Interested in Real Time w/ Bill Maher?

[Terwilliger]

Excellent installment (season finale) of Real Time w/ Bill Maher

GUESTS:

John Edwards
Darrel Issa
Aaron MacGruder
Michael Moore
Charles "I am NOT a Republican" Barkley
John Mellencamp

I have it available from a relatively slow upload site (37K/sec but that will be depressed by the number of uploaders, which will be limited to two) and the Win media *.asf file is 158MB. Recommended for broadband (or better) downloaders.

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[Breezy du Nord]

1. Why the hell dos he have Barkley?

he's got a whole bunch of smart, interesting people (moore, mcgruder) and then he puts on barkley??

Still, I was excited to hear from Aaron McGruder, I've never seen him before but I LOVE the Boondocks.

[Terwilliger]

3. Barkley seemed a bit lethargic

(several times, he repeated what he said in the previous sentence with one directly following the other)

but he definitely employed a leftist ideology last night. Hell, he was to the left of Michael Moore (physically and ideologically)

[Oracle]

5. I was surprised...

when Barkley first quit the NBA, there’s was talk of him running for (congress, I think) as a republican. But he indeed has very progressive feelings...definitely not republican views.

Yes, a delightful all liberal panel...so Bill Maher had to take the opposing sides at times, and you could tell his heart wasn't into taking the "other" side, last night...Maher surprises me at times, he sounds very liberal and so wonderful in your face to the republicans. However, other times it seems (like last night) has to take the conservative position...but many times he doesn't seem like he's really read up on and/or oblivious to some very important stories and issues.

Well, Maher, indeed likes to party, as I do I, so he can't be up on everything.

But besides Issa, when I flipped the channel a bit for Seinfeld, it was a great show...a very awkward but brief interview with Mellencamp and the small farmers advocate.

And Maher had all three on the panel, sincerely and absolutely laughing uncontrollably with his closing ten minutes of "New Rules."

Great show!

The show repeats tonight at 11:00 on HBO

[latebloomer]

9. Was Mellencamp pissed off at Maher?

or something? He looked really uncomfortable and angry, and at the beginning of the segment Maher seemed to refer to it. . .

[Raenelle]

2. I loved it last night.

The only part that I'd have cut was Issa, though he gave such nonsensical answers to Maher's questions that there was some sense that the emptiness of the Repugs for Schwartenegger campaign was exposed.

I simply love Aaron MacGruder.

Mostly, it seems liberal analyses of the world situation are so much more available than they used to be. We have Maher, Jon Stewart, the net which seems to get new lefty blogs each day, tons of good books being written, and the occasional moderate liberal even shows up on cable talk once in a while. Plus the candidates are saying what needs to be said. Last year, the most liberal thing out of Dems was please don't hurt me any more; I promise I'll be good. We've apparently become so loud that the wingnuts have even given us a name--the angry left. You fucking bet your life we're angry.

Oh, and I was pleasantly surprised that Charles Barkeley seems to have found his way back to sanity.

[dani]

6. Issa amazed me

with his answer to Maher's question about the "swirly" (or whatever the phrase is). He seemed to say that it was a shrewd lie on Arnold's part to gain popularity, and his ability to make up these brand of lies indicates that he possesses the type of leadership qualities that would make him a great Governor who can get people to rally together. All I could say was "WTF?". Did anyone else perceive it this way or is it just me?

[latebloomer]

8. He was a horse's ass

So unbelievably idiotic. I don't rermember the part about the "swirly", though.

[sujan]

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[Terwilliger]

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