Until last night I thought that that was just a moniker conjured up by the right to give all liberals the same tired, old insults they always did.
After previously seeing clips of Mr. Maher's show and John Oliver's I thought adding HBO to my cable lineup would be a good idea. Those clips were funny and poignant, not unlike The Daily Show and The Colbert Report that I have been enjoying for years (I am a liberal after all). But I saw the Maher show in its entirety for the first time last night and I finally knew what "liberal Hollywood elite" meant.
Maher was so full of himself that he was laughing at his own jokes more than the audience was. He even repeated jokes when he didn't get the reaction he wanted. His tenor was one of a man with a very large ego steeped in self righteousness.
In his panel segment he brought up the shootings of unarmed black men that seem so rampant these days. In the Walmart shooting of the guy holding an air rifle that was on sale, he made a totally inexcusable, tasteless joke about their needing a "cleanup on aisle seven." He immediately cut to his 'hostile' guest, Gen. Zinni, who had a smile on his face and quickly cut back to himself with a shameful countenance as if to say, "General Zinni, how dare you think that joke was funny." It was Maher's own despicable joke! What a douche. Gotcha journalism at its worst.
His elitism even extended to a brief segment where he insulted people who are having problems with their new iPhones. He said, "To the six people who had a problem with their iPhone 6+ bending, maybe it's because you have (read: are) such a huge ass." He was showing a picture of a very fat buttock with an iPhone sticking out of the pocket. [I never understood the attraction of the 'iLife'. Apple has repeatedly violated human rights at their suppliers in China, has so much built-in obsolescence in their products with non-replaceable batteries and no memory card slots and makes you pay through the nose for a very proprietary, closed system.] So I guess it makes sense for an elitist to defend Apple products and I'm sure he owns them all, but as a supposed defender of human rights it just doesn't wash. But I digress.
It's people like this who are anointing the unelectable (IMO) Hillary Clinton. They purport to defend the rights of women but never talk about real reasons why she would have stayed with a cheating husband (#whyhillarystayed ;-)), which doesn't engender her to women. And America hasn't elected an obese president since Teddy Roosevelt. Optics matter now more than ever. (Where are your jokes about huge asses now Mr. Maher?)
The whole show left a bad taste in my mouth for many in the political side I'm on. With people like this defending liberalism, who needs rabid conservatives? Bill Maher needs to take lessons in humility. I now understand what a liberal Hollywood elitist is, and I wish they'd stuff a sock in it.
After previously seeing clips of Mr. Maher's show and John Oliver's I thought adding HBO to my cable lineup would be a good idea. Those clips were funny and poignant, not unlike The Daily Show and The Colbert Report that I have been enjoying for years (I am a liberal after all). But I saw the Maher show in its entirety for the first time last night and I finally knew what "liberal Hollywood elite" meant.
Maher was so full of himself that he was laughing at his own jokes more than the audience was. He even repeated jokes when he didn't get the reaction he wanted. His tenor was one of a man with a very large ego steeped in self righteousness.
In his panel segment he brought up the shootings of unarmed black men that seem so rampant these days. In the Walmart shooting of the guy holding an air rifle that was on sale, he made a totally inexcusable, tasteless joke about their needing a "cleanup on aisle seven." He immediately cut to his 'hostile' guest, Gen. Zinni, who had a smile on his face and quickly cut back to himself with a shameful countenance as if to say, "General Zinni, how dare you think that joke was funny." It was Maher's own despicable joke! What a douche. Gotcha journalism at its worst.
His elitism even extended to a brief segment where he insulted people who are having problems with their new iPhones. He said, "To the six people who had a problem with their iPhone 6+ bending, maybe it's because you have (read: are) such a huge ass." He was showing a picture of a very fat buttock with an iPhone sticking out of the pocket. [I never understood the attraction of the 'iLife'. Apple has repeatedly violated human rights at their suppliers in China, has so much built-in obsolescence in their products with non-replaceable batteries and no memory card slots and makes you pay through the nose for a very proprietary, closed system.] So I guess it makes sense for an elitist to defend Apple products and I'm sure he owns them all, but as a supposed defender of human rights it just doesn't wash. But I digress.
It's people like this who are anointing the unelectable (IMO) Hillary Clinton. They purport to defend the rights of women but never talk about real reasons why she would have stayed with a cheating husband (#whyhillarystayed ;-)), which doesn't engender her to women. And America hasn't elected an obese president since Teddy Roosevelt. Optics matter now more than ever. (Where are your jokes about huge asses now Mr. Maher?)
The whole show left a bad taste in my mouth for many in the political side I'm on. With people like this defending liberalism, who needs rabid conservatives? Bill Maher needs to take lessons in humility. I now understand what a liberal Hollywood elitist is, and I wish they'd stuff a sock in it.
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