I admit to not being a big fan of Bill Maher, John Stewart or the types of shows they have.  While they can be amusing and are occassionally irreverent, they usually stop short of crossing the line between comedy and complete disrespect. 

Sadly, on the April 11th "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO, Bill Maher crossed that boundary in a big way launching an absolutely disgusting monologue that was full of anti-Catholic lies, disrespected the Pope and the church, and made jokes that made my skin crawl. 

When I read the story about this and then watched the video, I truly found myself at a loss of words.  This goes beyond comedy and is sickening to me.  I honestly just don't know what to say other than to invite my readers to read the news story below (and the facts that dispell what Maher says, particularly about the Pope) and make your own judgement.  I would encourage those so inclined to contact HBO's CEO Bill Nelson at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

Click here to read the Cybercast News Service story.

Click here to watch the video.

Transcript from billmaher.com: 

Maher: And, finally, New Rule: Whenever you combine a secretive compound, religion and weirdos in pioneer outfits, there’s going to be some child-f***ng going on. [laughter] [applause] [cheers] In fact, whenever a cult leader sets himself up as “God’s infallible wing man” here on earth, lock away the kids.

Which is why I’d like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound. And this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats. [photo of the Pope shown] [mixture of laughter, shock, scattered applause]

That’s right. The Pope is coming to America this week, and, ladies, he’s single! [laughter] Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Bill, you can’t be saying that the Catholic Church is no better than this creepy Texas cult! For one thing, altar boys can’t even get pregnant.” [mixture of laughter and other reactions]

But, really, what tripped up the “little cult on the prairie”—[laughter]—was that they only abused hundreds of kids, not thousands all over the world. Cults get raided. Religions get parades. How does the Catholic Church get away with all of their buggery? VOLUME, VOLUME, VOLUME! [laughter] [applause]

If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you “Pope.”

It’s like if you can’t pay your mortgage, you’re a deadbeat, but if you can’t pay a million mortgages, you’re Bear Stearns, and we bail you out. [laughter] [applause] [cheers] And that’s who the Catholic Church is, the Bear Stearns of organized pedophilia. [laughter] Too big to fail.

When the – when the current Pope was in his previous Vatican job as John Paul’s Dick Cheney—[laughter]—he wrote a letter instructing every Catholic bishop to keep the sex abuse of minors secret until the statute of limitations ran out. And that’s the Church’s attitude: “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.” [applause]

Which is fine. Far be it from me to criticize religion. [laughter] But, just remember one thing: if the Pope was, instead of a religious figure, merely the CEO of a nationwide chain of daycare centers where thousands of employees had been caught molesting kids and then covering it up, he’d be arrested faster than you can say, “Who wants to touch Mister Wiggle?” [laughter]