Maher: Democrats Didn't Use Any Violent Rhetoric Towards Republicans During Budget Battle
Like most liberal media members, Bill Maher thinks violent political rhetoric only comes from Republicans.
Proving this once again, HBO's "Real Time" host on Friday disputed former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele's claim that Democrats used such hostile talk against Republicans during the recent budget battle (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL MAHER, HOST: Tell me what’s worse than that, because in a world full of lies, I feel this man [Sen. John Kyl (R-Ariz.)] stands alone. I mean, and for that statement to come from his press secretary, “His remark was not intended to be a factual statement,” it includes a percent. I mean, it's one thing if you’re, “This is my opinion,” but there was an actual number in there. 90 percent as opposed to three.
ED SCHULTZ: What he was trying to do there, he was trying to sell the American people to be against Planned Parenthood. Okay.
MICHAEL STEELE: Right.
SCHULTZ: So this is the United States senator, one of a 100, on the floor of the Senate, throwing out a falsehood and then admitting to the American people, “Well, you know, I really wasn't too high on the facts. Just throwing it out.”
STEELE: And you're shocked by that because?
SCHULTZ: Well, I’ll tell you, this is what it’s come to?
STEELE: But you've seen over the past couple of weeks in the whole lead-up to the vote this week, you know, hyperbolic statements on both sides from…
MAHER: Really?
SCHULTZ: What compares to that?
MAHER: Really? What, thank you.
STEELE: From, from, you know, “Republicans want, you know, to kill old people and put them out of their homes."
MAHER: Who said that?
STEELE: A number of members of Congress.
MAHER: They said they wanted to kill old people?
STEELE: Yes. No, wait a minute.
MAHER: Wait a second. That's the exact phrase they used?
STEELE: Yes. You can go back. Go back, go back.
MAHER: I’m just asking.
STEELE: Go back. Go back. Yes. Hold on.
MAHER: They want to kill old people?
STEELE: Go back, go back to the congressman from Florida who made the exact same statement…
MAHER: Alan Grayson, get sick and die. But you…
SCHULTZ: You said this week, Michael. You said this week.
STEELE: I said leading up to this week.
SCHULTZ: Okay, okay.
STEELE: Listen to what I say.
Too bad Steele couldn't think of anything more recent like Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fl.) saying Congressman Paul Ryan's (R-Wisc.) budget was "a death trap for some seniors."
Or Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) saying that freshmen House Republicans came to Washington to kill women.
Or Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) saying shutting down the government is "the functional equivalent of bombing innocent civilians."
Or Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Mary.) saying, "This entire debate has involved throwing women and children under the bus."
Frankly, all four of these comments were far more inflammatory and offensive than what Kyl said concerning abortions and Planned Parenthood, but Maher either has never heard them or was lying.
Better yet, Maher himself said on NBC's "Tonight Show" shortly after the shootings in Tuscon, "The right-wing loves, the go-to rhetoric for them is, 'Wouldn't it be fun to kill the people we disagree with?'"
This came moments before he ironically said, "Left-wingers don't talk that way."
You really can't make this stuff up.
On the other hand, no matter how many examples you might present to Maher, he wouldn't hear them, for like most liberals, he's got a Democrat violent rhetoric filter that only allows hateful comments by conservatives to come through.
You think you have to buy such a device, or are they passed out for free by the DNC to all media members that want them?
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Maher is simply a liar like
Submitted by povertypimpin on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 5:38pm.
Maher is simply a liar like everyone else on the left. They do something despicable and then go out and accuse the other side of the very despicable act they just perpetrated.
Please Noel
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 5:39pm.
No more of this fool today. I've had enough of him.
And why....
Submitted by Spoker on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 5:41pm.
And why is it that so many Americans think that a rubber chicken is far more relevant and entertaining than anything Bill Maher has appeared in for the last several years? I know, that is a rhetorical question. (Please note the lack of violence.)
How could anyone sink so low to go on Maher's show?
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 5:51pm.
I don't get why many so-called Republicans would ever consider going on Maher's show.
Because they are the most naive IDIOTS
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 6:29pm.
Because they are the most naive IDIOTS to ever walk this land. They think being a good sport will help them. Some of them rationalize it as a chance to speak directly to libs like Maher's viewers.
They don't know that they are damned if they do and damned if they dont, and they should at least be damned for staying away, and keeping some semblance of their dignity.
