With religion, since Maher hates it in general and has low standards about what he uses as fodder for material, his approach is basically 'throw whatever you can say about major religions and hope that it sticks'. Personally, I don't think it's bigotry then, as you're saying: it's just sloppy thinking and…

Agreed. Now, I'm neither a liberal nor a leftist, and I disagree with Maher on a lot, but even when I agree with him (which is indeed a lot of the time) he's not 'funny' per se. He's smarmy, smug, and self-reassuring in a way that I know makes some in his audience feel better, and good for them then, but it's not…

That Sarah Palin crack was genuinely funny. Dated, yes… but still funny.

"Off in the distance, Candlebox's members stare with sadness…"

As terrible as this all sounds, the fact that the Madness, the Kinks, the Four Seasons, the Proclaimers, and other groups have managed to have musicals made based around their stories that haven't been horrible messes, so… good luck, I guess?

I seriously expect that to become a thing in my lifetime.

So Shia Labeouf is going for the 'addled Bradley Cooper look' from that main image here, I take it.

I'm not surprised if Milo and many other extreme right-wing people genuinely think somewhere in their minds that having your own TV show is a kind of entitlement that you get— like some kind of a basic human right or something.

>prove a it
(prove a point)

1. Calling out Milo (or anybody else) for the hateful things that he/they say and do, strongly condemning the person in direct terms, isn't the same thing at all as "hate speech" upon an entire group out of bigotry.

Okay, honestly, I may really despise this administration, but the image that Pence posted made me smile a bit, and this seems harmless.

The "We must sell more toys, so cram in more characters even if it doesn't make sense!" impulse is so damn understandable yet so damn frustrating. Ugh.

"Oh, no! An almost-naked man! Ahhhhhhh!"

Thank goodness that the records both online and in print are substantial, and we won't be fooled by their horrific lies as time goes on.

But there's neither a reference to Star Wars nor to masturbation!

In other words: Julius Streicher.

We're long past the point where these authoritarian assholes are even disguising their lust for tyranny. They might as well just dress as Dalek's yelling "Destroy all that isn't us! Exterminate!"

Good point, but then seriously… this is a BS lawsuit, and Milo is an odious toad.

In total seriousness, in international politics orange has traditionally been a color associated with militant right-wing Protestantism of the 'destroy the papists and sodomites' bent, particularly in the U.K. and Ireland given the popular history of the 'Orange Order' and other such groups.

Exactly.