"We have got to put pressure on the mass media not to play the same craven role they played in Iraq, when they effectually collapsed and became a megaphone for Bush's policies," Sanders said. "What Robert is saying here is that the leader of that effort is Fox News, which in many ways is simply a propaganda machine for the Republican Party and the Bush administration."

(Senator Bernie Sanders)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070822/ap_en_tv/tv_fox_iran_1

Feel free to delete this - info for sitemonitor:

the play link for the WMV is busted. I click it and nothing happens - I don't even get info in the status bar at bottom of my browser.

Video does download, though.

please fix.

WinXP
latest rev of Firefox.

Maher is one of the few pundits game enough to enter enemy territory. And he holds his own very well. I wouldn't mind seeing him on Hannity as well.

hmmmm Vid links no workeeee . . . DOH!

I kinda have mixed feelings about Maher. Some time back he was on Imus and at that time he didn't seem to be very up to date on some things. I like that he's quick and funny and hit's his targets with dry humor. Maybe the day he was on Imus he was having a bad day or something.

I've sworn off the O guy just as I did the A woman in the black cocktail dress.

what i saw and heard was maher when asked about portreus' assessment that the surge is working, maher explains in detail why this is a false assessment. o'reilley then dumbs it down with simplicity apparently in deference to his audience, "okay, what you're saying is that the surge is not working." question comes immediately to mind and i'm writing as i'm watching, when o'reilley makes the snide comment that the show is loaded with left wing loonies, why didn't maher extend the invitation immediately to o'reilley to come on the show. that would have been a win-win. maher is bright enough and strong enough to take o'reilley on expose his lies for what they are. should tim robbins also be on the same panel then all the better i would watch.

I'm sitting here ROTFLMAO as I even visualize this group of phonies - the best of the GOP - wow! Has this party degenerated.

Can anyone visualize Ms Total Plastic Thompson sitting as "First Lady" in the white house?? Between her obviously augmented boobs deflating regularly and her botox injections freezing her face up, she would become a comedy of errors herself.

Then check him out - an impotent, sad, over-the-hill B actor pretending to be president? We've already had one real actor and another "wannabe" in Bush. We don't need any more of what the GOP has to sell.

” I know a loon when I see one ..."

So he can ID a loon visually? Usually you have to HEAR them to ID them. There must be a club, and Billo must be president.

I love how Putin is setting things afire with his shirt off. Why can't they see how much Russia has improved under his tutelage? I personally am amazed by the transformation in Russia in the last few years. But I still don't have a handle on how much it helps the average Russian citizen. Giuliani is a disgrace.

O'Reilly spent the entire interview attempting, as usual, to attack Democrats yet didn't say one critical thing about his reich-wingers. Trolls, I bet you still "think" that he is fair and balanced, riiiiiiiight?!!!!! LOL.

Ricky Bones @ 5:

Weird, I can't get the link to play.

I dunno CROSSdressing sounds kinda religious.

How do Mormon couples crossdress in each others sacred underwear?

Does sacred underwear get hashmarks?

American Pundit Fighting @ 6:

Maher is one of the few pundits game enough to enter enemy territory. And he holds his own very well. I wouldn't mind seeing him on Hannity as well.

Yep, I'd like to see more of this. Armed with humor and the simple truth, simpletons like "Get off my lawn" O'Reilly don't stand a chance.

you forgot maher's whip snap put down to bor's comment about ariana... stopped billy dead in his tracks!

Che's Lounge @ 16:

” I know a loon when I see one ..."

So he can ID a loon visually? Usually you have to HEAR them to ID them. There must be a club, and Billo must be president.

Oh he knows a loon when he sees on alright... he looks at one in the mirror on a regular basis...

I'm curious why Maher didn't mention Ron Paul. I know nothing that would get O'biley's panties in knots more than throwing support for the anti-war Republican. :S

O'Reilly is calling Maher out for stacking the guests on his show?

Is there no freakin' end to this man's hypocrisy?

uncle wally @ 9:

"history will judge him" - nice cop out billo.

What he didn't say was that "history will judge him poorly." And that would be true.

Link doesn't work

I donno if this has been mentione dyet, but anyone see Bill's uneasy reaction to Mahr saying rich ppl dont need those tax cuts??

There's 5 different pictures of Guiliani cross-dressing? Something's up with that. Sick puppy.

