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10/5/2014

Bill Maher: Liberals Sure Get Upset When A Certain Truth Is Pointed Out

Filed under: General — Dana @ 6:01 pm



[guest post by Dana]

Bill Maher and writer Sam Harris got into a heated discussion about Islam with actor Ben Affleck.

“You and I have been trying to make the case that liberals need to stand up for liberal principles,” Maher said to fellow panelist, author Sam Harris.

“Freedom of speech, freedom to practice any religion you want without fear of violence, freedom to leave a religion, equality for women, equality for minorities, including homosexuals, these are liberal principles that liberals applaud for,” Maher continued, “but then when you say in the Muslim world this is what’s lacking, then they get upset.”

“Liberals have failed us,” Harris added.

–Dana

69 Responses to “Bill Maher: Liberals Sure Get Upset When A Certain Truth Is Pointed Out”

  1. Hello.

    Dana (4dbf62)

  2. Affleck was a frothing at the mouth progtard rage monster in that discussion. He was the most stupid person on the set.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  3. Someone should have challenged Affleck to travel to Pakistan… sans bodyguards… and make a public speech favoring rights for gays, women, and apostates and see how much he really believes in his tolerant Muslim moderate rhetoric.

    It’s a win-win either way.

    Gregory of Yardale (c3ac8c)

  4. gayest

    batman

    ever

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  5. I wish he could take a simple quiz on the history of Islam. He’s not thinking. He is reacting. Actors are like parakeets: all chatter and self regard.

    Simon Jester (c8876d)

  6. #3: Absolutely.

    Simon Jester (c8876d)

  7. #3: I’ll pay his airfare. First class.

    felipe (40f0f0)

  8. “gayest batman ever”

    Although that’s kind of like saying “wettest water ever”.

    Was he there pushing his new movie? The daughter’s mother had very good things to say about the book. Want to to know some spoilers?

    nk (dbc370)

  9. yeah you’re right

    poor gay batman

    it’s just not ever gonna get any better for him

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  10. oh

    i just watch the video

    personally i think he has steroid face

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  11. i guess it could just be he had a lil work done too, and pretty recently

    but my first guess is steroid face

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  12. I heard Fincher, changed the ending,

    maher, is about a million reasons why we still have Obama, and we’re facing this pandemic, he’s a wretched strigoi, who hates Islam, but is all too willing to run down Christianity,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  13. Actors are like parakeets: all chatter and self regard.

    My mother-in-law referred to actors as “talent.” It was not a compliment and she worked in the movie industry for many years.

    Mike K (90dfdc)

  14. Dr. K., my brother tells me this story, and I have no idea if it is true. There is an old hotel in LA from the 1930s. It has a sign that reads “NO PROSTITUTES OR ACTORS.”

    Simon Jester (c8876d)

  15. Yeah, one of my siblings has a degree in RTF from UT – she refers to “them” as “talent”.

    felipe (40f0f0)

  16. A newsreader is not an actor, but both an actor and a newsreader are talent.

    felipe (40f0f0)

  17. Did you hear how A**fleck started to quote the preamble of the Declaration (“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” he backed up and replaced “Creator” with “forefathers.”

    A lefty almost slipped and admitted on national lefty-cable that God had something to do with the founding principles of this nation.

    A**fleck is one of the more vapid people I have ever heard pretending to be smart. He just isn’t a good enough actor to pull that off.

    I am just having problems understanding how Maher actually seems to get the salient point in this specific argument.

    WarEagle82 (b18ccf)

  18. A**fleck is one angry white guy.

    WarEagle82 (b18ccf)

  19. It doesn’t matter if I agree with something BIll Maher says: I find him to be a repulsive troll. He also doesn’t look like that in person (i.e., a hairpiece and serious makeup). Anytime he gets all intellectual and snotty, I begin to get annoyed….

    …and then I get this from my DVD collection:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Women_in_the_Avocado_Jungle_of_Death

    It’s one of his first films. He is so splendidly awful it makes me feel better.

    For my friend nk, a trailer that says it all:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htt40ANLwls

    Simon Jester (c8876d)

  20. Maher is coming around. But he has a long way to go because he really believes “it is not racist when we do it”.

    felipe (40f0f0)

  21. Sow that is what AWG stands for! Now it makes sense.

    felipe (40f0f0)

  22. Sow

    felipe (40f0f0)

  23. Maher is a liberal blow-hard, but at least he’s one of the few who’s pretty equal in his disdain for religion. Mocking Christianity is all the rage, because it’s easy (Christian doctrine says turn the other cheek), but few include Islam in their derision (because Islamic doctrine says kill the infidel).

    edoc118 (c37322)

  24. Best line of the trailer:

    “You wanna eat me, don’t ya”?

    felipe (40f0f0)

  25. It’s true that Maher is pretty much an equal-opportunity anti-religion fanatic.

    One big difference between Christianity and Islam is “turn the other cheek” versus “cut off their heads.” It is far less costly to make nasty comments about Christians than it is about Islam. In fact, quoting verses from the Koran is often enough to get an “infidel” handed his own head.

