Once again... Only a foul-mouthed lib could get away with such a blatantly racist statement and still hold down a career in the democratic-media complex.
In a segment on Friday, Bill Maher explained to his panel,
“Isn’t Obama’s big problem is that he does everything half-assed? Maybe it’s because he’s only half black. You know? It’s that, if he was a, if this, if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president.“
So, what exactly does he mean by that? That “fully black” men kick ass? That “fully black” men are more aggressive?
Hello, Al Sharpton?… Are you in?
Are you going to let this racist slide Jesse Jackson?
NewsBusters reported:
Transcript via NewsBusters:
BILL MAHER, HOST: Isn’t Obama’s big problem is that he does everything half-assed? Maybe it’s because he’s only half black. You know? It’s that, if he was a, if this, if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president. There’s a white man in him holding him back because everything is half-assed. The stimulus was half-assed, healthcare is half-assed, let’s talk about Afghanistan.
It’s a good thing he’s a racist lib. If he was a conservative they would have already announced his replacement.
The double standard in our society is completely outrageous.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 91 Comments
Ken commented:
Bill Maher: Racist
ahem commented:
Half-assed? Well, Maher would know…
When all you have is a hammer and sickle, everything looks like a plantation.
Teresa commented:
The main reason I cancelled HBO was because Maher resides there. One of the most despicable people on earth.
David commented:
If Bill Maher is so smart, smarter then us “stupid” Americans, how come he hasn’t figured out he is a “Usefull Idiot” ….????
moron commented:
Exchange white for black. Bill, does it somehow sound 100% racist that way to you, yet not racist at all used as stated by you? Liberalism is a mental illness.
The Oracle commented:
Absolutely breathtaking.
donh commented:
Absolute racism. Maher cannot see Mr Obama as a person but as shades of racial skin colors. Just like Harry Ried. Half breed is an outdated put down common among racial bigots. Why not just come out and call Mr Obama an Oreo Mr. Maher. I listen to conservative media every day and am proud not to have heard anyone speak of Obama in such racist terms.
bigL commented:
Maher is a half-wit, so perfect comment! I really think some of these lefty-donks are nuts, like a hive-mentality and goofier-than-a-loon.
Faye commented:
Maher, you are an idiot!! you call us who disagree with the “white” side of Obama– racists and you disagree with Obama’s “white”side too.
Is Maher slipping in the ratings, seems like these rants come out when ratings are even more important.
Male Silverback commented:
“Maher cannot see Mr Obama as a person but as shades of racial skin colors.” donh you are absolutely correct. Seems that is what most libs focus on.
Andreas K. commented:
If I would say exactly the same, my car would be destroyed, I would be beaten up, my family would be threatened and my home would be torched.
Why?
Because it would be racist.
theBuckWheat commented:
When Nobel prize winning poet Tony Morrrison can call Bill Clinton black, then what is “black”? When the NAACP calls the black conservative Kenneth Gladney, “not black enough”, and “not a brother” then what is “black”? When Time magazine’s Jack White calls Supreme Court Justice Thomas, “the scariest of all the hobgoblins”, saying “Washington seems to be filled with white men who make black people uneasy”, than what is “black”? And when Obama, a man whose mother is Caucasian, can tell us in a widely read autobiography that in his youth he struggled with his racial identity before *deciding* to be black, what is “black”?
“Black” in all these contexts, as well as Juan Williams’s complaint on Fox News about the extraordinarily lopsided expression of Missouri voter sentiment against ObamaCare, is clearly not about “race”. It is about ideology, a clearly socialist ideology.
And so as these expressions of “black” pile up in the mind of the public, more and more will wake up to this truth: socialists will pull any heart string and descend to any dirty trick to advance their agenda. If we think they have reached bottom with Juan William’s complaint, you haven’t seen anything yet. And that is exactly why these people must be disempowered, defunded and shown to be the frauds they are.
neomom commented:
Yeah, that’s the problem
theBuckWheat commented:
Allow me to add: it is not Obama’s blackness, it is his redness that alarms me.
Wascally Wabbit commented:
“There’s a white man in him holding him back because everything is half-assed. The stimulus was half-assed, healthcare is half-assed . . . ”
If being half-white explains being “half-assed”, does being completely white explain Maher being a complete ass?
Conservate Ken commented:
Maher is a sellout just like Reid, Pelosi and Obama. They all live a cushioned millionaire existence and want no part of the piss ant peasant life they have planned for us.
