The always controversial Bill Maher made a statement with a ridiculously unpopular sentiment about the Tila Tequila domestic violence case on his show Sunday night that’s just now being picked up by lots and lots o’ gossip sites. Why would we leave you out on the scoop?

Maher, during the “New Rules” section of his show Real Time With Bill Maher, made the following comment about Tila’s claim that Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman assaulted her.

“New rule: stop acting surprised someone choked Tila Tequila! The surprise is that someone hasn’t choked this bitch sooner.”

Um, nice. While Merriman has been cleared of all charges due to zero evidence that any altercation even happened, it’s typically quite frowned upon to say that any woman has any violence coming to her. While we all may know Tila is a lying skank, there’s no reason to fuel the ignorant fire of all those people out there who manage to justify domestic violence by saying that the abused party was asking for it, male or female. No one, ever, deserves that behavior under any circumstances. That’d be why it’s illegal.