interpretation.

I'm not a big fan of his, but his take was accurate...and depressing.

Not attacking their justifcations, but endorsing them.

Yeah, I guess if you considered a man slapping his wife for trying to escape physical confinement to be "justified", then I suppose one might see it that way.

I see it 180 from you. And yes, Bill maher has a history of being a sexist asshat, so he probably thinks that would be justified.

So you are saying that comparing Israel to a wife beater is "pro Israel"?

Either that or you actually buy into.the "she drove me to it" justification.

he's calling them crazy and Israel needs to do what it's doing.

No, I don't buy into it...Maher does...

He's not comparing Israel to a wife beater, he's comparing Hamas to a crazed murderer.

and has been his entire career, I suspect that Joey has the right of it. He's not equating Israel to a wife-beater...he's being serious.

I disagree with the joke, but what he is saying is that he's being attacked, and is holding the wrists for self-defense.

And if it's about domestic violence, the woman is the perpetrator.

It's intended to be a crazy, unreasonable person trying to kill you. "Restraint" works some of the time, but not all of the time.

That's why it offends me. It makes Hamas (and Palestinians, by association) into irrational actors who only want to kill for no reason.

...are you behaving as an enemy?

But, here, unsullied by any organization, is Bill Maher basically saying it's the Palestinians' fault that their kids are being slaughtered:

i can't remember what it was.

will take advantage of that shift in your attention to jam her knee where you live.

Then she'll finish the job. Unfortunately, the Arabs aren't equipped to do so, having been under a blockade for the past 7 years, only partially relieved by tunnels supplying their black markets with forbidden foods and consumer items.

Maher has a lot of big blind spots. At least he hasn't mentioned his antivax horseshit in a long time, I think he must have gotten his ears pinned way back for that one.

But yes, adolescent male culture of the early 60s took over when he got his first pubic hair and he's never progressed emotionally beyond it.

to get a laugh ... from someone, unfortunately, not you ....

Thing is, he's a funny ass most of the time. Not on this one, but most of the time.

He'll be hoisted and paraded around as a star progressive once again. Meanwhile he keeps a misogynistic bullet in the chamber that could go off any minute.
With him, the good half is not worth shouldering the burden of his bad side.

cutting down people for being the way they were born -- female, black, gay, Palestinian, mentally challenged, etc. -- and criticizing people for things they choose to believe -- supernatural/religious/magical thinking, Republican thinking, conservative thinking, racist thinking, etc.

he goes to the edge of very bad taste, like it's almost kind of sort of like his job.

a time or two. He can be an ass about lots of things, women is only one of them.

That is, a functional clock is broken twice a day.

Sexism and racism all rolled into one nice little pile of drek.

We like our favorites in spite of their faults

The woman in question was not only CRAZY but was TRYING TO KILL HIM!!


Some people are so anxious to accuse others of "sexism" that their reading comprehension goes down to near zero.


Stop harming the Democratic Party with this nonsense!

I love Bill, but he blew it on this one