So, what Maher really wants is King Samir Shabazz (Philly poll worker) in the White House to punish the rest of us. Bill Applauds and just can’t understand why we don’t like it.
Neo commented:
Maybe it’s because he’s only half black. You know?
… opposed to his “cracker half” ?
theBuckWheat commented:
Notice that Maher is sitting next to Robert Reich and not only does Reich laugh, but he gets a good response from the audience for his outrageous racist nonsense.
Joanne commented:
Obama’s problem isn’t that he is half black….or half white….it is that he is NOT 100% American whether born in the U.S. or not. He was an American citizen, and even that is up for debate because of his mother’s age at the time of his birth, and a British citizen, at birth. He is not eligible for the Office of President, and HE KNOWS IT.
bg commented:
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i’ve heard dumber people say smarter things..
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Rock commented:
Next Bill will try to blame the Right by claiming that his comments where the conservative side of him speaking out, yea good luck with that. Another closet raciest exposed by his half baked ideology.
Maxine Allison commented:
Crazy this is racist that is not why Obama is not good for America it is his agenda his color or colors mean nothing to me if he was good for America he could be purple and I would stand behind him unfortunately he is dangerous for America.
Craig Bardo commented:
Hey guys, let’s not get all pc like the other side! That was actually funny. Now it could be because I’m black that it’s easier for me but I clown the left all of the time about whether the post racial president was making decisions out of his half whiteness or his half blackness. It’s easy to get them twisted in caricatures and political correctness of their own making. Maher, like most leftists is an idiot but that was kind of funny!
Bill Fabrizio commented:
Maher would be a better commentator if he were “fully sane”!
snowman commented:
I’m guessing the racist Bill Maher didn’t get the memo from WE THE PEOPLE, Freedom is Color Blind (open your eyes).
gastorgrab commented:
If the “white skin” is the corrupting part of Barack Obama, why should we trust the observations of a man who is 100% white?
Shouldn’t we find a black guy to confirm his ‘science’, before we accept it as truth?
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Fionnagh commented:
He isn’t half-black. He’s half Arab. I recall many others doing the math prior to the election. I think the percentages were 50% white, 6.25% African and 63.75% Arabic. That said, who cares? If Obama were a conservative and patriot , I’d follow him “into hell with a gasoline can.” (Quote courtesy of Allen West:)
Valerie commented:
More people will see Bill Maher make a fool of himself in this clip on the ‘Net (for free-fair use) than saw the original broadcast. Isn’t that just delicious?
Steve commented:
Come on, guys – Bill is just trying to be funny. Still trying to be funny…
OxyCon commented:
This isn’t the first time Maher used this “I wish Obama was really Black” crap. This is from his show in late May of this year:
“I thought when we elected a black president, we were going to get a black president. You know, this [BP oil spill] is where I want a real black president. I want him in a meeting with the BP CEOs, you know, where he lifts up his shirt where you can see the gun in his pants. That’s — (in black man voice) ‘we’ve got a motherfu**ing problem here?’ Shoot somebody in the foot.”
http://gawker.com/5551249/bill-maher-wants-obama-to-act-like-a-real-black-president-with-guns-and-stuff
Maher has a Black girlfriend, so he thinks that he knows what “real Black people” act like, plus it gives him an easy out when he says racist stuff.
Stanley commented:
Bill, how low can you go? The N-Word on Larry King Show and now this. Just goes to show, you can’t get away from racism when in it’s in your head!
sheik yer\\\'mami commented:
I don’t give a f*#k for what color the guy is. He is a Marxist Muslim why wants to fundamentally transform America, and anyone with half a brain would oppose that.
But Zero is not the biggest problem in America today. The biggest problem in America are the people who elected him, and Bill Maher is obviously one of them.
An absurd, bizarre situation!
Dianne93101 commented:
The scariest thing about Liberals is that they seem afraid to criticize each other–and even go ahead and laugh at the very things that make them lose their base.
daryl commented:
Bill cain’t hep it.
Every time he tries to start a new relationship with a female she sues his sock off…… they quote lack of commitment, mental anguish, and physical cruelty as their grounds for the suit but you know it’s a LACK of much more than that. I mean, just look at him. No obvious quality in any category. Why would they date him at all EXCEPT for the money and a great chance of winning in a suit against him.
No Man commented:
Who is this Maher moron?
The Watcher commented:
What Bill said: “Isn’t Obama’s big problem is that he does everything half-assed? Maybe it’s because he’s only half black. You know? It’s that, if he was a, if this, if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president.“
What I read: “Isn’t Obama’s big problem is that he does everything half-assed? Maybe it’s because he’s only half black. You know? It’s that, if he was a, if this, if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be fully-assed.“
Radegunda commented:
Craig #24, thanks for your perspective, and it seems credible to a certain extent.
