Sharon Osbourne on Real Time with Bill Maher

Tossed beetroot salad.

Ugh, now THERE'S an image I could have lived my entire life without ever having to picture.

I haven't seen it yet but Bill loves to snark on wokeness and Sharon was a clear victim. Who cares, she got a nice payoff.

Corn? When did I eat corn?

I agree with Bill on most of what he said

You have two choices today; you're either a racist or you don't know you're a racist.

I'm glad he quote that Elaine welterroth woman, whatever her name is; she said you can't deny her truth

NO ONE is DENYING it; they are DOUBTING it

Big difference.

Did they bring up the PTSD?

They were both fine. I’m glad I saw her give her side to the story. Sheryl Underwood is a Republicant who has a homophobic history. Let’s hear HER talk about THAT.

If you don’t like being a minority, move to a country where you’re not. Fucking whiney bitches everywhere.

Oh yes: it's so easy to change countries, r8!

So he defended Sharon?

Is he gonna be cancelled next?

I don't like Sharon Osbourne, I don't really care about her. But there was no reason to fire her. I don't understand it at all.

R11, clearly you don't understand.

That doesn't mean she shouldn't have been fired.

Maher has about 5 viewers left. HBO needs to offload his sorry ass already.

R12 What? By saying I don't understand, I specifically mean I don't believe she ought to have been fired. She said absolutely nothing wrong. It's bizarre to me.

Was she fired? I thought she quit.

She was given a golden parachute.

R14 Telling a black co-host "don't you dare cry," dropping the F bomb, defending Piers Morgan, and allegedly calling co-hosts "slanty-eyes" "fish eater" and "ghetto" can hardly be described as she said ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong.

I've been watching Bill for about 10 years, but the last year has been absolutely dreadful. He's been on this cancel culture kick Non-Stop, every single episode, and I'm pretty much over it. Eating out Sharon Osborne on national television was pretty much the straw that broke the camel's back. Painting her as a victim when she reportedly said some pretty fucking vile things (which she didn't deny) was a new low. I'm not one of those people who want to see her roasted over an open flame, but for fucks sake Bill. Get over it already.

Bill is really begging for HBO to cancel him. That guy is as obsessed with cancel culture as Piers Morgan is obsessed with Meghan Markle.

Maybe he wants to be cancelled so he can play the victim and make a new career for himself as a libertarian. He’s also 65. Social Security age. He can retire if he wanted.

I have heard that he has a lot of skeletons in his closet and the MeToo thing could destroy him. Perhaps he’s scared to death about being held accountable so he’s going on tirades about people paying for their actions.

When was the last time Bill Maher was relevant?

It’s too bad Bill has gone down this path. He lets republicunts spew garbage and never calls them on their lies. Now defending cunts like Sharon Osbourne. He’ll be eating out Piers Morgan next week.

Old men turn into Andy Rooney.

[quote]I’m glad I saw her give her side to the story.

We've heard Sharon's side of the story for months at this point, what are you talking about?

[quote]Sheryl Underwood is a Republicant who has a homophobic history.

She campaigned for Obama twice and Clinton once and was outspoken against Trump. I don't know what she's doing by claiming to still be a Republican because I don't think she has been since the mid 2000s.

Odd how you've never once linked to anything about this homophobic history you keep bringing up.

Sheryl and Elaine are cunts. The retarded bitches just shot themselves in the foot in their quest to please black twitter ideologues who don’t even watch The Talk in the first place. Take one look at the Talk’s Facebook page to see what The Talk’s average viewer thinks of their behavior.

Sheryl is more certainly a homophobic asshole.

“ Painting her as a victim when she reportedly said some pretty fucking vile things (which she didn't deny”

If you’re referring to Leah Remini’s claims she made racial slurs against Julie Chen, she certainly did deny it.

Bill wouldn't let her talk.

Sharon Osbourne was the biggest cunt in the music industry, and that's saying something. Painting her as a victim of any kind is laughable nonsense.

R28, Sheryl’s a cunt too. She revealed she couldn’t get a job for years due to her bad reputation.

[bold]Osborne wasn't fired MERELY for the one, recent, instance on tv.[/bold]

She was fired because of a LONG PATTERN of bad and bigoted behavior both on screen and backstage. The recent thing was only the "last straw" for co-workers and execs.

