Maher Defends Limbaugh: 'He Apologized, Liberals Looking Bad Not Accepting'
Here's something you probably thought you'd never see.
Vulgarian Bill Maher Tuesday actually came out on Twitter in defense of - wait for it! - conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh:
Hate to defend #RushLimbaugh but he apologized, liberals looking bad not accepting. Also hate intimidation by sponsor pullout
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) March 7, 2012
So, why do you think he did this?
In the wake of the Limbaugh-Sandra Fluke controversy, Maher's coming under a lot of pressure from conservative groups for his vulgar attacks on women.
Despite his claim Friday that he's different from Limbaugh because he doesn't have any sponsors, he knows this is nonsense.
HBO makes money from subscriptions, and it's far easier for such patrons to directly make their negative opinions known to a company than in a traditional boycott. You call up your cable provider and drop the channel. Simple.
As such, one gets the feeling there may have been a lot of that lately in response to advertisers dropping Rush.
Just as Limbaugh likely started getting pressure from stations and his advisers before his apology Saturday, you can bet Maher has been told by people inside HBO and business managers that he needs to put his finger in this dike before it explodes all over him.
Maher's probably beginning to realize that if Limbaugh continues to lose sponsors and stations, he'll come under even more pressure which could force HBO to dump him.
Take it from someone that watches Maher almost every time he's on television - this man hates Rush Limbaugh. He'd only be defending him to prevent financial loss. Period!
And, if this tweet doesn't stop the bleeding, there might be something more closely resembling a real mea culpa in the days to come.
Stay tuned.
(H/T Hot Air)
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They dont call him Pig
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:04pm.
Maher for nothing!
I recognise Rush, but who's
Submitted by Free Stinker on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:06pm.
I recognise Rush, but who's the man in the other picture?
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Racial Madow?
Submitted by GregE on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:12pm.
Racial Madow? :-)
That was my first
Submitted by Schofield Kid on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 8:34pm.
That was my first thought--Madcow's younger sister. Also, putting a finger in the dike is an appropriate analogy given I don't think Ms. fluke has be too worried about getting pregnant, if you know what I mean!
Why they paired a picture of
Submitted by Snappy on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 12:09pm.
Why they paired a picture of Rush next to a young John Kerry is beyond me. Wasn't aware he had waded into this yet.
Once again, Maher proves he
Submitted by guein on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:14pm.
Once again, Maher proves he doesn't know anything about politics. This isn't about what Rush said, it's about the political mileage that the Democrats can get from beating him over the head with their PC sticks. And, since when did liberals care about looking bad when they have a media that will never demand any standards from them.
Of course he knows that, he
Submitted by seen the light on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:42pm.
Of course he knows that, he is playing dumb!
I thought the phrase
Submitted by panzerakc on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 4:07am.
"playing dumb" means that one is pretending to be dumb . . . .
Good point
Submitted by Rukus on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 9:32am.
.
I imagine this is nothing more than a preemptive strike on ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:14pm.
Maher's part; whether self initiated or not.
I just don't see the milk of human kindness flowing from his persona.
MD
Speaking of flipping, we need to flip this!
Submitted by neutron on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 9:25am.
The Libs are contacting Rush advertisers and telling them that they won't buy the products.
Rush supporters need to contact those advertisers who have quit advertising on the EIB Network, and tell them that they will never get another purchase from a Rush supporter.
Rush supporters need to contact the advertisers who have stayed with Rush, and tell them that it is appreciated, and then go out an buy some of their stuff!
I didn't know that Sargento cheese and Johnsonville brats were part of the Koch brothers' companies, but when the unions in Wisconsin told me in their bitch/whine fest, I made sure to buy only those brands when buying cheese and brats. I need to find out who is still loyal to Rush and support them.
Breitbart is here!
Be Breitbart!
BTW, I'm not a Republican. I'm an Indie, but I love the Bill of Rights, and want no restrictions on any of our liberties.
I'm thinking that Donkeyface
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:15pm.
I'm thinking that Donkeyface was starting to get a little paranoid about all of these comparisons to Rush, and the fact that he might possibly be called upon to debate Rush, or be held to a higher intellectual standard - due to these comparisons and publicity. And even a jerk like Donkeyface knows that he's not in the same ballpark, much less the same league, as El Rushbo, and he wouldn't be able to stand up to 1/10th of what Rush knows!!! So, whether he wanted to or not, he needed to get himself out of the crosshairs of comparison...........and he did so by basically throwing his audience under the bus...............but they were allready a bunch of idiots, so what's the difference. Maher is basically interested in self-preservation.
The heat is on!
Submitted by tomchris on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:15pm.
Yeah. Maher's tweet is definitely a quick defensive move. The bullets intended for Rush seemed to ricocheting and heading for Maher all day in the talk radio and blogosphere. Push back is a bitch.
