OMG, I can't take much more of Maher's liberal bashing.

[Initech]

Normally I love Maher, but his liberal bashing is getting out of hand! It's like every week he finds some way to pick a fight with liberals, and he invites the most airheaded people on his show like SE Cupp and Tomi Lahren. Look, we live in a time where neo Nazis are coming out of their safe spaces, and the democrats and liberals are the problem? GTFO!!!

Anyone else agree or am I going crazy? Normally he has a lot of great insights, but his liberal bashing is getting old. The GOP has always been the problem and they always will be the problem. The GOP is anti-progress, and we have a president who is rolling back decades of progress to please his white supremacist base. The democrats are not the problem, Bill. It's conservatives.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. He has ALWAYS been a basher of liberals.

I stopped watching him years ago because of that.

I don't understand the infatuation with him on the part of so many liberals. It's as if they don't really listen to what he says.

[Blue_Adept]

27. Just remember, if you like someone even a little, you're infatuated with them

We live in a world where we view others only as extremes and put them in mental buckets of good and bad because of that.

[Hortensis]

30. Yes, me too, and exactly. His barely veiled, if that, intolerance and hostility

ruined him for this liberal a long time ago. I'm a very strong liberal, too, but there are really profound differences between liberals and radicals and others farther left.

Absolutely no surprise he's gotten worse. They all have. Political scientists say zealots from both right and left are animated by a rigid, overweening righteousness, and inevitably they are swelled with years of resentment that no one else recognizes that they are The Wise Ones. So no surprised that both become energized, even joyful, by disasters and widespread anxiety about the future. Every problem is proof They Were Right.

And everyone else is wrong. Given the rank, destructive stupidity of the liberals running the Democratic Party, to the point of evil, can anyone blame them for being hostile?

[JonLP24]

3. no you're not crazy. I got tired of the liberal bashing among other things

I haven't watched his show in a year.

[Purveyor]

4. I stopped taking anything from Maher years ago... Pathetic, indeed! eom

[Archae]

28. Same here.

Not only does he bash liberals, he's simply a total asshole.

Add to that his anti-vaccination lunacy, and you have nearly the "perfect storm" of a beyond-the-pale asshole.

http://americanloons.blogspot.ca/2011/09/247-bill-maher.html

[Hieronymus]

5. I just got tired of him, period.

[Warpy]

7. I don't find it as much liberal bashing as thin skinned millennial bashing

He does wish liberals would get into the mosh pit the way the Old Guard used to do and he's sick of politicians who react to GOP outrage with silent fury. Let the fuckers have, they deserve it.

He's got a point.

I can imagine LBJ if the Orange Maggot had tried to invade his space at a debate. The Maggot would have been left sniveling and without a single blow being struck.

It's one reason Middle America doesn't think Democrats care enough about anything to stand up for it.

[Warpy]

11. Oh, my language really goes to hell if one of them tries to correct me

because they think somebody else's widdle feewings might get hurt (they're never offended for themselves). Usually it's something really innocuous and not nearly as offensive as some young punk trying to lecture an elder. They don't enjoy it much and they tend to leave me alone after that. Too bad, they need to be educated more.

Honestly, they want to turn all speech into the verbal equivalent of calendar art featuring pretty little cows grazing on pretty little hillsides and nothing to challenge anyone out there to think.

Free speech isn't absolute, and people who go out of their way to insult other people had better develop fast reflexes. However, I'm firmly opposed to any government censorship. Oh, maybe the FTC should require Pox to change its name to Pox Propaganda, since they lie so much about news, but that's about it.

[BigmanPigman]

9. I agree with that point. Liberals need to grow a spine and take the gloves off.

I was thinking that very thought earlier today but every time I mention it on DU I get rude feedback so I stopped.

Bill can be sexist. Once he dismissed Gloria Steinem when she correctly told him that 45 had many bankruptcies and Bill blew her off completely.

[Warpy]

13. Remember John Kerry and those deep, heavy sighs during the debate?

The stupid ass "campaign handlers" had obviously stuffed him full of the worst advice he could possibly have gotten. I had seen enough of Kerry around Boston to know he could have sliced and diced Shrub to mincemeat but somehow, he felt he was not permitted to.

Enough. Keep those jerks in their lobbying jobs in election years, hire fund raisers instead, and encourage the scrappy candidates we do have to be themselves.

