Should HE apologize for seeming to condone the hard-hearted, obnoxious behavior of Republicans, Conservatives and the "tea baggers" and the alt-right? As he would no doubt say, "FUCK NO!"
Mort Sahl used to chuckle at the end of his act and say "Is there any group I haven't offended?"
The man who has become another generation's Mort Sahl, is not even asking that question. Because the people who might say yes are people who don't get or understand iconoclastic humor.
Maher is not like Jon Stewart. He doesn't pull a face to punctuate every sentence. He's not comedy's Lon Chaney, the Man with a Thousand Gruesomely Overdone Expressions of Anger and Chagrin. He rarely deviates from a smirk or a baleful stare.
But here, he did a lot of cry-faces, showing just how ridiculous the "politically correct" brigade have been, in DEMANDING apologies from Steve Martin and others.
Everybody's supposed to apologize for everything, and worse, slink off and sit in a corner until forgiven. IF forgiven. I'm thinking about Katie Rich, the SNL writer who is still suspended.
Bill didn't mention this, but it is worth noting: another trait of the "politically correct," is for the complainant to write as if he was in the 19th Century. You see this in the comments section all the time. The offended party, thinking the computer keyboard is somehow a quill pen, will open with, "You, Sir..."
Being polite and deferential while being offended? You know the two words Bill would have for that. FUCK and OFF.
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