Dear Bill Maher: Critics Should Stop Calling You ‘Sexist’ When You Stop Calling the Tea Party ‘Racist’

By Matt Schneider

Right after having a an unpleasant discussion about angrily having sex with Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann because his guests hated her so much, Maher later took issue with his critics calling him “sexist” for regularly attacking Bachmann and Sarah Palin. Plenty would label Maher presiding over such a conversation as enough evidence to consider Maher sexist. Even though I personally don’t agree with that label for Maher, after his argument here, I think it’s very hard for him to claim he’s not a hypocrite....

I get it, Maher viciously attacks Palin and Bachmann not because he hates women, but because he hates the conservative positions in which these two women firmly believe. The question then is quite simple: why can’t Maher similarly “get it” that Tea Party supporters strongly oppose President Obama not because he’s black, but because they hate the liberal positions in which Obama firmly believes? Repeatedly Maher implies or explicitly suggests that the Tea Party generally, and any critics of Obama more specifically, are racists. Instead Maher needs to realize that about half the country might say that regardless of how bright Obama might be and regardless of his skin color, he’s the one full of awful ideas.