Maher Bets $1 Million 'Token Black Guy' Cain Loses GOP Nod, GOPers Want White Candidate
During the monologue of Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, host Maher referred to GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain as a "token black guy" as he asserted that establishment Republicans are "freaking out" because they never expected him to be competitive.
Alluding to the tendency of guest characters in Star Trek television episodes to be killed off, he cracked:
The Republican establishment is freaking out because their token black guy is in the league now. They never expec-, it's like an episode of Star Trek where the black guy beams down to the planet and lives.
Maher later went on to bet CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera a million dollars that Republicans will not nominate Cain, as he made his latest accusation that Republicans are racists:
A million to one, I will give you a million dollars. If you think that the Republicans are going to have an election with two black guys against each other, that they don't have a choice to vote for a white man in the general election, that will never happen.
Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Friday, October 14, Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO:
BILL MAHER: Big news, of course, in the Republican ranks. There is a new - I say this every week - but there is a new frontrunner: Herman Cain, Herman Cain. The Republican establishment is freaking out because their token black guy is in the league now. They never expec-, it's like an episode of Star Trek where the black guy beams down to the planet and lives.
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MAHER: Let me just ask, before we move on, about Herman Cain because I don't hear any person who thinks that's going to last, even though he is the leader, except Herman Cain. I love Herman Cain keeps saying, "People who get on the Cain train don't leave." It sounds a little like, "Once you go black, you don't go back." (AUDIENCE LAUGHTER)
It does. I mean, it does. that's what, I think he should get a different slogan. But I don't know one person - do you? Is there anyone here? - who thinks Herman Cain in a month will not be down in the middle with Newt Gingrich and the rest of the also-rans?
MICHELLE CARUSO-CABRERA, CNBC: I don't count him out.
MAHER: Really.
CARUSO-CABRERA: No.
MAHER: Come on.
CARUSO-CABRERA: He has incredible likeability, likeability factor incredible, yeah.
MAHER: I would bet you a million dollars against one dollar-
(AUDIENCE APPLAUSE)
CARUSO-CABRERA: I don't have a million dollars to bet. I don't work on Wall Street.
MAHER: I do. I'm the one percent.
JOHN FUND, AMERICAN SPECTATOR: So you're one of those rich people.
MAHER: I am. I will put up a million dollars against one that he will not be the Republican nominee.
CARUSO-CABRERA: Okay.
MAHER: A million to one, I will give you a million dollars. (AUDIENCE APPLAUSE) If you think that the Republicans are going to have an election with two black guys against each other, that they don't have a choice to vote for a white man in the general election, that will never happen.
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Keep your money
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 5:46am.
Maher is probably correct that Cain will not get the nomination, but not for the racist reason he spouts.
Conversely, Obama got the nomination ONLY because he was black. I stand behind that statement, as he had NO other qualifications.
As for the Star Trek analogy...
Submitted by Dbak61 on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 11:28pm.
black or white, it was always the "red shirts" of security people that got beamed down to die. Maybe it was a cold war message to commies....Either way, Maher is an ass!
Bill Maher
Submitted by Burnside on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 6:27am.
Bill Maher = Commie, America hater, racist, pervert, woman hater, liar, Christian hating POS who is Hugh Hefner's full time rubber wearing gimp. If anyone can think of anything else, list it here.
He also parks in handicap
Submitted by zenman1661 on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 10:05am.
He also parks in handicap spaces.
That is ok.
Submitted by Bhaal on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 12:46pm.
Maher is "mentally" handicapped. He just needs to make sure that he has the plackard to hang on the rearview mirror, then it's all good.
Hev Clown Face...
Submitted by GeneralAl on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 6:30am.
Hey Clown Face, get ready to lose that bet. Cain will not only win the nomination, your boy Obama will be delivering pizzas when Cain is done with him!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Remember what the choice was
Submitted by TheHistorian on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 7:14am.
