Coulter Exposes Maher As An Environmental Hypocrite
Bill Maher on Friday proudly equated the Casey Anthony verdict with Republican thinking.
Unfortunately for him, conservative author Ann Coulter was present, and when she got the chance to respond during the internet-only Overtime segment of HBO's "Real Time," she nicely exposed some of the host's most delicious hypocrisies (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL MAHER, HOST: And finally, New Rule, if you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it you're a dumb ass. And if you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stopped paying taxes, you're a Republican.
Before Coulter interrupts, I must.
As NewsBusters reported last August, the liberal think tank the Brookings Institution calculated that extending all of the Bush tax cuts for an additional ten years would cost the Treasury a total of $3.675 trillion.
Of that, Brookings identified that $679 billion - or roughly $68 billion a year - would go to married couples making over $250,000 and individuals earning in excess of $200,000.
It therefore is logical to conclude the cost of these taxes the previous ten years since enacted in July 2001 has been somewhat similar - roughly $68 billion per year.
As we currently have a $1.5 trillion deficit, exactly how would it disappear if we had $68 billion more in revenues?
I guess using Maher's premise, if you look at the deficit and believe the problem is because the rich stopped paying taxes, you're either a Democrat, a liberal comedian, or both.
But I digress:
MAHER: And before you accuse me of equating the Casey Anthony verdict with Republican thinking, save your breath, I am. I am. I'm equating them. I’m saying if you're a working class American who still votes Republican then you don't get to bitch about that verdict.
ANN COULTER: They were all Democrats. I bet they were.
MAHER: You bet they were.
COULTER: The entire OJ jury…
MAHER: I’m doing something now.
COULTER: I don’t care. The entire OJ jury were Democrats.
MAHER: I’ll see you in court.
COULTER: The entire OJ jury were Democrats.
MAHER: My lawyer will. In his press conference last week President Obama said maybe, just maybe, the problem with the budget is that the billionaires were quote "enjoying the lowest tax rates since before I was born." Yeah, like we believe Obama was born.
Now here's Obama’s thinking, and it’s a little counter-intuitive, but try to follow it. When Clinton was president, the rich paid a little more taxes and the government had money. Then Bush cut all those taxes and now we don't. I know it's hard to grasp. It involves subtracting. But in suggesting that in these desperate times we slightly raise the tax on private jets, Obama was baiting the Republicans to look like extremists by defending private jets, but the gambit failed because half the people are not outraged. Half of them say I'm with the Party that cuts all these programs for real people, for the 99 percent - planned parenthood, environmental protection, college, health care, infrastructure - but holds the line on private jets. Voting for them is as stupid as voting not guilty for the mom who lost her baby for a month and went looking at a wet t-shirt contest.
[Applause]
MAHER: Every election, roughly half the population votes Democrat and the other half votes Republican. Now, I understand why the Republicans get one percent of the vote - the richest one percent. That other 49 percent, someone will have to explain to me.
Unfortunately for him, Coulter was still around in the internet-only Overtime segment wherein she did indeed explain it to him as only she can:
MAHER: First of all, do you want to respond to that editorial? I could feel you chomping at the bit.
COULTER: Yeah. Next time I’m bringing the earphones for my iPhone so that I don’t have to listen to that without being able to respond.
MAHER: Well, now you can respond.
COULTER: I didn’t, I forgot we had this internet section, so I tried to pretend I was listening to music.
MAHER: Well, I basically was saying…
COULTER: Okay, one thing is, okay, I got the basic idea – one percent of Americans with their private jets, the ones you fly, Bill, because you’re such an environmentalist.
[Applause]
MAHER: Well, I did when we had debates.
COULTER: Oh, it was just for me.
MAHER: It was just for you.
Nice. Does anyone doubt for a second that Maher, like most of the global warming believing Hollywood elites, flies private jets whenever it's possible?
They sure don't care about carbon dioxide when they're emitting it.
But that wasn't the only hypocrisy Coulter exposed:
COULTER: Okay. I don’t understand why anyone who wasn’t part of the 40 percent of America working for state, local, or federal government would ever vote for the Democratic Party since that is what the Democratic Party stands for. And as I told you interrupting your joke – sorry, but I couldn’t help myself…
MAHER: I understand.
