Maher Claims Libs Never Talk About Nationalizing Oil Industry Before Calling Palin and Bachmann Know-Nothings
It seems these days Bill Maher puts his foot in his mouth virtually every time he's in front of a camera.
On Friday's "Real Time," the holier than thou host actually said liberals never talk about nationalizing the oil industry minutes before calling former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) a couple of "crazy" "know nothings" "who both get their historical facts wrong all the time" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL MAHER: My larger point was that it seems like if there was an equivalent of privatizing FEMA on the left, it would be something like nationalizing the oil industry which you never hear.
Really?
I guess Maher missed a serious discussion on this very issue back in 2008 that began when Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told Shell Oil president John Hofmeister during a May 23 House hearing that she wanted the government to take over the entire oil industry.
The following month, a number of Democrats led by Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) actually proposed nationalizing oil refineries.
At the same time, a Rasmussen poll found a plurality of Democrats supported nationalizing the oil industry - 37 percent for, 32 percent opposed.
But according to Maher, "you never hear" people on the left talk about this.
As usual, the joke was on him for later in this very program, he called Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann a couple of "crazy" "know-nothings" "who both get their historical facts wrong all the time."
Who's ditzy now, Bill?
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What is it with Maher and women?
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 1:18pm.
He calls Sarah Palin and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) a couple of "crazy" "know nothings."
Has Billy been put down by so many "real" women that he has developed a pathological hatred for them? Or maybe he is so in the closet with his own inadequate sexuality that he hates them for being what he's not?
Sometimes I wish that I were a shrink so I could understand moron's like Maher. He could be a PhD case study!
Do you think he beat up little girls when he was in grammar school? Maybe they beat him up?
You dont have to be a Shrink
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 1:26pm.
To know Maher is a woman hating bigot.
Fellow misogynists....
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 2:59pm.
I think he's Chris Matthews' brother from another mother.
Too much time at the Playboy Mansion would be my guess.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 1:28pm.
Who knows what internal parasites he's hosting?
Maher will one day wind up
Submitted by Captain Repus on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 1:31pm.
Maher will one day wind up being busted naked in the back seat of a car with a couple of bags of Cocain and a very pretty boy in the middle of the night. Justice delayed is still justice served.
Weed
Submitted by grammajane on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 1:35pm.
Maybe his "brain" is damaged from all the weed he smokes.
Who Is Maher kidding?
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 1:39pm.
A government seizure of the oil industry is a commie's wet dream come true.
Just ask Obama's bestest bud comrade Chavez.
And when the takeover comes, it will be sold as government stepping in to keep the prices low, yet we all know that won't be the result.
Commies in America just do not like cheap energy - not even a little bit, and if most of them had ther way, we'd be forking out $10/gal or more for the stuff.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Even Hillary said she wanted
Submitted by kg on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 10:07pm.
Even Hillary said she wanted to take the oil industry's profits.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
Most of them want it.
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 10:17pm.
If the votes were there, they'd do it tomorrow. Just like a totally government-run healthcare system. Many liberals want that. The only reason they don't do that is there simply aren't enough votes. If they could ever muster a majority for that, it'd be done immediately.
what a coincidence
Submitted by spepper on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 1:43pm.
What a coincidence-- on BM's HBO job application, that's EXACTLY what the job description was:
"Crazy Know Nothing"
nationalizing oil
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 1:56pm.
I give you Maxine Waters who herself wanted to nationalize oil.
She said so in a hearing a while back.
-Jon
Let's all enjoy it.
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 9:36pm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3I-PVVowFY
Democrats want the government to
Submitted by Mr. Mike on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 2:27pm.
run everything because they have so much compassion and understanding. Big oil, big pharma or big energy (this is why GE kisses O's butt!) it doesn't matter the dems want to control it ALL.
Dems have yet to grasp the concept that businesses are best run with the least amount of government intrusion possible. Beyond basic workers' interests the government should just butt out!
Maher has always looked like
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 2:40pm.
Maher has always looked like a pedophile to me, and considering the weak arguments that he gets away with in calling Palin an idiot I guess I have plenty of proof to call him a pedophile.
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Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
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Noel...
Submitted by AgentAmerican on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 2:49pm.