Straight Shooter @ 39:

dennis @ 27:

Only about the 20th time Maher has mentioned the cross-dresser thing. Still must be funny to some I guess. Is this the framing strategy?

Yes, it is. Like Gore's earth tones, and Gore "invented the Internet," and Gore was the subject of Love Story, and Gore sighed too much, and Gore was "stiff" and, oh, don't forget, no matter what's gone wrong in this country, IT'S CLINTON'S FAULT, IT'S CLINTON'S FAULT, IT'S CLINTON'S FAULT.

Wingnuts are useful tools in mechanics and to the GOP power structure.

The reichwing, who want to name everything after Ray Gun, even though he hasn't been dead 10 years yet, want to rename San Andreas Fault the Bill Clinton Fault.

I was laughing out loud when BillO said, "you go to the Playboy Mansion all the time and nobody gives you a hard time about that..." and Maher replied, "But I go AS A MAN... in MEN'S CLOTHING!"

Hilarious... my personal fav moment.

dennis @ 43:

Straight Shooter @ 39:

Yes, it is. Like Gore's earth tones, and Gore "invented the Internet," and Gore was the subject of Love Story, and Gore sighed too much, and Gore was "stiff" and, oh, don't forget, no matter what's gone wrong in this country, IT'S CLINTON'S FAULT, IT'S CLINTON'S FAULT, IT'S CLINTON'S FAULT.

Wingnuts are useful tools in mechanics and to the GOP power structure.

Maybe, Straight Shooter. But liberals/progressives don't want in any way to be like them, do they?

Reich-wingers think they speak for the masses. More proof ^^^^

ysbaddaden @ 42:

The reichwing, who want to name everything after Ray Gun, even though he hasn't been dead 10 years yet, want to rename San Andreas Fault the Bill Clinton Fault.

The San Andreas fault happened 6,000 years ago when the earth was created, ysby. Can't blame Clinton for that one. Although I'm sure his wife will soon fix it.

Chris from Ohio @ 40:

There's 5 different pictures of Guiliani cross-dressing? Something's up with that. Sick puppy.

Guiliani's Mae West impersonation is one of the finest ones out there.

ysbaddaden @ 23:

This sites gone bizarro today.

And not just because FAUX personalities are on it.

agreed.

the comment with my screen name isn't even close to what I typed in.

Oh well

Bill O must be on valium or he simply knows when he's out-gunned.

Cross-dressing has never disqualified someone as a candidate.

I say Rudy should wear a dress until the `08 election! I mean, why not? His answers are much "crazier" than his wearing a dress!

Bill was being "funny", but I'm serious.

Actually... that sounds odd. Let me try it again.

Cross dressing can be fun at times, it truly isn't "crazy", but Rudy's answers to the many pressing questions facing our nation are...

Better?

Bill-O's myopic and aging audience were upset that O'Reilly didn't challenge Maher's "anti-dubyah comments". How come his audience is never concerned about Bill-O's anti-Democratic Party comments?

American nation is responsible for destroying that nation now, and now they think they have the grand view of things to decide where borders should go? That’s wrong on too many levels

How true!

Immediate withdrawal is viable. Why? Because the US government is only there for oil. Period. If they choose to have our men and women in uniform stay and "fix" what their commander "broke" it will never lead to a stable middle east, it will only lead to the ultimate goal of control over the middle east and then the world and I for one do not smile upon a one world government.

Pretty amazing that so many comics have a better idea of what middle America is thinking than any political candidate yet. Or perhaps the comics just aren't afraid to speak out.

So many of us wish we could kick this total administration out of office today, but what we have left isn't that much better. I could care less what sexual habits a candidate has if they were just for taking care of America instead of selling us out to the highest bidder.

Bill Mahar had sex with Ann Coulter. That says it all about him. IMO he plays to both sides just for laughs.

elsie @ 64:

Bill Mahar had sex with Ann Coulter. That says it all about him. IMO he plays to both sides just for laughs.

Mahar is gay?

celsius @ 51:

I like Maher, but I think he's playing into the NeoCons' hands with the "splitting Iraq up" strategy. After America has occupied that country for as long as they need, I believe the NeoCons will promote the 3 nation solution as the only way to "peace". It's of course "divide and conquer" strategy in its purest form, and will make it easy for the well known "American interests" (the interest of corporations with looser and looser ties to their original homeland) to control the markets and get a long time foothold.

