Bill Maher - classic!

w/ ppl like Maher, atheism is a mania

point taken, but what's the saying -- 'atheism is a religion' like not collecting baseball cards is a hobby etc

He was super obnoxious during the first interview on last night's show. He was interviewing someone about the psychology and motivations of terrorists and every time religion was brought up as a possible justification he would sit back and smirk and say "There's that word again". Then he would go into something about how Islam is a worse religion than Christianity, and then kind of fake out when he got accused of inciting Islamaphobia on his show. You can really tell he was getting on the interviewer's nerves by the end.

Watching last night's ep. He's blaming the internet for radical Islamists now. He's sort of arguing that something needs to be done about the internet, and uses drone-killing robot assassinations as a precedent for going that extra mile to snuff out the terrorists. Hello, idiot! Could it be that flying robot assassins have a little more to do with radicalizing people than some guy talking on youtube?

kimmel seemed kinda nervous on this

havent gotten there yet. seeming nervous is his thing, right?

oh wait i confused him w Jimmy Fallon

hah i just realized i have been confusing the two for the past few weeks now

The way to enjoy Kimmel is to pretend he's Edgar G. Robinson's deadbeat grandson and he was handed all this through that one connection.

Greenwald rips fuckface a new one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB-itn_LJuM

I'm no maher defender but I don't think that was such a great take-down. Maher wanted to complain about Muslims rioting over any public opposition to their religion. He wasn't saying anything about irresponsible military activity of any country.

hmmm, I think it's all part of his general hedonist our-shit-doesn't-stink worldview

Yes!!!

Maher trots out religion all the time and the context when he does is often inconsequential. He is happy to smugly declare that religion is bad and always at the root of extremism and that more specifically this one religion is the worst. GG brings some much needed perspective (which is pretty much ignored by Maher but whateves).

How exactly do you pinpoint which riots are about purely religious matters when Muslim countries are being and have been occupied by Western military for decades? Yes fundamentalism is a part of the picture, but blaming that entirely and ignoring that we are invading their countries with our army or at the very least killing them with automated death robots (for instance) seems pretty misleading. Also very tribalist

we have different kinds of Christian riots p often in this country, which is why a modicum of sanity is a no-go in our federal legislature.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau) OTM. Maher is a hypocritical shit, big up Greenwald.

He is probably giving the theocracy angle too much credit (all of the credit maybe) but he isn't wrong about the fact that they do threaten as soon as any public criticism of the religion or image of Mohammad goes public. Objectively, I don't know that other religions get as hostile as quickly in present times. However, there certainly are a lot of variables at play given the context of certain situations. Maher is definitely quick to ignore those factors in favor of a "fuck religion" focus.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/maher-matthews-get-in-epic-brawl-with-gop-guest-over-obamacare-gop-sabotaging-a-law/

Is everything he does like Religulous?

https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/489930991956262913

congratulations on writing the worst tweet ever, i suppose?

couldn't be a worse week for this slug's show to come back, eh

Rushdie will be on so i expect some viral clips

Rushdie's "they're a little old for me" crack re: Hilary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren was way ickier than anything that was said about Muslims tonight.

Feel like every episode of this needs to have a section where Bill blanket accuses all Muslims of FUTURE THOUGHT CRIME.

He was really getting warmed up to the big reveal with that "Bad ideas" bit, he just needs to bring it home.

Billy Crystal was really funny last night.

^ words I never expected to read again

did he do his classic jazz man character

So he has opinion on Ahmed Mohammed

Maher, however, does not deny that the fact that Ahmed is Muslim played a role in escalating the incident. “It’s not the color of his skin,” he said. “For the last 30 years, it’s been one culture that has been blowing shit up over and over again.”

It was a great day when the US turned pacifist in 1985

Yeah his reaction made me wonder if he actually read the story at all.

Or is aware of anything when his anti-religion blinders come on.

so... the Koch brothers were raised by a Nazi nanny? and their family fortune is partly from selling oil refineries to Hitler and Stalin? for real?

It would probably be difficult to find US multinationals that didn't profit from Nazi Germany.

You'll say its my own damn fault for watching Bill Maher in the first place, and you'll probably be right, but this week's was especially annoying: like, you have an actual LGBT guest on in the wake of Orlando in Josh Barro (coincidental, of course; this week's guests were listed at the end of last week's show) and every time he opens his mouth to say anything (including, at one point, on the specific topic of religion and homophobia) he's cut off by the military guy or the gun nut. Ugh.

https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/810938580747091968

http://www.avclub.com/article/bill-maher-and-milo-yiannopoulos-shout-each-other--250386
http://www.avclub.com/article/bill-maher-defends-his-liberal-credentials-after-b-250453

Bound to be a shit show.

My comments on Islam have never veered into vitriol.

Pretty sure he meant to say "have only veered into vitriol." Otherwise, utter horseshit.

i'll watch - bound to be entertaining

Two un-nuanced jackasses lobbing predictable barbs at each other. That was boring.

Didn't bother because who cares.

I thought Bill Maher was cool when I was a dickhead kid. The less of a dickhead I become, the less I find I like him.

I got to the point where I would put up with him because he'd have some really good guests, but I haven't been able to handle it (other than a few clips linked here and there) in about 4 years.

i've enjoyed watching some of his shows over the years but the man himself is p much a dud, always annoying and off-puttingly smug even when he's saying something i agree with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFWv42U1l4A

Oh man, Republicans are nihilstic hypocrites. Blowing my mind.

I watched a ton of Politically Incorrect in the '90s because aside from Usenet that was pretty much the extent of political content I could get my hands but browsing episodes on Youtube is embarrassing. Owning 5 Mighty Mighty Bosstones albums is less embarrassing.

http://www.avclub.com/article/god-bless-larry-wilmore-not-buying-real-times-budd-250596

i'll watch - bound to be entertaining

lol I've watched menu screens that were more entertaining than this was

Link?

The whole-lotta-nothing interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lImHh7fqrQo

The far better post-show discussion, thanks to Larry Wilmore's brilliant telling off of Milo (and by extension, Bill) re: some transphobic bullshit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cDLflyQ8TA

Maher compared him to a "young, gay Christopher Hitchens."

bye

proof of Hitchens atheism that his ghost didn't appear onstage and slap the shit out of Maher for that