When Bill Maher is a guest on the Tonight Show, I expect him to spew his bitter drivel.
His appearance on Tuesday, however, was really offensive, not just hateful and ill-informed as usual.
Of course, Leno's monologue always deals with the topical issues of the day, which includes politics; but the point of the show is entertainment, not politics.
I wasn't bugged because Maher was making political jokes that ran counter to my views. It was that what he was saying wasn't funny--at all. Leno allowed Maher to engage in a Bush administration bash session.
Maher indirectly took swipes at Bush by mercilessly attacking Karl Rove. Maher insisted that all CIA jobs are sensitive. In other words, he believes that the identity of an employee with a desk job has the same status as a covert agent in the field. That is just plain false and just plain stupid of him to say.
Maher said, "This guy definitely outed her and he should go to jail." There was a smattering of very weak applause.
Referring to John Roberts, he said that when they look that clean cut they are "freaks."
Maher said Roberts looks moderate only because Bush has moved the goal posts so far to the right.
Then, things took a very ugly, uncomfortable turn.
Maher was illustrating his belief that all Bush appointees are extremely conservative.
He went off on Dr. W. David Hager, a prominent obstetrician-gynecologist and a Bush appointee to the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs in the FDA.
Maher proceeded to discuss Hager's divorce, noting that Hager's wife claimed he anally raped her. The discussion spiraled out of control from that point.
Is this what passes for entertainment? Maher wasn't funny. He was offensive.
Frankly, I'm surprised the segment aired. The show is taped. It's not like it was a live broadcast. The anal sex stuff could have, no, SHOULD have been edited out.
I hope NBC will think twice before allowing Maher to be a guest again.
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Bill Maher, Jay Leno, and Anal Rape
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I haven't watched the late night shows in what feels like ages. Usually by 11pm, I have the tv on different news stations.
Bill Maher always comes across to me as offensive. He's just so angry in a lewd way everytime you give him a platform to speak on.
It brings a smile to my heart to think what he was going through after 2004 Election results were in.
"I hope NBC will think twice before allowing Maher to be a guest again"
Yeah, like that's going to happen. This is the kind of venomous invective that the left is so adept at. The non-thinking public loves that crap.
The Tonight show was on TV last night while I was making my nightly visits to my favorite blogs. (By the way did you know that yours is my absolute favorite?) So I wasn't paying a lot of attention to it, but I did hear a little of the typical liberal line, implying that the President is stupid. Oh well, I have given up being outraged. Now i just consider the source and smile, knowing that the Republicans will likely be in power for many more years to come as long as the Democrats continue to not have any agenda except attacking the Republicans.
I think Maher is going out of his way to be edgy (meaning offensive) to get attention.
It really was so out of line. Maher reached a new low. I didn't think that was possible.
Leno did such a poor job of handling him. He could have steered the conversation in another direction.
(And thanks for the compliment, Mark. I'm very flattered you like my blog:)
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