In a slip, Bill Maher reveals his racist POV

[Onkel Neal]

Funny! Maher is a comedian, and a famously liberal one. But he tried to be funny and oops, he revealed something about himself. What do they call that, a Freudian slip?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/a...take.html?_r=0

Mr. Maher: “Not out here. No. Adults dress up for Halloween. They don’t do that in Nebraska?”

Mr. Sasse: “It’s frowned upon. Yeah. We don’t do that quite as much.”

Mr. Maher: “I gotta get to Nebraska more.”

Mr. Sasse: “You’re welcome. We’d love to have you work in the fields with us.”

Now, I’m going to halt the transcript before Mr. Maher delivers his controversial riposte, to say that few quick-witted comedians — and certainly none who specialize in hot-button issues — would let a line like “We’d love to have you work in the fields with us” sit there, unharvested. In baseball, that is what they would call a fat pitch, one that leaves a batter almost morally obligated to swing.

The problem is that Mr. Maher swung as if the sport still had a Negro League. “Work in the fields?” he asked in a tone that was both funny and incredulous in a way, what, with certain white people right now, you’d call “woke.” He turned his nose up like someone who had just smelled curdled milk or watched Amy Schumer in “Snatched.” He could have stopped there: a kind of check-swing. His disdain was evident. But apparently he felt that moral obligation to swing: “Senator,” he said, throwing up his hands, “I’m a house nig***.” Immediately, he told the audience that he was joking. (On Saturday, he apologized. HBO called his remarks “inexcusable” and said it would edit that segment out of future broadcasts of the show.)

Actually I'm not hell bent on crying "racist!" on this kind of stupid thing but imagine if Sean Hannity had said this....