# Real Time with Bill Maher **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286 "2016-01-26T19:38:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/81 "2017-02-19T18:18:12Z")
Larry Wilmore sure picked up the slack – in the YouTube aftershow, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@Jefferson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jefferson)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/82 "2017-02-19T19:02:19Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I was disappointed in how Bill Maher focused on trying to find agreement with Milo rather than pointing out all the hateful, dishonest, and otherwise awful things that he’s said. Very weak interview, IMO. He should have put him in the stocks, eh. Give Maher his due, he will let those from the other side give their opinions. Rather than putting them on “trial” for not being Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![Jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@Jefferson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jefferson)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/83 "2017-02-19T19:04:20Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Larry Wilmore sure picked up the slack – in the YouTube aftershow, anyway. Did the clever man call Milo a \*\*\*\*? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/84 "2017-02-19T19:33:31Z")
> [@Jefferson](#): > > He should have put him in the stocks, eh. ??? > [@](#): > > Give Maher his due, he will let those from the other side give their opinions. Rather than putting them on “trial” for not being Democrats. No idea what these two sentences have to do with each other, or with what I said. I think hateful ideas and assertions should be challenged, criticized, and mocked, and Maher did very little of any of these three with Milo. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/85 "2017-02-19T23:29:59Z")
> [@Jefferson](#): > > Get a grip, snowflake. Ease up and back on the personal retorts on here unless you’re in the BBQ Pit. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/86 "2017-02-19T23:55:36Z")
> [@Jefferson](#): > > Did the clever man call Milo a \*\*\*\*? He literally told him to go fuck himself, after 5 minutes of Maher-agreed transphobia. Frankly, Milo is the one exception to my “gaybashing is bad” principle. My hope is that if it does happen, it happens in a seaport town so there’s a large body of water to throw him into after the rocks are tied to his ankles. Fuck the Nazi. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/87 "2017-02-20T00:03:19Z")
> [@Jefferson](#): > > Did the clever man call Milo a \*\*\*\*? Well. I’m not sure. What’s “\*\*\*\*” mean? Can you get your mom to take the content blocker off your computer and post it again or something? ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/88 "2017-02-20T00:47:12Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > His interview with Milo Whats-his-name-opolous was informative. The guy is a substance-free, worthless, troll, and I can’t believe anyone pays any attention to him… I hadn’t seen or heard him before. He seemed rather dull, which surprised me–since he’s a famous troll, one would think he would have been at least a _bit_ witty or memorable. Maher really did drop the ball with his interview questions and comments, though. He seemed more interested in the guy’s sexual orientation than in anything else about him. ---
**Author:** ![Jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@Jefferson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jefferson)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/89 "2017-02-20T09:47:14Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > He literally told him to go fuck himself, after 5 minutes of Maher-agreed transphobia. Frankly, Milo is the one exception to my “gaybashing is bad” principle. My hope is that if it does happen, it happens in a seaport town so there’s a large body of water to throw him into after the rocks are tied to his ankles. Fuck the Nazi. Liberals, eh. ---
**Author:** ![Jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@Jefferson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jefferson)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/90 "2017-02-20T09:49:31Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Well. I’m not sure. What’s “\*\*\*\*” mean? Can you get your mom to take the content blocker off your computer and post it again or something? Doesn’t this site take a dim view of swearing? I’m simply thinking of others. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/91 "2017-02-20T10:36:57Z")
It’s just fucking words. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Pork-Chop\_Express](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@The\_Pork-Chop\_Express](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Pork-Chop_Express)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/92 "2017-02-20T10:53:50Z")
Milo had his head down for a lot of the talk. He could at least have been entertaining! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Sanchez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@Rick\_Sanchez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Sanchez)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/93 "2017-02-20T13:13:58Z")
Milo Yiannopoulos is _nowhere near_ as terrible as people say. He’s just a troll. People who call him a Nazi or a white supremacist or whatever are just being histrionic. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/94 "2017-02-20T13:30:04Z")
> [@The\_Pork-Chop\_Express](#): > > Milo had his head down for a lot of the talk. He could at least have been entertaining! Apart from a few jabs he was fairly moderate. I think he is a poor debater, and not a particularly great public speaker. However, as someone who is generally on his side in the culture wars im glad he came through it without being obliterated by Maher and his panel. I assume Milo knows what he’s doing when it comes to successful media appearances, and he successfully accomplished what he set out to do on Maher’s show. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/95 "2017-02-20T14:19:03Z")
Milo is a mental deficient and a self admitted troll. That much was obvious given his performance. Maher could have given him a well deserved mocking but I think Maher had a bigger point to make and that was that this is not who progressives should be protesting violently or boycotting TV show debates over. Milo is an imbecile and should be publicly treated as such, per the show’s panel. ---
**Author:** ![Jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@Jefferson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jefferson)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/96 "2017-02-21T19:12:13Z")
> [@Rick\_Sanchez](#): > > Milo Yiannopoulos is _nowhere near_ as terrible as people say. He’s just a troll. People who call him a Nazi or a white supremacist or whatever are just being histrionic. It’s just “liberals” having the screaming vapours. I wonder how they would cope watching the Comedy Roasts, with biting gags about blacks, homosexuals, etc. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/97 "2017-02-21T19:24:19Z")
> [@Jefferson](#): > > It’s just “liberals” having the screaming vapours. I wonder how they would cope watching the Comedy Roasts, with biting gags about blacks, homosexuals, etc. Have you never seen a Comedy Roast? ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/98 "2017-02-21T19:31:36Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Have you never seen a Comedy Roast? I have, and they are full of gags about gays, blacks, etc. _Ironic_ gags, true, but the extremists won’t allow irony as a defense. These humorless bastards want no jokes whatsoever about their sacred cows. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/99 "2017-02-21T19:52:46Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I have, and they are full of gags about gays, blacks, etc. _Ironic_ gags, true, but the extremists won’t allow irony as a defense. These humorless bastards want no jokes whatsoever about their sacred cows. So everything horrible Milo says about trans people, or gay people, or women, is a joke? That kind of directly contradicts other things that Milo actually says. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286/100 "2017-02-21T20:19:41Z")
> [@Jefferson](#): > > It’s just “liberals” having the screaming vapours. I wonder how they would cope watching the Comedy Roasts, with biting gags about blacks, homosexuals, etc. Speaking of biting, shame nobody here is, eh Jeffy? A for effort, though. Okay, maybe B minus, but there’s a curve. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-time-with-bill-maher/744286.md?page=6)