Bill Maher is indicative of all that is wrong with the world. There once was a time when every so often he would say something that rang more or less true with me. Lately, not so much. In recent times his views have gone so far off the grid, I cannot even subject myself to any of his childish diatribes, with him tilting at the windmills created by whatever mind altering substance he is comsuming these days. It's utter nonsense. Good to hear that Cave did not allow Bill's blustery and extreme socialist following to deviate his perspective on the situation in Iraq.

This is a great post Mr. Sheppard and is the largest dichotomy of all in New York Times reporters lie, bribe and make up propaganda in America, but for some reason Baghdad has a moral effect on reporters in making them journalists.

I was grieved when John Burns moved up to London as I presumed the Times wouls install a wacko, but in reading your report it seems Mr. Burns provided an excellent source list and schooling for his replacement in telling the Truth. I doubt anyone will ever replace John Burns.........but I also doubt f mouth Maher will ever have on Mr. Cave again.

I can just imagine Maher's words to his producer after this interview was, "What the BLEEP! Why the BLEEP did you have this BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP on air. He is a BLEEP Bush supporter. What the BLEEP did you BLEEP I wanted. Is your BLEEP head up your BLEEP BLEEP."

You can probably read it as a featured Maher blog on Huffington Post.

PS. I want to once again have people thank this site for being the center of intelligence and etiquette online. Here you can find stories, information and even humor. There is nothing like Newsbusters online.

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Noel,

How could you tell that Maher had a "sickeningly smug look"  related to the "are you better off" question?  I thought that smug look was permanently fixed on his face.

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 Billy Maher's delusions are very obvious. For Maher, there is only invasion, overthrow and the absurd verbal masturbation represented by the idiotic question on the morale of the "insurgents". 

Maher asks no questions of the danger of terrorism, the danger of Islamo-fascist totalitarianism, the brutal nature of the Hussein's regime, nor the obvious and inconvenient fact that the lion’s share of the violence suffered by the Iraqis was, in fact, inflicted by their own government.

This overtly and dishonest hand-wringing by Maher is not only irresponsible and delusional, but it openly violates that concrete thing we like to call truth, or perhaps, simple honesty.

The psychopaths of Al Qaeda are fortunate enough to be able to rely on a transparent and competent propagandist like Billy Maher.

And like Blonde, I have no stomach to watch this degrading type of fool.  I would prefer to have a heat rash and be in traction.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. George Orwell

<>The only mind altering substance that Billy boy uses is
SILICONE. From all the fake teenagers he dates. Its fried his brain.

Did anyone see this idiot on Bill OReilly??

OReilly needs to put him on weekly so the rest of America can see how stupid the Democrat spokespeople think.

Look, Bill Maher is not intelligent, he's instinctive.  He knows that if he brings Hugh Hefner new subscribers and gets the militant feminists off Hef's back, he'll get a lifetime E-ticket to the Playboy Mansion.  Then he can practice charming the pants off hot, young bimbos...or revert to the Rohypnol if his charms fail to ellicit the required response.

Maher knows where to get Hef new subscribers: college fraternity houses.  And he knows how to placate the militant feminists: loudly support abortion on demand and criticize anything George W. Bush does with smug sarcasm.  The new young Playboy subscribers know that the quickest way to get laid in college is to appear sensitive to "women's issues", but Hef, Maher and the fraternity monkeys need cover lest they appear too shallow.  And left-wing socio-political positions are always in vogue at college campuses...so wearing Che Guevara t-shirts, pimping socialized medicine and criticizing the war will always win friends and influence people.  They also know that they have to set themselves up as polar opposites to the "rigid", "uptight", "patriarchal", "hypocritical" Conservative Christians.  So they cozy up to liberal literary types...the Noam Chomskys, the Arthur Millers and the Lenny Bruces to give their disinterested and uninformed left-wing facades some texture and "credibility".  And they resort to lame, ignorant pot shots at the administration for anything from the war to health insurance.  Maher and his ilk never present workable solutions, they're not intelligent or interested enough to do that.  Instead, they hurl mindless abuse from the balconies...they heckle.  The fact that Damien Cave didn't whole-heartedly endorse Maher's DNC talking points had to have been a real source of frustration for the HBO host and his frat boy audience of trained seals.  Frankly, I'd prefer to draw my own conclusions on the surge after hearing what General Petreaus says.  I don't need it filtered by someone so shallow and uninformed as Bill Maher.

Good Job Resisting

The libs are well stocked financially.  They control all aspects of the media including radio.  It is hard for soilders in the 3rd tour not to be discouraged and the temptation to allow that to be exploited is hard to resist. 

 What disgusts me is that they appear to be hitting really hard the argument that the "troops are tired" or the troops don't support this or that".  Lib attitude is screw the country.  If you can create dissention in the ranks it gives the libs just one more voter group and one more argument.

 Look at today's la slimes.  It is like someone sends a message and the media all zero in on that particular talking point. 

What stands out from this interview is that Damien Cave was an example of a professional journalist and Maher simply needs to grow up.

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“...the real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.” - Henry Kissinger

What are his ratings on HBO?  I simply cannot watch him because I know exactly what I will get - non-stop Bush bashing mixed with f-bomb interlaced tirades and the weakest of pseudo-intellectualism.  Not to mention that most of his guests follow his same boorish conservative hatred mantra.

At least Fox news puts on NPR lefties and others who truly make it fair and balanced - Even Bill O'reilly gives his guests the last word.  I doubt Maher could handle allowing a "right-winger" the last word on his show.

God Made man, but a monkey supplied the glue

Maher used to be entertaining as a true political rebel during his ABC Politically Incorrect days.  He would regularly tweak the feminazis and the wacko Left - along with taking stabs at the far Right.

Many of you probably remember frequent guest Arianna Huffington (of the now infamously far-Left Huffington Post) was a conservative in those days and would help keep Maher honest on his ground breaking show.

My how things change.  Over the years Maher and Huffington both got sucked into the (non-thinking) group-think of Hollywood - although there were also a couple defining moments that pushed each of them over the edge.

Maher got smacked down hard and booted off the air for his idiotic plunge into moral relativism when he said of the 9/11 hijackers, "Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."

OK, Bill, in a twisted kind of way, its brave to show your loyalty to a fanatically racist and totalitarian cause by committing suicide in order to kill thousands of innocent people - including a bunch of Muslims.  But Bill, are you really unsure about taking sides on this issue? Maybe even being a little biased in favor of your own civilization.  Geesh!

Now Maher is driven by hate and revenge over his viewer driven shunning and exile to HBO.  Like our fanatical enemies in the Middle East - he can no longer think straight.  But it doesn't make him "brave" when he pulls the pins on his anti-intellectual belt bombs from his damp cave on HBO.  It just makes him bitter and pathetic.

Arianna I have more sympathy for - given what she went through with her husband.  Now THAT was a sad and sordid affair... .

I keep hoping that someday she will wake-up and come home to her conservative roots.

Now that video with Maher vs. Cave was just absolutely....

Priceless.

Wonder how long he will last at the NYT's....then again Burns did, which was a rarity.

It's no surprise to me that closet conservatives at the NYT would volunteer for transfer into a warzone.... it's got to be less dangerous to their health and career than being perennially surrounded by raving liberals.