Former Congresswoman Smacks Down Bill Maher for Calling Fox's Megyn Kelly 'Not Bright' 'Blonde Twink'
Former Congresswoman Jane Harman called out Bill Maher Friday evening for saying Fox News's Megyn Kelly was a "blonde twink" who's "not bright."
Appearing on HBO's "Real Time," Harman responded by noting that Maher had just minutes before discussed with author Ron Suskind the sexist treatment of women in the Obama White House, and then said, "I want to point out that the last time I was on this show, there were lots of women on. This time, I'm it. I'm blonde. Hey" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL MAHER, HOST: Here’s the difference I think between Republicans and Democrats. At one point, the blonde twink who’s asking these questions.
JON AVLON, NEWSWEEK: That’s a technical term.
MAHER: I’m sorry, I meant Madame Curie. I don't know who that lady is on Fox, but she's not bright. She was talking about, you know, Obama’s big thing this week, the millionaire's tax. Obama, in the slow retreat that is the economic policy of the Obama administration - can't tax everybody. Can't tax people who makes $250,000. We’re down to just, okay, just the millionaires. That’s who, you know, thinking no one could object to this. And most Americans are for this. And this lady says, she’s posing to us she says, “66% of Americans actually think this is a good idea.” Whoo-hoo.
FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN JANE HARMAN (D-CALIFORNIA): Wait a minute. About the blonde female. We just had Ron Suskind on, didn't we, and he was talking about, or his book is about the treatment of women in the White House. I want to point out that the last time I was on this show…
MAHER: It’s not because she’s a woman. It’s because she’s dumb.
HARMAN: …there were lots of women on. This time, I'm it. I'm blonde. Hey!
He really is an idiot, isn't he?
First, he completely forgot that his previous guest just released a book about the sexist treatment of women in the Obama White House and that he actually discussed this issue with him.
Next, he went after the intellectual capacity of Megyn Kelly, a former attorney that is considered one of the most intelligent people on Fox News. As anyone familiar with Kelly's work knows, Maher wouldn't last 60 seconds in a debate on any subject with her.
But right-thinking observers know Maher's sexism and misogyny, especially for conservative women, knows no bounds.
Brava to Harman for calling him on it. If only more left of center women would.
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Yes, he is.
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 10:43am.
He really is an idiot, isn't he?
He didn't forget that Susskind was just on. He was done with that segment.
New segment, new attitude.
Old and stale: Mistreating women is wrong.
New and hot: Insulting women is cool.
And HBO keeps right on saying
Submitted by ThisnThat on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 10:55am.
And HBO keeps right on saying "This man is cool. Let's keep him on as long as we can. Wonderful addition to our culture".
__________
“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
Yes, he is
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:48am.
....an extraordinary idiot.
I would love to see him face to face with Megyn Kelly. She would skin him alive.
He's such a coward, we'll never see that, though. He can throw all the insults he wants to from his studio, big man that he is.
Pathetic.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Megyn Kelly has more
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:48pm.
Megyn Kelly has more intelligence, class, style, elegance, common sense, and attractiveness in one of her burps than Donkeyface has ever had in his whole pathetic life.............
The way this fool degrades women is astonishing - he must have had a real doozy of a mother, and/or he's as queer as the Jack of Hearts (with a serious anti-women streak), or he's hung like a Pez dispenser.............
Excellent observation, motherbelt
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 4:18pm.
And kudos to former Congresswoman Harman for gently sticking the knife in Maher's side and adding a twist. I've always felt that many liberal women understand that the liberal males are often misogynists like Maher who have little more respect for them than they do conservative women.
Buffalo Bill Maher...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 10:50pm.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/buffalo%20bill%20silence%20of%20the%2...
"It puts the lotion in the basket!!!"
Maher is the grey dink...
And to think, Maher's show is
Submitted by ThisnThat on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 10:50am.
And to think, Maher's show is broadcast across the entire transcontenental land 57 states of America, where only dims from the president on down are the best and brightest!
__________
“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
Intercontinental?
Submitted by Outback Jon on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 6:58pm.
Don't you mean "intercontinental", like the railroad?
Suggestion to Bill Maher
Submitted by Bourbeau on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:13am.
Let's see how bright you are: you pick the topic, invite Megyn Kelly on, and you debate her for fifteen minutes. When it's over, call her a dumb blonde twink to her face. Come on Maher; be a man; don't hide behind your desk spewing your nonsense. Stand up, do the right thing, and take Megyn on face to face. Oh, and have your producers ready w/some shovels; it'll be one of the few shovel ready projects to get started on time.
I would love to see Megyn's
Submitted by ThisnThat on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:22am.
I would love to see Megyn's response to Maher's comments. I believe afterwards Maher would beg to be carved up, instead, by the sharpest knives around the next time.
