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Montgomery 
"F**k!"
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 Posted - 02/16/2007 : 22:57:35
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Bill Maher's back on tonight. Everything is right with the world again. Wooooooooohooooooo!
EM :) |
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 02/17/2007 : 03:55:42
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Montgomery
"F**k!"
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Posted - 02/19/2007 : 04:28:55
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Originally posted by wildhartlivie
It's the little things...
Exactly. 
EM :)
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Cheese_Ed 
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 02/19/2007 : 04:56:13
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Montgomery
"F**k!"
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Posted - 02/19/2007 : 15:42:22
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Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
He is quite little, actually.
Are you speaking from personal knowledge?
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Shiv 
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 02/21/2007 : 11:49:58
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Originally posted by Montgomery
Bill Maher's back on tonight. Everything is right with the world again. Wooooooooohooooooo!
EM :)
I just checked out his website and I hope I get to see his show in Australia at some point. I don't have cable/satellite so he may be available over here, I don't know. How does his show compare with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart? Same kind of format? I like that show. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 02/21/2007 : 12:54:04
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Originally posted by Shiv
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Originally posted by Montgomery
Bill Maher's back on tonight. Everything is right with the world again. Wooooooooohooooooo!
EM :)
I just checked out his website and I hope I get to see his show in Australia at some point. I don't have cable/satellite so he may be available over here, I don't know. How does his show compare with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart? Same kind of format? I like that show.
Maher can be funny, and he does do mostly political humour. Maher, however, can make people upset - he speaks his mind and doesn't care what side of the political map you're on.
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Cheese_Ed
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 02/21/2007 : 14:04:16
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Originally posted by Montgomery
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Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
He is quite little, actually.
Are you speaking from personal knowledge?
EM :)
Yes, I saw him in a bar one time - he's about 5' nothin'. |
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Shiv
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 02/22/2007 : 00:16:01
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
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Originally posted by Shiv
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Originally posted by Montgomery
Bill Maher's back on tonight. Everything is right with the world again. Wooooooooohooooooo!
EM :)
I just checked out his website and I hope I get to see his show in Australia at some point. I don't have cable/satellite so he may be available over here, I don't know. How does his show compare with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart? Same kind of format? I like that show.
Maher can be funny, and he does do mostly political humour. Maher, however, can make people upset - he speaks his mind and doesn't care what side of the political map you're on.
Sounds like he's what the US needs at the moment. Sorry for commenting on a country I've only ever visited, but when I saw Maher's name for George Dubya, 'President Albatross', I thought at least its a label that that the rest of the world can understand from just watching the news. My ex-country of citizenship, the UK, has a Prime Minister Albatross.
Australia's fearless leader is a different matter. I don't agree with his politics, but the majority of the country do. Australia has compulsory voting, which I believe is the correct thing, although others would say 'what about political and personal freedom'. I call that political abstinence.
There are some different issues with State voting members of parliament, but for Federal - while of course there is never 100% turnout - you can't argue that the most popular choice didn't get in. What's good, though, is the informality and irreverance with which the political pundits (comic or otherwise) treat all elected politicans and the good humour with which they take it. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 02/22/2007 : 06:24:18
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Do not make a mistake. That he's calling Bush 'President Albatross' today, doesn't mean that he was against him from the start. The guy can jump the fence. He is, essentially, a conservative - where Jon Stewart is more liberal. But he also isn't afraid to say "I was wrong, this isn't what I thought it would be".
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Shiv
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 02/22/2007 : 15:51:50
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Do not make a mistake. That he's calling Bush 'President Albatross' today, doesn't mean that he was against him from the start. The guy can jump the fence. He is, essentially, a conservative - where Jon Stewart is more liberal. But he also isn't afraid to say "I was wrong, this isn't what I thought it would be".
Curioser and curioser - yes I hope to check his show out some time. |
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Montgomery
"F**k!"
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Posted - 02/22/2007 : 18:03:46
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Do not make a mistake. That he's calling Bush 'President Albatross' today, doesn't mean that he was against him from the start. The guy can jump the fence. He is, essentially, a conservative - where Jon Stewart is more liberal. But he also isn't afraid to say "I was wrong, this isn't what I thought it would be".
This is true. I think he was more conservative. But he really has a problem with the way the current administration has pandered to the Religious Right. Mr. Maher is atheist. And thinks all religions are a bunch of hoooey. I don't agree with him there. But I do believe in separation of church and state, which has not been the case for the last 6 + years in our country.
He also does admit when he realizes he was on the wrong side of an issue. I respect him for that.