COULTER: …it is a fact that every juror on the OJ case was a Democrat. Everybody blames the blacks. Not me. I blame the Democrats.
[Applause]
MAHER: Well, I…
COULTER: Ha!
MAHER: Alright, let’s move on.
It's nice to be the host and be able to change the subject when you've been exposed as a hypocritical dunce.
All in all, it was a good evening of liberal hunting for Coulter.
Brava!
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Comments
I wasn't always a Ann Coulter fan
Submitted by zenman1661 on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 8:44pm.
But, that is starting to change.
Me too - whenever i saw her
Submitted by Mhockey1505 on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 8:31am.
Me too - whenever i saw her on TV I always thought she was over the top. But if you read her columns, or have read her books, you can pretty much see the facts of where that shock-line she drops is coming from.
Oh, if only...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 8:56pm.
This "exposure" would have actually happened during the broadcast itself! (sigh)
Was sweet anyway. Mahar is such a rube. I think I've found a potential new bi-line...
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
yea like steven king... "the world has moved on."
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 9:29pm.
Mahar personal Twilight Zone zone, with an "APPLAUSE BUTTON"
Thanks Ann for hitchhiking into the nest, good job lololololol.
You Didn't Build That.
Internet only = Didn't happen
Submitted by Saint Zero on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 9:01pm.
Internet only = Didn't happen for old Bill.
Just another example
Submitted by ohio granny on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 9:11pm.
Maher is just another example of democrats being hypocrites, liars, cheats, and crooks. It must be in their DNA.
Liberal Logic?
Submitted by Junk Science Skeptic on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 9:13pm.
"the problem with the budget is that the billionaires were quote "enjoying the lowest tax rates since before I was born"
"When Clinton was president, the rich paid a little more taxes and the government had money"
Forget the fallacious nature of both comment and just wonder how both came from the same mouth just moments apart.
Which is it? Lowest in history, or "just a little bit" less?
leftist propaganda
Submitted by LarryG on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 1:22am.
No argument, just a note: GE sold 51% to Comcast. What now?
Ann Coulter
Submitted by gunguru on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 9:15pm.
is brilliant, and is one of the only people with a law degree that I respect for their integrity and intelligence. I do hate the fact that she bring Maher's ratings up by going on his show, but by showing his audience just how pathetically stupid that syphilitic dunce is things balance out. There are two reasons that his audience laugh at his nonsense; one, his producers hold up those big posters that say "LAUGH NOW" and two, they are moronic, insular libtard New Yorkers who never leave their little island nation and have no knowledge of the country or the world in general.
I still wanted to see more
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 9:16pm.
I still wanted to see more blood -- especially since Ann Coulter was there -- but that's just me.
I'm sorry but HOW is the Casey Anthony verdict a product
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 9:34pm.
of Republican thinking? Whose party willfully and proudfully advocates the slaughter of the unborn? I'm also sorry but Bill Maher is not a rube. He is a POS.
Maher
Submitted by Robersire on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 9:55pm.
All this from a guy who called President George Washington scum on his politically incorrect program. He is another one of those Deceitmocrats that influence their followers the Dumbmocrats.
Luke 22:67,68.
Type-o
Submitted by Dave81 on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 9:58pm.
"omitting" should be "emitting" (toward the end, talking about private jets.
Maher makes a good point
Submitted by Dave81 on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 10:07pm.
He said "Now, I understand why the Republicans get one percent of the vote - the richest one percent. That other 49 percent, someone will have to explain to me." That's pretty much the flaw in the Democrats' arguments. It doesn't make sense that people who AREN'T making over $250,000 a year would care about tax cuts for the rich and helping out the oil companies and the insurance companies and whatever else they can get their greedy little hands off, because they (we) have nothing to gain from it. Obviously we vote Republican for reasons other than screwing the poor out of what we've worked hard for. But they don't see that. All they see is "This is why people vote Republican" and then can't explain why most people vote Republican since their rational doesn't apply.
The health department needs to close that show down.
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 10:08pm.
I can't imagine it's too sanitary, with all that stuff Bill pulls out of his rectum.
...exactly how would it disappear if we had $68 billion more
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 10:17pm.
...exactly how would it disappear if we had $68 billion more in revenues?
In this hideous economy, you wouldn't see anywhere near $68 billion in revenues.
