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Bill Maher on Friday said Barack Obama’s problem is “he’s only half black.” He’d be a better president “if he was fully black.” In the season premiere of HBO’s “Real Time,” while chatting with former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich, the host said, “Isn’t Obama’s big problem is that he does everything half-assed? Maybe it’s because he’s only half black.” Maher continued, “If he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president.” As if that wasn’t enough, “There’s a white man in him holding him back because everything is half-assed” (video follows with transcript and commentary, file photo): BILL MAHER, HOST: Isn’t Obama’s big problem is that he does everything half-assed? Maybe it’s because he’s only half black. You know? It’s that, if he was a, if this, if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president. There’s a white man in him holding him back because everything is half-assed. The stimulus was half-assed, healthcare is half-assed, let’s talk about Afghanistan. What’s really hysterical about this is earlier in the program, Maher accused members of the Tea Party of being racist. I guess it isn’t racist to say there’s a white man inside the president holding him back. On the other hand, just imagine the uproar if Maher said Obama’s problem is that he was half white and that ” there’s a [black] man in him holding him back because everything is half-assed .” It seems a metaphysical certitude the panelists and his audience wouldn’t have laughed at that, nor would HBO’s management. In fact, Maher might be looking for a job tomorrow for saying something like that. Interesting double standard we have today, isn’t it?
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Bill Maher on Friday compared Americans working for oil companies to the vermin creating and distributing child pornography. In the “New Rules” segment of his “Real Time” program, the HBO host concluded with a discussion about the “murderous, hateful” oil industry. “You know, it’s Washington gospel that jobs in the private sector are better than government jobs,” said Maher. “But oil jobs are private, and look at the toll this industry takes: cooking the planet; enslaving us to Saudi Arabia; killing animals,” he continued. “Yes, the oil industry creates jobs – so does the kiddie porn industry” (video pending, partial transcript follows): BILL MAHER: New rule – stop talking about jobs being lost in a murderous, hateful industry like it’s a bad thing. Now, last week I may have hurt a few feelings when my response to the complaint that jobs will be lost in the offshore drilling business was, “Fuck your jobs.” But I meant it. And it goes double for burning coal and chopping down redwoods. Sorry, roughnecks, but eventually you’re going to have to find something else to do. Try building windmills. You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash. You know, it’s Washington gospel that jobs in the private sector are better than government jobs. You even hear Democrats saying it. But oil jobs are private, and look at the toll this industry takes: cooking the planet; enslaving us to Saudi Arabia; killing animals. If the government hired away all the 58,000 oil workers who work now in the state of Louisiana, and paid them their same salary to work repairing infrastructure and building solar panels, it would cost us $5.5 billion which the Pentagon loses every day in the couch. Wouldn’t that be worth it? Is working on an oil rig really that great a job anyway? You spend weeks at a time on a floating well in the ocean. Do you want to avoid your family that bad, take up golf. Yes, the oil industry creates jobs – so does the kiddie porn industry. Honestly, how low will this man go?
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