I detest Bill Maher

[malaise]

He chats pure shit on both sides

That is all

[lisa58]

1. I didn't watch...

Because I know what you mean

[BlueGreenLady]

2. Me too. Had to turn the channel.

[Peregrine Took]

13. Mme, too. He is obnoxious. n/t

[malaise]

40. The perfect word

For him

[Rebl2]

73. What was he on?

[mahina]

3. Seconded.

Smug both-sides-talking self-congratulatory principle-free mofo. And he isn’t funny either, ever

[spanone]

4. K&R

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. No one must be watching his show..gots to go out during the day..??

Gin up an audiance ..I swear..I concur with your sentiment..

Can't stand his shit..I just had to close the patio door, hubby watching outside..

[hlthe2b]

6. He's a classical contrarian and mostly libertarian. The western slope of CO is full of them..

Enough to elect Lauren Boebert. ( )


On that topic, though, Boebert just might not be around much longer. as I think some have awakened from their "I HATE GOVERNMENT" mantra. We shall see.

[malaise]

30. Now that would be great

Please- make her go away

[KarenS]

7. not just that for me,,,,, I mean it's also this,,,,

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I think he is very misogynistic.

I haven't watched him in years now.

** on edit: delete this part,,, Plus he dated Laura Ingraham.** I cannot find anything that says he did. blame it on "old lady brain"

[Genki Hikari]

18. I need a cite that he dated Ingraham

Keith Olbermann dated her, by his own admission.

Never heard that Maher did the same.

[KarenS]

56. ok,,,, you made me look it up,,,,

and I cannot find it anywhere,,,,

He said he used to have Laura Ingraham & Ann Coulter on his show as 'foils' and I just read there was a rumor about Ann Coulter & him dating but the rumor died out because there was no evidence

sheesh,,,, I thought I knew he dated her,,,, but in my defense that was a long time ago and I'm an old lady now I quit watching him years ago.

[Stinky The Clown]

23. I think it was Anne Coulter

[KarenS]

62. that was rumored but no proof,,,,,

not Laura Ingraham either,,,,

oh well,,,, "old lady brain"

[Hotler]

88. eewwwww........ nt

[malaise]

27. Sound reasons

[Joinfortmill]

57. He date Laura Ingraham? Jesus, what a pair they must have made.

[KarenS]

58. guess not,,,,

I'll correct my post,,,, couldn't find it anywhere,,,,

[Duppers]

95. I agree, he is misogynistic, while..

Pretending not to be.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

8. You'n'me both.

[beaglelover]

9. We watch him every week he's on HBO. His new rules segments are usually spot on and hilarious.

Last week's show kind of sucked though. Guests were super boring.

[malaise]

19. My new rule years ago was to stop watching him

😀

[LakeArenal]

42. There ya go! Never could stand him.

More mean than erudite.

[CentralMass]

89. He trips my asshole alarm. I don't watch him either.

[malaise]

91. I'm stealing that trips my asshole alarm

😀😀😀😀

[malaise]

68. I used to like New Rules

Way back when but I abandoned it all.

[redwitch]

10. I agree!

He’s a douche!

[japple]

38. Douche. That's the word I was searching for. Perfect description

Thanks.

[GoCubsGo]

11. You should check out today's "Coundown With Keith Olbermann" podcast.

It's very enlightening. Keith doesn't care much for him, either.

[malaise]

20. Will do

[bullwinkle428]

45. That was a fricking AMAZING story!! I believe every word of it, given all

I've seen and heard about Maher.

[panader0]

59. Neither does Ari Melber it seemed to me.

[salin]

72. I was just going to say this.

Funny story.

I just started listening to his podcast last week, and am glad I did. The vignets that he closes with are often a light palate cleanser to the serving of news dealt with his trademark passion during the rest of the podcast.

