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This post was written by Kristinn Taylor & Andrea Shea King
A week after calling former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin a “dumb t***” vulgar insult for women, comedian Bill Maher went all the way and called Palin the c-word, adding, “There’s just no other word for her.”
Maher also recently called Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) “bimbos”.
The Dallas Voice (The Premier Media Source for LGBT Texas) reporting on Maher’s appearance Sunday night at the Winspear Opera House Sunday night, cheered Maher using the crude sexist slur against the 2008 Republican party vice presidential nominee as an act of “fearlessness”:
It’s that fearlessness — he acknowledged that some people would probably be uncomfortable with some of his remarks about religion, not to mention calling Sarah Palin a “c***” (“there’s just no other word for her”) — that makes Maher the most dangerous person in comedy.
The audience at the Winspear was described by the Voice as “largely gay (and certainly gay-friendly)”, which might explain Maher’s fearlessness in attacking a conservative, Christian, married mother of five in the most vulgar, personal and sexist way.
Before this incident of Maher dropping the c-word on her, Palin had opted to not directly respond to him, referring to Maher as an “annoying little mosquito.”
After the liberal National Organization for Women issued a half-hearted defense of Palin from Maher’s crude sexism, Palin responded by turning a classic feminist slogan against them, saying, “I need NOW’s defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don’t want them to defend me.”
When Maher was first being criticized for calling Palin the t-word, Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters asked:
Is the universal media hatred for this woman so pervasive that it’s now acceptable for a man to call her that?
Can the dreaded C-word be far behind?
Sadly, it didn’t take long for Sheppard to be proven right.
Last month, Slate Magazine was caught slyly calling Palin the c-word in a headline. Slate’s editor apologized after being called out by Big Journalism.
In late September 2008, liberal activists paraded in front of the Philadelphia hotel Palin was staying wearing t-shirts emblazoned in large neon green letters with the insult, “Sarah Palin is a (C-word).”
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