Please Stop Apologizing

An editorial from Bill Maher...

When did we get it in our heads that we have the right to never hear anything we don’t like? In the last year, we’ve been shocked and appalled by the unbelievable insensitivity of Nike shoes, the Fighting Sioux, Hank Williams Jr., Cee Lo Green, Ashton Kutcher, Tracy Morgan, Don Imus, Kirk Cameron, Gilbert Gottfried, the Super Bowl halftime show and the ESPN guys who used the wrong cliché for Jeremy Lin after everyone else used all the others. Who can keep up?

If it weren’t for throwing conniption fits, we wouldn’t get any exercise at all.

I have a better idea. Let’s have an amnesty — from the left and the right — on every made-up, fake, totally insincere, playacted hurt, insult, slight and affront. Let’s make this Sunday the National Day of No Outrage. One day a year when you will not find some tiny thing someone did or said and pretend you can barely continue functioning until they apologize.

Read the whole editorial at...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/opini ... ef=opinion

Well Bill... this is what the political correctness of the left has wrought us. I'm outraged that you would suggest that we stop getting outraged by all these reactions to all this politically incorrect rhetoric. You want to stop all the responses to the discourse... then lets stop all the nasty rhetoric... how about we start with you. :Whistle

I don’t want to live in a country where no one ever says anything that offends anyone. That’s why we have Canada. That’s not us. If we sand down our rough edges and drain all the color, emotion and spontaneity out of our discourse, we’ll end up with political candidates who never say anything but the safest, blandest, emptiest, most unctuous focus-grouped platitudes and can't. In other words, we’ll get Mitt Romney.

Way to go Bill.

Photo-fish wrote:

I don’t want to live in a country where no one ever says anything that offends anyone. That’s why we have Canada. That’s not us. If we sand down our rough edges and drain all the color, emotion and spontaneity out of our discourse, we’ll end up with political candidates who never say anything but the safest, blandest, emptiest, most unctuous focus-grouped platitudes and can't. In other words, we’ll get Mitt Romney.

Way to go Bill.

I agree with most of his editorial, but at the same time, it's people on the left, throughout the last 50 years, who has brought us to this cesspool of politically correct speech and thought. He's been hoisted on his own political petard and now he doesn't like it.

Of course, if something is “inexcusable,” an apology doesn’t make any difference, but then again, neither does Newt Gingrich.

The right side of America is mad at President Obama because he hugged the late Derrick Bell, a law professor who believed we live in a racist country, 22 years ago; the left side of America is mad at Rush Limbaugh for seemingly proving him right.

If it weren’t for throwing conniption fits, we wouldn’t get any exercise at all.

The answer to whenever another human being annoys you is not “make them go away forever.” We need to learn to coexist, and it’s actually pretty easy to do. For example, I find Rush Limbaugh obnoxious, but I’ve been able to coexist comfortably with him for 20 years by using this simple method: I never listen to his program. The only time I hear him is when I’m at a stoplight next to a pickup truck.

Way to go, Bill.

For example, I find Rush Limbaugh obnoxious.. I never listen to his program. The only time I hear him is when I’m at a stoplight next to a pickup truck.

This is an outrageous, unwarranted, unfair, prejudiced, bigoted slam against pick-up truck owners. I demand an apology. SOBs

Seriously, it was funny. LOL

But Maher is still a moron.

Yeah... So is Rush, Gingrich, Santorum and Romney... We all have our problems to live with. I'm glad I don't have yours with that stable of morons.

LadyJazzer wrote: Yeah... So is Rush, Gingrich, Santorum and Romney... We all have our problems to live with. I'm glad I don't have yours with that stable of morons.

Yeah, you've got it easy... Your side only has to worry about the one moron currently in the white house.

Ah, that's OK... Just give Romney a shake, and he'll reset to anything.... and I DO mean anything...

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote: I agree with most of his editorial, but at the same time, it's people on the left, throughout the last 50 years, who has brought us to this cesspool of politically correct speech and thought. He's been hoisted on his own political petard and now he doesn't like it.

Heard a very poignant remark this morning referencing this very thing. No matter how Mao thou are, eventually one will be found who is more Mao than thou and you will no longer be the hunter, but the hunted.

I'm not Mao. I'm Mustard.