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Dayum! Tiffany Cross "snatched out the remaining strains of Bill Maher's hair" (Original Post) StarfishSaver Jun 2021 OP
Strains? Wouldn't it be strands? Treefrog Jun 2021 #1
I'm sure that's what they meant to type. But, you know, Twitter ... StarfishSaver Jun 2021 #2
It was an awesome take down ChrisF1961 Jun 2021 #3
Well, you know, as they say on the street, soldierant Jun 2021 #61
Beautiful. n/t. NNadir Jun 2021 #4
He's no one's ally wryter2000 Jun 2021 #5
That was the last straw for me StarfishSaver Jun 2021 #7
I stopped watching before that wryter2000 Jun 2021 #9
Thank you for the information about Tailhook. I did not know this, and I have a very niyad Jun 2021 #31
It was many years ago wryter2000 Jun 2021 #52
Sadly, people of faith are often subjected to similar attacks ... 11 Bravo Jun 2021 #34
Not nearly as often as "people of faith" attacking people who do not believe as they do. Ferrets are Cool Jun 2021 #37
It's not a contest StarfishSaver Jun 2021 #54
Have you seen religious people attacking atheists on DU? wryter2000 Jun 2021 #56
Nope Ferrets are Cool Jun 2021 #67
Bill Maher isn't going to even slightly care about this Sympthsical Jun 2021 #6
I don't think Tiffany cares what Bill Maher things - she wasn't really even talking to him StarfishSaver Jun 2021 #8
She wasn't talking to anyone Sympthsical Jun 2021 #22
And yet here you are puffing about Tiffany Cross as if there's nothing else going on in the world StarfishSaver Jun 2021 #26
Her 37 viewers will never watch Maher again. TraceNC Jun 2021 #38
You are so ill-informed it IS funny Doc Sportello Jun 2021 #41
There are a multitude of good reasons to be woke wryter2000 Jun 2021 #10
The same kind of person who brags of being "unwoke" thinks being "politically incorrect" is cool StarfishSaver Jun 2021 #14
Here's my take on contemporary wokism Sympthsical Jun 2021 #23
The whistle about killed me, lol! happybird Jun 2021 #40
k&r jg10003 Jun 2021 #42
Yeah like Kaepernick right? Smdh uponit7771 Jun 2021 #49
What's woke culture? Being woke is just Black slang for earlier terms like being... brush Jun 2021 #16
Already bored n/t Sympthsical Jun 2021 #24
Oh, sorry to inform you of something you didn't know. Carry on. brush Jun 2021 #28
I think it is slang for awakened TimeToGo Jun 2021 #30
Or woke to political reality. We're on the same page. brush Jun 2021 #33
This message was self-deleted by its author tenderfoot Jun 2021 #17
Bookmarking. n/t rzemanfl Jun 2021 #18
Of course Maher... tonedevil Jun 2021 #27
Yup. But if she'd praised him, folks here would trot her out at every opportunity, saying to critics StarfishSaver Jun 2021 #29
The only people that use "woke" as a pejorative are right wingers tenderfoot Jun 2021 #36
Yep uponit7771 Jun 2021 #46
Anti-woke sounds so Fokkks News, I don't see how that helps Maher uponit7771 Jun 2021 #45
Bam. She blasted the hell of or Maher. And he deserves it as he's much too full of himself many... brush Jun 2021 #11
;-{) Goonch Jun 2021 #12
Maher fears getting old, of losing his influence, of becoming "less than" so he denigrates others. AnotherMother4Peace Jun 2021 #13
It was great. I saw it earlier on the show. Watched again just now. Solly Mack Jun 2021 #15
She's great! WA-03 Democrat Jun 2021 #19
She is! I try not miss her segments. Solly Mack Jun 2021 #43
Beautiful! Laffy Kat Jun 2021 #20
I have not watched him in a long time. TNNurse Jun 2021 #21
I thought Bill Maher got the whole canceled thing a long time ago Beringia Jun 2021 #25
Well done Tiffany. I haven't watched Maher since the Bush administration... Hekate Jun 2021 #32
There was a time some years ago when Maher was at least occasionally funny, Ocelot II Jun 2021 #35
"These people" bamagal62 Jun 2021 #39
You caught that, too? StarfishSaver Jun 2021 #55
That was impressive mcar Jun 2021 #44
Ouch! And right on point bucolic_frolic Jun 2021 #47
Fuck Bill Maher! jcgoldie Jun 2021 #48
We had people here squawking the same nonsense. Hassin Bin Sober Jun 2021 #50
bill maher lost me so many years ago ... sad that he still has a platform UpInArms Jun 2021 #51
Bill is a know it all. tavernier Jun 2021 #53
It looks like the video editing left out the part Loki Liesmith Jun 2021 #57
Yeah that was my impression as well. BannonsLiver Jun 2021 #63
EPIC takedown of that insufferable jerk, Bill Maher. Paladin Jun 2021 #58
When the New York Post Op-Eds defend him... Loge23 Jun 2021 #59
He was just as bad last night. Johnny2X2X Jun 2021 #60
I've pretty much given up on Bill mountain grammy Jun 2021 #62
In his career, Maher has probably said a dozen brilliant things Orrex Jun 2021 #64
IMO Tiffany Cross comes off as a fool LiberalLovinLug Jun 2021 #65
She offered up three good examples. Unless she cites each time he said something offensive or stupid StarfishSaver Jun 2021 #66