[JI7]

24. the Sighs were from Gore during the Bush/Gore Debates in 2000

Kerry did easily beat Bush in the debates but the republicans media latched on to his "global test" comment and it was close to 9/11 and there was a terrorist attack in russia and they made it seem as if Kerry will not be quick to defend.

[Warpy]

35. You're right Brain slips a cog in the wee hours.

And Gore could have sliced and diced just as well had he not been given such bad advice. Kerry beat Bush because Bush never answered any of the questions, just gave canned speeches to keywords. Nobody cared because he wasn't called on it.

This "civility" stuff works well only when one's opponent is civilized.

[SergeStorms]

22. Don't let them beat you down, BigmanPigman.

Your opinion is as valid as anyone else's. People like that will do it to me once. Once.

[demosincebirth]

26. As a old time democrat I totally agree with you.

[Baconator]

10. Reluctance to address our own problems gave us 2016...

[JonLP24]

12. Last I heard the problem was liberals don't laugh at his jokes

fuck Bill Maher. JMHO.

[Initech]

17. I still like New Rules.

And tonight was definitely one of his better ones.

[Laffy Kat]

14. He's gone way overboard on his distaste for being politically correct.

He's always been way too libertarian for my tastes. Every now and then he REALLY pisses me off. Don't understand his fondness for Coulter and Cupp.

[Initech]

16. Which is kind of sad - the only other group of people who are so fond of being not PC...

Are the neo Nazis and alt righters!

[Hoyt]

15. I watched his show tonight. Lot of serious Trump and GOPer bashing. Didn't really hear

liberal bashing, but I was playing my mandolin through the show and could have missed it.

[SergeStorms]

23. I think the OP....

was probably talking about Hillary's new book. She wrote about Trump coming up behind her during one of the debates, and she asked herself if she should confront him and tell him to "back off", or just ignore him. She ignored him, and Maher was jumping all over her to confront him. It's that "grow a spine" deal all over again. Doesn't matter much now, it's water under the bridge, but in the future? I think we could all stand up for ourselves a little better when confronted by these assholes. My opinion.

[Hoyt]

31. I agree with that. It would have been nice if she had spun around

and kicked him in the groin. I understand why she didn't, but still. . . . .

[Wounded Bear]

18. He's never really been a liberal, or a progressive even...

he's a libertarian, in the old sense of being a conservative who like to smoke dope and get laid.

His studio audience does tend to lean progressive, to be sure. But Bill is a comedian, and he'll make fun of anyone.

[Behind the Aegis]

20. Meh.

Didn't see any liberal bashing. Did see calls for self-reflection. He certainly has issues, but for the most part, he is not the problem and shines a light on the real problems.

[Pisces]

34. Agreed

[RhodeIslandOne]

21. Sorry, but this is like the idea he hates Muslims

Maher bashes all religions, but for some reason the five minutes he might spend condemning radical Islam is the only thing anyone here wants to complain about while having nothing to say about the fact the rest of the program is ripping the radical Christian nuts ruining this country.

Your own post alone makes his point....that the mere presence of "the other side" so completely angers you that you can't handle it. Any conservative/Republican who goes on his show gets pretty well savaged and spends 95% of the time being a punching bag, the show would be boring as hell without that. It's a lot different than a talking news head inviting a right winger on a news show and not challenging them.

[Gothmog]

25. I stopped watching Maker a long time ago due to his liberal bashing

[dembotoz]

29. We need to support our voices in the wilderness..he uses a really big mic to go after trump and co

Fox has shed a number of high profile entertianer-scumbags
Would u rather hbo give his slot to perhaps o Reilly???

[WhiskeyGrinder]

32. It blows me away that people still pay attention to him.

His job is basically to reassure white males that when the revolution comes, they'll still be on top.

[Pisces]

33. He was not bashing. I think he was saying what many are thinking. There is no therapist in the world

That would have advised her to write a book when she is raw and publish in her emotional state. She should have written the book as catharsis, put it on a shelf for 2 years and then decided if she wanted to print it our edit it.
Any blame for the loss towards others at this point in time looks and sounds bad. All could be valid and true, but the majority are not going to look at her kindly for it.

I have no idea who her advisers are??? Sycophants that can't say what needs to be said?? We are talking about how the masses are going to receive her book, not her her diehard fans.