Are You Watching Bill Maher Tonight?

[JackD76]

I know about his resent pro-bush shit view of the world but i am going to watch tonight to see if he changes his mind. Probably not but i feel that i must. Anyone else watchin' him?

[babylonsister]

1. Yes, I'll watch. Better than local, and he

usually makes me laugh. And I also know about his recent turn. Still watching...

[LostInAnomie]

2. Yep, never miss.

[xray s]

3. Why should I ruin a perfectly good evening?

If I wanted pain, I'd stick a needle under my fingernail.

[ocean girl]

4. No, fuck him, I'm done with him

[jimmy47nyc]

5. yes..

I like Bill when he's critical of bsuh.I understand Bill went looking for some conseratives to help balance his audience..
:toast: :toast: :hi: :hi: :dem:

[saracat]

10. But he likes Bush now! Bush did good according to Maher, He brought

democracy to the ME! He isn't critical of Bush anymore!

[LostInAnomie]

21. He is critical of Bush.

Here is a quote from Larry King this week: "Bush will never live down the way he got us into the war with the lies as well as his mismanagement of the war."

Sounds critical to me.

[FreedomAngel82]

34. You obviously missed last week

I was watching a little bit of the rerun earlier this week and saw it. He was saying if Bush came out and said: "Let's go free the Iraq people from a brutal dictator" he would've been there like "hello." Never mind international laws. Maher is trying to get more ratings. Anybody know his current one?

[LiberallyInclined]

40. If Bush came out and said "let's go free the Iraqi people..."

"...from a brutal dictator."

the right (not the far far far right) wouldn't have supported him or the war- it HAD to be sold as WMD. they only support the "free the iraqi people" in hindsight- i.e. to cover their own hind ends, now that we're there, and our blood has been spilled- after all, our boys had to die for something.

[Pirate Smile]

6. Does anyone know the guest line up?

[mcscajun]

8. Here ya' go

from Bill's website (emphasis mine):

Catch an all new episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher" with a half conservative audience this Friday, March 18th at 11:00PM. Bill's guest include Jason Alexander, former Governor Christie Todd Whitman and Representative Lleana Ros-Lehtinen. Via satellite Bill welcomes Thomas Frank and Governor Frank Murkowski.

[Clark2008]

30. How are they filtering for that? I wonder. n/t

[mcscajun]

33. Damned if *I* know...

...all I know is he wanted some conservative guests on the show, and claimed he couldn't get them with an all-liberal audience booing everything they said all the time.

[FreedomAngel82]

35. But wait

I thought that Maher wanted to be more "fair and balanced"? I used to watch his show pretty regularly and I remember he was talking about trying to get more conservatives in his show so he can half some boo's and some yay's so the conservative people don't feel so bad. So this isn't fair and balanced if he's going all convie. My ass.

[BlueEyedSon]

7. I will be watching.

[mcscajun]

9. Yes, I'll be watching.

I haven't given up on Bill just yet. Plus, I'm interested in seeing how his 'experiment' with audience balancing works out.

[saracat]

11. I'm done . I think I'm going to drop HBO and tell them Bill is the reason.

I won't pay to see a Bush apologist!

[cry baby]

18. Don't drop it until the AAR HBO special comes on...

after you watch that, then drop it. I think it premiers March 31st.

[FreedomAngel82]

36. Hopefully it's good

Hopefully it's a good documentary. The preview looked good but of course they can hype things up easily. I'm so sick of being disappointed by everything.

[cry baby]

38. *fingers crossed* me, too.

[signmike]

45. "Disappointed by everything." lol -- reminds me of

Homer Simpson when he said

"I've come to hate my own creation. Now I know how God feels."

hahaha, me too ;(

[Nite Owl]

12. I'm not watching

I used to look forward to his show too. I just won't support what he is trying to do. Recruiting a conservative audience is over the line and his guests are cons too except for Jason Alexander. If you guys say it was ok then maybe we'll catch the rerun but he was out there too much letting the cons know about his right turn.

[hiley]

13. Not anymore

:-(


He has lost me.






http://rantsbyhiley.blogspot.com/

[MariaS]

14. I'll try once more to watch

But after last weeks show I was totally disgusted and confused by the shit coming out of Mahr's mouth about the monkey. He also proclaimed himself a libertarian. Almost like a justification for his about face. Maybe he was just high so I'll see tonight when he is surrounded by conservatives.

