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I smoke a lot of weed and I don't say the n-word. Maybe the weed makes him comfortable enough to say that word? It's just a strange situation.He's high all the time
I smoke a lot of weed and I don't say the n-word. Maybe the weed makes him comfortable enough to say that word? It's just a strange situation.He's high all the time
After apologizing for casually tossing the n-word out on live TV, low-key racist and prominent liberal douchebag Bill Maher has replaced Sen. Al Franken with scholar Michael Eric Dyson on Friday's episode of Real Time With Bill Maher.
According to Variety magazine, Maher announced earlier that Ice Cube will also appear on the show, but when Franken refused to appear because of Maher's racist epithet, the show reached out to Dyson in what is shaping up to be the HBO late-night talk show's blackest episode yet.
Bill Maher got absolutely hammered tonight on the show. It lasted from the beginning to near the end. Ice Cube in particular wasn't having any of Bill's shit.
Bill Maher got absolutely hammered tonight on the show. It lasted from the beginning to near the end. Ice Cube in particular wasn't having any of Bill's shit.
Good.Bill Maher got absolutely hammered tonight on the show. It lasted from the beginning to near the end. Ice Cube in particular wasn't having any of Bill's shit.
Sneak preview of this Friday's show:
http://www.theroot.com/bill-maher-books-michael-eric-dyson-in-a-desperate-atte-1795865650
Bill Maher got absolutely hammered tonight on the show. It lasted from the beginning to near the end. Ice Cube in particular wasn't having any of Bill's shit.
BILL MAHER KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HE'S DOING
lol so all of y'all tuned in to watch Maher get ostracized by a bunch of black guests? That Esquire article absolutely nailed it,
What I was thinking, instead of viewing in wouldnt it make a greater statement to avoid, not watch, Bill is there for ratings not for peoples sympathies, probably he really doesnt care that much what people think of him until it hurts him.
lol so all of y'all tuned in to watch Maher get ostracized by a bunch of black guests? That Esquire article absolutely nailed it,
Ratings don't matter unless people have a Nielsen box. Zero difference if people watch or not. Even more so since Maher's show is on HBO, which is a premium channel making ratings stuff apply even less and if people are subscribing for something like Game of Thrones it really makes no difference whether they actually tune in to watch Maher or not. Doing so neither helps nor hurts Maher.What I was thinking, instead of viewing in wouldnt it make a greater statement to avoid, not watch, Bill is there for ratings not for peoples sympathies, probably he really doesnt care that much what people think of him until it hurts him.
I really hate people like Mahr who pretend to be all "anti-PC" and not give a damn about other's feelings but then shit like this happens and they go STRAIGHT into Mea Culpa "Some of my best friends are x!" mode.
Really exposes them for the cowards they are.
Hammered how? Like just on different topics or everyone bitching about the n-word?
Watching the apology clips now and couldnt help but feel Bill and the guy were talking past each other somewhat, I dont think Bill really engaged with the level of apology the guy believed he was offering.
lol so all of y'all tuned in to watch Maher get ostracized by a bunch of black guests? That Esquire article absolutely nailed it,
Bill did nothing to convince me he was taking this seriously.
Dyson was too soft and Cube didn't resonate with him.
It's amazing that he can't even see it after Dyson tells him to his face that his reflexive use of it is an example of the larger issue. Like what the fuck, man.
Bill just doesn't get it. He further embarrassed himself tonight.
Yup.Idunno. While Bill seemed resistant at points to owning up to his mistake, he seemed genuinely uncomfortable with all the heat he was taking. That said, I'm still disappointed he didn't lose his show. So many liberals let Bill slide and made excuses for him when they'd be signing change.org petitions over and over again if Hannity, Chris Wallace, Tucker Carlson or whoever else used the word in a similar context. The fact that progressives have chosen to circle the wagons around Bill does us no favors. We look like hypocrites right now. We can't rant and rave about Donald Trump's racism and then snuggle up with a guy who literally uses the N-word in the context of slavery and expect to be taken seriously.
Bill doesn't care, and he will learn nothing. And it is a matter of time before he fucks up again.
But I did like that Cube laid it out like that.
I don't think Dyson was soft at all. He was straightforward and thorough about how and why Bill fucked up.
Jeeze. Bill Maher spent the entire last minute of that video either disagreeing with or just trying to shut Ice Cube up while Ice Cube was dropping knowledge on him. Unfortunately for him, the audience sided with Cube.
And Maher very dismissively slapped it away.Jeeze. Bill Maher spent the entire last minute of that video either disagreeing with or just trying to shut Ice Cube up while Ice Cube was dropping knowledge on him. Unfortunately for him, the audience sided with Cube.
"I think the people watching now are saying that point has been made" in an annoyed voice reads to me as "We get it, just shut the fuck up already please".
Ice Cube really was out there to hold out an olive branch, though.
That said, I'm still disappointed he didn't lose his show.
Definitely agreed with Ice Cube on this. If you're not black, then you should really keep that word out your mouth.
I haven't watched the Ice Cube bit but it must be bit hypocritical for him to criticize someone over using a slur.
Then he went on to say, except for when you're rapping along at one of his shows.
Why is it cool in that situation?
Maybe you should bother watching the clip before making a statement about the subject.I haven't watched the Ice Cube bit but it must be bit hypocritical for him to criticize someone over using a slur.
It was the interview he did with Big Boy before the Bill Maher one.Didn't catch that part in the youtube clip I watched. I don't agree with that.
Maybe you should bother watching the clip before making a statement about the subject.
Maybe I'm making a weird connection, but:
There was an older video posted earlier where Maher has a panel discussing the word, and he talks down the black panelist and repeats the word to her. In that panel, Sarah Silverman is criticized for using a racial slur. She defends herself with "but I'm fighting racism" against criticism of "if your satire isn't done well, it supports what you're trying to satirize". Bill Maher rushes to her defense.
With Ice Cube, an exchange occurs that seems to run along the same lines. Ice Cube tells Maher that he makes a lot of black jokes. Maher responds with "but it's to fight racism". I think the "sometimes you sound like a redneck trucker" is making the same point that Silverman was criticized with.
I feel like when you compare that to cases like Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle where the comedians see that the joke is being used to support something harmful regardless of the original intent and then reverse their direction on it, it makes the defenses seen on the Maher panels seem like excuses to avoid responsibility. The egocentric nature of the argument (my intent is good, so the joke is okay) makes it seem like they don't really care about the effect; they're just claiming that they're fighting racism so they can feel free to use the slur.