Let Krauthammer fight Iran.
plantsman, lowercase |
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08.26.06 - 10:00 am | #
No Christopher, this how you do it.
YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF FUCKING SLAVES!!!!WHHHOOOOAAAAHHHH YEAH!!!
Jim Morrison |
08.26.06 - 10:01 am | #
Look at Hitchens' body language after he gives the audience the finger -- arms crossed across his body -- fists clenched. Not so tough...
res ipsa loquitur |
08.26.06 - 10:01 am | #
Fuck you, you former Troskyite, gin-soaked popinjay.
Kid Charlemagne |
08.26.06 - 10:03 am | #
bahahahahahaahahahahahahaha
it is funny how his argument began with facts, yet he would not accept the fact that BUSH is like Ahmedizad (SP?) in that both are religio-fascists with an armageddon-fetish!
mogwai |
08.26.06 - 10:03 am | #
Blech. I hope him and Hitch are very happy together.
Karin |
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08.26.06 - 10:05 am | #
Hitchens?
Now that's a wanker.
pie |
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08.26.06 - 10:06 am | #
He's just pissed 'cause he got cut off (not by Maher, but the barkeep in the green room).
Zap Rowsdower |
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08.26.06 - 10:07 am | #
Bil Maher sucks donkey balls. He's not funny and he's a right-wing douche. Why do so many liberals even give him the time of day?
BlakNo1 |
08.26.06 - 10:08 am | #
He looked surprisingly sober...
Prezilldent Regnant |
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08.26.06 - 10:08 am | #
We could drop Hitch on Iran. The dispersion of alcohol and its absorption by the 25 million residents of that country would cause a religious crisis that could keep them busy for years.
R. McGeddon |
08.26.06 - 10:08 am | #
Hitchens was being his usual pompous ass self last night. Everything with him was, "No, you're wrong, you silly ass. Here's what happened--" Even brought up the MoveOn.ord "Bush is Hitler" meme, even though that one's been debunked to hell and gone. Fuck his ass.
Also made the comment that only dumb people make jokes about Bush being dumb.
If Maher has any balls, he’d have asked Hitchens if he needed a drink.
Supreme Commander Thor |
08.26.06 - 10:09 am | #
heh heh. Maher got a good one in there.
Bush is, after all, the biggest threat to world peace. I think that religious crap is just that.
I think that Maher's more of a "Libermantarian".
Zap Rowsdower |
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08.26.06 - 10:10 am | #
Harris campaign awaits her cash
Months after the GOP U.S. Senate candidate pledged to use her millions in the race, she has yet to ante up.
...In the days that followed, several former staffers, including Rollins, said Harris learned she would not directly receive any inheritance from her father. Instead, his assets, reported to be as much as $100-million, were left to her mother, Harriet. http://www.sptimes.com/2006/08/
2...ign_await.shtml
Damn, and me at a computer with no sound card today.
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cs, art is bread |
08.26.06 - 10:10 am | #
Instead, his assets, reported to be as much as $100-million, were left to her mother, Harriet.
Smart guy. He sure raised a moron though.
pie |
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08.26.06 - 10:11 am | #
heh heh. Maher got a good one in there.
Bush is, after all, the biggest threat to world peace. I think that religious crap is just that.
There was one point near the end of the show when Hitches was going on about how the people in Iran want to "destroy" us, and how they're "evil" and shit like that, and Maher said something to the effect, "So your solution is to kill them all," and then cut Hitches off by going to something else.
Supreme Commander Thor |
08.26.06 - 10:11 am | #
In other words, he's a republican who doesn't have the guts to commit.
BlakNo1 |
08.26.06 - 10:12 am | #
Fuckin' hell, why the fuck can't all these fuckin' muthafuckers 'n' fuckin' shitheads keep a gawdamn civil tongue.
Er...
I mean...
Sink me, but why the fudge can't all the flipping mamby pambies and poopy heads keep a goshdarn civil tongue.
[As they say on Monty Python, "I like the dirty version better. ]
Uncle Smokes |
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08.26.06 - 10:13 am | #
Months after the GOP U.S. Senate candidate pledged to use her millions in the race, she has yet to ante up.
She's now saving it for the Post "Destroyed in the Election and Kicked to the Curb" Makeover that she's gonna need.
Supreme Commander Thor |
08.26.06 - 10:13 am | #
cs - no sound card
Transcript:
Hitch: Iran crazy.
Maher: Bush also crazy.
