Trump: If Conservative Mocked Someone's Religion Like Maher Mocks Romney's - 'End of That Person's Career'
Donald Trump on Monday had some harsh words for Bill Maher's incessant attacks on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Mormonism.
Appearing on Fox News's On the Record, the real estate mogul said, "If a conservative Republican made a like statement about somebody else's religion, there’d be hell to pay. It’ll be all over the place. It would be the end of that person's career as you know it" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: You talk about laughing, and more of the controversy about Bill Maher. And let me repeat he is a, you know, standup comic. He does satire. His whole thing is comedy. But one of the things he says, he refers to Mormonism, the religion of the Republican nominee, as being stupid. And that is just old fashioned bigotry. And, you know, your thoughts, I mean, you know, he is laughing at it and he’s got the crowd laughing with him. Your thoughts on that?
DONALD TRUMP: Well, it's tough stuff, I mean, when you say that. He’s a comic, but that is really not funny, and frankly, it's amazing, and if the other side referred to somebody else's religion, as an example, if some nice conservative Republican said something about another religion, I won't even say which one, but let’s say another religion, there would be hell to pay. It would be a front page of every newspaper tomorrow. And here’s something that is hardly being covered, although you're covering it, but it's hardly being covered.
VAN SUSTEREN: But it's interesting when the crowd laughs, it's so hard to, you know, people oftentimes don't realize they’re being bigots if they get people laughing with them, even other bigots I guess.
TRUMP: Well, I know Bill Maher, he’s doing his thing, and he’s having a good time doing it, and he’s doing well with it, I guess. But it’s a tough statement, and frankly, if somebody else made that statement, and certainly if a conservative Republican made a like statement about somebody else's religion, there’d be hell to pay. It’ll be all over the place. It would be the end of that person's career as you know it.
Indeed it would. But with the current media, you're allowed to say anything you want about a conservative with total impunity.
As Trump said, it really is amazing.
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Jeez, when I look at this
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 1:32am.
Jeez, when I look at this photo of Maher, I realize why I call him Donkeyface - and that's being unfair to the damn donkey!!!
But Trump is right.......................there is only ONE reason that Donkeyface can do what he does and say what he does, and that is because he's a lewd, crude, rude, sick, deranged, loony lib - and that fits in with the business that he's in, and the people who pay attention to him. I don't think that Boy Baraka has given a cent back to Maher............although I still doubt if the whole million dollars was HIS money!!!
If a conservative calls a slut a slut, or calls racism on a racist - he's in danger of losing his career these days!!!
Proof!
Submitted by Arlen Cooper on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 4:54am.
At 5' 2" in height, Maher proves that you can stack shit pretty high!!
Maher
Submitted by HudsonRiverGirl on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 6:53am.
Difference is that we expect dreck from Maher and he never disappoints.
He's held to no standard at all because he's a buffoon similar to Sharpton, Shultz, Soledad and assorted other non entities.
I would call.....
Submitted by GeneralAl on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 7:10am.
I would call maher [I don't capitalize crap!] a Stupid Idiotic Jackass except I don't want to degrade a Stupid Idiotic Jackass!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Why Maher gave Obama a million dollars
Submitted by Texndoc on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 9:40am.
To save his career. I don't even think the left likes him. He's like Tingles.
Sure he packs his audience with clapping shouting loons. But I'd bet he's a very lonely man.
Sad
Submitted by indyeight on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 11:07am.
Bill Maher is ugly on the outside but even more on the inside. However, Mormonism does deserve much criticism. The religion began around 1830 but the concept began in the garden of Eden when Satan lied to Eve and told her that she would not die for partaking of the fruit but that she will be as God. She accepted the lie of the devil over the Word of God and we know how that turned out. The Mormon's do the same thing when they put the Book of Mormon at a higher place than the Bible. Mormonism, though still growing in popularity, is a fringe, cult-like movement.
Maher is the joke
Submitted by jqc1985 on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 11:24am.
Maher was one of those ugly little kids who was picked on as a whimpy child and instead of growing up to become a man he is still that ugly little puke. No woman would even look twice at him without checking out the size of his wallet first.
They don't make wallets big enough
Submitted by panzerakc on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 6:29pm.
To make Maher attractive.
Attack Mohair with the same weapon
Submitted by CO2Maker on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 12:00pm.
Mohair goes after Romney via Romney's religious beliefs. Strike back at M with the same strategy, but since Mohair says he is an atheist (ex-Catholic, oops, 'scuse me, a recovering Catholic), you can't use religion. So attack him on his personal beliefs, e.g., he has the cojones to f*** (his favorite word, it seems) women but not to commit to marrying one. And he chooses only good-looking women, so he discriminates against aesthetically-challenged women and also against men (not that there's anything wrong with that).
Sad, that is sad
Submitted by palmg on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 3:41pm.
There's bigotry, then there's ignorance. You have your facts very wrong, so as to not be facts at all.
The ol, "I know the guy
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 7:38pm.
So I wont be calling em a creep" bs.
Your posing Trump, call the creep what he is, a freakin creep. Also, next time you run into the creep, tell em he's a creepy creep.