But I as a CDN know that Harper has supported all those atrocities and our system is OK but heading the US way


Reality is I was watching the Country Music Awards and that is a group of folks that should vote Republican Rich and White. Anyone middle class and under that does is just as Bill Maher calls it "Stupid" Heck Obama is also more Republican than a democrat

I've missed this show, glad it's back. Perfect Saturday morning viewing with breakfast and coffee.

I thought last night's episode was very strong, not really a weak segment. Jokes all landed for the most part.

did the guy in the red tie say 10 words total?

The other two, esp Rushdie, dominated the Islam debate, but he got a few good points in later.

Maher has made the point before, but yes, it absolutely matters who is in control. On certain issues both parties are the same, and the corrupting influence of corporations impacts both sides similarly, but on foreign policy the Republicans are banging the drums for war at every opportunity. People think Obama is a war hawk and a Republican lite, yet he pales in comparison to a guy like McCain or his predecessor Bush. I mean, do you think Gore invades Iraq after 9/11? Elections matter, man. Even if it's just having the lesser of two evils in power, it still matters.

very good episode i thought

btw, this might be of interest to some in this thread, sam harris stuff:

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/wakingup

This episode was good, even Leno was pretty good. The woman Fiorina and Rushdie were really good because they made their points very calmly.

Yeah Leno was really funny.

I love Bill but I had some problems with his points tonight. First, the flu vaccine thing was just dumb. Gloating because the vaccine happened to run below EV this year and was only 23% effective. Guess no on should have gotten it because it only saved a few thousand lives. Nice results oriented thinking.

Also the New Rules bit on free speech was all over the place. Seems like he only supports free speech in some instances. People protesting his speech? Nope. People protesting Rush by organizing a boycott of his sponsors? Nope. I really don't understand his objection to that. Also I didn't think the Greenwald quote was that controversial--seemed like he was just stating a fact and not necessarily victim blaming. But don't know the context, which is the nature of quote mining.

Yeah Bill is awful when he starts rambling about vaccines. I thought maybe he'd have a better response when the doc gave his "wells actually vaccines..." speech but he just doubled down on the dumb.

Last week never got that either.

This week was OK but the Republican who still doesn't believe in Climate change. I dont think a republican is allowed to say anything good about Obama

This week's ep wasn't anything special for me. No yeehaw's from Howard Dean, plus that talking head for the right was insufferable. Monologue was a B- at best, and I wanted more from Burr for some reason... but at least new rules was good.

Yeah it was a pretty meh episode overall. lol climate change deniers

lol if you think anyone's devoting an hour to watch that nonsense. i guess it's thrilling to think almost everyone is wrong about everything but you.

omg how horrible was mel brooks?! told one of the worst, most boring meandering stories ive seen on tv and it was so brutal because everyone respected him so they wouldnt intervene. So it went on and on and on.

I'm pretty sure Mel Brooks has earned the right to tell whatever story he wants and have it go on for as long as he wants and have it be laughed at no matter how bad it is.

I have never FF through Bill Maher but Fast Forwarded most of the MEl Brooks he was horrible

That's nothing new for Mel. He has routinely done the same thing on other talk shows. Conan recently had to cut him off in mid story because it was getting so painful.

It's too bad because he was actually kind of funny on the political side of things.

samesies! I cant stand maher and disagree with the vast vast majority of what he has to say, but Im not a maniac and I like political discussions so I actually really enjoy his show. The only thing that really tilts me to no end is the audience. They are the most pathetic group of lemmings...EVERY time bill wants a laugh he gets it. Theyd clap for him if he took out his dick and just diddled himself for an hour straight.

But yea mel brooks was horrific.

Love Bill but the argument See folks just got the flu the flu shot is a scam is like saying look its cold today climate change isnt real

Ok show

Yeah that was infuriating.

Bill did an awful lot of "just asking questions" without jack **** to back up his insinuations last night. Which is the type of thing he would jump all over someone else for doing if it they were on the other side.

Yeah Bill looks really stupid whenever he starts talking about vaccines. If it were any other issue he would have killed Rand Paul for those kinds of irresponsible statements.

I donr get Bill's take on Vaccines and Flu shots? OK show

Seems like DD was in agreement as well. Must be a Hollywood thing.