Bill Maher - classic!

if he was just some vacuous twink trying to be funny it would be one thing but he's supposed to be some sort of spokesman or something? for some sort of movement? and he's completely dumb and its hard to listen to him. and so not funny or cute and jesus does he ever try hard to be funny and cute.

wait, i was never talking about him again....

I stopped even finding him interesting after I learned that he's just a devout and chauvinistic Catholic whose pov comes from believing that "Catholics are right about everything" (the literal title of one of his speeches).

Sort of like learning that Moldbug just wants corporate CEOs to run everything.

Lapsed Catholics are right about everything but lack the requisite certainty to act

https://twitter.com/DennisThePerrin/status/832958612985229312

(Perrin used to write for Maher)

seriously scott crypto is right. this is a guy who incites a massive crew online to harass, stalk, and terrorize people. he's not some harmless caricature -- that's his feint. he's an aggressive, heartless piece of shit

This is correct.

It should be clear to all at this point that the shittiest, dumbest celebrities can be the most dangerous.

Treeship, you're like this board's Bill Maher

What i meant by that is your constantly smoking weed, dating strippers, and hosting a weekly politics show on HBO. I hope I didn't overstep my bounds there

Well well well

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/19/cpac-2017-milo-yiannopoulos-invited-to-speak-at-major-conservative-conference

https://mobile.twitter.com/puns_n_roses/status/832967653438451712

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Milo Yiannopoulos looks like someone's Dad who just discovered My Chemical Romance

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C49Lp-TWQAAIP6d.jpg

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Milo Yiannopoulos looks like someone's Dad who just discovered My Chemical Romance

this is a savage dig and would really get under his skin

can't believe a childish and unfunny person is on bill mayers show

this is still the best Milo Yiannopoulos lookalike imo: https://twitter.com/Crass_Effect/status/688066745261764608

This burn thread is delightful:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Mobute/status/671390539070242816

Fuck Bill Maher for providing a platform to and furthering the normalization of this piece of shit. That shit coming from ostensible 'allies' (which I know, in this case, is a pretty heady perversion of the word 'ally') is so much more pernicious than the promotion of people like this from the expected quarters. And there's no take backs once the damage is done. Like, sorry Lorne, you can get Baldwin to buffoon it up every Saturday night until NBC comes under the control of the state but that doesn't supersede your willingness to let the Beast himself host your show.

people should say this kinda thing every day though. to anyone who will listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFWv42U1l4A

https://mobile.twitter.com/veryimportant/status/833371252970635266

Pretty good

I like the interview where Bill Burr rips Maher a new one about political correctness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYuKkw6L2bE

this was completely awful

utter trash basically

What I think people saw was an emotionally needy Ann Coulter wannabe, trying to make a buck off of the left’s propensity for outrage. And by the end of the weekend, by dinnertime Monday, he’s dropped as a speaker at CPAC. Then he’s dropped by Breitbart, and his book deal falls through. As I say, sunlight is the best disinfectant. You’re welcome.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/arts/television/bill-maher-milo-yiannopoulos-interview.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

oh fuck off

oh and "emotionally needy" reads as thinly veiled homophobia to me but I don't really feel like shielding milo at all so uhh idk

“it was never going to be enough for that slice of liberalism that would much rather judge a friend than engage an enemy, because it’s easier.”

didn't seem like you engaged him too much tbh

LOL maher is so horribly predictable

the alt-right

https://twitter.com/wyatt_privilege/status/834399728519426048

something else for bill and milo to bond over

https://twitter.com/2dammuslim/status/834411710966403073

(2 pics)

something else for bill and milo to bond over

no but see when old women have sex w boys it's HOT, when old men have sex w boys it's GROSS AND WRONG

makes perfect sense

also Rollins response there is otm

http://ind5.ccio.co/5C/i2/m1/acf62c853db5590dff8da776813fa0ec.jpg

so hot

I remember watching that. Can't believe I'm gonna do this, but

That's pretty much the host's job: stake out one of the more extreme positions, get everyone het up and arguing, make them define their position as best they can. Rollins does well.

Haven't watched PI in literally 15 years until Milo but I think Maher's not wrong to take credit for his (probably) temporary setback. The hangman doesn't need to shout and protest, he just needs to provide the rope.

i've heard from at least 2 places that the maher appearance was the impetus to leak the pedophilia comments and destroy milo's career. whether he should take credit for that as though that were his intent is maybe a different question but i think he's probably right on the principle of sunlight + disinfectants, esp if it turned out to be true that this particular sunlight (again, whether or not Mahler was planning on playing the role of Mr. Clean) did help disinfect.

how do you leak something that's public

nothing he said on Maher torpedoe'd him - it was the CPAC Reagan Brigade or whatever they're called. Now, maybe they were so pissed about his Maher appearance that that motivated them to action, but I'm not clear what he did on the show that would have provided that motivation. He was p much his usual assholish self, it's not like he staked out any new positions beyond the pale or anything.

maybe they were just appalled at how very GAY he came across, he was basically Stefan from SNL

maher had him on because they are both whiners about political correctness, both transphobes (maher dropped a "trans people are weirdos" line during the interview), and - probably their biggest similarity - huge islamophobes.

nothing he said on Maher torpedoe'd him - it was the CPAC Reagan Brigade or whatever they're called. Now, maybe they were so pissed about his Maher appearance that that motivated them to action, but I'm not clear what he did on the show that would have provided that motivation. He was p much his usual assholish self, it's not like he staked out any new positions beyond the pale or anything.

Seems p OTM to me.

CPAc got S&S to renege on a six figure book deal? I think there's a couple things going on here, with objections landing from both far right and mainstream media.

he was bad on tv.

othing he said on Maher torpedoe'd him - it was the CPAC Reagan Brigade or whatever they're called. Now, maybe they were so pissed about his Maher appearance that that motivated them to action, but I'm not clear what he did on the show that would have provided that motivation.

The right doesn't mind anti-semitism and hate of Muslims so long as you're not a pedophile or named Mark Foley.

they were cool w Denny Hastert though, cuz he didn't brag about it

or proselytize about it or whatever Milo thought he was doing

that was the largest general tv audience milo's had yet, no? testing ground for whether he can step outside his niche. it didn't go so well.

you guys are acting like randos who watch late night tv keep up with the guests' public statements prior to the show.

since when is CPAC concerned about mainstream appeal

also feel like a lot of his "power" or influence or whatever is/was illusory. he was never considered a real major figure among the alt-righters who always seemed to just tolerate him or at best consider him an outsider bringing good attention to their movement, but he was an outsider there too. getting thrown out of breitbart surprised me a little but i guess their hardcore audience probably has a lot of homophobia among them so it wasn't such a big deal to jettison him.

xp

...he lost a book deal with Simon & schuster

CPAC and the Breitbart "deep state" (sorry sorry) already probably hated him for obv reasons but he was good business for awhile within their still-evolving platforms

a lot of the power of the alt-right brigade comes from Twitter, they get out of their internet persona cocoon and they wilt imo. i have no idea what most of these guys are like in person, but i doubt they've got anywhere near the confidence or charisma of, god help me, an ann coulter or rush limbaugh.