Classic Bill Maher 'New Rules' ...... on false equivalency

Thanks for the thread, marmar.

one quibble: on 9/11 as an inside job. there has not been a thorough investigation of 9/11, so the best anyone can say for sure is that we don't know what happened. and there is a ton of circumstantial evidence indicating that the official story is a lie. so...NO ONE in the democratic party thinks it's an inside job? that in a sense is an equivalency of its own.

The other side fights for its principles and shows no shame.

Our sides leaders fight US and are ashamed of our principles. That's what "staying in the center" means.

Obama may be getting this, finally...but will he get it in time?

that the other side will be shamed into behaving better. It's not gonna happen.

Especially because we've got the truth on our side, we should be calling it like it is & letting the chips fall where they may. So what if the other side "gets their feelings hurt" (which is just another tactic to keep the truth from being spoken).

Like tomp, I haven't felt the same about Jon Stewart since his remarks against Keith Olbermann. Stewart turned that "return to sanity" rally into a cheap attempt to play up to the corporate side.

I wish I could have seen his face when he was telling the truth which the republiCONS can't handle with out trying to talk over people. I want to see this show.

If the Stewart/Colbert rally had been done the way Bill(and most of us)would have wanted it done, would they still have had shows the next day?

I'm thinking they may have remembered what happened to the Smothers Brothers...who were fired by CBS for speaking truth even though they had HUGE ratings.

Not an excuse...but a possible explanation.

Instead of government suppressing free speech on media, it's corporations and their heirarchical structure is a rigid pyramid. Democracies are structured as an inverse pyramid. That is what public participation and cooperation is about.

The mainstream media is controlled by the same companies that benefit from a number of not very nice things being done in our names. The corporations, or rather, fascists, as by virtue of auctioning off the airwaves and ending the Fairness Doctrine by throwing the crumb to the people called CSPAN, are only going to allow dissent within a small box, to gain the viewership and influence more people to their view.

I applaud Maher's piece as being more honest, but he too, can be driven off the air just like Stewart and Colbert for not walking the line. Cable was his escape when fired for mocking. He'd stepped on the foot of the big fat MIC elephant in the living room no one can talk about, and with more fans than God. It's difficult to find anyone who has not, in some way, been involved in it. And so it goes.

True, I thought that was a lost opportunity. It wasn't totally FAIL, but I don't think it was as much WIN as it could've been.

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Certainly one of Bill Maher's best.

...'false equivalency', thanks for that. And the video.