Maher: 'I'm Putting Country First By Supporting Obama'

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On Friday evening, HBO's Bill Maher announced to the world what certainly won't come as a shock to many: "You know who's putting country first? I am by supporting Obama."

With this coming a week after he chastised "guys" at MSNBC -- likely Chris Matthews and Chris Olbermann -- for being ready to have sex with the Democrat presidential nominee, it appears Maher no longer thinks it's wrong for media members to gush all over the junior senator from Illinois.

Having previously insinuated that Trig Palin was not Sarah's child (as pointed out by my colleague Brent Baker), Maher concluded Friday's "Real Time" by devoting all five of his "New Rules" to attacking the Alaska governor, as well as John McCain, Fred Thompson, and all Republicans (video embedded right, lowlights that include mild vulgarity follow, h/t MsUnderestimated):

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  • In his first "New Rule" entitled "Hillbilly Heroine," Maher went right after the Palins (Palin's pregnant daughter holding youngest son pictured on screen): "If you're a baby momma trying to hide your baby daddy's baby behind your momma's baby, you just might be a redneck." But it got worse: "At least when Obama got a convention bump it wasn't leaking amniotic fluid."    
  • Rule 2, called "Eskimo Pie," implied McCain is lusting after Palin (pictures of McCain and Palin together flashing across screen): "Is this a running mate or a midlife crisis? The old maverick is so hot for the MILF he had to put a folder in front of his crotch because the surge was working."
  • Rule 3, called "Wrong Said Fred," went after Fred Thompson.
  • Rule 4, called "Thrilla in Wasilla," implored Democrats to attack Palin: "Democrats must not treat Sarah Palin with kid glooves just because she's a lady."
  • Rule 5, called "Snide and Prejudice," attacked all Republicans as being stupid: "Admit it: you're not voting for [Obama] because he's smarter than you." Maher then made clear what we've all known for quite some time: "You know who's putting country first? I am by supporting Obama, because a victory this fall for the McCain/Mooseburger ticket would make my job the next four years very, very easy."
Wow.  

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.


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So glad I'm not wasting $10 a month..

on the h-BO package if this is their idea of entertainment. Who is this ahole's audience anyway? I would not want their votes.

"I need more cowbell!" SNL

Maher is Sexual Pervert

This is wonderful in Bill Maher showing the pervert he is in abusing and raping a woman's character.

For those of you who have feminist liberal friends I ask you to email them Maher's comments and ask them to recall how many times jerks likes this pawed them, tried to get them drunk to rape them and were the ones making jokes how trampy they were.

All women know this type and now they are seeing just exactly where the biggest sexual predators have always been in molesting women with thought, word and deed........they are in the Democratic party.

Bill Maher couches it all in sex as that is what he deems women only good for.

I sincerely hope the feminists, PUMA and whoever else starts contemplating all of this as who has been using their bodies for infanticide votes when they are the women being traumatized, sexed and left with a doctor bill as Bill Maher types are off brutalizing another women ruining her trust.

The GOP has proven they are the home of the love and respect all women deserve. One will notice the most empassioned defenders of Gov. Palin are the bloggers here at Newsbusters taking it to the wall for her.
We value Gov. Palin for her leadership, ability, intelligence and policy.

Is not that what all women desire to be valued for who they are and not looked at like Maher does in them as a skirt to sex.

 

 

 

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

Outstanding!!!

Well said LM, well said!!! 

"If a man does his best, what else is there"?

General George S. Patton Jr.

Irrelevant

If it weren't for HBO, Bill Maher would be completely irrelevant and no one would pay any attention to him, his lies, innunendos, slanders, slurs and what passes in his mind as humor. However HBO feels they can make money off Maher and allows him air time even though he has proven himself time and time again to be a very petty, arrogant, hard-hearted, little man who gets some sort of perverse joy out of vitriolically attacking people whom he despises (which includes just about every conservative in the world). Although I tend to not use the term, "moonbat" seems to be aptly applicable to Maher.

MAHER

 

What idiot would pay to watch this piece of trash.

 

Hey Maher be a man get a real job instesd of sucking off the stupid.

 

When I listen to talk radio or watch TV I always ask myself what has this person done to build this great nation.