You should go on his show and challenge him mano y nino. There would be problem though...nobody watches his show except his tens of fans in Madison, WI and Marin County, CA. We could follow up here on Newsbusters though.
Billy the Bimbo Chaser
Submitted by frank14 on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 4:09pm.
Billy is threatened by intelligent women like Michele and Sarah. That's why he spends his days and nights at the Playboy Mansion with brainless lib women.
This is a kind of "ism"
Submitted by boscokraft on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 6:24pm.
Maher apparently cant intellectually argue against these woman, so he resorts to the Saul Alinsky tactic of belittling the opposition. It makes them look silly and irrelevent. Notice the laughter in the audience?
But remember 2 can play at that game. He is irrelevent and ignorant and he knows it, otherwise he would argue policy. Instead he is just another playground bully trying to get everyone to play his game. He is a know-nothing dork and he knows it.
What do Bill Maher and Anthony Weiner have in common
Submitted by MCLANTIERE on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 7:26pm.
More than you think, probably.
Gigantic mouths, miniscule brains, ... and a Johnson fetish for women that don't even know they are alive.
Sarah Palin should challenge Maher to put-up-or-shut-up in an octagon cage ... broadcast on Cable! He'd probably sh*t in his pants at the prospect of that! And she would become a new National Hero(ine)!
To suggest that Palin doesn't know about oil
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 9:07pm.
and by inference billy boy knows more. YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING? It's sad about old billy boy. For some reason many "comedians" become sour poison spitters late in their careers. I guess they hope it will keep them relevant.
It ain't woikin' billy!
Bill never gets his facts wrong....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 11:40pm.
....except when he "quotes" the Bible or says something.
“If the Bible was written by God, why is stuff in the Bible untrue?”
“What about the part in the Bible that says if you see your neighbor working on a Sunday, you should kill him?” - Bill Maher on O'Reilly Factor
To Maher's credit he's
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 11:45pm.
To Maher's credit he's insulated himself in a show where the audience is more or less ignorant when it comes to politics, and that frees him from ever having to be credible. All he needs to do is conform to the stereotypes and prejudices of his audience and he's gold.
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Really, I seem to remember
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Sun, 06/19/2011 - 12:16am.
A certain well known and respected poster on this very site using Waters' quote as a tagline. Now THAT poster was incredibly astute. I can't believe billy boy missed it.
I think of
Submitted by spepper on Sun, 06/19/2011 - 10:25am.
I think of Maher's "missing" hard facts as more like willful negligence in pursuit of his agenda
Fool's Paradise
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 06/19/2011 - 2:49am.
But, as long as no one calls out Maher for his "mistakes" and lies (lying mistakes?) to his face on his show, he will blithely go on thinking he is smart and conservatives are stupid. He lives in a fool's paradise, which, in this case, is called "Real Time".
BILL MAHER Village Idiot and Lounge Lizard
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 06/19/2011 - 4:26am.
As long as Time is not going to lose its cable system due to stupid sexist behavior Bill Maher is not going to get an education.
Getting Control when the cable system was setup has given fifty years of control to people who would have been out the door twenty years ago otherwise. How much of a force is Time Magazine? Just a far leftwing fringe publication that depends on the kindness of the Homosexual New York Media buyers to stay alive. Newsweek has already sold of $1 to keep it in Liberal hands.
A few years ago there was a Congressional bill that would have authorized any company with right-of-way to go into the fiber optics business a few years ago. If any pro-competition bill like that ever passes Congress in the future Time Warner Cable will not last two years and with it HBO and Bill Maher will be gone. Twelve years after that we will have to explain the "MSM" and "Liberal Media" to High School students when they ask why America ever did something as stupid as the Great Society or electing B. H. Obama.
The Democrats depend on squelching consumer choice and forcing their opinions on people. This is why Liberals can't make it in talk radio and do poorly on the Internet.
Maher is one of the main reasons
Submitted by c5then on Sun, 06/19/2011 - 9:34am.
Why i do not subscribe to HBO. They might as well call the show "DNC hour".
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Doesn't he ever get tired of being wrong?
Submitted by GONAVY on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 10:42am.
Hey Bill, is this like Brazil being "off oil"?