'I want to set so many things on fire right now': Bill Maher calls Michael Brown no 'gentle giant'

Brett T. | 12:36 AM on October 25, 2014

Bill Maher managed to shock quite a few conservatives last month when he not only dared criticize Islam but defended liberal Western culture as objectively better: “vast numbers of Muslims across the world believe … that humans deserve to die for merely holding a different idea or drawing a cartoon or writing a book or eloping with the wrong person,” said Maher.

Some regular viewers feared that speech was Step 1 in Maher’s transformation into a neocon, but Maher contended this Saturday night that Michael Brown “…wasn’t a gentle giant. He was committing a robbery and he pushed that guy. He was acting like a thug, not like a gentle giant.” Maher added that Brown certainly didn’t deserve to be shot for it, but his questioning of Brown’s sainthood riled liberals.

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Cornell West and Bill Maher are two ass holes tonight for calling Michael Brown Jr a thug, just how the fuck you know Billy #UniteBlue

— Ivan3k0 ???? ? #Biden2020 (@KingIvan) October 25, 2014

yup, fuck everything about Bill maher @Mediaite: Bill Maher: Michael Brown Was 'Acting Like a Thug, Not Like a Gentle Giant'

— POSITIVE TOUCH (@PositivTouch) October 25, 2014

So can libs be done with Bill Maher now? Hmm? https://t.co/GUde5inms3

— Tọ́pẹ́ (@graceishuman) October 25, 2014

Wait—so Bill Maher's still spewing some lie about Mike Brown that's been debunked like a million times over?

— Abolition or GTFO ✡️☭? (@thespinsterymc) October 25, 2014

Yup. Bigot Bill Maher just called Mike Brown (RIP) a thug, right after Cornel West called him out on his anti-Arab racism.

— Chairman XÃO (@DjComrade) October 25, 2014