They should get it through their thick heads that no matter how "regular" a guy they seem, and no matter how much the audience laughs at them, or with them, there is NO WAY IN HELL they would ever vote for them!
Republicans never, never learn.
Some may be naive but most
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 7:42pm.
Some may be naive but most are garden variety attention whores whose egos fool them into believing that they are different than the other attention whores who have appeared before them and that their performance will be different.
It rarely ever turns out differently. People are what they are.
Forget "rhetoric"; the Dems
Submitted by robert108 on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 5:52pm.
Forget "rhetoric"; the Dems were the instigators of real violence, like practiced by the WI union mob when they couldn't get their way.
Not to mention ...
Submitted by miss911ninja on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 11:30pm.
...how they trashed the Capitol and left their DEBRIS everywhere, those great little recycling control freaks!
I feel sorry for Maher
Submitted by Tuari on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 6:03pm.
I really do, I feel sorry for him. He has a pretty bad mental disorder that totally messes with how he perceives reality.
If I weren't exhausted from arguing with Cobra on the other
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 6:24pm.
Maher thread, I'd add some perspective to this one.
Jer
Oh, and I forgot...
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 7:01pm.
I hope a BRICK house falls on Ed Schultz, too.
And IMHO, Maher is just going for another MRC DisHonor Award.
Just so you know....
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 7:19pm.
I'm compiling a ProudAmerican/Violent Rhetoric dossier for future reference. ;-)
Jer
AWESOME!
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 11:28pm.
I'll be on record as NOT being a conversative Pu**y!
Believe it not, Jer, you've always been one of my favorites on this site.
Well, in that case, ProudAmerican...
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 11:40pm.
(hold on a sec)
I just eighty-sixed your dossier.
Jer
Aaaaa-haha-haha!
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 11:59pm.
Knew that'd get you, my Pret-ty...and you're little dog, too!
Aaaaa-haha-haha!!!!!!!
You exposed a major weakness in my armor, P A...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 12:07am.
I'm very susceptible to flattery.
Jer
Not to worry, Jer
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 12:23am.
That does not diminish the fact that you're still one of my favorite pseudo Devil's Advocates on this site.
the emphasis being on "pseudo" or "Devil"...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 12:28am.
No need to answer.
Thanks for the compliment.
Have a nice Sunday.
Jer
Clearly Maher is delusional
Submitted by AngryInOhio on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 6:32pm.
Clearly Maher is delusional and can't deal with reality, I would feel sorry for him, but he just makes my skin crawl.
Makes me think of Larry King's show............
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 6:41pm.
Larry King would play a clip of Rush Limbaugh's show, say how vile he is, won't actually have Limbaugh on his show, but have either Bill Maher, Joy Bejar, or Michael Moore on to comment and agree how vile Limbaugh is. I tell you what, Mr. Maher, if you are not a coward, I think you should have a legitimate debate with Limbaugh. Put your money (that you earned through capitalism) where your mouth is. Of course you won't, because you are a fraud.
Are you sure it was Larry King?
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 6:54pm.
Jer
Hey Noel, I'm starting to
Submitted by rbosque on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 6:43pm.
Hey Noel, I'm starting to think he has a brain tumor.
sinking
Submitted by grammajane on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 7:30pm.
Maher's show must really be sinking fast if he has to have that ass schultz on. Agree with previous post as to why any conservatuve would waste their time on this poor excuse of a TV show. I gave Steele to much credit......wrong. Why would any decent person subject themselves to this crap.
If anything,
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 7:40pm.
It shows that Steele actually has a set of balls to appear on a show that is not frindly towards him, Schultz, on the other hand, is the cowardly lion who hangs up on callers with opposing viewpoints on his own radio show.
Steele was woefully unprepared
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 8:46pm.
Accepting an invitation from Maher is bad enough, arriving unprepared is inexcusable. It would have been easy enough to list off a few of the over the top violent comments made by the Democrats and left wing pundits if only Steele were paying adequate attention. Why wouldn't someone in Steele's position have a come back to name names on the tip of his tongue?
He's always unprepared
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 9:13pm.
That's why he's the FORMER head of the RNC.
Agreed
Submitted by Mark81150 on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 2:59am.
If I was in a position to get on bhis show, I'd cram like my life depended on it, names places, lists of left atrocities to the public debate.. What Steele always did was be so milk toast in his defense against the lefts smears, he was an embarassment to the party, let alone conservatives.
