Bill Maher Tells Pussy Riot He Thinks Putin Might Be Gay

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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-tells-pussy-riot-he-thinks-putin-might-be-gay/

Last night on HBO’s Real Time, Masha Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot sat down with Bill Maher to discuss their journey from performance artists to political activists. The extended conversation, with translation help from Tolokonnikova’s husband Petr Verzilov, touched on a lot of issues, but one particularly funny moment call when Maher asked the group, “What is with the gay hate over there?”

“Vladimir Putin talks a lot about, ‘we’ve got to check the gays,’” Maher continued. “And in my experience, any time somebody talks a lot about how we have to get the gays in line, I mean, it turns out that they’re really gay themselves. I mean, every time I see a picture of Putin, he’s got his shirt off.”

“People think that that might be the case,” Alyokhina said to Maher’s genuine surprise. “So far we haven’t seen his active side of that, in that area.”

“Yeah, same thing with Lindsey Graham here,” Maher joked about the Republican senator from South Carolina.

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[SummerSnow]

1. lol

[dipsydoodle]

2. Petr Verzilov ?

That's novel.

There's an outstanding Interpol international arrest warrant out for him.

[uhnope]

3. You want Pussy Riot's translator in the gulag?

link, btw, or just more BS?

[dipsydoodle]

4. Feel free to do your own search before screaming bullshit.

When you find it maybe delete your post.

[uhnope]

5. you really want them back in prison, don't you?

[dipsydoodle]

6. That wasn't the subject so why change it ?

[uhnope]

7. your lack of answer speaks volumes.

Subject is Pussy Riot. You condemn their imprisonment, right? Right?

[dipsydoodle]

8. (a) they are no longer Pussy Riot,

but then you already know that , and (b) I already knew about his arrest warrant, which remains easy to search.

[uhnope]

9. lol still no answer to the question. Dictator-apologists

suck

[dipsydoodle]

11. The majority of us who are not so

do not get phased by the small number here who make that strange allegation.

I didn't think they should've been imprisoned in the first place but then I can't really relate to exactly what "hooliganism" refers to in either Russia or Ukraine.

[BainsBane]

10. Homosexuality shouldn't be used as an accusation

I know some LGBT folks consider that offensive.

[Union Scribe]

12. You're totally right.

It not only implies being gay is negative, it also puts the whole burden of homophobia on the gay community. Maher is too prone to this type of unthinking insensitivity imo.

[theHandpuppet]

13. +1000

Thank you.

[loyalsister]

14. Or a joke

There is nothing funny about discrimination, outright hate, and especially not the violence that has been directed toward LGBT people.