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Dr Frank stated he was surprised The Nation would publish a letter that contained an insult based on the word retard.

Of course, it is not good manners to ever use the word retard, yet the fact that someone would use it says more about them than about this publication. Dr Frank acts as if this is the first time that retard has been conflated with another word. Perhaps he is an older person who comes from a more enlightened generation. But in fact it is now quite common to use the word retard in combination with another word, when seeking to discredit someone else.

For instance, when I was in South Korea a few years back, many locals would refer to the Japanese as Jtards, in order to express their hatred of their former colonial rulers. South Koreans would even call Americans whitetards when they disagreed with parts of American policy. I could give further examples here, but I think one gets the point. While this publication could perhaps have used more discretion in accepting a letter that used the insult retard, The Nation in fact was not doing anything extraordinary in publishing it.

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Comedian Bill Maher has made a career of saying things that could come back to haunt him, both on his former ABC show "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher" and on his current HBO show "Real Time with Bill Maher." Though Maher prides himself on being politically incorrect, there have been plenty of times he's said offensive things that got him into hot water. Here's a look at 11 of them.

11. Maher interviews alt-right darling Milo Yiannopoulos After Milos speech at Berkeley University was canceled because of protests that included a few small fires and thrown objects, Maher brought the alt-right idol in for an interview. Though Milos anti-feminism, anti-transgender and anti-Muslim positions are well known -- as is his role in the harassment-focused online movement known as GamerGate -- Maher offered almost no pushback against Milo. Read more here.

10. Maher jokes about Tila Tequila being assaulted In 2009, news broke that Tila Tequila claimed shed been assaulted by then-boyfriend and San Diego Charger Shawne Merriman. Maher responded with a joke many found sexist: New rule: Stop acting surprised someone choked Tila Tequila! The surprise is that someone hasnt choked this bitch sooner.

9. Maher claims Hillary Clinton cried for political gain During the 2008 presidential campaign, Maher tore into Clinton. In what many read as a sexist remark, Maher said women use crying to win arguments and accused Clinton of crying on the campaign trail for the same reason. Watch the clip here.

8. Maher says millions of Muslims supported the Charlie Hebdo attacks Maher has a long history of being highly critical of religion and, in recent years, of Islam in particular. In the wake of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack in France, Maher said hundreds of millions of Muslims supported the violence, in which 12 people were killed and 11 more were injured. Watch the clip.

7. He gets into an Islamophobia argument with Ben Affleck On a panel with actor Ben Affleck and author Sam Harris, Maher defended Harris assertions about Islam, including when Harris said Islam at this moment is the mother lode of bad ideas. The discussion turned into a shouting match, as Affleck quickly challenged the stance and bigotry related to discussions of Islam. Watch the clip here.

6. Maher compares One Directions Zayn Malik to Boston Marathon bomber Singer Zayn Malik quit the band One Direction, prompting a few jokes from Maher during an episode. But people were angered when Maher asked, Where were you during the Boston Marathon, placing an image of Malik beside one of bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Many saw the joke as one mocking both Maliks appearance and his Muslim faith. Watch the clip.

5. He defends Bill OReillys joke about Maxine Waters After former Fox News host Bill OReilly said Congresswoman Maxine Waters hair looked like a James Brown wig, Maher came to his defense on Real Time. Mahers point: liberals cant take a joke. Many criticized OReillys joke to be racist, and he later apologized. Watch the clip here.

4. Maher says dogs are like children with mental disabilities In the middle of making some point about how hes not lauded enough for raising dogs, Maher said dogs are like retarded children. Guests floundered both to address Mahers use of the offensive word and the much more offensive comparison of children with disabilities to animals. Watch the clip.

3. ...And makes fun of Sarah Palins son Trig Maher pushed that button again when he referred to Trig as it and said he looks a lot like John Edwards. Watch the clip here.

2. Maher says 9/11 terrorists werent cowardly Maher's ABC show Politically Incorrect" was canceled in June 2002 after what he later explained was his attempt to level criticism against the American military. Less than a week after Sept. 11, 2001, Maher said the terrorists who stayed aboard planes were warriors, adding that the U.S. had been cowardly for firing cruise missiles at enemies from 2,000 miles away. The comment caused a row, as advertisers pulled out of the show. Watch the clip.

1. Maher says Im a house n---a In his latest bout of outrage-driving commentary, Maher offhandedly dropped the n-word in the middle of an interview. HBO has since said the comment was inexcusable and is removing it from reruns of the show and Maher has apologized.

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As reported, Bill Maher has lined up a panel of guests who will no doubt attempt to helphim talk through the furor he created when he called himself the n-word last Friday on his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher.

