Bill Maher has the intellecutual capactity and credibility of a rubber chew toy. One of the very serious problems of our modern, pop culture driven, image driven society is precisely taking people like Bill Maher seriously.
Maher undoubtedly wholeheartedly supports the pervasive, official, government sponsored institutionla discriminatin known as Affirmatve Action, so perhaps he's not the one to be pointing fingers at a 19th century Mormon leader, a member of an era in which, had Maher himself lived, he would have in all llkelihood, gone far beyond Young in his assessment of Black people.
I'm not sure who has less credibilty at this point, Bill Maher or Dan Rather.
Wade and Gas (especially Gaz), has it precisely correct. Maher is a drug addled liberal member of a decadent and pampered bohemian cultural entertainment elite who, as a body, have so rejected both the manners and habits of critical thought that serious conversation with these people on any issue is almost an exercise in futility. An individual like Sean Penn, who has difficulty writing coherent sentences in English, are asked for their opinions on matters of which they know virtually nothing. Maher, who clearly knows nothing whatever about Mormonism, its history, or its belifes, pontificates on the sacred beliefs of a major community of faith. Well, no matter, Catholics get the same treatment from the same people.
This is only one more indication of the in group, high school clique atmosphere that permeates Hollywood and the arts such that the leftists and dominate this subculture believe they can attack and alienate large segments of the American cultural landscape with impunity, while lauding and applauding other people or groups of absolutely no redeeming societal value.
Maher should be very careful. He may think "magic underwear" (whatever on earth this means), or Brigham Young's rather measured, for the era, statements about Black people, are funny and gist for his smarmy liberal comedic skills, but a probe of his own personal life and beliefs may be an even more interesting excercise. I wonder what the liklihood might be of finding more then magic underwear in that old dark house? Sorry, the bridge is out, you'll have to stay the night...
This is the same intellectual heavyweight who called U.S. military cowards for using standoff weapons against their enemies (as opposed to going into hand to hand combat, room to room, like real men) and called Bush's dog "Hitler's dog".
This is the Bill Maher who said:
I mean, I think, Iraqis, I think, feel that if we drove smaller cars, maybe we wouldn't have to kill them for their oil.
And:
I
think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
And:
(this is, of course, known as projection)Men are only as loyal as their options.
And:
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
And:
We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.
And:
We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.
So what we have here is the standared leftist media stew: gross anti-intellectualism, profound lack of education on the issues and current events on which he pontificates, conspiratorial paranoia (see example 1), elistist cultural snobbery (see example 2) and the projection of personal attributes upon all of society ("everyone's really doing it, they just won't admit it").
Bill Maher is no more credible on Mormonism than Susan Sarandon is on environmental science.
Loran
