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charrob
04-25-2010, 11:01 PM
Bill Maher, the Teaparty, and Empire:



YouTube - Bill Maher BECOMES a Teabagger - 4/23/10 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if88PgI-vfU&feature=player_embedded)

Anti Federalist
04-25-2010, 11:04 PM
Bill Maher can FOAD for all I care.

I do loathe that man.

charrob
04-25-2010, 11:17 PM
i'm not his biggest fan either, that's for sure, but he does point out several issues, especially empire, which seems to makes the non-RonPaul teaparty movement hypocritical.

i remember seeing a youtube when RP was on his show, and he really did treat him with respect, in particular with his foreign policy views. ...and it's something that i question also: how can a teaparty scream about the deficit and debt, yet promote the military industrial complex (which he sees as corporate welfare) and unnecessary war?

Anti Federalist
04-25-2010, 11:26 PM
i'm not his biggest fan either, that's for sure, but he does point out several issues, especially empire, which seems to makes the non-RonPaul teaparty movement hypocritical.

i remember seeing a youtube when RP was on his show, and he really did treat him with respect, in particular with his foreign policy views. ...and it's something that i question also: how can a teaparty scream about the deficit and debt, yet promote the military industrial complex (which he sees as corporate welfare) and unnecessary war?

This episode got thrashed out here pretty well:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=241628

But to answer the bold question in your quote: they can't.

They are, in fact, being hypocrites.

There are three spending areas that are bankrupting us:

Debt service, military spending, social security/Medicare spending.

Maher rails about defense spending, and rightly so, but in typical "gatekeeper" fashion, refuses to address the other two.

JeNNiF00F00
04-25-2010, 11:35 PM
saw him on earlier, and changed the channel as fast as possible.

charrob
04-25-2010, 11:50 PM
This episode got thrashed out here pretty well:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=241628

But to answer the bold question in your quote: they can't.

They are, in fact, being hypocrites.

There are three spending areas that are bankrupting us:

Debt service, military spending, social security/Medicare spending.

Maher rails about defense spending, and rightly so, but in typical "gatekeeper" fashion, refuses to address the other two.

sorry, -didn't realize it was already out there...

Pete_00
04-26-2010, 02:12 AM
Maher the Hollywood airhead and his vast and expensive teams of script and jokewriters doing their gatekeeping thing.

Maher supported the bombing of yugoslavia, is an israel-first warmonger, cheerleads for Barack Oprompter the warmonger.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j070102.html <--- Very interesting article, he even mentions what this "kook" has been stating on this forum several times, dark forces that control the show business:

"Thinking back over the events of the previous evening – Maher's mean-mouthed malice, Ms. Laden's putrid persona, the pathetically ineffective attempt to ambush me – I felt as if I'd come in contact with a force so powerful, and so malignant, that the mere contemplation of it left me feeling slightly ill."