Bill Maher: Political correctness could cost Democrats the election

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Washington Times:

Late-night comedian Bill Maher argued Wednesday that political correctness could cost the Democrats this presidential election, specifically their refusal to utter the phrase “Islamic terrorism.”

 

The HBO “Real Time” host penned a lengthy essay for The Hollywood Reporter, weighing in on the political landscape and praising presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernard Sanders for their willingness to tell it like it is.

 

“No one thought a politician could survive, much less stay in the lead for as long as Trump has, based on a campaign of braggadocio and utter contempt for political correctness,” Mr. Maher wrote in his 3,500-word essay. “But the younger generation is leading a movement to prize authenticity above all. Trump is a petulant child, but at least that’s real, they seem to be saying. Bernie, too, is as real as real gets.

 

“We haven’t seen a true leftist since FDR, so many millions are coming out of the woodwork to vote for Bernie Sanders; he is the Occupy movement now come to life in the political arena. These are people who have sat out for a long time because the Democrats became a corporatist, center-right party and the Republicans became radically right (and, of course, just plain nuts in many ways),” he said.

 

“And poor, poor Hillary Clinton,” Mr. Maher wrote. “I mean she just is such a Charlie Brown figure. I could see the nomination slipping away from her again. I don’t know why everyone just wants to beat up on her. If you are threatened by Hillary Clinton, you were molested by a real estate lady, I used to say. There is no other explanation because she is just not that threatening. I actually like Hillary. I think she is unfairly demonized and has been for her entire career. I personally don’t think she is dishonest. And yet the hatred for her is just amazing — the hatred on the right and the abandonment on the left. She’s particularly hard to watch as a candidate. (That laugh.) Yes, the hard truth is that Hillary Clinton is a terrible campaigner who is living in a different era.”

 

Mr. Maher went on to argue that America is in desperate need for something “new and radical.”

 

“It’s funny that both the left and the right could not agree more that the country needs radical change,” he wrote. “It’s no longer this endeavor where you have to watch every word you say. Bernie said in early February, ‘I’m not involved in organized religion.’ Not a deal-breaker. ‘I’m a socialist.’ The world didn’t fall apart. Donald Trump, on the other hand, obviously says whatever flies into his head — there are Tourette’s patients with more control — and people like it. Americans have been choking on political correctness and overly careful politicians for the last generation or two and are sick of it.

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When even Bill Maher gets it...

[kevindavis]

He is right.. However, I think that either Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio are the ones that we can beat the Dems with... Not the candidate who shall not be spoken.