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Conservatives are so starved for celebrity validation that too often we giddily embrace any progressive star who throws us a bone. Yes, we should acknowledge when someone on the other side of the political aisle has an occasional moment of lucidity and gets on the correct side of an issue, but that doesn’t turn a Bill Maher or J.K. Rowling into a full-fledged ally to the right.
Friday on HBO’s Real Time, for example, comedian, talk show host, and mocker of religion Maher expressed dismay and disapproval over the chants of “Death to America” at an anti-Israel rally in the Islamic Republic of Michigan last week. “The left has gotten mad at me for many years for talking about Islam. I try not to do it too much, because I know it makes them go crazy and I’ve made my point. But it needs to be talked about now.”
Indeed it does, and yes, bravo to Maher for at least being willing to break the progressive taboo against criticizing the Religion of Peace™; those of us who have been calling out jihad for many years now know full well that one is reflexively shouted down – at best – as an “Islamophobe” for doing so. But this willingness alone doesn’t put him squarely in the conservative camp; Maher went on to state that he likes American freedoms and doesn’t believe, as the rally speakers claimed, that our “whole system” has to go, but that that doesn’t mean he’s turned conservative.
But then, on the same episode, when the topic among his panelists turned to abortion, Maher proceeded to stun the progressive hipsters in his audience by declaring that they are wrong to claim that pro-life people hate women; abortion opponents, he pointed out with admirable fairness and respect, sincerely believe that terminating a pregnancy is murder.
Provost of King’s College, Cambridge and Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett began by calling it “strange” that abortion is still such a controversial political issue when America is facing other enormous geopolitical challenges. It’s so “19th century,” she observed, and the audience cheered.
Then Maher dropped the hammer. He responded,
Well, not if you believe it’s murder. That’s why I don’t understand the 15-week thing or the — Trump’s plan is, “Let’s leave it to the states.” You mean, so killing babies is okay in some states? I can respect the absolutist position, I really can. I scold the left on, when they say, “Oh, you know what, [pro-lifers] just hate women, people who aren’t pro-life — pro-choice, they just –” [Pro-lifers] don’t hate women. They just made that up. They think it’s murder.
Rightly said. So far he sounds like a defender of conservative opposition to abortion, and there was no cheering this time from the audience, only palpable silence. Then Maher gave away the progressive game by saying the quiet part out loud: “…And it kind of is [murder]. I’m just okay with that. I am. There [are] eight billion people in the world, I’m sorry, we won’t miss you. That’s my position on that.”
You could have heard a pin drop, to abuse a cliché. Every progressive in the audience and watching at home must have been horrified to hear the pro-choice Maher confirm the pro-life position that abortion is not “reproductive care” or “family planning” but murder; and not only that, but also to hear him openly admit he is indifferent to killing the unborn because overpopulation! Media fixture Piers Morgan jumped in, joking, “That’s quite harsh, Bill,” and the crowd burst out in nervous laughter, but for one long, tense moment, Maher’s nakedly honest pronouncement had sucked the air out of the room.
His admission must have been especially unnerving for the left considering that the Democrats are going all-in on making the 2024 presidential election a referendum on abortion. They have to, because Biden/Harris can’t run on their popularity or achievements. The only Democrat hope of victory against the unstoppable Donald Trump juggernaut is to galvanize the female vote by hyping the specter of a Handmaid’s Tale dystopia under a misogynist, “Christian nationalist,” Trump regime. The right to terminate the life of their unborn children is a sacrament to Democrat women, and the 2022 Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade sent a seismic shock through progressives nationwide. They are hysterically upset about the looming threat of a “national abortion ban” under Trump, even though he recently stated that he believes the abortion issue should be left to the states. They can’t afford to have someone with a platform like Bill Maher’s expose abortion as the infanticide it really is, or openly shrug it off.
It’s been noted many times that Maher is like the proverbial broken clock in that he gets things right occasionally, and considering the media megaphone he wields, that’s a good thing for the conservative cause when he does. But at heart he is still a progressive, and as he demonstrated in the aforementioned episode of Real Time, progressivism is a death cult.
And he’s okay with that.
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Liberal Bumper Stickers SAVE THE REDWOODS SAVE THE POLAR BEARS and window stickers KEEP ABORTION LEGAL they also donate to PETA, GREENPEACE and FRIENDS OF THE EARTH
Polar bears are carnivores. My Eskimo friend told me NOBODY from his small home town goes outdoors without a rifle. The same idiots who want to protect killer bears are the same types who defend great white sharks from fishing, when they should be exterminated.
Rifles would work on baby killers, too.
Maher’s attitude towards the human race perfectly sums up the last few years and how it has been used by the one world government that is the UN to feed hysteria.
Death from their created virus.
Death from their created response to it.
Death from their vaccine.
Death from their mass migration.
Death from their weather modification.
