Bill Maher On The Surge, Minneapolis And The Naughty, Dirty Republican
By Logan Murphy Tuesday Sep 04, 2007 8:31am
Bill Maher was on Hardball and as always, had plenty to say about President Bush and his surge-spin, Republicans and everything in between. Matthews plays a clip of Maher's HBO show Real Time talking about Larry Craig's "naughty, dirty boy" clip and Maher had this to say in Senator Craig's defense:
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Maher: "...We've all had layovers in airports and there's just really very little to do. You know the news stand is closed, the Cinnabon is closed, you have three hours to kill, the flights get delayed - you gotta have some sex in the bathroom, Chris."
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I liked the part where Maher was talking about bush's surprise visit to Iraq. That was funny.
Tweety asked him three questions in a row and cut Bill off all three times. He is just tone deaf as an interviewer.
Besides we all heard Bill say to Dennis Kucinich during his interview on Real Time...'You got my vote.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3RX4DkVo4E
...at the very end under his voice.
Letterman said the same thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K23mIwltPqs
Me too.
Vote Dennis Kucinich!
It didn't seem to sink into Chris that Bill proved George is dumber than an eleventh grader.
George must have got left behind.
I'm sorry, I just couldn't listen to the whole thing. Chris Matthews is such an infantile boob that he ruined any humor I may have gotten out of Maher's statements. He's giggling narcissism in the "Let's have you watch you watching me!" segment just made me want to vomit.
Wow.
Everyone is missing the key sentence in this "Meet The Press" bit:
Craig said the above on MTP on 24 January 1999.
Here's the thing...
In a CNN Poll, conducted in that very same week, and published within the same week, on 31 January 1999, President Bill Clinton's approval numbers were at an unprecedented 69%.
From a statistical standpoint, it's highly unlikely that the citizens of Idaho are the ones responsible for any sort of drag on those numbers.
Look at where President Busch's approval numbers are today.
Less than half that.
This is the lie of the 30%.
They have never spoken for the majority of all Americans.
That's nonsense.
As a matter of fact they never have been the majority of all Americans, and it's really past time to stop listening to anything they have to say about.... anything.
Just because they have currently, and temporarily, seized the levers of power in the United States today doesn't make them right, about anything and it's time we started realizing that is we that are in the majority, and start shunting them aside.
~Nyc
Why isn't Maher ever on Keith (or vice versa)? Is too much awesomeness on one TV show against FCC regulations?
Explainer @ 3:
i allso heard bill tell huckabe i hope you win!
Tweety getting insight from a comedian. Maher gets it right of course. Tweety bears responsibility for the fact that bush is even in office. Matthews failed to ask all the tough questions way back when it counted for fear of alienating his republican locker room towel slappin' buddies....
The Left Edge
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bonto @ 4:
Oh yeah. That's right. Hey, better to cut your throat cuz he'd get creamed, my friend.
Tweety's statement about conservatives understanding "tribes" & tribal stuff has got to be one of the all time stupid remarks to come out of his overactive mouth.
After last nite, I can no longer watch Tweety at all. He let his right wingnut guest talk and talk, allowed no time for a counter and then went to commercial only to allow the wingnut to continue.
American tv news is a joke. The world is giggling and horrified by our stupidity, childishness and utter lack of perspective on national or global issues.
George Bush and a nuclear America are the equivalent of giving a loaded gatling gun to a toddler.
What a freakin' joke.
Craig's a bonobo.
Mathews wants to be a bonobo.
And Maher advertises that he's a bonobo.
Handshake sex all around.
What's a Cinnabon? That sounds like a term of endearment, or at least lust.
Johnny2Bad @ 11:
Interesting choice of hyperbole considering the thread's about Senator Craig alleged romp attempt.
Bit NOLA @ 14:
Just wipe your hands off first.
Johnny2Bad @ 11:
famous last words! better to cut your throut voteing for the corporate whores, who can win ! but give you four more wars!
editor @ 10:
DING DING DING! Editor, you're our grand prize winner! The real question is, where does the national media go from here? Do they continue to allowed themselves to be intmidated and manipulated by the Bush White House, or do they ask the right questions and make sure that they're making sense.
tblade @ 8:
Rule 1 of the Telecommunications Act of 2007: Bill Maher and Keith Olberman are prohibited from appearing on any broadcast of any form, together, on pain of death.
Honestly, I hope to see Keith on Real Time and Bill on Countdown this season.
ysbaddaden @ 15:
You are kidding, right? Cause if you truly don't know what a Cinnabon is, then you haven't visited civilization yet.
Da Spyda (12) I could not agree with you more. When he made that remark about tribes and such my husband and I looked at each other and said at the same time, " What the fu*k is he talking about?"
I guess I haven't visited civilization yet because I don't know what a Cinnabon is either.
:shock:
KO Interviews Bill Maher
It's happened before. Not enough times, in my opinion.
tblade @ 8:
Real easy. K.O. would ask him how he lives with himself for playing footsie with Ann Coulter on his own show. End of interview.
