MAHER on Larry King now. EXCELLENT!!!! Please watch 9:05 p.m.

[LittleApple81]

[NMDemDist2]

1. thank you thank you thank you

can't wait til Bill's show starts up again

[Solly Mack]

2. Watching. He really seems to like Edwards

[LittleApple81]

3. 2 questions: 1) Do they retransmit this? 2) any DUer who can create a

mp3 file from this.

[Connie_Corleone]

5. It reruns at midnight ET.

n/t

[LittleApple81]

8. I want to watch it AGAIN. It is so great to hear somebody with

a brain, a heart, and a voice on cable news...

[LittleApple81]

4. They mind Kerry's medals because he dared return alive! LOL

[Booster]

11. FINALLY!!!!

Finally somebody said "Bush chocked on 9/11". Yeah!!! Now if the Dems would just take that and run with it Kerry would win in a landslide, but I bet they don't. That's exactly what happened: BUSH CHOCKED! Repeat it to everyone you know because Mike Moore showed us Bush chocked.

[Zomby Woof]

41. chocked?

:shrug:

[Kanary]

49. When I chock, I try to keep it to myself......

:)

[Fenris]

6. Really. Freaking. Terrific.

[meti57b]

7. mega-thanks! I almost forgot.

[MikeG]

9. Line of the night - On 9/11, Bush Choked.

[RebelYell]

31. That should be the Line of the Century! n/t

[blueblitzkrieg]

10. God, I'm loving Maher tonight!

He's saying all the things that need to be said. I liked how he talked about how the speakers at the Democratic convention are actually real Democrats..but the ones at the Rethug Convention are people that don't truly represent the Rethug Party, and how they're not showing the true face of the party, people like Ashcroft...they're trying to paint a 'pretty face' on a party full of nuts.

Right on Bill

[LittleApple81]

12. Bush is defended by repugs no matter what. He did not defend

Clinton when they said he was a draft dodger.

[Solly Mack]

13. Bill said the republicans show a phoney front.

that they don't show their true nature of their party at the convention...by not allowing ashcroft, delay, cheney to be speakers..

that dems show their true self

now talking ron reagan speaking at dem. convention

[Solly Mack]

14. "religion solves nothing" (teehee)

of the country's problems..

[LittleApple81]

15. His spiel on cell research was fantastic. Perhaps cells can grow into a

what? a REPUBLICAN?

[Fenris]

16. "For some reason God wanted a gay minority"

Brilliant.

[Solly Mack]

17. "gay marriage another example of religion making something that isn't an

issue into an issue" religion as in the republicans using religion to sway politics

[Cornus]

18. Not at the Ramrod on a Saturday night!

lol

[LittleApple81]

19. If we cannot have BILL MOYERS, or CRONKITE let's have Stewart and

Maher... Not the depth but the directness and the punch. And with Americans having forgotten how to think PUNCH WILL WORK FOR ME NOW!

[LittleApple81]

20. lol: People say "MM plays loose with facts...not good for MM but OK

for the President... snicker..."
HE IS GREAT.

[AlinPA]

21. Amazing. They even showed some F-911 stuff. ("Watch this drive")

Wow. This is absolutely terrific!

[linazelle]

22. Awesome...."scare the children..."

[linazelle]

24. "Fake outrage"...Bill's logic is great

We DO need to stop being distracted by stuff like name calling and focus on more important things, like a fucking pRetzeldent who sits for twenty minutes after the country's attacked to keep from scaring children.

[LittleApple81]

23. Scaring the children. Why is this no more of an issue. It is ASTOUNDING!

Now King wants to switch quickly to Arnold.

[tridim]

25. He should have just said, "Sorry kids, President business. Gotta go. Bye!"

Oh wow, that's funny stuff. :) Maher is kicking ass tonight. He's amazing!

[stanwyck]

75. This must be a RWN talking point

since when we brought up the 7 minutes of stupified staring Bush did while our country was being attacked, that's the answer all the freepers gave...he didn't want to scare the children. Guess that's what the sheep have been fed. Scaring the children. Is this asinine or what? Unbelievable. The man is the president of the country.

[bagnana]

77. Didn't Bush originally claim he left immediately?

Before he found out about the video? Then suddenly he didn't want to scare the children? Does anyone have anything on this? I can't find it.

[Zipperhead]

26. I think he is rich.....

Like the rest of the hollywood elite.....we don't need him....

