Bill Maher on CBS This Morning

[question everything]

Good one

[ItsjustMe]

1. You can view full episodes here on my blog.

https://realtimewithbillmaher.blogspot.com/

[JohnnyRingo]

2. I'm one of the few liberals who still watch his show.

I like it, it makes some good points, though Maher doesn't mind saying something he knows won't sell on the left. He was always that way, even on "Politically Incorrect".

What I hate about Real Time With Bill Maher, is he turns the audience mics way up so when I turn the TV up enough to hear him and his guests mumbling about something, the audience reaction knocks me off the chair. Especially the annoying guy who insists on hooting after every good point.

I don't know if it's canned but I feel it's clearly for the sake of his ego.

[Sympthsical]

3. He needs to get rid of the Randy Savage audience member

Some guy - and it feels like the same guy every week - who claps/laughs/cheers with "WOO!"

And once you hear it, you always hear it. Is it a stagehand or something? Who is WOO! Guy?! This is something I've become intensely curious about.

As for Maher, I still like him and watch. I don't always agree with him, but at least he's interesting enough to have his own opinion and not just repeat what he thinks his audience wants to hear (like Colbert constantly does). I don't consider myself a very partisan or tribal person. I'm a Democrat because Democratic policies far, far more align with how I think government should be. Not because I even particularly like many of the people in the politics (people should've heard me and my friends going off about Gavin Newsom this week at dinner. Hoo boy. Half of what was said would never last here). If you never think your own side is wrong or being stupid, that's not politics. You've joined a religion.

So Maher is very close to my speed. Not on everything, of course not. But liberal, thinks the Republican party has gone insane, and thinks that sometimes one's own side can be very dumb about something? Yep. I don't always share his opinions, but absolutely his disposition.

[JohnnyRingo]

4. Yes! That guy! The guy who hoots.

It's like he has his own microphone, and he might. It could be an audience plant he found at a pig calling contest.

[JoseBalow]

10. There are 2 or 3 shills who hoot on every show

It's pretty pathetic, really

[Tree Lady]

13. I still watch him

fast forward through some people I really can't stand. I think Bill got lonely during covid living on his own and having to give up his party lifestyle and traveling. I think after a few years he got bitter about it instead of letting go and being glad its almost over. He knows and believes 3rd party is not the answer and hates trump so closer to election he will help more.

I have watched him since he was on ABC.

[gulliver]

5. He's a tent pole in the tent called "liberalism."

I don't agree with everything he says, but I think his claim to what is called "liberalism" is ridiculously strong. He's also brave and funny. We're lucky to have him as a contemporary.

[Maru Kitteh]

17. I'm to feel lucky to have been born in his time? Yea, going to

respectfully disagree with you there. I find him somewhat amusing and occasionally insightful. He is a mildly successful entertainer. I shall have to leave the contemplation of his "tent pole" to others.

[Mz Pip]

6. I watch him

I usually find his New Rules spot on.

[beaglelover]

27. Me too! I usually end up agreeing with 99.99% of his New Rules.

[walkingman]

7. He seems to have an obsession with Covid? I feel the same way about covid

as I do abortion and religion. It's your body, your choice and don't really need anyone's opinion on the subjects.

[Vinca]

8. It's a bit different with Covid, though. If you get an abortion, you're not going to infect anyone.

If you have Covid and don't take precautions, you could kill all kinds of people. Bill Maher seems to whitewash the million plus Covid deaths we've had . . . so far. Public health is different from personal health and other personal choices.

[walkingman]

9. That is a valid point. Maher attitude towards Covid is a big turnoff for me.

[comradebillyboy]

26. Bill is a long time anti-vaxxer. He's not as bad as Bobby Jr but

his views are out of touch with modern science based medicine.

[Oneironaut]

11. Bill Maher is Enlightened Centrism personified, and, a bigot.

His constant scolding of Democrats for not reaching across the aisle to overt Fascists is nauseating.

[LostOne4Ever]

30. THANK YOU! (nt)

[UTUSN]

12. My vaccine against him now is Bill BURR, who ran circles around him and punctured his pomposity.

I have been monitoring him for only a couple of years the way I did Tweety for ten. I like about 90%, the anti-religiosity, the high content on most of our issues although tinged with Libertarianism. I distrust his almost Third Way getting along with Deplorables, while good on Trump's authoritarianism and outright insanity. He has donated a million or two to our candidates. His flaunting his recreational chemicals is annoying. I like to notice which guests he kisses up to and which he's uncomfortable with - bromance with ROGAN and kissing up unsuccessfully to Kris KARDASHIAN, inexplicably uncomfortable with LeslieJONES. And in recent months he's incarnate as The Geezer and His Lawn, and repetitive on about five things - no marriage/kids, get along with Deplorables, hates Woke/Cancel, his White 1950s upbringing was great (sounds MAGA) and his network show got canceled.

I've only been aware of BURR a few months, via Conan and others claiming to admire him as a comic, not really a politics thing. But didn't like what I saw, abrasive and aggressive. But here with MAHER he turned his Prole chip on the shoulder into a slapdown on MAHER's pretentiousness. Liked it!

