jehovahs witness protection: Watch closely as the left gives him a free pass.

Bill Maher is a dick and he in no way speaks for "the left".

Rush Limbaugh is a dick and the GOP invites him to be the keynote speaker at many of their events.

But you can't see the difference, because you're an idiot.

FTA: Bill Maher, a comedian who donated $1 million to President Obama's superPAC, attacked the only Republican member of the Congressional Black Caucus while describing the GOP as "the party of the apes."

Maher summarized that last 20 years of American politics as "the Rise of the Party of the Apes," - a riff on the movie title, the Rise of the Planet of the Apes. "t's the Republicans who are crazy," Maher added in his blog post, directing readers to Washington Post op-ed by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein that dubs the Republican Party "the problem" with American politics.

The author Joel Gehrke clearly, desperately make the connection that Bill Maher didn't intend at all, claiming Bill called West an ape. From the article, I can't tell if Bill's comments about the GOP being apes and West are from the same blog post. I strongly suspect this is more manufactured rage, jehovahs witness protection and cman.

Look guys, I'd love to discuss real issues with you. But Joel Gehrke is pulling crap out of his butt and throwing it against the monkey cage bars. Please get back with us here on real issues. Defending the crap Joel Gehrke is feeding to people doesn't make us or anyone want to change our minds and votes.

/Joel looks like a Young Republican.
//Who needs to enlist in the US military badly.

Actually, he called the entire Republican caucus apes. So maybe he what meant is that they're rare white apes and Allen West is a great silverback gorilla that has emerged suddenly from the jungle and the white apes see him and say to themselves, "My goodness, that is a very black ape. Look at his fur, I've never seen fur that black. He's so big and black." And the white apes are at once very intrigued by this new black up but also very intimidated so they scurry away to the dark corners of their caves to wait, all of them except Eeekah, a young female, a white ape so white that she seems blonde, an innocent and kind-hearted female ape who has not even had her first children yet. And she is curious about this new ape and approaches him with a welcoming smile and gently lays her hand on his chest and the other white apes creep from their hiding places to watch with a strange blend of shame and arousal as the black ape scoops her up into his thick, arms and lays her down on the floor. And she seems scared at first, she's trembling and the noises she is making sound more like hoots and screeches of pain than pleasure, but as it continues there can be no doubt and the other female apes, hiding behind their mates, cast astonished glances at each other in the dark and wonder why nobody's ever made them make noise like that. I'm not sure, that's one possible scenario, I guess.

Context and comprehension be damned.

what_now: jehovahs witness protection: Watch closely as the left gives him a free pass.

Bill Maher is a dick and he in no way speaks for "the left".

Rush Limbaugh is a dick and the GOP invites him to be the keynote speaker at many of their events.

But you can't see the difference, because you're an idiot.

You forgot to make this ^^^ bold. I went ahead and updated it.

Cybernetic: I think it's fair to say that if Limbaugh had referred to the Democrats as "the party of the apes," it would have immediately been branded a racist comment, and that the people who are giving Bill Maher a pass (in this thread and elsewhere) would be calling for Limbaugh's head.

These are language standards that liberals themselves have created, and continue to expand. Just this week, Angela Rye, the executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, said that the word "cool" is coded racial language when applied to the Obama.

You want to call that "coded racial language"? Fine. But then it's coded racial language regardless of the political affiliation of the speaker. There's not going to be one standard for conservatives and another standard for liberals. Conservatives are holding liberals to the same standards that liberals apply to conservatives, and it's tying the liberals in knots. It's hilarious. And it's long overdue.

Context. Context. Calling a party apes, in pun, then happening to mention a black man isn't offensive, regardless of the speaker. If there were a linkage, maybe.

Newsflash subby, people on the left ALSO considers Bill Maher to be un-funny and generally a dick; not to mention flat out wrong. Allen West is not an ape. He's a war criminal a-hole.

And by "implicitly" you mean "not at all".

Now, I mean, if you change around the words that he said, moving them from paragraph to paragraph and changing the order, sure.

