I don't know why I continue to watch Real Time with Bill Maher. His unreasonable generalizations are just as ridiculous as Fox News and Glenn Beck's ability to find a "scare you shitless" story about, say, a photo taken of President Obama years before. The difference to me is when I hear Fox News, I just role my eyes and can't take them seriously because I feel in some way, they don't really believe that President Obama is a secret Muslim trying to bring down democracy and strip me of my freedom. That is just a good tagline to throw it to commercial. As for Bill Maher, I think he actually believes that if one is critical of President Obama's policies, it is only because he is black. What gets me is that he actually believes he is open-minded.
I wish SNL Weekend Update would do a "Really, Bill Maher, Really?" sketch, but I'm going to save my birthday wish for something more important, like a white suede vest sported by the great Boyz II Men (I hold my breath every time I open a present, hoping for that white vest). But I digress. My point is that Bill Maher is NOT open-minded. Open-minded somehow has gotten mixed up with progressive (which I would also argue is not the correct term, but a matter of opinion). But if people don't agree with Bill Maher's progressive ideology, he deems them close-minded, religious, Republican bigots.
Bill Maher is just as much of a bigot as he accuses others to be!
big-ot:
-noun a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.
I'm not defending the people who don't share Bill Maher's views. There are people who are right-wing, Fox News fanatics that are bigots. Only, it is the smug, I know better than you, attitude of hypocritical Bill Maher that gets me - along with anyone who claims they are open-minded, but really just think those who share their opinion are the real "open-minded" ones.
So, if you love European green energy, universal healthcare, and believe that every Homosexual has the right to marry (I'm not taking a stand on any of these here) and you condemn anyone who doesn't share that point of view while you drive around in your Prius (complete with a Darwin-Jesus fish) with a trunk full of organic food stuffed in canvas bags, you are just as close-minded as you are accusing others to be.
Bill Maher, it is possible to respectfully disagree. And I disagree with many of your opinions, you left-wing liberal, immoral, s.o.b., devil in a Gucci suit who is destroying the fabric of our society...