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[UTUSN]

14. Comedian, rapscallion Bill BURR skewers MAHER. See the YouTube

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https://www.mediaite.com/politics/why-am-i-fcking-i-listening-to-you-bill-burr-roasts-bill-maher-over-very-simple-solution-for-the-middle-east/

‘Why Am I F*cking Listening to You?’ Bill Burr Roasts Bill Maher Over ‘Very Simple Solution’ for the Middle East

.... BURR: That was very brave of you to say that. ....
BURR: Oh, pat yourself on the back. ....
BURR: Oh, stop talking like you’re a general ....
BURR: It isn’t your thing. It isn’t. You’re like that guy that has a fantasy football team and thinks he’s a fucking GM. That’s exactly what it is. Like, why am I fucking listening to you like you like you’ve done something? What have you done in Washington? Nothing.

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[Carlitos Brigante]

15. Now that's funny!! nt

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[UTUSN]

16. Have you checked out the YouTube in Post #12? It gets good in the last third.

[Carlitos Brigante]

18. Just did this morning. The good bits at least. nt

[SocialDemocrat61]

19. About time someone took on Maher

He's just another rich, privileged white man with no idea how real people live. He may not like Trump, but he's no ally to democrats. Never understood why he has so many sycophants here.

[UTUSN]

21. "no ally" - well, allow me to qualify

* As a DUer said about many of us attacking Tweety (Chris MATTHEWS), "When he's on our side there's nobody better." Same mioght apply to MAHER.

* He has donated a million or two to our Dem candidates.

* He claims to be a "Classical" Liberal, only griping about Woke and Cancel culture. Has got a tinge of Libertarianism that is part of us Libs -- Civil Liberties, personal choices.

I'd say he's a high percentage ally. When he criticizes Dem strategies it might be said to be constructive criticism to improve our chances of winning. Yes, he hosts some wingnuts but gives them the business more often than not. As I said, he's been turning into the Old Guy with His Lawn and says his upbringing in Whiteness was the best and should be the norm, which sounds MAGAT.

[SocialDemocrat61]

22. Trump donated to Democrats for decades

Does that give him a pass too?

Plus, Maher has said on his show when that was brought up, that he’s no longer happy about it.

He supported Nader and actively attacked Al Gore, even after the election.

He regularly parrots right wing talking points, especially about Hunter Biden.

He is anti-vax, transphobic, sexist and bigoted.

He’s not an ally. He’s just another blowhard, rich white male TV celebrity. Sound familiar.

[UTUSN]

23. Well, O.K., so we've each had our say, with mine including his negatives and not giving "a pass".

He's in the category for me to monitor for all those negatives that I'm well aware of. This sub-thread started off from my citing somebody skewering him, not approving him.

[SocialDemocrat61]

24. Let's not forget

He’s also islamophobic and called Obama by a racist name throughout 2008.

[Paladin]

20. Maher is a clueless right-wing pimp.

I stopped wasting time on him years ago; profoundly glad I did so.

[Johnny2X2X]

25. Maher's new stance, "Trump second term won't be so bad"

Basically that people should quiot it with the sky is falling if Trump gets in again, becuase it won't be so bad for him, (probably because he is rich).

[beaglelover]

28. I agree with him on that. We'll survive if Trump gets elected again just like we did the last time.

[SocialDemocrat61]

31. If you're a white man

I’m sure you’ll be just fine.

[Johnny2X2X]

32. Our democracy will not survive.

Sure, we'll be alive, most of us, but the US as a free and open democracy will be finished, and probably for a generation or more.

[beaglelover]

33. Pure hyperbole. IMO.

[Johnny2X2X]

34. It barely survived his first term.

We were a few military leaders telling him no from the end of our Democracy. Some of them actually went along, but the important ones said no, he has the power to replace the important ones this time around.

Other than a full military coup, he was also close to rejecting the electors and sending it to the state governments to install him as President. This almost happened.

[beaglelover]

29. My favorite New Rule...and I love that he brings up this dancing every fucking week just to get under trump's skin!

[haele]

35. Bill Hicks and George Carlin did it better.

I liked Bill Maher some back in the 90's. Not as good as Carlin (or Franken), but not too bad, and mainly "kicking up" or questioning status quo. But then I was also okay with Ben Stein on "Win Ben's Money" because he and Kimmel stuck to generic topical humor and didn't go too far into right wing or macho jerk material. (I had also forgot Stein was a speechwriter for both Nixon and Ford before he acted in commercials and Ferris Bueller)

It wasn't till they started kicking down - the " I worked for my stuff, don't make me uncomfortable" or "why are they complaining when they got their rights/get free stuff, those ungrateful peons" - commentary and "jokes" that I stopped listening with any more respect than I would give a stopped clock.

Maher is a contrarian comedian. He may have started out "college progressive" comedian, but like most contrarians - and political true believers for that matter - the political spectrum is just a playground for egos and getting chicks. He could just as easily become Dennis Miller.

Haele