Bill Maher apologizes for 'Real Time' slur: 'The word was offensive'

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life...eless-maher-slur-repeats-real-time/102458258/

Well its another day for a talk show host.

After remaining silent overnight, Bill Maher is expressing remorse for dropping a racial slur during an interview with Sen. Ben Sasse on Friday's episode of HBO's Real Time.

"Friday nights are always my worst night of sleep because I'm up reflecting on the things I should or shouldn't have said on my live show," Maher said in a statement provided by publicist Cece York. "Last night was a particularly long night as I regret the word I used in the banter of a live moment. The word was offensive and I regret saying it and am very sorry."

During an interview with Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., the comedian responded to an invitation to visit his state and "come work in the fields" with mock indignity: "Work in the fields?" Maher replied. "Senator, I am a house (expletive)."

The audience responded with a chorus of groans.

In a statement issued by spokesman Quentin Schaffer, HBO said: “Bill Maher’s comment last night was completely inexcusable and tasteless. We are removing his deeply offensive comment from any subsequent airings of the show.”

As of Saturday afternoon, the episode was not available on HBO's streaming platform and the interview segment was not among the clips included on the show's YouTube channel.

Maher has not spoken publicly since the episode aired.

As he got off a red-eye flight from Los Angeles, Sasse tweeted, "I’m a 1st Amendment absolutist. Comedians get latitude to cross hard lines. But free speech comes with a responsibility to speak up when folks use that word. Me just cringing last night wasn’t good enough. Here’s what I wish I’d been quick enough to say in the moment: 'Hold up, why would you think it’s OK to use that word?' The history of the n-word is an attack on universal human dignity. It’s, therefore, an attack on the American Creed. Don't use it.'"

 

[Megatron]

No one should use the N word time to end it no matter the color of your skin.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-word-on-his-hbo-show/?utm_term=.29fb77f59e50

Note lets wait and see how HBO handles Mahers contract.

 

[Will_H_69_9]

yep, he's a goner.

if CBS Radio can fire Don Imus 10 years ago for saying "nappy headed hos", then Bill Maher will be fired by HBO/Time Warner to avoid a protest/boycott by social justice warriors and all black activist groups like the NAACP.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

First of all I don't think Maher will face a boycott to be removed simply because the show Real Time has no sponsors. I don't think he will get fired in my speculation. HBO will Defend him. This is not like the Kathy Griffin Incident where CNN had to fire her for the Trump mask beheading portrait where sponsors, politicians, and demos of CNN all made boycott threats as part of the fallout. And this is not like Fox News where sponsors were at play for their issues.

 

[TheBigA]

HBO will Defend him.

Nope, they didn't:

“Bill Maher’s comment last night was completely inexcusable and tasteless," HBO officials told the Hollywood Reporter. “We are removing his deeply offensive comment from any subsequent airings of the show.”

 

[Will_H_69_9]

First of all I don't think Maher will face a boycott to be removed simply because the show Real Time has no sponsors. I don't think he will get fired in my speculation. HBO will Defend him. This is not like the Kathy Griffin Incident where CNN had to fire her for the Trump mask beheading portrait where sponsors, politicians, and demos of CNN all made boycott threats as part of the fallout. And this is not like Fox News where sponsors were at play for their issues.

the messed up thing that this is,is the fact that both HBO and CNN are owned by Time Warner, a company that is in the middle of merging with AT&T. the merger is already major headache for both companies as they are trying to get it approved by the US government (and it's looking like not a done deal due to the president not liking CNN and calling them fake news), but racism scandal by one comedic host of a show on HBO and a comedian who is regular co-host of CNN's New Year's Eve show who went too far with her political hatred of the president by posing with a severed head of a dummy Trump covered in blood, they are having a bigger migraine headache.

i still think Bill Maher should be fired for using the N word, cause if you are white, you can not get away with that. if your black, yeah, go ahead and use it, it's your word.