Quote of the Day (July 18, 2011)

Liberal Icon Bill Maher: Sarah Palin’s Children Are “Inbred Weirdos”
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Jim Hoft, at Gateway Pundit:

“And this is today’s liberal hero. Maybe he’ll get an award from the White House?”

- JP

NB: HuffPo silent on Maher's status after vulgar attacks on Palin

Which is worse: calling a man a 'commie punk' or a woman a 'c---'?
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Huffington Post has banned Andrew Breitbart's articles at its front page, but the leftist website remains curiously silent on the status of Bill Maher, who is one of its regular contributors. Maher has made several below-the-sewer references to Sarah Palin recently, while Bretbart's apparent offense was to call former Obama green czar Van Jones a "commie punk." Most of what Maher called Gov. Palin is too vulgar to be quoted on a family-friendly blog.

The obvious double standard here has motivated NewsBusters associate editor Noel Sheppard to send no less than three emails to HuffPo founder Arianna Huffington and editor Roy Sekoff Tuesday and Wednesday. Sheppard reports that he still has not received a reply:

Of course, I realize Arianna et al are in a very tough spot. They made what was clearly an absurd statement about "tenets of debate and civil discourse we have strived for since the day we launched" when everyone in the industry knows their website is filled with hateful rhetoric and ad hominem attacks against conservatives on almost a daily basis.

The laughter at Ruiz's statement throughout the blogosphere on both sides of the aisle was deafening.

Complicating matters further was one of their popular contributors the day after Breitbart was canned making a vulgar slur at Palin and another one nine days later.

As most people know, Huffington has been friends with Maher for years. She was a regular guest on his Comedy Central program "Politically Incorrect" appearing in an ongoing gag with Al Franken called "Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows."

Maybe more importantly, Maher is a darling of the Left. Would Huffington dare do anything to him like she did to Breitbart?

Unfortunately, not doing so totally invalidates the reason given by Ruiz for Breitbart's demotion.

No wonder I didn't get any replies to my email messages as I'm sure these folks hope this matter is going to just go away as quickly as possible - but they shouldn't count on it.

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Sheppard concludes that the continued silence on this hypocrisy by those in charge at HuffPo will only serve to "reduce whatever journalistic integrity and credibility they claim to strive for, potentially leading AOL and its shareholders to seriously question their investment."

- JP

Gutfeld: Maher's creepy comedy exposes hypocrisy of feminist left

Red Eye's March 26 Greg-alogue:
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- JP

Quote of the Day (March 20, 2011)

Question
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Chicks on the Right:

"It’s been more than 36 hours now since the ever so classy Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a 'dumb tw*t' (and no, the vowel that belongs there isn't an 'i')... I'm just wondering, how long will it be before women's groups come out to denounce Bill Maher's comments?"

- JP

Quote of the Day (January 30, 2011)

Yet Another Blatant Bill Maher Lie
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Herb at SlapBlog.com:

"If the Media would have told the truth about Barack Obama as many times as they and Bill Maher have lied about Sarah Palin, we might be a lot better off right now..."

- JP

Quote of the Day (October 1, 2009)

Crook's Shadow:

"New Rule, if Bill Maher says something stupid again, Sarah Palin gets to shoot him from a helicopter."

- JP

Exposing another leftist lie about Sarah Palin

Newsreal's David Swindle is not a Sarah Palin supporter. He doesn’t think John McCain should have chosen her as a running mate, doesn't want her to be the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nominee, and he's not fond of much of her rhetoric. In fact, Swindle doesn't even like her at all. Yet when Bill Maher told a bald-faced lie about the former governor, Swindle disliked the mischaracterization of her words even less and was motivated to post this debunking of Maher's liberal lie:

Did Sarah Palin really say that America should never apologize for its mistakes? I had a suspicion that perhaps there was more context to this quote. So I went digging to find this quote’s source. And I found where RealClearPolitics (RCP) had posted it here:

Gov. Sarah Palin told supporters to “continue to love our country, be proud of our country [and] never apologize for our country.”

But that’s not true. She doesn’t say that. It’s a misquote.

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She actually says:

Let us continue to love our country, be proud of our country, and never apologize for being Americans.

The misquote is also in this article from Politico.

Swindle is willing to give Maher the benefit of the doubt and entertains the possibility that the commie comic just misread the Palin quote or someothing. We aren't willing to give him the benefit of anything. Bill Maher is nasty little man who mocks everything that is good and decent about America, and we don't doubt for a second that he's willing to lie like a dog in the bend of a dirt road to do it.

Swindle, at least, cares enough about the truth and patriotic Americans to defend Sarah Palin, someone he doesn't even like, just to set the record straight. Which is more than anyone can say for Maher.

- JP

Bill Maher wants to have his cake and eat yours too

Last Tuesday, we mentioned the latest volcanic eruption of Mount Mahr, an outburst heavily laden with the usual Bill Maher verbal sulfuric acid.

And we reported how Mark Levin dismembered Maher with a rusty knife Wednesday.

Tuesday at Big Hollywood, John Nolte ("Bill Maher Brings His Own Stupid") pointed out Mahr's weak circular thinking.

Jamie Jeffords expanded on this theme:

Maher lets his bigotry cloud his logic. He is not a stupid man, but he is a guy who lets his bias get in the way of reason. Take the above exchange with Blitzer. Maher believes the country is stupid enough to vote Sarah Palin into the White house at the same time he believe they voted Obama into the white House because she was on the GOP ticket. So he vehemently believes Americans will simultaneously vote for her and against her without the slightest awareness it is a contradiction. He cannot decide which of his resentments to abandon in order to make one argument work, so he just tries to have it both ways so he can hate everyone.

As BrianinMo said, Maher simply proved himself to be "the bomb-throwing America-hater he has been for years."

- JP