Why is Bill Maher becoming such a horse's ass?

[Archae]

Not only does he buy into the "vaccines cause autism" and "germs don't cause disease" woo, now he is whining about MSNBC concentrating on the Christie scandals.

No doubt Maher used to whine to his parents about the Watergate hearings horning in on watching Scooby-Doo reruns.

[NV Whino]

1. He's always been a horse's ass

You just haven't noticed before.

[Faux pas]

4. Squared!

[Richardo]

13. He's just been for the most part *our* horse's ass.

[NV Whino]

16. True.

[Orrex]

18. ^^That.

I've been saying it for years.

He's a broken horse's ass who happens to be right twice a day.

[pangaia]

20. You beat me to it....

[Puzzledtraveller]

2. I do not think he's an ass.

He doesn't have to carry water, or kowtow, he states what he believes and makes no apologies.

[Archae]

6. Likewise for Ted Cruz and his Father.

Do they deserve a pass then?

[lostincalifornia]

8. No, but when he makes inane statements he should be called out

[shenmue]

3. I don't know

It's distressing how many people get sucked into this garbage. I had mumps once because my Mom didn't want me to get the shot. As soon as I got sick, she changed her mind.

[geek tragedy]

5. he's always been a horse's ass who says something correct every once and a while. nt

[lostincalifornia]

7. Maher is not a great thinker, he is an entertainer with opinions, who identifies as a libertarian.

His analysis of many situations is superficial at best.

[phleshdef]

21. He doesn't identify as an economic Libertarian.

He once identified as a libertarian AGES ago and he was speaking in the context of keeping government out of people's bedrooms and letting people smoke marijuana... in other words, what most people who identify as liberal or progressive also believe.

Maher is pro-choice, pro-LGBT rights, pro-universal healthcare, pro-environmental regulations, pro-progressive taxation, etc. This "Maher is a libertarian" thing should've been a dead meme ages ago.

[lostincalifornia]

50. Some of those issues you name libertarians would agree with. He does NOT identify as a progressive.

[phleshdef]

58. Yes, actually, at this point, he does. Though he doesn't like the idea of labelling.

But I watch his show every week. Sometimes he will say something like "We liberals..." or "For progressives, what we think is....", stuff along those lines. I've even heard him identify himself as a Democrat before.

If you really want me to go out of my way to provide examples, I can do so. But I have no reason to make something like that up. The main point I wanted to make was that when he said he was a libertarian, that was ages ago, and he meant in the civil sense, not the Rand/Ron Paul sense.

[lostincalifornia]

61. No need, I will take your characterization of him.

[gwheezie]

9. he's always been a horse's ass

but I like him about 90% of the time, the guy belongs to peta
If I eliminated horse's asses from my life, I'd have to avoid myself sometimes.

[Whisp]

51. +++

best answer here.

I think Maher can be a whole herd of horse's asses sometimes - that smug look he has when one of his jokes goes over well, his sometimes misogynistic crap he spews, all that but he can still make me laugh like practically no one else.

He is a great talent, and he is imperfect like all the rest of us.

[MicaelS]

10. Maher is a professional smart-ass.

He thinks he's smarter than everyone else, and delights in showing off just how smart he really thinks he is.

[frazzled]

11. I stopped watching him a decade ago

because I found him to be a truly egregious misogynist. That and the libertarianism and the smugness always made him something of a horse's ass in my book.

[DURHAM D]

34. Plus 1000. nt

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

12. I think leading with Christie every night is too much

"He's dead, Jim"....

Seriously, they act like if they go one night without leading with it, he's gonna walk away from this and no one will notice. Time to move on to other dangerous Republicans and other things that are hurting our nation.

Like that Comcast deal....oh, wait, nevermind.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

17. Is he on somewhere every night? All I know of is Friday night. nt

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

19. Huh?

The OP refers to the fact Bill Maher thinks MSNBC is too focused on the Christie Scandal.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

24. Nevermind. When you said "I think leading with Christie every night is too much"

I thought you were saying Bill Maher was "leading with Christie every night". It took me another read of the OP and your post to understand where I was losing the plot.

It's cool, I've had my coffee requirement now

[jeff47]

23. He's only dead if they keep talking about it.

Dropping the issue, as Mahr wants, would be step #1 in restoring Christie's future.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

26. Do you think the Federal investigators are going to pack up and leave NJ....

....if they tune in one night and Chris Hayes doesn't open with the usual 15 minutes of the same thing for the last month? I think we're well beyond that, and I think we're well beyond anyone salvaging Christie's national career. It's also not like anyone watching MSNBC on a nightly basis is gonna forget what a shit Crispy is and suddenly decide he's ok.

[jeff47]

31. Yeah, just like the federal investigators totally destroyed W's admin

In the Valerie Plame incident.

Oh wait...

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

33. Well, your first problem is comparing the power of a Presidential administration to a Governor's....

Second, Christie is not the darling of the GOP power brokers that Dim Son was. In fact, Dummy's brother is licking his chops when The Big Man goes down.

Third, I don't think MSNBC had any lack of coverage on Plame either....so it doesn't really matter, does it?

We've got midterms to win, and giving Chris Christie 50 minutes a night doesn't win us FL-13 or hold the Montana Senate seat.

[jeff47]

38. No, the problem is you asserting that federal investigators always take down politicians.

And Christie definitely was the favored GOP candidate. Lots of liberals are making noises about Jeb, but the GOP isn't.

Third, I don't think MSNBC had any lack of coverage on Plame either.

They didn't have much coverage. They talked about it when something came up, but it would be months between reports. That doesn't drive the "He's corrupt" message home.

Besides, the constant coverage is due to new information slowly trickling out. Should they have shut up when it turned out the PA cops were in on it?

