Bill Maher: Tea Partiers Support Newt Gingrich Because He’s Racist Like Them
HBO’s Bill Maher said Friday that members of the Tea Party support Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich because he’s racist like them.
Fortunately for the small portion of Real Time viewers with a brain, the Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis was there to set the ignorant host straight (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
“They may not see a Republican,” said Maher early in the panel segment of the show, “but watching these last couple of debate, all of them, but especially recently, the Tea people, who really kind of wag the dog there in the Republican Party, they finally see somebody they like.”
He continued, “I mean, Newt Gingrich, I’m sorry, but he does mirror who they are: mean, snarling, borderline racist.”
Lewis smartly interrupted, “Wait a second. Newt Gingrich is a lot of things.”
“I’m sorry,” interjected Maher, “not borderline.”
This elicited laughter and applause from his sycophants in the audience.
Undeterred, Lewis accurately replied, “Wait, who’s the one guy, though, the one guy who said on stage and took heat that if you’ve been in America for 25 years, and you’re a grandfather and you’re Hispanic, we’re not going to deport you? That was Newt Gingrich.”
Indeed it was making him likely the most moderate of the remaining candidates on the illegal immigration issue.
But one shouldn’t expect Maher or his audience to understand this.
They probably get their “news” from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
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Incredible that there are
Submitted by rbosque on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 12:52pm.
Incredible that there are enough people out there who support this POS.
And people watch Maher...
Submitted by KyWriter on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 12:56pm.
...because the few brain cells they have left are decomposing.
Maher performs for his niche audience
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 12:55pm.
Not unlike MSNBC, Maher is satisfied with attracting and holding a small but loyal leftwing audience that thinks he's a genius. He wants to be harder than Stewart and Colbert, and U wouldn't be surprised if he thinks he's smarter than them. But he'll never have a larger audience than he does now.
'Newt will lose against Obama
Submitted by buddyc on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 12:56pm.
'Newt will lose against Obama by 15%. Republicans will lose the house. Newt is a bigot. Maher is correct.
His lobbying activities and then lying about it will destroy him.
⇒ I'll bite
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 1:03pm.
Gingrich is a bigot because . . .?
Gingrich
Submitted by DC2280 on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 1:48pm.
is not a bigot in my opinion but he will play to them to win votes. That being said so will many other candidates both Republican and Democract.
Come on cool
Submitted by shawn. on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 4:47pm.
Do you actually expect this person to back up that accusation? You have some nerve. What are you going to ask for next? Facts?
A Little Early?
Submitted by Joe W. on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 1:04pm.
Hey there, Buddy....is it not just a wee bit early to be drinkin'?? The football games aren't until tomorrow. Either you're starting the tailgate party a day ahead of the game, or you have no idea of what you are talking about. No rational American voter could possibly believe that a) Barack Obama will beat ANYBODY by 15% or b) the Republicans will lose the House of Representatives. But rock on, dude. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, though.
I am not sure that
Submitted by DC2280 on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 2:01pm.
Obama can win by 15% but I believe it will be very difficult for Gingrich to carry the vast majority of those Obama won in 2008. In my opinion Rommey has a real shot to win in the north and far west.
DC2280, Really? Obama can
Submitted by Liberallies on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 3:23pm.
DC2280,
Really? Obama can win by 15%? are you serious? Many of the Democrats will stay with Obama, but there were also countless of Republicans, who for whatever reason, voted for this buffoon of a President. Obama has lost all of these Republicans and I am sure that he has lost Democrats, both far Left Democrats who will stay home and not vote, and Democrats who are closer to Republicans.
Obama can have his base, but everything else is game. And if Newt wins and he says what he has been saying on immigration, he also will have the Latino vote.
Obama is in real, real, REAL trouble, all signs point to it. If Republicans do it right, they win. And Romney will have a hard time going after Obamacare when he has Romneycare to explain. All Obama has to say is, "Romney, how can you be against Obamacare? I based it on the program you believe is so great in Mass.!" Done, Romney will be done!
