Chile, these folks are trying my blood pressure!
I refer you, dear reader, to the LGBT blog Joe.My.God for coverage of the Milo Yiannopoulous’ highly bigoted anti-transgender tirade on Bill Maher’s HBO show Real Time, for which Larry Wilmore read Milo to filth.
(Personally, I did prefer the subtler reads of Malcolm Nance. Usually, I don’t like it when straight black men come for gay men of any race in this fashion for any reason...but there are exceptions to every rule and this is one of them).
But...the gall of Bill Maher to compare Milo to the late, great Christopher Hitchens was stunningly unmitigated.
I mean, really?
REALLY?
But...the gall of Bill Maher to compare Milo to the late, great Christopher Hitchens was stunningly unmitigated.
I mean, really?
REALLY?
Yes, I disagreed with Christopher Hitchens on some issues and his vitriol (especially as it regarded the Clintons, his endorsing of the Iraq War and the shade that he threw at comedian Wanda Sykes after the 2009 White House Correspondents Dinner)
Mr. Hitchens was also one of the finest practitioners of the English language in the past 50 or so years
Bill Maher, I read, honey. TRUST!
Even on his drunkest days in the middle of his most irrational anti-Clinton tirades, Christopher Hitchens’ is so much more preferable, so much more intelligent and so much more informative than that self-described “virtuous troll” you had on your show last night (as if Milo Yiannopoulous would know anything about “virtue”).
Sure, like many of the left, I had my issues with Hitchens’ politics but if I appreciated (and frankly envied) nothing else about Hitch, I appreciated this.
Milo can’t go there now and never will be able to because he will always be a flash-in-the-pan and troll without virtue.
And besides, who told Milo that he looked good and queeny in a goddamn pearl necklace?
So thank you Bill Maher, for dumbing down America even more simply to make a point.
Now let me go to my medicine cabinet...