While the host has already offered a partially well-wrought apology in the face of intense pressure and criticism, this is not his first public go around with the loaded racial epithet.

In a post on theFader, writer Jordan Darvillehelpfully reminded us all of something that, quite shamefully for this moment, slipped the minds of many (including Salon).

In 2001, following a similar controversy tied to comedian Sarah Silvermans use of the anti-Chinese racial epithet chink, Maherinvited her,Guy Aoki of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans and the actor and activist Anne-Marie Johnson to discuss the issue on his ABC show Politically Incorrect. David Spade, much to his apparent and understandable embarrassment, was there too.

As you can see in the video below, the discussion around Silvermans joke seems even more brokenand fraught than it probably did at the time. Its doubtful Silverman or any accomplished comedian for that matter would perform it today, let alone go on network TV to tell an Asian-rights activist they were wrong for taking offense toit.

Talk turns, as one would expect, to the n-word. The combative exchange betweenJohnson and Maher starts at about 13:40.It does not go well for the host.

Blacks are like whites cannot say this word,' he says.I disagree. This word has changed in the last 10, 15 years. According to who? asks Johnson. According to culture . . . Maher booms back at her. Ask any African-American person in this audience what that means, Johnson replies with an appropriate amountof alarm. Every African-American person in this audience users that word night and day, its in every song its all through culture says Maher.

With Johnson declaring youre wrong, youre wrong, Maher brings up the worn old penny about the n-word now being a term of endearment, explaining to a black woman how she should feel. He thenstates to the light-skinned Johnson, First of all, I wouldnt even know you were black if you didnt tell me.

I love it when white people try to define what is African American,' says Johnson. Im African American regardless of my skin color or my hair, she added. I think Im only one on this stage whos qualified to talk about the meaning of the word, how it hurts, how it doesnt hurt, where its used, the history of it. Because I live it everyday. David Spade continues to look miserable.

Having heard that impassioned demand for understanding, Maher nonetheless continues, Its in every song on the radio, okay?Nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga is in every song, okay? People come up to me and go, Bill, you a nigga. But I cant say thank you or I go please dont use that word?

After talking about the group NWA and his mother, Maher adds, Im saying when the word has come this far into the mainstream, for a very good reason they co-opted the word to make it less powerful. As Johnson notes that she objects to its use in rap music because it shows a lack of appreciation for history, both Maher and Silverman trumpet words evolve!

Listen, folks says Johnson, its not a word we can use. Can you please pass me the tea, and pass me the nigger too? Itstill hurts. Following that, Silverman and Maher continue to try to paint Aoki and Johnson as somehow villains for being hurt by epithets (or, as they seem to think,lyingabout claiming to be hurt.) Seen through todays lens, its deeply shameful.

Now, yes, some 16 years have passed since this segment, 16 years that have seen a great deal of changes in how we talk about race in the public square. Undoubtedly, there have been a great many changes in Maher as well: he evinced none of the strident defensiveness seen here in his apology this Saturday.

And, yet, when you combine this footage from 2001 with the ease and self-satisfaction apparent in his use of the very same epithet on Friday, it paints a picture of a man whos quite willing to disregard the pain he might cause black people all so he can say his precious n-word.

Who Bill Maher willbecome down the road may be a different creature. Up until Saturday, however,he appeared to be one incapable of listening to the pleas of someonereasonably, passionately, persuasively asking him not to hurt them from, literally, three feet away. It makes the case for his honest rehabilitation shaky.

Maher may say hes undergoing a process of self discovery, but he was given all the tools he needed not to wind up where he is now over a decade and a half ago. He didnt learn a thing.

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WASHINGTON - Having coined Bush Derangement Syndrome more than a decade ago, I feel authorized to weigh in on its most recent offshoot. What distinguishes Trump Derangement Syndrome is not just general hysteria about the subject, but additionally the inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences on the one hand and signs of psychic pathology on the other.

Take Trump's climate-change decision. The hyperbole that met his withdrawal from the Paris agreement - a traitorous act of war against the American people, America just resigned as leader of the free world, etc. - was astonishing, though hardly unusual, this being Trump.

What the critics don't seem to recognize is that the Paris agreement itself was a huge failure. It contained no uniform commitments and no enforcement provisions. Sure, the whole world signed. But onto what? A voluntary set of vaporous promises. China pledged to "achieve the peaking of CO2 emissions around 2030." Meaning that they rise for another 13 years.

The rationale, I suppose, is that developing countries like India and China should be given a pass because the West had a two-century head start on industrialization.

