Real Time Guest KOs Maher and Bashir: If Brewer Were Dem Pointing Finger at GOP Prez, You'd Praise Her
Reason TV's Kennedy on Friday had a delicious smackdown of HBO's Bill Maher and MSNBC's Martin Bashir.
When Maher and Bashir voiced predictable scorn for Governor Jan Brewer pointing a finger at Barack Obama earlier in the week, Real Time panelist Kennedy correctly observed, "If this were a Democratic governor and a Republican president doing the same thing, the entire panel on your show would be like, 'You go girl.' It is so hypocritical" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
The discussion began with Maher showing the now infamous picture of Brewer pointing at Obama.
"I think this is unprecedented," bemoaned the liberal host. "I don't know of any other instance when someone has been this disrespectful to the president."
After the predictable applause from the audience, Bashir opined, "I think that this is the physical embodiment of what has happened over the period of this presidency...What she did was the ultimate outcome of behavior and beliefs that have been allowed to spread and continue...That was profoundly offensive."
When Bashir was done with his absurd characterization of this incident, Kennedy marvelously replied, "If this were a Democratic governor and a Republican president doing the same thing, the entire panel on your show would be like, 'You go girl.' It is so hypocritical."
To strengthen her point, every time former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) or former Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) said anything negative about George W. Bush when he was president, the press would party like it was 1999.
As such, Kennedy was spot on about the hypocrisy concerning how not just Maher and Bashir but the entire Obama-loving media have covered this incident.
Brava, Kennedy! Brava!
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Check their reaction after...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:22pm.
...a Mooslum reporter throws his sandles at the "Teleprompter-In-Chief"...
I expect gut-busting guffaws from the entire staff and the full treatment on SNL. Fair is fair.
⇒ Truth be told
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:21pm.
She was just pointing out to the President he might want to get that mole looked at by a dermatologist.
Or giving some friendly advice.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 9:54am.
And even offering to pay for it.
Lord! What a nest of hypocrites!
Submitted by lgeubank on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:21pm.
It is sickening to hear that bunch of Party apparatchiks, all intoning pious sentiments in order to score points against the enemy; not one of them meaning a single word.
They sound like a panel of Himmler, Goebbels, Molotov, Trotsky, and other famous toadies and sycophants throughout history, saying what's expected in sober, oh-so-serious tones; saying what they need to, in order to curry favor with the regime and sling mud on the other side.
Character assassination -- that's the only form of debate they know; it's all they have. So they all pretend to mean what they say, when the only question they really asked themselves is, "What's the nastiest thing I can say about Jan Brewer? What's the worst accusation I can make in order to cast mud on Republicans?"
It makes you want to throw up, as well as fear for our country. These suck-ups take the attitude, "The Fuehrer is always right! Do not question the Fuehrer!"
Their super hero Clinton
Submitted by kg on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 8:15pm.
Their super hero Clinton constantly points his "Wicked Witch of the West" crooked finger at reporters and groups.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
Bashir: "What she did was the
Submitted by tcm14 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:32pm.
Bashir: "What she did was the ultimate outcome of behavior and beliefs that have been ALLOWED to spread and continue..."
Once again, a leftist basically much says that the government should suppress any disagreement with the left. These people are scary.
Guess what Martin, these beliefs are going to spread and continue whether someone ALLOWS it or not. In fact, go ahead and try to disallow these beliefs, I dare you. You will only ensure that they spread all the faster.
Exactly
Submitted by ant on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 4:25pm.
That's what stood out to me too. I guess films and suggestions to assassinate/kill Bush are ALLOWED in their world of fantasy as ultimate authority. Go ahead, Mahrer and the left, try to not ALLOW us, I dare ya.
Great observation, tcm!! I
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 4:55pm.
Great observation, tcm!! I wonder what Basher thinks should have been done to nip those attitudes in the bud, so that it wouldn't get to this point.
The attitude on this panel is proof that the founders knew what they were doing. It's why the executive's title is MR. President. He's a 'Mister" just like every other man in the country. He's not a king, a prince, or an emperor. Every citizen in the country has the right to criticize him.