__________
“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
not really familiar with Ms Kelly
Submitted by kata on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:37am.
but I've seen extremely smart people get trounced by "comedians". It's hard to argue with a person who perpetually lies and constructs armies of strawmen because you're constantly having to try and re-frame the argument and then get caught in the minutia of correcting facts. If an internet trolls have an avatar - he's it.
I would wish that she would ignore... in fact I wish that everyone would ignore this piece of trash.
Nice tag, Kata
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 4:59pm.
Just noticed it.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Examples
Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 10:08pm.
I would be interested in any examples you have of smart people being trounced by Bill Maher. In my opinion, Maher is going avoid the people he hammers in his pathetic monologues. Since I do not subscribe to HBO, I am not familiar with his guest list.
My money all on the "blonde twink"
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:39am.
If you combined Maher's and Moore's IQ, it would not be half of Megyn Kelly's!
I'll go one step further and bet that she could not only whip their asses in an intellectual match, but that she could also kick their ass in a physical match up.
Kudos to Jane Harman for calling out this piece of Shiite for his comment.
I'm standing by for our very own Blonde to "castrate" Maher with her usual skill.
We blonde bimbos stick together
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:58am.
Castrating him would be a waste of time, there's no there, there, if you know what I mean.
Why use a really sharp knife on this peanut when a nail file would do? Maher runs his mouth from the safety of his studio....his nasty mouth is clearly his means at overcompensation for what he is lacking, both physically and intellectually. Zero squared.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
That's what I love about blondes!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:08pm.
Ya'll never leave us wondering what you are thinking, and you do it in such a regal way.
Hey Bill...
Submitted by Ricksterct on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:35am.
There's an intercontinental train leaving in 10 minutes. Be under it.
Hey, Rick. Do dat train ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:41am.
... go to all 57 states?
Let's have Bowel Movement team-interviewed by...
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:40am.
...both Megyn Kelly and Laura Ingraham. They would slice and dice him, leaving the remnants in the gutter to be swept away with the trash. Bowel Movement's biggest problem is "small man" syndrome. To him, attention is the most addicting drug that he can find. He says outrageous things and covers for himself by using his self-annointed role as political comedian. He is just like his man-crush Chairman Zero: an unearned malignant ego of cosmic proportions; a monumental incompetence with facts, data and analysis; and the need to deflect by using someone else as his excuse for his disgusting diatribes.
Slow retreat?
Submitted by BTW Biological ... on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:43am.
So actually he says Obama really wanted to increase taxes on people $250,000 and up, but he had to pull back(retreat) on that idea. So now increasing taxes on $1,000,000 is what they are left with. Kelly says that 66% of the public are for that and that is good thing; yet Maher thinks that more people should be for it.
I dont know how she is dumb if she thinks it is good that 66% of Americans are for something that Obama will do? Isn't that a matter of subjective opinion. If it was 95% and she said that was good, would she be genius?
Megyn Kelly is no doubt too smart ( and too classy)
Submitted by no tingly legs on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:49am.
to stoop so low that she'd appear on this libtard's show. I only wish Barbara Olson had this attitude back in 2001 when she was flying out to lala land on AA Flight 77 to appear on this twit's show. She'd still be with us today if she exercised some common sense back then.
I think Megyn and Barbara would relish combat with Maher
Submitted by nkviking75 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:00pm.
From what I've seen of Megyn Kelly, I suspect she'd relish carving Maher into a million little cubes. And from what I remember of Barbara Olson, I think she probably had the same attitude. It's tragic that we lost her, but in a way she died in the line of duty.
“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
You got that right...
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:49am.
Maher would be eviscerated my Megyn Kelly if he had the balls to debate her. But we know that number one, he is a loudmouth coward. And number two, he has no balls.
Bill Maher
Submitted by NewLife56 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:52am.
I would say that even Bill Maher has a brain but in the wrong head, but that would be dis-honest, he doesn't even have a dick to have a brain in. LOSER
One more thing...
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:00pm.
Maher is full of sh_t making believe he doesn't know who Megyn Kelly is... he knows damn well who she is from her multiple on air beat downs of Maher's butt-friend Anthony Weiner. That's why he is insulting her...
Megyn Kelly seems smart to most here
Submitted by shawn. on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:05pm.
............unless she is defending Chaz Bono. She is then considered a not so bright person with stupid talking points
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2011/09/16/foxs-megyn-kelly-disa...
no one in that thread
Submitted by kata on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:24pm.
called Ms. Kelly stupid. One person called her talking points stupid and questioned her judgement for using them. Most expressed dissapointment. Disagreeing with a person's opinion isn't necessary questioning their intelligence.