I don't think the West needs to apologize - or pay - for having invented the steam engine. In fact, I've long favored a real climate-change pact, strong and enforceable, that would impose relatively uniform demands on China, India, the U.S., the EU and any others willing to join.

Paris was nothing but hot air. Withdrawing was a perfectly plausible policy choice (the other being remaining but trying to reduce our CO2-cutting commitments). The subsequent attacks on Trump were all the more unhinged because the president's other behavior over the last several weeks provided ample opportunity for shock and dismay.

It's the tweets, of course. Trump sees them as a direct, "unfiltered" conduit to the public. What he doesn't quite understand is that for him - indeed, for anyone - they are a direct conduit from the unfiltered id. They erase whatever membrane normally exists between one's internal disturbances and their external manifestations.

For most people, who cares? For the president of the United States, there are consequences. When the president's id speaks, the world listens.

Consider his tweets mocking the mayor of London after the most recent terror attack. They were appalling. This is a time when a president expresses sympathy and solidarity - and stops there. Trump can't stop, ever. He used the atrocity to renew an old feud with a minor official of another country. Petty in the extreme.

As was his using London to support his misbegotten travel ban, to attack his own Justice Department for having "watered down" the original executive order (ignoring the fact that Trump himself signed it) and to undermine the case for it just as it goes to the Supreme Court.

As when he boasted by tweet that the administration was already doing "extreme vetting." But that explodes the whole rationale for the travel ban - that a 90-day moratorium on entry was needed while new vetting procedures were developed. If the vetting is already in place, the ban has no purpose. The rationale evaporates.

And if that wasn't mischief enough, he then credited his own interventions in Saudi Arabia for the sudden squeeze that the Saudis, the UAE, Egypt and other Sunni-run states are putting on Qatar for its long-running dirty game of supporting and arming terrorists (such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas) and playing footsie with Iran.

It's good to see our Sunni allies confront Qatar and try to bring it into line. But why make it personal - other than to feed the presidential id? Gratuitously injecting the U.S. into the crisis taints the endeavor by making it seem an American rather than an Arab initiative and turns our allies into instruments of American designs rather than defenders of their own region from a double agent in their midst.

And this is just four days' worth of tweets, all vainglorious and self-injurious. Where does it end?

The economist Herb Stein once quipped that "if something cannot go on forever, it will stop." This really can't go on, can it? But it's hard to see what, short of a smoking gun produced by the Russia inquiry, actually does stop him.

Trump was elected to do politically incorrect - and needed - things like withdrawing from Paris. He was not elected to do crazy things, starting with his tweets. If he cannot distinguish between the two, Trump Derangement Syndrome will only become epidemic.

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WASHINGTON Having coined Bush Derangement Syndrome more than a decade ago, I feel authorized to weigh in on its most recent offshoot. What distinguishes Trump Derangement Syndrome is not just general hysteria about the subject, but additionally the inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences on the one hand and signs of psychic pathology on the other.

Take Trump's climate-change decision. The hyperbole that met his withdrawal from the Paris agreement a traitorous act of war against the American people, America just resigned as leader of the free world, etc. was astonishing, though hardly unusual, this being Trump.

What the critics don't seem to recognize is that the Paris agreement itself was a huge failure. It contained no uniform commitments and no enforcement provisions. Sure, the whole world signed. But onto what? A voluntary set of vaporous promises. China pledged to "achieve the peaking of CO2 emissions around 2030." Meaning that they rise for another 13 years.

The rationale, I suppose, is that developing countries like India and China should be given a pass because the West had a two-century head start on industrialization.

I don't think the West needs to apologize or pay for having invented the steam engine. In fact, I've long favored a real climate-change pact, strong and enforceable, that would impose relatively uniform demands on China, India, the U.S., the EU and any others willing to join.

Paris was nothing but hot air. Withdrawing was a perfectly plausible policy choice (the other being remaining but trying to reduce our CO2-cutting commitments). The subsequent attacks on Trump were all the more unhinged because the president's other behavior over the last several weeks provided ample opportunity for shock and dismay.

It's the tweets, of course. Trump sees them as a direct, "unfiltered" conduit to the public. What he doesn't quite understand is that for him indeed, for anyone they are a direct conduit from the unfiltered id. They erase whatever membrane normally exists between one's internal disturbances and their external manifestations.

For most people, who cares? For the president of the United States, there are consequences. When the president's id speaks, the world listens.

Consider his tweets mocking the mayor of London after the most recent terror attack. They were appalling. This is a time when a president expresses sympathy and solidarity and stops there. Trump can't stop, ever. He used the atrocity to renew an old feud with a minor official of another country. Petty in the extreme.