I remember when each of these guys were somewhat relative.
Now, Bill is not funny anymore and he defends Ann Coulter, claims her as a friend and loses all his credibility. And Chris, well, he is just a mouthpiece / sycophant for Bush/Cheney.
Cinnabon is where you've died and gone to heaven. THE best cinnamon rolls in the world, albeit the most expensive I'm sure. Too bad for those of you who do not have a franchise near you.
I Bill Maher.
Blue Rose @ 27:
That was supposed to be I >heart
i'd like to make up my own mind on coulter and maher. anyone have a clip showing that interview on maher's show. thanks, ron.
He says things, talks about things we don't dare to get near.
Chris Matthews is painful to watch. Does he hear himself talk?! His program is called Hardball for goodness sake, and it is the job of journalists and reporters to talk about things and discuss things. Yet, it's Bill Maher who has to raise the tough questions. Spineless and lazy Matthews is praising Maher for doing his job for him.
What a giggling freak Chris Matthews is. I mean, can't his producers sit him down and tell him to can the giggling and snorting while on camera - he looks like a fucking high schooler. By the way, after his incomprehensible babbling about "conservatives" and "tribes" (whatever the fuck point he was trying to make), he has no business bringing up Ms. Teen South Carolina. Goddess knows he's had his share of "What the Fuck!??" moments on camera. Kudos to Bill Maher mentioning Chimpys infamous "Tribal Sovreignty" speech and pointing out that he sounded exactly like Ms. Teen South Carolina.
Matthews and Maher... moron squared.
Phoenix Justice @ 21:
A place where a fat, dumb lazy American can go to get their daily overdose of flour, sugar and grease isn't the first thing that springs to mind when I think of civilization. Not an ideal one anyway.
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I'll bet your ideal civilization is equally rich.
That cockeyed blabber mouth republican, Ron Christie, chose to serve his country by working in the republican party! Does anybody know if he had 'don't ask, don't tell' issues?
GOP bashing is so old fashion and not fun anymore.
but for Matthews that will sure boost it's show rating.
I am so disappointed in Maher--someone I know watched yesterday and said that Matthews is going to be on his show this season. Matthews will completely monopolize it. I hope Bill asks Tweety why he has to talk incessantly about the Clintons. He can't let any segment going by that he doesn't bring one of them up. Talk about having real issues.
Matthews was on Plum TV Nantucket a few weeks ago. Plum TV is a half-assed program that talks about island events, yada, yada. The host was talking about something unrelated and out of left field Tweety brings up Bill Clinton.
I give anyone who watches him a high grade because he is the most obnoxious pain in the ass--he offers NOTHING, his show is just inane.
He has a book coming out this coming week and that is why he has the gig on Maher's show--it just dawned on me.
Yes, Ron Christie is tres gay!!! Self-loathing, but gay.
The best part about that clip was that MSNBC must have thought that Maher said "Charles Nelson Reilly Ass Caught" instead of the reference that he was making to the trademark ascot that everyone's favorite Match Game panelist used to wear. They bleeped out half of the word!
Too funny.
WTF is Tweety talking about?
MATTHEWS: "Let's give President Bush credit. He's a Conservative, and one thing you and I agree... is Conservatives tend to be pretty good when it comes to 'tribe' -- they understand tribal tendencies, (Maher chuckles) ethnic prejudices, ya know."
If I've learned *anything*, it is that Conservatives have very little understanding -- or tolerance -- of "others." Just another example of the traditional media implanting BS "conventional wisdom" into the public psyche.
Maher ripped with the truth and did it with a straight face. Matthews was grinning from ear to ear.
sconset @ 38:
Matthews has lightened up on asking about whether Hillary is cuddly enough and whether Bill can behave. His agenda is so clear in regard to the Clintons, he had better think twice about hammering them on superficial issues all of the time, people are sick of it.
Matthews needs to focus on where Hillary stands on issues not the what she is wearing or whether she is warm and cuddly enough...
plooger @ 40:
Thing is, Bush isn't a 'Conservative' at all. Neither is that gang of Thugs with whom he hangs. There is nothing conservative about them.
If this Matthews guy is going to be a pundit, he should know basic political descriptive terms.
Matthews is sucha tool lol "this is us watching you watching us watching you watching us...".........."boy-yyyyy". lol
The guy hasn't been laid in decades.
i dont know, no talk show guy messes with Bill Maher. o lielly becomes o'pussycatley when he talks to bill.
What was that comment on the way Craig says "boy"????
How many syllable in the word "boy"???
The "nasty" "naughty" "Bad" is more apparent of a typical S/M flogging stage type comments that you hear in a typical porn movie.
Maher can be sharp at times. He's very good on Thompson here.
I tend to agree with Maher politically but he is so POMPOUS its annoying
I don't know why the MSNBC censors felt that they needed to bleep the word "ascot".
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