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Maher: Guns Don’t Kill People, Bush Does

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Posted on May 1, 2007

With his closing monologue from last week’s “Real Time,” Bill Maher took aim at the president and his followers, “the 29 percent of Americans who still think he’s doing a heckuva job.”

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By Jeremy Sipes, July 11, 2007 at 10:09 pm #
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I hope all of you left wing liberal scum die of cancer.Anyone who listens to Bill Maher should be publicly executed.Only a pussy can be a democrat and you pricks fit the bill.You actually liked Bill” the liar” Clinton.Sick losers,he should be dead.Long live Ronald W. Reagan and George W. Bush,the defenders of freedom!!!Ann Coulter is GOD and my future wife.Go eat shit you cowards.Long live the Republic!

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By Leeny Harvard, May 10, 2007 at 1:29 pm #
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Bill Maher has been crying like a little girl ever since Bush was elected. Does anybody remember him screaming about the seven minutes it took Bush to react to the 9/11 crisis?  Like seven minutes was as long as seven years.  He was so desperate to make an issue out of a non-issue. 
The shame is that you people actually think what you are getting from BM is real news.  You are getting the ideas of a failed actor who now has a talk show. He has the right to his opinion and it’s supposed to be funny schtick, which it is sometimes, but it’s not supposed to be considered news.

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By eyesis, May 3, 2007 at 10:56 am #
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Mr. Bill,  you are doing a splendid job and I did get HBO just to watch something I can relate to, some real talk with burning questions and commentary on the drastic state of affairs here in the U.S…we really need more folks like you who are not afraid of speaking out against this madness and corruption.  You and others linked on this internet serve as a beacon in the night, dark nights of hopelessness and despair all across this land. We uplift and empower each other and validate the insanity of our leaders.  We have a big job and and are driven to work in these endeavors.  It takes more angelic spirits working together to combat the demons of greed and corruption. People are not doing too well these days,..so much poverty, oppression, police state tactics, so many that we know locked up in cages for non-violent victimless crimes.  This government sure has worked the “fear” into the fabric of American society!  We have to retain our humanity through humor, laughter, the arts, the freedom that jazz reaches for…the revolution will be improvised, live, in flux. We shall continue to make a difference in rebuilding our communities, exposing people to different perspectives, critical thinking, global education and restore hope for this land in which we are the caretakers.  Like a tune that came to a poet friend in a dream…“the war is on, who kin you trust, don’t you know the enemy is only US…we’re all endangered species now.”

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By eyesisenator, May 3, 2007 at 10:44 am #
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Mr. Bill,  you are doing a splendid job and I did get HBO just to watch something I can relate to, some real talk with burning questions and commentary on the drastic state of affairs here in the U.S…we really need more folks like you who are not afraid of speaking out against this madness and corruption.  You and others linked on this internet serve as a beacon in the night, dark nights of hopelessness and despair all across this land. We uplift and empower each other and validate the insanity of our leaders.  We have a big job and and are driven to work for the cause, the common good and decency for all participants in life, a new fairness doctrine of cooperation amongst humankind, resolving our conflicts peacefully and poetically. Healing thru forgiveness, except for the crimes against humanity.  It takes more angelic spirits working together to combat the demons of greed and corruption. People are not doing too well these days,..so much poverty, so few opportunities, so much police presence, abuse, and terror heaped upon us just trying to get by, and so many of us locked away, warehoused for the corporate profits from human misery, the “New Slavery”, or victims of the “Drug War.”  Abu Graib Gonzalez is right here all across America and it’s all about poverty, loss of our human rights, Bill of Rights, inalienable rights.  Lights out for inmates in our new detention centers..help “we need more bodies”  every bunk at the _Inn_ (not the Holiday) must be filled—the ‘count’ is about numbers,  and prosecutors abuse their excessive power to insure the fat paychecks of those who work in the overlap/overtapped just-us system.—compassion?? What a wonderful world, if you don’t mind hell, or joining the armed force.                 
    Great job of weaving fear into our psyche while removing our civil liberties while the media regurgitates the official white house spun dry double talk.  We have to retain our humanity through humor, laughter, the arts, the freedom that jazz reaches for…the revolution will be improvised, live, induced, in flux. We shall carry on, giving encouragement and gathering support—-making a difference, rebuilding our communities, exposing people to new and different views, world-wide and you can decide..think global, tribal, liable to succeed in restoring hope for this nation in which we are the caretakers.  Like the words that came to the poet in a dream, and the tones that rounded out this tune of tryin’ times,...“the war is on, who kin you trust, don’t you know the enemy is only usUS…we’re all endangered species now.”

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By Doc Dinkydow, May 3, 2007 at 2:58 am #

It’s ironic that Schizophrenia is a prop in attempting to joke about an untreated schizophrenic mass murderer.  While Lebanon was still burning, Bill Maher (henceforth BM) spent the first 15 minutes of his HBO show glorifying Benjamin Netanyahu.  Then, closes the same show with a plea for the plight of the “Muslim boy doing a slow burn because of Bush’s war crimes.”  Hey Bill?  Bush rushed production of the 2,000 lb.  “Bunker busters” to allow your BFF-Netanyahu, to kill Muslim boys, girls, and any other terrorists in the area.