Sharon is a conniving power broker and has a high Q score and that's got her a pass for a long time, but her shitty behavior finally overtook that.

This has nothing to do with "wokeness" other than maybe that giving decision-people the buffer to do what they should have done long ago.

They came for the white millionaires and I said nothing, because I was not a white millionaire....

R27 is right. Bill really wasn't that interested in listening to what she had to say, he was taking what happened as a launching pad for his own rants.

R31, SJWs on twitter passionately defending white passing biracial millionaire Markle is just as silly.

[quote] Osborne wasn't fired MERELY for the one, recent, instance on tv. She was fired because of a LONG PATTERN of bad and bigoted behavior both on screen and backstage. The recent thing was only the "last straw" for co-workers and execs. Sharon is a conniving power broker and has a high Q score and that's got her a pass for a long time, but her shitty behavior finally overtook that. This has nothing to do with "wokeness" other than maybe that giving decision-people the buffer to do what they should have done long ago.

This really isn’t about Sharon Osborne, whom Dataloungers have always hated. Osborne is just another vehicle for the usual suspects to push their own bigotry.

[quote] He lets republicunts spew garbage and never calls them on their lies.

Are you fucking kidding me? He calls them on their lies literally every week.

As for Sharon, if she really made racist and homophobic comments behind the scenes then she absolutely deserved to be fired. But she shouldn't have been fired for anything that happened on screen. All she said was Piers is not a racist and not liking Meghan Markle is not evidence that he is one. (Which is true.) She was also upset and told Sheryl--who apparently loves to play the victim--"don't you dare cry." Big fucking deal. Of course Sheryl (who has never gotten this much media attention in her life) used the opportunity to elevate her own profile and is now claiming she has "PTSD" from the conversation. PTSD? Seriously? Give me a fucking break. We've also seen the texts where Sharon reached out to Sheryl multiple times to apologize and to try to talk and was completely ignored—because of course accepting an apology means you can't continue to play the victim anymore. Such utter horseshit.

[quote]She was also upset and told Sheryl--who apparently loves to play the victim--"don't you dare cry." Big fucking deal.

She told a black woman she wasn't allowed to cry when they were talking about racism, only Sharon was allowed to cry because she was a white woman who had been accused of racism.

That in and of itself is racist.

We have all these examples of Sharon using racist language for years prior to this, the examples from the show itself, her threats and actual attacks on people, her admissions of sending literal shit to all sorts of people for infractions, her greed and lack of ethics, and we're supposed to believe that she's a victim. Fantastic.

Sharon was fired (or was allowed to leave) for being Sharon. Those whining snowflakes who complain that she had to leave, for being accused of being racist, don't give a fuck about Sharon. It's all about their, and Bill's, pet cause: Liberal Cancel Culture is so bad, soooooo bad, you guys!

I was disappointed with Maher bringing her on his show. This is exactly what she wanted, to paint herself as the victim and "rebrand" herself (oh and some extra $$$). There's a big difference between being a "fighter" and being a flat out insufferable racist cunt. It's been known for decades that she's a total bitch.

Bill gets a lot of attention by bringing on celebrity whiners who complain they're being unfairly treated by the mean ol' liberals.

The Talk is tanking in the ratings. Osbourne being the longest co host there was making a nice penny. She gave them a reason to cut costs. That's all it was.

People need to stop acting like Hollywood is some great moral arbiter of society. Everything comes down to ratings, clout, and money. I feel bad for Sheryl but let's not forget that both Sheryl AND Sharon both went to CBS and demanded that Marie Osmond get fired. So yes, everyone may have known about her for years, but they also turned the cheek when it wasn't affecting them.

No different from all those people who distanced themselves from Roseanne Barr the minute the Valerie Jarrett tweet hit the media, but ignored the years of racism and homophobia she dished out when initially agreeing to work with her on the reboot (Looking at you Wanda Sykes).

Bill tries valiantly to check the far left liberal cancel culture and tries to point out the ridiculousness of people in his own party who want to change the country into a socialist welfare state. He is against defund the police and open borders too. Bill obviously has made a career of calling out the right wing so don't try to call him that. He is now daring to criticize those in his party he feels are extreme and will cost the party its political lifeblood over time. I am grateful to Bill Maher, does that make me a Trumpster now?

