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Maher: ‘This is the week Mitt Romney lost the election’
Because of his reaction to the crisis in the Middle East, Bill Maher said Friday, “I think this is the week Mitt Romney lost the election.” Romney’s much-derided remarks falsely criticizing the Obama administration made the GOP presidential candidate look “small,” Maher said, in much the same way Rep. John…
Christine O’Donnell claims on Bill Maher that she ‘didn’t approve’ the witch ad
Two years ago, Bill Maher stood in front of his audience and dared a former guest — Christine O’Donnell, then the upstart, tea-party-backed candidate for Senator in Delaware — to come back on his show. And, if she didn’t, he promised to release a clip a week of her appearances.…
Maher’s new rule for Republicans: admit Bush presidency happened
According to Bill Maher, Republicans have found a new thing they’re eager to deny ever existed: the presidency of George W. Bush. On his show Friday, Maher said that Republicans, in addition to denying such concepts as evolution and global warming, are now trying to pretend that there was no…
Dinesh D’Souza tells Bill Maher: Obama has sublimated ‘Charles Bronson’ rage
On the circuit pimping his new documentary The Roots of Obama’s Rage –because, as we all know, African-Americans are full of rage– conservative commentator and wingnut welfare recipient Dinesh D’Souza appeared as the leading guest on this week’s episode of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. During the interview, Maher…
Bill Maher: Is the GOP made up of ‘magical thinkers’ who mistake ‘superstition for science’?
HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher ended this Friday night episode with a “New Rules” segment that argued that Republicans positioned issues so that they were easily understood by “children” instead of an epistemology understood by adult, critical thinkers. The grown-up answer to our massive national problems is “Identify them…
Bill Maher: ‘Republicans don’t like it when single women have sex’
On Friday night’s episode of HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher took Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin to task. Maher’s guests predictably denounced Todd Akin’s idiotic statement that “women don’t get pregnant from legitimate rape.” But it was host Maher who made clear the link between Akin’s mouth-diarrhea and Republican…
We Are All Hillbillies Now
I blame sportscasters, mostly. As the dumbing down of intellectual discourse in the U.S. continues to occur, the era is marked by certain characteristic grammatical mistakes. Solecisms which would have been corrected by style-mongers, or by proofreaders, in even the recent past, now go on to become the default standards…
Bill Maher: RNC’s ‘He Tried’ ad has subtle racist message
Friday night, on the season premiere of Bill Maher’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher and his panel of guests argued over whether a new ad by the RNC entitled “He Tried, You Tried,” is subtly pushing a racist message to viewers. The ad, which Maher rolled at…
Maher calls Obama a ‘dismal failure and a liar’ over drug policy
HBO’s Bill Maher on Tuesday blasted President Barack Obama over his administration’s decision to ramp up prosecutions of medical marijuana dispensaries. “This is one place where Obama has been such a dismal failure and a liar,” Maher said during an interview with The Huffington Post’s new HuffPost Live video streaming…
Bill Maher defends racism charge from Allen West
On Friday night’s episode of “Real Time,” host Bill Maher –and a panel that included Amy Goodman, Lizz Winstead, Fareed Zakaria and California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsome– discussed backlash from a column Maher wrote recently that compared the modern-day Republican Party to “The Rise of the Planet of the Apes.”…
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