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Bill Maher Gets Schooled on U.S. Corporate Profits By African Economis
June 9th, 2012 1:17 PM
Readers are advised to remove fluids, food, and flammables from proximity of their computers before proceeding. You've been warned.
HBO's Bill Maher on Friday received a much-needed education on U.S. corporate profits from - wait for it! - an African-born international economist (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Filmmaker John Waters: All You Can Eat Restaurants Should be Illegal
June 9th, 2012 11:34 AM
If you’re afraid of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s call for limiting the size of soft drinks, you’re going to quake in your boots when you hear what filmmaker John Waters said Friday.
Appearing on HBO’s Real Time, Waters told host Bill Maher that he didn’t understand how all you can eat restaurants are legal (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Dunce Bill Maher: U.S. Is Fifth Worst in the World in Income Inequalit
June 9th, 2012 10:27 AM
In this week's "How Dumb Is Bill Maher" segment, the Obama-supporting comedian actually said on HBO's Real Time Friday that the United States ranks fifth worst in the world in income inequality.
Actually, we rank 43rd (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Bill Maher: Was Scott Walker the Mentally Retarded Banjo Boy in 'Deliv
June 8th, 2012 11:29 PM
Is there no level Bill Maher won't stoop to attack a conservative?
On HBO's Real Time Friday, the Obama-supporting host said during his New Rules segment, "Now that Scott Walker has survived his recall, he has to tell us once and for all was he that kid in Deliverance" (video follows with commentary):

Pay Cable’s Race to the Bottom
June 6th, 2012 12:32 PM
Good news for pay cable viewers who like their sex scenes graphic, bloody and spiked with an unhealthy dose of violence. HBO’s original series “True Blood” is set to begin its fifth season on June 10.
While it remains to be seen if “True Blood” can top a scene from a previous season in which a male vampire twists a female’s head around 180 degrees during a bout of blood-drenched “hate…

Krugman: Scientists Should Falsely Predict Alien Invasion So Governmen
May 26th, 2012 4:15 PM
Last year New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman called for space aliens to invade earth so that the government would spend money to mount a defense thereby stimulating the economy.
As aliens have yet to comply with Krugman's wishes, he advocated on HBO's Real Time Friday that scientists should get together and lie about an imminent attack to boost federal spending (video…

Bill Maher: Obama Didn't Support Simpson-Bowles Because Republicans Di
May 26th, 2012 2:14 PM
Bill Maher is either a blithering idiot, a pathological liar, or both.
On HBO's Real Time Friday, the factually-challenged financier of Barack Obama actually had the gall to say the President didn't support the recommendations of his National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (aka Simpson-Bowles) because - wait for it! - Republicans didn't support it (video follows with…

Laura Ingraham Schools George Stephanopoulos: 'Did Obama Give That Mon
May 20th, 2012 3:14 PM
Conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham gave a much-needed education to ABC's George Stephanopoulos Sunday about the tremendous double standard involving campaign contributions.
After Ingraham pointed out that Barack Obama is never held responsible for things MoveOn.org does, ABC's This Week host foolishly said, "The president's been held accountable for Bill Maher" leading the…

Maher Claims Romney 'Bullying' Worse Than Michael Jackson Molestation
May 16th, 2012 5:33 AM
Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's Conan show on TBS, HBO comedian Bill Maher absurdly suggested that recent allegations that Mitt Romney engaged in "bullying" in high school are worse than being molested by Michael Jackson, and asserted that he would be willing to trade being beat up in grade school for being "gently masturbated by a pop star."
Maher also again attacked Mormonism and…

Bill Maher Blames Conservatives for America's Obesity Problem
May 12th, 2012 11:51 AM
Is there anything liberals won't blame on conservatives?
On HBO's Real Time Friday, host Bill Maher actually accused the Right of being responsible for the obesity problem in the country (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Bill Maher: Bristol Palin 'Got Knocked Up After Watching One Too Many
May 12th, 2012 10:18 AM
Vulgar comedian Bill Maher took another cheap shot at Bristol Palin Friday evening.
In an opening monologue segment of HBO's Real Time dealing with the President's flipflop on same-sex marriage, the host said, "Bristol Palin accused Obama of pandering to teenagers who watched one too many episodes of Glee – says the girl who got knocked up after watching one too many episodes of Teen Mom" (…

Maher Opposes Charitable Tax Deductions to Mormon Church and the Arts
May 5th, 2012 12:00 PM
HBO's Bill Maher took a lot of heat last week for calling Mormonism a cult that isn't a charity because it doesn't give to poor people.
Defending himself on Friday's Real Time, the host explained why he believes contributions to the Mormon Church and such things as the symphony and the ballet shouldn't be tax deductible but ignored that he supports federal funding of NPR (partial video…

Bill Maher Pressures MSNBC's Ed Schultz to Donate to Obama
May 5th, 2012 10:01 AM
On Friday, Bill Maher, the largest donor to Barack Obama's Super PAC, pressured MSNBC's Ed Schultz to contribute to the President's campaign.
This happened on HBO's Real Time less than 30 minutes after Maher said, "For the sake of black America, [Obama] needs the second term" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Bill Maher Hits Marcus Bachmann With Another Gay Joke: 'He Would Also
May 4th, 2012 10:42 PM
What is it about liberals and gay jokes?
On HBO's Real Time Friday, the host once again took a homosexual jab at Marcus Bachmann saying, "He would also like to get behind Romney" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):