Bill Maher has been saying the same stuff for years. His show was called Politically Incorrect. The only reason some people find him so intolerable lately is because the only thing they cared about for years was raging about Trump. Now that Trump is out of office, they are becoming exposed as the hypocrites they are.

I have never in my 30 years online known anyone who said "Democrats want to turn the U.S. into a socialist welfare state" who was NOT a Republican of some sort, or maybe one of those libertarians who are really Republicans but don't want to admit it.

[quote] I am grateful to Bill Maher, does that make me a Trumpster now?

r41, you've got the Deplorable lingo down pat. So, yeah.

[Quote] Bill tries valiantly to check the far left liberal cancel culture

Like the far left canceling the Dixie Chicks, Colin Kaepernick, and on and on and on...?

Fighting against “cancel culture” is just white people angry why they can’t keep being taken it’s without consequences.

Taken it’s = racist

[Quote] Democrats want to turn the U.S. into a socialist welfare state

A socialist welfare state is better than a fascist oligarchy

Sharon = Karen.

I like the way not believing lying Meghan makes one a racist cunt.

Remember how it was RACIST to doubt Jessie Smollett's lynching? How did that work out for Senators Harris and Booker?

Maher just trivialized what happened with her leaving the show with a generic "free speech" argument. Getting fired from any workplace for consistently saying inappropriate things to your coworkers is nothing new. It's not merely a matter of her just speaking, the problem is with her being and asshole and consistently disrespecting those she's working with.

A general manager for a place I previously worked at got fired for making sexual advances at several of us guys that worked there. She kept hitting on us constantly, and wouldn't knock it off.

I really am so confused why anyone watches him - or her - or any of those kinds of shows - nothing but negativity.

I was thinking the same thing last night when this was trending on Twitter, R53. We have so many problems and so much negativity we're dealing with as is, why are people watching some guy who is spending his time defending a millionaire for something stupid?

Maher has a platform and could have done some good for society, but he hasn't done jack shit. He's been on the air for decades now and what has he accomplished, other than exacerbating liberal in-fighting?

Both Maher and Osbourne are about as fresh as Egyptian mummies.

I, too, have enjoyed Bill for years. I don't object to his challenging the left when it is due. He can, however, often beat the same drum relentlessly. What is bothering me more is how terribly his interviewing skills have deteriorated. I'm not a fan of Sharon Osbourne, but he barley let her say anything. It was more important that he get his view of the situation out first. All she did was nod her head and make strange faces. I notice that more and more he interrupts most of his guests, even the panelists. There are some occasions when a panel member barely says anything because he prattles on and on. He is clearly losing his game.

Maybe he should have a coffee before filming and not another joint.

Half the time Osbourne would have no idea who the guest sitting next to her was. She should go back to England and do a small local "Good Morning Manchester" type show with Piers.

Maher's obsession with cancel culture is a brilliant ploy on his part to avoid cancellation despite his not being relevant or interesting for a good decade now.

Two times is a pattern now, R24?!? Lol...I am not your waitress, do your own research to prove me wrong. BET’s Comicview. I have seen her standup act. You’ve offered no evidence to the contrary.

R59, you have triggered me with that statement.

You're denying MY truth.

You are canceled.

R8 Are you white? Do you live in the US? So you'll move away in 2040, right? Hope you enjoy Iceland...

R60, are refills free?

I'd like another Coke...and then, just the check.

[quote]I, too, have enjoyed Bill for years. I don't object to his challenging the left when it is due. He can, however, often beat the same drum relentlessly.

I agree, plus last night during his closing rant about how the left was almost as bad as the right on COVID, it annoyed me that he drew this comparison between what Cuomo did here in New York and DeSantis in Florida. I'm hardly one to defend Cuomo but he (Maher) was conveniently ignoring the reports out there that DeSantis may have "adjusted" the number of deaths in his state to make himself look better. If he wants to call out the left on certain things sometimes, fine, but Maher has a tendency of late to engage in Meghan McCain-level false equivalences that just make him look ridiculous and completely undercut any legitimate points he's trying to make.

Wow 2 assholes together!

R50 I know - why is this bitch always being treated with such kid gloves? You don’t 100% percent agree with “her truth” (an expression that really needs to go) and you’re automatically a racist. And risk getting ostracized or outright cancelled for not being on her “team?” Ridiculous.

I agree Sharon didn’t say much but the one thing she did say that was spot on was if anyone epitomized white privilege it was Harry - which is what makes this whole thing so ridiculous. People dying on the cross for these two??