[GoCubsGo]

101. His closing vignets are the best part of the podcast.

So enlightening, as they help explain a lot of what went on in the past, and what's happening in the media now. I love how he refers to CNN's head, Chris Licht, as "the paste eater." Keith's opening rants can sometimes be a little too overwrought for my liking, but I certainly appreciate his use of humor in the rest of the podcast.

[Meowmee]

12. Agree

I have always detested him, I don’t really spend that much time thinking about him though lol but sometimes people post something about him here and I always comment on it. Well, prolly not always 😹 He used to be on murder she wrote playing bit parts he was a not so great actor in my opinion.

* Also, I have never watched his show except for 2 minutes once maybe… that was enough for me. 😖

[malaise]

16. He was on Ari - switched to tennis

I stopped watching him years ago

[Meowmee]

25. That explains it

The last time I watched Ari he had some right wing nut job on so I changed the channel.

[LisaM]

65. He was on two episodes, and was kind of a weasel in both.

Angela Lansbury wasn't even in one of them! (Faith Ford was, though).

[Meowmee]

92. I saw two of them repeated

At some point. I can’t remember what they were about now. A murder obviously, lol.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. He lost me when he sucked up to the three Harpies in the 90s.

Ann Colter, Barbara Olson, and Laura Ingraham.

[PortTack]

15. ☝️☝️☝️☝️

[greatauntoftriplets]

17. That's why I never watch him.

Libertarians are nutso, IMO.

[malaise]

21. Same here

😀

[AnotherMother4Peace]

22. He's crying about ageism now that he's discovered he's an old piece of shit. When Hillary Clinton

was running for President, Maher would constantly diss her as old & wearing pantsuits. He would fancy himself as stud, bragging about his visits to the Playboy mansion - he thought he was God's gift to women. I detest him and his whole schtick

[malaise]

26. Schtick is right

And he sure thinks he’s hot

[BigmanPigman]

24. I heard him and it reinforced my decision to stop watching his show.

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Over the last 3 years, likely longer, he has been Mr. Bothsides. My sanity thanks me. He wants to interview Hillary, what a joke!

Maher is a Libertarian in Dems clothing.

[malaise]

29. Had the same thought within two minutes

[wnylib]

49. Was he ever a Dem? AFAIK he's been a Libertarian

for decades.

[BigmanPigman]

54. He likes to portray himself as a progressive liberal at times.

It is all BS.

[inthewind21]

108. He likes

to portray himself as the all knowing. He's a shit stain of the highest order. He's a "That Guy" " You know "that guy", we've all encountered at least one. He's the one who hangs out in the bar or the party or insert occasion here with his shirt unbuttoned to his navel and has ALL the RIGHT answers to everything.

[leftyladyfrommo]

28. He,'s not very likable, is he? nt

[Paladin]

31. EWWW! Bill Maher, on Ari Melber's show!

Two of my least favorite media figures---together! Like a train wreck you can't look away from. My favorite part: the Fox "News" commentators, masturbating on-air over Maher for his trashing of liberals, so much more than he used to---and Maher admitting it was true, because liberals are so much "goofier" than they used to be. And people wonder why I walked away from Maher's show, years ago.

Fuck both of those losers. Time for a stiff drink.

[malaise]

35. I like Ari

He’s a progressive who walks the walk, particularly on matters civil rights in the legal sphere.
He has never pussyfooted around the failed coup.
I don’t always like his guests and he does appear rather fond of himself.
That said there is more to like than dislike.

[Paladin]

46. No problem. (nt)

[lame54]

104. Goofy deserves equal time with downright evil...

They're exactly the same
They pose the same threats and we need equal time to be warned of both of them

[Beautiful Disaster]

32. There's a Family Guy episode where Brian becomes a pal with Rush Limbaugh right after Obama's win...

...he starts going against liberalism and hating on the current politics and at the end of the day, Rush Limbaugh tell him at the end of the episode that Brian basically has to go against the political grain and he really just wants to hate the status quo.

I think that's Maher. Maher is at his happiest railing against the current status quo. He's a contrarian. That's all.

