Saturday, May 29, 2010
Bill Maher Thought He Was Voting for the OG Prez
It doesn’t rank near the top of the list of dumbest things ever said, but it’s definitely one of the dumbest things I’ve heard recently.
In wishing for an American president who is more, you know, black, Bill Maher betrays his vision of what constitutes an authentically black American: a gun-toting original gangsta.
Apparently an educated man who doesn’t feel the need to resort to threats of violence in his executive meetings isn’t black enough for Maher. His view of black men is, apparently, a cartoonish view of black men as complete captives to their violent urges, with no nuance, and, no matter the education and professional achievement, just one step away from joining the Rollin’ 30 Crips. That’s a real black president, according to Maher. I suppose that, skin color be damned, a dark-skinned fellow who doesn’t exhibit those traits is just a white man in disguise?
Which is one of many, many reasons to switch the channel when he comes on.
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I stopped watching Politically Correct* years ago. I haven’t started watching whatever his new show is called. (I had to look him up, and I couldn’t remember the name of the thing long enough to finish this sentence.)
In point of fact, a part of the reason that I don’t have HBO is their decision to give money to that hack.
Is it possible that he’s actually worse than Keith Olberman? I’m not sure that’s actually possible.
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Keith Olberman wins that battle. He’s the Worst Person in the World (aside from, you know, murderers, rapists, career criminals, vicious dictators--I think you get my point).
Maher, though, is an amazingly smug and self-satisfied asshole, which is bad enough.
If he wanted a successful black president, he shouldn’t have voted for a Democrat. Of course, you could excise the word “black” from that sentence and it would be equally true.
It’s the Peter’s Principle of promoting the incompetent to a higher level. Let the liberals now take shots at Obama.