Remember the story she told about making an assistant go back into their house that was on fire for shit, then ripped the oxygen mask off of them and put it on the fog and fired them after they were done? She thought this was a funny story. The woman needs to be institutionalized.

[quote] She told a black woman she wasn't allowed to cry when they were talking about racism, only Sharon was allowed to cry because she was a white woman who had been accused of racism.

No, Sharon was crying because she felt attacked. Sheryl, who happens to be black, was crying because she was being emotionally manipulative, which Sharon called her out on.

But you're probably just siding with Sheryl because Sharon is Jewish and you're an anti-semite who's trying to silence Jewish voices. (See how easy it is to go down this road even when it has nothing to do with anything.)

“Don’t you dare cry!” isn’t fucking racist just because it’s said to a black woman.

I’ve gotten into it with black girl-friends before. I was gonna call her every name in the book. I do realize that black bitch is inappropriate because what does black have to do with it, bitch will suffice.

Bitch, slut, there’s all kinds of things to call black people that they are without even bringing black into it. They’re not people now? Nasty and wonderful in equal measures?

R64 He's always gotten "stuck" on a position, a pet peeve, and he's relentlessly confident of his own correctness. (The joke of his original show, Politically Incorrect" was that Maher always asserted his views were correct and not to be fucked with.

This stimulated discussion, was entertaining. But as he's grown old, it's become more belligerent, less entertaining, and more mean spirited. He's become the old fart shouting at the young kids to get off his (privately owned, solar-powered, libertarian, successful despite stupid Gov't regulation) lawn.

He's tedious.

[quote]Maher has a platform and could have done some good for society, but he hasn't done jack shit. He's been on the air for decades now and what has he accomplished, other than exacerbating liberal in-fighting?

His job is to attract eyeballs to HBO, not to change the world.

R73 And given that, he's becoming less entertaining. His acid tongue and quick wit aged, not well.

Zzzzzzzzz.

r60, I've searched keywords and did quite a bit of poking around when you (I'm assuming it was you) freaked out about this issue on one of the earlier Sharon Osbourne threads.

If you have a link to her homophobic stand-up act, post it.

If you're unaware that Maher has done harm (promoted Milo, Coulter, etc. and pushed all sorts of anti-Democratic Party propaganda) but hasn't done much good, R73, that's on you.

Maher took on 9/11 conspiracists, er, 15 years ago. That's something. I guess. Oh, and he may have earned many millions by being critical of Dems for decades but he gave $1M of it to the Party so... yay.

Not my job to educate you, R75. I have given you the setting where I heard it. Think what you like.

Those outraged about Liberal Cancel Culture willingly ignore that the so-called victims have only themselves to blame for being asshats.

Sharon cursed and verbally attacked, and was condescending towards, her black co-host to "educate" her about racism on live television. That was incredibly bad optics. That incident got the ball rolling and "uncovered" further incidents of Sharon being a cunt, and a backstabbing schemer behind the scenes at The Talk. This becoming public knowledge was bad for the show and the producers looked like total jerks for letting Sharon get away with these things so they claimed this was totally news to them and now that they are aware of it they gave Sharon the option to either leave or get fired.

At no point was Sharon an innocent victim. Her past transgressions came back to bite her in the ass. That's what happened.

And apparently this is what bothers Maher and those outraged at Liberal Cancel Culture. People getting called out on their history of being cunts, racists, bigots, homophobes, etc. People being fed up with letting it slide when cunts, racists, bigots, homophobes being their already typical cunty, racists, etc. selves. Like, these guys should be left alone because they've always been like this, or whatever. And that is, in this social media age, no longer acceptable.

Why do Americans want to listen to stupid people?

[quote] Why do Americans want to listen to stupid people?

I don't believe it's a US thing only. All over the world people tend to listen to those who tell their audience what it wants to hear.

And it can't be just narrowed down to stupid vs. intelligent. It's about, say, political pundits and snake oil salesmen handing out permission slips, to their audience, to stay in their bubble, or comfort zone instead of doing the scary thing and leave their bubble or comfort zone to maybe experience something new, something different.

[quote] Sharon cursed and verbally attacked, and was condescending towards, her black co-host to "educate" her about racism on live television.

