Bill Maher "How Come John Edwards Is The Worst Man EVER & Newt Gingrich Get To Run For President?"

[democracy1st]

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Boom! Chris Matthews interviews Bill Maher.

HBO: Real Time with Bill Maher

http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher/index.html

[JDPriestly]

1. Precisely!!!!

[DeSwiss]

2. K&R!!!

:thumbsup:

[TimLighter]

3. When was Edwards barred from running for president?

I'm so far out of the loop sometimes. He was banned?

I just cringed watching those two.

[Duppers]

7. just the court of public opinion...

and his own shame.

Newt has no shame and rethugs will vote for turds, as has been proven.

[NewJeffCT]

8. The media consensus was nearly universal...

that Edwards was finished politically. Just like Eliot Spitzer.

[McCamy Taylor]

41. And if the corporate media tells us to jump off a cliff, we jump?

[Enthusiast]

12. "I'm so far out of the loop sometimes."

At least you admit it.

[SemperEadem]

15. when the affair became known

he had the good sense to leave the spotlight.

[tclambert]

30. When Oprah turned against him.

[zinnisking]

39. Nobody said banned but you. The liberaL media lets Newt get away with his infidelities

even though he speaks for the Moral Party :puke: :puke: :puke:

Edwards wouldn't stand a chance.

Maher is well liked here. Mathews i think is at least somewhat liked. If you are cringing at someone like Maher maybe spending time on liberal message boards might be unpleasant for you.

I enjoyed the clip very much. "What are the republicans good at? They say they are good at defense..... Sept. 11 happened on their watch and then they attacked the wrong country." -Maher

This isn't pointed out enough in the liberaL mediA!

The clip is full of win.

[lynne]

4. False premise as no one stopped Edwards from running -

- personally, I wouldn't vote for either but that's just me. However, they are both eligible to run should they wish.

[liberation]

6. Speaking of false premises

who said anything about barring Edwars from running?

[NewJeffCT]

9. Everything in the media said that Edwards was finished

and his political career was over. I was never a fan of Edwards, but I thought it was striking how the media was almost universal in saying Edwards' career was dead.

[AllTooEasy]

20. He was finished...and so is Newt. There's no difference.

...well except for the fact that he was cheating on a woman who was diing of cancer. that's pretty fucking low.

[AlbertCat]

21. he fact that he was cheating on a woman who was dieing of cancer.

Did anyone know that when he had the affair? How old is that child?

And Newty handed divorce papers out in the hospital, did he not?


And also.... who actually admitted to his affair?


And the comment is about the media and constituents. That's the point.

WHOOSH! Right over some people's heads.

[azureblue]

37. and Newtie

got his daughter to lie for him about this. Now that is low.

[AllTooEasy]

46. Bullshit! Try doing some research before criticizing other Liberals, ya IDIOT

Edwards "admitted" to his affair after he was caught...while trying to lock himself in a hotel bathroom with the press outside.

Edwards didn't come out the blue one day to surprise everyone with "Oh BTW, I'm cheating on my wife. Bet you didn't know that?!"

Newt IS the worse guy ever! The media and religious Right aren't letting up on him. Where are you and Bill Maher getting that? Before his Ryan Plan criticism, and immediate punk apology, every mention of Newt came with a footnote about his infidelity (outside of Faux News, ofcourse).

How THAT went over YOUR head is Unbelievable!

[zbdent]

23. as low as making a person recovering from a session of chemotherapy

have to sign the divorce papers?

That's pretty low, too ... but will today's "liberally-biased media" forget about that incident of Newt's? Probably ...

[defendandprotect]

5. Great question --- !!

[AsahinaKimi]

10. That was good..rec

It used to be I preferred Jon Stewart over Maher, but I have changed my mind. I prefer watching Bill Maher over Jon Stewart.

[namvet73]

Cognitive dissonance

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I expected better from John Edwards. He was my favorite candidate.
As for Newt, it was something I would have expected and I wouldn't vote for him anyway.

So, Gingrich did not disappoint me. He acted in a way that I expected.
Edwards disappointed me, however, I would choose Edwards over Gingrich any day.

[whathappened]

44. edwards

would have made another great presadent , he would have been for the people and there best interests , as far as the affair , that should of stayed at home , being between him and his wife , he would of been another great 1 like jfk , newt is a waste of space , all greed and no plan ,

[rpannier]

45. I preferred Edwards as well

What aggravates me the most about Newt vs Edwards is
Newt claims moral high grounds on many issues, especially personal matters. His, "Yes, I made a mistake, but there were extenuating circumstances..." annoys me no end. Yet, many in the media (at least at CNN) don't seem to give a dman and let it go. To them, Newtie is legitimate.

I think it's because Faux news has spewed that Newt is legitimate and the village has joined in.

[Enthusiast]

11. K&R! Behind the comedy Bill Maher

is pretty damned insightful. Tweety was like, "What?". Great segment!

[baldguy]

13. The difference is Newt is a Republican and Edwards is a Democrat.

For Republicans, honesty, personal honor & integrity are only for "little people".

[SemperEadem]

14. I have to disagree with him on huckabee

He won't win, either, because he is an ordained preacher.

