Yet another hypocritical attack on a Republican by liberal idiots who are demanding his head because of perceived racial animus. And his sin was that he didn’t do anything!! Literally!!
Ben Sasse is apologizing today:
Am walking off a redeye from LAX.
3 reflections on @billmaher
1. I’m a 1st Amendment absolutist. Comedians get latitude to cross hard lines.— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) June 3, 2017
2. But free speech comes with a responsibility to speak up when folks use that word. Me just cringing last night wasn’t good enough.
(2of4?) https://t.co/e4Bw8s8tV2— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) June 3, 2017
3. Here’s what I wish I’d been quick enough to say in the moment: “Hold up, why would you think it’s OK to use that word?…
(3of4?) https://t.co/mQL6wMEd7W— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) June 3, 2017
(4of4)
"…The history of the n-word is an attack on universal human dignity. It’s therefore an attack on the American Creed. Don't use it.” https://t.co/kEZm5vPFHK— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) June 3, 2017
That seems a little nutty to me. That would mean that an entire industry of music is an affront to human dignity – I’m talking about rap music of course, of which I am a partaker.
Here’s what happened – Sasse made a harmless joke, Maher turned it racial, the audience groaned and laughed. You can see Sasse cringing a little, and apparently that’s worse than Hitler:
Ben Sasse voted for Jeff Sessions and chuckles when another white man says the n-word. Cool. pic.twitter.com/HpSt9dBGuu
— rayneutron (@RayNeutron) June 3, 2017
Pretty stupid, but liberals are running with it. AND scumbag alt-right and Trump-cultists are bashing him too just out of pure spite. Of course, they whine about liberals attacking Republicans with false charges of racism – until it’s someone who criticized their emperor, then they pile on.
And why did the audience think it was okay to laugh? And Ben Sasse doesn't even flinch. What is happening in the world?
— deray (@deray) June 3, 2017
LOL!! Alt-Right and far left extremists together finally!!
#NeverTrump'er Ben Sasse will sit around & undermine the President all day, but just yucks it up with lib pal Bill Maher over use of n-word.
— Doug Elston Ibendahl (@DougIbendahl) June 3, 2017
Well they don’t have any principles about anything else, why would we expect them to have them about this?
There’s a few rational people, but very few:
Ben Sasse is going to become the spokesman for the dangers of Secondhand Slur.
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) June 3, 2017
So here's Ben Sasse literally pulling back and wincing when Bill Maher makes his joke pic.twitter.com/5G8qZFyUL2
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) June 3, 2017
Progressive tv host says racial slur and progressive audience belly laughs and applauds. This is @BenSasse 's fault how? #ItIsnt
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 3, 2017
It’s gonna be a crappy weekend.
UPDATE: Even more ironically, the entire interview is actually really good and makes a lot of good points about the ills in society. Double-update: Unfortunate that was an unlicensed video and they took it down. I recommend finding that video for yourself however.