AirForceVet: The author Joel Gehrke clearly, desperately make the connection that Bill Maher didn't intend at all, claiming Bill called West an ape. From the article, I can't tell if Bill's comments about the GOP being apes and West are from the same blog post.

He mentions Allen West like five paragraphs after making the "Rise of the Party of the Apes" comment in the original blog post.

He called the GOP the "party of apes". An allusion to the sci-fi movie "Rise of the Apes".

Lelo34: Ok, if Bill Maher actually said that then I'll be among those who said, it was a stupid thing to say. But I just (unfortunately) looked through that whole blog post, and I can't find where he backs up his assertion that Maher called Allen West an ape.

He calls the Republican party the "Party of the Apes." but that's in regards to an entirely different subject.

From what I've seen, it appears that this author just inferred that Maher was talking about West because he mentioned Apes.

Like I said: You have to wonder at the mindset that can see a reference to a black person and a reference to apes in an article and instantly link the black people and the apes.

But probably that makes ME the racist.

Lelo34: Ok, if Bill Maher actually said that then I'll be among those who said, it was a stupid thing to say.

The Right Shift
By Bill Maher

Good news: last month, for the first time in weeks, Congress passed a bill! And wait until you hear what you get: by a vote of 78 to 20, the Senate voted to extend the life of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. ...People, please! Control yourselves!

Yes, the Import-Export Bank. It's been around for 80 years. They re-upped it for another three. Now, what do you 80% of Americans who disapprove of the job Congress is doing have to say about that?? Hit the links, Speaker Boehner! You've earned it.

Now, if I were a Washington pundit, I'd launch into some boring speech about how both sides are equally to blame, and then I'd call it a day and we'd all meet at Katherine Graham's house for cocktails. Which is weird because Katherine Graham is dead. But this is why you never see us booking George Will and Peggy Noonan on my show (besides the fact that they wouldn't do it): Because the same old Washington pundits haven't said anything interesting since disco. Also because the idea that the blame for our government's dysfunction is equally shared by the parties just is a giant, steaming mound of horseshiat and anyone who has paid attention to politics over the last 20 years knows it. Or as I like to call it, "The Rise of the Party of the Apes."

In fact, recently Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, two old wonks who have been in Washington as long as the Potomac, wrote a book called "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism" in which they basically say, flat out, what I say every week: it's the Republicans who are crazy. And they wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post to go along with the book called, "Let's Just Say It: The Republicans Are the Problem."

They write: "We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party." And they're not saying Democrats are blameless and perfect. We all know there's only been one perfect man in human history. And that's David Beckham.

But it reminded me of something Barney Frank recently said: "...people have said to me, well, why can't you work things out with the Republicans, and my answer to my friends has been: Exactly on what issues do you think Michele Bachmann and I can compromise?" Basically Barney is saying, look, how do you expect me to work on the 2+2=4 bill when their side believes math is a liberal plot to turn your kid queer?

Take Dick Lugar. Who was always a staunch conservative, just not the modern-day insane variety. He was just throttled in the Republican Senate primary in Indiana by a Tea Party guy named Richard Mourdock. And after Mourdock won he said this about working with the other side: "I certainly think bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view." Which is sort of like saying to your girlfriend, "I think both our sexual needs will best be fulfilled by you blowing me."

Or take Allen West. Seriously, take him to the padded cell and give him 20 CCs of the high test. Ornstein and Mann start off their Post op-ed by noting that recently Rep. Allen West said that there are "78 to 81" Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. And not one Republican said, "Allen, come on. You're making us look dumb." Not one of the Republican candidates for president said anything. Because in today's Republican Party, that's not even edgy anymore. They probably saw him later on and were like, "Word, Allen. Word." Because that's how they think black people talk.

Here's the entire blog post:
Good news: last month, for the first time in weeks, Congress passed a bill! And wait until you hear what you get: by a vote of 78 to 20, the Senate voted to extend the life of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. ...People, please! Control yourselves!

