Bill Maher nails Romney on Larry King

[_Coggins7]

Read the entire article. Fox is still the leader on cable news, and CNN is only barely keeping pace with average viewership. much of CNN's present numbers, if you will read the article, are based upon people who are channel surfing from station to station and stopping at CNN periodically. That inflates the numbers. Check out where CNN resides in the ratings when put into competition not only with FOX, CNBC, and MSNBC but with CBS, ABC, and NBC. They've been near the bottom forever.

But who cares. They're coverage is legendary for its self censorship, politicization, and intellectual fluffiness, but that only puts it in the same class with all the other members of the old media.

[_JAK]

Read the entire article. Fox is still the leader on cable news, and CNN is only barely keeping pace with average viewership. much of CNN's present numbers, if you will read the article, are based upon people who are channel surfing from station to station and stopping at CNN periodically. That inflates the numbers. Check out where CNN resides in the ratings when put into competition not only with FOX, CNBC, and MSNBC but with CBS, ABC, and NBC. They've been near the bottom forever.

But who cares. They're coverage is legendary for its self censorship, politicization, and intellectual fluffiness, but that only puts it in the same class with all the other members of the old media.

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JAK

[_Boaz & Lidia]

I never claimed Maher was ignorant, I only claim that he's an butthole.

The man hates children, and sees marriage as a refuge for insecure liars who are co-dependent.

Wow, he has much in common with Hinckley and Monson!

[_guy sajer]

Mr. Marher is, not to put too fine a point on it, an airhead; one of the most uneducated and uninformed pundits on the American scene. That he is a left wing airhead makes him all the more grating, as this ideology gives him an ethical freedom similar conservatives do not, as a general rule, enjoy.

Maher will not be remembered as anyone of any importance, unlike President Hinkley.

Maher can be funny, but he is also badly misinformed on numerous issues. He doesn't "call it like it is," he calls it like he sees it, which is often wrong, or at least highly questionable.

As for Hinkley, hate to break it to you Cogs, but it's hard either to remember or not remember someone who you've never ever given any thought to. Hinkley was an abscure leader of an obscure religion. Outside of the faithful, few will ever think of him, fewer still ever even thought of him.

[_guy sajer]

Maher tends to insult people who are religious . . . .

Many of whom so richly deserve it.

The inflated pompousness of the religious self-righteous is just begging to get pricked.

[_Tarski]

You want quotations? Look up the idiotic statements regarding politics, social issues, and religion over the years yourself. The Web is chock full of them.

Give examples!
Is it that he calls religion on its BS? Is it that he thinks that pot smokers don't belong in prison? Maybe

(I suspect that your political and social opinions would sound more idiotic to me)


“When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they’re talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.”--Bill Maher

"I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.”-Bill Maher

[_dartagnan]

Hey Tarski, good to see you back.

I always thought of Bill Maher as a Dennis Miller wannabe. No matter how hard he tries, he simply isn't as smart nor is h as funny as Miller.

"I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.”-Bill Maher

That wasn't a faith-based decision so much as it was political. Those idiots out there really do believe they are at war with us and the US presence in the gulf threatens their way of life. I don't understand what standard Maher is tryingto use in order to prove religion is a neurological disorder.

Maher and I are on the same page when it comes to political correctness and multiculturalism. His stock went up with me when he rejected the 9-11 conspiracy theorists too. But he comes across as too arrogant in his anti-religion rants, and he always invites these obscure entertainment figures (From Merl Haggard to Janeane Garafalo) who are experts in nothing, to participate in and support his little rants. Then he'll pick maybe one person from the opposing view to come on his show, so he/she will get gang banged by Maher and his posse of left-wing freakazoids.

[_Dr. Shades]

What's the title of this thread, again? "Bill Maher nails Romney on Larry King?"

Wow. I didn't know any of them were bisexual, much less that they had a threesome.

[_Sethbag]

For what it's worth, when I was still a believer I tended to dislike Maher because he attacks religiosity. Now that I'm on the same page with him vis a vis religion, I think he's brilliant.

He may or may not be right in how he sees every little thing he discusses. I don't know. But I've seen him discuss quite a few things, and I thought his insight was spot on. I guess someone would have to provide some good examples of things Bill Maher has talked about and with which I totally disagree with him on. Pretty much all or most of the clips I've seen from him I actually agreed with him on, and thought he laid it all out and cut through the BS.

As far as a comparison between Maher and Colbert and Miller, I think that Colbert and Miller are funny and insightful guys in their own right, but that they are more focused on the comedy show aspect of it. Maher is funny too, but he's not trying to be funny in that Colbert way. Maher's job is entertainment, but he tries to entertain while having as serious of discussions as can be had in a TV interview show format.

As far as religion goes, I think Maher hits it out of the park.

[_dartagnan]

Maher is a bigot if there ever was one.

He loves to drag onto his show religionists so he can pummel them, but on occassion it backfires.

I remember a few years ago on his show he was saying we should just kill people who were living in hospitals as vegetables, and he was criticizing Christians who were defending their rights to remain alive. Maher got in one guy's face, started screaming passionately, thinking the crowd was on his side:

"Who are you to sit there in all your arrogance to tell me this vegetable of a person is working out crossword puzzles in his head"?

The Christian, quickly, but calmly responded: "Who are you to say he isn't"?

The crowd roared and Bill slunk back into his chair with a pissed off look.