Bill Maher calls Special Needs Child Retarded

[Kanery]

Let me straighten this out: I don't like Sarah Palin. I think she's an embarrasment and a misrepresentation of what the Republican Party should be. (She's hot, though.) But I found it absolutely disgusting when comedian Bill Maher called Sarah Palin's son Trig, who has Down syndrome, "retarded".

Some of you will say 'it was just a joke, get over it'. But I find it abhorrable when anyone mocks a handicapped person, especially if they're a child. It was also a pathetic shot at Palin. If he wants to attack a politician, he should do it directly, not insult their child. That's just low.

What do you think, NSG?

Downs Syndrome = retarded. You are so politically correct that you do not understand. If you are treating the handicapped like this you are part of a problem that I have devoted a significant part of my volunteer life to fighting. The politically correct thugs have caused so muych damage to the handicapped. I hate it. Please stop t and get your other cruel politically correct goons to stop pulling this crap. The handicapped need to be included within society and allowed to have as many opportunities to enjoy life. This is done by participation. You guys with your "I know what is best for them attitude are really messing it up for them.

If you learn to not stare at handicapped people as a kid this often leads to you growing up to not even notice them or even think of them as an abstraction and then you set your pc english majors on the abstraction of them. I am so steamed about this I can barely write.

I think he's less trying to be overly politically correct and more objecting to the idea of children from being mocked by the whole nation.

[Free Soviets]

16 pages now, still no sign of what this offending joke even said...

Are we really having a six-page argument over a bad joke told by a comedian?

worse. an 11 page argument over a joke nobody has heard.

fuck, for all we actually know, maher didn't even use the term 'retard' at all. we only have the word of a conservative heckler who writes a column for noted lying propaganda machine, breitbart.com. you may remember them from such hits as selectively editing tapes to make people look like they said literally the opposite of what they actually said.

if those fucks said the sky was blue, i'd go check to make sure it hadn't gone taupe with green polka dots.

sure, i'm perfectly willing to believe maher did say 'retard'. but i see no evidence that he actually was making fun of the kid. i see no evidence that it wasn't actually a hilarious joke. based on the information i do have, said joke was presumably aimed at the poor kid's mentally challenged mother.

[Kushtor]

Had some sympathy up until breitbart.com appeared on the screen.

He said this about children back in 2001.

Maher/Kids/Dogs.

The comparison is inaccurate, as dogs' responsibilities are fairly balanced with their rights.

[Pavlostani]

Suprisingly, Handicapped people (by and large) don't appreciate your attitude of "Well we musn't make fun of them."
They are handicapped, not delicate little flowers.

Trig is barely five years old. You're simply looking for an excuse to try and justify the 'joke'. Partisanship like that is completely deplorable; I would show the same reaction if it was a conservative mocking a Dem's child.

Disgusting.

Not everything is political. This joke wasn't meant to be political. And the term retarded means slow, and refers to how people with mental disabilities learn slower than others. The term itself is not offensive, and yet many people take it as so. And I doubt the child would appreciate you singling them out for their disability saying, "We musn't make fun of them!" That's offensive as well, treating them different from anyone else. What most handicapped people really want is to be treated like anyone else.

[The Parkus Empire]

Yeah, he's a fuckhead. He also supports racial profiling, iirc. He's funny, but he's not admirable, and I don't like him.

[Knowlandia]

it was just a joke, get over it.

Bronys are gay. Does that upset you? It's a joke, get over it.

[Pavlostani]

it was just a joke, get over it.

Bronys are gay. Does that upset you? It's a joke, get over it.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, right?

[Grave_n_idle]

Funny how many liberals are defending Bill Maher while if it was a conservative calling a liberal politician's child retarded, it would be a whole different story. Liberals are just as hypocritical as conservatives.

They're not, though, are they. Just about everyone that's commented has said it was a douche thing to say, whichever side of the aisle they are from.

What's 'funny', is how people keep SAYING that liberals are defending Bill Maher. That seems more partisan.

[Herrebrugh]

it was just a joke, get over it.

Bronys are gay. Does that upset you? It's a joke, get over it.

If you think being called gay over the internet is upsetting, then that's more your problem, I think

[Ruridova]

it was just a joke, get over it.

Bronys are gay. Does that upset you? It's a joke, get over it.

Calling an NSer homosexual isn't really an insult to most NSers.

[Euroslavia]

it was just a joke, get over it.

Bronys are gay. Does that upset you? It's a joke, get over it.

...That's a pretty terrible joke.

[Inyourfaceistan]

Bronys are gay. Does that upset you? It's a joke, get over it.

If you think being called gay over the internet is upsetting, then that's more your problem, I think

Times your called gay:

Over the Internet -------------------- 28%
When playing CoD ------------------- 70%
When your actually homosexual --- 2%

[Marcurix]

If you don't like it don't watch his show, or whatever it is that man does.

[Mavorpen]

Futrell, a former Las Vegas sports broadcaster and Breitbart News contributor, says on his blog that Maher used the term "retarded" to describe young Trig Palin during the comedy performance. Later, Futrell started heckling the comic over a reference to Halliburton, a confrontation which eventually led to Futrell being asked to leave the venue.

Yeah... I'm going to need more than that.

[Frisivisia]

If you think being called gay over the internet is upsetting, then that's more your problem, I think

Times your called gay:

Over the Internet -------------------- 28%
When playing CoD ------------------- 70%
When your actually homosexual --- 2%

Gay people have too good of taste to play CoD.

[Ostroeuropa]

Bronys are gay. Does that upset you? It's a joke, get over it.

...That's a pretty terrible joke.

It's a pretty terrible insult too.

[Mavorpen]

...That's a pretty terrible joke.

It's a pretty terrible insult too.

They might as well be screaming, "YOU'RE A POOPY FACE!"

[Ostroeuropa]

It's a pretty terrible insult too.

They might as well be screaming, "YOU'RE A POOPY FACE!"

At least that would be comical instead of completely boring and ineffectual.
I've already forgotten what it was.