless, is watching tiffy put her unique brand of left wing spin on it.
What’s the matter tiffy, did some little kid pluck off your RIGHT wing so he could watch you spin around on the table while trying to fly?
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:05pm@TIFFY
Republican theme?
Since 2010?
Please expand on that……..K?
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 7:42pmJust look at what they oppose, many through votes and bills since the TeaCons entered Congress:
Report Post »-Violence Against Women Act
-Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
-Funding for WIC (Women, Infants and Children)
-access to preventive health services, prenatal healthcare etc. thru Title X cuts
-a comprehensive, adequate definition of r a p e
-services to elderly (2/3 of whom are women) providing meals, housing assistance, employment -and most recently, unbelievably, access to birth control
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/154052/knocked_up:_republican_presidential_candidates%27_plan_for_american_women/
and this is the tip of the iceberg. (from my previous post)
This doesn’t even include Repub state govs who have proposed bills to:
-mandate medically unnecessary procedures (transvag’l ultrasounds<abortions) (VA and others)
-call victims of ra pe, DV, stalking "accusers," of robbery, et al. "victims" (GA)
-target especially female dominated careers (teachers, nurses) (WI et al)
-trying to dismantle Planned Parenthoods (TX et al)
etc.
Much as I'm sure you support these measures (like all good repubs,) they disproportionately target women, and women know it. :)
Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 8:22pmWow Tiff,
You really are fringe, aren’t you?
How many radical groups do you belong to?
Report Post »LeeMy49
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:04pmYou have a nerve, he should have to get down and kiss her feet. He has insulted every woman in America, even his own wife. Men have bad habits of degrading women. WHY??? Only men { not all } like to talk bad about women and a few beat the crap out of them.Rush must talk down to his wife, if she doesn’t wipe his butt for him!!
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 2:34am@LEEMY
Go up about a dozen or so posts, and read the reply by Rose-Ellen.
Report Post »aragona
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:39amDon’t forget, truth is an absolute defense to libel/slander. If she is really having sex 3 times a day then she may have a hard time convincing anyone that she is not a “slut.”
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:34ampiss on maher…who cares a progressive white slave thinks
Report Post »Harry Assenback
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:56amRush must have pictures of Maher with a farm animal…….
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 2:37am@HARRY
What could the farm animal have of any value to pay the blackmail with?
Report Post »KyleD
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:31amIt’s nice of Maher to defend Limbaugh on his apology but it would have been better if he defended Limbaugh on his statement considering Maher says things that are much worse, less true and never apologizes.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:26amFluke is a stupid fake. That’s all we need. Another fake. Spouting nonsense. Sounds like the occupier of the white house, doesn’t it?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:22am.
Me thinks they feel the sting of reprisal from people like you 7 me who “Cut Ties” to the companies who bailed on Rush…….
Money is a Powerful Tool………….
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:27amMaher knows that he will soon be next. As he has said some of the most vile and disrepsectful about women.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:31amIs there any way of stopping that annoying ‘next story’ pop up?
Report Post »nelbert
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:55amRight. Maher’s not defending Rush; he’s trying to avoid the backwash of all this landing on him as well.
When you condone or tolerate the censorship of someone else, no one will be around to defend you when you’re censored.
Report Post »JJohnGalt2
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:21amThe Blaze. I can not believe how STUPID you people are. You are falling into a trap again. Maher says this only to keep the story going….you people may not be too smart but you don’t have to act like idiots.
Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh SCREWED THE POOCH on the issue of Religous Freedom. They would do well to listen to the Cardinal.
Beck and Limbaugh turning this into a women’s issue is disgusting. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. People have got to take these rodeo clowns for what they are — entertainers.
Report Post »PATRIOTMAMA
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:50amUm, I‘m pretty sure the Main Stream media and Obama have turned this into a women’s issue. The comment Rush made (as I heard it live on the air in the context in which it was intended) was to point out the obsurdity of her testimony that this is about women’s rights. Rush didn‘t turn this into a women’s issue he was pointing out the hypocrsy and deception behind it being used as a women‘s health and women’s rights issue when it is CLEARLY about religious freedom. He was making the very point you are now trying to make. You might try to listen to their shows and hearing this stuff in context.