A third grader knows more than that dolt Schultz, it should have been a blow out. And Maher?
He's your typical loudmouth at the liquer table during the Christmas party, doesn't know a damn thing, but will pontificate as if he had a PHD in the subject. When called, he cracks a joke, and says it's ALL BS and tries to duck under the lovable rogue defense.. I love slapping these kind of guys down hard, if you're going to spout off and be an insufferable jerk, you'd better be right, and better back it up, or discover how much Karma likes you on toast.
Rhetoric
Submitted by GigglingGoogler on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 7:40pm.
Bill might as well start stealing, you go to hell for lying anyway!!!
He's not even worth killing
Submitted by Order270 on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 8:22pm.
But why does NB bother with this neophyte hack job. HBO loses credibility by the minute giving this deluded maniac a forum to bump his gums. His only accomplishment is setting the benchmark for where rational debate ends and right now he's so far over the ledge, he's disappeared.
Eventually, libutards in the
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 8:47pm.
Eventually, libutards in the Democrat media are going to cause another Tucson-style shooting, or worse. They're whipping their rabid acolytes into such a fury with their violent rhetorics and scare tactics that they'll soon drive some of them to action.
When people are scared, they do stupid things. And if there's one thing that Demorats do well (besides tax, spend and lie), it's scaring their followers. This week the media and Demorats have behaved disgracefully. That's nothing new, but when you look back on it, if people were thinking rationally, they would laugh the Demorats out of power on the spot and demand that charges be brought up against every liberal news network.
Look back on what they said and did. Frothing and screeching that the GOP was going to 'kill seniors', 'kill women', 'throw granny into the snow'. And many of them saying they'd go up to republicans and 'blow their brains out'.
And these fools still have people who follow them and believe in what they say. There's only so long that such blind followers can hear such scare-mongering before they get so scared they act. If Demorat disciples and kool-aid drinkers truly believe that the GOP is 'coming after them' (as the Demorats accuse), then they will think themselves justified in doing whatever it takes to eliminate the perceived 'threat'.
And with Obama driving the ecomony into ruin, with unemployment, world wars, terrorist attacks, suicide rates and gas prices skyrocketing under this failed President - fear will be roiling inside them. Demorats will continue to blame the GOP for all these things, and eventaully their rabid followers will take up weapons.
Mark my words - they will use violence. And mark my words on this - when a liberal or a Demorat murders because of their fear-mongering leaders, they will say they did it to 'save old people/blacks/babies/women' from the big, bad, GOP that was just lurking out in the bushes, waiting for the chance to spring out and steal their Medicare.
And the media will be right there cheering them on - just as they did in Tucson - blaming Palin and the GOP before they'd even heard ANY evidence or facts.
I don't want violence to happen. But the Demorats do. They can't wait for their followers to kill someone, so they can blame the GOP.
They should be careful though. Rush Limbaugh, as he so often does, nailed it when he said this: 'If Democrats want mob rule they'd better be careful. Because OUR mob is much bigger than theirs.'
Curiously, the guy who actually mowed down a bunch
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 11:00pm.
of folks was a 'conservutard' regurgitating the customary anti-librul talking points.
Jer
So regurgitating the customary "anti-librul---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 11:21pm.
talking points" makes the shooter, in addition to a murderer and a deranged individual, --- what?
Are you intimating that there is another category, as well?
MD
Check with Slyrr, Matthew...
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 11:32pm.
He devoted a rather lengthy post to the delineation of at least one additional category.
Jer
Hi Matthew!
Submitted by miss911ninja on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 11:32pm.
Miss 'ya and the old NB where we could really banter!
ninja---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 2:29am.
Right back at you !!
MD
really?
Submitted by Mark81150 on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 3:38am.
I've sat through decades of watching the left become more and more clinically insane as they suffer the normal election loses that come with a two party system. They have stirred their outrage to such a pitch in some cases there are democrats out there who can't believe a republican can ever win an election, they're all "stolen, by..(insert whackjob conspiracy of choice).. It's past irrational, and to point to one bigoted crazy guy out of the endless stream of violence in the news, as if that justified anything.. do you really want a match up of the politics of psychos and criminals?
really?
Typical to pluck one item from the news and from it smear half the country with it... try reading and educate yourself.
