Bill Maher & Elisabeth Hasselbeck Go Head To Head

[sunoftheskye]

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[derezzed]

I don't really know anything about Bill Maher, is he infamous for famous shit like this? Wikipedia tells me his political views seem alright.

I can't stand Elisabeth but she was entirely correct here.

[lemonsalt]

And isn't he one of the celebrities that doesn't believe in the existence of AIDS?

Wait, what??? Who else doesn't believe in AIDS?!

[sunoftheskye]

And isn't he one of the celebrities that doesn't believe in the existence of AIDS?

I've never heard this.

[chaya]

I think he's a vaxxer? God, I don't remember now

[arisma]

He's said he's not a germ theory denier but the things he's said really sort of come across like he is, or at least tight up next to it.

[romp]

His views tend to be leftie but only in the way that any moral person educated about an issue is likely to be. Like health care being a Good Thing that the AMA has fought for decades.

His problem seems to be his being a privileged straight white guy who talks before thinking.

[akashasheiress]

Yeah, and the part where he doesn't think women and children are real people or something like that.

[romp]

Right, it's more like he doesn't believe he has privilege so his superiority is just how things are.

[jettakd]

He's an extremely disrespectful, sexist, and homophobic pos who hides it by voting and supporting liberal political views.

ETA: He's also part of the anti-vax movement iirc.

[mercat]

Do you have a source on the anti-vax thing? Maybe I am mixing him up with someone else, but I was thinking he was a "loud atheist" (or whatever you call it) and I would be surprised to see that overlap with anti-vax. (Which, if true, probably just means he enjoys stirring shit rather than applying scientific thinking or whatever. So I wouldn't be horribly surprised.)

[jettakd]

http://www.dailyatheist.net/?p=913

There are a bunch of other sources found with googling too. He's also got a lot of stupid opinions on cancer to iirc.

[mercat]

Ugh. Well, any prestige he had in my mind before is now just dismissed as Another Asshole Who Needs To Cause Trouble. Thanks for the link =)

[jettakd]

No problem :)

[moonshaz]

UGH. Those anti-vax people are about to get on my last nerve. There is a frigging whooping cough EPIDEMIC going on my county right now, thanks to people not vaccinating their kids for pertussis.

Grrrr. Just GRRRRRR.

ETA: I couldn't even watch all of that video. Just too pissed off.