Fox Host: 'I Can't Believe I'm Defending Bill Maher!'

[kpete]

"It's the only religion that acts like the mafia that will fucking kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book," Maher said on Friday's episode.

Affleck called the comedian's take "gross" and "racist."

After reviewing the clip, Hemmer turned to Republican consultant Tyler Harber and asked, "How do you define what's 'bigotry' and what's just reality?"

But after it became clear Harber had nothing good to say about Maher's generalizations, Hemmer interrupted and insisted his guest wasn't listening closely enough.

"I can't believe I'm defending Bill Maher here," Hemmer said.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bill-hemmer-fox-defends-bill-maher-islam

[kpete]

1. MORE:

By the end of the clip, neither guest was throwing Maher a bone, so the Fox host decided to suggest his own position more forcefully.

"You need these religious Islamic leaders, day after day — not just now or occasionally — day after day, saying, 'this is not what our faith stands for.'"




LOL!



'If only Fox was a news network, then we could, you know, go out and actually interview the Islamic leaders I'm talking about. But we're not, so...........'

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. I guess the pre-eminent "liberal/progressive", Bill Maher ...

never heard of the Crusades, or the Inquisition, or any of the "pilgrim" communities, or the kkk.

[kpete]

4. thank you 1StrongBlackMan

i was worried i was alone...


peace,
kp

[arcane1]

5. That's because he was talking about the 21st century.

It's a show about current events, not history

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. the kkk ...

is a 21st century organization, as well as all the other white supremacist organizations killing in the name of god.

[arcane1]

8. And I'm sure he is (rightly) against the KKK.

Just as he is rightly against FGM, legally sanctioned killing of gays, women being regarded as property, etc.

[1StrongBlackMan]

17. That is probably true ...

but ... that's not what he said. Fact is, there a plenty of "religions"/groups killing in the name of their gods. To single on out is chauvinistic and bigoted.

[arcane1]

18. They can discuss one at a time. We'll have to agree to disagree on this topic.

[KamaAina]

22. FGM is in no way, shape or form Islamic.

It may be practiced in countries that are today Muslim, but predates Islam by centuries.

[arcane1]

24. A very good point! Stupid ideas often get co-opted over the years.

[Ampersand Unicode]

20. You were expecting the Spanish Inquisition?

[Paladin]

3. Maher deserves to be keeping this sort of shitty company.

He earned Fox News' admiration fair and square, with the sort of unhinged rant against all the Islamic world he indulged in, last week.

[whatchamacallit]

7. I can

On this issue Maher and Ball Hummer are bedfellows.

[Spazito]

9. When Bill Hemmer/Fox agrees with Maher...

kind of says it all re Maher's anti-Islam rant.

[snooper2]

11. anti asshole fundie rant

It's more than just a couple bad apples-

Look at the polls in Britain, number who want sharia law implemented and come back to me

[Spazito]

12. His rant was anti-Islam not "anti asshole fundi rant"...

lol on your sharia law polls. If you have a credible poll, please provide a link and, fyi, I don't consider the Telegraph a credible source.

[snooper2]

13. no, it wasn't, and if you actually listend to the guy talking about stats on his panel

It should have been clear to you-

but it's just a couple bad apples...Funny how they keep taking over cities. I guess just one or two dudes have to stay beind so the couple other fundies can take over the next one.

[Spazito]

14. Your dislike of Islam is apparent...

further discussion with you is a wasted effort.

[snooper2]

15. I don't have a problem with Islam, just fundies

And the ratio of christian normal vs christian fundie is a lot lower than muslim normal vs muslim fundie-

Sorry but that is the truth-

Last week we heard about buddhist fundies in India-



A fucking fundie is a fucking fundie regardless of religion, they all suck ass you agree right?

[Ampersand Unicode]

19. Do we still have Zoroastrian fundies or Caesar-cult fundies?

I already knew Scientology was full of 'em.

[stranger81]

21. The "stat" constantly trotted out by Maher & Harris on Friday night was one single number --

they claimed that some unnamed poll showed 90% of respondents in Egypt favored execution as a penalty for religious apostasy.

The poll was never identified. The group who conducted it was never identified. The number of respondents was never given -- we don't know whether this was a poll of 100 people or 100,000 -- and no details were given about who the respondents were or how they were chosen. Were they all men? Men and women? Members of a particular group or party?

From this single poll result generated in one predominantly-Muslim country, Maher and Harris inexplicably concluded that the vast majority of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims also believe people should be killed for leaving the faith, or drawing irreverant cartoons, etc., etc. If there were any statistics presented to support this conclusion besides a single poll of an unidentified sample size in Egypt, I sure didn't hear it.

Now what were you saying about unimpeachable facts and statistics?

[underpants]

10. Hemmed, you are supposed to be a reporter/journalist

Right?

Why would you be defending someone in the first place and why would WHO it is matter?

[CJCRANE]

16. Fox News is one side of the propaganda coin.

They spew out snti-Islam bilge and their Arabic counterpart spews out anti-American bilge.

The 1%ers laugh all the way to the bank while the rest of us are caught in the middle of their brainwashed idiots.

[JHB]

23. I can't believe Hemmer has enough brain cells to inhale and exhale regularly...

...so we're even.

[MisterP]

25. "How do you define what's 'bigotry' and what's just reality?"

well, if the question's being asked, it'd probably NOT be the latter