sirdroseph wrote: 
C'mon you know any problem can be solved by throwing money at it.

 hippiechick wrote: 
This statement is so many levels of wrong for reasons that have nothing to do with political persuasion.

 MsJudi wrote: 
That's why he is politically incorrect. Take him or leave him.

And OV, he gave 1 mil to Obama, so he is trying to be part of the solution. 

 MsJudi wrote: 
Just another big mouth that wants to be part of the problem, not the solution. They're everywhere, like hypocrites on a hot plate.

I'll tell you the truth... I used to enjoy old Bill, but then two things began to happen. The first is that I began to realize that his thinking is often as block-headed and simplistic as the right-wing pundits he loathes and that he tries to move all of his guests into restating and reaffirming his one-note solutions for the incredibly complex problems he discusses. Subtlety and detail seem to elude him. The second thing that happened, and this was way more irritating because it became a constant drum beat for him for a full season, was his constant rants that fat people have broken his heath care system. He's an unhealthy SOB- he makes no bones about his drinking and smoking habits- but suddenly it was us fat people who were the cause of his woes. So yes, I'm obese. Believe it or not, I'm also incredibly healthy, which I have confirmed every year with a full panel of tests administered by my physician. I place little to no burden on the health care system and when I do, I pay for it myself. I've never once asked Bill Maher to help me with my fat-person medical bills and simply can't ever imagine that it would become a necessity for me to do so in the future.

I'm a liberal dem and I support a lot of what he supports, but I see very plainly that the world is filled with shades of gray, millions and millions of them, and there isn't simply one ham-handed solution for each of them.

Bill is a hammer and every problem is a nail.

 romeotuma wrote: 
Just watched this. His new rules about vacations just about made me cry.

nsfw
 

 romeotuma wrote: 
Hey, hey, hey! Get a room!!........Wait a minute.

 romeotuma wrote: 
I miss him, now that I don't get HBO

 Radio_Dweeb wrote: 
It does feel like they're experimenting with the format.  I wondered if the progressives (like, Maher) are too happy after the Obama win to get too worked up about much of everything.

I noticed that Bill kept asking the panel to talk about the trillion manufactured buckaroos, and nobody did.  I guess none of them knew enough to grapple that one.

And I hate Olberman!  That is, until I saw him on Bill Maher.  I saw a side of Keith I've not seen before.  I still hate his show, but at least I like the guy now.

Bill has relationships with a lot of Republicans.  But they do have to be willing to take a beating to be on the show.  It can't be good for their careers.

 oldviolin wrote: 

O come on

 hippiechick wrote: 

Andrew Breitbart was the last conservative to do the show and he was pretty railed on.  He wrote a piece in the Washington Times saying despite all advice NOT to go on the program he is glad he did it.  Even though I am left-of-center that Professor Dyson was rude, talked like 80% of the time and did run wild with PC.  Breitbart didn't make me jump to the GOP by any means but he made me think and TRIED to offer a different point of view on the program.  I wish he could have talked more and had an actual discussion.

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 Radio_Dweeb wrote: 
It must be tough getting those Repubs to put their faces on that show since they have nothing to say. Their party disintegrated, their platform is one of calling Obama everything from a Communist to a Fascist, but of course this is just name calling. They are all ashamed and hiding their faces.

Any thoughts on the new season ? 

First two episodes did only 2 guests on the panel, felt that didn't work too well and its back to 3 now.  Last Friday it was 3 political-left panelists and the show really needs at least 1 conservative voice imho.  Actually last Friday it was 4 leftists if you include the Olberman appearance later in the show, yikes!  Don't think this week's episode will be much different, I'd rather hear debate on the program ....

New episodes start this Friday

 woozurbuddy wrote: 
Pass.

 woozurbuddy wrote: 
Maher is an articulate advocate for what he believes, has a quick wit and I generally agree with him on this topic, but the ad campaign for this movie is so lame and the clips they're showing are so weak I'm not sure they really want anybody to see it.

 Zep wrote: 
If you watch the clips from the Alfred E Smith charity dinner you can see that McCain and Obama 'get it'.  They both seem to be aware that this campaign cycle will eventually end and that they should not take every opportunity to be overly serious about themselves.  Will Sarah 'get it' or is she really in this for some future opportunity?  Will she prove that she is just Bush in a skirt wanting to campaign for her causes 365/24/7 ?  We will see!

Regarding SNL and their willingness to pal around with celebrities and politicians, they all want to play the game and gain the spoils of victory.  It probably wouldn't be something I would want to do but I'm not in their position.

That was the first time I've heard Senator Sanders in a conversational environment.  ( If they didn't dislike outsiders so much I'd spend more time in Vermont.)  I was pretty impressed and thought he was very polite considering Ben was walking all over his comments.