Bullshit. Sharon never tried to "educate" Sheryl about racism. She said that Piers not liking Meghan Markle was not evidence of racism. Which it's not.

[quote]Think what you like.

Translation: I have no proof to back up my claim.

R81, Sharon demanded to be educated on racism and on this specific example of racism. She demanded it more than once, I believe. Have you already forgotten?

Let me go find the stupidest person in American and ask them about serious and nuances issues? Why is this a thing?

[quote] Sharon never tried to "educate" Sheryl about racism.

She didn't. Sharon DEMANDED from her black co-host to be educated about racism. All that was missing was Sharon snapping her fingers treating Sheryl like the help. Sharon's argument wasn't what got her in trouble. It's how she delivered it.

meanwhile, there is CLIMATE CHANGE. Oh, and there is a bloody pandemic.

LOL. NOW right wingers care about climate change and the pandemic which they previously dismissed as hoaxes?

Yeah, so Sharon is a rude, pushy bitch. Just because the person she was being a rude, pushy bitch to happened to be black doesn't make her a racist. But, again, if we're going down that road then Sheryl is an anti-semite for trying to Sharon fired.

I don't know why you expect us to go through this again and again, R88, just for your entertainment.

There are 20 threads on DL that have outlined this already. The facts are already out there. Points have already been made. And you want us to waste our time repeating it again for you, because you think posting anonymous stupid shit on DL is gonna help yer puffy-faced cunt heroine Sharon Osbourne, I guess.

r88, what, according to you, are the OTHER incidents where Sheryl was being an anti-semite?

There are plenty of incidents of Sharon being an, according to you, pushy, rude bitch. Please list all the times Sheryl established herself as an anti-semite.

I'm *actually* not saying Sharon isn't a racist. The things she said supposedly said about Julie Chen are racist and totally worth being fired over. I'm only saying the fight with Sheryl was not evidence of racism. She can be a bitch to someone who is black without being a bitch to them *because* they're black.

[quote] I'm only saying the fight with Sheryl was not evidence of racism. She can be a bitch to someone who is black without being a bitch to them *because* they're black.

Why do you feel it's so important to make that distinction? Do you really think it's a good idea to tell anyone else, especially black people, they should see it YOUR way?

I didn't tell anyone—black or white—they should see it my way. I'm just saying how I feel. Why is it so important to you to insist that every single mean thing said to a black person is automatically evidence of racism? And to insist that every mean thing said to a Jewish person isn't anti-semitic?

[quote] Why is it so important to you to insist that every single mean thing said to a black person is automatically evidence of racism?

Because you dismiss how it's being perceived by the other person. And then whine about the consequences (like getting "canceled").

[quote] And to insist that every mean thing said to a Jewish person isn't anti-semitic?

Again, where are the many incidents where you perceived Sheryl was actually anti-semitic? Please, list them.

Isn't Piers' problem with Meaghan that she didn't want to date him?

I don't watch the Talk because I mostly watch tv at night and because I hate the entire Osborne family. I don't watch Bill Maher anymore because my husband canceled HBO and because I was getting mad at his show and HBO. I stopped watching John Oliver when he mocked Chris what's his face on MSNBC. Everybody gets old but no need to mock him for it.

More importantly, if I get severance pay, can I keep collecting unemployment in New Jersey? How does that work? Can I ask them to change my severance agreement (not signed yet. They sent it to me late so I'm already collecting.)? Can I bargain for what I want?

Oh, so a person needs to have committed multiple offenses in order to be considered anti-semitic?

Well, I think *you're* an anti-semite. That is MY TRUTH and if you dismiss it then that's just further proof of your deep rooted anti-semitism.

How is Bill licker her ass? You're imagination is dumb, OP.

[quote] Oh, so a person needs to have committed multiple offenses in order to be considered anti-semitic?

If you want Sheryl to get fired, yes. You have to come up with actual proof that she has a long history of being anti-Jew. Good luck with that. There was enough evidence to get Sharon canceled. Now it's your turn to show the receipts. Otherwise your argument is total bullshit.

Anybody can call someone something. Without proof showing a history, or pattern, it just remains a baseless accusation.

Sharon Osbourne was shown the receipts, and she decided to leave before getting fired. And, for some reason, you got your tits in a twist because Liberal Cancel Culture is so very bad.

Massive snowstorm on here with so many flakes floating down from their angry sky.

