Bill Maher was at his predictable worst as he used Twitter as a platform to issue what was, by his standards, a fairly standard distasteful attack of Kim Kardashian. One sort of expects that Maher will say tasteless things, but then there are comments that are even bad for his standards (such as his standards are).
It started when Kardashian Tweeted this in response to the verdict in the case of Casey Anthony (you can look it up on your own if you don't know about it):
“WHAT!!!!???!!!! CASEY ANTHONY FOUND NOT GUILTY!!!I am speechless!!!”
Maher, smelling blood in the water, responded as he Tweeted the following:
“Kim Kardashian is upset with Casey Anthony verdict? Ur father defended O.J.! Starting the Kardashian tradition of getting black men off.”
A few thoughts about the original comment and the responses that went through my head:
- He has probably been looking for an opportunity to unload this kind of comment on the Kardashian women.
- He perhaps has some underlying issues with the Kardashians and their relationships with black people.
- He is tired of seeing the Kardashians with guys like Reggie Bush, Lamar Odom, etc... Maybe he wants to see them getting off more guys like Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki and Bill Mah ... nevermind
- His comment smacks of racism (not that he cares one bit about what anyone things of him ... good, bad or indifferent ... this is how he makes his money).
3 comments:
The racism part is debatable ... and I did kick it around in my head. The thing I kept coming back to is how would many liberals feel if such a comment were made from a Glenn Beck or a Sean Hannity. I would imagine a lot more people would see it as racism than do from Bill Maher. On the other hand, in retrospect, I do tend to cut comedians a little more slack because it is comedy. If I had it to do over again I probably would have written it a little differently.
I agree with what you said about how people would have reacted if Beck or Hannity had said the same thing. I hope I'd cut them the same amount of slack as I did Maher.
I think it is kind of interesting that he would play on race. It almost seems like a liberal kind of way Fox News does the race thing.
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