Fox reporter, Steve Brown, was reporting from the Michigan vs. Ohio State game, when some drunk woman butts into him from his left, and it looks to me like Steve pushes back. Yea, Steve! Obviously, the woman is sobriety-challenged, and when they come back from the story, Julie Banderas told Steve he’d probably just gotten his first YouTube video.
This is priceless. I’m no YouTube fan after they banished me, but I’ll put it up there anyway just this once.
On the subject of what should be impeachable, Maher opines:
“How about starting unnecessary wars? Yes! Getting blown? No!”
Folks, this is what’s wrong with our country. Unbelievable. Moral relativism it isn’t. And don’t give me this “Clinton lied, nobody died” bullshi*. That’s patently false. I lay the blame of nearly all the current troop deaths squarely on the shoulders (or lap) of Slick Willie. How many times did he refuse to take Bin Laden? What about Somalia and Mogadishu? The Khobar Towers? The U.S.S. Cole? The Marine barracks?
Maher apparently has no shame, and that’s why he has to appear on pay-TV. It’s like watching Keith Olbermann to report his lunatic rantings for the rest of the sane world to see. I’m taking one for the team, and lately it’s becoming more and more painful. Maher suggests that if the founding fathers were around today, they’d be horrified that we haven’t changed the Constitution to suit modern needs. Huh? Modern needs, as I see them the Maher way are vastly immoral, atheistic, and unethical. But don’t tell that to Maher or his ilk. He is the all-seeing, all-knowing arbiter of the way things should be. Thank GOD he’s in the minority.
Tonight on Real Time with Bill Maher, the panel was naturally mostly made up of left-wing whack-jobs. The only semi-bright spot was Dana Priest of the Washington Post, but even she drifted from reality here and there.
Okay, Mr. Dreyfuss…. Civics is going to be taught again? Call me old fashioned, but when I was in school, Civics was a required class. I’m shocked, as are you, that it’s not anymore. Perhaps that’s what’s wrong with America’s youth. The unintended consequence of your state’s efforts to re-instate Civics as a class is that young Americans just might actually find out why they get the government they get. Would that be such a bad thing? I think if you don’t know jack schitt about Civics, you shouldn’t vote. However, I don’t want to be one of those disenfranchisers. Again, call me old fashioned; I think you should understand something about the American Political System before you’re allowed to vote.
But hey, that’s just me.
Too idiotic to transcribe, folks. Sorry… You’ll just have to watch the intrepid panel here.
Dan Blather was on Real Time tonight with Bill Maher. I took all the Maalox I could prior to watching it, but transcribing part of his intervew almost negated the purpose of that. I could only get through this small portion. In this interview, Maher compared Rather to Babe Ruth, and Rather says that his separation from CBS was a “puzzling time” for him. What? How can you say, if you are a true journalist, that you’re puzzled why you would have to leave a news organization for fabricating a false story? Geez-o-Petes!
Bill then started to light in to Fox News (natch), and the conversation turned into Conspiracy 101. Bill was referring to something he read on his “friend’s” blog, Huffington Post:
Bill: From Fox News, an internal memo: “Be on the lookout for any statements from the Iraqi insurgents thrilled at the prospect of a Democratic-controlled Congress.” That strikes me as the opposite of journalism, as looking for the end of the story before you find what the real truth is.
Dan: Well, I think it’s fair to say, Bill - in fact I know it is – that Fox News operates in at least a somewhat different way than every other news organization that I know. They have their talking points, in which somebody in the hierarchy, whether it’s Roger Ailes who runs the place or not; we know they get talking points from the White House. They can say ‘well, we don’t always take those talking points.’ But I can say that it’s pretty clear that they had wished the election had gone another way, and they sought to position their programming which would raise as many questions about it as possible. They may consider that unfair, but I think that’s, by any reasonable objectivity, what they were after; that they wanted to frame the news in a certain way, actually before the news happened. That’s not a crime, that’s not an indictable offense. This is America, they can do what they want to do, but I think that’s the perspective through which one should view it.