Yes, the Import-Export Bank. It's been around for 80 years. They re-upped it for another three. Now, what do you 80% of Americans who disapprove of the job Congress is doing have to say about that?? Hit the links, Speaker Boehner! You've earned it.

Now, if I were a Washington pundit, I'd launch into some boring speech about how both sides are equally to blame, and then I'd call it a day and we'd all meet at Katherine Graham's house for cocktails. Which is weird because Katherine Graham is dead. But this is why you never see us booking George Will and Peggy Noonan on my show (besides the fact that they wouldn't do it): Because the same old Washington pundits haven't said anything interesting since disco. Also because the idea that the blame for our government's dysfunction is equally shared by the parties just is a giant, steaming mound of horseshiat and anyone who has paid attention to politics over the last 20 years knows it. Or as I like to call it, "The Rise of the Party of the Apes."

In fact, recently Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, two old wonks who have been in Washington as long as the Potomac, wrote a book called "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism" in which they basically say, flat out, what I say every week: it's the Republicans who are crazy. And they wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post to go along with the book called, "Let's Just Say It: The Republicans Are the Problem."

They write: "We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party." And they're not saying Democrats are blameless and perfect. We all know there's only been one perfect man in human history. And that's David Beckham.

But it reminded me of something Barney Frank recently said: "...people have said to me, well, why can't you work things out with the Republicans, and my answer to my friends has been: Exactly on what issues do you think Michele Bachmann and I can compromise?" Basically Barney is saying, look, how do you expect me to work on the 2+2=4 bill when their side believes math is a liberal plot to turn your kid queer?

Take Dick Lugar. Who was always a staunch conservative, just not the modern-day insane variety. He was just throttled in the Republican Senate primary in Indiana by a Tea Party guy named Richard Mourdock. And after Mourdock won he said this about working with the other side: "I certainly think bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view." Which is sort of like saying to your girlfriend, "I think both our sexual needs will best be fulfilled by you blowing me."

Or take Allen West. Seriously, take him to the padded cell and give him 20 CCs of the high test. Ornstein and Mann start off their Post op-ed by noting that recently Rep. Allen West said that there are "78 to 81" Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. And not one Republican said, "Allen, come on. You're making us look dumb." Not one of the Republican candidates for president said anything. Because in today's Republican Party, that's not even edgy anymore. They probably saw him later on and were like, "Word, Allen. Word." Because that's how they think black people talk.

There are something like 350 words between "apes" and "Allen West". Hell, Allen West isn't even the first republican he mentions.

I understand now why conservatives struggle with racism so much. They say actually racist things and get shouted down for it...then when someone else mentions one of a handful of buzzwords in any context whatsoever, it is assumed they should be shouted down, as well. It's only fair.

karnal: Apes and Baboons! That about covers both side of the isle.


Bill Maher has never been funny.....how he ever made it as a stand up is beyond me.

There is a long list of things that are beyond you. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that he is a successful stand-up comedian because many people think he is funny and enjoy his stand-up routines.

Graffito: Am I missing something or is the only mention of Allen West done by this Joel Gehrke fellow?

You missed Maher's blog post.

Good news: last month, for the first time in weeks, Congress passed a bill! And wait until you hear what you get: by a vote of 78 to 20, the Senate voted to extend the life of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. ...People, please! Control yourselves!

Yes, the Import-Export Bank. It's been around for 80 years. They re-upped it for another three. Now, what do you 80% of Americans who disapprove of the job Congress is doing have to say about that?? Hit the links, Speaker Boehner! You've earned it.

Now, if I were a Washington pundit, I'd launch into some boring speech about how both sides are equally to blame, and then I'd call it a day and we'd all meet at Katherine Graham's house for cocktails. Which is weird because Katherine Graham is dead. But this is why you never see us booking George Will and Peggy Noonan on my show (besides the fact that they wouldn't do it): Because the same old Washington pundits haven't said anything interesting since disco. Also because the idea that the blame for our government's dysfunction is equally shared by the parties just is a giant, steaming mound of horseshiat and anyone who has paid attention to politics over the last 20 years knows it. Or as I like to call it, "The Rise of the Party of the Apes."