Death from their wars.
Death from their drug smuggling.
Death from their deliberately manufactured crises.
Leftists love abortion.
Leftists love mandates.
It should be mandated that leftists/liberals/Democrats self-abort. It’s healthcare. It’s for the children. It’s for the planet.
Remember the 60’s when birth control became widely available?
Why isn’t there birth control before abortion (and I’m not talking about pregnancy by forcible rape. Why aren’t women who don’t want to get pregnant using birth control?
It’s what they would’ve wanted ….. for others.
Having lost any plumb line of moral guidance, America has descended into the abyss of ‘anomie’. Sociologist Emile Durkheim’s study of suicide many years ago defined the emotional results of what contemporaries call WOKE. Anomie is the darkness of soul consequential to the abandonment of any moral standard.
Modern commentaries use shifting popular opinion and the urges of hormones as guides. In short, they are infected with the reprobate mind defined by St. Paul in his New Testament warning to the church at Rome, chapter 1:18-32 (esp. 28).
Very much enjoy your articles, and this one is excellent.
At the same time, I think I have to disagree with one of your assertions:
“The only Democrat hope of victory against the unstoppable Donald Trump juggernaut is….”
Sadly, we know that the Deathocrats have many hopes, two of which are lawfare and election fraud.
Then, even if DJT regains the presidency, the Deathocrats have the surveillance state that can effectively stop the DJT juggernaut.
We FPM readers need lots of help. DJT needs lots of help. The US needs lots of help. The free world needs lots of help.
Pray ’em if you got ’em.
Mrs Maher should have aborted that kid.
Nah, glad she did not. Bill is the unfiltered Tourettes infused Leftist conscience. He is the cockroach in the light. It must be great fun to watch the anointed run around trying to keep him from running out from under the cabinets into the middle of the kitchen floor.
Is there a word for “Angry Laugh”? Because it laughingly infuriates me that abortionists have the unmitigated chutzpa to call their sacrifices to Moloch “Reproductive Health Care”! “REPRODUCTIVE”?? Just what the HELL do they think is being “Reproduced”? “My body, MY choice”? NO, your body is NOT “your body”, it belongs to God who made it for you to reside in while you decide where you want to spend eternity! And God expects you to reproduce a “BABY” after you’ve made the decision to fornicate, not a lump of dead tissue in a trash bucket!
MY body, My Responsibility.
Killing life is not “healthcare”.
You’re being mordant, right? Because last time I checked, “abortion” murders babies, not chicks, and especially not menopausal broads or lesbians.
Trump is right, the abortion standards are to be set by the states. Each state has the right to make these laws. Abortion is not specifically mentioned in the Bill of Rights. The 10th amendment gives this right to each state.
When the federal government sets the standard then they are stealing the state right to set its laws.
You are, indeed, correct on this point. This should have NEVER been placed at the Federal level and it was decided at the Supreme Court using some of the worst “activist judicial law” ever. Roe v. Wade in 1973 should have NEVER passed muster due to its extremely weak merits of the case. Period.
The States should have always had this under their jurisdiction. Thank you for bringing-up this important constitutional point.
Is there no federal law against murder? Life begins at conception.
The response should be a bucket of cold ice water in the face – those who are pro-abortion or for abortion have not had the experience of being aborted themselves! All those for abortion should prove their sincerity by standing in line to be euthanized and turned into Soylent Green as agriculture from produce to livestock causes green house gasses – so we are wrong to eat healthy food and not insects. They are demonic and has no sense of humor let alone truth and irony.
Ronnie Reagan said pretty much the same thing. Something like “I notice pro abortionists are all still alive,” or something like that.
Since the leftists are so dedicated to killing their babies, when do we vastly outnumber them?
Life begins at conception. Assisted suicide is murder too.
Congrats, Democrats. Not since you held slavery as the quintessential issue in the 1860 presidential election (remember, it was a three way race), has such a divisive issue befallen Americans.
And every American’s mind is already made up about “abortion” (infanticide.) Repubes need to drive that fact home and remove it as a FAKE election issue.
Bidenflation, Biden Worldwide Beaner Borders and Joe jihad are real. Just ask those STUPID FUGLY AND SELF CENTERED soccer moms how much a gallon of gas or milk costs their husbands or significant nothers.
Anybody who would fuck a soccer mom isn’t a man.
I would still trust Maher over that lying opportunist Tucker Carlson, especially after Carlson showed his true colors by interviewing that anti-Israel pastor Munther Isaac and swallowing whole the lies that pastor told about Israel’s treatment of Christians.
Since the belief that life begins at conception is a religious belief, after Pope Pius IX declared ensoulment happens at conception in 1869, restriction on early term abortions violates the separation of church and state.
Abortion was legal in all 13 colonies at our founding because the woman’s body is her property, not the state’s. Abortion was considered a family matter as was child rearing.