Maher on 500th "Real Time" episode

[Bob Jersey]

Given what happened over at CBS with the censored cartoon scene on "The Good Fight," I believe there are lines that AT&T might not want him to cross.

We just haven't discovered them yet.

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/bill-maher-real-time-hbo-trump-politically-incorrect-1203249574/ (link)

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[Kevin M.]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 8:25 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Given what happened over at CBS with the censored cartoon scene on "The Good Fight," I believe there are lines that AT&T might not want him to cross.

We just haven't discovered them yet.

His bigotry of Muslims and his extremist “neo atheist” prejudice against all people of faith is apparently ok with AT&T. 

He’s Dennis Miller with worse hair. 

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/bill-maher-real-time-hbo-trump-politically-incorrect-1203249574/ (link)

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Bob Jersey]

Kevin M., to moi, Fri. (6/21):

His bigotry of Muslims and his extremist “neo atheist” prejudice against all people of faith is apparently ok with AT&T. 

He’s Dennis Miller with worse hair. 

Now that some of the local radio stations are changing hands (I referred to it here [link]), Miller's podcast, which Cumulus-owned Westwood One offers in the usual places, is occasionally plugged on them...

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[Tom Wolper]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 11:34 AM Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote:

His bigotry of Muslims and his extremist “neo atheist” prejudice against all people of faith is apparently ok with AT&T. 

He’s Dennis Miller with worse hair.

Years ago Maher had an outsized presence in the larger public conversation. Now he has a devoted following which will fill his studio and watch his show on HBO and virtually nobody else. As long as HBO is happy with those numbers Maher has a show. Since his snippets rarely escape out into the larger social media conversation we don't have to care.

Will AT&T try and censor his content? When Maher was transgressive with out-of-mainstream topics like cannabis legalization, same sex marriage, and atheism, he was being transgressive within his comfort zone. Now that all of those are mainstream if he wants to be transgressive just to provoke he's going to have to go to something beyond his own values. He doesn't need to take that chance.