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Bill Maher Rips the ‘Bluster’ on the Right: ‘Bullying Isn’t a Masculine Virtue’

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UPDATED: Monday, January 27, 2014 10:05
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Sunday, January 26, 2014 9:51 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


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Bill Maher is getting tired of conservatives touting their masculinity while dismissing liberals as pussies and pansies, and in his show-ending New Rule Friday night, he said that Democrats need to stop letting Republicans claim that “they’ve got the big balls” because, as Maher put it, being a bully is not a real masculine value.

Maher was spurred on by conservatives piling on President Obama for saying he wouldn’t let his hypothetical son play football because of how dangerous it is, because apparently “any critique of our holy religion football is blasphemy… and brain injuries are fun.”

Maher trashed all the “non-serving chicken hawks [who] see themselves as the tough guys” when really, he said, they have all the bluster of a “blogger in his bathrobe.” He said Republicans have gone from Teddy Roosevelt‘s “speak softly and carry a big stick” to Chris Christie‘s “speak loudly and be a big dick.”

He said, “Bullying isn’t a masculine virtue, standing up to bullies is,” and mocked the idea that having second thoughts about sending troops into war is somehow a bad thing. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-rips-the-%E2%80%98bluster%E2%80%
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Monday, January 27, 2014 4:21 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


Maher is so good at poking fun at our foibles. He made several sharp observations and comments, he's right bullying isn't a masculine virtue, standing up to them is.

I really liked his comment about Christie, especially.


SGG

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Monday, January 27, 2014 6:01 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Maher is a punk, nothing more.

But if he really wants to deal w/ bullies, he's looking in the wrong place.

It's the occubabies who are trying to intimidate , not those on the Right.

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Occupy Portland protester who was pepper-sprayed ordered to pay city $7,116

Elizabeth Evon Nichols, 23, became somewhat of a symbol of the Occupy movement when a photo of her being pepper-sprayed by police went viral. Nichols sued the city last August for excessive force but lost her case, and must now pay Portland back the money it spent to defend itself.




http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/occupy-portland-protester-pepper
-sprayed-ordered-pay-city-7-116-article-1.1592070



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Monday, January 27, 2014 7:00 AM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


I don't like maher that much, but it seems like he has good writers. This was a good bit.

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Monday, January 27, 2014 9:19 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Me, too, KPO. I disagree with Maher about as often as I agree with him (what I see/hear/read of him, since I seldom make the effort anymore). This time, tho', I thought he was right on.


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Monday, January 27, 2014 10:05 AM

BYTEMITE


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It's the occubabies who are trying to intimidate , not those on the Right.


...Really? That's what you're going with? Occupy Wall Streeters are "Intimidating?"

I'm not even sure if there are any of them still around, but if there are, I'm pretty sure the only thing intimidating about them would be the lack of bathing facilities and plumbing at their sites.

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