Good morning KK
Submitted by shawn. on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:35pm.
I did not say anyone called her stupid. I said "not so bright" and she used stupid talking points. The post I linked said she used stupid talking points did it not?
mornin shawn
Submitted by kata on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:41pm.
well you said "smart to most here ... unless"
Stupid being the converse to smart I guess it's my bad that I inferred it. But without implying that people were indeed calling her stupid then I'd have to wonder what was the point of your post.
I guess KK it bothers me
Submitted by shawn. on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 1:09pm.
When some really like somebody, but when they defend a leftist opinion they are attacked
It bothers me even more when consevatives freak out when Christine o Donnell, Palin or Bachmann are criticized by other conservatives. It does not give power to liberals
Personally, I don't like
Submitted by redfish on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 1:35pm.
Personally, I don't like Megyn Kelly that much in general, her opinion on Chaz Bono aside. I don't agree with a lot of what she says, don't think everything she says is smart, and she does a lot of things that I groan at (like how she referred to herself as "preggers", I hate that), but at least she's smart enough in the way that she can cross-examine others and defend her own point of view, and keep her opponents on her toes -- that owes to her degree in law. Even smart people can be dumb about certain things ; just look at Paul Krugman.
So even though I have plenty to critique about her, it would never cross my mind to call her a "blonde twink". I think the article here is right in suggesting Maher is pretty sexist when he feels he can get away with it; and the media lets him get away with it because he's attacking conservatives.
Hiring Megyn
Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 9:53pm.
If I needed someone to represent me in a court of law, I would hire Megyn Kelly in a minute. As for Maher, intelligent, beautiful women like Megyn Kelly and Sarah Palin wouldn't waste a minute on him if he were trying to hit on them in a social setting and that's probably what Maher can't stand.
True
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 12:32pm.
She is not preggers---she is a preggo! And not even that at the moment.
Look for Megan to address
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 1:34pm.
Donkey face, Monday.
I saw that "episode" but
Submitted by amyshulk on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 1:14am.
I saw that "episode" but missed the thread. I remember thinking she reacted like it was a personal thing, and that she would have *shredded* anyone who offered up her arguments!
Ronald Reagan
Re: MK would relish combat with Maher.
Submitted by sherlock1 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:34pm.
"Relish" could describe what was left of him afterward.
I think
Submitted by Bob K on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:40pm.
her degree in political history and her law degree beats his B.A.'s in english and history. LoL.
Megyn is great
Submitted by StarAZ on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:49pm.
She is quick, funny, informed and fearless. She could take down the Playboy-grotto-water-drinker here with a few sentences. Good for Jane--and I am not a fan of hers, really.
And she's gorgeous, too.
Submitted by jessieH on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 1:17pm.
And she's gorgeous, too.
Maher's problem
Submitted by Bhaal on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 1:32pm.
He can only relate to women if money is involved. He doesn't know how to act in a normal way. The amount of money determines what he can do or say to them and the way he treats women like Palin, Bachmann, and Kelly, he must think he paid them 1 million dollars.
He only relates...
Submitted by GeneralAl on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 2:20pm.
He only relates to men. He's a flaming f****t!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Off the Charts
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 2:13pm.
When Will HBO suspend Bill Maher like MSLSD did to Ed "Wrong Way" Dip-Shultz for his attack on Laura Ingraham?
If we used the phrase "lower than a snake oil samesman, lawyer, used car salesman, politician", etc., I think Bill Maher is actually worse. He is the fecal matter that is released out of everything listed.
Jane Harmon "SMACKS DOWN" Bill Maher
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 2:30pm.
The only time I want to see the words "smack down" connected with Bill Maher is when it ends up with him and a bloody nose.
Sorry, but I wouldn't call that a smackdown. But I wouldn't
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 2:55pm.
expect Jane Harmon to criticize a fellow Leftist. I know Jane Harmon. She was my Congresswoman for 16 years. Just another rich pathetic Liberal.
You are correct, Rush Fan.
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 3:01pm.
She took offense that Maher called her a Blonde Twink and Pointed out that she was a blonde also. She did not call him out for saying Megyn Kelly was a Twink. I would LOVE to see Megyn Kelly and Bill Maher walk past each other down a non-crowded street. I bet that Maher runs away from Kelly and craps himself.
djwolf12......Now THAT would be a smackdown!
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 7:49pm.
Megyn Kelly is no one to mess with. `
As for Jane Harman, I saw it the same way you saw it. Harman was defending herself, not Megyn Kelly. I always keep in mind that Libs require attention. Harman knows that if she argues too forcefully with Maher, she won't be invited back.
duplicate post
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 7:41pm.
I guess the system hiccuped.
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THAT is why he hates her
Submitted by Lipton on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 4:15pm.
there is no way in any world he could have her. That is why he must demean her.