[PlanetBev]

33. When I heard he was on Ari Melber

I deliberately didn’t watch. I use to like him, but got tired of his snarky libertarian bullshit.

[JohnSJ]

34. Yes, that is libertarian bullshit. He also pushes anti-vax nonsense, and also is a misogynist

jackass

[Blue Owl]

36. His moments of brilliance are offset by his moments of misogynistic misery

Stopped following him several years ago...

[malaise]

37. Yep

Total contempt for women

[ancianita]

39. Right on.

He says the moment is serious, yet he fails to be serious enough about it to slam the linguistically and physically violent side.

I don't care how much he's given Dems, he's a both sider.

[Maru Kitteh]

41. Gotta give ya a big AMEN on this one sister.

Holy hell that guys sucks.

[egduj]

43. I hate how he's on almost every channel and it's very difficult to avoid him.

Someone like him should be relegated to a premium channel, aired only one night a week, and you would have to voluntary pay money in order to watch that channel that one night a week.

[barbtries]

44. i haven't watched him in years.

i think it might have the time Ann Coulter was a guest that turned me off.

[c-rational]

47. Agreed, and didn't he date Ann Coulter....maybe I should have said he dates shit too.

[certainot]

48. he uses labels 'politically incorrect' and 'woke' like republican media - to deflect criticism of

racism, misogyny, and intellectual laziness

the sex on the brainers love simplicity and binary absolutes that allow easy judgement to feed their irrational closure and certainty and he's just more complicated and convoluted in getting there than most republican and 'independent' ayn randian assholes.

it can get worse with age

[SunSeeker]

50. Libertarians: 13-year-olds who failed to mature.

Maher is good at dissing everything, but at some point, you have to be FOR something.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

106. This☝️

They think atlas shrugged is somehow profound ..lol. Ayn Rand is a disgusting person and bad writer.

[Auggie]

51. Oh, he's okay

I'll have to catch the Ari interview to catch-up with the thread conversation. I do like the HBO show.

[brooklynite]

52. If everyone hated Maher as much as people claim...

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We’d ever hear about him because nobody here would be watching them.

[inthewind21]

110. THAT guy

lol

[budkin]

53. Same

He’s a fucking asshole.

[Joinfortmill]

55. Totally agree. He is past his sell date. Time to wrap it up and retire.

[BlueTsunami2018]

60. I like Real Time.

I don’t agree with him all the time but I find his show entertaining. New Rules is always good. He’s more of a mainstream media commentator than a real deep dive political wonk. That’s his weakness to me. His takes on important issues are surface shallow sometimes. I feel like he should know more than he does about specific things. But for all the serious talk that goes on, Real Time still a comedy and entertainment show at the end of the day. And he rarely fails to deliver on those fronts. I don’t need my own views parroted at me to enjoy a show.

[onecaliberal]

61. He's a misogynistic pile of crap.

Haven’t watched for years.

[Amishman]

63. not sure how I feel about him, he seems a mix of bullshit and uncomfortable truths

[kevink077]

64. I have been to his shows

Mostly political grievances, some funny, some cringeworthy. Mostly liberal but has a lot of tin foil hat conspiracy theory beliefs. Thinks covid was pretty much make believe and mocks science. Being anti trump is his only saving grace.

[MuseRider]

66. All the way with you!

I have not been able to tolerate that jackass for years now.

[BadgerMom]

67. In 2020 his privilege when it came to COVID finally pushed me away.

I’d watched uneasily for several years. But he really felt the inconvenience of quarantine was too much. The experts couldn’t possibly know as much as he. And his attitude about having to get a building permit was such nonsense. I stopped watching his show and turn the channel if he appears anywhere else. He’s toxic.

[malaise]

70. Haven't watched for so long that I didn't know

his opinion on Covid.

[Xavier Breath]

71. I was able to ignore a lot over the years

because I thought the good outweighed the bad. But this was the final straw for me. His dismissal of science and victim-shaming was too much. I walked away and haven't looked back.