The legal challenge to
Submitted by buddyc on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 4:15pm.
The legal challenge to Obamacare is that it is function for states not the federal government. There would be no basis to challenge a state's adoption of a similar health care plan.
Newt is as vulnerable on Obama care as is Newt who also supported the concept and Newt is going to be lost when Obama has people in Fan/Fred come out and say Newt was paid to lobby. Newt should have been indicted for illegal lobbying. I mean even some elected republicans indicated he contacted them on behalf of Fan/Fred.
How will Newt run on opposing Obama Care.? How will Newt run on opposing Cap/Trade? How will Newt run on opposing entitlement reform after attacking Ryan's plan?
Attacking a commentator at a debate does not qualify you to be POTUS.
I won't even mention his character flaws. It would take pages.
Sorry, Buddy, but....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 6:39pm.
the basis of the case is not a question of states' rights. It is whether the federal government can compel a citizen into entering into a contract against his will (aka the individual mandate).
"Newt should have been indicted for illegal lobbying"? Really? It's obvious you're not a lawyer. Do you play one on TV?
As far as your questions regarding "how will Newt run", he has already addressed all those issues (and others). And regarding his "character flaws", we're electing a President, not a Pope. And I, for one, am sick and tired of the rest of the GOP (with darn few exceptions) rolling over to the likes of Debbie Horseface Schultz, Nancy Pelosi, and the biggest dim-wit of them all, Harry Reid.
Neither does
Submitted by Bliggie on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 10:50pm.
Being a communist with no job experience, no governing experience, no professional background of any kind. A " community organizer" what the hell is that? And what community did he organize to what end? Oh, crickets, then I suggest you not speak about "qualifications" because if a communist, foreign raised if not foreign born American hater can become POTUS, anyone can
buddyc, Hmmm...It looks like
Submitted by Liberallies on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 3:15pm.
buddyc,
Hmmm...It looks like you do not get one of the biggest problems with Obamacare. The government madating that we must buy a service or else. This is a question that affects Federal as well as State level.
Romney is chosen as the Republican candidate and a fight against Obamacare is off the table. Plain and simple.
And Newt's character? I have zero doubt, buddyc, that those who know you, specially your close friends and family can write pages, upon pages of your character flaws. We all have them, each and everyone of us. But if you are looking for the perfect, spotless, white as snow candidate, please as Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to come down to Earth and run for the Presidency.
Newt is no saint, and neither are you or me. We want perfection from our candidates and we will never find it.
Did he screw up over 15+ years ago? yes, it looks like he did. But we only know one side of the story. We know nothing of how the ex-wife treated him. I believe this is not an excuse to leave a spouse unless they physically and/or emotionally destroyed you. But not knowing both sides of the story, kind of hard to judge a man. In our culture we are so quick to jump to the conclusion that it is always a man's fault when a marriage fails.
Regarless, people change. People repent, people ask for forgiveness. I have zero doubt that you would be very distrut if someone held over your head a mistake you made 15+ years ago and did not forgive you, right? If Newt had just had an affair, just ended his marriage, etc. Yes, it would be very difficult to support him, but 15+ years ago? Unless it is a current pattern of behavior, I am unsure what someone did over 15 years ago has to do with the here and now.
Do you believe that people can repent? do you believe that people can be forgiven? do you believe people change in a 15+ year period?
Newt is a bigot. Republicans will lose the house.
Submitted by ThePickle on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 1:11pm.
Hows that whole 'Land of Delusion' thing working out for ya?
Moronic proclamations like this make you look like a total fool. You want to make cogent arguments to support your supposition, feel free to do so.
On the other hand, if you wanna act like a cyber version of 'The Great Karnak' and come off sounding like an ignorant tool .....well then don't be surprised when someone calls you on the carpet for your pedantic prognostication and invites you to partake in a big steaming bowl of GFY.
