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I usually kind of like Salam's act on Real Time but he totally ruined that show. I really wanted to hear what Cuban had to say because Rich Sensible Republican is some sort of rare endangered species and he has a lot to say on the SuperPac stuff but he was stuck trying to work around the shrieking moron. Bill should have told him to calm down in the first minute, it's the host's job to handle that stuff. I've said it before in this thread and I'll say it again now, watching this show is supposed to be fun. I don't want to be screamed at for an hour, I can watch Sean Hannity for that.
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FuriousxGeorge posted:I usually kind of like Salam's act on Real Time but he totally ruined that show. I really wanted to hear what Cuban had to say because Rich Sensible Republican is some sort of rare endangered species and he has a lot to say on the SuperPac stuff but he was stuck trying to work around the shrieking moron. Is Kuban a republican? He always struck me as a democrat.
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az posted:Is Kuban a republican? He always struck me as a democrat. Mark Cuban plays the middle. He has donated to Orrin Hatch and admires Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.
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Frot Lesnar posted:Mark Cuban plays the middle. He has donated to Orrin Hatch and admires Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. And he generally comes out as a republican who can at least think and understand points instead of just being a parrot for the standard party line talking points.
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Frot Lesnar posted:The Fountainhead. Oh my God.
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az posted:Oh my God. Yeah, I wish I could unsee that post. Cubes 
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tbh, you could sorta read "The Fountainhead" and just get from it "hey there is this weird but sorta gifted loner
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Aug 25, 2012 22:43
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Romney's advisor stooge bombed out especially bad in OT, though even on the show proper he was just terrible, even if not in the ultra-loud derailing way many others are. Agreed that OT had more pep to it than the normal broadcast---which is weird really.
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Aug 26, 2012 01:28
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Everyone talking about global warming pissed me off too. Bill was hilariously bad at arguing his point. His main response was "No you're wrong!" without going into much of the science of WHY they were wrong. I wanted him to talk about the methane in Siberia, or the shrinking Artic ice. Or how we have a small chance of turning our planet in to loving Venus. He barely had any facts that you could get just browsing this here internet forum. I didn't even like his speech at the end even though i agree with everything he said in it, he went like super Bill and raged for 5 minutes. The comparison to Hannity fits there for sure. Overtime was ok though.
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Aug 26, 2012 02:00
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It would have been better if they just had Aasif Mandvi acting in character as Romney's mouthpiece.
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The Romney mouthpiece was worthless but I think the show is a lot better when there are two Republicans in the mix.
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I guess no one was aware of this, but Todd Akin is on the House Committee for Science, Space and Technology. I'm sure he's joined by other like-minded members, but it's disturbing to think about. I would have loved to see Bill's reaction to this fact. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Science,_Space_and_Technology That being said, being on a committee has other implications for politicians. It's not necessarily about whether you're even interested in science or space or technology. It's just politics.
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Dudebro posted:I guess no one was aware of this, but Todd Akin is on the House Committee for Science, Space and Technology. Wait.......so I haven't seen the episode yet, but are you telling me the panel discussed Todd Akin and Bill DIDN'T bring up this fact? What in the gently caress? He seriously is loving asleep at the wheel right now. This was such obvious red meat for panel discussion especially from Bill.
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Yeah, I'm really not sure which issues Maher has teeth on. I think the subjects of false equivalencies of democrats being used by republicans (and other contemporary republican talking points), separation of church and state, sexuality politics, and marijuana legalization can provoke a strong response from him, but I can't think of too many others he won't leave to the guests. He needs a good economist who isn't also a frightened turtle to come on the show with some of these republican blowhards because he is just letting them control so much of those discussions on no merit.
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You would think he would have known that fact though. I mean poo poo the day the Akin stuff broke that was one of the first of several facts that caught my attention. Knowing that Maher loved pointing out that stupid Bush EPA guy who was like "whelp we don't know how long we'll be on the planet for so use it or lose it" I am kind of shocked this Akin science committee business didn't come up at all.