Report Post »Lumbar Spine
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:21amLimbaugh apologized for two words spoken over a three day tirade against this woman. Whether you agree with Ms. Fluke or not she did nothing to warranat the vulgar, extended attack that Limbaugh directed at her PERSONALLY. Limbaugh should be apologizing for the YEARS of his offensive remarks against women in general.
Report Post »aragona
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:36amFluke is a liberal hack. She’s hardly the innocent “college co-ed” she pretended to be. If she couldn’t take the heat, she shouldn’t have gotten in the fire.
Report Post »Leader1776
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:37am@LUMBAR SPINE
Report Post »I doubt you’re a Chiropractor so you must be just looking for a spine. Are you just as outraged by those on the left that call the likes of Palin, Coulter, Bachmann, etc. the most vile names ……….. even attacking their children? At least Limbaugh made a correlation between someones misguided demands and what that is called in general circles ………. unlike the mindless name-calling from the left. I suggest you drop your fake attempt at civility and move on.
Gonzo
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:09amYou lefties really do beat all. Your talking heads say the most vile and insulting things about conservative women, Christians and our military year after year and now Rush is supposed to wear sack cloth and ashes for the rest of his life because he gives you a taste of your own medicine. Pound salt.
Report Post »Legal Immigrant
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:05pmFaux Poseur liberal outrage…
Take that schtick elsewhere.
You know Rush calls out the femi-nazis.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 7:57pm“If she couldn’t take the heat, she shouldn’t have gotten in the fire.” Really ARAGONA? You want a country where we can’t testify in front of Congress to stand up for our liberties without being personally attacked with vitriol and lies?
Report Post »Balthazor
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:19amYou may be right about her ability to sue him, I’m not sure what the legalities of the situation are. I‘m speaking more to this narrative that’s been developed wherein she and her supporters get to be all outraged at Limbaugh and others criticizing this “private citizen”, as if she was just wandering along minding her own business. They’re trying to have it both ways, putting her out there as the public champion of “reproductive rights”, but then crying over any criticism she gets because she’s a private citizen.
Report Post »Hkitty
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:16amBill Maher has his temporary moments of fairness. He’s the only progressive that has EVER condemned Islam. But of course his main religion to make fun of is Christianity, who of course, would not pute out a fatwa on his head.
Report Post »Guerrino_P
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:37pm@ HKITTY
Report Post »Maher doesn’t discriminate. He thinks all organized religion is equally cracked (although he says less bad things about the Jewish faith). I don’t blame him. Religion poisons everything. God is great. Religion… not so much.
Lord_Frostwind
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 6:20pmIt is unexpected that he would do anything productive, but he does make a good point.
Don’t expect any thanks for it, but at least he is on a similar page.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:15am.
Report Post »I’d bet my last Dollar HBO made him do it……….
Gonzo
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:13amThe whole thing is so phony. Fluke isn’t offended, it extended her 15 minutes of fame and makes her a liberal icon. The left isn’t offended, they are giddy to have a chance to go after Rush’s advertisers. Rush isn’t sorry because he has everyone from the POTUS on down talking about him which increases his ratings. The only real losers are the American people because we‘re not talking about Obama’s abysmal record.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:37amThat seems to be the bottom line. But really, anything political turns out this way. The left diverts it and the right blows it out of proportion. Nothing new, really…
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:10amAnd all of the advertisers pulling out…not a good management decision IMHO….from looking at the ticker one had their stock lose enough to get a few shareholders concerned…
Anyhoo, I think there is more to this than simple B decisions…they are after GB, Rush, Hannity and others…IMHO someone said something to his advertisers…wonder what fearful approach was used by the shadow government or real Team O???????????? Dunno but I hope it is a mere business decision with data to support the decision, but I bet it was one that many were against cause they will lose revenue. JIMHO
Report Post »mils
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:15amAgain…conservatives need to work as a force and boycott any company that pulled from Rush’s show..conservatives outnumber liberals…time to act like it..
