As if you didn’t expect someone to dig up a few “pedophile” comments by Bill Maher after the MILO ordeal.
But Bill’s a comedian and entertainer, he uses quips to tell a story, he didn’t mean it, he was just joking around… No wait that was Sara Palin defended Rush Limbaugh as the entertainer for his use of the word “retarded” after she took offense to Bill Maher’s use of the word in defining her son Trig.
So does it matter if an entertainer/comic mocks a sensitive topic as opposed to those that are to be serious?
Does anyone understand sarcasm any longer or has it just become the norm- PB/TK
Like Milo Y, Bill Maher once defended sex between adults and minors – Maria Puente , USA TODAY
When Bill Maher took credit for helping take down internet troll Milo Yiannopoulos after he defended sex between teens and adults, the comedian/talk show host neglected to mention — or forgot — he said some similar words on TV nearly two decades ago.
Now a media monitor with a long memory has dug up the old videotape from Maher’s ABC show, Politically Incorrect, that shows Maher defending the notorious case of Mary Kay Letourneau, the Seattle teacher convicted of having sex (and becoming pregnant) with her 12-year-old male student. Letourneau and the student had two children together while he was a teenager, and they married in 2005 after she got out of jail.
“She is in jail because she is in love. That’s how I view it,” Maher said in the 1998 clip posted by Mediaite. “Basically, they’re having a family and they’re keeping the mother in jail because she won’t conform to what society feels should be the perfect American family.”
Continue to usatoday.com article: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2017/02/23/like-milo-bill-maher-once-defended-sex-between-adults-and-minors/98326632/