Audience: Clap-clap.
Hitch (to audience): Fuck you.
R. McGeddon |
08.26.06 - 10:13 am | #
Anyone who counts The Coultergeist as a friend is suspect to begin with.
BlakNo1 |
08.26.06 - 10:15 am | #
and Maher said something to the effect, "So your solution is to kill them all," and then cut Hitches off by going to something else.
As much as people like Hitchy talk like that, it would be impossible to do and certainly wouldn't solve anything. That they can't understand that makes them even bigger fools. But it sounds macho man good and is much easier than actually getting to the root of the problem.
Self-serving neanderthals shouldn't be in charge of foreign policy.
pie |
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08.26.06 - 10:15 am | #
Like Hitchens, I remain outraged and appalled by the comparisons between the Unitard™ and der Führer.
Hitler served in the military with distinction-- and could read, write, and orate.
Little Brøther |
08.26.06 - 10:15 am | #
Woo! That massive thread fragmentation had me going there!
plantsman, lowercase |
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08.26.06 - 10:16 am | #
It's a race between Jesus and the 14th Iman. Who will get to kick the shit out of the world first?
Lime Rickey |
08.26.06 - 10:16 am | #
R. McGeddon -- Thanx. Cuz actually listening to Hitchens is nails on chalkboards to me.
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cs, art is bread |
08.26.06 - 10:18 am | #
The scary thing is, statistically, if every decision made by this Administration had been arrived at by flipping a penny, more of them would have been right.
plantsman, lowercase |
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08.26.06 - 10:18 am | #
Hitler served in the military with distinction-- and could read, write, and orate.
Little Brøther
"He could paint an entire apartment in ONE afternoon! TWO coats!"
-- Franz Liebkind (Kenneth Mars), The Producers
Uncle Smokes |
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08.26.06 - 10:18 am | #
And don't forget, Afghanistan is going swimmingly.
ql in ny |
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08.26.06 - 10:19 am | #
Like Hitchens, I remain outraged and appalled by the comparisons between the Unitard™ and der Führer.
Hitler served in the military with distinction-- and could read, write, and orate.
Maher brought that up on his show a couple of times, saying Hitler was a war hero and elected by popular majority, so Bush couldn't be like him. He didn't throw that back at The Hitch, however.
Supreme Commander Thor |
08.26.06 - 10:20 am | #
Who knew?
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MisterX |
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08.26.06 - 10:20 am | #
A drunken asshole starts cursing?
Who knew?
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MisterX |
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08.26.06 - 10:20 am | #
The best part of Bill Maher's show is the introduction.
Markos certainly didn't come off as a virulent counterweight to Rove, did he...
noblejoanie |
08.26.06 - 10:20 am | #
Damn! Sometimes I hate it when the topic moves on before I am done bitching. I am still seething over insurance companies and we are talking about fools being fools.
But then again, I do appreciate the place so I will quit bitching.
DWD -One Eye Good |
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08.26.06 - 10:21 am | #
Anyone who counts The Coultergeist as a friend is suspect to begin with.
I thought that they were just "fuck-buddies".
And they're both stand-up comedians...
Zap Rowsdower |
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08.26.06 - 10:21 am | #
Anyone who counts The Coultergeist as a friend is suspect to begin with.
I thought that they were just "fuck-buddies".
And they're both stand-up comedians...
Zap Rowsdower |
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08.26.06 - 10:21 am | #
And don't forget, Afghanistan is going swimmingly.
Yeah. How could Ann have missed the news about the resurgent Taliban? Too busy oogling Atlas" Juggs?
plantsman, lowercase |
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08.26.06 - 10:21 am | #
Um, Atrios? Rhythm and pace.
noblejoanie |
08.26.06 - 10:22 am | #
Maher also didn't call him on his bullshit claim that al-Zarqawi was allied with Saddam.
Yeah, he called him on it by saying "no he wasn't" but he didn't put all the facts out there - the ones about how we had at least 3 clear chances to take out al-Zarqawi before the invasion, and passed on all of them, because his presence in the part of Iraq NOT under Saddam's control was being used as an excuse for war by the Bush administration.
Maher is useless.
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08.26.06 - 10:23 am | #
Hitch looks more scrubbed and presentable than usual, however. The station must have brought in a team from Service Corporation International to work on him.