Old joke
Submitted by Model850 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 5:34pm.
Every citizen in the country has the right to criticize him.
Recalls an old joke my Dad used to tell about an American and a Russian (from the old USSR, of course) discussing their relative nations.
The American boasts of his freedom and says he can stand in front of the White House and call the president of the United States an SOB.
The Russian counters that he is just as free. He can stand in Red Square and call the president of the United States an SOB, too.
I was actually looking for
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 8:46pm.
I was actually looking for the video of Ronald Reagan telling a similar joke where the American tells Mr. Reagan that he doesn't like the way he's running the country.
But I couldn't find it.
Just like my pal Barney says.
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 5:51pm.
Just like my pal Barney says.
Guess who were the enablers of bad behavior?
Submitted by TheHistorian on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 8:25am.
What side of the aisle supported a bunch of smelly hippies actively trying to bomb parts of the US (anybody remember the name Bill Ayers?). What side of the aisle supports Hollywood "F-bomb" scripts as "artistic license"? When Dick Durbin stood on the House floor and called George Bush worse than a Nazi, Pol-Pot, etc, there was not a peep about how these beliefs are being allowed to "spread and continue". Now that their communist President is getting the same treatment from people who don't like his boot on their throat, this is behavior that has been ALLOWED to spread and continue?
Obama should have been arrested when he entered Arizona. After all, he is the guy trying to take away their right to police the border he won't. He is also the guy whose AG is going after Arpaio and is responsible for the Mexicalis being across the border.
Dennis Prager
Bashir - at 1:16 points his finger at Maher and the TV audience
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:30pm.
Bashir - at the 1:16 mark in the video, points his finger at Maher and the audience and at all watching - the American public.
Is he simply making a point, or is he making an "unprecedented," instance of someone being disrespectful to the audience?"
(;~/ gary
Put in right back in their face - we much!
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:33pm.
These leftwing zealots are nothing but a bunch of belly aching hypocrites. Obama has a lot of nerve picking a fight with the Governor of the state in which is over run by illegals, drug trafficking and illegal weapons handed out by his own administration. I hope Jan Brewer gave him an earful. Obama deserves the upmost contempt from every citizen his misguided policies have ruined.
Iraqi Shoe at Bush
Submitted by libBuster on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:34pm.
Maher and the left didn't seem too concerned when an Iraqi threw a shoe at President Bush.
⇒ Shoe thrower?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:38pm.
"The only person that missed you (President Bush) was the Iraqi who threw the shoe" - Bill Maher
Indeed, libBuster . .
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:47pm.
In fact, I'd bet there's a Maher (and many others) clip out there cheering it on - laughing at President Bush.
Maher, here, says, "This is unprecedented. I don't know of any other instance where someone has been this disrespectful to the President."
Leaving out the foreigner (Iraqi) throwing the shoe --- goodness, there must be dozens of examples of Democrats/pundits/actors/journalists - even legislators - being disgustingly disrespectful of the President. All we have hear is Brewer waiving her hand (frozen in time - hey, I can't believe that the AP photographer only took two still shots over a minute and a half), and even the President's official line here is that nothing of note occurred. If President Obama doesn't feel like he was insulted in the least - then there was no incident at all.
(:~/ gary
And don't forget Senator Jim
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 4:39pm.
And don't forget Senator Jim Webb was something of a folk hero for saying he was "tempted to slug" President Bush when Bush asked the Senator how his son in Iraq was doing.
⇒ Not only that
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 4:44pm.
Webb also violated rules by having a lackey carry his gun into the capitol building.
Somebody 'splain to me.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 3:32pm.
Why is it that most of the conservative women on TV and in politics fight back when these bastards pull crap like this, while most of the male conservative politicians try to sound so reasonable and diplomatic in their responses to this shiite?
I swear to God, I do not think that Romney, Boner, Mitchell, McCain, Graham, etc even realize that this is a war and they are losing it, while the women are trying their best to fight back.
Time for them to man the hell up, or get the hell out of the way and let the babes do their job for them.
