Letters to the Editor
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Edwards IS the real deal
I'm so glad to hear you say it. I think his Ken doll looks are a real disadvantage for John Edwards. If people would listen to him without looking at him it might help. So tell your viewers when Edwards comes on your TV show to just close their eyes and LISTEN to him..he's talking good sense..and he has specifics..and who else has that? Who else says get out of Iraq right now (Kucinich and Richardson)? I fear his good looks are almost as much of a political disadvantage as if he were fat! Glad you are back Bill.
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I love Bill Maher.
I just wish that he had fathered Anna Nicole's baby. His brains and courage and eloquence. And her looks.
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Bill's back - yay!
I love Bill Maher, and so does my wife. We may not agree with him on a lot of things, but he's the only person in the country still thinking that you can get away with saying anything. He's a champion for truly free speech in America.
There's something about this guy that makes you feel like you should stand up for yourself and for your idiosyncratic opinions, even if you're wrong and you know that everyone out there thinks you're wrong. He never said, "Take a stand so we can find out what we should think. If you don't take a stand for something stupid, then you're NOT encouraging thinking, and that's a bigger tragedy than being wrong." But hey, he --could-- have said that, right? It would've made sense for him to say it.
Keep it up, Bill! We'll be watching tomorrow.
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What if
the baby wound up with Anna Nicole's brains and courage and eloquence and Bill's looks?
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The friends he keeps
I once heard an interview on Terry Gross' 'Fresh Air', in which Terry asks Maher about his friendship with Ann Coulter, in light of her very strange politics - Maher's response was "I like Ann!" Maher also likes sleaze bags like Gene Simmons, too.
Sorry, Salon, but Bill Maher - no doubt a real smart guy - is a pundit opportunist who, when you scratch the surface, will find not a whole lot is really there; a sort of clever counter punching polemicist media creation who sounds good but otherwise stands for nothing.
This may be unfair, but I do judge people by the company they keep, and some of his friends make me go BLUAAAH!
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Agreed Conrw, Maher is a lightweight
Maher says "we all love Gore. . ." the guy he always called 'Bore' as in 'Bore and Gush' back in 2000.
He is neither well-intentioned nor well-informed. He says in this interview that Gore did not campaign on the environment in 2000 (big sin, the environment didn't even poll measurably for voters in 2000). Just look at Gore's acceptance speech. The economy first -- understandable -- some acknowledgments, and then right into his own environmental record.
That's just my quibble. I think his biggest sin is that he is not funny enough.
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YEAH, BUT
His program is fine as entertainment, but despite his posture as an informed individual he fails to prepare. As a result he gives lame passes on religion, the environment, politics and almost any issue time and again -- with the exception of his end-all arguments about "diet".
One instance from last season stands out in my memory -- a guest via satellite claimed that war is the "natural" state of humankind during a "discussion" on Iraq. This nonsense was used to justify all the juvenile actions of the Bush Administration towards Iraq, Korea, Iran, Syria and whatever comes next. Despite many recent articles -- contemporary to the show's taping -- concerning the psychological as well as physical damage being done to those serving in Iraq, or in any war, Bill again let this blindly ignorant bromide pass unchecked, allowing yet another faux-expert to pass off a self-serving opinion as fact. Let's hope Bill has put in a few more hours of background work this season...
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Bore
SNL and all the rest who use the Bore/Gush 'joke' should be put down!
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Forget Edwards
Before Edwards is annointed, can we look at Vilsack? The guy has an actual idea about energy/fossil fuels! Had a difficult life: An orphan! Worked in a red state, although small. Actually has a few ideas. Edwards is media-genic. Has maher invited Vilsack on the show?
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the company he keeps
Anyone who gives Ann Coulter a platform, even as the the bad guy, is full of shit. End of story.
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You're Mostly on target
Glad to see you're coming back. I agree with some of your assessment on Mrs. Clinton, that she's a panderer and not forthright. I think she would make a lousy president because she would be checking the polls before making any decision. It does say a lot when she refuses your invitations to come on your program. She hasn't done a Sunday morning news show in over 2 years. Wonder why? Can't take the tough unscripted questions.
Give McCain a little more time. He's only doing what the rest of the presidential pack wannabees are doing.
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On Maher
I've always liked Bill Maher and I think he encapsulates a middle-class-middle-of-the-road-white-boy perspective that is very revealing about the country in general. I think he's someone who was a genuine independent/libertarian who has swung--ever since his crucifixion after 9/11--to the left. This represents a path hat a large number of people have taken over the past six years, including myself. Like Maher, I liked McCain in 2000 and have been gravely disappointed by the degree to which he has sold himself to have his shot in 2008. In sum, I think Bill represents a kind of demographic that the Democrats were able to get in 2006 and will need to get in 2008 to win. And he is right about Hillary.
But the fact that he always has to have one sexist joke in his opening monologue does piss me off though. It's predictable and senseless and usually not funny.
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Why so soft on 9/11?
Of all the potentially source issues that Maher might use to hold Democrat feet to the fire, government conspiracy in the 9/11 attacks is clearly the motherloade. The White House cover-up is no longer defensible. No longer dismissable as a nutcase theory the proof is there. So why do credible resources like Maher, Moore, and Salon breeze right past the key issue that, if finally presented to the American people, could change the face of politics overnight?