Bill Maher - classic!

no, but I think Jon Stewart interviewed the author last week.

his analysis is about as deep as a kiddie pool

He's a comedian. Still classic.

I'm enjoying watching this schmuck go off the deep end.

I haven't been paying attention. do tell!

anti-vaccine nonsense?

here's a starter:
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/10/the_2009_recipient_of_the_richard_dawkin_1.php

such ignorant drivel, and the same shit spouted by Beck and Limbaugh.

OMG, watching Chris Mathews and Alex Baldwin totally made a fool of Maher.

http://vodpod.com/watch/2363121-video-chris-matthews-gettin-real

it doesn't get much healthier than young men between the ages of 18-22 in the military.

actually, I think it does.

when he's good, he's pretty otm:

If an election between Obama and Sarah Palin were held today, and only white men could vote, Sarah Palin would be president. Did you know that in 1788, when there were four million people in America, only 39,000 of them -- the richest white men -- got to vote? That doesn't sound good to you? Well, what if I threw in a picture of my cock?

a Jewish cock.

when he's bad, he's really bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_U3TYloQ_c

And who's that woman who thinks sharia law is all over the UK?

So depressed that he just read the Daily Mail and repeated it as if it were news and/or true and, seemingly, didn't take one minute to check with anyone else whether there was more to the story than that.

women is a Fox News Anchor.

He infuriated me in that episode.

Really swayed back and forth during the O'Reilly interview. Then again, I appreciate O'Reilly.

tell it

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/real-time-bill-maher-explains-how-america-is-like-a-dog/

oh man Kennedy is a libertarian nutjob.

Which one, the chick from MTV? Yeah, she has an elephant tattoo for a reason

aye, MTV one. Unions are a cult, atheism is a religion and you can trust her because she majored in philosophy, and every intelligent libertarian economist she talked to assured her that the bailout was wrong.

and no taxes on anything etc etc etc

how long did it take Maher to explain who Kennedy is?

nah it was more wtf is this rep calif dude spouting; kennedy is like the last thing that needs explanation on bill maher

I had honestly forgotten about her existence until last night. Also, between her and that republican blowhard, I think Martin Bashir got about one sentence in.

atheism is a religion

oh, you're one of *those* kinds of 'libertarians' pls foad

probably the 4 brightest words she's ever said

sorry had no idea she'd done anything since '98

really

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.