OTOH, Maher is part of the crowd that ascribes any and all criticism of BHO to racism. Even if his comment was just a joke, it does reveal, once again, the left’s habit of evaluating BHO in relentlessly racial terms. And worse, it echoes the view of many black voters who believed they were electing someone to advance a black agenda at the expense of whites.
Also, any conservative who said anything similar would be pilloried for “racism.” One radio host had to make an abject apology for using the term “halfrican.” The tone of the apology made clear that he was getting very serious flak for saying it.
Militant Conservative commented:
Obama is a failure dragging America with him. Maher is a lover of deviant behavior being accepted as mainstream. Perverts of the truth are the bane of a free society. Bill is the hive mentality king drone. Yo ass whupping is comming soon, now go cut me another switch for your sorry butt. powder is dry.
Chris Vehr commented:
Bill Maher impresses himself more than any other human alive. Keep in mind that the others on the panel laughed at his comments, qualifying them for the same trash heap as Maher.
BTW, Obama is not a half-ass. He’s a full-ass! Totally, 100% FULL! He’d be a full-ass no matter what color he was.
tarpon commented:
Bill Mahr, closet racist, make racist remarks about Obama. Hey, I bet Bill Mahr still thinks Abe Lincoln started the KKK.
Simple Answer, NO … even if he were white, still NO. It’s easy to spot communists and America does not want communism. Yesterday the Home Depot CEO weighed in …
Dennis commented:
Next time I tell someone I think Obama didn’t send enough troops to Afghanistan, I’m going to add:
“He’d have sent more if he wasn’t half black. There’s a black man holding him back.”
Craig Bardo commented:
Radegunda,
I don’t disagree. Here’s what frustrates me. I see and hear these leftists co-opt the language for their benefit and it keeps conservatives at a perpetual disadvantage. For example, “tax cuts for the rich.” They then talk about our money in terms of allowing us to keep it.
When it comes to race and Obama, here’s my take. Barry was just as half black then at near 70% approval following his inauguration as he is half white today with approval just above 39%. Now you and I know that his approval has nothing to do with his race and everything to do with his, as D’nesh D’Souza, I think correctly described, his anti-colonialist world view where America is the target of his contempt.
It is decidedly unfair that you may not feel as comfortable as I do in playing with liberals and their characterizations like a cat plays with a ball of yarn. After all, are they going to call me, born to a black mother and father, with a black sister and brother, a wife and 5 black children, racist? While we can all see liberal hypocrisy in promulgating a demographic balkanization of America and indeed the world, their rules, if you accept them, don’t allow you to toy with their nonsense. I don’t accept their rules.
Because they don’t have history, evidence or logic on their side, the left uses three devices, circular argumentation (change the subject), ad hominem attacks to change the subject and finally a charge of racism, which is supposed to end the argument or change the subject and put you on the defensive. I like Reagan’s approach, he laughed at them and pointed out the flaw in their “thinking” with humor.
Barry Goldwater commented:
He was making a joke, the show is humor – not Face the Nation. It was funny one too, “a white man inside him holding him back…” That essentially is Barry’s big problem as Maher so astutely points out. He does things Half-assed, without commitment or passion. I don’t think Maher likes POTUS very much either if you listen to his other interviews.
Paul52 commented:
Bill Maher: ALL ASS 24/7!
bg commented:
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BM, COMMIEdian..
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jorgen commented:
Half-assed? It takes one to know one.
bg commented:
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theBuckWheat @ 8:49 am #13
kudos on that..
btw: anyone notice the audience started clapping BEFORE BM even
started in with his racist, uh, joke (yeah right, that’s the ticket Obots,
that’s the way to spin, idiots, he racially bashed Obama, and yet they
continued to clap, duh!!)..
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bg commented:
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I’m not a Racist, no no no..
I’m not an Marxist, no no no..
I’m not a Islamist, no no no..
From Dreams of My Father:
“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating yourself to whites.”
From Dreams of My Father:
“I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of
grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.”
From Dreams of My Father:
“There was something about her that made me
wary, a little too sure of herself, maybe and white.”
From Dreams of My Father:
“It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show
your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”
From Dreams of My Father:
“I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself: the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.”
From Audacity of Hope:
“I will stand with the Muslims should the
political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
..still not looking at who i am are you..
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled
was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
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