Intentions are the difference between it being a careless and sloppy play for laughs, and it being a purposefully racist and malicious comment. If you think divorcing human beings from the context of their actions is a good way to go, you're a sickening fuck.

I didn't say his show is an act, I said that the difference between him being genuine and him trying to play for laughs is incredibly obvious and you'd have to be an obtuse moron to see otherwise. If you don't understand him and you apparently don't know much about his show, your opinion that he's an idiot is worth…

If you're not interested in understanding him, don't make posts like "I can recognize the difference between an act and an interview" in relation to his show.

Uh, because people here are trying to make the claim that he personally is a deeply racist person and said what he said out of malicious intent.

It's easier to understand Maher once you realize every moment he's speaking on his show, it might as well be part of his act. When he's actually being sincere and serious its very obvious.

You sound like the most wound up, humorless person in the world.

No, they edited out the comment in recordings and Maher apologized. Time to move on with your lives.

By your scale, George Carlin was a malicious racist and so are dozens of other comedians who ever used the N word in their act. Maher flat out did not use it with malicious intent, you're making up stories to claim that he is, but thats about par for the course with how desperate AVC commenters can be to get outraged.

"He's racist and you're morally repugnant if you disagree"

Not necessarily any more than last season did.

Trump was elected because of 100,000 votes in 3 states. There are a dozen reasons why the turnout wasn't high enough there, but Democrats depressing their own turnout by alienating and demonizing other Democrats certainly does not help and might have even cost votes in those states. Republicans do a good enough job at…

He's been this way for 30 years and was worse in the wake of 9/11.

I want people to recognize the difference between actual, legitimate racism and a stupid joke. Context matters. Every time you throw out the "racist!" card for stuff as weak as this, you're crying wolf, and Trump is a direct response to it. The right now just laughs it off and liberals use it to tear eachother apart,…

The second half has the crazy hammy shit I want the show to have more of. The more grand Spacey monologues and straight up murder, the better.

I wrapped up the entire season today. No spoilers, but IMO it still hasn't topped Frank pushing Zoe into the train in S2.

Exactly. It's part of why they won. Liberals should have backed Hillary's deplorables statement full throated instead of pearl clutching over it.

You want to play the calculated outrage game? That Maher is a safe target because his fans supposedly don't matter? Where does that end? It's already out of control and has been for years. This shit cascades and spirals, what may seem like an isolated case today becomes a problem tomorrow. Young people being…

They fight and grouse, and then they vote. Liberals fight and grouse and burn each others houses down, and then don't vote. You're blind if you think they aren't unified despite the "Never Trump" shit. It's just like McCain's hollow rebukes. Republicans fall in line every single time without fail, and Liberals are…

Nah.

That's one of the reasons. We all have to take responsibility for what we're doing. Including Hillary, including Comey, including Bernie, and including the voters.