Conservative women
Submitted by AntiMedia on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 4:13pm.
Your so right! Conservative women have the balls, and the men wear the panties.
That's true
Submitted by ant on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 4:32pm.
With some exceptions like West, Ryan, the women have been our sides greatest asset. I wonder why they are better fighters then the wussified men in conservative politics?
ant
Submitted by amyshulk on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:09pm.
It's a style over substance thing - if the make R's did stand up to the D's, they would play right into the D meme of "See, I TOLD you they were eeeeeeeeevil, heartless bastids!!!"
Ronald Reagan
oops
Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 2:21am.
make R's should have been male R's - Wrathful Brunette made the point I was trying to *much* better!!!
Ronald Reagan
If you enjoyed that exchange, you will enjoy the
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 4:14pm.
Real Time with Bill Maher's extended VIDEO. In addition to Reason TV's Kennedy, Maher's guests on the right included Former Republican Congressman Mark Foley and California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher. Among the topics were condoms (the exchange between Kennedy and Foley was hilarious), taxes, healthcare, charity, Romney, Gingrich, and California Prop. 8 (gay marriage).
Reason.com and Reason TV are two of my favorite websites. You can count on Nick Gillespie and his staff for informative and hard-hitting articles and videos. Nick Gillespie appears quite often on Fox Business and Fox News Red Eye.
I watched that, Rush Fan.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 4:52pm.
I don't know how you can watch that bastard without putting your foot in the TV set.
This was another great example of the woman putting up the fight with the crazy libs, while Congressman Rorschach test sat there looking like he was going to puke, and Gay Foley just enjoying being gaaaaaaay.
If a Congressman can't take on these mooks, especially the camel humping cork socker, Bashir, just go home and let the girls handle it.
Please!
Newsbubba......How in the heck did you hear about what
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 10:38pm.
I did to my TV set (and my favorite coffee cup) after listening to half-wit Maher?
Actually, I can't stomach him, and I don't subscribe to HBO just to show my lack of support for clueless Maher's Leftist banality. But I saw Congressman Rohrabacher in the clip Noel provided, and was curious if Rohrabacher weighed in on the discussion. He seemed very uncomfortable in that setting. Yes, it seems that the women have more cojones than the men.
Warning!
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 8:58pm.
Bill Maher is your brain on drugs.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Projectionist of the week?
Submitted by amyshulk on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:03pm.
Projectionist of the week? Bashir, hands down!!! Did you listen to what that idiot said?
Now flip it and remember the 8 years under pres. Bush.
Yes Bashir, you *are* correct, but you are applying it to the WRONG side!!!
Ronald Reagan
n/m - I posted the above
Submitted by amyshulk on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:11pm.
n/m - I posted the above before reading the comments - I should have known you guys would catch that!!!
Ronald Reagan
I've long been....
Submitted by sshuffield70 on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 12:56am.
impressed with Ms. Lisa Montgomery (Kennedy is her middle name). She has always come off has having a lot of common sense.
Obamo has a history of 'finger-wagging'
Submitted by ChrisNH on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 9:37am.
It is delicious to see Leftist media hacks in an uproar about this. Google 'Obama finger' and you'll see page after page of images showing this angry black president as petulant as ever with his finger-pointing.
NYT's Molly Dowd, predictably, is 'incensed' about this. I'd hate to be her (or any of the other leftist media hacks there) in 2012. Their lives will be hell. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Are you kidding me
Submitted by DirtyDave777 on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 12:38pm.
Respect is earned not just given.
bashir
Submitted by angelann1 on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 2:23pm.
He is profoundly offensive !!! Not an American citizen ??? LEAVE !!!
~Tiger women
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 2:54pm.
Conservative women have unique advantages in that:
1. The Left assumes they have women locked down on the Dem plantation, so every attack by a woman is, by default, a flanking maneuver.
2. As the self-proclaimed "champion of women" the Left expose themselves as hypocrites when they use sexist attacks on conservative women.
3. The classic "angry, homophobic, racist white male" meme bounces off our magic estrogen wristlets. *ping, ping, ping*