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Bill Maher goes off on chick vs. slasher flicks, postage on tax returns, airline customer service, papal dress, corporate takeovers and how Barack Obama’s “bitter” comments are not as elitist as John McCain would like you to believe.
Referring to voters who America has left behind economically as “bitter” isn’t an insult. In fact, it’s a compliment, acknowledging that they’re smart enough to understand what’s happening to them. The hopeful, now those are some idiots. So let’s separate the bitter – my people – from the idiots. If you think the Democrats are going to take away your Bible, you’re an idiot. If you think they’re going to take away your gun, you’re an armed idiot. And if you think they’re going to take away your gun and give it to a Mexican to kill your God, you’re Bill O’Reilly.
Heather also has Bill’s interview with Chris Matthews up at YouTube.
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It’s not the “bitter,” it’s the “cling to.”
Jeebus, Kool-aid must kill brain cells.
I just can’t believe anyone is attempting to deny that Republicans exploit fear and racial and religious prejudice to win elections. I expect Republicans and their lapdogs in the Corporate Media to deny it, but the Clinton campaign? If they can’t understand that simple dynamic, they sure have no hope of winning a general election.
This is so ridiculous that a Bill O’Reilly monologue couldn’t describe it. Just how are the atheists supposed to take over from us Christians? Sure, there’s more atheists than Muslims, but Jeez, if people think the likes of Chris Hitchens or Dick Dawkins are gonna rule this country they’re shittin’ themselves.
That said, as a Christian, I must ask, why do the atheists get all the cool books and we get garbage like Left Behind? Bertrand Russell outdid any Christian of his era. So did Ingersoll. Dawkins and company aren’t fit to lick their bootstraps, but damn, they can write.
I’d take Dawkin’s worst over Timmeh Lahaye’s best, and yes, I’ve read both. But Bertrand Russell…ye gods, he leaves them both in the dust. Despite believing in God, Russell’s “philosophy of unyielding despair” hits much closer to the bone than most Christian talk, excepting Ecclesiastes in the Bible.
To be an atheist or agnostic in our religious society takes a quality of character and independent critical thinking skills to be able to step outside the confines of what’s considered to be right think in our culture. Small wonder they’re better writers than those who swallow unsubstantiated cultural myths whole cloth without applying logic, reason or the scientific method before accepting extraordinary claims of the supernatural.
Bill Maher is such a damn perceptive guy when it comes to how the American people are feeling, but so many voters are so damn stupid that they’ll listen to whatever the commentators tell them.
“Bitter” doesn’t mean “stupid” or “unrealistic” or even “prone to violence,” it means “irritated” or “disillusioned.” I know that millions of Americans are certainly disillusioned; the poll numbers reflecting Bush’s popularity show that without a doubt. But the morons will keep looking for reasons to be offended; it’s like a super feminist taking young men to court for referring to their wives or girlfriends by pet names, or Christian parents seeking to ban stories from Greek mythology in fifth grade classes for fear that the teachers could be trying to convert children to “paganism.” Seriously, that’s all this is: people who are pissed off by nature looking for excuses to bash someone.
Nicole Bell:
Ooh, I know this one. Chick flick v. Slasher films, that’s where the conventional wisdom is that women prefer films in which women get married, and men prefer films in which women get dismembered.
Yep, sure, sexism is all in the past now.
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Snowball @ 4:
I know, it’s a shame the Evangelicals feel the only way to be good servants to Jesus is to rip off science and pretend the knock-off is superior…
Here is a news stream about breaking news from the NYTimes exposing about 10 Generals who went to the networks for the Bush administration with lies to make the Administration look good. This Story just broke hours ago in the NYT.
Hidden Hand of Pentagon Helps Steer Military Analysts
We can only hope this story and others now coming to the surface, continue. It seems each layer peeled reveals an even smellier interior.
I loved it.
JGabriel @ 6:
Like the Racism is starting to wake up from his Coma, the Patriarchy’s decided to wake up from his nap at racism’s hospital bed…
8 ♣Bangkok Bob♠ Says:
We can only hope this story and others now coming to the surface, continue. It seems each layer peeled reveals an even smellier interior.