And he's funny.
The show format is not like the Jon Stewart format. It is more a bunch of people around a table discussing issues, lead by Bill. He gets a variety of folks with differing opinions to keep it very interesting. Then he closes each show with New Rules, which are his funny and no holds barred view on issues worded as rules the world should follow.
I will go find last week's and post it in a second or two.
EM :)
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Montgomery
"F**k!"
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Posted - 02/22/2007 : 18:05:37
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And now it is time for New Rules. That's right. New Rules. [slide of Rev. Ted Haggard]
Oh, and there he is, Ted Haggard. Well, you can't make a gay man 100% straight in less than a month, especially if that month contains Fashion Week. A month to change your sexuality? I spent longer than that on hold trying to quit AOL! Guys like Ted Haggard can't just claim to be cured of homosexuality. They should be forced to blow into some sort of "Dickalyzer."
FERGUSON: Why was there a picture of me when you said, "Dickalyzer?" Why?!
MAHER: Because--
FERGUSON: Am I a Dickalyzer to you?! Suddenly, I'm the Dickalyzer! Kids are going to call me that on the street!
MAHER: I'm -- I'm trying to get you're your citizenship.
FERGUSON: Oh, all right.
New Rule: Don't tell me these skeletons are romantic because they're cuddling. This isn't what everlasting love looks like. It's just what it feels like. For all we know, these two are just the Neolithic Olsen twins.
New Rule: Activists have to stop preying on my liberal sympathies outside of Whole Foods. I know my signature is vital to the anti-war movement, clean needle programs, music in schools, a free Tibet, and the fight against autism in gay polar bears...But I just need some hummus and a can of pinto beans. For $37.00. And if you're going to keep shoving clipboards in my assistant's face, how is she going to do my shopping?!
New Rule: Members of Congress have to stop referring to the other party as their "friend from the other side of the aisle." Please, you're a Republican from Mississippi; he's Barney Frank. You two aren't friends. You're a reality show on Fox. In the future, just be a man about it and say, "I yield back my time to that little shit from North Carolina who won't shut up about Nancy Pelosi's plane."
And finally, New Rule: There's more to being smart than just not misspeaking. A couple of weeks ago, Senator Joe Biden's presidential campaign hit the ground flopping when he described Barack Obama as "articulate and clean." But if you think he's a racist, you're just playing "gotcha." Yes, the remark was cringe-worthy. It always is when someone old and out of touch says something creepy. Even a Chinaman knows that!
However, when it comes to the most important issue of the day, it was this same Joe Biden who recognized first that Iraq was going to end up three countries, and that that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. And I agree. So what if Iraq gets broken up. It's a made-up country anyway. There's only been an Iraq since 1932. It's seven years younger than Paul Newman.
So, the guy who gets it on the big issue of the day, he can't run because he said a black man was "clean." And we care more about a one-second verbal brain fart than we do about who has the right answers.
Howard Dean has been a virtual Nostradamus on predicting what would happen in Iraq from the beginning, but he can't be president because he once shouted, "Yee-haw!"-- two decibels above what we, as Americans, know to be the appropriate level for "Yee-haw!" He's out. He screamed louder than the crowd screaming at him. And the media acted like grandpa just yelled out the "n" word at a ballgame.
John Kerry just botched a joke. But it was about the troops. [does falsetto gasp] So John Kerry, another guy who gets it about how to fight terrorism, he has to go away. Which I'm actually okay with, because watching him run again would be like watching Rex Grossman play another Super Bowl.
This is why I say every candidate must come out now and say or do the stupidest thing they possibly can, and get it out of the way! Hillary Clinton must mispronounce South Carolina, "Mouth Vagina." Barack Obama must tell people he's - quote - "bigger than Jesus."
Mitt Romney must pledge allegiance to the "fag." Rudy Giuliani has to declare at a press conference that he's cheating on his wife, but it's okay because he's undergoing cancer treatment and he can't get an erection anyway... Oh, he did? My bad.
So, does this mean that Joe Biden or Howard Dean should automatically be president? Of course not. But next time some real nasty shit happens to this country, remember, it might have something to do with our election process having turned into an episode of "Survivor."
And by the way, if we're going to choose our presidents by which one never misspeaks, how did we end up with the chimp we have now?!
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Shiv
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 02/24/2007 : 02:46:51
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Originally posted by Montgomery
New Rules Bill Maher
And by the way, if we're going to choose our presidents by which one never misspeaks, how did we end up with the chimp we have now?!
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Hooooray!