In fact, recently Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, two old wonks who have been in Washington as long as the Potomac, wrote a book called "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism" in which they basically say, flat out, what I say every week: it's the Republicans who are crazy. And they wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post to go along with the book called, "Let's Just Say It: The Republicans Are the Problem."

They write: "We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party." And they're not saying Democrats are blameless and perfect. We all know there's only been one perfect man in human history. And that's David Beckham.

But it reminded me of something Barney Frank recently said: "...people have said to me, well, why can't you work things out with the Republicans, and my answer to my friends has been: Exactly on what issues do you think Michele Bachmann and I can compromise?" Basically Barney is saying, look, how do you expect me to work on the 2+2=4 bill when their side believes math is a liberal plot to turn your kid queer?

Take Dick Lugar. Who was always a staunch conservative, just not the modern-day insane variety. He was just throttled in the Republican Senate primary in Indiana by a Tea Party guy named Richard Mourdock. And after Mourdock won he said this about working with the other side: "I certainly think bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view." Which is sort of like saying to your girlfriend, "I think both our sexual needs will best be fulfilled by you blowing me."

Or take Allen West. Seriously, take him to the padded cell and give him 20 CCs of the high test. Ornstein and Mann start off their Post op-ed by noting that recently Rep. Allen West said that there are "78 to 81" Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. And not one Republican said, "Allen, come on. You're making us look dumb." Not one of the Republican candidates for president said anything. Because in today's Republican Party, that's not even edgy anymore. They probably saw him later on and were like, "Word, Allen. Word." Because that's how they think black people talk.

But you're still basically right.

Look at this and tell me the right isn't desperate...

Good news: last month, for the first time in weeks, Congress passed a bill! And wait until you hear what you get: by a vote of 78 to 20, the Senate voted to extend the life of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. ...People, please! Control yourselves!

Yes, the Import-Export Bank. It's been around for 80 years. They re-upped it for another three. Now, what do you 80% of Americans who disapprove of the job Congress is doing have to say about that?? Hit the links, Speaker Boehner! You've earned it.

Now, if I were a Washington pundit, I'd launch into some boring speech about how both sides are equally to blame, and then I'd call it a day and we'd all meet at Katherine Graham's house for cocktails. Which is weird because Katherine Graham is dead. But this is why you never see us booking George Will and Peggy Noonan on my show (besides the fact that they wouldn't do it): Because the same old Washington pundits haven't said anything interesting since disco. Also because the idea that the blame for our government's dysfunction is equally shared by the parties just is a giant, steaming mound of horseshiat and anyone who has paid attention to politics over the last 20 years knows it. Or as I like to call it, "The Rise of the Party of the Apes."

In fact, recently Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, two old wonks who have been in Washington as long as the Potomac, wrote a book called "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism" in which they basically say, flat out, what I say every week: it's the Republicans who are crazy. And they wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post to go along with the book called, "Let's Just Say It: The Republicans Are the Problem."

They write: "We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party." And they're not saying Democrats are blameless and perfect. We all know there's only been one perfect man in human history. And that's David Beckham.

But it reminded me of something Barney Frank recently said: "...people have said to me, well, why can't you work things out with the Republicans, and my answer to my friends has been: Exactly on what issues do you think Michele Bachmann and I can compromise?" Basically Barney is saying, look, how do you expect me to work on the 2+2=4 bill when their side believes math is a liberal plot to turn your kid queer?

Take Dick Lugar. Who was always a staunch conservative, just not the modern-day insane variety. He was just throttled in the Republican Senate primary in Indiana by a Tea Party guy named Richard Mourdock. And after Mourdock won he said this about working with the other side: "I certainly think bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view." Which is sort of like saying to your girlfriend, "I think both our sexual needs will best be fulfilled by you blowing me."

