UPDATE, February 10, 2009: Bill Maher and Jay Leno, February 10
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The Tonight Show is swinging to the far Left this week. Tuesday night, Chris Matthews was a guest.
Wednesday, Jay Leno had Bill Maher on the show -- AGAIN. Maher's hair looked greasier than usual. Pretty gross.
His last guest appearance with Leno was in October. This was his first visit since the election.
So naturally, the first topic was the election.
Leno led off with: "Are you happy with the results?"
BILL MAHER: I'm Hussein in the membrane. Are you kidding?
Did you see his first press conference? We have a president who knows how to put together a noun and a verb, a subject and a predicate. There was grammar and a point! We have a president with a point. I mean, I don't have to be ashamed to be an American anymore,... or tell people I'm Swiss when I travel. It is fantastic. It is a new chapter in America. Unfortunately, it's Chapter 11.
Obama's first news conference was a disaster. He barely answered any questions and he dissed Nancy Reagan. He had to apologize for his blunder. He completely botched his debut.
Leno noted that Maher likes John McCain. He asked what Maher thought of the campaign he ran.
MAHER: Well, I thought it was awful, but, you know, it's funny. The day after the guy loses, you know, 'Oh, he ran a noble campaign.'
Really? First of all, he picked Sarah Palin. There was nothing 'Country First' about that.
This woman, we found out two days... Ironic, you know, we elect the first African-American president, and then we find out two days later that she thought Africa was a country and not a continent. I know you can't see it from Alaska but that's... that's pretty powerful stupid. Um... Am I wrong?
You know, I think that whole thing, by the way, was because... You know, they said they picked her for... to get the woman vote.
It's not the women who liked her. It was the men.
It was those doughy, loser Republicans, like Karl Rove. They got a chubby for her, Jay. They thought she was a MILF. And she was a MILF -- a moron I'd like to forget.
How terribly demeaning and vulgar!
That's not entertaining, in my opinion. It's ugly. Leno liked it though.
MAHER: But, you know, I don't get that. One day, you're calling your opponent every name in the book. I mean, he said Obama was a socialist, a terrorist, a communist, anti-American, anti-Semitic, and of course, the worst you could ever call anybody -- a celebrity... He fills stadiums.
Well, the Republicans can fill stadiums -- like the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina. They filled that.
(The crowd booed.)
Right, I made that up. Thank you.
Whose plan was it to use the Superdome as a shelter? It was the plan the city of New Orleans had in place, not the feds. The Democrats were responsible for filling the Superdome.
Leno asked Maher about the future of the Republican Party and where he sees it going.
MAHER: Well, I think John McCain will do what he should have been doing all along -- be a pitchman for Viagra...
That's an interesting question because the Republicans really have a gut check right now. They have to decide what they are as a party. This happens to parties when they lose. And look, I think we do need a Republican Party.
Democracy is like sex -- best when there's two parties....
But, you know, they have to decide which party they are. Half of them want Sarah Palin. You know, they think that's the future of the party -- the Know-Nothings. The people who love Joe the Plumber... you know, Joe the Plumber, I'm so glad McCain picked him as the symbol of that party, 'cause that is what's wrong with that party is they have fooled people like Joe the Plumber for years. If they go back to being a party that's honest, and doesn't try to fool people...
Remember Joe the Plumber? The guy who was mad at Obama because he was gonna tax people who made over $250,000, and Joe was thinking about buying his boss's plumbing business. You know, dream on, septic tank cleaner.
(Some booing.)
Well seriously, I mean, the guy wasn't even a plumber. He didn't have a plumbing license. He was not close to that.
But you know what? He was going to get killed on the taxes that he was paying on the imaginary business in his head.
This is what the Republicans have done for so many years. They have fooled people into voting against their economic interest. They get people like Joe the Plumber to vote against things like the estate tax.
The estate tax is the perfect tax. I mean, we've got to tax somebody, right? This is a tax on rich dead people. People who literally have estates, otherwise known as 'not you.' People who don't need money on account of that whole being dead thing.
So if that's the way the Republican Party goes, then they're gonna lose again. Good luck. You won the slave states this time. You'll win 'em again. Good luck.
Leno said nothing. He let Maher rant on and on, without challenging the idiotic things Maher was saying. That's probably because Leno completely agreed with him.
I guess Maher doesn't have much of an audience in the South. He certainly didn't hesitate to insult them.
After the commercial break, Leno and Maher talked about President Bush leaving office.
Leno said that for comedians that would be a huge problem.
I'm so sick of hearing that it's so difficult to make jokes about Obama. They have to be kidding.
MAHER: Do you remember though right after 9/11, when we had to pretend that Bush was smart? Really, there was like three months when the country was in panic and we had to pretend... you could not do your normal Bush jokes every night.
...I mean, this is a country that panics. I mean, I think the legacy of the Bush administration will be panic. They panicked, you know.
