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Bill Maher Savages His Liberal Audience, Calls America “This Dumb, Dumb Country!”
May 25, 2009 | 4 Comments
Bill Maher certainly didn’t make any friends as a result of his recent CNN appearance.
News Busters highlights Maher’s comments savaging the uptight liberals in his audience.
Beginning at 24:00 in the video below:
MAHER: It tells me that we get a very supersensitive liberal audience. You know, I mean, this is one reason I always have trouble doing charity events. I’m all for charity, but the events — you know, it’s always that limousine liberal crowd that just has their finger on the politically correct button. You know, they’re just ready to — ooh. Yeah. That’s what bugs me the most about liberals is that they just — they object before they even know what they’re objecting to.
KURTZ: Aren’t these your people, Bill?
MAHER: No, not when they do that. I’m much more of a — you know, I’m a free speech person. And I would say especially on campuses in the last 10 or 15 years, the repression of speech has come more from the left.
When you’re right, you’re right.
The part that really caught our attention was later in the interview, when Kurtz asks Maher about the Miss America abortion kerfuffle. During his answer, Maher calls America a “Dumb, dumb country.”
Beginning at 27:28 in the video below:
KURTZ: Miss California, Carrie Prejean You’ve had some fun with her. She of course gave that answer opposing gay marriage in a beauty pageant. Why has she been such a target?
MAHER: Well, she hasn’t been such a target for me. But you know she’s unavoidable. She’s certainly all over the serious news channels, and she shouldn’t be. Um, but, you know I don’t even understand why the question was asked of her. Did we used to ask beauty queens these kind of political questions?
KURTZ: No but Perez Hilton thought it would be a great question to ask. Perhaps get some attention for something he feels about. Usually you ask them about world peace.
MAHER: I thought her answer, not her answer at the pageant but later when she said, “Satan was trying to tempt me with that.” I think that says a lot about our country because you know here’s a person who believes in Satan. As does I would guess 60, 70, 80% of this country. This dumb, dumb country believes in demons and some creature with horns and a tail and a pitchfork, who’s going to make you burn in a mythical place if you don’t believe in an imaginary friend. That’s really the root problem of it, isn’t it?
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maher is not alone in that view. my guess is that obama, too, whether consciously or not, holds the same position.
as most liberals do.
they know what’s best because they’re the intellectual elite while the country is majority dumb–therefore, we need their “solutions” to solve all of our problems from cradle to grave.
after all, it’s the nature of liberalism to tell us all (from a centralized national position) what’s best for ourselves.
the road to perdition is paved by arrogant, meddling liberals….
For Maher it always comes back to one thing: His unhinged hatred for religion in general, and Christianity in particular.
Maher has proven once again, that he just doesn’t understand Christianity.
“…some creature with horns and a tail and a pitchfork”
He sounds like a five-year-old, which is about the level of his religious knowledge.
No surprise. This is just the latest cultural expression of an age-old dichotomy:
High-falootin’ City Slicker vs. Uncorrupted Country Bumpkin.
Truth cannot be found in either one side or the other. Truth is expressed in the context of relationships. It can highlight the interactions, but it’s not necessarily wholly reducible to one pole of a conflict or the other.
Whether it’s Jesus or the teachings of the Bagavad-Gita, it is our “opposite” that gives us a more adequate revelation of truth.
“Love your enemy.” We need our opponents.