What is worse, you would see an immediate increase in unemployment, as many small business owners who are currentlly on the bubble and thus hanging on for dear life, would simply say to hell with it.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
So, according to Bill Maher,
Submitted by ckc1227 on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 11:14pm.
So, according to Bill Maher, if the rich paid an extra $70 billion a year, that would close the $1.6 trillion dollar budget deficit this year? And he thinks it's the Republicans who have trouble with math. Too bad Ann didn't call him out on his nonsense.
And by the way, Bill, it was your guy Obama, who you voted for, who is responsible for the corporate jet deduction, so what does that make you?
Now here's Republican
Submitted by tcm14 on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 11:16pm.
Now here's Republican thinking, and it’s a little counter-intuitive, but try to follow it. When any country in history followed Socialist policies, the rich ceased to exist, the government had more money and control, and that country eventually collapsed. In capitalist countries that doesn't happen. I know it's hard to grasp. It involves reading.
What makes Maher exceptional?
Submitted by Hausmaus on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 12:20am.
Maher is on hundred percent fecal. During his gestation period his mom underwent convolusions that required her abdomen to be drained of puss every hour on the hour. Poor Maher, in his zygot stage he gave his mother such a hard time, her uterus displaced the placenta entirely into her lower track thus giving birth to the first fecalized baby, known as little Maher. That's why everything that comes out of Maher's mouth is pure crap, and no matter how well he'll try to embllish his thoughts the essence of his existence is pure human waste. Mr. Maher would feel more at home at the bottom of a 14 feet deep out house, loaded with maggots, and a stench that would make a thousand skunks smell like Channel No. 5. For you idiots out there who like to listen to this moron, be very careful not to end up in an everlasting fecal state. Furthermore, if you ever look at the word Maher in the dictionary, it is defined as: Any waste material expelled out of the human rectum.
Good grief dude,
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 12:24am.
That is gross, and uncalled for.
Cant you simply call him an a$$h0l3 like the rest of us?
Right Boudin*
Submitted by cajun2 on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 12:14am.
But what else can you expect from basse classe.
Well, I for one am certainly glad I stayed up
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 12:29am.
for that offering. Rarely have I witnessed such elegant rhetoric. Thank God.
Jer
Jer...
Submitted by MightyMouth on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 12:36am.
You don't believe in God. So please stop envoking Him.
MightyMouth...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 1:02am.
You are a closet atheist. Don't bark orders to me about God, since you reject Him.
Jer
You are killing me Jer.
Submitted by MightyMouth on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 1:31am.
Ask yourself one question, do you blelive God knows you in the womb?
If he does and you destroy that person in the womb do you commit murder, right?
Ask a democrat that question, any democrat, you cannot be a democrat and be a Christian at the same time. If you are pro-abortion you are anti-Christian.
MightyMouth....
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 1:34am.
Have you had a few too many drinks again? I think that's what brought on your theological inquisition and passing judgment the last time.
George and Laura Bush and his mother and father all believe in abortion under certain circumstances. Are they anti-Christian? Are they going to Hell? Why don't you ponder that while you sober up. And then I hope you will refrain from ever bringing this up again.
Jer
You invoke BUSH??
Submitted by MightyMouth on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 1:58am.
Laura Bush and by extension George Bush is PRO- ABORTION. Just like the dear departed Betty Ford. You can accuse me of all the drunkness you want but it doesnt change the fact that that baby killers are still allowed to be part of the 'civil society". If George or Laura allowed the killing of babies, then they will answer to God(who you still dont belive in btw). If you do believe in God, please state anything God has done to convince you there is in fact a ...God.
MightyMouth...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 2:08am.
Will you PLEASE drop this? There will be no more responses from me on the subject.
Jer
No Case
Submitted by Joe W. on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 2:32pm.
Probably because you have no case to make. MightyMouth owns you, pal.
Joe W.
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 2:58pm.
You have no idea what my views are or what my beliefs are on these subjects, so why don't you kindly butt out, Ace.
Jer
You post, Jer, and then become borderline---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 7:30pm.
apoplectic if a reply post doesn't suit you.
You sure do act like a liberal.
Are you?
MD
Matthew...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 7:53pm.