The Dems had a final choice last time between our halfrican President and a white woman with even less experience. Neither one had any relevant experience. Obama's was a likely outcome of that choice. By electing him they were able to expiate their black guilt (doubtless still there from all of their Jim Crow years). But the point is, they elected the more experienced person, to say zero rather than less than zero experience.
Dennis Prager
But the point is, they
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 7:34am.
But the point is, they elected the more experienced person, to say zero rather than less than zero experience.
I disagree. That doesn't even make sense.
Experience had nothing to do with it.
IIf not about color, it was about personalities.
So Bill is part of the 1%, huh?
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 7:22am.
So what are you doing to help out the 99, Bill?
Maher needs to take advice from his fellow lib Keith Olbermann and Shut. The Hell. Up.
I can't take any more of this crap about Cain and Republican racism. I don't have enough duct tape.
Gee, Bill
Submitted by HockeyKid on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 7:28am.
Project much?
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Maher can't project on
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 7:40am.
Maher can't project on Republicans the kind of reverse racism he's guilty of. In his racism, (just like that practiced by 99% of blacks in this country), he would vote for Obama no matter what, because he's black.
It really isn't about racism
Submitted by Smartypants on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 10:09am.
It really isn't about racism at all; it's about politics. Maher would be calling Obama the "token black guy" if Obama were a Republican; he wouldn't be voting for him, that's for sure. Don't you see the pattern? All Dems are good and all Republicans are bad to this guy. It doesn't matter their race, nationality, religion, sex, sexual orientation, eye color or favorite football team.
Token Black.
Submitted by Bhaal on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 1:04pm.
I thought Obama was the token black guy since we are reaping the rewards of that decision. Totally unqualified, unexperienced, and unskilled (unless a teleprompter is involved).
Only with his
Submitted by gailannr on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 10:44pm.
NOSE!
If he won't win then why the fear....?
Submitted by NeoKong on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 8:16am.
It seems like every single liberal on TV. has the long knives out for Cain.
The call him a token and oreo. They call him an Uncle Tom. They say he is being paid to run. They call him a traitor to his race and a sell out.
If the guy is not going to be nominated then why are all the liberals so nervous....?
When has there ever been a
Submitted by Smartypants on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 10:14am.
When has there ever been a prominent minority (including women) Republican that the left didn't seek to destroy immediately? They cannot accept a minority in power as a conservative, because it kind of undermines their whole agenda. Remember, this is the party of hate at its core. They win elections be dividing the country and convincing a majority of sub units of the population (i.e., union members, minorities, gays, etc.) that Republicans are out to get them. This is the only way they can win elections; their ideas alone won't do it. And, let's face it, they're not honest about their ideas either. They can't allow a minority to be a popular Republican; it destroys the myth that is the basis of their existence.
If Cain wins the nod (which
Submitted by Newsbusterbrown on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 8:17am.
If Cain wins the nod (which I'm hoping for at this point), you can be sure Maher will renege on his bet.
“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
File this right next to all
Submitted by Reaver on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 8:45am.
File this right next to all the Hollywood liberals who say they’ll move to Canada if a republican is president. Hello? Alec?
There may be some reasons
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 8:31am.
There may be some reasons Cain might not be nominee such as fundraising and organizational problems but race isn't the issue. Indeed under Maher's racist theory under a matchup between a fully black candidate and a half black half white candidate the racist repubs would vote for the half white candidate. Yet sinve that half white candidate would be Barack Obama Maher would have to say that repubs would vote for the dem over their party's nominee solely cause of race. What claptrack.
Yeah, as if B.O. is not the
Submitted by Smartypants on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 10:06am.
Yeah, as if B.O. is not the Democrats' token black guy.
Bill has Major Screws Loose
Submitted by Delsa on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 11:39am.
He belongs with the drama queen and the chick with the red glasses occupying what ever park it is in New York
If Maher has a cool million to blow
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 11:43am.
on a bet, why doesn't he put it to better use by sending it to the IRS?
Because that's HIS money.
Submitted by ThePickle on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 3:33pm.
Because that's HIS money.