_________________
"Loughner, a registered independent, didn’t even vote in November. Rather than spurred to violence by the Tea Parties, the killer became obsessed with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords back in 2007 — two years before the first Tea Party rally.
One classmate described him as “Left-wing, quite liberal,” while another remembered him being frustrated by George W. Bush. His favorite books prove especially instructive, as he listed offerings by Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, and Ayn Rand. Jared Lee Loughner was all over the place.
There is a tradition of political violence on the Right as there is on the Left. The anarchist bomber Timothy McVeigh, and anti-abortion bomber Eric Richard Rudolph, certainly can be said to vaguely share views with parts of the American Right. Both sides have their share of violent extremists. But both sides differ greatly in how they treat such violent extremists.
Weathermen get tenure. The Unabomber gets offered a book deal. John Brown gets a hagiographic song. Right-wing terrorists get ostracized. There’s no romanticism of political violence on the Right as there is on the Left. Where is the Right’s Sacco and Vanzetti, Tom Mooney, or H. Rap Brown?
The Left lionize their murderers. The Right runs from theirs."
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41132
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I'm really tired of the left's mindless demagougery of this issue, with idiots like Schultz happily doing exactly what he accuses us of.
Are you serious, Mark?
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 5:06am.
Slyrr weaves a sick and violent tale of future Hell and blood at the hands of avenging libs, manipulated by the media and emboldened by their leaders to slaughter the innocents who torment them--all of which is based on nothing more than his amazing gift of prescience!. But it is enough with which to rally those of like minds to confront the barbarians at the gate. They are there, aren't they? I mean...Slyrr--mark his words!--says so. He can see 'em. Everywhere.
So, instead of indulging in a contrived fantasy which smears a significant sector of our society, I "smear" a SINGLE person who actually engaged in--at least the evidence is compelling--an ideologically based murderous rampage in the relatively recent past. Slyrr slings his mud gratuitously and theoretically. I isolate [pluck?] and address one real-life [and death] event. Your sense of proportion is staggeringly warped, Mark.
But thank you for the brief history lesson given by the good folks over at Human Events. It's been awhile since I've read about the early twentieth century anarchists. [But, believe me, I have read about them. It was required as part of my American History degree. And I'm also very familiar with 60's anti-war radicalism and black activism inasmuch as I was a contemporary witness to it. So please spare me your lame, patronizing instructions to "read" and "educate" myself. [By the way, have you read the enitirety of the Unabomber's 'Manifesto'? Very dry and boring. But if you have, and I did, you would be aware that he hated both the left and the right.]
We do agree on one thing though. I can't stand Schultz [or Maher] either.
Jer
I'm no soothsayer. And I
Submitted by Slyrr on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 11:15am.
I'm no soothsayer. And I hope I'm mistaken. I'd love nothing more than for liberals, leftists and their acolytes to see the light and follow their own advice - (i.e., 'tone down the extreme rhetoric'.)
Heck, the libs were issued a royal decree from their beloved King Obama. At the Tucson memorial, he commanded his vassals to knock it off.
But apparantly, even Obama's vassals don't want to obey ALL his edicts. They don't seem to respect their 'sort of God who stands above the Earth' enough to obey his command to speak kindly and respectfully to everyone.
Even Obama broke his royal commandment, sitting the GOP leaders on the front row to insult and harangue them with the same scare tactics and hate language that he commanded his people not to use. He merely veiled his hate speech behind the feeble and cowardly dodge of 'some people say'.
Human nature is what it is. With Obama himself leading the way, his media puppets are eager and willing to inflame their audiences with nightmare tales of GOP demons lurking in the bushes, just waiting for the chance to leap forth on their hapless female/black/child victims and 'push granny into the snow', or 'deny women health services' or 'kill Big Bird', or 'withhold cancer treatment'.
You can try to defend Demorat scare and fear tactics if you wish. I don't doubt when the next shooting takes place, and it is once again discovered ex post facto that it was not a republican, nor a tea party member, you will still say they were.
If there is one sentence that sums up the entire travesty that is the sad mistake of the Obama administration, it is the phrase he himself uses in each and every one of the speeches he gives to excuse his latest failures: 'It was all Bush's fault'.
Unfortunately it's human nature.
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 1:48am.
