Reply #11: So a successful comedian who makes about 1/1000th of what Oprah has..

[MarkCharles]

made, and who has worked as hard as any successful American television entertainer and personality, is a "hypocrite" because of his financial success? Or he is a "hypocrite" because he detests the turning of Christmas into a materialist orgy, as Oprah has helped to do with that show?

Just exactly what makes Bill Maher a "hypocrite" when he speaks out and gives his opinions, just as Oprah can and so often did?
They are BOTH successful people in the field of television entertainment, one is a lot MORE financiallysuccessful than the other, but the less financially successful is a hypocrite for speaking his mind?

I sometimes wonder why some religious folks get so offended by freedom of speech; so much so that they feel compelled to insult the person speaking freely.