Report Post »Lumbar Spine
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:25amMILS…decent, rational people, regardless of party affiliation, outnumber right wing extremists that call themselves “conservatives.” And decent, rational people are offended by Rush Limbaugh…even those in politics who are afraid to speak out against him.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:56amFunny how you “decent, rational people“ on the left only get ”offended” by what the right says Lumbar. You’re pretty selective in what you deem offensive.
Report Post »hi
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:20amDecent liberal is an oxymoron.
Report Post »Balthazor
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:09amWell actually, I think she made herself a public figure when she went and testified in a televised congressional hearing then quickly ran off to do the cable talk show circuit.
Compare to “Joe the Plumber” who, for simply being caught on camera while asking Obama a question, suddenly had his entire past, his legal issues, his tax issues, every single little speck of dirt anyone could find on him was tossed out into the public arena.
Fluke became a public figure as soon as she propped herself up as the face of the free contraception movement.
Report Post »giulia1
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:06amAm sure Obama called him and told him to do this so the heat would be off returning the pac money.
Report Post »ThaDuke
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:14pmagreed
Report Post »Smittyflakes
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:06amCould it be that he can see what is to come from arguments like this? Eventually it will come back on them.
Report Post »marthasusan40
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:04amI want to see David Letterman come out and apologize for calling Bristol Palin all of those really bad things that I will not reprint.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:13amIt’s not in their DNA to do such…they have not evolved to being humane. A bunch of wild donkeys kicking up dust all the bloody time.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:03amThis is no surprise, of course Maher would defend free speech. In his warped little world freedom is more important than ethics, respect, honor, duty, integrity, or anything else. In this particular case he is right, pundits like himself and Limbaugh (and Beck, BTW, Beck has slipped under the radar here even though his show also called the skanky whore a slut) should have the right to speak their mind no matter how assassin the statement is,
Damn, I am agreeing with Bill Maher here…Never thought I would see that day…
Report Post »mils
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:13amBill realizes his name is at the forefront in asking why liberals are never held responsible for their nasty degrading remarks about conservative women…he’s never appeared to care what anyone on the right thinks…until now..
Report Post »Conservatives appear UNABLE/UNWILLING…to answer with one voice against people like Maher…as a group conservatives should boycott all the sponsors that pulled from Rush’s show… if we do not stand together…people like Maher, liberals in general..win…CONSERVATIVES OUTNUMBER LIBERALS…BUT THEY/WE DON’T ACT LIKE THE MAJORITY…
We use ProFlowers a lot…not anymore!!..and we wrote them a note telling why..there are few of RUsh’s sponsers that we do use..but we will keep them in mind.
Maher is a small nasty little man thinking of himself…
SamIamTwo
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:03amSooo when did liberals look good????????????
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:02amA shred of intellectual honesty. Impressive
Report Post »Unclepaulie44123
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:01amBill Mahr shoudl know about apologies, after halfhearted “apology” while grinnng jewshly when he spouts off at the mouth about 9/11 (God save our TROOPS)
Report Post »mils
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:01amBill realizes his name is at the forefront in asking why liberals are never held responsible for their nasty degrading remarks about conservative women…he’s never appeared to care what anyone on the right thinks…until now..
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:59amMore likely he’s just worried by the continued references to his own comments, and seeks to come out as a “good guy” from this.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:07amBingo
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:11amAt first after reading the headline I could have been knocked over by a mere puff of wind. Then it hit me, LOCKED, you’ve hit the nail on the head.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:48amAgreed!
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 6:42pmExactly. HBO isn’t sitting inside a bubble either.
Report Post »theninthplanet
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:56amProbably just trying to silence the right from comparing Rush’s comments to his.
Impossible to know the state of anyone’s heart, I guess we’ll have to take him at his word.
Report Post »mils
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:07amBill knows his name is in the forefront when we ask why liberabls are NEVER held responsible for the nasty , degrading remarks they make about conservative women…
Report Post »Conservatives out number liberals…so why can’t we make a difference?….Boycott all the sponsors that pulled from rush’s show?.. So far..we‘ve not done anything as a group ’force”…about time to do something constructive conservatives!!
Bill’s not a stupid man, just a nasty man..who knows we’re looking at him…