Oh and btw.........Have a Nice Day! :)
Oops!
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 2:46pm.
Obama is a bigot. Big time.
He won.
⇒ DFTT
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 2:58pm.
"Separate and apart from this incident is that there’s a long history in this country of African-American and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately," (so why does Obama bring it up when addressing the Cambridge police arresting his friend?)
"I don’t know – not having been there and not seeing all the facts – what role race played in that, but I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two that he Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home," (so why does Obama automatically conclude it was racist in nature)
Nope, nothing racist about this guy!
Mohair's alphabet
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 1:10pm.
Starts with "F," which he uses any time he want to make the audience laugh, because whatever he says isn't funny until he says it says F.
Second letter is "R," for "racist," which is the basic logic [?] he uses. Obama proposes X; Republicans, Tea Partiers (oops, Baggers), and conservatives oppose X; therefore they are racists. Obama plays golf a lot, R/T/Cs mention the golfing, they are racists. QED.
Third letter is "A" for "abortion," which the evil, oppressive, world-dominating Catholic church opposes.
Fourth letter is "G," for "gay," which is more creative, benevolent and opening to the world than the evil Catholic church and its enablers in the racist Republican conservative tea baggers. (Wait a minute. Tea baggers are anti-gay?)
He is a pathetic human being.
Submitted by jadams9845 on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 1:19pm.
He is a pathetic human being.
All Republicans are racist.
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 1:22pm.
Therefore, any black who is a Republican is an Oreo, an Uncle Tom, a House Slave or a Porch Monkey (that would be Juan Williams). Republicans welcome, support, promote, and name blacks to influential positions to hide the fact that they hate blacks.
Clever, huh?
But you can't fool Maher and his pals.
Liberals know the truth. The facts are a conspiracy.-motherbelt's axiom
⇒ Natch, MB
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 1:31pm.
Only we racist conservatives would fail to understand the liberals' condescending need to exert such fawning protection over a race of people they've written off as incapable of caring for themselves.
I would love to post what Maher can do...
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 1:50pm.
...with his case of race cards, but I'd get banned in a heartbeat.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Slander & Libel
Submitted by ruby2ssday on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 2:01pm.
Is it possible to file a class action lawsuit against Maher for slander and libel? If he had to pay out a couple million he might get the idea. There must be a slimey lawyer out there that wants the notariety and dollars.
⇒ Congratulations, Bill Maher
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 2:18pm.
Congratulations to you and your buddies, Matthews and Moyers, on trotting out Sheila Jackson Lee to reiterate your thoughts.
You have furthermore succeeded in making every black political leader, except Obama, totally unable to address any issue other than the racial grievances your party has foisted upon them.
Well, guys, we paid for the whole show. Don't you have performances by James Clyburn, Hank Johnson, Barbara Watters, William Jefferson for us to watch? And I want my money back if I don't get to see Marc Lamont Hill.
Racist or not?
Submitted by vote24 on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 2:33pm.
Sorry Billy, the truth is not racist. I lived in a mixed white/black area for 10 yrs. By the end it was mostly black, crime was way up, my home was broken into, my visitors cars were broken into, you could hear gunfire nearly every night, property values plummeted, the schools went down hill in appearance and performance, I was routinely called names (mainly racist or white MF) on the street, and generally fearful of my family's survival. We moved! Am I racist Billy, or Sheila? Am I? I just want to know, because if that makes me racist them I'm ready to embrace my racistness and end the guilt. It is they that made me so...not me. And just FYI, i still have no automatic feelings against anyone until after they show they are a threat to me. So basically Billy and Sheila...bring it bihaches. I fear thee not.
LOL and they call it White Flight
Submitted by stunned on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 9:29pm.