[LittleApple81]

27. Sorry. Could you just go away. n/t

[tridim]

28. Just shut up and actually listen to what Bill is saying

He's talking to you.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

30. Uh-huh

:eyes: :boring:

[FlashHarry]

32. Er, and what does that have to do with anything?

He's a political comedian. He has a right to expound on the issues of the day. You have a right not to watch him.

[Catherine Vincent]

35. you're still here?

Amazing....

[Jim Sagle]

73. Actually, no. And here I wasted on alert on him. My bad.

[Jim Sagle]

72. Who's we?

[DemoTex]

29. MAHLER?

GUSTAV MAHLER?

nevermind

[LittleApple81]

33. What? n/t

[Swamp Rat]

81. Great composer but his symphonies are too loooooong.

If I fall asleep, I usually achieve REM before the second movement even begins.

[theoceansnerves]

34. i disagree with him

that it's "fake outrage" to be pissed about arnold's "girlie-man" comments... but whatever.

[FlashHarry]

36. Actually, I agree with him on that.

Ah-nold is just reaching into his hoary bag of Hollywood cliches. It's nothing to get worked up about. I agree--it's fake outrage. There are sooooo many more things to be outraged about.

[LTR]

59. "Anybody offended by that...

...deserves to be called a girlie man."

The reality is, he's right!

[Jacobin]

37. Oh boy, here we go with the Israel thing

Time to hurl.

Wall just fine.

Palestinians bad.

Israel good.

Israel maligned in the media (What in the ever lovin fuck?)

[theoceansnerves]

39. yeah

i didn't understand that comment at all.

[Bombtrack]

43. He is absolutely correct about the international media's coverage of

Israel. And he in no way said that Israel good, Palestinians = bad. He does however think that Palestinian terrorists are bad, as does anyone with a brain.

[Jacobin]

56. Because the international media doesn't suck up to Bush, Jesus

and Israel and reports what is going on in the world, unlike the American Pravda.

[leesa]

85. Mostly I think of the Palestine "terrorists" as freedom fighters

and I think of them as family members that have lost their families and friends and homes to Israeli military might. I don't really think of them in those black and white terms you have.

[TrustingDog]

65. the only part I don't agree with bill on...

but whatever.

[Jim Sagle]

74. Maher RAWWWWWWWWWKSSSSSSSS!!!!!!

[Malikshah]

84. It's part of life, alas.

Ron Silver, Larry Miller, John Malkovich, the guy who created the West Wing.

I wonder if Bill would actually sit down a read a book about the history of the region,-- whether he'd be able to see that his statements are a tad off-base...Arabs only respect strength. How fucking bigoted.

[Jacobin]

38. What a racist comment

"Arabs only respect strength"

Jeeze, sounds like General Custer.

[linazelle]

40. Abu Ga-Rape..."it's bad"--we have done it ourselves, the KKK is homegrown

terror organization, for us to pretend we have never engaged is ridiculous...

[LittleApple81]

42. I remember I don't agree 100% with him. But at least he can express

himself clearly. And the points on this administration have been terrific.

[LittleApple81]

44. Bush organizes his policies around the "rapture" LOL!

[LittleApple81]

46. Leading the country by reading chicken entrails. LOL

[jjmalonejr]

45. I'm with the compass people!!!

ROFL

[Kanary]

47. UHOH...... Nader bashers are going to be SOOOOO upset....

What a hornet's nest...... :)

Imagine that...... not much to be so upset about....

Next problem.....

:hi:

Kanary

[LittleApple81]

48. How would you like to be in a foxhole with somebody who actually

remembers the Maine? LOL
(talking about the 68 year old recruit).

[Cush]

50. Bill: "Dick Cheney is a robot built by the Soviets"

[NightOwwl]

51. Bill

Will you marry me? :loveya:

[Mr_Spock]

52. I like Bill, he seems to have thought out his positions carefully

Doesn't necessarily follow any party line, but Bush will have to guess which ass hole to wipe next time he has to go!!

[Cush]

53. Woo, Moore will be on the panel next week

Bill: "Conservatives are afraid of me"

[LittleApple81]

54. His comment on the South: they have intelligent people but they

have a larger proportion of the dumb ones.
(The only ones to secede and commit treason and now they tell the rest of the country how to behave?)

[Mr_Spock]

55. Lots of people think that - he has GARGANTUAN BALLS to actually

say that. (I secretly love it!)

[LTR]

64. I think losing his ABC show...

...really toughened him up.

Probably realized he'd get blasted no matter what he said.

Kudos to HBO for having the balls to put stuff like this on. The day HBO cancels his show for being too controversial and too 'patriotically incorrect' is the day I cancel my subscription. Sopranos be damned!