So for the noise I listen to Rush and some others.

For opinion that seems good I listen to Mark Levin.

At night I watch  Animal Planet, Miliyary channel and other informative shows. 

Lie

  Maher always has and always will put his party and his liberal narrative first.

Well, I guess the other

Well, I guess the other guys have a man crush on Obama, but Maher likes him because he's best for the country.

Whatever gets you through the night, Bill.

pimping punk!!

CHARLIE WHAT HE MEANS IS BY BACKING THE BROTHER, HE STAys tight with all those chocolate girlfriends he hangs with.

What a punk

This shows what kind of low lives support Obama.He isnt a real man so he isnt worth get upset over.He should just slither back down the septic pool he crawled out of.No one cares about him except the fringe lunatics to the left.

Doomed

Maher and his kind are truly doomed. If the libs continue to wail on Palin's family and not the issues (political issues) McCain/Palin are a shoe in for the White House.

Bill has always been such a patriot...

Bill has always been such a patriot; we would have expected nothing less from him.

Maher

 

 

You notice he did not mention what country? 

Playboyistan...where he

Playboyistan...where he acts as Hugh Hefner's fluffer to earn the appointment of roofie czar.

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

fitzfong.blogspot.com

That was my first thought

That was my first thought when I read this headline rick007..I was thinking of Germany. LOL.

 

 

 

"...white folk's greed runs a world in need."  Barack Obama

Very descriptive Rule 5 title

When Maher calls his Rule 5 "Snide and Prejudice," that actually is fairly descriptive--of his own attitude in disparaging Republicans for not being as smart as Obama.

There's also IMHO a fair amount of prejudice and posturing in Maher's voting for the underwhelmingly-'experienced' black guy over the old maverick so that he can pat himself on the back for how civic-minded, unbigoted, progressive, etc., etc. Maher is being with his vote.

Maybe it's Maher who ought to put a folder over his own crotch, as he dreams about how very special that Obama inauguration would be....

Maher

 

To hell with the fairness docturin.

I want the morality docturin.

Put scum like this in Gitmo. 

Libs

 

The reason that these people are for O Dumby with the flapping ears

Matthews

Oprah

Maher

Ko and the rest of the left wing kooks 

The are wanting their turn at the Lewinski site in the Oval office.

Then Matthews can see a tingle on sombody elses leg. 

Maher notoriously hates

Maher notoriously hates women. The guy is a chromosome or a slightly worse childhood away from burying bodies in his backyard. That's how much the man hates women. That one has eclipsed his experienced challenged overrated glory boy must make Maher grind his teeth.  Wouldn't want to be the hooker Maher picks up tonight.

And enough with this nonsense that Obama is some great intellect. He's apparently not bright enough to avoid giving the Republicans so much material with his insanse messiah complex. I watched(yet again)Palin's speech and it just gets funnier and funnier with it's pokes at Obamasiah.  

If only Sarah was a black

If only Sarah was a black woman.

What would the media say then??

I was talking to my dad who is not a news junkie. He rattled off all the Palin untruths and smears. I asked him where he got his info......NEWSDAY/USA TODAY!!!!!!

I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.

 

"What would the media say then??"

That's easy: "Uncle Tom," or whatever the female equivalent would be.

Woman, black, doesn't matter. If they're conservatives, they are not "genuine."

 

"... smells like... victory." - Robert Duvall

You know...?  I had a

You know...?  I had a great job for 15 years with a media production company. I worked closely with Human Resources and I had no idea how many men we had hired with "Richard" or "Dick" as their first names. It was sort of confusing at first.... but it didn't take me too long to get used to most of the men there having the same first name. You could say that I'm someone who knows a "Dick" when I see one!

 

So sorry to go off topic here.......or...did I?

 

I'm BuxomAnnieMcGreggor ...and I approve this message!

No BAMcG, you didn't go off

No BAMcG, you didn't go off topic...equating dicks with Bill Mayer, I'd say you were spot on.

 

 

 

"...white folk's greed runs a world in need."  Barack Obama

The price of democracy

All this guy has is insults. A sneer, and an ignorant plea to "I mean, come on."

