Fuck Kevin Williamson on Bill Maher!

[smirkymonkey]

He thinks that women who have abortions should be hanged.

I think the monstrosity that is Kevin Williamson should be hanged for his vile hatred toward women. Why does Bill have these disgusting pigs on his show? Controversy is one thing, but evil is another. He is just another sickening misogynist.

[lunatica]

1. Why would anyone invite people like that on their show?

Except to upset the audience. I’m not a fan of Bill Maher precisely because he tends to show disdain for his audience. He’s not on our side. He just likes controversy and he wants audiences that are smart, and our side is definitely smarter.

[Recursion]

2. Williamson's schtick is being a conservative who admits to hating poor white people

It's produced a couple of interesting articles at the National Review, but other than that I don't see what use people have for him.

[smirkymonkey]

5. I generally enjoy his show, but sometimes he has people on who are just too offensive and

Williamson is one of them. I agree that he tends to go for injecting controversy into his show rather than showing a united front of liberal thought. We don't need it. If we wanted to listen to these people we could watch Fox news. I
don't need to see them on his show to know how sick and offensive they are. Excerpt below from "The Week":

"But none of that compares to what we got from Williamson earlier this week, when he took to Twitter to declare that he thinks women who have had abortions deserve to be executed for their actions. And not just executed in any old way, or by lethal injection, which is the standard in the 32 states that permit the death penalty. No, Williamson thinks women who have had abortions — along with the doctors, nurses, and hospital staff involved in the procedure — deserve to face death by hanging.

Now, the hanging bit is an almost perfect example of intentionally provocative rhetoric. (That's my preferred euphemism for "trolling.&quot Note how it adds an extra frisson of outrageousness to the proposal of capital punishment, given the way hanging has historically been deployed — as a uniquely public form of execution, used by governments as well as extrajudicial gangs of private citizens to inspire acute fear and intimidation. (Williamson might have just gone ahead and advocated beheadings, though of course, as another National Review author has recently argued, only a "purely evil" political organization could favor anything like that.)"

[BigDemVoter]

25. I am flabbergasted.

These types of people should NEVER be given a free platform from which they will spew their ugliness.

[pansypoo53219]

3. catholic shit for brains.

how many people have turned out to be innocent? how many have died already. sounds opus dei for extra dumb.

[betsuni]

4. Williamson is trolling, what he thinks is "A Modest Proposal" style.

"Abortion, if it's not homicide, it ain't tax evasion, it ain't littering, if it's not homicide there's no reason to prohibit it at all. There's no reason to worry about it": abortion shouldn't be taken seriously if it's not treated like a homicide. If it isn't treated as a homicide there's no reason to prohibit it at all.

But of course attack Bill Maher for having guests on his show. I thought echo chambers were bad. He said about having Williamson as a guest that the response on Twitter will be ugly: "They'll kill me for having you on. 'Platforming' you." When idiots like Williamson are on the show they are exposed for the idiots they are. Why this is bad I don't know. Very often on Bill's show it's the first time for me to see these sorts of idiots and then feel glad that they are ridiculous and no threat.

[Meadowoak]

6. I'm glad Bill Maher has some of these idiots on his show, it exposes them

For what they are.

[betsuni]

7. Thank you!

[UniteFightBack]

10. I agree. Bill usually hands them their head anyway so bring em on! nt

[demosincebirth]

26. I agree. I like Bill Maher, even when he tells us at times what we

don’t like to hear.

[HAB911]

8. +++++++++++

[BannonsLiver]

17. +1000

I like the back and forth. Then again, I’m not terrified of hearing people with views different from my own.

[snowybirdie]

9. Used to listen

to his show on a podcast site. It was free! Deleted it from favorites and don't listen anymore. He's awful!

[Paladin]

11. Boycott Maher's show. It's just getting worse and worse.

Said Paladin, with his 20,000th DU post.

[smirkymonkey]

12. Congrats on your 20,000th DU post, Paladin!

Big milestone!

[Paladin]

18. Many thanks.

Hey, it only took me 18 years to get there.

[question everything]

13. Unless he has a womb, he has no say on this issue

End of discussion.

[smirkymonkey]

14. Absolutely!

But like most men who are anti-choice, it is all about punishing women and in his case, killing them. Think about that. He is supposedly so pro-life that he advocates hanging women who have abortions and hanging the healthcare professionals who assist them. How effed up is that?

[Zambero]

27. He's pro-birth and anti-life

Williamson's goal is to achieve an increase in female births so that large numbers of them will be hanged later on.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Yes. He's not pro-life; he's pro-birth, pro Forced Birth. . . . nt

[BannonsLiver]

16. Why does Bill have him on the show?

Because a bunch of people sitting around agreeing with each other makes for bad TV. It’s boring.

[smirkymonkey]

20. So then why do so many people watch Fox News?

We want people to reinforce our viewpoint. It is not bad TV because they are still dealing with controversial issues. The guests can still be on our side and deliver interesting television. There is no need to have an odious right-wing guest on the show, particularly one who advocates hanging women who have abortions.

[BannonsLiver]

22. I'm not interested in having my viewpoints affirmed

I’m already pretty comfortable with them. I like it when he has interesting people on even if they annoy me. I loved it when Larry Wilmore embarrassed Milo. I enjoyed this clown, whose name I already can’t remember, get embarrassed as well.

Don’t like? don’t watch. It’s actually pretty simple. I exercise my right to chose what I watch every day.

[smirkymonkey]

24. Whatever. Just asking you why so many people seem to find Fox News so compelling?

Why does the left need to have a controversial guest when the right wing news doesn't. They still manage to tune in by the millions. Do they always need a counterpoint?

Would it really hurt Bill's ratings if he did not have an obnoxious right-winger on every week? I doubt it very much. Most people tune in because they want their viewpoints reaffirmed, even if you don't.

[RhodeIslandOne]

28. "Most people tune in because they want their viewpoints reaffirmed, even if you don't."

No. Most of us on the left have brains that aren't easily damaged like righties.

I enjoy watching conservatives who are used to jerking off themselves and each other off on FOX go on Bill's show and be embarrassed. That's good TV. Watching a racist felon like Dishwash D'Snooza squirm and look to run off the set under Bill's questioning is good shit.

I find MSNBC boring, because for the most part it is a preach to the choir affair.

[gldstwmn]

19. He was awful. I had a hard time watching him.

I wondered why in the world Maher had this guy on. Williamson was clearly disgusted by the time New Rules rolled around. I was delighted.

[smirkymonkey]

21. He was such a pig.

I refrained from the physical descriptions, but the man is absolutely disgusting in every way. Perhaps that is why he is such a misogynist.

[gldstwmn]

23. I was glad that Maher reigned him

in when he started to ramble. As a lapsed Catholic I saw nothing in him that I learned in 9 years of Catholic school.