soldierant

(6,648 posts)
61. Well, you know, as they say on the street,
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 04:19 PM
Jun 2021

DNA doesn't lie.

Both he and Bill O'Reilly have been on "Finding Your Roots" ... and it turns out they are "DNA cousins." As time goes by, thet keeps becoming more understandable.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
7. That was the last straw for me
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 01:56 PM
Jun 2021

I used to be a fan and then he got less and less funny and more and more mean. But when he started attacking religion in such hateful terms, I turned him off for good.

It's one thing to be an atheist or even to think that religion is a crock, but his viciousness and condescension toward people who believe is way over the line - and is no more acceptable than religious fundamentalists' hateful attacks on people who don't share their beliefs. It's just the other side of the same coin.

wryter2000

(46,016 posts)
9. I stopped watching before that
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:04 PM
Jun 2021

When he called the tail hook mess "boys being boys." Every single one of his guests, including the men, told him he was full of it. And when he declared "maybe women just aren't good at math and science." I guess the overt racism came later.

I watched a few minutes of "Religulous" before ejecting it from the DVD player. He had to make fun of some ultra conservative Jewish men because they had curls, were wearing funny hats, and were dancing. Dancing! Who ever heard such a stoopid thing as men dancing?

It's easy to find stuff in the bible that's ridiculous. It's a cheap shot, and many, many DUers do it. But we have lots of perfectly wonderful atheists here who don't care if some people believe in what they consider myths, as long as those people behave like decent human beings.

niyad

(112,434 posts)
31. Thank you for the information about Tailhook. I did not know this, and I have a very
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:48 PM
Jun 2021

personal interest in this flagrant example of the military refusing to deal with the rampant sexual assault, sexism, and misogyny in its ranks.

wryter2000

(46,016 posts)
52. It was many years ago
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 03:41 PM
Jun 2021

On Maher's old show, Politically Incorrect. I haven't heard he's cleaned up his act.

11 Bravo

(23,922 posts)
34. Sadly, people of faith are often subjected to similar attacks ...
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:58 PM
Jun 2021

right here on good old tolerant DU.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,063 posts)
37. Not nearly as often as "people of faith" attacking people who do not believe as they do.
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 03:03 PM
Jun 2021

You can start your search with the Crusades, but it began much sooner than that.

Sympthsical

(8,935 posts)
6. Bill Maher isn't going to even slightly care about this
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 01:54 PM
Jun 2021

He's famously anti-woke. So there's a rant that he isn't woke enough.

I hope Cross isn't holding her breath on this one. He's just going to see her comments as a badge.

That's the thing about people like Maher - who I often agree with when it comes to woke culture.

Once you don't care anymore, these rants do nothing to you.

Sympthsical

(8,935 posts)
22. She wasn't talking to anyone
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:36 PM
Jun 2021

She was just get her righteous on for a sense of personal puffery. As if there's nothing else going on in the world. "Person who doesn't watch this show is mad at show."

K, then. Useful.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
26. And yet here you are puffing about Tiffany Cross as if there's nothing else going on in the world
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:39 PM
Jun 2021

At least Cross has a national audience.

Life is funny, ain't it?