The price of democracy is that we count every vote, even from cowards. This is a man who makes his living by sarcasm and mockery, which he happily inflicts on people whom he doesn't give a chance to defend themselves. Oh yeah, that's what we call a comedian these days. But God forbid you should say anything about them! Oh the whining about how mean we are!

I don't question their patriotism. I'm sure they love this country. Where else could they make a living by being a jackass? Of course, they're going to love this country out of jackass desperation. Anywhere else, they'd have to get a real job.

I question his character. no, wait, 'question' suggests some degree of uncertainty. Let me change that: Maher has no character. He's a coward.

Thank you Bill Maher

This probably the greatest endosorement for switching to McCain/Palin!

As Gomer Pyle would say,

SURPRIZE, SURPRIZE!

Ah never would of thunk such a thaing!

 

 

Apologies to the Marines and Carolinians.

And what did you expect?

The left wingers are showing their utter stupidity. They are melting like that cake in the rain in that song by Richard Harris, McArthur Park. And that icing is flowing down into the sewer where it came from.

Drill ANWAR

I don't think

that they can take it,

cause it took so long to bake it,

and they'll never have that recipe again,

Oh no,

Oh noooh!

  That was my first

  That was my first thought when I read this headline rick007...I was thinking Germany.LOL

 

 

 

 "...white folk's greed runs a world in need."  Barack Obama

Paging Paul Krugman....

http://www.nytimes.c...

Now what was that you said again, Paul?  Something about there being "no evidence whatsoever" that Democrats look down their noses at regular people?

Click on Exhibit A (video) above.  And trust me, we could easily get to Z if we wanted to.  But to be fair, maybe you don't pay much attention to Maher's show...........

http://www.youtube.c...

Oops, never mind. 

From Krugman's piece: And

From Krugman's piece:

And Ms. Palin asserted
that Democrats “look down” on small-town mayors — again, without any
evidence.

Would Sen. Obama's assertion that his running his campaign was a bigger job than being Mayor of Wasilla qualify?

I didn't know Maher was from Iran

How strange.

 

Those who believe in nothing will believe anything.

I've thought for a long time now...

that there must be something really wrong with Bill Maher. He is one of the most hate-filled, angry and miserable people I've ever seen on television. I can't imagine anyone finding funny what he said about Gov. Palin (and John McCain). It was insulting, degrading, disgusting and completely beyond the pale. No wonder this loser isn't married...who'd have him??

"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981

maher is a putz

i just don't get it. some of my left leaning friends, ( or as i like to call them, ill), think that maher is some type of intellectual, which couldn't be further than the truth.  i have watched his hbo show a couple of times, one time with that dunce gore vidal, and  i couldn't believe the stupidity i was hearing.  they deal in theory, while we deal in reality.

I actually saw a bit of it,

I actually saw a bit of it, and despite Maher doing his best to get his guests to agree with them, most of them were advising him to lay off the Palin jokes, as it does nothing but help the GOP. Guess he didn't get the memo.

If there were true justice

If there were true justice in the world, Maher and Olbermann would be forced to participate in a wet T-shirt int-the-mud cat fight on national TV, sans pants and sans shorts. Such a contest would be commensurate with their current contributions to American culture, to wit, none. I can think of no more despicable pair of people in the U.S. broadcast media than these two oafs.

Olbermann thinks he's an intellectual and Maher thinks he's funny. What a joke.

I wish I had HBO so I could

I wish I had HBO so I could cancel it AGAIN.. 

 

Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.

Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.

 

Maher, you slime-ball

Maher, you slime-ball creature...feel something slippin' do ya...

Fear and desperation is a precious thing to behold when it comes the msm critters...going to be fun watching them all crash and burn...which they are slowly doing daily anyway.

Couldn't we just hear it now if anyone had said anything like this about Aunt Ester.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Snore

Bill Mahr supports Senator Obama?  I thought I said wake me when something important happens. [sarcasm off]

"Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain." Official Motto of the State of Iowa

The Democrats seem to think

The Democrats seem to think you need to be an "ugly woman" in order to be in politics.  Just look at the wonderfully beautiful Dems: Hillary, Janet Reno, Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, etc etc.  Wonderful, eh? :)

Palin proves you can be irresistibly attractive, smart, gutsy, religious, patriotic and shrewd at the same time.  She is the epitome of feminist; she is the epitome of Republican.

