Apparently he wants a real black president, which to him means someone who acts like a thug:
“I thought when we elected a black president, we were going to get a black president. You know, this [BP oil spill] is where I want a real black president. I want him in a meeting with the BP CEOs, you know, where he lifts up his shirt so you can see the gun in his pants. That’s — (in black man voice) ‘we’ve got a motherfu**ing problem here?’ Shoot somebody in the foot.”
Will he get a pass on this from his friends in the media? I’m surprised people thought that was funny.
He’ll get the pass. He is an idiot of the highest level.
I let HBO know often that I will not watch his show.
He’ll get a pass, courtesy of the media’s egregious double standard. If it were a conservative that made such comments, like Glenn Beck, Hannity, O’Reilly, Ann Coulter, etc. they’d be paraded out in the media’s equivalent of a town square and tarred and feathered.
Can you imagine if, say, Rand Paul had said that?
By Maher’s own thinking, wouldn’t the president he imagines just demand a bribe, and pay no mind to the oil spill?
It isn’t as if gun-wielding pimps and drug dealers (regardless of color and ethnicity) are generally known for their high regard for the environment, or human health, or national energy policy.
I thought his show would be better now that it’s on HBO, but it’s not.
Unlike Rand Paul, Maher is actually a comedian. What did you expect?
Maher just a comedian? Only in the sense he can try to use that “comedian” status to escape responsibility for any crap he spews. Maher aspires to being a pundit and not a comic.
And what a fine example of crap is Maher’s latest crack about Obama. Remember the backlash against Imus for his racial ‘humor’? Funny how that reaction never applies to leftoids.
…Maher is actually a comedian.
Seriously???
Maher has been making off color comments since day one. Retarded children – Dead celebrities – Child molesters. – Terrorists – Religion – All favorite topics of his. A lifelong bachelor who dates Playboy models? Check. A review of his first novel in 1994 – “It’s hard to determine what’s most offensive: the emptiness of Maher’s characters, the hostility of their material or the way both author and characters treat women.”
What did you expect from the guy who dressed as a dead Steve Irwin for Halloween?
If it wasn’t a liberal. They’d be yanked off the air.