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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really? I tend to think of Maher as an idiot. [/quote]

Why, exactly?

Tell me three things Maher has said that make you think he’s an idiot.

ICYMI: Maher said early on that Trump would never leave the WH gracefully. He literally predicted it years in advance with great detail. [/quote]

Only three? Easy.

1. He was (maybe still is) an antivaxxer and a pretty dumb one at that.

https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/bill-maher-vs-the-flu-vaccine/

2. His Islamophobia is next-level idiocy, enough so that that Counsel on Foreign Relations published an article about how Maher is making us even more stupid. I mean when Ben Affleck has to point out someone’s idiocy, you know you are not dealing with an intellectual heavyweight.

https://www.cfr.org/blog/bill-maher-makes-us-dumber-how-ignorance-fear-and-stupid-pop-culture-cliches-shape-americans

3. He is a long-standing and avid defender of Mary Kay Letourneau (whose victim was 12). From a 2007 interview with Playboy magazine:

[quote]If a 28-year-old male teacher is screwing a 13-year-old girl, that’s a crime," he said. "But with Debra Lafave screwing her 14-year-old boy student, the crime is that we didn’t get it on videotape. Was he being taken advantage of? I wish I had been taken advantage of like that. What a memory she gave him!"[/quote]

He said something similar as far back as 1998 on his show: [quote] (Letourneau) is in jail because she is in love," he said. "That's how I view it ... Basically, they're having a family and they're keeping the mother in jail because she won't conform to what society feels should be the perfect American family.[/quote]

I mean I could go on for ages here. I didn’t even touch the fetid pile that is his Twitter feed. At this point, I usually think anyone who sings his praises has diminished capacities.

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