    WarEagle82 (b18ccf)

  26. I might be charitable and say ‘in the land of the blind,’ but he helped make it so, along with Stewart and Colbert,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  27. And Affleck may run for elected office. Just what America needs… another clueless, far-left hot-head in government.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  28. Shut up and act, Ben.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  29. Not sure why anyone would expect any better from a devotee of Zinn.

    Gazzer (8aebb1)

  30. Quran 16:106
    Sahih International: Whoever disbelieves in Allah after his belief… except for one who is forced [to renounce his religion] while his heart is secure in faith. But those who [willingly] open their breasts to disbelief, upon them is wrath from Allah , and for them is a great punishment;

    Rev 2:10 NKJV “Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

    Opposite ends of the spectrum we have here. One says lie to save your own butt except you “don’t really mean it”, the other demands you be faithful unto even death. I would think even an unbeliever would see the drastic departure. One of them you can’t trust to tell the truth while the other dies for what they know is the truth.

    Ben should take a little time to understand the difference, instead of just “feeling”.

    MSL (5f601f)

  31. How many halfwits in Maher’s idiot audience cheered for both the Harris & Maher anti-Islam point of view and the Affleck & Kristoff anti-anti-Islam point of view do you think? Is Maher’s audience the most ill-informed and useless group of liberals that can be found in the Los Angeles basin? Do they have any opinions that don’t originate with television comedians?

    Affleck & Kristoff remind me of the anti-anti-communists of the 1940s and 50s. You know, the ones who said that they hated Soviet communism but they also thought that anti-communism was a horrible, horrible thing because, you know, Nixon and McCarthy. The reality is that the anti-anti-communists spent that period trying to pretend that the Soviet Union posed no threat and had made no inroads into American progressivism, and history has shown how stupid and shortsighted they really were. I think someday the same will be said about the Nicholas Kristoffs and Ben Afflecks of the world.

    JVW (638245)

  32. Except, Bill, those you call “Liberals” are not liberal. They are “Progressives.” Doctrinally, they hold that any issue, not matter how large or vexing, can be solved if only enough resources are provided and the right person with sufficient unfettered authority is charged with solving said problem. The Germans once adopted this wholeheartedly; they called it the “Führerprinzip.” It didn’t work out to well for them or anyone else.

    Lorem Ipsum (cee048)

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  34. R.I.P. Paul Revere of Paul Revere & The Raiders

    Icy (3ca0e2)

  35. It has a sign that reads “NO PROSTITUTES OR ACTORS.”
    — issued by the Department of Redundancy Department

    Icy (3ca0e2)

  36. Saying that Liberal have failed us assumes that it was their intention to serve us in the first place. That might be true with some of the rank and file, but the spokes-twits and leaders have always been about ordering us around and remaking the world according to their pallid visions. The Liberals have failed THEMSELVES. Their talking points and initiatives no longer have enough connection to anything remotely like reality to accomplish anything at all, save wasting time and resources. They are a completed train-wreck; no longer even fascinating, just kind of revolting.

    C. S. P. Schofield (848299)

  37. Shut up and act, Ben.
    — FIXED

    Icy (3ca0e2)

  38. Icy, at 37, I agree.

    The bad part of it is that instead of trying to make acting respectable, they have always pushed to make their “alternative lifestyles” acceptable and we have gone along with them. Well, not “we” te “we”; their fans. Dumb teenagers (that’s a redundancy too), lonely ladies, fat-bottomed fantasists.

    nk (dbc370)

  39. Nothing is more alarming and loathsome than people who see themselves as compassionate souls yet also are lousy when judging the goodness or badness of people and situations, and, in turn, inculcating outcomes that are anything but compassionate and humane.

    I’m sure Affleck shed tears for the societies (and regimes) of the Iron Curtain because, well, they were dedicated to the proletariat, to the common man. When it comes to the nations under Sharia law, he gives a similar pat on the back to them because they’re made up of the sad, touching common man of the Third World or emerging world. Victims caught in the middle are merely pawns on the chess board of compassion for compassion’s sake (hello, Nidal Hasan!).

    Mark (c160ec)

  40. He was the most stupid person on the set.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 10/5/2014 @ 6:30 pm

    I saw a mute Michael Steele if I’m not mistaken.

    carlitos (c24ed5)

  41. Michael Steele just makes you feel sad inside to look at

    he wants so bad to be useful but it’s just not gonna happen for him

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  42. Kicks just keep gettin’ harder to find, Icy!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  43. This guy calls for a little inter-agency cooperation between the CIA and the FSB. A little polonium in his falafel, a little fugu poison in his halvah ….

    nk (dbc370)

  44. “I saw a mute Michael Steele if I’m not mistaken.”

    carlitos – Steele actually said a few things but did not beclown himself like the sputtering red faced Affleck.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  45. Raaaaacist!

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  46. Steels was at least coherent. Affleck did himself no favors… but sadly, his mindset reflects much of Hollywood. The sh*theel even tried to rehabilitate Jimmy Carter at the end of “Argo”. Nitwit.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  47. make that Steele.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  48. carlitos – Affleck said criticizing Islam is racist. What race is Islam?

