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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts) Sun Mar 11, 2012, 05:12 PM Mar 2012

How Sarah Palin Invented Bill Maher’s Liberal Excuse For Misogyny

I love Bill Maher’s Real Time. I never miss it if it can be helped.

But I watch knowing that Bill Maher represents a wide swath of liberal men who continue to have blind spot of which they are unaware. Friday night he explained his defense of the First Amendment (and thus Rush) by offering an apology to any women who may have been offended by his past remarks. Maher did note that he couldn’t understand why any of us would be allying ourselves with Sarah Palin, which brings us to the issue at hand.

We most certainly are not allying ourselves with Sarah Palin, but that won’t stop the world from doing so, and that is the problem.

Here’s the deal. A long time ago, Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a “tw@t” and likened her to a slutty looking flight attendant. I am certainly no fan of Palin and her victimized reaction to Bill was a part of a long string of her playing the sexism card to get out of not knowing that Africa was a continent. I was damned embarrassed by her and sick of her dodging her inexperience and lack of knowledge with crocodile tears. Palin did try to stir up a Bill boycott, but it was ineffective, or impotent as she would say. I gather Americans were tired of her crying wolf and just didn’t care. Also, the ugly truth is that what Bill said had a measure of truth to it, stemming from Palin’s own actions.

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http://www.politicususa.com/how-sarah-palin-invented-bill-mahers-liberal-excuse-for-misogyny/

A Good Read.

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How Sarah Palin Invented Bill Maher’s Liberal Excuse For Misogyny (Original Post) Tx4obama Mar 2012 OP

Hating a specific individual who is a woman is not misogyny. Warren Stupidity Mar 2012 #1

I have heard Palin say some nasty things about men that I know men couldn't get away with. southernyankeebelle Mar 2012 #2

Extremely well put! /m lib_wit_it Mar 2012 #3

I am a woman and I have called Palin EVERY name in the book while hollering at her on my TV Tx4obama Mar 2012 #6

Maher's small dick is still bigger than his brain, obviously Dems to Win Mar 2012 #4

This well-meaning author just doesn't know Bill Maher well enough CrawlingChaos Mar 2012 #5

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)

1. Hating a specific individual who is a woman is not misogyny.

Reply to Tx4obama (Original post)

Sun Mar 11, 2012, 05:23 PM

Mar 2012

Last edited Tue Mar 13, 2012, 07:17 AM - Edit history (1)

There is a confusion here and elsewhere that if you say something bad using an assortment of arbitrarily proscribed words about anyone who happens to be a woman (or in its broader extension, using those naughty words at all about anyone or anything) you are guilty of misogyny.

I disagree.

Palin acts like a dick. Only that word really doesn't do justice to the way she acts, but we have a problem here on this boad with all the words that are better. Palin is a public figure who goes out of her way to publicly go all nasty on her list of people she hates, and she does that while asserting her femininity in her gum snapping big hair in your face style. Throwing the nasty back at her is not misogyny, no matter which words you use. Are there limits? Sure. Maher didn't, in my opinion, cross any of them.

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)

2. I have heard Palin say some nasty things about men that I know men couldn't get away with.

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 11, 2012, 05:30 PM

Mar 2012

Especially her comments about men who write opinions about her that aren't kind but are true. None of the men in those columns used nasty words about her being a woman in any way. Yet I remember her questioning Mr Gross of Vantity Fair manness. I think Mr Gross was gay. Yet she has said that couple of times about men and no one said anything. I do not think Maher crossed a line because he is a comedian and she is in the public eye. On the other hand Ms Fluke is a private citizen going before congress talking about a very important issue and Limpy calls her a slut. Well I sure hope she sues him in court.

lib_wit_it

(2,222 posts)

3. Extremely well put! /m

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 11, 2012, 05:43 PM

Mar 2012

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)

6. I am a woman and I have called Palin EVERY name in the book while hollering at her on my TV

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 13, 2012, 04:20 AM

Mar 2012

over the past several years

Dems to Win

(2,161 posts)

4. Maher's small dick is still bigger than his brain, obviously

Reply to Tx4obama (Original post)

Sun Mar 11, 2012, 09:43 PM

Mar 2012

There is absolutely no First Amendment issue in the protests against Limbaugh. None.

There is no First Amendment right to have Geico, or anybody else, sponsor your talk show. When I contact Geico or McDonald's to ask that they withdraw their ads from RL, I am exercising my First Amendment rights. If Geico withdraws, they are making the best business decision for themselves.

The First Amendment is a constraint on government suppression of free speech. My contacts with advertisers is not a government action on any level.

Maher is a dumb tw@t.

CrawlingChaos

(1,893 posts)

5. This well-meaning author just doesn't know Bill Maher well enough

Reply to Tx4obama (Original post)

Tue Mar 13, 2012, 04:15 AM

Mar 2012

He has always had a sneering contempt for women. Misogynistic slurs are not an occasional slip-up with him, they're a long-established pattern.

Remember this?

And this?

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jane-harman-calls-out-bill-maher-for-sexist-slam-of-fox-news-megyn-kelly/

While he may not be as bad as the impossibly, immeasurably vile Rush Limbaugh, I find it very depressing that either one of these hate-spewers has a successful career.

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