Is Maher donezo?
Maher's on premium cable, he's there because he was already fired for what he said on broadcast.
In the context, he's joking about himself, yet he still had to do multiple apologies and bring on the air a bunch of people for another apology and struggle session:
The sentiment, “a teaching lesson” was heard throughout this week’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher as the comedian faced guests Dr. Michael Eric Dyson and notably, Ice Cube after he dropped a tasteless joke using the n-word in a previous episode.
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On Friday (Jun 9), Maher welcomed the guests and offered another apology for using the racial slur. “For black folks, that word, I don’t care who you are, has caused pain,” Maher said. “It doesn’t matter that it wasn’t said in malice, if it brought back pain to people, and that’s why I apologized freely and I reiterate it tonight. That’s sincere. I’m not that big of an a**hole.” During his interview with Nebraska senator Ben Sasse the week prior, the veteran comedian and political commentator referred to himself as a “house n****r.” Maher was met with high criticism with some calling for the cancellation of his show.
First up was professor Dyson, who is also a good friend of Maher’s. The two explored the levels to which Maher’s joke offended people of color. Professor Dyson also asked Maher to check his “unconscious white privilege.” Maher reminded his pal that he didn’t mean no malice for the joke, but made it point to push the topic as a “comedian” issue rather than a “race” issue.
Cube then went straight to the topic and called out Maher’s hypocrisy and alleged “pass” he might beleives exists because of his ties to black community as well as his dating life. “I accept your apology, but I still think we need to get to the root of the psyche, because I think there are a lot of guys out there who cross the line because they a little too familiar… or is guys who had a black girlfriend or two that made them some Kool-Aid now and then think they can cross the line, and they can’t.”
Yeah but in reality it's like that fucking meltdown that happened because Janet Jackson breast appeared on live TV. Yes, it was a fucking mess and wrong, but only severe puritans (that later watch them pornos in their PC) took it as a HUGE issue.
Including the federal government and a giant media conglomerate. The FCC kept the case in court for
eight years to fine Viacom half a million dollars. Viacom had to pay AOL $8 million back for their halftime sponsorship, another $4 million to settle indecency complaints and banned Janet Jackson from anything they owned for a period including the Grammy's that year. The NFL similarly cut off a bunch of further contracts with Viacom regarding future half-time shows and it was the last straw which led them to force ESPN to cancel
Playmakers finally.
And Congress responded by passing a law increasing the FCC's fine cap from $27,500 a day to $325,000.