As was his using London to support his misbegotten travel ban, to attack his own Justice Department for having "watered down" the original executive order (ignoring the fact that Trump himself signed it) and to undermine the case for it just as it goes to the Supreme Court.

As when he boasted by tweet that the administration was already doing "extreme vetting." But that explodes the whole rationale for the travel ban that a 90-day moratorium on entry was needed while new vetting procedures were developed. If the vetting is already in place, the ban has no purpose. The rationale evaporates.

And if that wasn't mischief enough, he then credited his own interventions in Saudi Arabia for the sudden squeeze that the Saudis, the UAE, Egypt and other Sunni-run states are putting on Qatar for its long-running dirty game of supporting and arming terrorists (such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas) and playing footsie with Iran.

It's good to see our Sunni allies confront Qatar and try to bring it into line. But why make it personal other than to feed the presidential id? Gratuitously injecting the U.S. into the crisis taints the endeavor by making it seem an American rather than an Arab initiative and turns our allies into instruments of American designs rather than defenders of their own region from a double agent in their midst.

And this is just four days' worth of tweets, all vainglorious and self-injurious. Where does it end?

The economist Herb Stein once quipped that "if something cannot go on forever, it will stop." This really can't go on, can it? But it's hard to see what, short of a smoking gun produced by the Russia inquiry, actually does stop him.

Trump was elected to do politically incorrect and needed things like withdrawing from Paris. He was not elected to do crazy things, starting with his tweets. If he cannot distinguish between the two, Trump Derangement Syndrome will only become epidemic.

Charles Krauthammer's email address is letters@charleskrauthammer.com.

(c) 2017, The Washington Post Writers Group

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Rapper Ice Cube was a panelist on "Real Time" a week after Bill Maher used the n-word on the show. Here's what Ice Cube had to say, plus how other entertainers viewed the controversy. (Nicki DeMarco/The Washington Post)

A week after Bill Maher used the n-word on Real Time, Fridays episode of his HBO show focused largely on a discussion of race, with black personalities essentially lecturing the comedian on why what he had done was unacceptable.

I want you to school me. I did a bad thing, he told Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson, adding later: For black folks, that word I dont care who you are has caused pain. Im not here to do that It doesnt matter that it wasnt said in malice; it wasnt. It brought back pain to people.

For several minutes, Maher was on the hot seat and on the receiving end of questions. Actor-rapper Ice Cube didnt seem to hold back, telling Maher that he and white people shouldnt get too comfortable with saying the n-word, even if done without a hint of racism. He also said that he felt the comedian has been bucking up against that line, and that last weeks mistake was a teachable moment for Maher.

What made you think that it was cool to say that? Ice Cube asked.

Maher repeated his apology and said that he simply reacted, without thinking, to a comment by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) about working in the fields.

[Bill Maher says he is very sorry for using a racial slur on his HBO show]

Though he accepted theapology, Ice Cube dished out many reasons he felt Mahers behavior was so problematic.He said, in part:

I still think you need to get to the root of the psyche because I think theres a lot of guys out there who cross the line because theyre a little too familiar, or they think theyre too familiar. Or, guys that, you know, might have a black girlfriend or two that made them Kool-Aid every now and then, and then they think they can cross the line. And they cant. You know, its a word that has been used against us. Its like a knife, man. You can use it as a weapon or you can use it as a tool. Its when you use it as a weapon against us, by white people, and were not going to let that happened again because its not cool Thats our word, and you cant have it back.

Its not cool because when I hear my homie say it, it dont feel like venom. When I hear a white person say it, it feel like that knife stabbing you, even if they dont mean to.

The longtime HBO host drew widespread criticism last week after using the racial slur during an exchange with Sasse on his show. The senator invited Maher to visit Nebraska and said, Wed love to have you work in the fields with us.

Work in the fields? Senator, Im a house n, Maher said in response. No, its its a joke.

HBO late-night host Bill Maher was under fire this week for using a racial slur on his show. Here are some other occasions where he has faced criticism for his jokes. (Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post)

He apologized in a brief statement the following day, saying the word was offensive and that he was very sorry. The backlash was immediate, with HBO also condemning the use of the word and with some calling for Mahers firing.

[Maher, Griffin, Colbert: Anti-Trump comedians are having a really bad moment]

Dyson, the professor and a friend of Mahers whos come to his defense on social media, asked the comedian about white privilege and whether he understands the need to challenge the unconscious reflex to say the racial slur evenunintentionally.