Or take Allen West. Seriously, take him to the padded cell and give him 20 CCs of the high test. Ornstein and Mann start off their Post op-ed by noting that recently Rep. Allen West said that there are "78 to 81" Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. And not one Republican said, "Allen, come on. You're making us look dumb." Not one of the Republican candidates for president said anything. Because in today's Republican Party, that's not even edgy anymore. They probably saw him later on and were like, "Word, Allen. Word." Because that's how they think black people talk.

Word, Bill, Word.

WE ARE ALL APES

GOP - still desperately tryin to false equivilence Maher to Rush with lies and deception.

So it's a day that ends in 'Y?'

They just can't stand when someone actually calls them out on their idiocy. I especally like how half the posters didn't even bother to open the link, where TFA specifically states he called "THE GOP the PARTY OF APES."

Words, what do thy mean?

jehovahs witness protection: Watch closely as the left gives him a free pass.

Better yet, perhaps you can point out for me where he calls Allen West an "ape", implicitly or otherwise:

Or take Allen West. Seriously, take him to the padded cell and give him 20 CCs of the high test. Ornstein and Mann start off their Post op-ed by noting that recently Rep. Allen West said that there are "78 to 81" Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. And not one Republican said, "Allen, come on. You're making us look dumb." Not one of the Republican candidates for president said anything. Because in today's Republican Party, that's not even edgy anymore. They probably saw him later on and were like, "Word, Allen. Word." Because that's how they think black people talk.

Jackson Herring: AirForceVet: The author Joel Gehrke clearly, desperately make the connection that Bill Maher didn't intend at all, claiming Bill called West an ape. From the article, I can't tell if Bill's comments about the GOP being apes and West are from the same blog post.

He mentions Allen West like five paragraphs after making the "Rise of the Party of the Apes" comment in the original blog post.

Yes, bot you aren't supposed to know that. You are meant to read the headline and believe that Maher said something racist but is being "given a pass" by the evil left wing media. That's what a real mare-kin would do.

Cybernetic: He also donated $1 million to Obama's Super-PAC, and has been a fixture at Democrat fundraisers for years until a few months ago, when publicity about his comments made him radioactive. Now suddenly he "doesn't speak for the left." How convenient.

I could hold a fundraiser for the tea party but that wouldn't make me their spokesman.

AirForceVet: [content.washingtonexaminer.biz.s3.amazonaws.com image 165x190]

FTA: Bill Maher, a comedian who donated $1 million to President Obama's superPAC, attacked the only Republican member of the Congressional Black Caucus while describing the GOP as "the party of the apes."

Maher summarized that last 20 years of American politics as "the Rise of the Party of the Apes," - a riff on the movie title, the Rise of the Planet of the Apes. "t's the Republicans who are crazy," Maher added in his blog post, directing readers to Washington Post op-ed by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein that dubs the Republican Party "the problem" with American politics.

The author Joel Gehrke clearly, desperately make the connection that Bill Maher didn't intend at all, claiming Bill called West an ape. From the article, I can't tell if Bill's comments about the GOP being apes and West are from the same blog post. I strongly suspect this is more manufactured rage, jehovahs witness protection and cman.

Look guys, I'd love to discuss real issues with you. But Joel Gehrke is pulling crap out of his butt and throwing it against the monkey cage bars. Please get back with us here on real issues. Defending the crap Joel Gehrke is feeding to people doesn't make us or anyone want to change our minds and votes.

/Joel looks like a Young Republican.
//Who needs to enlist in the US military badly.

He looks like someone who would would be asking me if I would like fries with that if there weren't right wing rags to employ him.

jehovahs witness protection: Watch closely as the left gives him a free pass.

A pass on what? Calling the GOP, apes?

Nothing Bill Maher ever says in his entire life will make the vile hatred Rush spews forth on his AM radio show on a daily basis ok. Subby should feel bad for thinking that it does. But he wont because he lacks the ability to do any critical thinking.

Both of them are raging arseholes that make but loads of cash for saying outrageous things. If you let either of them do your thinking for you please DIAF.

Look, there is an appropriate double standard. One is an entertainer. The other is Bill Maher.

Watch closely as the left gives him a free pass.