R. McGeddon |
08.26.06 - 10:23 am | #
General, if you are around: excellent use of juxtaposition. Very sad. Very
DWD -One Eye Good |
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08.26.06 - 10:24 am | #
Anybody else hear the GOP dude challenging Linc Chafee in RI tell Tweety that Sen. Tom Coburn is one of the Senators he admires most? Tweety was fellating him for talking fast.
plantsman, lowercase |
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08.26.06 - 10:24 am | #
And don't forget, Afghanistan is going swimmingly.
ql in ny
Hey, Vicki! It's a back-to-bed kind of day.
plantsman, lowercase |
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08.26.06 - 10:27 am | #
How about a repost about those fun-loving Frist boys in a recent Time article about legacies:
WHO HAS BEEN USING THIS IVY-LEAGUE BACK DOOR?
Lots of people. Take the example of Harrison Frist, the oldest son of [Senate majority leader] Bill Frist. His father is a Princeton alumnus and a very powerful politician. The family has given $25 million for Princeton's Frist Campus Center. Harrison wasn't in the Cum Laude Society, which is the top 20% of students at his prep school, St. Albans, but my research indicated that Princeton considered Harrison a very high priority for admission. [A Princeton spokesman says Frist was accepted on his own merit.]
HOW DID HE DO WHEN HE GOT TO PRINCETON?
He joined an eating club that is kind of notorious for rambunctiousness and was eventually arrested for drunk driving. He graduated this year but without academic honors. Now Harrison's youngest brother was just admitted to Princeton. He's entering in the fall. And he wasn't in the Cum Laude Society at St. Albans either. [The Frist family declined to comment.]
AND YET BILL FRIST OPPOSES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.
I think it suggests that he's glad to take advantage of one type of affirmative action for his own family while opposing it for people of a different race or of lesser means.
He's glad to send other people's children to die in Bush's war, too.
What a guy.
pie |
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08.26.06 - 10:27 am | #
Maher also didn't call him on his bullshit claim that al-Zarqawi was allied with Saddam.
Maher was very weak last night. He could have given Hitchens a real curb stomping last night and didn't, which really pissed me off. The Hitch needed to be put in his place.
Supreme Commander Thor |
08.26.06 - 10:27 am | #
Somebody must've watered down the scotch in the green room.
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08.26.06 - 10:28 am | #
plantsman,
Would that I could go back to bed. Shi-ite and key-riste, today is a busy day for me. Sis is in the hospital, need to see her...gotta come up with a dish to pass for a pig roast, need to walk 4 miles, clean the house, and head over to the farmers market. And hopefully Nim helps me install a wireless router on the computer.
Feh.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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08.26.06 - 10:28 am | #
plantsman, lowercase -- I saw that. Tweety carrying on about who has "juice" and who doesn't -- juice, I guess, meaning that talking loud and fast equals passion to Tweety, I guess. Who cares what they say? It's the speed and the volume that counts.
Idjit.
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cs, art is bread |
08.26.06 - 10:28 am | #
Maher brought that up on his show a couple of times, saying Hitler was a war hero and elected by popular majority, so Bush couldn't be like him.
Another zombie lie that won't die. How many times do I have to remind you people? Hitler was NOT elected by a majority.
Karin |
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08.26.06 - 10:29 am | #
Vicki, what's the matter with your sister?
pie |
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08.26.06 - 10:29 am | #
I have never heard such language! Never! That was outrageous! What if there were a truck driver watching that? Can you imagine how traumatic that would have been to see such foul gestures and hear such foul language........ geez. I sure am glad the people who post here have the decency not to use such language.
pigboy |
08.26.06 - 10:30 am | #
Any finished food at the Farmer's Market, Vicki?
/just a thought
plantsman, lowercase |
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08.26.06 - 10:30 am | #
I sure am glad the people who post here have the decency not to use such language.
Fuckin' A, Bubba.
Supreme Commander Thor |
08.26.06 - 10:30 am | #
Bill Maher isn't even that funny. And he likes Ann Coulter, who, in my opinion, should be shunned from every media source in the country for her vile, over-the-top, vicious, fallacious statements.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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08.26.06 - 10:30 am | #
For a quick laugh, call Allen's office and ask for Macaca. They go balistic!
db |
08.26.06 - 10:31 am | #
WATERTIGER!
res ipsa loquitur |
08.26.06 - 10:31 am | #
For a quick laugh, call Allen's office and ask for Macaca. They go balistic!
I sure am glad the people who post here have the decency not to use such language.
Fuckin' A, Bubba.