[Jacobin]

57. As a lifelong resident of the deep south, I must

sadly, reluctantly agree.

Jesus freaks have fucked up the South for a long long time. Many are anti intellectual, nationalistic, racist pricks. Not all by any means, but far too many. Its a lot like rural Wisconsin

[ArtieBoy]

67. Sadly, reluctantly, I'm with you.

My family has lived in the south since before the Revolutionary War. The great majority of people in my family on both sides are extraordinarily bright: chemists, engineers, VPs of marketing and so on.

However, I'm shocked at the viewpoints of many of my fellow Southerners, especially lately. Five or six years ago I would have said that the South was now not any different than Cleveland or Milwaukee. I retract that statement now. Even here in Atlanta, which is supposed to be the most forward-looking city in the South, is having a rennaisance of backwards-assed thinking.

Oh, well...we still have the nicest weather.

[Swamp Rat]

83. Yep

I wish they ALL would take up snake handling in their insane charismatic churches, hopefully using the most poisonous copperheads and cottonmouths.

In Louisiana, New Orleans is a Caribbean island in a sea of KKK fundie neo-Nazis.

[Shopaholic]

69. That was my favorite part---

his riff on the South--and I'm a lifelong Southerner--but hopefully, I'm in the "smart" category, and if I'm not smart--well, at least I'm not stupid enough to vote Repug!!!!!!

[AnnInLa]

58. What night is his first show of the season????

I missed the date...wow, Michael Moore, need to mark my calendar.

[LittleApple81]

60. I don't know. I don't have HBO...

[OKNancy]

61. July 30

[AnnInLa]

63. thanks goodness

Early in the show, I had thought that Larry said Maher's show would be on a week from tonight...and, I was thinking, My God, how will I watch Bill Maher/Michael Moore and the Kerry acceptance speech at the same time..that would have been an impossible choice!

[LTR]

66. It should be good

Too bad few conservatives have the guts to go on. We have to suffer through some of his weird friends like Coulter.

[playahata1]

71. Next Friday night, 7/30.

n/t

[LTR]

62. Damn good show!

Maher kicked ass tonight.

Why is it that it's non-news media types that seem the most informed about what's going on in the world? I'm talking about Maher, Michael Moore, Jon Stewart. Think somebody like Hannity can form an original thought that's not faxed to him by the RNC? Hell no!

You may agree or disagree with everything Bill Maher says, but the guy makes a hell of a lot of sense. I actually found myself agreeing about everything he said. Even the part about Colin Powell. Maybe he is afraid to leave, because he's the guy keeping them from totally going off the deep end.

When he claimed Bush 'choked' in the classroom on 9/11, it was like he took the words out of my mouth.

And his opinions about Schwarzenegger and Nader seemed to be pretty logical.

Maher's a genius. He's intelligent, well-informed, and funny as hell. Can't wait until next Friday when his HBO show returns.

[TrustingDog]

68. We don't get HBO but are planning on taking over a small bar...

or restaurant next Friday, who Has. Will call ahead to be sure the tv can be ours for that hour... and invite as many people as we can.

The bar will have extra business and we'll have our Billy and Mikey... win win win.

I would recommend this idea to anyone here who doesn't get HBO....
make it a weekly event. :) better way to 'spread the word' than hunker down in your living room - you just may change a barkeeps opinion.

[AnnInLa]

70. comedians are the folk singers of bygone days

I keep telling you youngsters that in the days of the 60's, the folk singers were the people out there telling it like it was...they energized a whole generation of people to help us get out of Viet Nam and defeat an oppressive/repressive administration. Today, the comedians have taken over that role...history seems to be making a circle, just hope it doesn't take too long to complete.

1960's...Dylan, Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, etc etc

2004....Michael Moore, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Gary Trudeau, somtimes Letterman

Altho..seems like Linda Ronstadt might be making a comeback...yes!

[Bjornsdotter]

78. Don't forget...

...the Smothers Brothers. They did a nice job too.....so nice they were cancelled.

Cheers,
Kim :toast:

[OKNancy]

76. I'm going to start using this one

"I'm with the compass people"

[lottie244]

79. I like Bill. He lost me with his position on the ME situation and Israel

But then he is like so many American liberal Jews who lose all objectivity and rationality when it comes to defending Israel...no matter what it does. Just like Bill said the Republicans do when defending Bush no matter what he does.

[Taverner]

80. Not to nitpick but Maher is not Jewish

Claims he was raised Catholic.

[Must_B_Free]

82. yeah, and that's a fake nose he wears.