Another BM double-take moment occurred during the Foley-Congressional-Page disaster.  The old sage, BM, said “well, the pages bare some guilt; some flirted back.”  I guess the ones that bared guilt were Lebanese pages?

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By JNagarya, May 2, 2007 at 6:59 pm #

#67675 by T Willi on 5/02 at 5:04 am
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“What a shame that we must rely on a comedian to get a thoughtful truth out to the public.  Isn’t that the job of reporters and news organizations?  (For example Ed Murrow.)

“Thank goodness for people like John Stewart and Bill Maher who CAN walk and talk and THINK and ask some excellent questions.  At least THEY are not an example of the blind leading the blind.

“Darwin was so wrong!  How long must we endure the ultimate results of “The Peter Principle?””

In his day, the run-of-the-mill critic saw Mark Twain as “funny”—a “buffoon”.  The perceptive critic saw him as “a moral philsosopher”.

“A lie is halfway around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.”—Mark Twain.

“Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction is obliged to follow rules.  Truth ain’t.”—Mark Twain.

”. . . .  Congress, that grand old national asylum for the helpless . . . .  I’ve never seen a body with mouths so handy and information so uncertain.  They could talk for a week without every giving up an idea!  If they had been in session when the Almighty was on the verge of saying, ‘Let there be light!’ we never would have had it.”—Mark Twain.

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By detectivediana, May 2, 2007 at 4:25 pm #

People kill people. People have power over other people. Sometimes that power leads people to kill others.

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By PatrickHenry, May 2, 2007 at 4:13 pm #

The 29 percent are most likely:

Defense contractors & employees
AIPAC related US lobbies & media.
Apocalypse Now! neo-christian denominations helping Israel.
KBR, Halliburton, Custer & other single bid contracting outfits who contribute to campaigns with part of the money they overcharge the public.

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By Excellent Made me burst into Laughter!!, May 2, 2007 at 10:06 am #
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Bill Maher
That was excellent, the best laughs I have enjoyed in weeks, literally.  Someday we hope to see you in person.
All the best,
Inductive ~ Deductive LOGIC
Soldiers’ Mother

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By T Willi, May 2, 2007 at 5:04 am #
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What a shame that we must rely on a comedian to get a thoughtful truth out to the public.  Isn’t that the job of reporters and news organizations?  (For example Ed Murrow.)

Thank goodness for people like John Stewart and Bill Maher who CAN walk and talk and THINK and ask some excellent questions.  At least THEY are not an example of the blind leading the blind.

Darwin was so wrong!  How long must we endure the ultimate results of “The Peter Principle?”

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By JNagarya, May 1, 2007 at 9:33 pm #

#67599 by Joe Straka on 5/01 at 7:08 pm
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“I would like to see a U.S. bill passed giving the people of Mexico an opportunity to become part of the U.S.A. (e.i. Puerto Rico, Guam) If the people vote yes then a process covering at least a generation to 50 years begin to work out plans covering laws, language, education, taxes, registrations, communications, medical, infracture, military and police concerns, transportation, etc. etc. If the people vote no > we strengthen the border.”

Huh?  If Mexico doesn’t agree to transform themselves into being “us,” there should be a wall against them?

How is that arrogant, imperialist view different than that arrogant, imperialist view?

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By sab, May 1, 2007 at 7:55 pm #
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This is the best I have seen.  I am going to get HBO just for him.

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By Joe Straka, May 1, 2007 at 7:08 pm #
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I would like to see a U.S. bill passed giving the people of Mexico an opportunity to become part of the U.S.A. (e.i. Puerto Rico, Guam) If the people vote yes then a process covering at least a generation to 50 years begin to work out plans covering laws, language, education, taxes, registrations, communications, medical, infracture, military and police concerns, transportation, etc. etc. If the people vote no > we strengthen the border.

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By Tom Doff, May 1, 2007 at 1:04 pm #
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Once again, Maher hit THE DUMMY right on the head with his hammer (See attached photo).

Another ‘coincidence’: Not only are the twenty-nine percent who still approve of Bush, and the twenty-five percent who expect a ‘Second-Coming’ during ‘07 the same people (allowing for poll-percentage errors), but, statistically, twenty-seven percent of the population has IQ’s of 69 and lower. If you think that’s just a coincidence, you don’t understand that

Some of ‘god’s works’ are not mysterious.

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By JNagarya, May 1, 2007 at 11:02 am #

#67496 by QuyTran on 5/01 at 4:43 pm
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Dear Mr. Maher, you’re absolutely right. Guns never know how to kill people because guns doesn’t have brain while Bush does because he borrowed brain from Karl Rove and other damned inner circles having primate’s brain !

Guns kill people.  So does Bush.

Both are true.  Maher mistated the facts.

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By QuyTran, May 1, 2007 at 10:13 am #

Dear Mr. Maher, you’re absolutely right. Guns never know how to kill people because guns doesn’t have brain while Bush does because he borrowed brain from Karl Rove and other damned inner circles having primate’s brain !

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