Bill Maher: 'America's Like A Dog - You Can't Actually Explain Issues To It'
HBO's Bill Maher is clearly still reeling from the Democrat disaster in the midterm elections.
On Friday's "Real Time," the host compared America to a dog that "cannot understand actual words," only "understands fear," and can't have issues explained to it (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL MAHER, HOST: Well, that idea that America will see, America doesn't pay attention or see. You have to -- America’s like a dog. I'm sorry, but it is. You, it cannot understand actual words. It understands inflection. It understands fear. But you can't actually explain issues to a dog.
It's amazing to watch how liberal media members think, isn't it?
When Americans voted into the White House an unqualified, inexperienced junior senator from Illinois largely because they fell in love with the idea of the country finally having a black president, the citizenry was brilliant.
But when they voted out of office members of Congress because the unemployment rate is near ten percent and they're worried about their futures as well as the direction of the country, Americans are idiots.
As for as Maher is concerned, people are only smart if they behave exactly like him.
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Like "global warming"?
Submitted by ajkrik on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 2:53pm.
I guess we're all too stupid to get it. Maher takes "comic" to a new level.
"No, ma, they're laughing WITH me."
Get A Dog
Submitted by miss911ninja on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:02pm.
I think Bill is upset because all the "explaining" he did fell on deaf ears. Maybe he should get a dog.
yeah, but
Submitted by diskinetic on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:32pm.
Would you leave him alone with your dog?
if my dog dog was rabid, I'd
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:58pm.
if my dog dog was rabid, I'd gladly leave Bill with it.
keep the doors locked so Bill has to stay.
Warning Growl
Submitted by miss911ninja on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 5:20pm.
I bet the hair goes up on the back of any dog that Bill even gets NEAR! Also bared teeth and a warning growl.
Sorry miss, but
Submitted by FastEd on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 7:44pm.
dogs are smarter than that! They'd probably leave him alone, and NOT get rabies from biting him.
"We the People . . " Hey, congress - I'm one of the people - start listening!
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
Run Away!
Submitted by miss911ninja on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 7:51pm.
LOL! I think you're right! He could probably walk through the desert and have scorpions run away from him, too!
This coming from a pathetic limp dick
Submitted by ConservaSerb on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:04pm.
Who can only get laid when he pays a hooker double the going rate.
Has anyone ever met anyone who actually sat in this nose-job's audience? Were they employed?
A wise & frugal government, which shall leave men free 2 regulate their own pursuits of industry & improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. T. Jefferson
Bill Forehead Maher
Submitted by MrShy on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:16pm.
Socialist, commie fcuk.
- Shy Jams
Sannity-baggers... the REAL racists & haters
Join Mr. Shy and The 1* Percent
52.7% couldn't be wrong?
Submitted by metaphorsbwithu on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:15pm.
So 52.7% of Americans who voted for a bumper sticker slogan and a media creation who had not been vetted or seriously examined in 2008 were smart ... but, now that people actually see what is being done to their country, how that "historic", new tone, centrist, bi-partisan, streamlined, fiscally-responsible, let's all come together, America's greatest days are ahead message was just rhetoric they are suddenly stupid?
Didn't ol' Donkeyface say
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:08pm.
Didn't ol' Donkeyface say something similiar to this recently - cutting down the USA AND dogs at the same time??? Obviously, he doesn't know too much about dogs, because they are intuitive, sharp, loyal, brave, and can have a whole lot of other good characteristics.
I don't have any dogs now, but I can tell you that everyone I've ever had would think that Maher is either a fire hydrant, a tree, or some place to leave a nice steamy pile of doggie poop!!!
And..........if this is how he feels about dogs, I hope he doesn't have one.................somebody call PETA!!!!!
Wasn't that how we got
Submitted by Chris M-G on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:10pm.
Wasn't that how we got ourselves into this administration in the first place?
who is an american?
Submitted by 76United on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:16pm.
I wish I was on this show when he basically said Americans are dumb. I would've shot back immediately, "Aren't you an American?". Of course Bill Maher will say that he's not one of those "dumb" americans. No, no, he's one of the super rare enlightened americans.
Maher's statement is the type of generalization that liberals like him detest. Don't say muslims caused 9/11. You must say it was "radical" muslims. So next time Maher must say that "dumb" americans are dumb, not just americans.
excellent point.
Submitted by puredmashie on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:28pm.
this is a fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives. liberals believe that americans aren't smart enough to make up their own minds on something and, since they are so much smarter and only mean well, can do it for us. conservatives believe that americans can make up their own minds and don't need the nanny state as a crutch.
of course when liberals' ideas and philosophy are exposed for what they are americans reject them, as was done this past november.
OK, Bill, so we have
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:46pm.
OK, Bill, so we have "Americans" and then we have those who govern them, right?
What are they? Super-Americans?
And if forgets...
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 6:48pm.
...just walk right out in a cloud of self-righteous sactimony like his girlfriends from the View did.
All in all, it's just more liberal projection from Bill Maher.
I guess the desire to see
Submitted by ant on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:20pm.
