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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (889153)9/20/2015 1:58:45 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) of 1575275
 
Bill Maher not fooled by hoax bomb prankster

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While many liberals in the media and social networks were outraged that the teacher and police acted as they did, believing the misunderstanding “only happened because of his religion,” Maher commended the teacher and police for erring on the side of caution and not “pausing to check my white privilege,” the comedian joked.

When setting up the clip, Bill Maher quipped that “people at the school thought it might be a bomb, perhaps because it looks exactly like a f***ing bomb,” to laughs from his audience.

He then spoke to Mark Cuban, the billionaire entrepreneur and star of Shark Tank, who also felt the teacher and police acted correctly.

Cuban said he’d spoken to Ahmed on the phone, and it was pretty clear that his sister was “feeding him answers.” He also noted that Mohamed had made it through virtually the entire school day without incident from his other teachers, and that he was “unresponsive” when the English teacher at the center of the scandal advised him to put away the bomb because it might “make people nervous.”

It was only after Ahmed’s unresponsiveness, Cuban said, that things escalated.

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Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/2431197/bill-maher-defends-teacher-police-in-ahmed-mohamed-clockmaking-debacle/#ZwoUhCiH9txYiAIY.99
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