But let’s not forget, Bill Maher lives and works in Los Angeles (Hollywood) and works in the entertainment industry where screwing the young has a long tradition and the powerful usually get away with it.

People don’t care about sex.

Monica Lewinsky was an adult. Foley went after boys. Actually, I wasn’t terribly taken aback by Foley. He was like a college professor, in a job where every year there’s a new wave of fresh meat. He would look over the field and decide. He probably had pretty good radar to know which kids were amenable. From the evidence we have, he tried to do something only after they were out of the page program. If a 19-year-old gay kid wants to go out with an older guy, why not? The guys his own age are probably dumb doofuses.

Look, I’m a 51-year-old man, and I go out with girls in their early 20s. I’d be hypocritical if I said it’s ridiculous for a gay man to do that. I’m very libertarian about love. I’m the only guy I’ve ever heard who defends Mary Kay Letourneau.

I believe in the double standard. If a 28-year-old male teacher is screwing a 13-year-old girl, that’s a crime. But with Debra Lafave (another teacher who had sex with a student) screwing her 14-year-old boy student, the crime is that we didn’t get it on videotape. Was he being taken advantage of? I wish I had been taken advantage of like that. What a memory she gave him! I would think he’s a champion among his friends. Are you kidding? Even with Michael Jackson — I’m not defending him, but I do believe his case has a nuance that makes it different from other child molestation cases–not that I’m saying he necessarily did it, but come on. Jackson’s worst accusers never said he did anything brutal, like bend them over a table and ram them–you know, like a priest. The worst they said he did was a little grabby-grabby under the covers. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a crime. You shouldn’t be able to grab a kid that age, but when I heard about it, all I could think of was my being brutally beaten up on the playground when I was 12–a kid punching me in the face while another held me down. If I could go back and trade that experience for being gently masturbated by a pop star, I would do it in a New York second. Frankie Valli could jerk me off. Bobby Sherman could. Marvin Gaye could.
— Bill Maher, Playboy interview, 4/17/07

Most people in the business wouldn’t survive statements like the one above and going back a decade, but again we are talking about liberal Hollywood where standards only apply to those they disagree with.

If Bill Maher worked for a channel that had to produce programming advertisers felt comfortable paying to put ads on, he’d probably have been fired like he was from ABC for basically saying we brought 9/11 on ourselves. Again, as most cable subscribers are subsidizing channels like HBO, their employees will say whatever they want, produce whatever they want and will face no recrimination.

Then again, no one believes Hollywood lives in the same world we do so elitist adults screwing children is something only the vast majority of us will have to answer for.

Sorry. It’ll never happen.

Aside from sports and news channels, many channels would be in serious financial peril if their customers had “choice” but are saved by the very progressive, wealth-distributive approach to entertainment. Basically, you pay regardless of the quality or value to you of the programming.

While you run those cable remote laps and click past channels you never have (nor ever will stop to watch), remember you’re still paying for it. Production companies, and some of their icky “actors” and “comics” will continue to be handsomely paid, no matter how provocative, partisan, juvenile, racist, unfunny, gory, unoriginal, and intentionally insulting they decide to be as long as We the Consumer have no choice but to pay for their cable and satellite channels, whether we watch them or not.

Imagine if we only paid for the channels we wanted?

With the cheapest cable package (leaving out the obscure), you have A&E, American Movie Classics, Animal Planet, Azteca America, Baby First, Baby TV, BBC America, Believer’s Voice of Victory Network, Black Entertainment Television, Bloomberg TV, Boomerang, Bravo, BYU Television, Cartoon Network, CBS Sports Network, CCTV (China), Chiller, Christian Television Network, Church Channel, Cine Latino, Cine Sony, Cinemax (East and West), Classic Arts Showcase, CNBC, CNN, CNN En Espanol, Comedy Central, Cooking, Country Music Television, C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, C-SPAN3, Daystar, De Pelicula, De Pelicula Clasico, Discovery, Discovery En Espanol, Discovery Familia, Discovery Family Channel, Disney Channel, (East, West, Jr., XD), DIY, E! Entertainment Television, Encore (East, West, HD, Action, Black, Classic, Family, Suspense, Westerns), ESPN (Alternate, Deportes, 2, News, U), Eternal Word Network, Food Network, Fox Business News, Fox Deportes, Fox Movie Channel, Fox News, Fox Sports (1, 2), Free Speech TV, Fuse, Fusion, FX, FXX, Galavision, Game Show Network, GetTV, Golf Channel, Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, HBO (East, West, 2, Comedy, Family, Latino, Signature, Zone), Headline News, History, History En Espanol, Home and Garden Television, Home Shopping Network (1 and 2), Impact Network, Independent Film Channel, Inspiration Film Network, Investigation Discovery, ION, Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Network, MLB Extra Innings, MLB Network, MSNBC, MTV (2, Live), NASA, Nat Geo, Nat Geo Wild, NBA League Pass, NBA TV, NBC Sports Network, NBC Universo, NewsMax, NFL Network, NHL Center Ice, NHL Network (Alternate), Nick Jr., Nickeldeon / Nick at Night (East and West), Nicktoons, Oprah Winfrey Network, Outdoor Channel, Oxygen, Pursuit, QVC, QVC+, Reelz, RFD-TV, Russia Today, Science, Smithsonian Channel, Spike, Sundance, Syfy, TeenNick, Teleformula, Telemundo, Telemundo Oesta, Tennis Channel, The Learning Channel, The Movie Channel (East, West, Xtra), The Blaze, Travel Channel, Trinity Broadcasting Network, TruTV, TBS, TNT, TV Land, Univision (Deportes, Este, Foro TV, Oeste, Novelas), USA Network, Velocity, VH1, VH1 Classic, Weather Channel, WGN, Women’s Entertainment, and many more.

With that….

If the average family could choose ONLY the channels they wanted, think about how many you’d actually deem worthy of paying for? Personally, we’d keep ESPN (only for NFL pregame shows, Sunday Night Baseball, and Monday Night Football), NFL Network, C-SPAN, Food Network, Fox Business, American Movie Classics, Turner Movie Classics, Home and Garden and that’s about it: a couple handfuls of channels we’d watch on a consistent basis and the rest wouldn’t be missed.

What really sucks is that we’re forced to pay for channels many of us NEVER watch and some we couldn’t be paid to watch. There are many channels that include what is referred to as “soft porn”, so-called documentaries on “family” channels that are nothing less than blatant liberal indoctrination aimed at children, kids’ network with obnoxious know-it-all punks and stupid adults, and numerous reality formats that would not be in existence if not subsidized by millions of captive subscribers.

If ESPN were solely reliant on advertisers, many would hear from those who identify with Curt Schilling’s common sense assessment of the proper, traditional use of bathrooms. ESPN might have had to think twice before making such a snap judgment in firing him.

But the entertainment industry is devious and liberal, they love forcing the public to do things against their best instincts, pushing their ideology unchallenged, and best of all: getting us to pay for it whether we want to or not.

If we ever get “choice”, we will all save a lot of money and the intolerant, politically correct may pay the price for a change!