Adam Carolla On Bill Maher Using Racial Slur During Interview

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16. No. None at all. I'll explain.

Griffin wasn't telling a quick joke off the cuff. Hers was a planned photo-op with a photographer. Care was taken to stage it, while discussing it, and then photograph it. She had plenty of time to reconsider, and decided that that was for sure what she wanted to do.

She has a job working for a CNN, a NEWS organization that is under fire from the administration for being far left and anti-Trump, with allegations of creating false news for such an agenda. CNN can't keep her on, even if it wanted to.

Griffin did cross a line, after consideration of it. She is an edgy comedian, so I get that she was okay w/going that far. But it was too far, considering it was about the office of the Presidency, and considering that we live in a time of beheadings and assassinations (although she says that wasn't her intent).

Maher was making a quick joke off the cuff. His job is to make quick comebacks and go for the laugh. To do that, you have to be extreme sometimes. He made a quick comeback, and it was a bad one. He also was making a comeback to a reference that struck him as hearkening back to the slavery days. It wasn't a modern reference. It also wasn't about blood or beheadings or anything, either.

He didn't get fired because it was an off the cuff joke that went over the edge, and was unintentional and not planned. He also wasn't fired because he works for HBO, an ENTERTAINMENT organization.

BTW, Maher was fired the last time he went too far. Remember? That was a statement that wasn't off the cuff. It was a STATEMENT (not a joke), and it was planned ahead of time and thought out. And he meant it. (IMO, he shouldn't have been fired for that. It was just his opinion on something.)