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Qutzupalotl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-06-11 06:59 PM
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Real Time with Bill Maher tonight
Guests:
Peter Bergen
Michael Eric Dyson
David Frum
Jeremy Scahill
Irshad Manji

HBO, 7pm PDT, 10pm EDT.
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sasha031 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-06-11 07:00 PM
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1. Jeremy Scahill thanks
:)
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-06-11 07:02 PM
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2. Wow.. that's a strong group...
Wish I had a way to stream it...
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-06-11 07:02 PM
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3. Lots better than last week!
:)
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-06-11 07:04 PM
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4. I love Real Time, but some of Maher's jokes seem sexist to me.
What do my fellow DUers think? Am I being too sensitive?
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chowder66 Donating Member (597 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-06-11 07:21 PM
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5. No. I don't think you are being too sensitive...but keep in mind
he is an equal opportunity comedian. He does go after every one. He goes a little too far south for my taste once in a while but I find him pretty funny about 85% of the time. I love it when he's smart and funny. Nothin' better than that!
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-06-11 07:52 PM
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6. Agreed
And he can rant like few others can!
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Kceres Donating Member (839 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-06-11 08:19 PM
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7. I actually stopped watching him for a loooong time for that very reason.
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Better Believe It Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-06-11 10:25 PM
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11. I refuse to watch him because he isn't perfect and I don't agree with him 100% of the time!

Using that criteria I never watch comedians on the TV .... or commentators .... news shows, etc.,

If I can get on TV with my own talk show I will watch it.

And everyone else must watch it if you're politically correct.
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-06-11 10:43 PM
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12. That is not fair; some people are really turned off by certain jokes. nt
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Better Believe It Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 10:48 PM
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14. As am I, but, overall it's one of the best shows on TV and I always watch it.

I don't like all of the jokes, only about 90% of them and "New Rules" are pretty funny.

The 10% or possibly less can just be ignored and not laughed at.

But, his writers are obviously not right-wingers and can be forgiven for misses.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-06-11 09:42 PM
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10. No--he's as mysogynist as it gets and I'm anything but a knee-jerk. nt
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Electric Monk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-06-11 09:18 PM
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8. k&r for Jeremy Scahill
nt
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think Donating Member (316 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-06-11 09:26 PM
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9. Where is Christiane Amanpour? Spoke 2 soon
Edited on Fri May-06-11 10:05 PM by think
At least they showed the clip of her saying Bin Laden was living in a villa in Pakistan back in 2008...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/03/christiane-amanpour-osama-bin-laden-bill-maher_n_857026.html
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-06-11 10:55 PM
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13. Thank you for that link!
Just wow.
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 10:49 PM
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15. New Rules
Now that it's become clear that the Republicans, the fiscally conservative, strong on defense party, are neither fiscally conservative nor strong on defense, they have to tell us what it is they are actually good at.

9/11 happened on your watch. And you retaliated by invading the wrong country. And you lost a 7 year game of hide and seek with bin Laden. And you are responsible for running up most of the debt which more than anything makes us weak. You're supposed to be the party with the killer instinct, but it was a Democrat put a bomb in Gaddafi's bedroom and bullet in bin Laden's eye like Mo Green.

Raising the question, how many muslims does a black guy need to kill in one weekend before crackers climb down off his ass?

Let's look at some facts.

When Bill Clinton left office in 2001, the congressional budget office calculated that by the end of the decade we would have paid off the entire debt and had a 2 trillion dollar surplus. Instead we have a 10.5 trillion dollar public debt, and the difference in those two numbers is mostly because the Republicans put tax cuts for the rich, free drugs for the elderly and two wars on the layaway plan and bailed on the check. So much for fiscal responsibility.

But hey, at least they still had the defense thing, right? The public still believed that they were tougher when it came to hunting down dark skinned foreigners with funny sounding names.

But Bush had 7 years to get Osama. He didn't. He got Wesley Snipes. Only 6 months after 9/11 Bush said he didn't spend that much time on bin Laden and was no longer concerned about him, just as he wasn't before 9/11, when he blew off that mysterious memo entitled 'bin Laden determined to attack inside the United States'. In under a year Bush went from who gives a sh*t to dead or alive back to who gives a sh*t.

Why focus on the terrorists who reduced Wall Street to rubble when you can help Wall Street reduce the entire country into rubble?

In 2008 the candidates were asked if they knew for sure that bin Laden was in Pakistan would you send our guys in without permission from Pakistan. McCain said 'No'. Obama said 'Yes'. McCain called him 'Naive'.

And why can't you just admit that Obama is one efficient, steely nerved multi-tasking, black, ninja, gangster President?

In one week he produced his birth certificate, comforted disaster victims, swung by Florida to say 'hey ' to Gabby Giffords, did stand up at the correspondent's dinner and then personally repelled into bin Laden's lair and threw a Chinese star through his throat without waking up any of his 13 wives. I saw that on MSNBC.

30% of this country will always vote Republican. I'm just asking why? Sure paranoia, greed and racism are fun, but it's like when you see someone driving a Mercury, you think did that person really think, 'did that person really want to drive a Mercury Mariner?' No, you assume he knows someone who sells them or a Kia dealer molested him as a child.

I know this all sounds harsh, but Republicans are supposed to be the party of harsh truth. Like, 'there is no such thing as a free lunch'. And speaking of lunch, Obama just ate yours. Bill Maher
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