Doc Sportello

(7,455 posts)
41. You are so ill-informed it IS funny
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 03:13 PM
Jun 2021

Maher has had a national audience for over two decades that is in the top 15 of cable shows in the ratings. Cross has a little Saturday show with abysmal ratings. With, of course, your usual snark.

wryter2000

(46,016 posts)
10. There are a multitude of good reasons to be woke
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:05 PM
Jun 2021

And anyone who's proud of being anti-woke is an insensitive clod. And that's being generous.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
14. The same kind of person who brags of being "unwoke" thinks being "politically incorrect" is cool
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:09 PM
Jun 2021

Because they don't understand or, more likely, that "political correctness" is what we used to call basic good manners and caring about other people.

Sympthsical

(8,935 posts)
23. Here's my take on contemporary wokism
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:37 PM
Jun 2021

A great Key and Peele sketch. Every time I see some bit of Twitter outrage, I always think of it. As a gay man, it's so on the nose.

brush

(53,471 posts)
16. What's woke culture? Being woke is just Black slang for earlier terms like being...
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:14 PM
Jun 2021

politically aware/progressive. Right wingers, and unfortunately the MSM and many on social media, not knowing what it really means, have twisted it to a negative connotation, something completely different than what it really is. Kind of the same way they've created a negative about CRT and ran with it.

Many others have also bought into that negative.

Response to Sympthsical (Reply #6)

 

tonedevil

(3,022 posts)
27. Of course Maher...
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:39 PM
Jun 2021

isn't going to care what she says. When would a rich old white man listen to anything a black woman has to say? Unless she were praising him for his amazing virility she will sound like Charlie Brown's parents to him.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
29. Yup. But if she'd praised him, folks here would trot her out at every opportunity, saying to critics
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:43 PM
Jun 2021

"Tell that to TIFFANY CROSS!!! She's a BLACK WOMAN and she doesn't agree with you. So THERE!"

brush

(53,471 posts)
11. Bam. She blasted the hell of or Maher. And he deserves it as he's much too full of himself many...
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:06 PM
Jun 2021

many times. I stopped watching him too and just see the reports of his missteps.

Does anyone know if he's commented on CRT yet as that's a potential mine field for someone so assured (perhaps misplaced) of their own progressive bonafides.

AnotherMother4Peace

(4,225 posts)
13. Maher fears getting old, of losing his influence, of becoming "less than" so he denigrates others.
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:08 PM
Jun 2021

Bill Maher would denigrate Hillary Clinton as an older lady in pant suits, while bragging about his escapades at the Playboy mansion. He's an old man who fancies himself a young stud - what a damn hypocrite. I always hated him for that. I figure he is afraid of getting old, of losing his affluence, his influence, of becoming "less than" - so what does he do? He denigrates those around him.

TNNurse

(6,911 posts)
21. I have not watched him in a long time.
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:36 PM
Jun 2021

Is his hair trying to escape from his head by moving farther and farther away from his mouth???

Beringia

(4,314 posts)
25. I thought Bill Maher got the whole canceled thing a long time ago
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:39 PM
Jun 2021

Many years ago, I saw him on Jay Leno and it was obvious Jay was giving him airtime to defend himself and pull himself off the floor, but I don't follow these things closely. I've never been a Maher fan.

Hekate

(90,189 posts)
32. Well done Tiffany. I haven't watched Maher since the Bush administration...
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 02:48 PM
Jun 2021

…except by accident. Sometimes my husband tries him again, but always quits part way through. Bill Maher is just not amusing.

Ocelot II

(115,276 posts)
35. There was a time some years ago when Maher was at least occasionally funny,
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 03:00 PM
Jun 2021

but now he's just another angry old white guy trying to stay relevant and keep an audience by trying (unsuccessfully, IMO) to be funny about not being what he derides as "woke." He's a dinosaur.

bucolic_frolic

(42,672 posts)
47. Ouch! And right on point
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 03:29 PM
Jun 2021

Maher's been a liberal with libertarian side kick for too long. Too many right wing guests. And yes, very tired. He struggles as much for relevance as attention. There's a sell by date on everything.

jcgoldie

(11,584 posts)
48. Fuck Bill Maher!
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 03:31 PM
Jun 2021

That was awesome thank you so much for sharing. She has him pegged spends most of his time trashing liberals I am still angry at myself for spending $100 to take my wife to his show a few years back. Occasionally I will tune in because he has guests I find interesting and each time I remember what an angry self hating ass he is and why I stopped watching regularly. Thanks for the $million for Obama now go away and get yourself right.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,272 posts)
50. We had people here squawking the same nonsense.
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 03:33 PM
Jun 2021

I said at the time, colorism is a real a real issue and it’s not a good look for elderly white people wagging their fingers at someone bringing these issues up.