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  49. ==“I saw a mute Michael Steele if I’m not mistaken.”== Carlitos

    ==Steele actually said a few things but did not beclown himself like the sputtering red faced Affleck.== daleyrocks

    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
    -Abraham Lincoln

    elissa (17d201)

  50. Carlitos–are you the same carlitos who comes here and regularly taunts and tries to insinuate that the purveyor or location or source of information is more important (or at least more telling about the veracity and quality of said argument) than the information itself?

    So, um, Affleck????!! Really?? Ben Affleck?

    elissa (17d201)

  51. Maher to his credit has made this point repeatedly.Might not agree with him on much, but he has explained over and over the Muslim/Christian comparison is invalid and laughable.

    Afflcke shows himself to be a total ass.

    Bugg (3a2abd)

  52. Well if y’all would stop taking the Daily Mail seriously then maybe carlitos wouldn’t have to make fun of y’all so much.

    Leviticus (ac0bd2)

  53. Muslims behave themselves here for the most part with only a few lone wolf attacks because they know what happens if they don’t. The muslim around the world would behave themselves if we let them know it costs them a mushroom cloud over mecca if they don’t!

    bomb mecca (bea2e9)

  54. The only liberal principle that is enforced by liberals today is the belief that everyone should yield to the one who expresses strong feelings about a subject.

    Amphipolis (0eeefe)

  55. 57.Muslims behave themselves here for the most part with only a few lone wolf attacks because they know what happens if they don’t.

    I don’t believe that for a New York minute. They behave themselves here (for the most part if you exclude blowing up sky scrapers, the Pentagon, the Boston Marathon and cutting the heads off coworkers and shooting a dozen or two coworkers) because they do not yet have enough political clout in numbers to do what they want: kill us all. I for one, bomb mecca, would love to know just “what happens if they don’t”. Will Obama ship them home? Will they be imprisoned or executed? We all know our government is impotent against anyone other than Christians, Jews, Amish, Mennonites and Quakers. The government would crush them if they even dared to refuse to bake a cake. But moslems? Give me a break. If we were serious as a nation about the insidious danger presented by moslems we’d do to them what we would have done to Nazi’s in WWII…send them away! And not let any more in.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  56. Well if y’all would stop taking the Daily Mail seriously then maybe carlitos wouldn’t have to make fun of y’all so much.

    Leviticus, I’m not sure what your problem is with the Daily Mail link that Simon Jeter provided, unless you just have an aversion to the Daily Mail in general (fair enough). Actually, the article there brings out the self-effacing side of Affleck that I kind of like — his understanding that fame is fleeting as well as his ability to have a fairly honest appraisal of the less-successful career. I just wonder why in the area of politics Affleck thinks he has to morph into this hyper-progressive who takes up the fight on behalf of brown people everywhere, even the ones who are in to beheading journalists and blowing up schoolkids. He certainly seems to be riddled with rich white guy’s guilt; those lessons from Howard Zinn must have really sunk in and messed with his psyche.

    JVW (05e1e2)

  57. The only liberal principle that is enforced by liberals today is the belief that everyone should yield to the one who expresses strong feelings about a subject.

    Provided that the one expressing strong beliefs is on the pre-approved list of “traditional victims” of white male heterosexual oppression, of course. New victim groups have to go through the application process for approval.

    JVW (05e1e2)

  58. @59 the 9-11 hijackers were alowed to by bush adm. to do their dirty work as the neo-cons needed a second pearl harbor (their words!) to get peoples mind off republicans on the supreme court from stealing 2000 election for bush they also needed an excuse to invade iraq. google progress for new american century “second pearl harbor.”

    bomb mecca (bea2e9)

  59. Perry escaped again.

    JD (285732)

  60. teh Perricon!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  61. I think he is a Perrorist.

    elissa (39c2b0)

  62. Christopher Hitchens always had an appropriate greeting for Maher’s audience: a smile and a flipped bird.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  63. bomb mecca (bea2e9);

    I sincerely hope you don’t believe a word of that drivel. If you do, I strongly recommend you go to your physician and get your meds adjusted.

    I have scant patience with Conspiracy Theories, pretty much no matter who they indict. FRD did not arrange Pearl Harbor; he was simply too racist and arrogant to believe that the Japanese could attack across that distance. He expected an attack…..on Manilla.

    JFK was shot by a single deranged twit, and all the contradictory “evidence” seems to boil down to understandable confusion over the event, and LBJ scared to death that if people believed the Communists were responsible they would demand a war that he didn’t want to fight.

    Area 51 is the home base of a lot of experimental aircraft, including the Stealth craft before they went operational. Gee, I wonder why people see UFOs in the area?

    C. S. P. Schofield (848299)

  64. Now I realize why bomb mecca sounds like a deranged idiot. It’s Perry! Hello you crazy dumbass. I see nothing’s changed. Everything is still Bush’s fault and the GOP is an evil conspiracy. You really haven’t had a new idea since the Great Society went to the crapper have you?

    Hoagie (4dfb34)


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