Also, it's a perfect example of the American arrogance that even sensible guys like Maher inhabits. The American nation is responsible for destroying that nation now, and now they think they have the grand view of things to decide where borders should go? That's wrong on too many levels, but I'm afraid Americans don't see it that way. They are however use to the idea of themselves shaping the world in their own image. And if the local populations disagree, it's because they are "barbarians" and/or "uncivilized".

I think that the peoples of Iraq prefer a 3 nation situation, with shared oil revenues. That's a difficult political goal, but one that the US can only advise on, not implement on their own.

I don't know about crossdressers, but my TV's ticked.

In that clip, Bill Maher FLAWLESSLY executed the talk-show guest equivalent of the classic hockey-fight tactic of pulling the opponent's jersey over his head, and pummeling him mercilessly until stopped by the referee.

The perfect form, the perfect execution. That was no highlight film, that was a training film!!

I like Bill Maher. He, though I have to say, is not too bright. His passion is in the right place but it seems when he gets into talking specifics he is lost.

First Billo clip I have watched from start to finish.

I think Maher had an authoritarian mother and just to compensate they become gays.

LOL

Sometimes I feel sorry for Billo. He's such an aggressively, woefully, stupid man.

I love Bill Maher. It was funny to watch him laugh and shake his head every time Billo cut him off.

I most enjoyed O'Reilly trying to tag Edwards as far-left extremist with Maher correcting him. Many of the positions O'Reilly cited were very mainstream, with majority approval. But O'Reilly's boogeyman smears are about all he's got (and yelling angrily over his guests).

Dr. Matt @ 19:

Crossed Dressing = Going to the Playboy mansion??!!? Jebus, no wonder the reich-wingers are morally bankrupt scum if they think cross dressing is no different than going to the playboy mansion. You f**king loons.

Are either of these points really worth discussing? Yeesh.

Batocchio @ 82:

I most enjoyed O'Reilly trying to tag Edwards as far-left extremist with Maher correcting him. Many of the positions O'Reilly cited were very mainstream, with majority approval. But O'Reilly's boogeyman smears are about all he's got (and yelling angrily over his guests).

And yet O'Reilly's truncated intellect still can't figure out why Mr. Edwards will not appear on faux again.

Bill O' was a draft dodger. Here you have a guy who played football in college and was a semi-pro baseball player. Why don't people like Maher ask him about his chickenhawk background?

Bill O' is a wimp and coward.

Maher made O'Lielly look dumb, as usual. By the way, who does O'Lielly support for President? He probably voted for Bush twice, if he voted at all. His buddy Hannity is raising money for Rudy, so O'Lielly should fess up.

Also, O'Lielly doesn't like Edwards because he was one of the first candidates to say he wouldn't appear at any Faux News Debates.

what was bill saying at the end there? there was cross talk but didn't he say something like "who cares if he (rudi) wants to (mumble) wear (?)" did he say hose?
so is billo ok with cross dressing...he's probably look as good as rudi all dolled up.
not that there's anything wrong with crossdressing but isn't this the party that attacks others who play dress up.

veritas @ 14:

I'm sitting here ROTFLMAO as I even visualize this group of phonies - the best of the GOP - wow! Has this party degenerated.

Can anyone visualize Ms Total Plastic Thompson sitting as "First Lady" in the white house?? Between her obviously augmented boobs deflating regularly and her botox injections freezing her face up, she would become a comedy of errors herself.

Then check him out - an impotent, sad, over-the-hill B actor pretending to be president? We've already had one real actor and another "wannabe" in Bush. We don't need any more of what the GOP has to sell.

How delusional must one be to even consider running as a Republican in '08?

Batocchio @ 82:

I most enjoyed O'Reilly trying to tag Edwards as far-left extremist with Maher correcting him. Many of the positions O'Reilly cited were very mainstream, with majority approval. But O'Reilly's boogeyman smears are about all he's got (and yelling angrily over his guests).

Well said! I think the right-wingers are more afraid of Edwards than they are Hillary because he is running a populist campaign on issues that have support by a majority of Americans. They all hype Hillary's lead because they want to run against her, using her as a lightening rod to mobilize their base.

Bill O'Reilly can shout all he wants but I'll never forget the time when his teeth fell out in the middle of a rant.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, read the story: http://beginnorth.com/blog/2007/08/14/bill-o%e2%80%99reilly%e2%80%99s-te...

p.s. I LOVE YOU BILL MAHER!

im sorry....but maher playing nice nice with lufa boy makes me wanna puke

and again maher shows himself ignorant on issues

"young people dont vote"....well bill, in the last two elections, young people came out in record numbers.

this guy just doesnt do his homework

Maher was OK I guess, but it wasn't worth having to listen to Loofah Boy bloviate. That pig really, really disgusts me. God, he makes me want to PUKE!

