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Is This What Passes for Liberal Discussion and Humor These Days?

By SusanUnPC on September 22, 2008 at 12:00 AM in McCain/Palin 2008, Misogyny, Sexism

At a friend’s tonight, I watched part of a recording of the September 12th HBO show, “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

I’m in shock. This is what these television personalities think and say, and feel it’s perfectly alright to express? Things like this about Sarah Palin?

MAHER: “Did you see the [interview with Charlie Gibson]? I am officially frightened. …”

MAHER: “Charlie Gibson asked her if she’s ready to be vice president or president. She said, ‘I’m ready’. And a bell went off, and she said, ‘Ohhh, and so’s my pie’.”

[I CAN'T WAIT for DCMediaGirl and Violet to comment on that sexist remark on their Tuesday night radio show.]

[OR HOW ABOUT THIS ONE, DCMediaGirl and Violet?]

MAHER: “She thought the Bush Doctrine had something to do with forbidding her daughters to shave down there.”

MAHER, after some more insults: “Qualified to be vice president? She’s not qualified to be the mayor of Wasilla. This is a Category 5 moron we’ve got on our hands, and I am unapologetic in saying that.”

MAHER, on her coming home to Wasilla after the convention: “They greeted her with signs …. some said ‘Sarah Barracuda’. Her favorite one, though, was the one held by her daughter that said, ‘I got my period’. … That is a fertile family, I tell ya.”

Maher introduces Paul Begala, and they chat.

MAHER: “You [Democrats] have everything going for you. The economy, the war, … and somehow you’re losing to a 200-year-old man and a mountain mama who makes Bush look like a professor.”

BEGALA: [Laughs.] “She had that moose in the headlights appearance with Charlie Gibson, didn’t she …”

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That’s all I could bear to watch.

Thank god for people like Reverend Amy who see the world beyond the perverted, cynical, cruel views of the likes of Bill Maher and Sandra Bernhard.

I just pray that the Palins and their children’s friends don’t subscribe to HBO.