MightyMouth is my buddy. He apparently had his nose in the bottle last night and made some absurd and incredibly offensive comments he had no business making, which nevertheless Joe W piped in and applauded.
Unsurprisingly, you attack me. Very nice.
Now run along. There are still a couple of other comments I've posted since yesterday which you haven't yet responded to with your customary derision.
Jer
Quitcherbitchin', Jer,---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 8:01pm.
if you wish neither to be derided or suffer derision, either become a conservative or leave off with liberal comments on a conservative site.
What, exactly, as a liberal, do you entertain thoughts of receiving around here?
High fives and hosannas? :o)
MD
Joe W.*
Submitted by cajun2 on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 12:19am.
MM doesnt OWN anyone at NB when he can only spew insults and personal attacks. Let's all try to stay on topic unless of course you approve of hausmaus's post as well.
You can buy and change their diapers.
Submitted by Ill wind blowing on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 12:49am.
"...baby killers are still allowed to be part of the 'civil society". If George or Laura allowed the killing of babies,..."
Republicans will simply postpone and stretch out the killing of those babies into their childhood and adolescence. After all, they're not going to take care of them.
It is a matter of time, ill wind---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 1:56am.
just a matter of time; then poof ; troll dust.
MD
thinking
Submitted by LarryG on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 1:32am.
"I don't think" -- said Alice, "Then you shouldn't talk," said the Hatter."
Lewis Carroll
Maher
Submitted by MightyMouth on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 12:33am.
Is one IQ point above his audience. Read Ann Coulter's latest book to understand these fools. There is a whole chapter devoted to this idocracy.
While I agree with your assessment
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 1:49am.
I'm quite sure I could have lived a long and happy life having never encountered this particular post.
You're quite the wordsmith there.
I don't like Maher either. I wish Ann would quit helping his...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 3:56am.
dismal ratings by appearing on his show.
love it :)
Submitted by dmacleo on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 11:11am.
gonna use that where I can :)
I have for decades been an Ann Coulter fan
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 3:11am.
She needs to quit slumming on shows with Bill Maher and take a job as VPOTUS. She could also help get the deepest Republican Congress elected since the 1920s.
Liberals are easy to beat if you face them head on and...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 3:54am.
get a chance to respond to their foolishness. Usually, they appear on channels like MSNBC where, almost always, no Conservatives are welcome. Who gets a chance to challenge the Liberal commentators on ABCCBSNBCMSNBCCNNHLN? How many times does Chris Matthews invite someone on his show who doesn't agree with him? (I don't know the answer, because I have never watched his show.)
Question: If Maher is so repugnant, and I agree that he is...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 4:02am.
how in the world does he get a show on HBO? What is wrong with HBO that they would allow someone like him to (in nice words) "foul up" their nest?
Democrats Only Want To Make The Middle Class Dependent
Submitted by Blue Collar Todd on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 5:18am.
Democrats only care about the middle class when they are scheming ways to make us dependent on the government. Their policies harm the middle class.
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2011/07/obama-and-the-democrats-want...
Progressive Socialist idiocy.
Submitted by adamsmith on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 8:21am.
"Tax the Corporate Jet people, they don't pay any taxes." They are right. Corporations don't pay taxes, consumers do. Every time taxes are increased on Corporations or the Evil Rich, the corporations just increase prices to absorb the tax. The poor don't pay more because they are on Taxpayer Assistance. The Rich get richer and the poor get government checks, leaving the middle class to pay for it all. As I've said before, Bill Maher is the shallowest thinker on the Boob Toob. All liberals have incomplete arguments as they never see the unintended consequences. Fools all.........
So comparing the republican party to a mom who
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 9:08am.
murdered her child. Hmmm is that the civility that Comrade Leader speaks of?
I know it's the jury that got her off regardless of what Sean Hannity thinks. However the gist of what he's saying is that republicans are murdering the middle class!
According to that nonsense, then the democrat(ic) party is "murdering" not only the middle class but the poor, freedom, civil liberties, and capitalism in general by instituting such restrictive economy policies against the free market!
bill maher
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 4:51pm.
bill maher = big brain small intellectual curiosity = sad waste of cranial space
No one mentioned that the Tax
Submitted by shirtsbyeric on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 9:29am.
No one mentioned that the Tax Break for Corporate Jets was part on the Obama signed Stimulus program.