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Bill Maher is usually all over the place with his political barbs, and it’s frustrating to watch him say something correct with one breath and cancel the good that it did with the next.
Now here’s the rub: Maher’s instincts are decent and he has a respectable intellect, but he’s also lazy intellectually and he’s miles yet from emerging from the nation’s official catechism (although he probably thinks he’s already free from its malignant influence). No man who gives a million dollars to the Obama candidacy can be all that clear about what’s going on in the world.
Despite all this, beggars can’t be choosers and in this information desert we call the American media Maher is one of the few who, in the Carlin tradition, has the gonads to say, from time to time, some truly irreverent things about the system. Things that NEED to be said. Last night he went after Reagan—a target long overdue—but I suppose with even Obama and the rest of the whorecracy genuflecting before the “legacy” of the “Great Communicator,” Maher had had just about enough. He took some pretty good shots, in his usual sarcastic way, to paint Reagan for what he was: one of the most infamous pieces of excrement to inhabit the White House. I think he succeeded. Judge for yourselves.—P. Greanville
One thing about Bill Maher that distinguishes him from many other alleged progressives, is his active and vocal voice for animals… Especially obnoxious among the pseudo progressives are belligerent environmentalists such as Derrick Jensen, who boast of their right to hunt down and kill harmless animals, as morally superior. When Amy Goodman did a full hour interview with staunch dominionite Michael Polan, portraying him as the savior of the planet for endorsing happy meat, Democracy Now lost a great deal of credibility as a force for progress. Bill Maher is one of the few who has the courage to speak… Read more »
If Maher would be consistent in his Atheist approach to world politics, he would be somewhere. So what is the bug up his behind that he supports the religious jews nation of israel, as it does far worse things to Humans than it does to other Animals. How many of you know that the current nation of israel, is really an afront and an insult to the devoted jewish men and women that understand that not one of their “exile from israel” ending prophecies have ever happened. That israel of today is a fraud on the jewish faith. For one… Read more »
Maher’s revealing review of Reagan was a rare media moment! “Ronny” was the first of presidential leaders to introduce the country to devastating policies wrapped in pseudo patriotic prattle. He was a quintessential, Charley McCarthy, corporate dummy whose ventriloquist was instilling a corporate mindset that would lead the country down the path to destruction. Destructive policies that are, “A gift that keeps on giving” because merely intoning his name, “brain freeze” seizes the nation and all salute whatever ruinous policies are then promoted. It’s as if the country suffers from a lack of a father figure. Who best to fill… Read more »