No Maher, No HBO, Nobama.

"HBO's Bill Maher"... Sure glad I told Direct TV where they could stick their special offer HBO package on Friday. Didn't even ask how much they were trying to rip me off for.

 

 

Old, Retired and glad of it.

Cancel It

This just can't go on.

If you get HBO, cancel it and write them, telling them why you canceled.

If you know a conservative who has HBO, tell them about this and ask them to cancel and let HBO know why.

Media will show anything, as long as they think it is causing them to gain viewers. Once they lose viewers, they will take a second look.

Think about it: Do you really want to pay Maher's salary, just so you can watch old movies that have been out on DVD for six months? Do you?

I'd pay Bill's salary if it

I'd pay Bill's salary if it gets me Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, and any of the other great shows.

balboa

Wow he gets paid by HBO?All this time I thought he was being paid by the DNC.

Entourage is funny, but I'm

Entourage is funny, but I'm waiting until it comes on Bravo or A&E

 

Sarah Palin - This is what a Conservative looks like !

Entourage

I used to watch it, until the cable company cut off my free HBO (on my non HD set...no box on that one).

Oh well....it's cheaper and alot less stressful to rent the movies I want than to pay for the rest of that crummy cable channel. 

Bal, you can have Bill Maher.  I get sick just looking at his pasty, cowardly face.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Bill Maher.  I get sick

Bill Maher.  I get sick just looking at his pasty, cowardly face.

And I got sick of paying his salary.  But I corrected that fast!  ;-) 

Sarah Palin - This is what a Conservative looks like !

That's like saying "I'd pay

That's like saying "I'd pay for the NEA, the Bridge To Nowhere and the Robert Byrd Highway Overpass if it gets me a strong national defense".

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

fitzfong.blogspot.com

This sack-a-poop named Maher...

...is a vile little creature devoid of talent making his mark by vocally compensating for a certain tiny physical appendage. 

 "Celebrities - is there anything they don't know?" Homer Simpson

cm.... ...You said it

cm....

...You said it ALL!

ROFLMAO!

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Maher

Wow, I bet everyone who has posted on this article loves one of thease three morons: Bill O'reilly, Ann Coulter, or Jodie Miller. And none of them ever show conservative bias in their programs (that’s sarcasm for all of those fundamentalist Christians who are reading). Don’t hate Maher because his elegant retorts make every conservative look ridiculous. Maher is a far left comedian, if you don’t like it don’t watch the show. McCain’s slanderous ads against Obama have proven that he will compromise everyone of his ethics to win this election.

Wow, I bet everyone who has

Wow, I bet everyone who has posted on this article loves one of thease three morons: Bill O'reilly, Ann Coulter, or Jodie Miller. 

You might have a touch more credibility calling others "morons" if your post wasn't so littered with grade school spelling errors and typos.  As for the "substance" of your infantile comment, Maher does not embarrass conservatives.  He embarrasses himself and the trained monkeys who populate his studio audience. 

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

fitzfong.blogspot.com

Looks like somebody is confused and needs a map.

  This is a site about exposing liberal media bias.

   O'Reilly occasionally does this. Ann Coulter most certainly does. Who is Jodie Miller?

   Fundamentalist Christians get a bad rap by the liberal media.

   Conservatives get a bad rap by the media.

   McCain is now getting a bad rap by the media.

   Maher is an extreme liberal loon.

   If people desire to point out any of the above, this is the appropriate forum.

  You sir, are clearly lost and need to take your Obama mancrush hearty hearty teenybooper love elsewhere.

 

You don’t have an

You don’t have an argument towards shows with conservative bias? But you will back a hockey mom who doesn’t know jack about foreign policy.

 

Uh, anyone mention to you

Uh, anyone mention to you that McCain has more foreign policy experience than Obama and Biden combined?

You seem to know jack-sh*t about candidates.

Let’s Gore Al Gore

 

 

Making Fun of AGW http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/  

Wow, dipsh*t I was talking

Wow, dipsh*t I was talking about Palin, Not grandpa.