This animation perfectly sums up what Bill Maher has become

[budkin]

[irisblue]

1. That's creepy

[arlyellowdog]

2. Spot on

[FreepFryer]

3. This is magnificent. Maher is indeed a petty, selfish, weak-minded, craven ghoul. (nt)

[Boomerproud]

4. I used to be a big fan, never missed his show

Bye bye.

[ecstatic]

6. Same here. Nt

[Tomconroy]

5. I like Bill Maher and try not to miss his show.

[scarletlib]

9. Wow!

[CentralMass]

10. IMO his is a provocative offensive asshole. A shock jock.

I rarely watched him but it seems like when I did he was in rare form.
The last I did watch was when he made his comments about thr Red Sox tribute to the Boston Marthon bombing victims during their World Series celebration parade. Fuck him. You couldn't pay me to watch the asshole.

[Willto]

15. I Like Him Too

Always watch his show. Don't always agree with him but I do most of the time. I don't rate a persons worth on some ridiculous purity standard wherein we must agree 100% of the time.

Some here don't like him because he will at times criticize certain trends on the left that he fears will cost us at the polls. You can get mad at him all you want but he is usually right on those topics.

[Tomconroy]

16. It sounds like the critics here don't even watch the show, so

it's difficult to take their opinions very seriously.

[PatSeg]

18. I watch his show

I've have watched it from the beginning and Politically Incorrect before that. He still has some good moments, but he has changed a lot and not in a good way. His attacks on Democrats, President Biden, and the response to the pandemic have been over the top and often ill-informed. He'll take one personal pet peeve and repeat himself over and over again, like a dog with a bone. It is excruciating and sometimes embarrassing to watch.

I can handle not always agreeing with Maher. There have been many times where I disagreed with him in the past, but I respected his intelligence and insight. Not so much anymore.

[betsuni]

19. They don't. Maher spent three million (probably more since then) to get Democrats elected and

urged other wealthy people to do so, always backs Democrats. Maybe some people are mad he doesn't like third parties and populist revolution stuff so they call him right wing.

Have no idea why I should despise and cover my ears in fear because I don't share exactly the same opinions with a talk show host, claim that even if I were stranded on a desert island and the only show available was "Real Time," I'd never in a million years pollute my sensitive ears with it, never ever ever.

[AZProgressive]

24. They probably call him right wing because of the right wing comments

I did a search and see that he says Trump would win easily in 2024 if he let go of 2020. He defended Jack Del Rio who called January 6th a dust-up. Then there is this Fox News article.

Bill Maher says Dems could 'lose' abortion issue by using woke terms like 'birthing people' instead of women

https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-maher-dems-could-lose-abortion-issue-woke-terms-birthing-people

There he goes using the term ‘woke’ like a Republican but who seriously does this? I surfed at DU for years but never saw the term ‘birthing people’ or in other left wing circles and never saw that. In fact if anything I was encouraged to use the term women from left wing circles rather than terms like chick or girls which is common from men.

[betsuni]

28. Those are not right wing comments.

Republicans did not make up the word "woke."

George Carlin made fun of politically correct language decades ago and comedians since, and "birthing people" is a new one.

[AZProgressive]

30. Republicans turned the word woke into a dog whistle

‘WOKE WITH A HARD R’: HOW THE RIGHT CREATED A NEW DOG WHISTLE
The word woke is now a funhouse version of itself — a weaponized expression of winking anti-Blackness. How did we get here?

(Snip)

Part of its popularity was how it could mean so many different things. Typically, though, it was either an earnest expression that Black people need to stay conscious of the agendas operating against us; or by telling someone to “stay woke,” it became an inside joke of the culture, primarily existing online between Black people, or used as an easy roast of someone at the beauty parlor or barbershop.

Then, Ferguson happened. After Michael Brown’s murder, the BLM movement leapt into the national consciousness. With it came wokeness, a culture unto itself. “Woke” soon started to serve as a shorthand among people calling for the world to wake up to the systemic racism that was causing Black men and women to become hashtags at an alarming rate. Next, as often happens, white people seized on woke as a handy catchall. As such, woke morphed into an online signifier, but one generally used by young, well-meaning white people who were urging others to become aware of the racist agendas operating against Black life. Woke became a semi-hip racist critique.

Quickly, though, woke also became the opposite. It became a polite slur, a dog whistle used to mock anyone who dares to suggest that American history and culture is racist, and argues that life in America should radically change based on that understanding. This new cultural meaning for “woke” helps to explain why, when Senator Josh Hawley recently lost a big book deal, he didn’t pause to reflect on the fact that he’d incited a riot in the nation’s capitol that claimed five lives; instead, he blamed “woke culture.”