I do not want anything ordained sitting in the white house in that office because his first loyalty will not be to the constitution--he will lie while taking the oath. His first loyalties will always be to his god and his religion. That cannot
stand in a president.

[Duck]

25. Huck and Jesus

Yea SE, that surprised me as well. He's the guy that said we should stop living by the laws of man and start living by the laws of God. I'm sure he would be happy to tell us just what God wants. Very dangerous thinking.

[azureblue]

35. and herein lies the rub

Huck will tell us what God wants, but will NOT tell us what Jesus told us to do - take care of the poor, the elderly, the sick, etc.,. That'd mess him all up if he did...

[SemperEadem]

47. don't forget--he wants to outlaw miniskirts for women

[julian09]

28. his god is money

that is why he is not running; because he never made so much as he is now.

[underpants]

32. I agree with Maher - who BTW said the WH "was most worried about" - Huckabee can attract the middle

Fox News as we have seen and will see can package and sell anything - from nonsense stories to W - to SELL BABY!!! Huckabee would be the supposedly non-radical candidate who white people could convince themselves it was okay to vote for without it being about race.

[NewJeffCT]

40. The problem with Huckabee, though

if he ran, is he comes across as a likeable guy if you don't listen too closely to what he actually says. And, 90% of the people out there won't listen that closely.

[mwb970]

16. Matthews keeps stepping on Bill's lines! /nt

[SacoMaine61]

17. The difference is between the character of the two men

Edwards felt like a heel so he is a vulnerable target. Gingrich feels entitled so he's teflon.

[AlbertCat]

22. Edwards felt like a heel so he is a vulnerable target. Gingrich feels entitled so he's teflon.

Beautifully succinct. Thank you.

[spooked911]

18. Great interview-- Maher was on fire!

[Keith Bee]

19. "there was a License to Kill stapled to the back of that birth certificate"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Britethorn]

24. Alexander and Hach?

Sounds like a Cop Show on Fox.

[maddiemom]

26. Newt's marriages

Aside from the fact that Newt has obviously been a jerk in all his marriages, I can't understand the flack his present wife takes for "breaking up" his previous marriage (do we want "the other woman" as first lady?, etc.)Wasn't his previous wife the one who broke up his first marriage while his first wife was suffering with cancer? I love it when what goes around comes around. The real test here is on Newt.

[maddiemom]

27. Newt and John Edwards

OK, forgot to add that the Democrats eat their own, as with Edwards. Republicans seem oblivious to their hypocrisy.

[NewJeffCT]

34. True, Democrats do tend to eat their own

losers usually don't run again, while Republicans love to recycle their losers (Nixon loses in 60, runs again in 68... Reagan loses in 76, runs again in 80... Bush loses in 80, runs again in 88... McCain loses in 2000, runs again in 2008.)

McGovern was persona non grata after 72, after Mondale lost in 84, he was out of the public eye until he ran in place of Wellstone... Dukakis was similar after 88... Gore was out of the spotlight until his movie came out after losing in 2000... Kerry is still in the Senate after losing in 2004, but he rarely seems to have a public spotlight anymore.

[azureblue]

36. well truth is

Dems don't tolerate liars as much as Repubs. If the Repubs dumped all the liars, there would be none left to carry the banner.

[Ganja Ninja]

29. That's an easy one.

Because conservatives only want to win. Despite all the talk about family values, integrity and fiscal policy, they'd vote for the Devil himself if they thought he could win and knew it would piss off liberals.

[idrahaje]

31. Didn't Ross Perot take care of Newts dying wife or is that someone else? n/t

[Corruption Winz]

33. Truthfully, I don't care what either guy did..

Has nothing to do with what he could potentially get done in that position.

The argument always seem to be, "If this is how they treat their wife, how would they handle the country?" Cop out. Plenty of people have the ability to separate personal and professional. It's ridiculous to assume that everyone can't.

Otherwise, it has nothing to do with being the president in my opinion.

[DuaneBidoux]

38. I don't give a damn about Gingrich but Edwards did piss the shit out of me.

All I could think about once it came out is that he was running for the nomination all that time knowing that this thing might come out during the campaign--basically trashing our hopes of taking the presidency. To me that was a betrayal. As far as Gingrich goes I couldn't give a fuck.

I just remember feeling incredibly betrayed by Edwards who had obviouusly been putting his needs above those of his party and his country.

[Deep13]

42. The difference between Edwards and Gingrich: ...

...outside of his personal life, Edwards was an advocate for the poor.

[Ken Burch]

43. OK. I agree that Newt is just as bad as Edwards.

But does anyone here still think it would have made any kind of sense for Edwards to run, or for this party to nominate him as our presidential candidate, AFTER the affair came out? In terms of basic practical politics, why should we have still nominated the guy after that when the headlines about the affair would have doomed the party to a landslide defeat?

Why should we have stayed with a guy whose nomination would have guaranteed a Mondale '84-size humiliation for the party?

Nobody here really thinks Edwards could still have won after that, do they?

(And I say that as a person who thinks Newt's actions should have ended his career as well, for the record.)

[midnight]

48. Because the Rupert Murdoch's of the world sold this idea.