I meant the above as a reply to the
Submitted by Lipton on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 4:17pm.
Person that said Megyn is beautiful.
Poor old Donkey Face Maher...He is so transparent...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 5:56pm.
None of these beautiful, strong, smart and accomplished women that he constantly goes after, would walk across the street to ____ on him, and he knows it, pathetic trash that he is (which is why he hangs out at the Playboy Mansion in LA with the brainless bimbos).
Maher just can't help it...The sewage just flows out of his mouth unabated anymore...He makes my skin crawl.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
It's a tell - the harder he
Submitted by amyshulk on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 6:23pm.
It's a tell - the harder he goes after someone, the more he feels inferior to them.
I noticed that he sucks up and treats well the *real* idiots - I think one of the last shows I watched he had Maxine Waters on on and when she said "Eeeeeeeeevil bankers MADE those people buy too much house" I about fell out of my chair!!!
Question - why do we all accept that when we drive that new car we just bought off the lot, it has a HUGE depreciation immediately, but people who *should* have bought a house to *gasp* LIVE in, are suddenly acting like it's the end of the world because on paper they have less???
Ronald Reagan
Bill Maher is a misogynist...
Submitted by stage9 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 8:11pm.
irrelevant pile of sewage scum. His mouth is like his face ugly and obscene.
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
Kelly: Degree in Political
Submitted by Cowboy on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 9:17pm.
Kelly: Degree in Political Science from Syracuse University; a J.D. from Albany Law School; Editor of the Albany Law Review; Practiced law for nine years.
Maher: B.A. in English and history from Cornell University; Comedian
Who is the 'twink'?
Cornell University? THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY?
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 1:57am.
Or did he go to the same Cornell (Cow) Agriculture school that Keith Olberfatassmann went to?
Getting Chewed
Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 9:40pm.
Bill Maher better hope he never debates Megyn Kelly because he will get chewed up and disposed of like a bad piece of meat. Maher displays his ignorance when he says stuff like that, knowing he is not likely to ever encounter Megyn Kelly on his pathetic show or Fox News. We can depend on 2 things from Maher: every day he will show everyone how ignorant he is and he will be vulgar doing it.
Don't blame the mom
Submitted by stunned on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 9:43pm.
I met her mom while she was a patient in the hospital I worked at and heard from the nurses what a lovely woman she was. They were all so surprised! LOL Moms shouldn't be blamed all the time a kid is a screw up. He is the product of the left loony fringe he took up with in Hollywood, he practically lives at the Playboy mansion and looks at all women as sex toys. Men like him are a dime a dozen, shallow and incapable of looking at a female as anything other than an inferior and avoid comitted relationships. They often are addicted to having sex with hundreds of women during their lives while at the same time holding them in contempt, Maher fits that description to a tee. Mysoginist is the technical term for men like him.
tired of liberal lies
Blonde twink?
Submitted by ckc1227 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 10:24pm.
So, is he calling her a gay dude?
Buffalo Bill Maher....
Submitted by USMC8411 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 10:52pm.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/buffalo%20bill%20silence%20of%20the%2...
"It puts the lotion in the basket!"
Bet the liberal grey dink wears women's underwear!
I opened this blog post.....
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:33pm.
........expecting to see Jane Harmon defend Megyn Kelly. What actually happens is Harmon just bantering with Maher about his comment and herself being a blonde.
I thought he was describing Mika from the Morning joke show!
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 9:47am.
"blonde twink" who's "not bright." We can add little Katie Couric to the list as well.
I actually canceled HBO
Submitted by conard3 on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 12:28pm.
I actually canceled HBO because of Maher. I will resubscribe in the spring when Game of Thrones comes back... and then promptly cancel again when it's done.
Game of Thrones is most
Submitted by amyshulk on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 1:24pm.
Game of Thrones is most excellent!!! I bought the books:
George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire) [Print] [Mass Market Paperback]
And just finished them - they average 1000 pages each!!!
Ronald Reagan
what he really needs
Submitted by jimtrees on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 7:16pm.
Is a good old fashioned A$$ kicking. That's all it would take for this very meek man.
Maher and HBO
Submitted by truckinmann on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 8:34am.
Anyone who has HBO as part of their viewing package for there television is supporting this radical communist movement. I got rid of HBO years ago and have never regretted doing so. I can see whatever movies I want somewhere else. ( I don't have any of the "movie" type channels, as they are all full of communist propaganda) I have never seen a Maher show, and never will. I have seen clips of what he says and there is no doubt the man hates America and the people in it, as he grows rich criticizing other Americans for trying to get rich like himself. People, don't support these anti American businesses like HBO, or any channel that espouses the same kind of leftist propaganda.