Poor Sheryl pairing herself a victim again. Even on the retelling of the necklace at her anniversary party story she mentioned twice she had been through chemotherapy. Really, bitch? What does a guest, who was invited by her son, have to do with your chemotherapy? Wss out party of the party? I doubt it. She was whining about a party gift that was won fairly she admitted to Bill.

I didn't say Sheryl should be fired. I didn't even say Sharon wasn't a racist. I only said Sharon's fight with Sheryl was not evidence of Sharon's racism. And you still haven't show how it was.

r101. Again, and again, and again, and again: Sheryl perceived Sharon's attitude, the way she delivered her argument and addressed Sheryl, as racist. You do your best to ignore that. You also ignore Sharon's history of issues with previous co-hosts. You keep ignoring. Just keep asking the same question and ignore the response. All you do is make yourself look ignorant and come off like a common troll.

FIRE the whole lot of them.

Yeah, that was Sheryl's *perception*. That doesn't make it a fact. Sharon being racist to other people isn't evidence of her racism in this situation with Sheryl.

You're an anti-semite.

R33 = Piers

[quote]People need to stop acting like Hollywood is some great moral arbiter of society. Everything comes down to ratings, clout, and money.

I heard an interesting, if not depressing, discussion recently involving someone who worked in the industry and had met a lot of these big Hollywood producers and they were saying what you are saying, pretty much. They warned that the first really successful piece of entertainment that comes out in the future that is politically incorrect will have all these Hollywood people immediately forget their anti-racist, etc. stance and for people to be prepared for that. Woke sells at the moment, but once something else comes along, these ideals will be left in the dust. It's chasing money at the end of the day, that's it.

R104 Agreed. Sharon didn’t say or do a single racist thing to Sheryl in the moment. To say anything else is completely idiotic. It’s not even worth debating. She went off on someone she thought of as her girlfriend, someone who did something stupid like claim racism without any proof of it.

r88 - r104

trolling doesn't help your argument. Bye.

Cancel culture is based on the premise that anyone who offends you does so with deliberation, intention, and (usually) malignant motivation.

Cancel culture uses public shaming and group complaining to attempt to induce permanent harm to those with whom they take exception.

Cancel culture uses the legal system to induce financial crisis, uses the publicity system to amplify their voice, and generally acts like that kid you see in kindergarten who gets to play alone because they can't be around other people without attacking them for not submitting to their desire to dominate a cultural or economic space.

These kinds of people tend to regularly miss noticing that the world and other people (by and large) could not possibly care less about them, if they even know they exist.

These kinds of people tend to assume that their own perspective is always the most important and relevant one.

In my opinion, they are basically narcissists who have found a way to get attention by amplifying outrage to culturally blackmail perspectives and people with whom they disagree

Personally, I find it to be an appalling display of self-absorption and egotism by people who, I think, behave and seem to be so emotionally or psychologically damaged that they just stop caring about anyone but themselves. To me, the worst of the lot always seems to be the same personality and I am fairly confident there's a medical reason for it.

Cancel culture will die the moment this becomes more apparent. The good news is, that's probably not that far off. The sad news is that in the meanwhile, they're deriding and tarnishing a far longer and better tradition of social and cultural discourse that actually delivers on change.

Personally, I don't waste my time considering them; so thanks for the opportunity to let me do so

“Translation: I have no proof to back up my claim.”

Translation: Lazy, Luddite cuntress playing @ wokeness. I am too stupid to do any research into something that will ultimately expose me for the ignorant racist I truly am. I delude myself into thinking I have the moral high ground.

I can't believe that Datalounge now has defenders of Sharon Osbourne, of all fucking people.

She admitted on Bill Maher that she has said shit that's not acceptable. She said it's because she's old. And then she denied calling Leah Remini ghetto because that word is not even in her vocabulary, even though she has said it before on The Talk.

Like I said, I have no problem with Bill criticizing the left, and honestly, cancel culture deserves to be criticized. But that is the only thing he has talked about for the last several months. It's making for some real riveting television.

R111, We are not defending Sharon because we like her, we are doing it because she’s a victim of cancel culture. Sheryls said despicable shit too and admitted she used to be a drunken slag that got banned on the chitlin circuit for being a complete bitch.

Ashton deserved to be cancelled, though. She's and old entitled white witch.

Cancel culture is how capitalism works.