Supreme Commander Thor | 08.26.06 - 10:30 am | #
right fuckin on........
pigboy |
08.26.06 - 10:33 am | #
"Curb Stomping" American History X!
plantsman, lowercase |
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08.26.06 - 10:33 am | #
pie,
She was in a car accident two years ago on my dad's birthday. She was injured. She had a broken foot (along with several other things), but they didn't catch that the foot was broken until it had started to fuse together. It was dislocated, and she hasn't been able to get around very well for two years. So yesterday, the doctors rebroke her foot to set it correctly and rewired some ligaments and tendons to help her walk better.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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08.26.06 - 10:33 am | #
Oooooooo. Helloscan is being very bad today.
pie |
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08.26.06 - 10:33 am | #
Best to your sister, Vicki.
Now I need to get out before the heat blasts us back in.
Ruth |
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08.26.06 - 10:33 am | #
A post over at DKos says Allen bailed on an appearance because of protesters the other day. The stormtroopers were out when most of the whole state-wide Dem ticket was in our county week and not one candidate ran away. Jeesh . . .
cs, art is bread |
08.26.06 - 10:34 am | #
Oooooooo. Helloscan is being very bad today.
I finally had to close my browser and reopen it to chill out Helloscan.
Supreme Commander Thor |
08.26.06 - 10:34 am | #
That sucks. Hope she has a full recovery.
pie |
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08.26.06 - 10:35 am | #
And then, an hour later, someone should call and say, "This is Macaca. Did anyone leave any messages for me?"
Sir, I should like to volunteer for that duty.
res ipsa loquitur |
08.26.06 - 10:35 am | #
OT:
Doughy Pantload has managed to piss off a rather important group of people...farmers.
Zap Rowsdower |
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08.26.06 - 10:35 am | #
Vicki, just plop a block of Spam straight from the can into the broiler. Serve it with a garnish of toothpicks that spell out, "Kiss my ass, I'm busy."
[Hope your Sis is going to be okay.]
Uncle Smokes |
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08.26.06 - 10:35 am | #
plantsman,
I think I'll just bake a peach pie. Perfect time of the year for one of those.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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08.26.06 - 10:35 am | #
Someone should tape the calls of Allen's office going ballistic. Then put the audio up on the internets.
res ipsa loquitur |
08.26.06 - 10:35 am | #
Hitler was NOT elected by a majority.
Karin
Somehow that doesn't make me feel any better.
Brooklyn Girl |
08.26.06 - 10:35 am | #
Peach pie sounds heavenly!
plantsman, lowercase |
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08.26.06 - 10:36 am | #
(August 25, 2006 -- 11:28 PM EST // link)
Remember the "we'll stand down as they stand up" strategy? It needs some work:
Iraqis looted a military base vacated by British troops and stripped it of virtually everything removable on Friday, an indication of possible future trouble for U.S.-led coalition forces hoping to hand over security gradually to the Iraqi government.
Men, some with their faces covered, ripped corrugated metal from roofs, carried off metal pipes and backed trucks into building entrances to load them with wooden planks. Many also took away doors and window frames from Camp Abu Naji.
"The British forces left Abu Naji and the locals started looting everything," 1st Lt. Rifaat Taha Yaseen of the Iraqi Army's 10th Division told Associated Press Television News. "They took everything from the buildings."
Doughy Pantload has managed to piss off a rather important group of people...farmers.
That's okay. It's not like Jonah the Whale has to like eat, or anything. So fuck 'em.
Supreme Commander Thor |
08.26.06 - 10:36 am | #
So yesterday, the doctors rebroke her foot to set it correctly and rewired some ligaments and tendons to help her walk better.
Ouch.
Hope all goes well for your sis and she has a speedy recovery.
Toonscribe, 25% more blognuts |
08.26.06 - 10:36 am | #
"I sure am glad the people who post here have the decency not to use such language."
Tena, white courtesy phone!
Where the hell are you, girlfriend?
noblejoanie |
08.26.06 - 10:36 am | #
Hitchens puts the ass back into asshat!
melior |
08.26.06 - 10:37 am | #
Christopher Hitchins is a walking, talking bottle of Johnny Walker Black.
The Dancing Cavalier |
08.26.06 - 10:37 am | #
If you run across an article entitled, "I am Macaca", give it a read. Powerful Stuff. Sidarth is nobody's fool.
plantsman, lowercase |
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08.26.06 - 10:37 am | #
Well, I better mosey on.
Fight the good fight, and have a great day!