When people of lower intellect or unstable behavior become scared, feel cornered and see themselves as out of options they react irrationally. By feeding these emotions with further fear and fabricating justification for those reactions the leftists and MSM are creating the perfect atmosphere for mindless violence. That is dangerously close to actually inciting that violence.
Like "Slyrr" I think it may be a foregone conclusion that there will be ugly consequences for all the irresponsibly hateful, dishonest and violent rhetoric with which the left is attacking the country. Even before hate and violence was this big a part of the "discourse", I had conversations with people as much as a year and a half ago about this. As I saw the destruction of the economy effecting people's lives while the politicians and MSM misinformed us, I guessed that people were probably going to react with irrational behavior.
People of reason can only do as much as possible to calm folks with the truth. I can think of a few people I know personally that could use that calming and I haven't done anything about it yet. It's time I get out there and get busy. Does anybody else know someone they should have talked to, but haven't? -bidn-
Seriously, there is something
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 9:14pm.
Seriously, there is something wrong with both these guys. Seriously.
I agree, jw---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 9:33pm.
and for as weird, nasty, and intolerable as these particular individuals can be, while I understand the revulsion many feel for seeing articles here at NB's that cover these pendejos, what better way to keep a finger on the pulse of their craziness?
The more one can know of his adversary's mind set, the better.
To not recognize these people as being diametrically opposed to a lifestyle that conservatives prefer, is a huge mistake.
MD
You're right about that Matt.
Submitted by Order270 on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 10:43pm.
Sometimes I get so exasperated at the nonsense I forget about the importance of "Knowing thy enemy". But I'm also worrying that maybe the craziness is starting to shift the baseline.
Order270 ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 11:09pm.
An excellent point.
As many people have said, if you argue with contention and insults, and spread heat rather than light, you end up as bad as those you argue with (trolls) and have accomplished nothing other than lowering your standards.
I must admit, though I prefer taking the low road, that there is a great deal of merit to the outlook that says 'keep it clean'.
Otherwise, not paying attention to the shift in the baseline reference craziness may well draw the good guys closer to, if not into, that very realm.
MD
The ends justify the means
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 9:16pm.
for your typical commie.
the dems and their loyal band of socialists, commies and anarchists continue to act in a manner counter to the betterment of our republic and we are sunk as a nation unless the repubes quit playing prevent defense and start going after them like our future depends on it.
Keith Olbermann Thinks This Babe Should Have Been Aborted
Submitted by im41 on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 9:36pm.
TIP The one thing that Keith Olbermann can fantasize about when he sees this creature, is that she should have had her brains sucked out.
Can there be any clearer evidence that this wacko is mentally deranged?
bill, either you are a liar
Submitted by right of way on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 9:59pm.
bill, either you are a liar or a dunce. which is it?
right of way
Submitted by zero order phase on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 10:04pm.
Who says it can't be both?
Who was the Democrat who said
Submitted by kg on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 10:56pm.
Who was the Democrat who said "would I get in trouble if I blew his brains out" about her Republican colleague?
"DumbAssity of Dope"
Maher the Unheard
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 11:47pm.
I always dislike the usual comment that appear in these threads that begin with "Who cares what this person says?" Usually, I'll answer, "Some liberals or non-engaged 'moderates' do..."
However, in Maher's case I will come pretty close to almost saying "Who cares what Bill Maher says?" I have heard some liberals either reference the blather of other obnoxious liberals, like Olbermann or Maddow, or make arguments that are clearly influenced by their schtick, but I have never, ever, heard any liberal in the media or in private conversation, reference or quote anything Bill Maher has excreted in support of their argument. Either they don't watch him or don't think his words are of any value to their side.
Maher may have a show, but I truly believe his influence in the general political war of words is nearly non-existent. He influences no one. He has no more weight than the average no name liberal on the street - other than being just one vote out of many in any election.
I'm not sure who matters less in the media liberal ranting head mix - Bill Maher or Ed Schultz. One of them is a zero and the other is less than zero. When you get down to zero - I guess it doesn't really matter.
Wanna go to his show?
Submitted by guefy on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 11:44pm.
He's in South Bend tomorrow: Nearby me. I was wondering, how well he sells shows. Well here it is. He's at the Morris Civic auditorium which has 2564 seats. So I looked at ticket availability just 20 hours before his show. They still show 1150 tickets available. Now I know they hold tickets and many times they set empty. I was at a sold out concert there the other day and there were rows of seats empty. So basically, the place is going to be half full! I don't think this guy is popular enough to even be reported here at Newsbusters.