If you are wedded to capitalism, you have to accept cancellation.

The Talk made a financial decision to get rid of Osbourne. It feared that viewers would leave of it retained her. PERIOD

Sheryl calls cancel culture "corrective evolution". Whatever the he'll that means.

consequence culture

Does anyone actually watch The Talk?

Not much, r117. It's at the bottom of the heap in the daytime ratings, way down over last year, and Sharon was probably the most expensive cast member sitting at that table.

Oh please, r112. Sharon is a rancid cunt, and by all accounts, has been a rancid cunt for decades. As somebody mentioned up thread, it wasn't this sole event that caused her to get the boot, but instead the culmination of everything else, and piss poor ratings.

If you want to attack cancel culture, at least choose a sympathetic victim.

This is the same woman who thought it was funny to send her assistant back into a burning house to get her dogs and paintings. She’s sick in the head and karma has finally come back to her.

She is exhausting, can she just die already???

Exactly. Nobody likes Sharon, but the trolls, including Bill Maher, use her to rant about Liberal Cancel Culture.

And in this case the trolls know way more about racism, and what racism is supposed to be, than black people.

I don't like Sharon but I think Markle is a manipulative piece of work.

Bill might as well move his show over to Fox News at this point.

R123 Sharon will probably join him.

The show has lost its tangy zip. It has become predictable. Everyone must agree with everybody.

And then Maher brings on some conservative black guy that everyone is afraid to challenge because he’s black

Carrie Ann Inaba and Amanda allots have been leaving heart emojis on Sharon’s IG posts all week. It says a lot that they are willing to risk their jobs to show love their former co host that according to DL is such a terrible evil cunt.. I

Carrie Ann has always seemed obsessed with white approval so that doesn’t surprise me. Amanda is a nobody and just trying to stay on everyone’s good side.

Bill maher today is exactly consistent with what he's always been. All of you bitching that he calls it "cancel culture" too much--wrong again. No one else in the media will touch it except conservatives, and I will NOT watch those shows. BTW, remember when the SJW'S were claiming that "cancel culture" was just a right wing dog whistle? Now they admit it's real, but claim it's only the right doing the canceling. The truth is that cancel culture is the intersection of mob mentality and social desirability pressure, and ALL sides do it, and have for centuries. The trick is to not enable it, which our culture currently is, unfortunately. Woke is poison to free thought and liberal exchange of ideas, and needs to be drowned.

It's not WHAT she said, it's HOW she said it, you dumb cunts. The bitch had to be bleeped out on daytime TV with all the profanity. She totally overreacted and attacked Sheryl. Yeah yeah Sheryl is a republican, so what, so many white stars are republican and you're still fans or you want them to fuck you (Kirk Cameron anyone?).

And Bill Maher is working my last nerve, he thinks because he fucked a black chick that he has the right to attack black activism otherwise known sarcastically by right wing trolls as "woke" culture? ​GTFOH.

Fact is Sheryl COULD NOT act the way Sharon acted, otherwise, she would've been referred to as the angry black woman

Cancel culture is alive and well among conservatives so their criticisms are Bull shit.

Just ask Kathy Griffin

Why did they have to do that segment in the first place? She explained her position the day before on Piers being a royalist. Why provoke her? It seemed kind of calculated on Sheryl's and Elaine's part.

R131, That wasn’t cancel culture. She posed for a pic of with a mask of The beheaded president of the United States. That would be controversial if she did it with any president and there were a number of Democrats who didnt like it either.

R128, If Amanda was trying to stay on everyone’s good side, she wouldn’t be showing love to the woman who her two black co workers cancelled. She likes Sharon. Sharon is a nice person. Deal with it. Hell Sheryl was bffs with her for 11 years until Elaine came in the picture.

Typical frau office BS. Turn them off. Not relevant. Bill Maher sucks too. Every week his conversation leads back to woke/cancel culture or fat America and COVID. There’s nothing provocative about the conversations he has with his panel and his main guests are mostly trolling for clickbait and to get on news blogs over the weekend.

[quote]Sharon is a nice person. Deal with it.

Yeah, she’s a real sweetheart!

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

What a nice lady!

[quote]If you don’t like being a minority, move to a country where you’re not. Fucking whiney bitches everywhere.

And if you don't like democracy when you LOSE an election in that country, you should either be shot on sight as a traitor for trying to kill our elected officials or get kicked out of the country.

