Ravi
Diamond Member
Journalists are held to higher standards than comedians and talking heads and sports commentators.Why has Rush not been fired?
I think a better question is..
Why was Juan Williams fired?
It is really that simple.
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Journalists are held to higher standards than comedians and talking heads and sports commentators.Why has Rush not been fired?
I think a better question is..
Why was Juan Williams fired?
I dont believe this is a debate about Mahers first ammendemnt rights.
I believe it is a debate about the lack of tolerance by the boradcasters when race or Islam is attacked...compared to the tolerance of the same when Christinaity is attacked.
NPR fired Williams when he skirted away form the PC-ness of radical Islam.
All I saw were attacks against Maher. That's fine ... I'm not saying that people should not state their opinions about him.
I haven't seen actual examples of this "lack of tolerance by the boradcasters when race or Islam is attacked...compared to the tolerance of the same when Christinaity is attacked" and did not see where anyone cited actual examples. I suspect there aren't any.
If there are, please post a link because I really would like to see it.
I already cited examples...
Juan Williams was fired from NPR when he admitted that he felt "concern" when he saw Muslims enter a plane he was on.
A golf sportcastrer was suspended when she used the term "lynch mob" when talking about how the rest of the PGA tour was going to gang up on Woods on the laSt day of a tournament. She is a greta freind of woods and was not politically aware...or even alive...when lynch mob was deemed as having racial underetones.
Howard Cosell was suspended and his career marked when he referred to a black running back as a "monkey" when, in fact, hew used that term for ALL running backs and his grandchildren as well.
Do you really need links to these?
Handi-capable, douchebag.Maher is one ugly hearted human being in my book.
I can't believe people PAY to see him
Give it time steph.
It shouldn't be long before democrats attack handicapped children again.
They were quite proud of their actions with palin.
All I saw were attacks against Maher. That's fine ... I'm not saying that people should not state their opinions about him.
I haven't seen actual examples of this "lack of tolerance by the boradcasters when race or Islam is attacked...compared to the tolerance of the same when Christinaity is attacked" and did not see where anyone cited actual examples. I suspect there aren't any.
If there are, please post a link because I really would like to see it.
I already cited examples...
Juan Williams was fired from NPR when he admitted that he felt "concern" when he saw Muslims enter a plane he was on.
A golf sportcastrer was suspended when she used the term "lynch mob" when talking about how the rest of the PGA tour was going to gang up on Woods on the laSt day of a tournament. She is a greta freind of woods and was not politically aware...or even alive...when lynch mob was deemed as having racial underetones.
Howard Cosell was suspended and his career marked when he referred to a black running back as a "monkey" when, in fact, hew used that term for ALL running backs and his grandchildren as well.
Do you really need links to these?
Oh, I thought you meant Don Imus.
Journalists are held to higher standards than comedians and talking heads and sports commentators.Why has Rush not been fired?
I think a better question is..
Why was Juan Williams fired?
It is really that simple.
Maher is safe, because religion is not protected like race.
You have an odd name for someone that doesn't understand freedom of speech.
I think what saveliberty is referring to is the "tolerance" of the producer of Mahers show. We have seen entertainers suspended for actions as simple as using temrs like "lynch mob" when discussing Tiger Woods. The golf channel had no tolerance whatsoever for that action and suspoended her...even though it was quite obviopus that she meant absolutely no harm to Woods and was not even aware that such a term had racial undertones to it.
Howard Cosell said "look at that monkey run" referring to a black runningback...and he was suspended...even though he had used that term many times for running backs of all colors...he was ALSO known for referring to his grandchioldren as "monkeys".
What Maher said was dam funny.
Not much difference, with many, football is a religion with it's fanatical followers.
This has nothing to do with football any more than that golf broadcaster using the term "lynch mob" had to do with golf.
It has to do with the equality of tolerance.
Equality of tolerance? Equality is just a pipe dream.
We are speaking about a comedian here not a newscaster.
Rush gets by with lots of stuff too. He even insults politicians children and wives.
But then he is just a right wing comedian.
Why don't you just answer uscitizen's question?Why has Rush not been fired?
I think a better question is..
Why was Juan Williams fired?
What Maher said was dam funny.
No it wasn't. Being a scumbag isn't funny, and it doesn't make you 'edgy' or 'hip' to pretend so. It just makes you a scumbag too.
Why don't you just answer uscitizen's question?Why has Rush not been fired?
I think a better question is..
Why was Juan Williams fired?
Yep, check out this thread where the rightwingloons were all defending Maher's right to be offensive because he was being offensive about Muslims.Mahar attacks the fuck out of Islam, too. <--that's truth.
What Maher said was dam funny.
No it wasn't. Being a scumbag isn't funny, and it doesn't make you 'edgy' or 'hip' to pretend so. It just makes you a scumbag too.
Edgy or hip?
Humopr is humor. Put your partisan and/or PC glasses down and you, too, will laugh a lot more.
Don Rickles was a pisser. Found myself laughing at myself many a time. Big freaking deal.
A while back, I argued with the left about a family guy episode that indirectly poked fun at Palin, children with Downs Syndrome, and pussy whipped men all at the same time.
Then, I saw the episode...and I gotta tell you...it was dam funny.
Hip and edgy? No. Just a normal human being that likes humor.
Maher is safe, because religion is not protected like race.
Maher is safe, because religion is not protected like race.
Maybe that's because race is real.
Bill Maher sure knows how to push those right winger buttons.
My panties aren't in a BUNCH over Maher. I just said what I think of him AND you..after you attacked me over a AVATAR...so that is why you got the petty INSULT..I found it rather witty myself......but HERE YOU COME...talk about PETTY AND CHILDISH
Tell us some more about how your panties aren't in the bunch.
Make sure you up the capslock use a bit in order to really emphasize just how not bunched they are.
WILL DO
and it's not over Maher. I wouldn't cross the street to pee on the guy if he was fire..that's how much I care about him