[mcscajun]

19. His Libertarianism is nothing new...

...and he's never hidden it. It's just that until recently, more of the time he seemd to agree with Us, rather than with Them. So perhaps his true leanings weren't as noticable.

Anywho. He's still funny sometimes, and his New Rules are mostly entertaining. We'll see tonight if he crosses just Too Many Lines.

[hector459]

15. Hell NO!!!!

He's not drinking the Kool-aid, he's passing it out and I will have none of it!

[Blue_In_AK]

16. We'll be watching...

We haven't got anything better to do. Besides, it's our dear governor and former senator appearing by satellite, so I want to hear what kind of B.S. he'll be spewing this time. I feel like shaking Bill though. I don't know what's gotten into him this year.

[Cleita]

17. The Social Security Palooza. Started out okay!n/t

[Cush]

20. talking about ANWR

[Cleita]

26. Gov. Murkowski is creepy.

Bill is giving him some hardball questions and the Guv isn't being truthful.

[Blue_In_AK]

48. Now is your chance to feel very, very sorry for Alaskans.

Here's a link I've been spreading around about our dear governor. I worked on this case as a paralegal so I know a lot about it. The man is a sleaze of the worst order.

http://nugget.nomenugget.com/20021024/index.html#race

[Cleita]

50. You've got my sympathy.

I hope you can dump him and that we here in CA can dump the Gropenator.

[Politicub]

22. I'm watching

For the life of me I can't understand why people are conservatives. They must love living an entirely scripted life.

The applause from the conservative side of the audience is so cheesy and scripted.

[Walt Starr]

23. I gave it the ole college try, but had to turn it within a few minutes n/t

[Cush]

24. Bill: Most of the Oil drilled will go to China and Japan

[Cha]

25. Hell no!

he's not even funny..time will tell just how far his pandering little ass will take him.

[Maccagirl]

27. Nope

He wants a conservative audience. Fine. He doesn't need me.

[dennis4868]

28. There he goes again.....

"I give Bush alot of credit what he did in the middle east." Bill Maher, tonight.

WTF did Bush do in the ME that Bush deserves credit? He acts as if Bush has brought democracy to the middle....where is there democracy? Where?

[stillcool]

29. No more bullshit for me today....way above my quota.. n/t

[Politicub]

31. Maybe he brought the conservative audience on

to expose them for the simpeltons that they are.

They applauded living wills, because some republican harpy from FL said it.

[sabra]

32. I think he is doing OK right now...

the middle repub woman is trying to dominate the conversation, but all she is doing spewing crap....

[sabra]

37. Phone Sex - Not Bad...

I don't think the panel appreciated it...

[dennis4868]

39. Jason Alexander: "I have great respect for the President.....

and everything he has done"

WTF? Last time Alexander was on the show he was railing against Bush for everything he had done to the country and the world.

WHAT IS GOING ON HERE PEOPLE? I DONT GET IT....

[sonicx]

41. i'm pretty sure he said 'many' things...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

44. I don't understand it either

Criticism of Bush now seems to have to be expressed almost in apologetic terms. In fairness to Jason Alexander, his statement praising Bush was completed with a criticism of Bush for the folly of the tax cut. But it seems now that every time anyone criticizes Bush in the media, it must be preceded with flourishes of homage and veneration.

[seabeyond]

46. he has a show that is on now, you think he is going to piss

off viewers too much, firstly

and with the other part of your statement, media has been doing that for a long time. during campaign, they would talk about something bad about bush, but always give, he is a good christian man, he is a straight shooter, he is someone you would have a beer with

they never just gave the bad news and left it at that

[dennis4868]

49. Agree 100%....

and why is that? How did this come to be?

[devilgrrl]

42. All the hubbub over Bill Maher is much ado about nothing.

The show was good tonight even if the Repug Congresswoman was a blathering gasbag and half the audience were rightards. All the whining about Maher is silly, now quit it! :spank:

[dennis4868]

43. WHY QUIT IT?

He again sadi tonight that he gives Bush credit for the war and the good things happening in the middle east....why should we quit it....he is just another media whore!

[confludemocrat]

47. Tuned past him and heard him doing drug jokes

Like that makes him (libertarian-level) cool, even if he now has converted to patting Bush on the back "when he deserves it".

Fuck libertarianism, it's not enough of a reason to be on this planet for a short time for.