[BigmanPigman]

78. I gave him chance after chance after chance

but his anti-vaxx BS kept coming back. He can't let it go. Finally I said FUCK IT, ENOUGH! The few clever jokes weren't worth the torture of hearing the rest of the show. His poor guests, if you do not agree with him he treats you like a dick.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

69. Saw him live once...

Honestly, after 15 minutes I wanted to walk out but it was a date.

[malaise]

75. You made me laugh

😀😀

[SouthernDem4ever]

74. I quit watching him when he was in love with Ann Coulter

I don't know if he was really in love but he was just giddy to have her on his show all the time. Made me sick.

[HardPort]

76. Libertarians are like housecats.

Convinced of their fierce independence, but utterly dependent on a system they don’t understand or appreciate.

[bluboid]

93. whoa - never thought of it like that - makes sense.

[inthewind21]

111. EXACTLY!

[Orrex]

77. He's always been shit, with a disturbing number of cheerleaders among Liberals

He enjoys that enviable position of never having to worry about being wrong:

If he recites something brilliant (prepared by his team of writers), they say "He's so insightful and not afraid to tell it like it is."

But when, 80% of the time, he says something shitty, they say "What do you expect? He's a comedian, not a political pundit."

Well he can go fuck himself. He's been wildly transphobic, not to mention Islamophobic and frequently misogynist throughout his interminable career.


On balance he's garbage

[Evolve Dammit]

79. Totally agree. I thought he was amusing 10 years ago, but realized he's pretty fucking clueless and

arrogantly obnoxious.

[Duppers]

80. My hubby still wants to watch

Saying "nothing better is on."
I yell "shit" and leave the rm. Hubs is a Dem but has a higher tolerance for shit. I'm generally more picky about "entertainment" in general.

Maher just crosses line after line with me and thinks he's far smarter, more informed than he is.

[malaise]

82. Sounds like one of my BiLs

😀

[flying_wahini]

81. I do too.

Will NOT watch him. Arrogant ass.

[Demobrat]

83. I haven't watched him in two decades.

That smug, smarmy mug just totally creeps me out. It’s not even about whose side he’s on - it’s him. He made my skin crawl with some creepy misogynist rant and I never watched him again.

[Ford_Prefect]

84. The smarm runs deep in this one.

[NullTuples]

85. In 2016 NPR aired an interview with him. Might have been Fresh Air, I don't recall.

He stated he has no political or social convictions; he simply doesn't care. He sees himself as a sort of actor playing a roll and that roll depends on who is willing to pay him to say things.

[malaise]

86. It's all a game to some of these people

Eff him.

[Pepsidog]

87. I'm with you on this.

[LiberalFighter]

90. Why I don't watch.

[Cracklin Charlie]

94. Unwatchable, for me.

Glad I’m not the only one.

[Music Man]

96. I keep trying to give Bill Maher chances, but I'm just done anymore.

I appreciate the breadth of Bill's comedic career, but I have grown so tired of him becoming a one-note singer regarding woke politics. EVERYTHING is about that now for him. Every week's "New Rules" segment is bashing wokeness. Are there always going to be self-indulgent, over-the-top activists? Of course, but Bill overestimates how rabid and judgmental liberal voters are, instead of seeing the array of diverse viewpoints that have ALWAYS defined the left.

He thinks Democrats' struggles in recent elections is because of race and LGBT activists, but how about the decades worth of misinformation from Fox News, talk radio, and the internet? And relentless Newt Gingrich-inspired politics.

What also finally did it for me is watching John Oliver recently, who makes it clear that you can have biting humor that is, in fact, directed at the right targets. Bill Maher just doesn't want to change. He's really a libertarian, after all, not a progressive, so I guess none of this should be suprising.

[betsuni]

97. I love his show!

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

98. Maher is an enemy of democracy. nt

[Johnny2X2X]

99. Watching him decay into an idiot has been disturbing

I have no problem with Maher engaging people from the Right, I think it's good to see people challenge each other.