Yeah, but of course, I think I do. Were all evolving. Were all who were are This happened once. A guy said a weird thing; I made a bad joke, Maher said of the comment from Sasse that prompted the controversial response. It was wrong, and I owned up to that. But its not like a career of this. Its not like I went out there last Friday and I said, Oh, Im going to break some new ground tonight.

Maher added: You know, it happened and it was wrong, and people make mistakes and were all sinners But I totally get that I grew up in an all-white town in New Jersey, not Alabama thats the country Race wasnt even an issue. It didnt exist, except my parents told me the right thing about it

Symone Sanders, a Democratic strategist and former press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), criticized Maher for using the term house n, saying it was an affront to black women.

As a white person in America, you wouldve been the master, the slave owner It was mostly black women who were enslaved in the house, who were raped, who were beaten daily, day in and day out, Sanders said. They endured physical and mental abuse. For a lot of people in America, that was like slap in the face to the black community, particularly to black women.

Maher, whos on his 15th season of hosting Real Time, has been known to say or do controversial things on his show.

[Ann Coulter finds an unlikely ally in her free-speech spat with Berkeley: Bill Maher]

He drew criticism earlier this yearwhenhe interviewed Milo Yiannopoulos,the controversial former Breitbart editor known for making inflammatory comments about Muslims, women and minorities. Maher had defended his decision, saying inviting Yiannopoulos on his show brought his views under scrutiny, according to the Los Angeles Times.

In 2014, Maher was accused of hate speech when he said it was wrong to say only a few bad apples in the Muslim community have extremist beliefs.

Islam is the only religion that acts like the mafia, that will f kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book, Maher said during an episode on Real Time with atheist scholar Sam Harris and actor Ben Affleck.

In 2001, Maher lost his ABC show, Politically Incorrect, following controversial commentscriticizing military action to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. Thats cowardly, he said.

Maher apologized after his comments prompted companies to pull their ads. He said he was criticizing the government, not individual soldiers.ABC fired Maher afterward.

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MORRISTOWN A Morristown High School junior said he was asked to remove his satirical artwork of President Donald Trump from a school art show.

Liam Shea told Morristown Greenthat principal Mark Manning asked him to take down two drawings of Trump that were meant to be displayed at the annual Art & Design Show.

One picturedepicts Trump riding a rocket while taking a selfie. The other is of Trump with a pig snout and hooves grabbing a pussy cat.

Manning told Shea, Other people werent too happy with the images, according to the report.

Although I was disappointed that the school decided to remove both pieces, Liam welcomed the controversy, his mother wrote on Facebook. He holds no ill will over the decision and has the utmost respect for the principal and all his teachers at MHS. He has no intention of demanding it be returned to the display or causing any trouble for the school.

In another post, Shea wrote that her son achieved every artists dream of being banned.

Kelly Shea said the picture gave her an additional reason to be proud of her children.

A message for Morris School District Superintendent Mackey Pendergrast has not yet been returned.

Contact reporter Dan Alexander at Dan.Alexander@townsquaremedia.com.

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The Trumpeters are fully embracing the right-wings imperious disdain for poor people, blaming them for creating their own economic distressa convenient ideological fabrication for a government intent on destroying our nations social safety net.

And who better to mouth this moral rationalization of a patently immoral policy than Trumps Housing Secretary, Dr. Ben Carson? Raised in poverty, he became a renowned and very wealthy surgeon, so other impoverished Americans should do likewise. Carson recently spoke to this, explaining that poverty is just a state of mind. See, its simplesimplistically-speaking.

Of course, poverty is actually a state of money (i.e., the lack thereof). Its also a state of joblessness of miserly minimum wages of being disabled of limited education of a prison record and of many other hard-knock realities. Carson offers bootstrap babble about poor people having the wrong mindset, adding that Americas safety net has made poverty too cozy for the poorall of which is a plutocratic fantasy to make Trump & Company feel righteous about trying to cut off the helping hand.

One cut whacks $6 billion out of Carsons own agency, including a vital program helping five million very-low-income Americans rent apartments. Nine-out-of-ten of them are either elderly, people with disabilities, veterans, or working poor people with children. Slamming the door in their faces condemns most of them to living on the streets. How does that Make America Great?

Its time to say the obvious: The likes of Trump and Carson are incompetent ideologues, operating as if gutting government programs will magically make our countrys complex problems go away. They simply dont know what theyre doing, dont know how to govern a great democracy, and theyre making a great mess.

Jim Hightower is a best-selling author, radio commentator, nationally syndicated columnist and editor of The Hightower Lowdown, a populist political newsletter. He has spent the past four decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers that ought-to-be: consumers, working families, small businesses, environmentalists and just-plain-folks. For more of his work, visit http://www.jimhightower.com.

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