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I liked D.L. Hughley's book title "I Want You to Shut the gently caress Up: How the Audacity of Dopes Is Ruining America." I read the excerpts at amazon.com and came across this (which was also touched on in the show about Romney/Ryan humorously earning a 0% with black voters): Hughley: "What shocks me is when people think we’re a post-racial society. Obama’s election was fueled by his race. The opposition to him is fueled by race—and the deference to him by his own people is also fueled by race." Which I agree with. Is that sentiment at all at odds with Touré's "post-blackness" book or are "post-racial" and "post-black" two completely different things? PS Every other paragraph ends with a "Shut the gently caress up!" ApexAftermath posted:You would think he would have known that fact though. I mean poo poo the day the Akin stuff broke that was one of the first of several facts that caught my attention. Knowing that Maher loved pointing out that stupid Bush EPA guy who was like "whelp we don't know how long we'll be on the planet for so use it or lose it" I am kind of shocked this Akin science committee business didn't come up at all. The last vestige of respect I had for holding most politicians to some minimum standard of competence was shattered after Michael Moore went around asking all those "ten commandment defenders/hawks" to name a few commandments and they bristled back "  don't put me on the spot you jerk!"So many of these guys are intellectually bankrupt actors that I can't even muster much care about this Akin fellow. Maybe Bill has arrived at this same sentiment.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3MSi3uf8GA&feature=youtube_gdata_player Is the clip if anyone wanted to watch it. Holy poo poo at how dumb he makes them look, it's better than the Palin when asked about the newspapers she reads "all of them response."
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Aug 27, 2012 10:32
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Sep 1, 2012 03:14
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Next week he's going to have Christine O'Donnell, David Simon and Steve Schmidt. That should be a hell of a show.
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Sep 1, 2012 03:59
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Sep 1, 2012 03:59
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Bill was in a bad mood tonight and it was so great.
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perplexed posted:Tonight's show...god drat. Seriously, Bill was obviously pissed at something and just didn't take any poo poo from anyone. Dinesh D'Souza got his loving rear end handed to him, and I think Maher actually called him a rat at some point.
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perplexed posted:Tonight's show...god drat. The fact of the matter is...
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Dinesh D'Souza and Ron Christie give me a headache. Also, in that Ron Paul segment he said the "peace candidate always wins?" What happened to McGovern in 1972?
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I have no idea who that first guest was but I enjoyed the poo poo out of it. What in the everliving gently caress was he thinking when he agreed to be on the show? He picked a bad night.
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Godinster posted:I have no idea who that first guest was but I enjoyed the poo poo out of it. Bad for him, great for the audience. Really enjoyed angry Bill tonight.
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I'm glad Jason Alexander isn't right wing. I don't want George tainted by association. Big Stein would have been upset.
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Cacator posted:The fact of the matter is... That guy drove me nuts. It's a terrible phrase and he used it to start almost every sentence.
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doctor thodt posted:Next week he's going to have Christine O'Donnell, David Simon and Steve Schmidt. That should be a hell of a show. Only 25 minutes into this week's show, but I already want to punch the Bush administration guy. Also, I look forward to David Simon destroying Christine O'Donnell.
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This was the first time I pretty much expected Bill to produce a framing hammer from under his chair and unleash on the interview guest---the rage and indignation was palpable. Christie was terrible though, and OT was ever worse for the interviewee being in the mix. Dead God how I wish Michael Moore would've somehow been on the panel this week if only for Overtime...it would've been a grand spectacle. 2nd interview guest just seemed largely lost, but that's an improvement to many.
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That was one of the best episodes I've seen in a long time.
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Cacator posted:The fact of the matter is... A retarded coworker of mine uses that phrase all the time, also "you know when you think about it ....". I just know right after the word crutches comes a steaming pile of nonsense. Awesome episode, I feel Bill was just channeling what many felt watching the GOP convention this week.
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That Christie guy is hilarious. He's so far gone that he'd be a comedic genius if he weren't completely serious about the stuff he says.
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I loved the part where he just flat out gave up with trying to reason with him. My professor for one of my earth science classes told us that there wasn't any controversy between scientists on global warming but there was controversy at the rate at which it is happening.
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Sep 1, 2012 21:00
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Wow, Bill has wanted to do that for 11 years. Bet it felt good.
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Steinuh posted:I loved the part where he just flat out gave up with trying to reason with him. Yeah but my gut tells me that east coast ivy league elites are just lying to me to try to....???? Leech gov't funding yeah that's the ticket. And hey sometimes you just have to go with your heart, jury's still out on science afterall. 
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Dudebro posted:That Christie guy is hilarious. He's so far gone that he'd be a comedic genius if he weren't completely serious about the stuff he says. That's the same thing I was thinking. I want him to just be himself and go on a comedy tour.
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Maher essentially turned into that overplayed, but classic, Ralph-with-his-head-down gif---it was equal parts funny/depressing. At this rate I'll be surprised it this season makes it without somebody taking a swing at somebody as it is just asking for one of these terrible guests to push the wrong buttons on somebody.
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