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Can it get any “smellier” than it is now? H-O-L-Y!!!! I guess so. Off to do some reading at NYT.
Jon Stewart did a great job going after the “elitist” BS as well earlier this week.
http://blog.indecision2008.com.....iberalism/
The best part is at about 7:50 on the video and, in my opinion, is spot on.
I haven’t been a big fan of Maher in the past, but this was spot on.
so, NOW “it’s not ‘the bitter’, it’s the ‘cling to’”…
and we all know it SHOULD have been “vote for” instead of “cling to”…
but we all know what obama meant…
Snowball @2 - that was masterful… the placement and the message…
♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 8:
DoD / Pentagon has a PR dept to promote policy, something which is illegal under the Hatch act.
It must be galling when you are a fruit salad chested staff officer, but they are mere servants of the people not gods.
General_Rennenkampf @ 3:
Same reason Christian Rock sucks and the same reason Christian Comedians aren’t funny.
Those who go out of their way to announce their religious faith always end up at the very least annoying people and the most pissing them off. This, among many other reason, is why I am happy to have no religious faith whatsoever.
Snowball @ 13:
Some of his stuff is very good like tonight, some merely so so, material, writers and outrage all play a part.
Loved this:
And this:
And this:
Three’s a charm.
Zenrage @ 16:
and Faux’s late and mostly not missed comedy half hour
Otay @ 18:
#1 reason people voted for Republicans… they believed the BS about tax cuts, poor misguided fools.
#2 reason the moronic and treasonous talk about how everybody is out to get us, so we must go and kill and steal from everybody else first.
“Because shit kickers voted for a retarded guy who they wanted to have a beer with, and everybody else has had to suffer ever since“. Nice definition of the eletism of the 28%’ers.
Okay, I don’t always like him, but that was awesome, from beginning to end. Even the fluff was funny.
So right, OH and look at the progress we’re making today in Iraq. Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood work Bush.
VegasRage @ 23:
the mercs are retaking Basra, photo on NYT shows non Iraqi troops with mismatched uniforms in the streets advancing.
its prob a given that once they have total control of Basra that a bloodbath of suspected Sadr will happen, and end up being blamed on factions.
Marvelous!!
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YES, it’s not the “bitter” but the “cling to”. And MORE than that. It’s also the “cling to” their guns, religion, ANTI-immigration sentiment and anti-trade sentiment. That’s the way Barack Obama was caught on tape characterizing small-town Americans.
Notice how typically the Obamaniacs conveniently forget to include the “ANTI-immigration sentimant” portion of what Obama said about small-town Americans. It’s convenient since the guns and religion portion is still kind of cool to debate…but the ANTI-immigration portion smacks of racial bigotry and, therefore, a characterization of THAT regarding small-town America must not be associated with their precious Barack Obama.
But it was. He said it.
And that’s also one of the reasons there was such a ridiculous backlash toward the ABC debate moderators. How DARE Charles Gibson actually repeat the “ANTI-immigration sentiment” portion of what Obama was caught on tape saying in his question about it when all the other mainstream media outlets followed the Obamaniac rules and only made to reference to the “guns and religion” portion!!
Like Bill Maher did.
I have always been suspicious of the batches of 50 bodies that were regularly found handcuffed and tortured to death in Baghdad and similar places,
It struck me as odd that Iraqi security forces would abandon metal handcuffs and the numbers were always too regular.
Always reeked more of a Central American jail clearing exercise, CIA style.
Few Americans know that this country’s form of government isn’t a democracy or the name of the capital of Pakistan or even remember that we blew up an Iranian airliner full of innocent people in the first Bush administration. On average, we are not a very well informed voter pool.
