Now we have Internet morons and trolls screaming "He's a racist! He's a racist!"
Right, Bill Maher, who donated A MLLION DOLLARS to Obama's campaign, when all the people boldly typing "racist" from their basements didn't kick in a dollar.
And what part of Patti Smith shouting "Jimi Hendrix was a nigger" are you NOT dancing to?
What "Supernigger" Richard Pryor routine are you not laughing at?
Are you shouting "racist" at the grave of Leonard Schneider (Lenny Bruce) and George Carlin for using the N-word?
And can we STOP being so fucking coy about saying "N-word?"
You know what the N-word is, so say it if you're upset. "Bill Maher said NIGGA."
Or did he say "Nigger."
The latter would be the title of a Dick Gregory book.
The news reports I've seen have chosen N*GGA. As below:
The exchange (ooh, do we add up how many times this was quoted with N-WORD used instead? Or a BIG BLACK RECTANGLE?)
The politician I never heard of, flipped and flopped over NIGGA.
First he Tweeted that there was such a thing as at the First Amendment.
Then, thinking about it (and all the whining over Racist Bill Maher) he Tweeted about what he SHOULD have done.
What a honky.
Shut up.
Yes, Maher is "smug." Yes, he doesn't remotely have the comic chops of a colleague he hates named Bill Cosby, who has vocal, physical and facial dexterity to get laughs when they aren't in the script. Yes, he's an "equal opportunity offender" and wisely. But racist? It's a bit annoying how many morons rush to play the RACIST card.
PS, can I say morons? Or have I offended the "mentally challenged?"
Should I have said IDIOTS? Because technically, an IDIOT is so stupid he can't read. In case you don't know, the levels of stupid, IDIOT is lowest. Then comes an IMBECILE and then a MORON.
But I digress, which is SO RETARDED.
Bill Maher is sometimes cringeworthy. He has dignified older politicians on the show and drops the F-bomb in casual conversation with them. (The F-bomb is FUCK).
Maybe he does that when talking to his mother, too. His excuse is that's the way he is.
You know, like Larry Wilmore congratulating Obama for becoming President: "you did it, MY NIGGA!"
Wilmore raised a few WHITE eyebrows, but Obama told reporters Wilmore's use of the N-Word "came from a genuine place" and he understood that it was meant with affection.
But you don't understand that Maher's remark was not meant to be racist? That it was meant to call attention to the fact that Nebraska, and the Southern states, and ghetto areas of cities are still rife with blacks treated like slaves? That some blacks are still working in the fields, and others are domestics cleaning homes and merely having the benefit of air conditioning while they work for minimum wage?
"A Northern nigger's a Negro..." sang Randy Newman. Bob Dylan sang about people who thought Hurricane Carter was a "crazy nigger." Randy and Bob are racists? Only rappers can say NIGGA?
And isn't NIGGA still NIGGER? You know, like George Carlin saying that people who shout "Oh Shoot" are still saying "Oh shit?" Because, "SHOOT is SHIT with TWO O's."
Come on, LIGHTEN UP with the NIGGA-RACIST stuff.
This is a problem that will never go away. There are blacks who absolutely detest both words, and others who figure the more they are used the less power they have. And there are rappers who insist that NIGGA is a friendly word among other NIGGAS but is exclusionary to honkies. (Whites. Crackers.)
Pryor, you may not recall, used "Nigger" constantly on stage, but claimed, after visiting Africa and seeing the dignity and history of his people, that he would never use the word again. Which didn't seem to make an impression on some comedians influenced by him, including Paul Mooney, who once did a routine loaded up with NIGGER, and then he mocked the whites in his audience, mimicking what they were thinking: "Stop saying Nigger...he's giving us a Nigger headache!"
So this morning's headache is people who hate Bill Maher jumping on him for a wisecrack that, perhaps, was simply not very witty or funny. So? His batting average is still extremely high, his ratio of brilliant remarks to dumb or opinionated ones is easily 20 to 1, and who ya gonna call to take his place? Mort Sahl at 90, muttering about how he knew Alexander Haig?
The number of clever political comedians (either Liberal or Conservative or supposedly neutral) is...let's use the S-word, SMALL.
The number of blacks in Republican Sasse's state of Nebraska is small, too. Many seem to get MURDERED:
SASSy man, anyone asking about the racism in a state where Blacks, whether working out in the fields, or indoors at a Burger King, only get $9 as minimum wage? Nebraska: $9 minimum wage. But go ahead, spend your time backtracking on why you didn't notice a notoriously un-PC comedian ad-lib "nigga" while trying to make a point.
WHO is going to take Bill Maher's place if the nattering nitwits of the Internet forced him out? We have millions, literally MILLIONS of droning dopes on the Internet who are not very entertaining, but think that one of the few guys who can get a laugh should have his mouth nailed shut (with the same brand of nails that went into the hands of poor Jesus).
Oooh, that Bill Maher. He's JOKED about things. Sacred things. You can THINK "NIGGER" all day long, and know exactly what the "N-word" means, but you just don't say it. Unless you're black, maybe. And here, one of the thousands and thousands of Tweets or Facebook rants I could screen cap for you. It's a religious fanatic who wants to remind us all, that WORSE than saying NIGGA, is Bill Maher saying abortion is ok, and that it's possible that people are killing each other over an imaginary friend:
Yeah. I'd like THAT guy to get his own HBO show every Friday night and entertain me!
Fortunately, words are not going to bother Bill Maher, and using the K-word, this "kerfuffle" will be forgotten by the time he does his next show and comes up with a whole new set of seething, sarcastic, realist and usually funny remarks.
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