George Stroumboulopoulos

CNN Lets Bill Maher Trash GOP 'Knuckle-Draggers,' Insult Fox News Viewers
By Matt Hadro | June 24, 2013 | 5:31 PM EDT

Once again, CNN welcomed liberal comedian Bill Maher despite the vitriol he has spewed about conservative women like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. Maher, an Obama donor, actually guest-hosted for CNN's Piers Morgan last summer during the presidential campaign.

New host George Stroumboulopoulos let Maher bash Fox News viewers and the GOP in Friday night's interview. Maher implied that Republicans are "knuckle draggers" and lambasted the ignorance of Fox News viewers. Stroumboulopoulos then accepted that premise by asking what could be done about their "intellectual impasse."

CNN Censors Maher Saying Bulls—t at 11PM Friday But Not Bourdain at 9PM Sunday?
By Noel Sheppard | June 22, 2013 | 2:40 PM EDT

As NewsBusters reported almost ad nauseum, Anthony Bourdain on his 9PM Sunday CNN program Parts Unknown regularly uttered profanities including varieties of the S-word without being censored.

Yet on Friday’s Stroumboulopoulos which airs at 11PM, Bill Maher was censored when he said “bulls—t” (video follows with commentary):

Maher: ‘You Have to Really Be Smart’ to Get On My Show
By Noel Sheppard | June 22, 2013 | 2:11 PM EDT

Bill Maher may have said one of the dumbest – and therefore funniest! – things ever to come out of his mouth Friday.

Appearing on CNN’s Stroumboulopoulos, Maher said, “You have to really be smart” to get on his HBO Real Time show (video follows with transcript and commentary):