UpInArms

(51,252 posts)
51. bill maher lost me so many years ago ... sad that he still has a platform
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 03:33 PM
Jun 2021


Rep. Issa (GQP-CA), Maher and Coulter

tavernier

(12,322 posts)
53. Bill is a know it all.
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 03:42 PM
Jun 2021

Those types are very tiresome to me. I’m not surprised he is single because that personality trait is not very attractive.

BannonsLiver

(16,162 posts)
63. Yeah that was my impression as well.
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 04:25 PM
Jun 2021

Kind of a nothingburger. The “these people” he’s referring to are white people trying too hard. And he’s 100 percent right about the Miranda deal, which in itself sort of encapsulates the lunacy of Twitter.

Paladin

(28,202 posts)
58. EPIC takedown of that insufferable jerk, Bill Maher.
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 03:56 PM
Jun 2021

Never heard it put more forcefully or accurately.

Those of you who are still propping up Maher's ratings, and ingesting the hatred he spews every week, please stop.

Loge23

(3,922 posts)
59. When the New York Post Op-Eds defend him...
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 04:00 PM
Jun 2021
https://nypost.com/2021/06/26/bill-maher-may-be-the-only-one-who-can-save-the-left-from-itself/

A link to today's NYP column by the "conservative" (read: idiot) Gianno Caldwell.
Seems that Mr. Maher is fond of meeting scum like his buddy Ann Coulter at the Polo Club for cocktails where they can commiserate on issues near and dear to them. The following describes a meeting with Coulter, Caldwell, and Maher.

An excerpt: "As we waited for Maher to arrive, I already felt a rush of excitement from the robust conversation I knew we would have. And robust it was. If you could have been a fly on the wall and heard this conversation, you may have been shocked to learn how reasonable Maher is on some issues."

Too bad.

Johnny2X2X

(18,744 posts)
60. He was just as bad last night.
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 04:15 PM
Jun 2021

Him and two other old white dudes talking about how great the Chauvin verdict was and how much progress it is. Then they talked about race and how everything is so much better. None of them had a clue and all of them are so insulated they don’t know what the fuck is going on in the real world.

mountain grammy

(26,569 posts)
62. I've pretty much given up on Bill
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 04:20 PM
Jun 2021

but glad I watched it last week.. I was introduced to Jane Coaston! Wow, was she great! I'll be following her.

Orrex

(63,085 posts)
64. In his career, Maher has probably said a dozen brilliant things
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 04:39 PM
Jun 2021

And I’d guess that 11 of those were written for him.

I’ve wondered for years why DU seems so enamored of him.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,154 posts)
65. IMO Tiffany Cross comes off as a fool
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 06:54 PM
Jun 2021

I disagree with some of Mahers takes. But she literally brought up the only three times he's gotten into trouble over his whole show(s) runs. Not even near comparable to some Fox News pundit who gets it wrong over 3 times a day.

Hes a fricken comedian! He is crass. He goes over the line sometimes. And he is purposely looking for excuses to poke, not only the extreme right, but also the PC mad left. Like Tiffany. The crowd to whom you can't make even one mistake over years, let alone 3.

She is exactly what Maher warns us of. Someone who doesn't even watch his show, just from hearsay and others in the PC police, she decides to spend a whole segment bashing another liberal for not getting things exactly right. This is the kind of cancel culture that is not helpful.

His show has helped spread the truth about Trump before the last election in 2016. He was sued for calling Trump an orangutan among other things, he contributed a million bucks to Obama's campaign. He was a fearless representative of the liberal point of view for a long time now. I'm sure this kind of BS will run off his back like all the other BS from the bigoted Right and the confused Left.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
66. She offered up three good examples. Unless she cites each time he said something offensive or stupid
Sat Jun 26, 2021, 07:46 PM
Jun 2021

she's a "fool"?

Yes, just dismiss a woman of color who criticizes a white man for his regular insults and mansplaining as a "fool."

And you attack her for "bashing another liberal for not getting things exactly right"?

Speaking of representing what someone is criticizing ...

It's pretty obvious that Tiffany Cross hit some folks a little too close to home ...

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