Why?
Consider this comment by Maher:
While we were off, Sarah Palin agreed to do commentary at Fox News, which is actually very similar to her day job: talking to a baby with Down syndrome. (The studio audience groans, then applauds).Imagine. If. Limbaugh. Said. This. Omigod, the media would lose its mind. What blows me away, reading some comments defending him, the same rules don't apply to a guy Limbaugh or here in Canada, Don Cherry.
In any event, if you read or listen carefully, he isn't making fun of down syndrome per se but he did use it as a "human shield" to denigrate Fox. Still not cool, man.
And this Palin thing. Holy Jesus, get off that boring train already! It was a matter of time it was going to sink lower and lower and lower.
Maher (who doesn't really strike me as "liberal") spends a lot of time trying to point out the deficiencies in others, yet, ironically, he exposed his own triviality. It betrays healthy intellectualism to allow yourself to fall to this level.
This is not a left or right thing. This is a simple case of human decency.
Making fun a handicapped children seems to be OK if it is done to make fun of people on the right.
ReplyDeleteMaher is not funny. The guy is a mean shit and makes his money being a mean shit on the political left. That doesn't make him anything better than a mean shit.
He also has a problem religion. His whole computation of religious history is "I don't get it. Religion is bad. Therefore, people who observe it are dumb."
ReplyDeleteIt didn't come close to achieving anything remotely fresh about the subject. Just the same crap about religion rehashed.
I am no holy, pious believer myself, but anti-religious sentiment isn't right automatically just because religion is often misused and abused. Besides, the left makes politics into a religion of sorts.
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