August 19, 2003
bill maher, funny guy
so i was about to go to sleep the other night and i flipped to hbo (always a mistake since they tend to have something captivating. from a good movie to soft core porn.) seriously though, "real time with bill maher" was on, and i generally like the discussion of politics. his show is in it's 3rd incarnation. hbo to abc and back to hbo under a new name (it used to be called politically incorrect with bill maher). he has a segment at the end called new rules. this hilarious bit came at the end:
Posted by tien mao in TV at 2:45 PM
| New Rule: Your daughter's a whore. According to the FBI, there's a new wrinkle in prostitution: suburban teenage girls are now selling their white asses at the mall to make money to spend at the mall. Wow, I can't even find an escalator that goes down.
Oh, sure, I know what you're saying: "Upper middle class Caucasian teen whoring, that's something that happens to other people's kids." "But our little Ashley trading her kootchie for Gucci?" "No way." Well, maybe, but if she comes home with scraped knees, that might not be from skipping rope. And come on, nobody buys a BMW with babysitting money. If your kid's name is on the mall directory under "services"... Now, you see, the joke here, of course, is on White America, which always felt superior to blacks, and showed that with their feet, moving out of urban areas. "White flight," they called it. Whites feared blacks. They feared if they raised their kids around blacks, the blacks would turn their daughters and prostitutes. And now, through the miracle of MTV, damned if it didn't work out that way! You see, MTV is where Snoop and Jay-Z and 50 Cent tell their stories, the stories of their youth. And being poor blacks, pimps and drug dealers were the only role models they had. And now, that whole world view is all up in your kid's brain. That's right. Little white boys want a chocolate momma with a huge ass. And the girls in the suburbs apparently have accepted being a "ho" as just another hip lifestyle choice. So if you take your kid to the mall this Christmas and she climbs into Santa's lap face first--perhaps you should look into it. And remind your little princess, if a young woman must exchange sex for material goods, they should do it the old-fashioned way, through the sanctity of marriage. |
I am big fan of HBO (Sopranos, Real Sports, even Sex in the City), but do we really need to see Men in Black II and My House in Umbra three times a day? Just show Soprano's reruns and I will be happy.
Posted by: John at August 20, 2003 11:34 AM
jonh, i never thought i would live to hear you say "i'm a big fan of sex and the city." granted, you didn't really say that, but that's what i read. what's my house in umbra?
Posted by: tien at August 20, 2003 11:49 AM
My House in Umbra is ALWAYS on! It is some stupid HBO movie. I have six HBO channels and it is always on one of them. Don't watch it, it sucks.
Posted by: John at August 20, 2003 12:18 PM
hmm, i'm sure that you still watch it, despite the crappyness.
Posted by: tien at August 20, 2003 7:26 PM
The aging, balding, and ever-needful of attetion Bill Maher has crafted his skills as a liberal hate-monger enough that HBO will buy him, because he's "controversial." I don't find him controversial - just very, very stupid. He likes to portray himself as educated, but the show, if you notice, hosts three guests - an ardent liberal, a liberal comic, and and a conservative / moderate / republican (CMR) in the middle. The "comic" is integral to the show, because if a CMR makes makes a point, the "comic" distracts attention from the point by making a distracting "joke", and Bill quickly changes the subject.
This is far from political discussion. This is "let's be liberals and gang up on those that aren't." In short, it's a self-serving platform for Bill Maher, failed comic and PETA member, to grace us with us banal '60's patter, to embarass republicans with impunity. Democrats don't even embrace him...but leave him alone to do the dirty work. Republicans don't consider him a threat, because they believe most people will recognize his transparency.
But for the Joe Sixpack with no intellect but a subscription to HBO, he is dangerous, because, above all, he posits all his fake-mediator act with "of course, you won't vote republican."
Bill Maher is a tool. In the simplest, vernacular intepretation and the "let's change the votes of idiots" interpretation. He's no better than the Daniel Day-Lewis' character in "Gangs of New York" who pushed the vote down the throat of those that didn't know any better.
Posted by: Kevin Moloney at November 9, 2003 2:50 AM
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Kevin Moloney: The aging, balding, and ever-needful of attetion Bill Maher has crafted his skil... {read on}
tien: hmm, i'm sure that you still watch it, despite the crappyness.... {read on}
John: My House in Umbra is ALWAYS on! It is some stupid HBO movie. I have six HBO cha... {read on}
tien: jonh, i never thought i would live to hear you say "i'm a big fan of sex and the... {read on}
John: I am big fan of HBO (Sopranos, Real Sports, even Sex in the City), but do we rea... {read on}