Bill Maher: 'Republicans Don't Care About Dead Mexicans

June 23rd, 2012 1:32 AM
Bill Maher said Friday, "Republicans don't care about dead Mexicans." This came moments after he admitted on HBO's Real Time he didn't know anything about the controversial White House mission known as Fast and Furious "until this week" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Reason's Nick Gillespie Schools Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher on Fast a

June 23rd, 2012 12:36 AM
One of the finest examples of how liberal media members really don't know what they're talking about occurred on HBO's Real Time Friday when Reason's Nick Gillespie gave a much-needed education to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and host Bill Maher on the issue of Fast and Furious. In the end, Maddow and Maher embarrassed themselves in a fashion that should have both of their respective networks…

Jake Tapper Skewers Sorkin's 'The Newsroom

June 22nd, 2012 12:00 PM
The most entertaining thing about Aaron Sorkin's upcoming HBO series, "The Newsroom," could well be the scathing review of the show by ABC News senior White House correspondent, Jake Tapper, which appeared in The New Republic. As a bonus, Tapper also provides an hilarious takedown of the increasingly annoying SorkinSpeak, the bizzare shorthand manner in which his characters communicate with…

Aaron Sorkin Insists to NBC That He's Not Known For His Liberal Politi

June 22nd, 2012 11:26 AM
On Thursday's NBC Rock Center, just days after calling for more liberal media bias against conservatives, left-wing screen writer Aaron Sorkin dismissed the idea that he has a reputation as an outspoken liberal: "I don't know so much about my being known for my liberal politics.... I don't have very much political sophistication at all." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump…

Sorkin Sees Not Liberal Bias But ‘Bias Toward Fairness,’ His HBO N

June 21st, 2012 4:00 AM
Writer/producer Aaron Sorkin, whose new drama, Newsroom, about a cable news anchor -- which debuts this Sunday night on HBO -- proved in a USA Today piece he lives in a fantasy world. First, he maintained that when watching broadcast network news “I don’t see the liberal bias — and I’m trying to — that I hear about,” insisting: “What I do see is a bias toward fairness, a bias toward neutrality…

'True Blood': God Is a Vampire

June 18th, 2012 3:16 PM
If the audacious amount of gory violence and bloody sex in “True Blood” doesn’t do it for you, what about malevolent vampire “Christians?” Apparently “True Blood” vampires have a sacred text, and HBO writers admitted it’s a slanderous take on the Bible and separation of church and state. A faction of vampires called the “Sanguinistas” functioned as a demeaning allegory for traditional…

HBO Pulls 'Game of Thrones' Episode With Bush Severed Head, Halts DVD

June 16th, 2012 10:50 AM
As NewsBusters reported Thursday, the season finale of HBO's hit series Game of Thrones included a gruesome image of former President George W. Bush's severed head impaled on a stake. In the wake of heat from conservative critics including us, the New York Daily News reports the cable network has taken action to rectify its egregious error:

Bill Maher and Nobel Prize Winning Liberal Economist Can't Figure Out

June 16th, 2012 12:13 AM
CAUTION: Remove all food, fluids, and flammables from proximity of your computer before proceeding. You've been warned. HBO's Bill Maher and Nobel Prize-winning liberal economist Joseph Stiglitz on Friday actually couldn't calculate between the two of them how much 87 times 5 is (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Liberal Bias in Action: Maher Gets Mets While Limbaugh Gets Booted

June 14th, 2012 7:49 PM
The double standards operating against outspoken conservatives are legion. Perhaps no one knows this better than talk radio host Rush Limbaugh who has been the target of the left's hatred for decades now. Watching the latest news in the business of sports, he's got to be shaking his head in dismay. If you're a liberal like Bill Maher, a generous donor to a Super PAC support Barack Obama's re-…

‘Game of Thrones’ Severed Bush Head a Giggle for Media

June 14th, 2012 11:01 AM
We hardly needed more proof of the cesspool that is original programming on the pay cable networks. But just in case: “Game of Thrones” producers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff have willingly admitted to using a gruesome image of former president George W. Bush’s head impaled on a stake during the HBO drama’s season one finale, “Fire and Blood.” Bush’s decapitated likeness appeared as one…

Trump: If Conservative Mocked Someone's Religion Like Maher Mocks Romn

June 12th, 2012 1:08 AM
Donald Trump on Monday had some harsh words for Bill Maher's incessant attacks on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Mormonism. Appearing on Fox News's On the Record, the real estate mogul said, "If a conservative Republican made a like statement about somebody else's religion, there’d be hell to pay. It’ll be all over the place. It would be the end of that person's career as you…

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):