Whatever possessed Maher to show up on that sleazeball's show anyway?

me @ 102:

Maher was OK I guess, but it wasn't worth having to listen to Loofah Boy bloviate. That pig really, really disgusts me. God, he makes me want to PUKE!

Whatever possessed Maher to show up on that sleazeball's show anyway?

Maher's promoting his show, that's what. Albeit shamelessly promoting it by being on this asshole's show...

[...] Maher, host of HBO’s popular Real Time with Bill Maher, appeared on The O’Reilly Factor to discuss the September 11 testimony of General David Petreaus and [...]

me @ 102:

Maher was OK I guess, but it wasn't worth having to listen to Loofah Boy bloviate. That pig really, really disgusts me. God, he makes me want to PUKE!

Whatever possessed Maher to show up on that sleazeball's show anyway?

Bill doesn't believe that the solution to handling these clowns is to avoid them. He has the confidence and the brains to confront them on any issue.

I spent hours on the floor trying to pick myself up off the ground from laughing so damn hard on Mahr's zinger when "OReally" said, "You're not a knee jerk kind of a guy, right?"

Mahr: " Oh no,no, no...I'm much higher up with my jerk".

Absolutely hilarious. Too freakin funny. We gotta get him, Colbert and Jon Stewart together and let that trio host the next Washington Press Club dinner. Shit won't be so comfortable for most elected officials present, but the pay per view gate will be huge! LOL.

BillO knows that Maher is one of the few people who can come onto his "no-spin zone" and make him look like a total jackass, which isn't hard in the harsh light of reality, but in the shaded cave of his own show, is much harder, so oRally tiptoes around him to avoid pissing him off.

In other words, Bill Maher can go beard the lion in his own den, the lion in this case being oRally as Scar, a sickly coward of a lion who is only at home around his own sycophants.

He goes on Billo's show to increase both of their ratings...nothing else.

to call out the republican candidates' mormonism and occasional transvestitism is a bit crass. if the same levity was voiced against homosexual or jewish (or arabic) candidates, we would be howling. especially upsetting is how it's now ok to make fun of mormons in a way that just would not fly were it against members of other minority religions.

You know, if Rudy wants to cross dress, that's fine, far be it for me to hate him because of his sexual preference, particularly when there are so many better reasons to hate that phony, fear mongering, crook!

[...] Maher on the Factor does it again, as quoted on Crooks and Liars.  Although frankly, I thought this was a quip about an upcoming [...]

Maher is a bigot. He basically said that Romney is an unqualified candidate because he's Mormon. Talk about being hypocritically xenophobic. Never mind what Romney's politics are, we should just ignore him because he is a Mormon. Nice Bill, very open-minded, accepting, and liberal of you.

Bill v. Bill (O'Reilly

O'Reilly: [A]re anybody on the right, on the Republican side, appealing to you, Bill Maher?Maher: They're appealing to me as a comedian---O'Reilly: OK. But you wouldn't vote for them unless hell froze over.Maher: ...I would like to see the cross-dr...

Ryan @ 122:

Maher is a bigot. He basically said that Romney is an unqualified candidate because he's Mormon. Talk about being hypocritically xenophobic. Never mind what Romney's politics are, we should just ignore him because he is a Mormon. Nice Bill, very open-minded, accepting, and liberal of you.

Maher probably doesn't even care. It's called needling since it's a sore point within the GOP.

celsius @ 51:

Also, it's a perfect example of the American arrogance that even sensible guys like Maher inhabits. The American nation is responsible for destroying that nation now, and now they think they have the grand view of things to decide where borders should go? That's wrong on too many levels, but I'm afraid Americans don't see it that way.

If you want to be quite technical about it, splitting Iraq wouldn't be "destroying" a nation. Iraq didn't exist until after World War I. Britain spent years creating a new country out of 3 administrative territories formerly occupied by the Ottoman Empire. (For the morbidly curious, that would Basra, Baghdad, and Mosul.) Instead of continuing to attempt to force people with such extreme differences to tolerate each other, why not let them go their separate ways, with separate governments able to respond to their needs?