Bill Maher Admits His Audience Are 'Brainwashed Liberals'
A truly marvelous thing happened on the season premiere of HBO's Real Time Friday.
Host Bill Maher admitted that his audience are a bunch of "brainwashed liberals" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL MAHER, HOST: The one guy in the political scene now who really is the one who I applaud, I really rise out of my chair and applaud, is Ron Paul when it comes to this. He’s the guy, and he…
ROB REINER: Just because he would let you smoke pot.
MAHER: Yes he would.
REINER: That’s the only reason you like Ron Paul.
MAHER: That’s not the only reason.
REINER: That’s the reason.
MAHER: The other is what he said, you know, he says things that at almost every Republican debate, the rest of the people in the audience and on the stage who look at him like he has three heads. And one of the things he says is, “We got an empire, and we should bring all the troops home.” He’s the one who is really in my heart on foreign affairs, not Barack Obama.
[Mild applause]
REINER: Only a smattering you got on that, Bill. You notice that? It was a small smattering.
MAHER: Because they’re brainwashed liberals.
REINER: Okay. That’s who you attract.
MAHER: Maybe they [laughs].
I couldn't have said it any better: "Brainwashed liberals."
Thanks for admitting what most of us have known for years, Bill.
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I noticed that neither ol'
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 1:10am.
I noticed that neither ol' Donkeyface nor Meathead described themselves as 'brain-DEAD liberals'.................
I appreciate Maher's honesty, but he would be more accurate if
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 1:21am.
he described his audience (and his guests) as Brain-Deficient.
Didn't 'meathead' help
Submitted by ant on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 1:35am.
Didn't 'meathead' help spearhead the anti-smoking crusade in California? Brainwashed authoritarians is also a good description.
I'd be willing to bet that
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 1:40am.
I'd be willing to bet that the anti-smoking crusade DIDN'T include pot.
Anti-smoking
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 10:08am.
Ant, if you've never seen the South Park episode where Reiner comes to town with his anti-smoking campaign, you've got to watch it. It is hilariously and yet sadly accurate!
Tugboat Phil
Submitted by ant on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 10:41am.
I did see that one years ago. Isn't that the one were he's stuffing his face constantly? I remember the one part, when a man in a bar says he just smokes to unwind after work, meathead says something like, "Why don't you just go sit in your yacht and relax like I do?" I like SouthPark, they take shots at everybody, but they seem to be really fond of ripping liberal policies.
That was it
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 1:10pm.
Some of their stuff really gets me worked up, but at least they are equal opportunity with their satire. I just don't watch the episodes that get me POed.
Still love Team America, although watching marionettes "do it" is a bit disturbing.
First time he has ever said anything I agree with.
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 2:40am.
I am proud to say that I am NOT a part of his audience!
Quick, call a meteorologist!
Submitted by LinTaylor on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 3:07am.
We need someone to verify that the pigs are, in fact, flying.
Why a meterologist?
Submitted by 26CX on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 9:20am.
Wouldn't flying pigs be an FAA issue? ;)
While he's here, we can also
Submitted by LinTaylor on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 12:21pm.
While he's here, we can also ask the meteorologist for a weather forecast of Hell and see if it's experiencing a cold snap. :)
Bill Maher's audience is not
Submitted by TE on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 3:10am.
Bill Maher's audience is not "brainwashed". They are brainless.
Does Maher use a farm to breed those brainless, leftist morons in his audience or did Maher's mother give birth to all of those freaks?
my thought
Submitted by KornKing on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 7:58am.
to wash a brain...
LOL - Meathead, Sh*thead, and Ditzy Wassername Shiite fer brains
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 5:25am.
...all in the same studio at the same time.
Wow, what a country!
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
...and David Frum! Don't forget David Frum
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 7:51am.
Thought I saw our freindly neighbourhood "conservative" David Frum in with that crowd.
Let's consider for a moment how REAL conservatives are going to view an endorsement of Ron Paul from this Donkeyface.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Hey Noel,
Submitted by melvin on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 6:26am.
Why did you cut off the conversation? Can you put it in context? Maybe, transcribe the whole segment, or better yet, show a video. You probably won't, because you just want to make a cheap ideological point here.
Hey Melvin, why don't you just go boink yourself
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 6:45am.
After all, this should do it.
And the relevant part for you is near the bottom of the thread.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Maher is seen to be saying...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 8:06am.
...that his audience is/are "brainwashed liberals."
right from the horse's (donkey's) mouth. (Hard to tell which end of Maher is speaking sometimes).
Still, it's pretty hard to imagine exactly what could be taken out of context here.
(Sorry, Dave... No double-entendre intended.)
Melvin? Any suggestions? Maybe you should respond by posting a transcript of the show if Noel won't do it.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Yea why do that to
Submitted by Bliggie on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 9:28am.
Why do that to Maher? He is always so respectful and honest when talking to and about conservatives and or anyone that doesn't tow the liberal line. Oh that's sarcasm by the way. It's funny how liberals can dish it out but you sure can't take it.
Oh Mr. Sheppard, you have been given your orders.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 9:44am.
Better hop to it with all the transcribin' and video makin'/linkin'. The Melveeng or Melvinger troll has officially handed you your orders. Or you could just do what the rest of us do - Call him Melveeng or Melvinger and he will shut up and go away.
If you want to debate, fine. But if you are going to refer to me as melveeng or melvinger, I'm not going to respond.
Melvin......
Hey Vet, I'm seein' that
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 1:09pm.
Hey Vet, I'm seein' that you're workin' and talkin' in good, understandable Obamaspeak.............and I'm givin' you high props for doin' it..............maybe you'll be gettin' excused when it's time for the rest of us be be sendin' to the REGIME re-education camps for some proper learnin'!!!
Wow!
Submitted by Noel Sheppard on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 9:46am.
Wow! Talk about your brainwashed liberals! Did you miss the part of this post WITH a transcription AND a video?
Thanks for proving Maher's point, bud! ns
melvin
Submitted by amyshulk on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 5:52pm.
Ha ha ha, you want context? What, are we supposed to believe you don't have HBO???
Ronald Reagan
Hey, Melvin.
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 10:27pm.
Why don't you start your own site, call it Liberals R Us, or something catchy like that? Then you can post all the Maher-Meathead crap you want, and be treated to 7 visitors a day, while you make all the cheap ideological points you want to.
Maher is Fortunate
Submitted by NC Boy on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 8:33am.
He's fortunate that his audience didn't shout him down for saying anything less than positive about The Great O.
Doubt it
Submitted by Dave the mailman on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 9:32am.
His audience is too stupid to know when they're being insulted
Exactly. See post above by the Melvinger.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 9:49am.
.
Regretably,
Submitted by IRQ Conflict on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 10:55am.
it sounded to me like Maher said that with an almost undetectable amount of sarc. There is NO way that guy had a lucid moment.
The real warning:
Submitted by Dave the mailman on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 11:33am.
Maher LIKES Paul's foreign policies. Maybe the rabid Paul followers will open their eyes....
If Ronpaul is the answer,
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 10:27pm.
it has to be a stupid question.