The Liberals, especially the wealthy ones, never ever include themselves when decrying the "Evil Rich" that need to have the Government tax them into poverty.
In fact, in a 'put your money where your mouth is' move the Republicans introduced their OWN version of the "Buffet Rule" in which they would make it easier for whiny a$$ed Limousine Liberals to 'put up or shut up' by allowing them to donate a portion of their OWN wealth specifically to "debt reduction".
I can just see the crashing waves of the improperly apportioned wealth of Liberal Billionaires and Millionaires being donated to reduce our debt by those paragons of virtue and holders of the fiscal faith that billionaires don't pay their "fair share" of taxes, come rolling in to the Treasury come Apr 15th 2012.
Although I certainly WON'T be holding my breathe.
After all Liberals are whizzes at spending YOUR money for "the good of the country" but when it comes to THEIR money.....meh.....not so much.
when is America going to get
Submitted by TerryWest on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 12:13pm.
when is America going to get fed up with these race plate spinners.
Ya know...
Submitted by loxmyth on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 1:27pm.
Seems to me we are going about this wrong.
Yes, Bill, the establishment Repubs are going nuts at the thought of Herman Cain getting the nomination. Why don't you come over and help their heads explode and not just get him nominated, but help us elect him! Won't that be a hoot for you? Think of the mileage you can get from knowing you really stuck it to those racists! Sure, it hurts em to defeat whoever they run, but to defeat them with their own candidate ... C'mon, just take that mil and donate it to Cain!
Maher has actually identified the main impediment
Submitted by gopcongress on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 1:39pm.
Yes, he's a commie tool, but Maher has actually identified the main impediment to Cain's presidency. If Cain were to win the GOP nomination, he would most probably pull a Reagan-esque victory over Obama, so the biggest challenge is to get past the RINO/GOP Establishment cabal. Maher is betting a million bucks on the cabal. I will take that bet, Billy boy.
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And he didn't even get the joke right
Submitted by LinTaylor on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 3:13pm.
Star Trek doesn't randomly kill off black guys, it's the the Redshirts (the security personnel) who get killed whenever they visit the planet. It's horror/slasher movies where the black guy dies first.
Then again, I suppose saying that Bill Maher fails as a comedian is like saying Weight Watchers just might not be up Michael Moore's alley.
Maybe he's watching a different Star Trek
Submitted by GW on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 3:50am.
Where in every episode, Lt. Uhura gets killed.
"You killed Uhura!"
"You bastards!"
What a complete and total LibTard fool
Submitted by boozy on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 3:45pm.
This big nose Libtard Mayher needs to be knocked down a few pegs....saying us crackers are racist...where does he even thing that one will ever stick...Cain is in the lead among conservatives, because he represents the values of conservatives....this atheist POS LibTard Mayher needs to link up with a couple of tea party meetings to get the meaning of being a teaparty member...of course he won't...he represents and is the poster child of what is killing this country...Fool....When Cain wins, and kicks Owrongo's Ass I would like for him justify why it happened...simple...Cain is genuine, Obama is a fake...
I'll vote Cain just to see Maher's head explode.
Submitted by jakee308 on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 4:19pm.
And the look on his face when he finds he's expected to make good on his word.
What. A. Tool.
Cain Has a Degree In Mathimatics like Reagan
Submitted by Avitar on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 6:07pm.
The establishment RINO Republicans are against NERDs but the rest of us favor people who know what they are doing Can we get Maher to post a bond in Vegas? I would like a piece of that action.
Reagan had a Economics Degree Cain has one in Mathimatics
Submitted by Avitar on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 6:10pm.
Run of the mill Republicans like people who know what they are doing. The RINO Republicans don't bu they are less than thirty percent of the party. Can we get Maher to put up a bond with tha Vegas bookie?
I thought it was the Tea
Submitted by deerjerkydave on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 12:50am.
I thought it was the Tea Party that was racist. Now it's establishment Republicans who are racist? Why don't they just say, "if you don't support the Democrat Party then you're a racist!"
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