Rachel Maddow: Bill Maher "This Idea That We Can All Be Rich Is One Of The Stupidest Things!"

[democracy1st]

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Rachel interviews Bill about current events.

October 11, 2011 MSNBC
http://MOXNews.com

Great point Rachel makes about the Rick Santelli outburst!

[FarLeftFist]

1. "Republicans can't find a person they like because they really don't like people"

"Republicans like a picture of a soldier with the sunset in the background and they get all teary-eyed, but as soon as that soldier opens his mouth and says he's gay they boo him right out of the room". AWESOME AGAIN, BILL.

[So Shall Us]

2. Funny as Hell. Recommended.

But in terms of gut-busting hilarity, the award goes to Fox, "explaining" how OWS isn't a grassroots movement like the Tea Party, because OWS has mostly been "organized from outside," whereas the teabaggers spontaneously combusted into righteous patriotic outrage.

:rofl:

[dotymed]

3. IMO, Maher is an elitist snob...

[efhmc]

9. And a sexist pig.

[Populist_Prole]

11. I agree. He's a limousine liberal

Shit's on the working class every chance he gets. Can he make other observations I can agree with, and be humorous doing it? Yes, but the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

[liberalmike27]

12. Every comedian can be a bit sexist at time

But I've never really heard him seriously attack the working class, with his humor. Maybe you thought you were posting on the New Republican website.

[Populist_Prole]

18. His views on labor are insulting.

His latest snarky remark was that unions were there to protect "obsolete" jobs.

He's also bashed the US auto industry many times.

I'm not a brie & volvo "save the whales" liberal...I'm more of a Joe Lunchbox type.

Ergo, my disdain for him.

[efhmc]

21. I cannot STAND this misogynistic ex-boyfriend of Ann Coulter.

I have never and will never be able to condone a "little sexism" because some one is funny or progressive (Although I don't think Bill is either of these things.). It is too reflective of the overpowering amount of disregard and disrespect for women that is a deep-seated part of American culture. If one is a comic, is a little racism okay, also?

[itsallhappening]

20. Yep. If you don't agree with him, you're stupid.

He's the left's Dennis Miller.

I don't know how anyone can stand either of these guys.

Oh, and of course, he can get rich, but you can't.

[AlbertCat]

23. IMO, Maher is an elitist snob...

Why?

Because he calls out religion for the crap it is?

[forthissite]

32. I think Maher is trying to remind us that he's a comedian.

When Maher uses that kind of defeatism, he can't be taken seriously.

[Matariki]

4. That was great

Maher isn't always right, but that was spot on - particularly what he was saying about certain work paying more than other types of work just being a fluke.

[LaPera]

5. Bill Maher's the best! -Rachel Maddow will be on Maher's show Real Time on HBO this Friday nite.

[ScottLand]

6. Perfect points on the idiot Cain comments about wealth too.

So teachers and firefighters and police officers and other "heroes" should immediately resign and put their money into a pizza chain. So what then? If your home gets robbed or burned down, don't blame the "heroes" who now sell pizzas, blame yourself!

[bulloney]

7. While I agree with most of what Maher said...

He came out speaking in support of what OWS is doing on Rachel's show after taking potshots at them with PJ O'Rourke on his show last Friday. That led to Alan Grayson shutting them up with his remark about being the leader of the OWS movement.

I hope that permanently shuts up O'Rourke. He hasn't been funny for years and he just sits there and blurts out stupid irrelevant lines about things he knows nothing about. He reminds me of Dennis Miller.

[FarLeftFist]

8. I feel like PJ is drunk all the time.

[awoke_in_2003]

17. do you think he is ever sober?...

I don't

[liberalmike27]

13. I don't think

Maher is responsible for what an obviously conservative humorist says on his show. He usually has at least one conservative on his show. A few times he's been blinded or duped by conservative media, just like most people. Usually he comes around to the right thinking after a while. And that PJ guy is a douche, and he's been a douche every time I've ever seen him, and he's not even funny, he's just a Dick. But then, republican humor is like making fun of people with incurable diseases, or insults of older women like Elizabeth Warren about not posing nude, with Brown saying "thank God."

I've been on this site for years, and there are so many more obvious freepers lurking about than a while back.

[awoke_in_2003]

16. "I hope that permanently shuts up O'Rourke"...

so do I, but not very likely

[efhmc]

24. Not as long as people like BM give him a platform to spout off.

[SheilaT]

10. It was exactly that idea -- that everyone could all be rich --

that led to the excesses of the stock market in the 1920's and ultimately the Crash and the Great Depression.

While that's an oversimplification of what happened as thee were many structural things going on also, there really was the notion that everyone not only could be but should be rich. Average, ordinary people with not a lot of money were lured into investing in the stoc market, and most of them lost every penny.

This again points out the truth of: Those who don't know history are condemned to repeat it.

[amyrose2712]

15. I wish more people were honest about that. You don't get rich working

for a living and it's a fluke if you do. It is what really kills me about the working poor that constantly vote against their own interests or say that raising taxes on the rich is punishing those that work hard. So many people say, well I don't make that much now, but I MIGHT SOMEDAY and I don't want to be punished. UGH! It annoys the hell out of me.

[SheilaT]

26. Yes, exactly. Too many people really do not

understand who the income distribution actually breaks down, which part they are actually in, and the simple fact that they will never be in even the top 20%, let alone the top 1%. They don't have any idea what is a progressive tax structure compared to a regressive tax structure.

I'm quite bothered that too many folks might actually think Herman Cain's idiotic 9-9-9 plan is a good one, and vote for him because of it.

[Pryderi]

14. "most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich

than face the reality of being poor. - from the movie, 1776

[amyrose2712]

19. Great quote. So true.

[DFW]

22. Since Nixon, the Republican mantra has ALWAYS been:

"If you're rich, you deserve it, and if you're poor, you deserve it."

It's old, it's simplistic, it's insulting, and they're still saying it.
Herman Cain is still saying it. Slick Texas "preacher" Joel Osteen has
gotten people to toss him tens of millions of dollars by just saying it.
He's now rich. He says God wanted him to be rich. He says God wants his
followers to be rich, too. Most of his followers still aren't. In fact,
most of them are just a little bit poorer because they "donated" to Joel
Osteen's "church."

Maher is right that we will never be in a society where everyone earns exactly
the same amount. But the Republican mantra that if you don't earn a million
dollars a year it's your own fault for being an inferior human is disgusting.
Some cops or firemen or ER paramedics should let a few of them die, telling
them they can't save them because their emergencies don't raise their incomes
to an equal level.

[Clouseau2]

28. Another one I heard I liked

"The way to motivate rich people is to pay them more, and the way to motivate poor people is to pay them less."

[efhmc]

25. Okay, I still find him to be a sexist oink, but this was a good

interview.

[LaPera]

27. Love the excellent Bill Maher - Rachel Maddow's on Maher's Real Time (HBO) this Friday night!

[evilkumquat]

29. Penn Jillette's book is in the background

Nice free advertising for "God, No!"

It's a good read.

[Mosaic]

30. I don't like that comment by mahr

The rich need someone to shine their shoes. Unrecommend. As a Democratic Socialist this is disgusting. We should all be equal, we can not all be rich just middle class.

[Dumpster Macaine]

31. Hmm

I always got the feeling Mr. Maher is on the right track, but never quite gets it all the time. Maybe the problem is, as the British would say, he's a bit too smarmy.