Really, if you don't have breasts, you should just say something nice...

And I feel he makes the same mistake about religion. If someone doesn't have belief, that's fine, but making gross generalizations with no experience, well, that's just stupid.

A woman was breastfeeding during worship at my church this Sunday - and nobody batted an eye.

Bill Maher can suck it (no pun intended). I like some of the stuff he says, but this is bullshit. I think most mamas will agree that breastfeeding is not something we enjoy doing in public, not least of all because of attitudes like this. We do it because we need to. I love it when everyone can complain about moms nursing in public and yet there are usually no fascilities in public places where moms can feed their baby's comfortably and in private. Are we just supposed to be shut-ins? And I love the whole "cover up" thing... clearly these people do not have kids. My son is 15 months and I can try to cover up all I want. If I put a blanket over him, he removes it. If I pull my shirt down, he shoves it right back up. And loves to switch boobs randomly and often. You ladies know what I'm talking about. It is beyond ridiculous to think that breastfeeding moms are just DYING to whip our tits out for the world to see. Please!

like in the Hooters example, but for food, which is a need, it is not OK. Rrrrrrg, asshole.

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I guess he'd rather have the baby screaming all through the meal. If i'm not allowed to BF in restaurants, i'm not going to stop going. Oh no. I'm used to eating with a crying baby. Maybe Bill there isnt.

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taking pot shots at women for a laugh.

classy.

regardless, thank you for keeping your spew out of the gene pool asswipe!

is this realy how he feels or is this how he feels the same way Carlos Mencia feels about blacks/whites/asians/latinos/gays/catholics/ect?

'Cause that sounds so appealing!

i didn't know he was so dumb. those jokes, and not just about the breastfeeding, are jokes my kid could come up with. i wonder what would be left if he didn't cloak himself with politics and headiness, would people still pretend to think he was funny? if the video was edited where only the breastfeeding shit played, i would think, ok he was going for a hooters gag and it fell flat... but the whole thing was dumb. i really thought he was smarter. i'm also a little surprised he has airtime for that shit. what station is he on?

thanks for sharing, but I don't even wanna watch the clip
some people just go too far trying so hard to be funny, I never watch him and never will now. Sounds like an ignorant waste of skin to me.
He obviously hates his mother.

we've got to let love rule
~l. kravitz

i have it on tivo and was planning to watch it tonight, even before i read this, because i really like that show and i watch it weekly. but it's late and i;m tired so it will have to wait til tomorrow.

that being said, i do want to say something in defense of this show --because i'll throw in the disclaimer right now that this is my favorite show - i love this show because it allows guests to participate in *actual* discussions on a variety of topics that *actually* matter. on TV even! yeah, like the war in iraq, yeah, like this administration's crimes against humanity, yeah, like environmental issues we easily overlook, like how methane from cow's asses is doing more damage to our planet than all the cars out there. like a whole lotta things that are totally skimmed over in the rest of the media.

while i typically disagree --and disagree vehemently-- with at least one of the guests each week on any given topic (and quite often it's with Bill himself, as i'm expecting to on tonight's episode), that;s also the beauty of the show right there. he's not rush limbaugh or michael savage, slamming his POV down your throat and only booking guests that either share his opinion or are too verbally weak to have a fighting chance. this show books guests from so many different parts of the political, academic, jounalistic, and celeb spectrum, and they not only get to disagre, but they get to discuss *why* they disagree in segments that last far longer than the typical two-second lobs and retorts you find on crossfire or hardball. just last week he had on Cornell West and Mos Def as the only guests on the panel and it was fantastic. not because of anything Bill Maher had to say - he barely got a word in edgewise. but becasue these two men were given the time to raise people's awarness to some pretty heavy shit that is, rather tragically, not being talked about enough. check it out on Utube and then tell me where else on television do we get that? certainly not on Meet The Press.

do i like what maher had to say about breastfeeding? oh hell no! his POV on breastfeeding is entirely ridiculous and most-likely intended to be inflammatory. but am i surprised? hell no, this is coming from a self-proclaimed permanet bachelor who openly despises children and fancies playmates half his age!

still, i have to give it up to bill and his show. because there are just so few places in mainstream media where people are given the freedom *and the time* to discuss things that matter, to use whatever language is most comfortable to them, to state boldy (and often coldly) their actual positions. he fought long and hard to create this forum, a forum he regularly hands over to ralph nader and cindy sheehan and dennis kucinich and mike gravel and so many other politicians and activists who are marginalized by the mainstream. i'm delighted this show exists, even when --especially when it pisses me off. i don't want it watered down! even if some middle-aged white dude with a napolean complex reveals himself to be the knuckle-dragging ape that he is. because there's usually someone on the show to balance it out, to put him in check. hopefully that happened in this situation. if not, he;ll catch hell from a huge chunk of his viewers, probably a few of his guests, certainly a handful of his producers, and will likely return to the topic next week.