I agree
Submitted by Free Stinker on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:21pm.
Maher is a jerk, but he's a smart jerk. Smart enough to know that this situation is quickly backfiring on the Left.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
That's ALL about Maher.
Submitted by GregE on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:16pm.
Period. Checked out the water first..........couple days........lets seeeeeeeeeee........what's going on, how's it lookinggggggggggg.........yea looks dicey, I say all kinds of things..........yeaaaaaaa, uhhhhhhh, ok time to tweet a defense.
Sweet
Submitted by GregE on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 12:22am.
So all of ya'lls replies (below this) are to someone who got pulled, so now it appears I'm the jackass Bill Maher wannabe fern who's got his caps lock on.......LOLOL
No Greg*
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 1:02am.
The ferns name was jackiebird. Try not to parrot ....LOL
Thans for clearing up my confusion
Submitted by Lipton on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 11:37am.
I didn't get the whining about the CAPs.
I'm speaking softly here
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:22pm.
Do you think you could turn off the CAPS lock? It's kind of like you're shouting as us. Yes, we agree with you, but the caps lock. Thanks.
And no, most don't believe this was anything but CYA on Maher's part.
Admin alert*
Submitted by cajun2 on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:22pm.
A bill maher wannabe...
WTF????
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:23pm.
Calm down jackass. We get it. Noel said the same thing you did, albeit without all the frothing.
So has every commenter so far. Relax.
So, you a fern maybe?
"So, you a fern maybe?"
Submitted by GregE on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:35pm.
"So, you a fern maybe?"
BLAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!
I've been wondering when this moron
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:21pm.
would finally realize that all of the hoopla over Rush would come down on him too.
People who live in glass houses and all...
Too little too late to save his own hide.
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:34pm.
The problem with the left going after Rush Limbaugh for his comments on Miss Flake are that they rebound quickly to what their own pundits said about Sarah Palin, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Michele Bachmann and other conservative women. Fat Ed will probably try some ploy by focusing on other issues to deflect. Bill Maher is trying in his own incompetent, inept and indolent way to save his own behind. Those psychotics Malloy and Hartmann will probably try to condemn, but they are bigger misogynists than the other three combined. And lest we forget Queefie who is essentially banished to low end cable TV.
A good question for Ear Leader at a debate will be why he so quickly called Ms. Flunkie to play up Rush's mistake, while at the same time he said ZERO on liberal misogyny. He will have no place to go, and the teleprompter won't accommodate the Narcissist in Chief with a quick answer, unless a debate host from the mainstream media comes to his assistance.
DocSam, you think that Mittens would ask him that?
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 1:04am.
I have a sinking feeling that we'll be treated to 2008 Redux, in the debates. Mittens will try to prove he's above the hyperbole of the commoners, and we'll get "collegiality" all over again.
Excellent comment drsamberman. This jumping on of...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 6:10am.
Rush gives Rush a great opportunity to compare and contrast his words and context vs. theirs. (Maher, Schultz, Olbermann, Allen Grayson, Maxine Waters and the female Schultz named Debbie Wasserman, among many others.)
Rush wins that battle easily as he has illustrated over the last two days.
P.S. I read on Drudge that Carbonite's stock has plummeted since they stopped advertising on Rush's show.
Damage Control
Submitted by seen the light on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:43pm.
Pure and simple. He and others know they can't keep this up. It is turning attention on them. It allows them now to look fair, after the damage is done. The libs are well organized, astroturfed up and very good at this.
We need to learn from them.
All anyone needs to learn
Submitted by poseA on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 1:25am.
All anyone needs to learn from pathological liars is how to spot them.
I'm already there ;)
Netflix and Limbaugh
Submitted by Liberallies on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 2:29pm.
Seen the light,
I just read that Netflix dropped Rush Limbaugh. I have Netflix, I am writing and calling to ask if this is true. If it is...I am dropping Netflix.
And i agree, the libs are much, much better organized than the Right.
Everyone here who has Netflix needs to call them, email them and drop their services if this is true. However, find out if it is true first. I had heard on ABC News that GEICO, AllState, Autozone had dropped him. When I conctacted them, since I use all three, all three informed me that they either had NEVER advertised on his show or had dropped him back before 2005.
So, call Netflix people and find out. I am doing it today!
Here is your
Submitted by poseA on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 1:27am.
Here is your sign.
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/call-fcc-remove-bill-maher/lcLKynvN
Once Lib-baugh is off the air
Submitted by lrgon on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 1:38am.
who is Maher going to have as a foil?
And how, Irksome, would
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 1:59am.