But his views and both siderism have gotten more and more skewed and out of touch. He's further to the Right every time I watch him. Everything is the Dems fault, everything is the fault of woke. It's maddening. He's become a rich snob who has no idea what's going on in the real world.

[malaise]

102. Very well said

[we can do it]

100. Same.🤮

[Faux pas]

103. Agree!

He was born an asshole, been an asshole all his life...

[I_UndergroundPanther]

105. Ari had him on his show

It disgusted me. I hate bill maher too .
He's such an asshole

[frogmarch]

107. I quit watching his show

years ago, when he kept having his good friend, that POS Anne Coulter on. Whenever other guests complained about her, Maher would defend her, saying things like, "Oh, c'mon, she was kidding" or "She's a comedian, people."

After tolerating a few shows with her as a guest, I quit Maher cold turkey.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

112. I think he's brilliant

[Sympthsical]

113. This made me laugh

I don't know why. You have this whole thread, then way at the bottom is your response.

He's interesting. Sometimes a little too cranky/cantankerous. A little get off my lawn. But he's critical from inside the house mostly. And I'd rather have a friend call me stupid so I can course correct than an enemy land a hit on me for same thing later.

Some people really just don't want to hear any criticism, no matter how warranted.

It's funny, too, because he has been so overtly pro-Biden for months in ways you do not see in some of the most friendly commentators. I think most people who hate him haven't actually watched him in years. Just a game of telephone about how awful he is with group reinforcement.

The guy who thinks we need big government solutions to problems is a huge libertarian, ya know.

Hey, everyone needs a target. Now, to watch that personification of objectivity . . . *checks* Keith Olbermann.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

115. He ALWAYS makes me think. And he typically takes a slant

that no one else does. Hate the prevalent cancel culture we find ourselves in now .

[Sympthsical]

116. I really enjoyed the conversation they had last week

I always like those shows a bit better, too. When the guests aren't as well known or cable news fixtures, so they just talk instead of trying to get the camera on themselves.

But technology rewiring our brains is a huge bugaboo of mine I hammer constantly. People are just seeing, hearing, and reading what reinforces their preferences. Forget how it aggravates partisanship, it just creates massive blind spots and ignorance that they're not even aware of. One of my most common responses online is, "Have you met . . . people?" Because what I'm reading is just so far out of touch with how people in real life actually are.

But Gillian Tett, the British guest, nailed it when she said, "It's not Millennial or Gen Z, it's Gen P - Generation Playlist." I love that, Gen P. It's so painfully true, and so much a problem in our politics and our culture. And it crosses generations and ages. It's an attitude, no a cohort.

We're seeing that right now in real time (pardon the pun). "I like this poll because it makes me happy. I hate this poll and don't believe it because it makes me sad." That's what having life treated like a playlist does to people.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

117. Haven't seen BM episode yet, look forward to hearing

GT! And generation playlist!

Agree about people only seeing or only wanting to see what reenforces their preferences. What worries me more is the denigration of anyone outside that bubble. You can't be 50% with me; you must be 100% with me. You think it's caused by technology? How so?

There needs to be more grey.

[gulliver]

114. Gotta disagree

He's usually spot on, although when he starts to talk about vaccines, he usually says something cringe or dubious. His basic idea is that Dems shouldn't say or do things that would make a good Onion headline. I would argue that mainstream Dems don't do that. For example, "decriminalizing crime," is not even close to a mainstream Dem opinion, but all Dems unfairly pay out the nose for the folly of a tiny few.

It's really hard to argue with most of the things he says. I would say that the vast majority of the things he says that annoy some people on the left would be found to be both logically supportable in a fair reading and, perhaps more importantly, democratically supported by a large majority of Dems across all backgrounds.

[betsuni]

119. This is correct.

[BlackSkimmer]

118. Why do you watch him?

I’ve seen so many posts from you about people on tv you can’t stand.

Why in the world do you watch?