Bill Maher Overtime 2011 May 6th

Run time: 13:38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kgV6J3lAmM   Posted on YouTube: May 08, 2011 By YouTube Member: KeihanEnglish Views on YouTube: 899   Posted on DU: May 09, 2011 By DU Member: democracy1st Views on DU: 4254

 
Real Time with Bill Maher

http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher/index.html

He seems to lack that little touch of humility that makes a person likeable. Sad really. It has nothing to do with what he thinks about political issues.

He and Brooks. What frickin' empty suits.

perception of reality. She thinks Democratic & Republican attacks are equal -- obviously, she isn't well-informed.

About sniper operations sometimes work and sometimes fail. Obama weighed the chances that the operation could go wrong AND HE MADE THE HARD CHOICE which paid off.

Obviously he was well aware of the risk involved, and what failure would mean to his presidency and reelection chances. It was a gutsy move, and anyone who doesn't admit that, regardless of their opinion of Obama in general is either lying or blinded by their hatred of him.

Didn't agree with her, but...

She's also funny, smart and easy on the eyes.

Yes, I know she's a lesbian --unfortunately. :P

He is a full time propagandist. And that repulsive woman! Bill, you sure did go out of your way to make sure that was a balanced group. Unfortunately you also went out of your way to let them spew their lies. Jesus Christ, am I going to have to shut Bill Maher off now too?

Yeah.... and one that dominates the panel. Shut up and let Jeremy speak!


Ahhhhh..... Jeremy Scahill.....

K+R !!

Bill can't do what he does so well unless it's on pay TV.

for Bill. They let him say virtually anything he wants, and probably have the largest audience of any pay channel. If he were on a regular network, he would either be fired or so heavily edited that his show would become no more controversial than the Daily Show (not that I don't love and respect the Daily show, but Bill goes places that Jon Stewart never could on a channel owned by Viacomm). Bill has in my opinion found the perfect home for what he does best, and BTW, I love HBO for letting him do it.

Yes, it's wonderful that Bill Maher has a great show on HBO and it gets a TV-MA rating for language because heaven knows the kiddies don't need to hear that kind of language. I'm not being sarcastic. I really think children shouldn't be exposed to cursing. It does little to advance their vocabularies.

Yet, just a few days ago, I was surfing through the non-premium channels that I have and I encountered one of the many CSI or CSI-like shows on TV, and they had a full decapitation on the morgue slab complete with bloody-tissue separation. It was disgusting. I didn't stick around long enough to see what the rating for that show was, but to me--that is far more distasteful that anything Bill Maher could ever utter. Yet there it was on network television.

My solution would be keep the Real Time on HBO so they could cuss as much as they like, and then re-air it as an 1 1/2 hour show on Comedy Central at 1:00 a.m. Saturday and slap a TV-MA on it so I can watch it without the censor beeps. I would even sit through the commercials without channel surfing. It would be a win-win situation. HBO would make syndication money, Comedy Central would make advertising money, and I would be able to watch Real Time without subscribing to HBO.

I mean if they can run South Park the Movie uncut at night, they can run pretty much anything short of hard core porn. But I wasn't commenting so much on the verbiage as the political content. HBO seems to have a pretty much anything goes attitude, and even a bit of a liberal/progressive attitude. I don't see Viacomm (Comedy Central's parent company) being quite so tolerant. Bill Maher is pretty much allowed to say what ever he thinks regarding pretty much any topic, be it religion, politics or anything else he deems relevant. I don't see any other network giving him that kind of freedom, Comedy Central included. But maybe that's just the beer talking! :toast:

Just because you don't agree with a particular point she makes, doesn't make her a "nutjob" at all.

Geez, the tolerance for other opinions on DU is as big as it is on Fox News.

a friend of mine living in Goa said the rumor there is that Bin Laden died of kidney failure and al quaida decided to let Pakistan cash in on the reward so the reported raid and and burial at sea is US propaganda to justify the expense of the war on terror. Interesting that the story makes al quaida the heroes and the US the fools. Of course this doesn't really jibe with the fellow who inadvertently live blogged the raid or anything reported here. Everyone has their spin and with no prisoner, body or photos surely tall tales will develop.

Not that I'm advocating releasing photos. Personally have no desire to see such things...