Since the sixties whites who left high crime areas where blacks were attacking them were told they were guilty of racism and the libs even labeled it "white flight" as if the sight of a black family moving into the neighborhood or building caused white families to flee their homes. As if our black middle class neighbors didn't get out of dodge just as quickly when the Bronx melted down. I came from the Bronx in the late sixties as well as my husband and most of the kids in Jersey I grew up with. Our parents moved to the Bronx in the fifties and early sixties because it had been a GREAT place to raise a family for decades. Then the infamous RINO John Lindsey put into place policies and procedures that prevented the cops from enforcing minor "broken window" crimes that quickly can turn a neighborhood upside down because those laws were RACIST and policies that encouraged crimes like arson, Rudy Giulliani reversed those policies and turned the city around almost 20 years ago.
My family was one of the last white holdouts in our building despite my mother having been mugged until one Friday night coming home from work Dad had to step past the body of a murdered neighbor, an hispanic janitor who was killed for his paycheck. A black neighbor bought a home not a mile from where we moved to after they came for a visit a couple of months after our move. EVERY single family we know who left the Bronx and upper Manhattan in those years was the victim of at least one black criminal and often were the victim of multiple attacks. Those men were tough WW II and Korean war vets who only left because they were worried about their wives and kids lives. Some who stayed payed with their lives and my parents went to a couple of funerals for the stubborn and to this day liberals call those who left racists.
tired of liberal lies
As a Latino, I could not
Submitted by Liberallies on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 3:21pm.
As a Latino, I could not agree more. Sadly, similar things happen.
I remember being a young college student, not too long ago, and like an idiot wanting to connect with other Latinos because I had allowed Liberal propaganda to control my behavior. I moved to a not so nice area in Chicago which is a Latino neighborhood. I will never forget the first night I moved in. I heard shooting, police sirens and a final horn which was stuck. Pretty much the same thing through the 365 I stayed there.
However, I will say this. i had a sister who for whatever reason decided to move with her husband to a trailer park type of housing. The stories she tells me are not much different than what I saw in the pretty bad neighborhood in chicago. She finally moved out of the trailer park because, as she put it, "the white trash...", however, there is "the latino trash..." and also "the black trash..." Liberals acknowledge only the first one, the two latter ones they ignore and call you a racist if you affirm that these exist.
I'm not racist...
Submitted by Dave the mailman on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 2:39pm.
Unless "ignorant" is a race. I don't like those people.
Bill Maher - proves it once again. He is bigoted.
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 2:41pm.
I can't imagine anyone would disagree; Bill Maher is one of the more intolerant of the lot. He is intolerant of conservatives; especially of white conservatives, and radically intolerant of white Christian conservatives. I suspect that he is intolerant of conservative Jews, as well.
Therefore, Bill Maher is a bigoted person. To the dictionaries:
Ah, my old Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary.
Bigot:: one obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.
Maher is a declared atheist; in fact, he's so devoted to own belief of atheism that he is intolerant of religion.
That he is intolerant of other's [political] party, other's beliefs [or views], or other's opinions is what he demonstrates on stage for all to see, most any day of the week.
The on-line Merriam-Webster Dictionary doesn't give Maher much of a break, either:
Bigot: a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance
Hmm. Just how does he treat the Tea Party?
How about the on-line Oxford Dictionary?
Bigoted: having or revealing an obstinate belief in the superiority of one’s own opinions and a prejudiced intolerance of the opinions of others:
Ouch ! Might as well insert Bill Maher's picture.
And then there's the Cambridge:
Bigoted: a person who has strong, unreasonable ideas, esp. about race or religion, and who thinks anyone who does not have the same beliefs is wrong.
Big ouch.
There's no doubt that there a number of pure racists, and borderline racists amongst members of the Tea Party, just as there are in the Democratic Party, or the New Black Panther movement, "Kill them white cracker babies."
An exception for Maher, might be allowed here if, in this case, it was an absolute fact that each and every person associated with the tea party was racist, or if racism was a stated or presented platform of the group, that he could be forgiven for being so intolerant of such a group. However, as a group, any and all reasonable thinking people would quickly agree is not the case.