And how, Irksome, would Limbaugh be 'off the air'??? And Donkeyface is so much of a lightweight that he could use you as a foil, and STILL nobody would notice. The Donkey's little tweet today was pure self-preservation...............he's a little chickenshit with a big mouth, and nothing to back it up with................and I still doubt that much of that supposed 1 Million that he donated to your Boy Barry was HIS money.
The fact that your guy can't win anything is really starting
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 1:58am.
to get to you, isn't it Irksome? You're pissed that Rush recognized that Ronpaul, in a national contest, is a loser, and had nothing good to say about the space he was wasting, right?
Oh, is Irksome a Ron Paul
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 2:00am.
Oh, is Irksome a Ron Paul guy??? Hell, all this time I thought he was a Boy Barry guy!!! Same difference, I guess. Paul is almost as delusional - especially as it pertains to foreign policy.
Oh yeah, Killa, nothing but a Paulistinian.
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 2:07am.
Now that you mention it, when it comes to defense, foreign policy and the borders, Ronpaul is the Albino Obama.
You speak TROOF,
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 2:33am.
You speak TROOF, UpNorth................and my own adjective for Paul - as it relates to foreign policy - is 'myopic'. I know his followers seem to purport to understand why other countries 'hate' us, but his response seems to be to go internal and forget about them. I say....................to all of the countries that have their right hand out for money, and their left hand out with the middle finger extended............F**K YOU!!! But..............if you wanna be on OUR team, and have a similiar outlook and philosophy as it relates to world views, as we do.........then we will continue to help you, but you've got to be genuine and legitimate. There's a LOT of countries who DO 'hate' us (and ask me if I care) that we are continuing to fund and support..........and with the Boy Barry REGIME, it seems to be moooooooooooooooooooooslem countries, whose REAL objective is to destroy us!! Prove to me that I'm wrong, Irksome!!!
Hey, UpNorth.............PM your email to me...............I have some things you might enjoy.
aloha,
Killa from Hawaii/Asia
And yet
Submitted by iFight on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 11:15am.
6 months prior gas was over $4 a gallon. Must be presidential precedent.
I read Irgon's profile. It is as empty as his...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 5:52am.
head.
No clue
Submitted by CJohnson on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 3:10am.
My theory is Maher never receives any response from the conservative public. Why egg him on? At most, Maher probably gets 100 deranged responses from fans every time he makes sexually implicit insults, begging for more. He is to political discourse what a bar stripper is to dance, and his audience is a mirror of himself; a cheap spectacle.
Bill Maher is one of the most despicable persons alive.
Submitted by jawebster1 on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 5:47am.
That tweet sounds totally out of character for him.
Just wait. In a short time, we are going to learn that someone hi-jacked his twitter account and tweeted that tweet for him.
Anybody wanta bet?
Maher is probably going to go dark...
Submitted by P. Aaron on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 9:19am.
...for a bit. Some news item will break and the left will come back all at once so there's much too much dreck. Which is how they always do it. They muddy the facts and establish a unrelated narrative.
The only weapon against this is to not watch.
Hell has frozen over.
Submitted by rickbren on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 9:22am.
Donkeys fly.
Agree
Submitted by CM on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 11:13am.
I don't see why some feel the need to bully sponsors of a show they don't like. If you don't like what the host is saying then don't watch/listen.
Most worthwhile blog article I have read in a long time
Submitted by Lipton on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 11:19am.
I couldn't get why Maher did this. It was bugging me last night and even this morning. I even thought for a brief moment that Maher might actually support freedom of speech. Thankfully, I can calm down and comfort myself knowing my instincts were right.
That's because Maher's an
Submitted by wiwf on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 11:28am.
That's because Maher's an equal opportunity offender.
Cancelled
Submitted by Maytag on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 11:35am.
Dropped my HBO tuesday and told them it was specificaly because of maher's filth and dirty name calling. She said she would pass it on, hope she did
I just called HBO corporate
Submitted by RightieUntilDeath on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 1:13pm.
I just called HBO corporate in New York. After a couple of pushes of the button, I was transferred to an operator in human relations. I told her I wanted to complain about the double standard between The reaction to Rushes comments and Bill's comments. She told me she was only taking comments and forwarding them to executives. I told her I would be forced to cancel my subscription with HBO if Maher doesn't do something quick.
The telephone number is: 212-512-1000
DesertCop, I dropped cable a
Submitted by Liberallies on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 2:21pm.
DesertCop,
I dropped cable a long time ago, but when I had comcast, I called them AND HBO. I let them both know that I was cancelling them because of Bill Maher.
I travel a lot during the Fall and Spring school semesters. I always call ahead to the hotel that I am staying and ask them to block HBO for me. Bill Maher is actually a saint compared to the rest of the filth and radical Left wing propaganda that HBO puts on.