I'll be on in the evening, probably.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
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08.26.06 - 10:37 am | #
So yesterday, the doctors rebroke her foot to set it correctly and rewired some ligaments and tendons to help her walk better.
Ouch.
Hope all goes well for your sis and she has a speedy recovery.
Toonscribe, 25% more blognuts | 08.26.06 - 10:36 am | #
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Me too. It sound like it won't be any fun for a while.
pigboy |
08.26.06 - 10:38 am | #
Heh, my battery does not need to be replaced.
ql in ny |
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08.26.06 - 10:38 am | #
I've got a bunch of peaches and I'm thinking about making pie also. Or more like an open face peach tart.
Karin |
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08.26.06 - 10:38 am | #
Uncle Smokes--now that's an amusing suggestion. Although I was going to suggest German potato salad.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
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08.26.06 - 10:38 am | #
"The British forces left Abu Naji and the locals started looting everything," 1st Lt. Rifaat Taha Yaseen of the Iraqi Army's 10th Division told Associated Press Television News. "They took everything from the buildings."
Democracy means people are free to do bad things.
Lime Rickey |
08.26.06 - 10:38 am | #
Heh, my battery does not need to be replaced.
Tell Dell you need to have it replaced anyway, then keep the old one when they send you the replacement.
Supreme Commander Thor |
08.26.06 - 10:39 am | #
It means when we leave Iraq, all our ramshackle shit will get torn down pronto.
plantsman, lowercase |
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08.26.06 - 10:40 am | #
Democracy means people are free to do bad things.
Lime Rickey | 08.26.06 - 10:38 am | #
Oh yeah! I forgot about that and that would be the perfect reply to shrubs, 'well down when they stand up'
pigboy |
08.26.06 - 10:40 am | #
Wouldn't it be a shame if Hitchens got a sort of unofficial ban from all teevee after that little stunt?
res ipsa loquitur |
08.26.06 - 10:40 am | #
Oooooooo. Helloscan is being very bad today.
pie
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Every post is a square dance of Type, Copy to Clipboard, Preview--Bad Request, Paste, Preview--Page Not Found, Paste, Preview, Post--You Already Said That, Curse, Paste, Preview, Post, and Do-Si-Do.
Aftewards, only then you realize that you misspelled the word "fuck."
Uncle Smokes |
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08.26.06 - 10:41 am | #
Yup. Category 3 by Thursday. Centerline near NOLA. Damn.
plantsman, lowercase |
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08.26.06 - 10:42 am | #
The Dancing Cavalier
"Singing in the Rain" ... one of my all-time faves!
Brooklyn Girl |
08.26.06 - 10:42 am | #
Tell Dell you need to have it replaced anyway, then keep the old one when they send you the replacement.
You can always use it as a fireplace starter this winter.
melior |
08.26.06 - 10:42 am | #
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Every post is a square dance of Type, Copy to Clipboard, Preview--Bad Request, Paste, Preview--Page Not Found, Paste, Preview, Post--You Already Said That, Curse, Paste, Preview, Post, and Do-Si-Do.
Aftewards, only then you realize that you misspelled the word "fuck."
The best critique of the monster that I've ever seen.
pie |
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08.26.06 - 10:44 am | #
It's a hoot Coultergeist walked off Fox! Insuuficient deference being paid her, like she ever earned it!
plantsman, lowercase |
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08.26.06 - 10:44 am | #
Republican Sen. John McCain said Friday he supports the U.S. mission in Iraq days after faulting the Bush administration for misleading Americans into believing it would be "some kind of day at the beach."
The potential 2008 presidential candidate and staunch war supporter issued a statement explaining his position after his headline-grabbing comments criticizing the Bush administration.
"I have never intended my concern that the American people be fully informed about the conduct and consequences of the war to indicate any lessening of my support for our mission there," McCain said in the statement.
here's the end to an online obit from an old friend re: her mom
No flowers, no service. Donations may be sent to any organization working to defeat George Bush & his ilk, and / or defend the Constitution.
el |
08.26.06 - 10:45 am | #
Zap. Hold that for 2008. St. John can't decide which side of his mouth to talk out of!
plantsman, lowercase |
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08.26.06 - 10:46 am | #
I am a bad man...
Uncle Smokes |
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08.26.06 - 10:47 am | #
Perhaps one day McCain will explain what "our mission" in Iraq was to begin with. I'm not holding my breath.
ronjazz |
08.26.06 - 10:48 am | #
It's a hoot Coultergeist walked off Fox! Insuuficient deference being paid her, like she ever earned it!