For Maher to treat - to smear - an entire group; be it whites, white Christians, conservative Christians, Republicans, or the Tea Party, with the volume of animus and intolerance which he consistently spews towards other groups of different beliefs, or views, from his own
We can only hope that one of his guests will just come right out and tell it like it is, right to Bill Maher's face.
Bill Maher. You sir, are an intolerant bigoted farce.
(;~/ gary
Was Daddy a Republican, Bill?
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 2:49pm.
I swear, the more Maher speaks, the more convinced I am that he has "daddy issues." What's the matter, Bill, was Daddy a Republican? Is that why you hate Republicans so much, especially the older Republican males?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Freud would say he has mommy
Submitted by Liberallies on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 3:29pm.
Freud would say he has mommy issues.
That wouldn't be surprising...
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 5:29pm.
That wouldn't be surprising, as it was Freud, himself, who had "mommy issues." I think we all know which "slip" Freud was most fond of, his own mother's!
What was that line from Con Air? "Pick your cliche. He was hugged to much or too little..." In Freud's case, WAY too much!
In Addendum...
I hope our resident shrink, Dr. Sam, isn't a Freudian! Heh.
Oh, and by the way, Jung, too, was a bit, how shall I put it, unbalanced? Only a true schizophrenic could come up with the theory like the duality of man! As a Jungian would say: I'm not schizophrenic, and nether am I! Double Heh!
(I actually used that joke once in my Psychology 101 class. It didn't go over very well with my teacher, who, I suddenly realized, was a Jungian!)
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Libs are getting desperate
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 3:36pm.
The libutards seem to know that Obama's ship of state is looking about as stable as that Italian cruise liner. And they're getting desperate. Boil it down, and Billy-boy is saying: 'If you don't vote for Obama, you're a racist!'
Which is EXACTLY what they did in 08. Same old canard. Try to trick the ignorant and gullible into siding with you by sliming your enemies.
Sorry, Billy-boy. Fool us once - shame on you. Fool us twice - shame on US.
Or, as one billboard put it: 'If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you're not a racist, then vote for anyone else in 2012 and prove you're not an idiot.'
Slyrr, Exactly! The far Left
Submitted by Liberallies on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 3:55pm.
Slyrr,
Exactly! The far Left media, the Left media and most Leftist are showing what the Presidential 2012 election is going to look like. Shame Americans into voting for Obama. Call anyone who is against his policies a racist.
It is partially what happened in 2008. I can give you quite a few stories of friends who voted for Obama, even though they did not like his policies, because according to them it was time for America to have a black President. I don't know if the same attacks are going to work this year.
As I told a Left wing friend onces, "I, a member of what you Left wing Americans consider a member of a minority group, here by release you from your White guilt!" my friend blew a casket! it was awesome to see. :-)
Racist Maher voted for Obama BECAUSE he's (half) Black ...
Submitted by MCLANTIERE on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 5:34pm.
Racist Maher voted for Obama BECAUSE he's (half) Black ... certainly wasn't because he was QUALIFIED (not even HALF QUALIFIRED!!
The only RACIST in this room is BILL MAHER.
RACE PANDERER + RACE MONGER
Submitted by MCLANTIERE on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 5:36pm.
Pathetic people who openly panderer to Black people are RACISTS.
M & M?
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 6:46pm.
Moyers and Maher - can you say "Birds of a feather"?
One other thought: If not liking Maobama's policies just because he's black makes us racists, what do you call someone who voted for him only because he was black (wanting to vote "for" the first black president"?
It's obvious Maher never
Submitted by ConservativeRex on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 9:03pm.
It's obvious Maher never walks the streets by himself. I only wish him and Moore would pal around and go out for a stroll somewhere.
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
Lol! All though a false
Submitted by okie-pastor on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 9:49pm.
Lol! All though a false character comparison, newt does think like the tea party. At least more than the rest of them. I wonder how Maher would feel if someone said "homosexuals support Bill Maher because He is a homosexual like they are"?