Attacking the wrong country was panic. Torturing people was panic. We didn't have to torture people to beat the Nazis. We didn't have to tap phones to beat the Soviet Union. Yeah, you can applaud that....
It was so nice to hear Obama say the other day on 60 Minutes that he's gonna close Guantanamo Bay because, you know, yeah, I mean, torture is not the way to go.
Maher is clueless.
Look what we did to beat the Nazis -- WORLD WAR II! It was no picnic.
Maher thinks we didn't tap phones during the Cold War? Really?
Clueless.
Leno brought up Prop 8.
MAHER: Well, I think it's terrible what happened. You know, it was such a great day for, you know, a new day in America, we elected the first black president, and civil rights were lost in this country....
And of course, it's all coming from religion, which is ironic 'cause Jesus never said anything about homosexuality in the Bible.
And, you know, what if Jesus was gay? I'm not saying he was, but it wouldn't make him any worse. I mean, it could be. He was a gentle guy. He never got married. Every prayer ends with, 'Ah... men.'
What? What did I say?
Typical Maher.
He's really the perfect "comedian" for the Left.
He's vulgar. He's mean. He distorts the truth to fit the liberal agenda. He hits all the stale lib talking points. He plays to the lowest common denominator, every time.
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From Jay Leno's monologue:
After his performance the other night, it looks like Lance Bass may win Dancing with the Stars. Very exciting, yeah, yeah. That means we'll have a gay Dancing with the Stars champion, an African-American president, and Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. You know this could be just the thing that makes Rush Limbaugh's head explode, OK? Just send him over the edge.
6 comments:
Bill Mahr is/was hilarious on Leno last night. He is a friend of McCain's by his own and McCains own admission, and McCain has appeared on his show, and he called it right, Palin was "the hot chick" not the smart chick she is a moron, and does not belong in politics. I hope she stays in Alaska.
Hi. Like you, I was APPALLED with Bill Maher. I mean the election has been over for 3 weeks already and this guy is still talking about McCain, Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin.
There's no such thing as bad publicity so good for the Republicans!
The worst part, but most insightful, was when Maher pooh poohed the fact that a guy like Joe the Plumber could ever buy a business. Typical Democrats. Since Obama has been elected, the market has tanked, layoffs are through the sky....oh yeah! It's going to be a real good America. All of us will be on unemployment, government aid, food stamps, hand-outs. Geeze, we are all going to be living in a welfare state. Just like the, well, I can't say the color now. Can I?
It looks like once Obama won, the Republicans just washed their hands of the whole damn thing and are letting everything tank. The Democrats can't fight their way out of a paper bag.
Bill Maher is disgusting!
I appreciate your commentary on Maher last night, because I was unsure whether I was hearing boos or not. I looked to Leno to intervene when his guest dissed McCain; after all, it was only a few shows back Leno was assuring McCain that, his incessant "age" jokes aside, the Republican is a national hero. Indeed he is. Sickening to see and listen to last night.
I won't be watching Tonight any more. I am thankful for TV sports.
I gave up on regular viewing of Letterman after seeing him turn red and angry in response to conservative guests like Bill O'Reilly. His dissing of Sarah Palin is contrived and simply reflects who controls his show.
Then again, I canceled Fox News Channel after seeing how driven Sean Hanmity was to destroy Obama by ranting for weeks on end about his pastor.
Ultimately, all of this is rather harmless. Yet, there are areas of media bias that are having real negative impacts on America, specifically the distortion around Putin. "Is Russia evil?", McCain was asked in a pres debate. That is quite a joke.
The evil persisted for years under the Red Terror and was denied by the mainstream press. Then, the heirs of the original perpretrators stole the heritage of the people under Yelstin, got him re-elected through their control of the media they bought up with their stolen wealth.
What did we learn about it all? Nothing, just the line that Boris was a drunk. No, he was a pimp, selling the body politic of Russia to 7 bankers; they ran him very much as Hiss and a couple hundred other heroes of the media were run back in the last century by agents like Kheifetz. The purpose has always been evident and unchanging.
Still, all the ranting will change nothing. The control of communications is now complete and will not be challenged. By the time America wakes up a decade from now, it will be irrelevant.
i saw this. i was really wishing bill maher would just shut up. nobody thought he was funny...
Mr. Maher (and I say mister loosely) is such a bottom feeder (can you say Michael Moore? That in itself is another topic). His appearance on Leno was such an embarrassing display of an American (as he once said on his CANCELED show, "our military is cowardly"). The way he talked down on McCain, Republicans, etc. was not only unfortunate but also downright inexcusable. Sorry to say, but our country is F***** So called celebrities such as Bill Maher influenced the uneducated to go out and vote (people who had no idea on what they were voting on) and because of that, our safety, healthcare, jobs, right to bear arms, right to handle our personal money are done! In addition, antagonist, foreign countries are licking their chops.. SCARY.
Take a joke. It must be so hard to be so uptight.
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