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Schumer: No Need to Return Maher’s $1M, ‘He’s a Comedian’
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Posted on 03/11/2012 10:26:20 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday dismissed calls for a pro-President Barack Obama super PAC to return comedian Bill Maher’s $1 million donation following accusations of sexism over comments he’s made about 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and other women.

The issue has received particular attention in the wake of a video from a pro-conservative women group calling out the “double standard” in the way Maher and Rush Limbaugh’s “slut” comment have been treated.

Asked on ABC’s “This Week” whether Maher’s money should be returned, Schumer said no.

“The bottom line is that Rush Limbaugh’s comments were just nasty and directed at a particular young woman who had a particular point of view and was expressing herself,” Schumer said. “Bill Maher’s a comedian, it’s much different. Rush Limbaugh has tremendous weight in the Republican Party, no one will rebut him.”

“Bill Maher‘s a comedian who’s on at 11 o‘clock at night but has very little influence on what’s happening here,” he added.

A Schumer spokesman later told Politico he “thinks those comments [made by Maher] are inappropriate and wrong.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: billmaher; chuckschumer; limbaugh; maher; newyork; opec; rushlimbaugh; sandrafluke; schmuckschemer; schumer; scmuckyshuner; upchuckschumer
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To: tcrlaf
"Demonizing women by calling them c*nts, sluts, and whores is OK, as long as it’s DONE-WHILE-DEMOCRAT"

Or after 11:00 at night...

41 posted on 03/12/2012 4:22:57 AM PDT by ~Vor~ (Freeper since 10/98)
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To: Impala64ssa

See, if only we’d read the 1st Amendment more thoroughly,

“Congress shall make no law , , , abridging the freedom of comediennes’ speech,”

then we wouldn’t have gone of such rants about all this as we have.


42 posted on 03/12/2012 4:37:18 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: Impala64ssa

He is also not Christian or Amish. He has a big nose and is not black. He is of the Shumer Tribe


43 posted on 03/12/2012 4:39:37 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: citizencon
Schumer is a comedian.

No, he's not a comedian; he's a joke.

44 posted on 03/12/2012 4:49:17 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: PghBaldy

She did try out for the Chippendales..............


45 posted on 03/12/2012 5:00:16 AM PDT by Nekman (Proud Racist.......or so I've been labeled.{Libeled IMHO})
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To: ETL

Fugly! You’d think she would have gotten plastic surgery by now. Docs probably told her, “Sorry! We can’t fix that!”


46 posted on 03/12/2012 5:01:38 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Impala64ssa

Hey Chuck, your wife is a real c__t! Hahaha! I’m a comedian!


47 posted on 03/12/2012 5:06:52 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

In her warped mind she probably considers herself attractive. Libs have a very odd way of thinking.


48 posted on 03/12/2012 5:25:10 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Kickass Conservative

“Wait, wait, I thought Rush was an “entertainer”.”

That’s what I was thinking. Rush is very convenient to the dems. He’s either a simple “entertainer”, or he’s the “de facto head of the GOP” — it depends on the circumstances.


49 posted on 03/12/2012 5:27:48 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Don't blame me; I voted for the American.)
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To: jazzlite
How can a human being become as morally degraded in one lifetime as is David Letterman. And, those who continue to watch him are as degraded as he is.

I actually liked him early on. I even went to a few of the shows. But this was decades ago. I don't recall him being political at the time. He's turned into a real nasty left-wing SOB since then.

50 posted on 03/12/2012 5:28:59 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Impala64ssa

The left often call limbaugh an entertainer which is close to being a comedian. What’s the difference? Now suddenly they are taking limbaugh seriously? Right


51 posted on 03/12/2012 6:38:26 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Impala64ssa

Schumer is more laughable than Nahar.


52 posted on 03/12/2012 6:40:45 AM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: DemforBush

Correct. Schumer called her a bitch.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/politics/schumer_blasts_flight_attendant_CiF5BPT5Vc5Tb0WEqRmIfP


53 posted on 03/12/2012 7:23:44 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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To: Impala64ssa

Oh nothing other than those moderates you need for re election get to see up front and close what the deems ugly insides look like and hypocrisy is not pretty.


54 posted on 03/12/2012 8:09:43 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Impala64ssa

Can Senator Schumer cite any credible evidence to back up the assertion that Mr. Maher is a comedian? BTW, Rush is a helluva lot funnier than Maher.


55 posted on 03/13/2012 4:01:36 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: Sacajaweau
Since when is Mahar a comedian?

Ever since snotty, adolescent smirking was mistaken for comedy.

56 posted on 03/13/2012 4:04:45 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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