And yes, this does help in the midterms - Christie is refusing to give up his Republican Governor's Association role, and the constant trickle of corruption is greatly harming his ability to do that job.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

30. There is no restoring Christie's future. He's toast. nt

[bigdarryl]

27. I agree 110% Rachel and Chris are starting to sound like broken damn records with

Rehashing the same shit every night. Last night wasn't the time to be doing Christie in light of the Gordan Davis case.At least Chris did cover it at the half hour of his show but Rachel didn't even mention it on her show last night.She just rehashed the same stuff Steve broke on his show last Saturday the Port Authority cop that is a child hood friend of Christie.

[DURHAM D]

36. CNN HLN is doing 24/7 coverage of the case. nt

[bigdarryl]

47. Thanks I will be watching if Rachel is covering Christie

Don't get me wrong I think it's important and I will love to see him indicted but right now isn't the time our kids are dying at the hands of stand your ground laws

[2banon]

39. I don't have cable.. but I've considered Maher a horses ass a really long time ago..

with an occasional glimpse of clips that get posted from time to time, occasionally a few are actually funny.

But on this Christie thing, I'm in complete agreement. It's actually bizarre how much attention this one corrupt bastard in a sea of thousands of corrupt politicians is being given this much attention.

I think the Net Neutrality and the Comcast merger is a very very big deal, which also has extremely corrupt implications and a severe impact on consumers. Why isn't THAT the dominate issue for today?

[Tarheel_Dem]

14. It's who he is. Love him or hate him, he can be a major jerk. I was happy to see MSNBC all over...

the Police Union connection last night, and I hope they keep it up. Christie's administration needs to be tied to every Republican in the country.

Fuck Bill Maher, he's a damn jokester. We have midterm elections to win!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

15. Where is he? What did he say? nt

[PeteSelman]

22. Never heard him say the former two.

And the latter? I don't watch much MSNBC lately for the same reason.

[MrMickeysMom]

25. I think he became popular by being in right place at right time...

Other than that, he's a relic from the past who's always advocated smoking weed and liberalism, but choosing to "woos out" when it came to any intellectual argument on the labor movement, occupy wall street, or wall street itself, for that matter.

Anyone who can walk between the raindrops like that HAS to be quite an ass, with apologies to horses.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

28. Because he's Bill Maher.

And I've always found him to be a smarmy asshole, even when I do agree with him.

[Vashta Nerada]

29. Hearing all Christie all the time is annoying.

That's why I turned off the n00z channels last week.

[Throd]

32. Becoming? He comes off as a royal dick whether I agree with him or not.

[TheMathieu]

35. If you oppose MSNBC's coverage of Christie, you support him for President.

It's as simple as that.

[Oilwellian]

48. I guess that would be true if...

one had a grade school mentality.

[Fumesucker]

37. A horse's ass that gave $1 million to Obama's reelection campaign

Maher at least put his money where his mouth was.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/24/bill-maher-super-pac-obama-_n_1299250.html

WASHINGTON -- Stephen Colbert may not support the idea of super PACs, but fellow political satirist Bill Maher is buying into the system -- literally.

During a performance of his comedy special "CrazyStupidPolitics" Thursday night, Maher announced a gift of $1 million to Priorities USA Action, an Obama-supporting super PAC. While he mocked the group's clunky name, saying it was "named by Borat," his publicist said that Maher was deadly serious about the donation and believed a second term for Obama was “worth a million dollars."

[The Second Stone]

40. Are the vaccines and germs things true?

The guy is an idiot if that is the case. I'm not a watcher of his.

[cpwm17]

41. He often insults people that most of us here don't like

plus sometimes he says things that need to be said. But he's such a racist (one of the worst in our media), anti-science ass that he shouldn't be supported by liberals. But you can guarantee that he will continue to have many fans among many alleged liberals.

[Triana]

42. "germs don't cause disease"

I run hot and cold on Maher. One day, he pisses me off to no end. The next, I agree w/ him on something. I can take or leave him most of the time. A belief that germs don't cause disease is flat-out stupid, IMO.

[RBStevens]

43. I'll agree with whoever said that he's always been an ass.

I've always found him kind of smarmy too.

[Rex]

44. horning?

nt.

[azurnoir]

45. and one more time -becoming?????????

just now????????? always has been IMO

[hrmjustin]

46. Becoming?

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

49. Love me some Bill Maher...

look forward to his show every Friday night.

[joeybee12]

52. I think you mean MORE of a horse's ass...nt

[madrchsod]

53. i always thought he was a ass and never found him funny or informative.

after a few minutes of his show i pressed the button.

[Cha]

54. I agree with some things he says and other things I don't. As for msnbc's coverage of

Christie.. Maybe Christie and his admin shouldn't have been such corrupt assholes if they and others object to how much coverage there is?

[X_Digger]

55. 'becoming'? n/t

[CBGLuthier]

56. I got tired of him around the time he started kissing Ann Coulter's ass, plus his humor is racist

at times.

[Marrah_G]

57. I like him

[Douglas Carpenter]

59. Maher has always been 50% Angel and 50% Devil. When he is good he is really good - when he is bad he

is really bad. After all, isn't he the atheist who believes God gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people?

[Politicalboi]

60. Rachel Maddow is going to be on his show

This Friday, maybe in person, Rachel can get it across to Bill.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

64. Quite the opposite, I'm sure...

...if it arises, which I suspect it will, he's going to hammer her over the head about it.

But, this isn't about Maher, this whole thing is about Rachel. Rachel is a DU sacred cow, so folks here have their hair on fire.

[idendoit]

62. Because he can say anything he wants and write it off as comedy.

The guy's about as funny as Steve Martin. Why does he always pause after saying something? So that people know when to laugh.

[Boom Sound 416]

63. Kinda sounds like a 1%er who's not getting what he paid for