I guess the desire to see America adopt a form of government that has historically caused murder and misery everywhere it has been tried is genius.
Remind me once again....
Submitted by jdripper on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:21pm.
Who is Bill Mehar and why should I give a s**t?
Jack
I feel sorry for Maher.
Submitted by 26CX on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:26pm.
I really do. He's a bitter person who obviously doesn't experience any real happiness in his life. He must know how wrong his opinions are and that he is becoming more and more isolated from the majority of Americans, but he continues to stick to his losing propositions and alienate more and more people. He's watching his world crumble around him and, like a 5-year-old caught in a lie but not wanting to admit it, continues to stick to his erroneous beliefs.
Soon even his "friends" will realize that he is a poisonous person who will only drag them down with him or insult them when they won't follow along and will leave Maher alone with his misery.
But on the other hand, I think he deserves everything that happens to him.
Maher is what comes out of a
Submitted by DWoSD on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:27pm.
Maher is what comes out of a dog after its mourning meal. Is it possible to be more arrogant and self absorbed? Oh wait...Obama...
Now my dog has been insulted!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:44pm.
That's it, Maher, you pile of dog shiite. I just ignored most of the insults you hurled at the American people because, quite frankly, a majority of them voted for the rat bastard Fascist SOB now vacationing from the White House. I am hard pressed to defend the collective intelligence of any group that would elect that clueless bastard.
But now you've done it, you little twerp. You have insulted my dog! Hell. you've insulted everybody's dogs. Comparing Bubba to the American voters, the majority of whom really are dumb asses, is over the line.
Dogs have way more intelligence that voters. They would never allow the dumbest, weakest, wimpiest Zulu dog (as opposed to Alpha dog. Don't go all 'racist" on me) in the pack, married to the ugliest bitch in the pack to be their elected leader!
If we the people were as smart as dogs, Sarah Palin would already be the head bitch in this pack. I don't see any Alpha males on the horizon who can match her for courage and killing instinct.
So unless you're willing to meet Bubba in a free-for-all, shut the hell up. He and his kind don't deserve to be compared to the American morons who voted for Obambie.
Speaking on behalf of ALL of
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:57pm.
Speaking on behalf of ALL of the great dogs I've had, bubba, I have to send you top kudos!!! Every dog I've ever had would bust Donkeyface's balls in a rural Hawaiian minute!!!! And, as far as the wimpiest Zulu dog being married to the ugliest bitch in the pack (with the widest rear end!!!).....................CLASSIC!!!!!!
Bill Maher is like a rabid
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 3:57pm.
Bill Maher is like a rabid dog, one does not explain, call, or suggest anything to it. we just shoot it.
My dog,Natahsa, a sweet
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 4:04pm.
My dog,Natahsa, a sweet ,kind, loveable thing, takes 2 Obamas and a Maher every day on on our walks.. when she does it in a D's yard we just walk on..
good girl Natty, good girl.. Nat is 70lbs of pure gentle..
I believe in human nature and
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 4:15pm.
I believe in human nature and we are basically lazy and until something affects us directly we dont give a rats ass. We have outlets and people we tend to believe and some of these tell the truth and some do not. Its not that we are dumb but are not motivated enough to take the enournous time and effort to ferret out the truth; and therefore tend to form trusted sources.
The elcestion went as it did because some peoples trusted sources turned out to be not so trustworthy and they looked for other sources .. ie FNC, the TEA party and even listened to the gasp enemy.
2012 will hopefully be a landslide.
But, Bill...
Submitted by Tenebrous on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 4:24pm.
Didn't you just admit that you had some, erm, concerns about Islam? Aren't you then "dumb" like the rest of us? Aren't you then unable to grasp the nuances of beheading and honor killing? Come on over, Bill. It's not so bad over on the right side.
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Thank God for Billy Maher.
Submitted by aphtj on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 4:42pm.
Now everyone who listens to him can look down their noses at people who disagree as dogs. It's just another one of those things. People like to find another person or group that they can feel morally or intellectually superior to.
I'm gonna be the best dog I can be.
I guess we're not as
Submitted by rbosque on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 4:54pm.
I guess we're not as "enlightened" as Bill. Of course if we'd just listen to people like him, we'd be living in a wonderful worker's paradise just like N. Korea. Oh how could we be so stupid!?!?
Woof
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 4:56pm.
Talk about barking at the moon!
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
Well What Do You Expect?
Submitted by DaMama on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 5:08pm.
Maher thinks we are descended from monkeys, so why should he be surprised when people act like animals?
This truth is, the ones acting like animals are the leftist liberals who are knee-jerk reactionaries. Conservatives look at the big picture and the facts. Leftist libs just go with their emotions.
Maher is such an imbecile. Not a brain in that poor little head of his.
Bill Maher is just like a liberal...
Submitted by P. Aaron on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 5:45pm.
...you can't explain things to it.
Memo to Mr Maher...
Submitted by Flying_Flynn on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 6:07pm.
The more you say the American people are stupid, the more American people you WILL chase away. You're not as smart or as important as you think you are!
