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Wisecracking pundit Bill Maher believes that Glee, the all singing and dancing Fox hit show, is shoving gayness down our throats.
"They are shoving the gay thing down America's throat. And it turns out America got used to it surprisingly quickly," Maher said on Friday's edition of Real Time With Bill Maher.
The comic also had sharp words for President Obama, who has dragged his feet for too long when he should simply support marriage equality for gays, Maher said.
"Now that a Cheney, a McCain and a Bush have come out to support gay marriage, it's your turn, Obama."
"53% of Americans now support it, which means that 47% of Americans are a--holes," Maher said.
"But still, this is remarkable progress considering that it wasn't that long ago that just saying the words gay marriage made most Americans throw up in their Cornflakes. So, tonight, I'd like to congratulate the leadership of the Democratic party who really stood up for what was right.”
“I'd like to, but I can't. Because other than Gavin Newsom, Dennis Kucinich and that Governor of New Jersey who went all Brokeback Mountain with his bodyguard, no Democrat would touch this issue with a ten inch pole."
Instead Maher gave credit to TV for changing public opinion. “Because in the last five years it has gotten gayer than the British navy,” Maher said.
"If there's one thing I know about Americans is that if they see something on TV it makes it OK."
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.StevieVirginia | Apr 06, 2011, 07:41 AM EDT
I quess according to this article. That I am 47 percent a-hole? Nice. I thought I was 100 percent a-hole.
ciarrai | Apr 05, 2011, 10:50 PM EDT
Give it up, DrTrelawney! This group is dumber than a rock. I know what Maher was saying. We watch him every Friday night at 10. However, I find the constant mention of same-sex marriages, the open gay military, etc., to be a little much. I have heard all I need to. Let them get married and serve in the military, but stop the non-stop references to it all. Some liberal, huh?
DrTrelawney | Apr 05, 2011, 07:27 PM EDT
Pathetic. Nothing else need be said. Mind you, I am almost intrigued as to what possible relevance any Spurs vs Fulham game has to do with anything? Spurs were playing Real Madrid tonight.
seamusmoore | Apr 05, 2011, 06:13 PM EDT
@DrTrelawney how is the love of your jackeen/West Brit life, David Norris, Ireland's Queen Consort in waiting. Little wonder that the boys from the Kingdom destroy the Dubs whenever they meet for the cannister in Ireland's national sport, gaelic football. Who won the Fulham-Tottenham Spurs match?
seamusmoore | Apr 05, 2011, 06:08 PM EDT
gotta love his "gayer than the British navy" line, particularly, in light of the fact that Lord Mountbatten's nickname in her Majesty's fleet was "Mount-bottom". According to An Phoblacht, the circumstances of his "take-out" was a result of one of the three Sligo lads he was, shall we say, "inter-facing with", dropped dime on him with the "Chuckie R Lah" lads and, ergo, on August 27th, 1979 he became Ireland's first combination astronaut/human jigsaw puzzle. His targeting was payback for the Lord's Widgery's cover-up job on Bloody Sunday, exposed by the Saville Inquiry report of 2010. Warrenpoint, of course, was the payback for the Derry 14 as expressed by the slogan "14 gone but not forgotten, we got 18 and Mountbatten".
DrTrelawney | Apr 05, 2011, 05:15 PM EDT
No, you're missing my point, O'Lovely. Commentators here have taken this headline to mean that he is AGAINST gay marriage and genuinely thinks that TV is "pushing the gay topic" down people's throats. He used that line -- I've seen the show -- as a way of parodying the anti-gay lobby.
olovely | Apr 05, 2011, 04:22 PM EDT
He's not being ironic. Maher supports marriage equality for gays and has done so for years.
DrTrelawney | Apr 05, 2011, 02:11 PM EDT
I see, Teacher. So you think that gay marriage is a good thing and that TV is not shoving gay issues down our throats. He's being IRONIC!
teacher1101 | Apr 05, 2011, 02:04 PM EDT
I don't agree with him on a lot of things,but on this I do-enough is ENOUGH!
DrTrelawney | Apr 05, 2011, 01:37 PM EDT
Good grief. Are you really that stupid? Maher was being IRONIC, you idiots. He is parodying the homophobic line about not wanting gay issues "shoved down out throats".
trspit80 | Apr 05, 2011, 11:43 AM EDT
Mahr is just now realizing that gayness is being shoved down our throats? Where has he been? And, you can count me among the a----les.
feeneycj | Apr 05, 2011, 10:52 AM EDT
Bill Maher is a disgusting, foul-mouthed dweeb, he has freedom of speech, but it's not worth the time to listen to him.
rugbyplayer | Apr 05, 2011, 09:56 AM EDT
Bill is an Irish American speaking the truth in comical and often times sardonic fashion. He doesn't believe,as crazed NOW's Maggie Gallagher does, that GLEE is really pushing gayness down anyone's throats. On sexual subjects the pandering and hypocritical GOP allied with the nutty Religious Right in the USA want to pretend we should have a world without sex.