Laura Bassett calls out Bill Maher

[Dem4Life1102]

Good for her!

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[YOHABLO]

1. Your attacking a man that spends his leisure time in front of a stripper pole.

[evertonfc]

2. I love Bill

Don't always agree but his stand up is boss. Throw in Dave Chappell and Joe Rogan and its a trifecta of awesomeness.

[SunSeeker]

3. The one woman on the panel obsequiously agreed with everything he said.

Where did he find her?


How come they didn't mention Chris Mathews telling a college coed who was a reproductive rights activist that "With that mini skirt and being the condom girl on campus, you must be busy on Friday nights!"

[Dem4Life1102]

4. The woman is a writer

famous for being an anti-feminist.

[SunSeeker]

7. Well, that explains why he had her on to talk about Chris Matthews. nt

[JHB]

5. The people who decided Matthews' time was up were corporate executives.

Not progressives.

Not "snowflake" millennials.

Guys in suits.

Rich guys in expensive suits who had a number of employees cost them money and bad publicity in recent years, and Tweety was on the wrong side of the cost/benefit calculation.

The "cancel culture" at work here isn't the one Mahar was so eager to rant about. It was the same old one that networks have operated under since the time they went into business: expected revenues don't justify expected costs, so that's all, folks!

[bullwinkle428]

10. This x 1000. I work for a HUGE corporate entity (one that everyone here would be familiar with),

and I am personally familiar with a number of incidents of male employees being shown the door after particularly and decidedly misogynistic remarks either to or about women in the workplace, and upper management made the clear decision that they were more trouble than they were worth, leading to their immediate dismissal.

[Paladin]

6. Those of you who are still watching Maher, keeping his ratings up:

Why?

[SunSeeker]

8. Because he does hilarious takedowns of right wingers, and has interesting guests.

Unfortunately, he also puts on right wing guests, and sometimes lets his misogyny surface. He's like a lot of progressive guys I know, except he's funnier. If I cut off every friend who ever said anything sexist, I'd be a very lonely person.

[Paladin]

11. Fair enough.

Enjoy Maher's next dozen "Why Liberals Are Such Clueless Fuckheaded Losers" sermonettes.....

[X_Digger]

9. Fuck Bill Maher. n/t