Hey Bill
Submitted by donabernathy on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 6:48pm.
ya couldn't stand GW cause he got us in Iraq.... yet we are still there.
Hated GW cause he Kept Gitmo open....news flash it's still open..
Ya despise GW cause he ran budget deficits.... yet Barrys are 3 times HIGHER
Then there's rendition...da Patriot Act, spy'n on Americans....... and all these things Barry has not only continued , but taken to a new level.
Just yesterday it was reported that there were a thousand bombings by our military last month alone.... and all I hear from you are crickets...
If Americans are dogs... you have to be the dumbest dog bar none.
roflmao
Bill Maher
Submitted by HockeyKid on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 6:59pm.
clearly doesn't understand that America is a nation, not a person.
My dog wouldn't dream of begging for a biscuit from America, but watch out if you're an actual person!
Logically, it follows that Bill Maher doesn't even have the brains God gave my dog.
What does that say for his fans, who apparently think he's brilliant?
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
So Obama was elected out of
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 7:17pm.
So Obama was elected out of fear?
It seems that,
Submitted by HockeyKid on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 7:23pm.
like Chris Matthews, voters simply "forgot he was black for an hour or so".
How many of these sorts of comments do lib talkers have to make before they are roundly condemned as the racists they are?
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Why Liberals are ALWAYS ANGRY & MISERABLE!
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 7:38pm.
If they are the party of happiness, unity and the never ending euthopia; why the constant anger? All they do is lash out at the rest of the world who is not like them.
Is not enough for this clown to insult Americans, now he is also insulting dogs! My two dogs are a lot smarter than this poor excuse for a human being. Dogs are far more intelligent than we give them credit for. Dog training is not based on fear, but patience, trust and love. Something this idiot probably never had.
So, his 'show watchers' AREN'T
Submitted by FastEd on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 7:48pm.
americans? Says alot about the american education system, for the folks who agree with the billy boy.
"We the People . . " Hey, congress - I'm one of the people - start listening!
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
Useless...
Submitted by shooter on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 8:31pm.
Maher has got to be the most useless, arrogant, elitist f*ck I have ever seen.
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"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert A. Heinlein
Trouble Deeper Than We Know?
Submitted by rammingspeed on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 8:56pm.
I'm thinking that Maher has had some sort of breakdown, perhaps along the lines of Janine Garafolo, where he is now struggling with mental illness. This is not rational thinking. If his hatred runs this deep, to where he's viertually incoherent, he's become danger, at least to himself.
Couldn't happen to a more
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 9:20pm.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy....................
What's realy funny
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 9:46pm.
Is Bill moron actually thinks he is smarter then any significant portion of the American public. This guy is the epitome of what he accuses others of,
If Maher's theory is true, why is he on TV?
Submitted by nkviking75 on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 10:29pm.
Bill, based on your theory, either you are wasting your time on your TV show trying to explain "the truth" to people who can't receive it, or you yourself are a fear monger. Which is it?
“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Aw, Bill's just bitter that
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 12:21am.
Aw, Bill's just bitter that 99 % of the country don't know who he is, much less watch his pathetic little show.
Arrested adolescence
Submitted by Cactus Kurt on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 1:04am.
Maher is in a state of arrested adolescence (or syphilis has affected his brain). He still uses "party" as a verb. Kinda pathetic, really. My dog would take one whiff of Maher and lift his hind leg.
Maher's Intelligence
Submitted by FreedomFan on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 4:50am.
Maher fancies himself something of an intellectual, who just can't abide ignorant average Americans. But just how stupid does someone hafta be to have voted for the Obamanation?
This clown...............
Submitted by Patriot II on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 9:01am.
Should write oblahmas speeches...they are both repulsive, ignorant, narciscists!!!!
Maher states what the Dem elites think but won't say
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 12:18pm.
Maher makes no secret of his disdain for Americans. He's likely angry that the public hasn't responded to him like they respond to Jon Stewart.
Maher's view is exactly what the Dem elites actually think. But instead of an open slap to the face, they prefer the subtle inference.
Consider the explanation for the unpopularity of their health care reform bill. Because they still believe that Americans would embace it if they only understood its goodness, they claim that they needed to "communicate it better." That's the polite way of saying, "The public is too stupid to know what's good for them."
There are 5 stages of grief
Submitted by Beukeboom on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 1:55pm.
There are 5 stages of grief (anger, denial, bargaining, depression, acceptance) -- most liberals are in one of the first two stages.
The hate monger
Submitted by wingnut55 on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 2:20pm.
This guy is so full of hate, why do you even give him space on this site? I'm amazed that he can even put two words together in a actual thought.
Just Like
Submitted by Chupacabra on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 10:13pm.
You can't explain faith and religion to a guy like Bill Mahr.
I guess.
Well All Sorts of American
Submitted by TCinAZ on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 12:54pm.
Well All Sorts of American Dogs didn't have a problem understanding the actual words that Maher said on Politically Incorrect about the 9/11 Hijackers, that got him And his show Shiitecanned off of ABC.
How soon He Forgets.