The adage that “all politics are local” is what Obama was really referring to. When people can’t understand or connect to Economics, Foreign Policy or Human Rights issues, they vote on the things that matter to them locally or personally… and these things are often guided by the very ignorance and fear that causes them to go blank on the big issues. The Republicans have understood this and mastered the techniques of speaking into it. I hope the Democratic party is up to the task of running an idiot’s campaign again McCain. Their ace in the hole is that the record of the Bush administration is so incredibly awful, that people might actually pay attention this year. I sure hope so.
the hrc crowd’s bitching and whining about caususes over at huffpo.
what’s the matter, clintonistas?
frustrated because you can’t steal caucuses the way you can primaries?
you scumbags apparently had the nerve to steal new hampshire on elvis’s b-day, then you had the audacity to seemingly report zero votes in harlem for barry obama.
and you feign surprise at the corruption of eliot spitzer?
you better hope ed rendell isn’t thinking about rigging penn. it’s my understanding he’s al ready up shiut creek w/ a turd for a paddle when peter paul kicks off.
*shit
Bill Maher nails it yet again.
Cornell West sure was disappointing in this episode. I’ve liked some of the things he’s had to say in the past but here he was either unintelligible or blathering on about spirituality and love and why he’s a Christian.
Would have liked to hear more from Ayan Hirsi Ali. She did defend Dawkins from West’s name-calling but for the most part she was pretty quiet.
“Because shit kickers voted for a retarded guy who they wanted to have a beer with, and everybody else has had to suffer ever since“. Nice definition of the eletism of the 28%’ers.
Bill Maher voted for Nader in 2000. That makes him an idiot.
rk @ 32:
You ever made a mistake in your life? Oh, I’m sorry….your parents did.
Damn, Bill!!! That was GOOOOOD!!!
My Dad voted for Nader in 2000 (IN FLORIDA!). I called him an idiot to his face. He now agrees it was stupid.
rk @ 32:
Then Maher literally got down on his knees, on-air, and begged Nader not to run in 2004. That makes him smart again, and you an idiot.
rk @ 32:
Why? Maher’s vote- presumably cast in California- didn’t cost Gore a thing: Gore got all of California’s Electoral College votes.
And you can’t say that Nader voters in Florida cost Gore anything either: unofficial recounts showed that Gore won the popular vote, thus the Electoral College vote there, too, and so should have been sworn in as President in ‘01.
If your argument is with Nader himself, I’m not going to argue with you. I’ve found no reason to ever cast my vote for him. I’ve been a Yellow Dog Democrat from the get-go. But I’m not going to rule out a third party candidate in the future. Political parties mutate. Lincoln’s GOP would be unrecognizable to him today. The same can be said for Jefferson Davis and his Democratic Party.
8 ♣Bangkok Bob♠ Says: Here is a news stream about breaking news from the NYTimes exposing about 10 Generals who went to the networks for the Bush administration with lies to make the Administration look good. This Story just broke hours ago in the NYT.
Hidden Hand of Pentagon Helps Steer Military Analysts
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EVERYONE OUGHT TO GO AND READ THIS.
Iknew it was bad, and rotten to the core, but we’ve all been Psyoped. BIG TIME.
If you think the Democrats are going to take away your Bible, you’re an idiot. If you think they’re going to take away your gun, you’re an armed idiot. And if you think they’re going to take away your gun and give it to a Mexican to kill your God, you’re Bill O’Reilly.
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Funny. True, though.
“Shit kickers voted twice for a retarded guy they wanted to have a beer with and the rest of us paid the consequences”
Maher took it to the hoop with that one!
bitter hussein katy @ 14:
yeah !wonder who writes this shit for him! i know hes not smart enough to write it hiself!
tyree @ 41:
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Snowball @ 42:
mahers just a commedian , and he pays writers for his material, just like the politicans do!it dont make him a genious
According to Mathews/Maher, 60-75% Catholics are for Clinton…what’s a name for it? prejudice
jake3988 @ 39:
Monday morning, that quote is going up on my cubicle wall at work. I’m putting it up right next to my sign emblazoned with the words “PARTY LIKE IT’S 1929!”
tyree @ 43:
Ah, ok. I read that as being directed at me. I never said anything about Maher being a genius and I do write my own stuff.