It all comes down to one undeniable fact...
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 2:47am.
Liberals lie. The end.
So... That would mean when
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 3:01am.
So... That would mean when the Gipper was a liberal--and make no mistake, any man who voted for FDR four straight times was undeniably a liberal--he deliberately told falsehoods.
That's hard for me to believe.
Jer
I didn't leave the democartic party.
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 4:21am.
The gipper was a liberal? Really, Jer? And I thought Maher's jokes were bad!
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Right, Cobra...there weren't ANY Republican candidates
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 5:24am.
during all of the FDR years who would have been more attractive alternatives for one who espoused a "conservative" philosophy. No room in the Republican party for Reagan back then, I guess. Sure, go with that.
Jer
Lest we forget, below is a
Submitted by jdhawk on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 9:36am.
Lest we forget, below is a reminder of why Maher has been relegated to a show (that nobody watches) on HBO (that noboady subscribes to):
"Politically Incorrect ended because Maher, during a heated discussion over whether the 9/11 terrorists were cowards, proclaimed: "We [Americans] have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly. Stupid maybe, but not cowardly." Amid the controversy that grew out of Maher's remarks, Federal Express and Sears Roebuck withdrew their advertising from Politically Incorrect, and ABC cancelled Maher's show on June 16, 2002." http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1689
NB, it would be useful to provide who sponsors these people in the lamestream media. If FedEx and Sears can move away from a show and it collapses, we can make it happen to other leftists as well.
On the previous show:
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 10:33am.
Maher fantacized about a wall falling on Michelle Bachmann and Eric Cantor. Hmmm, since Eric Cantor is Jewish, that remark could be seen as anti-semetic. Nah, Maher (a democrat) would never advocate violence against republicans (sarcasm) during the budget debate.
Bill Maher is Typical socialist scum.
Maher vs. Republicans
Submitted by sarge329 on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 12:37pm.
The Republicans who appear on the HBO version of PMSNBC do so because a: they desparately want to be thought of as " enlightened " , and b: they crave the media attention. They are not Rep-
ublicans, they are RINOs. As such, they are a lower form of life than Democrats or even liberals. At the very least, liberals are honest in their focus. Liberals have one overwhelming desire: the acquisition and/or retention of power. RINOs wish to be seen as more openminded and mature, since they are " waiting for more information " , " wanting to hear all sides " , and " having an open mind " . All of which is good, I suppose, but RINOs act as though they have no core values and beliefs. If you were to ask a RINO how they felt about, say, abortion, you might hear them say the following: " Well, I'm not sure I have all the information I need to make a good decision " . Huh??? So, you don't know whether you believe abortion is right or wrong? While I despise the actions and aims of someone like George Soros, at least Soros is more honest than, say, John McCain. We know what Soros wants. With McCain, the decision changes from day to day, sometimes even on the hour.
Maher musta been visited by Will Smith.
Submitted by Ashrak on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 1:20pm.
"You think you have to buy such a device, or are they passed out for free by the DNC to all media members that want them?"
I think the DNC owned Big Media complex has a Flashy Thingy
The Hell The Left Doesn't Think Like That!
Submitted by M.Maurer73 on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 6:52pm.
One need look no further than the Conservative Byte.com article titled: Left Taunt Black Tea Party Member, and watch video footage of a group of leftest knuckle draggers protesting a tea party gathering here in Portland, Or. on friday. They said everything thing from "I wipe my a** with the American flag" and "God damn America" to hurling racist insuls. Yeah Bill you liberals are a real peaceful bunch.
Why Not Punish the Poor?
Submitted by MLGoodell on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 12:48pm.
This is one of the shibboleths of leftist ideology, that any bid to reform the budgeting process is tantamount to "rewarding the rich and punishing the poor." My question is, what's wrong with rewarding the rich? They have achieved wealth. And on the other side of the spectrum, no culture has long survived the decision to reward the poor. Why would we want to encourage people to be poor? Better to encourage them to be rich.
Want to solve the Medicaid "Entitlement" crisis? Set in motion a movement to encourage poor people to seek wealth. Make being poor even more unpleasant than it already is. Stigmatize poor people. Make them feel ashamed. Make them think that just getting by with government assistance is no way to live. Make them want to prosper, and utterly destroy the concept of "the underclass."