Woke is now a funhouse mirror version of itself. It no longer refers to being aware of the agendas that operate against Black people, nor does it mean to stay conscious and present, or even skeptical. It’s been mockingly weaponized so that it can be an expression of winking anti-Blackness by someone like Hawley.
These days, woke functions a lot like when people say they hate disco. There’s a subtle, indirectness to it. It’s a sly way to attack a much larger idea (in disco’s case, pro-Black and pro-gay agendas of self-respect). “Wokeness” signifies what side you’re on. Being against “wokeness” marks that a person is against the recent advances of communities that have been historically kept from center stage.


https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/woke-with-a-hard-r-how-the-right-created-a-new-dogwhistle

There is a reason why I said he uses the term like a Republican.

[betsuni]

31. He wasn't using it that way. "Wokeness is a problem and we all know it." James Carville.

"The wokeness part is a problem." Al Franken.

Plenty of people discuss this. It's possible to use a word that Republicans have rebranded and not use it in the Republican way. But a person has to listen to these discussions.

[AZProgressive]

32. And when a local Democrat

Had that famous speech where she ripped Republicans for calling her a groomer and ripping things like CRT bans James Carville said this could solve Democrats “wokeness” problem. She was widely praised for showing righteous anger over Republican culture war fights but all she did was say what we were all thinking.

Before that he was forfeiting the issue to the GOP. Carville was also giving the GOP credit for fighting against “cancel culture” which isn’t a real thing.

The fact that Carville and Franken say that is an example of why Republicans are effective at messaging because there are so many Democrats left or center willing to launder their talking points.

[betsuni]

34. No.

[ecstatic]

27. I watched him religiously for almost 20 years... starting with Politically Incorrect.

And I had friends and family members who watched him too. He has morphed into an angry asshole with a ton of grievances--and he lashes out more and more on his own viewers. Between the n-word fiasco, his constant attacks on Muslims, inviting offensive assholes on the show, and whining non-stop about college campuses, solar panels and/or how he's being persecuted in some way, his show is completely unwatchable. The last straw for me was when he said something along the lines of Americans have no right to complain about anything because we have it better than some people in other countries. And really, he seemed to be steering his comments towards black people. That was it for me. Done. Good luck to him but he seems to be getting a very aggressive case of dementia.

[UTUSN]

36. Tomconroy & BetsunI speak for me about him. He criticizes Dems for not being street fighter enough,

and for alienating our natural constituencies.

It's the hallmark of Libs to look inward to fix our effectiveness while wingnuts look outward for bogeymen to be afraid of and to blame.

Yes, those who knee-jerk shut down on him don't practice the open mind that is what we're about and are afraid of self criticism. We're not going to melt with water splashed on us like the Wicked Witch of the West.

[CentralMass]

17. I don't like him because he is an asshole.

[beaglelover]

21. Agree. I agree with his opinion on a lot of things.

[dameatball]

7. Well, I was going to say "WTF" but apparently that would put me in the wrong group.

[betsuni]

8. Some are really invested in discouraging people from watching "Real Time."

[Tomconroy]

11. I thought last week he had great things to say about the danger

of present day pornography and the need for the Democratic Party to be 'My Lawyer'.

[betsuni]

12. Agree.

[arlyellowdog]

13. Bill Maher said he was disgusted by red haired women and preferred brunettes

Proof he’s a jackass. He’s just like Hugh Hefner. They grew up in liberal areas (Chicago and New Jersey) so they couldn’t just be an openly misogynist creep. They were closeted. Preferring a “type” of woman is the hallmark of jerk. Anyone whose mind so divides humans into 2 camps is messed up.

[MustLoveBeagles]

33. I'm a redhead

It's fine to prefer brunettes but disgusted by my haircolor? Really?

[RandiFan1290]

14. He morphed into Bill O'Reilly. nt

[BlueIdaho]

22. 👆🏻 x1000 👆🏻

[budkin]

20. "That's not good for either of the 71 genders we now have"

Someone come defend that comment. Please. Then tell me about how great Bill Maher is.

[kcr]

25. Crickets

Of course.

[budkin]

26. "Just because we don't agree on everything doesn't mean..."

Yeah, no. You start mocking people because they choose to be themselves, and that's it for me. I've lost all respect for you.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

23. Maher is a weasel

he rails on repubs but backs off and rails on democrats


cause both siderism pays just as well

he is a liberal corporate whore and his job is to get both sides mad at him and watch his shows...it's working quit watching him and maybe they will cancel him.

[Initech]

29. It's almost like they took out his brain and swapped it with Sean Hannity's.

[AZProgressive]

35. Cenk Uyger once said that he rents his brain to Sean Hannity

On the subject of Muslims.