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Posted on Apr 26, 2009

The “Real Time” host marvels at Republican rage in the era of Obama: “The conservative base these days is absolutely apoplectic because ... well, nobody knows.”

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By KDelphi, April 28, 2009 at 8:47 pm Link to this comment

I used to really like Maher. He used to think independently. Maybe he should have stayed in NY or stayed, not quite so rich??

Now he just a Democratic schill..

Shar—please do not “diagnose” people online. You dont know what you are talking about. I know you are trying to be funny.

It should be called “Real Self Congratulation” with Bil Maher. Disagree and he will just look at you funny…I watched this Friday, but, I am sick of watching his show. It is becoming samo/samo.

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By LHO39, April 27, 2009 at 5:01 pm Link to this comment
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If you go way out to the left to where Bill Maher is you will see next to him Dennis Miller way out to the right meeting in their closed comedic universe. Like two antiparticles they explode in a feeble burst of insignificant foolishness.

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By Improbus, April 27, 2009 at 12:44 pm Link to this comment

Bill Maher isn’t a bigot he just prejudiced against stupid people.  Bill is a lot kinder to his foes that I would be.

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By AFriend, April 27, 2009 at 12:05 pm Link to this comment

I like the president on a personal level and couldn’t disagree more with the far right in the U.S., however, in Bill Maher I see a whinny petulant child and bigot through and through. In fact I am hard pressed to think of an individual more closed minded.

If you don’t think like Maher you must be stupid or something is wrong with you. That’s a bigot by any definition.

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By felicity, April 27, 2009 at 11:23 am Link to this comment

Eric Schneiderman in ‘The Nation’ suggested that the conservative tsunami of the last 30 years was accomplished because the conservatives moved the voters closer to them, rather than changing their positions or rhetoric to move toward the voters.  (He called this transformational politics rather than transactional.)

Good guess that the ‘voters’ aren’t moving toward the conservatives these days for obvious reasons (Bush etal.)  Kind of leaves the conservative with what-do-we-do-now-they-ain’t-moving, doesn’t it.

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By godistwaddle, April 27, 2009 at 10:48 am Link to this comment

I thought the beauty queen contestant was remarkably eloquent for a Republican.

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By photoshock, April 27, 2009 at 6:19 am Link to this comment

The idea of any ‘white anglo saxon protestant’ member of society becoming apoplectic over the ways in which President Obama is turning things around in this country is absolutely an outrage.
Resident Bush, the person least likely to live in the White House, a person for whom the idea of hegemony was to make war with a country that had nothing to do with the ‘attack’ of Sept. 11, 2001 was and is his lasting legacy, should be ashamed at the state of this country.  He and his neo-conservative cronies, left this country is a state of despair and disrepair. 
Nothing they did helped lift the living standard of those not in the class that the shrub belonged to.
We, the true American people are now left with the bill for the inadequacies of the shrub’s policies.
There is nothing that G.Duuuuhhhhhhhhbya Bush did to make this country safer, the policies of his administration only inflamed the people who, dislike this countries standards and the way in which we conduct business.
Please Americans, fight back against the tide of those who seek to be obstructionist in their faith and ways of fighting the current administration. For if we do not stand fully behind our President, then we the true Americans will pay the price in our blood and pride.

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By Astleford, April 27, 2009 at 5:53 am Link to this comment
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What characteristics are associated with psychotic disorder?


Some of the characteristics associated with psychotic disorders include delusions, hallucinations, bizarre behavior, incoherent or disorganized speech, and/or disorganized behavior.

Delusions are described as false, inaccurate beliefs the person holds onto even when he/she is presented with accurate information.

Like believing Bush was a Christian.
Like believing Obama is a Ninja Killing Communist, Socialist, Fascist, Muslim terror cell leader.
Like believing Torture works.

Are there genetic factors associated with psychotic disorder?

Some psychotic disorders, like Schizophrenia, tend to run in families. If someone has a psychotic disorder, it is quite likely that another member of his/her immediate or extended family also has had a psychotic disorder.


It’s obvious a large number of Republicans are suffering from psychotic disorders.

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