You fucking cunt

None of these people matter. That’s the gift of the pandemic—the realization that all of this is manufactured bullshit.

[quote] [R131], That wasn’t cancel culture.

Bullshit. It most definitely was. Nobody got canceled when the right wing hanged and burned Obama effigies. Nobody gave a fuck about his children watching said images. But because it was Trump, all of a sudden it was "controversial"?

[quote] That would be controversial if she did it with any president and there were a number of Democrats who didnt like it either.

I think somewhere Al Franken just said to someone "Hold my beer".

Not only was Trump not cancelled after the birther bullshit, the MSM kept inviting him on and covered all of his Klan rallies when he ran. They never gave a shit when he was saying bigoted and racist things, so when I hear idiots who call themselves "moderate" Dems go off about the left and "cancel culture" knowing full-well they didn't say a fucking thing when Trump held his Klan rallies, all I see are enabling, grovelling, boot-licking assholes who have allowed a Trump to become president because they're just as repugnant as the right-wingers. They give endless leeway to the most despicable behavior on the right and just endlessly attack the left for things that are innocuous in comparison.

You want to hear about cancel culture? I'm already seeing deplorable shits trying to cancel S. Adams Beer for the newest ad showing the "from Boston" guy getting a vaccine. All of the reichwing idiots immediately ran to the YT for the ad to shriek about never buying it again because how dare they promote the vaccine!

Sharon is an Angry White Woman.

[quote]Cancel culture is alive and well among conservatives so their criticisms are Bull shit. Just ask Kathy Griffin.

Maher had her on his show after she was canceled too.

Yeah r145 but was he calling it "cancel culture" then? This is a right wing talking point aimed specifically at the liberal left enjoying the same tactics the right is on the Figure Chicks, Tellietubbies, etc., just as "woke" is used sarcastically by the right to troll on black activism. First Megyn Kelly now Sharon Osbourne, it seems Bill is trying to attract the conservative audience to keep his show going, now that the liberals are back in power. Nothing wrong with it, he has a choice to change his mind, but it just calls into question his integrity.

R146 - If the phrase "cancel culture" existed, I think he would have used it back then. The argument he made for Griffin doesn't seem much different for the one for Osbourne.

R147 my point is it's a right wing talking point used NOW for something they enjoyed doing back THEN. He is using the term in the same manner the right wing bots use it. I thought he was not right wing. He's using "woke" in the same way.

Oh, and a correction to my post: I meant to use "Dixie Chicks"...

Sharon said nothing wrong really. It was her hyper defensive posture and demeanor that offended.

She should have been able to express herself without feeling threatened, without lashing out. She acts like a pill head.

Will they ever update that theme song? They don't want to talk things out anymore.

Sharon is Jewish. Had someone said anything similar to her, they'd be fired, too. You can get away with being a racist or bigot if the target is right. I mean this old bitch apparently said something racist to an Iranian chick a few years back and no one gave a shit. Same with Roseanne. Same with Joan Rivers. Limit your bigotry and racism to Middle Eastern people and you'll keep your job. It used to be you could also go for Asians, too, but not anymore.

Bill Maher is a typical white man. Always trying to speak for black people and say what he thinks black people should do, while not being a member of that marginalized group.

Fuck his old white Cracker ass. He's a good reason why so many people hate white men specifically.

What he calls "Wokism" I call black people fighting for their very existence.

Fuck Bill. I'm so sick of his white male splaning. He doesn't even know what he's talking about most of the time. He's the very definition of tone deaf.

Maher has worn out his welcome.

R152 I can tell that you don't actually know what bill maher is saying, and instead are just making things up. How can I tell? Easy,

[Quote]What he calls "Wokism" I call black people fighting for their very existence.

If you actually watched kaiser you would know how dumb this is to claim. Those of us against woke nonsense know that "poc" are NOT the ones pushing this, white liberals are. LMAO you think the black community holds woke opinions? Maybe a few self appointed activists that like to bitch on tv and Twitter, but the vast majority of people of every color know who is to blame for the woke nonsense: white liberals.

The first week the show went remote in 2020, Ms. Sheryl looked like a throw back from a pancake mix box. Very unprofessional and almost sad that she showed such a lack of self awareness being on national tv everyday.

R155 Everyone was home and comfortable Bitch!