LOS ANGELES—Bill Maher is facing criticism for his use of a racial slur during a discussion with a Republican senator on his HBO talk show Friday night. Maher was speaking with Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska during a segment of his Real Time with Bill Maher. Sasse joked that he would like to have Maher visit Nebraska and work in the fields, which prompted Maher to use a slur in a joke that he was a house slave. Al Sharpton quickly criticized Maher and it remained a top-ranked topic on Twitter on Saturday morning. Sasse wrote Saturday that he wished he had immediately criticized Maher for using the term.

Source: thestar June 03, 2017 15:22 UTC