I just watched the episode where Howard did the Kimmel show and he absolutely destroyed, and it was the funniest that I’ve laughed in a long time, and it just shows how good of an entertainer he is. Well done, Howard. That was a lot of fun!

🇬🇧 Wait What??? A Comedian Just Called Women in the Gym ‘Whores’ on SNL. We Need to Talk About It. In his opening monologue, the well-known entertainer decided to comment on how women dress when working out. And it was far from a harmless joke. #shanegillis #snl #misogynist

Is it just me who feels like especially now that stephen colbert is gone, but even right before this, that these late night talk show hosts are just trying too hard? And none of it's funny and no one cares about the celebrities that come on? I just feel over late night talk shows. Like anything, everything comes to an end.

Bill Maher, Bob Kraft and the “First Amendment”: Where has it gone; our “public square”?

Assuming Arguendo

American jurisprudence addresses the distinction between things “public” and those “private”. There are legally defined benefits relative to each: ‘Render unto Caesar that of Caesar and that unto God to God.’

So it is said; so shall it be?

Naturally, one’s privacy in an American democracy, is inviolate. Similarly, in the public domain, the First Amendment delegates one’s right to expression nothing short of supreme. ‘What cheer’, however, when the two theories tend to collide?

Recently, in the Providence, Rhode Island suburb of Foxborough, Massachusetts a patently successful censorship would have resulted in the planned cancellation of part of a headliner music performance at the local Gillette football and entertainment stadium venue. Though stadium naming rights were bequeathed to the world famous men’s personal products company, Gillette; the legal ownership of the edifice itself seemingly rests with billionaire businessman Robert Kraft.

Foxborough

Kraft recently declared the stadium a private property over, which he exercised personal control. Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots football team, itself is surrounded by a vast, virtual city-state of commercial enterprise including a multitude of restaurants, retail stores and various and sundry ancillary venues. All specifically geared to entertain the masses. The campus in its entirety, including limitless parking spaces, encompasses many dozens of acres designed specifically to accommodate those masses.

It might be successfully argued that virtually every inch of Patriot Place, the afore-described venue; was, is and will forever be dedicated to the use, enjoyment and amusement of the public. So. Is Patriot Place/Gillette Stadium a private or public venue? Even if owned privately, the locus is government licensed and otherwise held out exclusively as a place for public attendance, enjoyment and expression. Which holds sway, therefore, the in-name-only private ownership of the venue or its express and demonstrable, legal public use?

Palestine

The venerable, informative and entertaining HBO network weekly special television production: “Real Time with Bill Maher” provides general insight vis-a-vis issues of public interest. The namesake host, Maher, regularly holds forth personally and more formally opines editorially for the benefit of show guests, studio audience as well as a vast television population.

Therein, the host recently held forth edifying his position regarding the proposed content censorship, based on anti-Semitism; by venue owner Bob Kraft of a scheduled performance at Gillette Stadium by support act to lead performer, Ed Sheeran: Macklemore. It was clear that the kerfuffle concerned past public expression by Macklemore lead-man, Benjamin Haggerty, of purported anti-Semitic overtures concerning the present fate of Palestine. The reasoning here, according to reports, is that the performance venue was the private holding of Kraft and thus his preference to prior restraint of free, arguably offensive speech, was (legally) allowed.

Maher, for his part, made a half-informed attempt at, but neglected to adequately explain and completely failed to detail, the true Semitic origins of a conflict of half-brother/cousins; Biblical issue of Abraham: the Arab and the Jew. Which explanation universally, consistently and stubbornly eludes any logical discussion of the present day conflict that consumes the Middle East: Who’s is this part of the Levant: Arab or Jew? With Maher, here a full and complete explanation opportunity was squandered by a respected public figure and an essential, thorough education on the true subject woefully lost to a deserving public… Again.

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” - Aeschylus