I just saw this at MSNBC TV in its Beat the Press section:
• Sympathy for Coulter?
Aug. 25: What happened to Ann Coulter on Fox's Hannity and Colmes just might make you feel bad for her.
Actually, it doesn't.
pie |
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08.26.06 - 10:50 am | #
McCain sucked every dink dick in the Hanoi Hilton. And that stuff about his being offered prisoner exchange is total bullshit.
Pt. Adm. Tim Finnegan |
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08.26.06 - 10:50 am | #
I've been watching it for a couple of days now. It is entirely possible that it could hit NO as a cat 3+ hurricane pretty much exactly on the anniversary of Katrina. The current forecast track would take it to the west of NO, but not by much.
blerb |
08.26.06 - 10:50 am | #
And that stuff about his being offered prisoner exchange is total bullshit.
Let's not go there.
pie |
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08.26.06 - 10:51 am | #
You mean Bill "I Love Being On The Side Of My President" Maher?
Blech. I hope him and Hitch are very happy together.
I did not know this about him. It's funny how many otherwise reasonable people get this way about the subject of Israel. Such is the corrosive force of nationalism.
blerb |
08.26.06 - 10:55 am | #
Aug. 25: What happened to Ann Coulter on Fox's Hannity and Colmes just might make you feel bad for her.
Yeah, right. Coulter can dish it out like the Red Queen, but takes it like Little Boots.
billy b -blues boy |
08.26.06 - 11:01 am | #
Shouldn't it be "Greenspanish olives?"
Little Brøther |
08.26.06 - 11:17 am | #
That's assault and the audience members should file charges.
owlbear1 |
08.26.06 - 12:10 pm | #
"he was in top form"
What? He didn't look drunk.
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J Edgar |
08.26.06 - 12:31 pm | #
Did Hitchens leave the stage before the end? It looked like when Mahar was doing New Rules, only Max Cleland was left--laughing his ass off too. He looked like he was realy enjoying himself as opposed to stick-up-his-ass Hitchens.
Cookie Guggleman |
08.26.06 - 12:35 pm | #
Hitchens is a drooling drunken phoney and it shows that he knows it.
Toon Town |
08.26.06 - 1:07 pm | #
Maher would be a lot better if he could disenthrall himself from the idea that right-wing loonies contribute "balance."
I appreciate that he doesn't want 50 straight minutes of Bush-bashing, however deserved; it wouldn't be very entertaining. And I expect that they really do make an effort to find articulate, intelligent people to represent the conservative cause.
But here's the thing: I've been watching his talk shows since he's been having them. And after a few months of watching him try to offer conservative "balance" on his first show (on Comedy Central) with one blithering jackass after another, and wondering why he never had any good conservatives--with the at-least-arguably sensible ideas, and thoughts that hadn't originated from a list of RNC talking points--I realized: Maher and his bookers were doing the best they could.
He's had, over the years, his pick of the most presentable pundits the Right has to offer, and really has not tried to embarrass them or show them in a bad light (other than having them defend their ideas with people who disagree with them). How they come off is entirely under their control.
And the representatives of the Right invariably manage to come off as twits.
The take-away message is that the Right's best and brightest, who pass among conservatives as intellectuals--can't think their way out of a wet paper sack (among other personal problems). As with Hitchens and Coulter, they tend to confuse reason with bombast.
Molly, NYC |
08.26.06 - 2:14 pm | #
I think that those of you saying that Maher is a right-winger or a Republican in disguise need to take a step back. He agrees with at LEAST 90% of the curernt Democratic party line. So, because he disagrees on 10% (or less), he's a right-winger? You guys are no different than those on the right calling John McCain a RINO.
sleestak |
08.26.06 - 3:16 pm | #
Ever notice how googley-eyed Hitchens gets when he tells the big lies about Iraq. You can almost hear his brain switch from gray matter to white matter. I'd love to play poker with that gin-soaked, talking turd.
Marc, Sacramento |
08.26.06 - 5:15 pm | #
If Bill Maher has him back, yet again, then I take it he is joining Hitchens in saying a big "fuck you" to his audience.
Maher should have apologized for Hitchen's gesture and language.
Too bad someone from the audience didn't jump onstage, break off that finger and shove it down hitch's gin-drenched throat.
Tim |
08.26.06 - 10:24 pm | #