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Bill Maher on the insane amount of hatred we have in America

Last night, Bill Maher looked at just how much utter disturbing unhinged hatred there is in this country.

And finally, New Rule: the next politician who says America just needs a government as good as its people needs to spend more time in an Internet chat room. Or a comment section. Or any of those wonderful cyberspaces in America where every third comment is "Suck cocks in hell, jerkwad!" Seriously, if America had a government as good as its people, it wouldn't look like this.



HOUSE CLERK: Further consideration of H.R. 761....
It would look like this.



Now this week, we crowned a new Miss America, a Nina Davuluri, who happens to be the first of Indian descent, and the Twittersphere exploded with so much racist hatred, you'd have thought that President Obama just made a reasonable remark. (audience laughter)

I mean, listen to some of this nonsense.

JAKE AMICK: How the fuck does a foreigner win miss America? She is a Arab! #idiots

Congratulations Al-Qaeda. Our Miss America is one of you.

AUDREY GRAHAM: Miss America is a terrorist. Whatever. It's fine.

All you can do is shake your head and wonder, where does Donald Trump get the time? (audience laughter and applause)

Of course, you can understand why these people are so upset. Miss America, after all, is a very powerful position — she signs all of our laws and treaties. That's why the crown should only go to a white girl from Texas with big horse teeth.

But Nina Davuluri just won a beauty contest. She didn't do anything truly evil, like giving people health insurance. But her parents are from India, so she's an Arab. (audience laughter)

You know, it's funny, I used to think that my Twitter feed was so hate-filled, because I deal in controversy. But I found out it's everybody! I mean, I understand:

Fuck you. Die in a fire. @billmaher

Sure. But who hates Jonah Hill?
@JonahHill why don't u kill yourself u unfunny fat piece of #trash

#commitsuicide you fucking lame ass #pieceofshit that u are #diedieDIEDIE
(shocked audience laughter)

Well, I guess it's a nice break from writing:

Fuck you Zach Braff. Fuck you in the face!

(shocked audience laughter)

You know, Abraham Lincoln said Americans were a people "with malice toward none, and charity for all". But if he had said it online, the first comment would be:

@AbrahamLincoln blow me, Jewbeard
(audience laughter)

And the second would be:

@AbrahamLincoln Go to the theatre and die!
(audience laughter)

I mean, look at this one.

fuck you cheesecake factory
(shocked audience laughter)

Really? Even cheesecake? What's next, calling apple pie a cunt? (audience laughter)

So, my question is why, why, why has hate become the national pastime? Yes, the technology does have something to do with it, but to those who say, "Oh, people were always horrible, we just have Twitter and Facebook now," no. No, not like this.

The Greatest Generation had celebrities. No one would have thought to have sent Myrna Loy a telegram that said, "Fuck you Myrna Loy! I hope Clark Gable gives you herpes!"

(audience laughter)

No, I think the problem is this. We just found out that the percentage of Americans who describe themselves as "poor" has doubled in the last five years. Which is very significant, because in the past, the poor consistently — and erroneously — described themselves as middle class. Because they had hope. Because they still believed in that Ponzi scheme formerly known as the American dream. But now they're starting to get it, that the fix is in, and that the "two Americas" thing is kinda true. And they're in the wrong one.

Apple just released two new iPhones, an expensive gold one for the haves, and for the serfs, a shitty plastic lime-green one that looks like your phone is wearing Crocs. (audience laughter)

But here's the good news. Wages may not go up again, and good jobs may never come back, but you can now get an iPhone for $99 bucks. And you can use it to tell Betty White to go fuck herself!!

you dead yet bitch? @BettyMWhite

(shocked audience laughter)
Video below the fold.

Note: Most of the racist tweets about the new Miss America that were compiled have since been deleted, and many of those who made those tweets have deleted their entire Twitter account, or were suspended. Sunlight can be a good disinfectant. Name 'em and shame 'em, I say.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/21/1240347/-Bill-Maher-on-the-insane-amount-of-hatred-we-have-in-America