Bill Maher is a loon

Bill Maher is a loon
In case you had any doubt, allow this to remove it once and for all: Anderson Cooper took a very different tack last night in trying to make sense of the Arizona shooting tragedy from the weekend. While many on Cable News were turning down the partisan Rhetoric, AC360 producers booked comedian Bill Maher, who was unafraid to compare the imagined mindset of alleged assailant Jared Loughner with Fox News host Glenn Beck, while at the same time calling for responsibility in the media. Huh? Cooper...

Bill Maher: Jared Loughners Chalkboard Likely Looks Like Glenn Becks Chalkboard
Anderson Cooper took a very different tack last night in trying to make sense of the Arizona shooting tragedy from the weekend. While many on Cable News were turning down the partisan Rhetoric, AC360 producers booked comedian Bill Maher, who was unafraid to compare the imagined mindset of alleged assailant Jared Loughner with Fox News host Glenn Beck, while at the same time calling for responsibility in the media. Huh? Cooper opened by asking about the soul searching and finger pointing that cam...

Some Democrats seek to dial back overheated rhetoric on shootings
ANALYSIS: Some Democrats are calling for a cease-fire in a heated liberal campaign to pin blame for the Tucson, Ariz., massacre on conservative Speech and specifically on former Republican vice-presidential Candidate Sarah Palin. No evidence has surfaced that the shooting suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, was motivated by any Political Speech, left or right. News reports tell of a deeply troubled man who thinks the government orchestrated the 9/11 attacks, hates The Bible and was thrown out of coll...

Mahers Offensive Rant About Loughner Sets New Low
Anderson Cooper took a very different tack last night in trying to make sense of the Arizona shooting tragedy from the weekend. While many on Cable News were turning down the partisan Rhetoric, AC360 producers booked comedian Bill Maher, who was unafraid to compare the imagined mindset of alleged assailant Jared Loughner with Fox News host Glenn Beck, while at the same time calling for responsibility in the media. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, exc...

Late Night: Try to Be Nice, And Look What It Gets You
It’s long been obvious that Conservatives conceive of “civility” solely in terms of point-scoring, because they are essentially sociopathic fuckwads. Oh, perhaps this is unfair. But as I was grouching about last night, “once you’ve gone ahead and, say, made excuses for state-sponsored Torture, if you want the benefit of the doubt, fuck you.” Honestly, one of the absolute minimum qualifications for entry into a Civil Discussion ought not to include an enthusi...

Bill Maher Rips Right's Rhetoric
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Bill Maher: 2007 vs Today On Inciting Violence And Hate
Bill Maher appeared on Anderson Cooper last night to condemn the hate filled Rhetoric from the right, but what did Maher say about Dick Cheney 2007? townhall.com/tipsheet ...

John Dingell Runs Through Litany Of Violent Rhetoric On House Floor
© C-SPAN Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) Members of Congress have, by and large, stayed out of the partisan fray over violent Rhetoric in the wake of the Arizona Shooting Spree. But there have been some exceptions. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) took the opportunity to muse that the government may be withholding information about the crime because Jared Loughner is a flag-hating Marxist liberal who might embarrass President Obama. Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), by contrast, ran through a litany of now-i...

Alert Captain Renault
pic via Bruce_Fulton at flickr.com The usual right-wing suspects seem to really have strong objections to any memorial service involving someone who isn’t right-wing. From Paul Wellstone to Coretta Scott King to Ted Kennedy and so it shall be in regard to the service for the Victims of the violence of Jared Lee Loughner (three name rule for all assassins). Because THAT is the first thing you complain about after a service remembering victims…not the victims, but how the Memorial Se...

Violent Rhetoric: What They Wont Say and Why
I know an awful lot has been said, and more will be said about the shootings in Tucson last Saturday. While details continue to be compiled, it seems clear that Jared Loughner was mentally ill, fully engaged within a surreal world, leaving him devoid of the ability to comprehend himself or others, according to a remarks gleaned from a friend published in Mother Jones. The simplest affirmative thing we can do is recognize that when Rhetoric states violence is a valid answer to something, it has g...

Video of Bill Maher: 2007 vs Today On Inciting Violence & Hate
How about this for heated Rhetoric from the left: ■ Conservatives Want to Kill Barack Obama: “I really think there are conservative broadcasters in this country who would love to see Obama taken out.” (Ed Schultz) Mike Malloy: The face of true hate ■ Conservatives Are Terrorists: “Do you not understand that the people you hold up as heroes bombed your goddamn country? Do you not understand that Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly ...

Truth or Consequence How Did You THINK It Was Going to End Up?
In the aftermath of the Assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and the cold-blooded murders of six other innocent people, Judson Phillips, the founder of Tea Party Nation issued a statement, “We didn’t intend for this to result in violence.” Huh? How did you think it was going to end up? Phillips went on to say, “No one should be killed for their political beliefs, but . . . there can be no Civil Discourse with people as crazy as those on the left are....

Inflammatory speech causing violence
Sarah Palin and her supporters along with the right-wing media are crying foul to suggestions that their inflammatory Rhetoric had any role in the horrendous assault in Arizona. Listening to the debate I could not help but think of the times I have stood by Eisenhower Lock on the Seaway and watched a ship go through with a load of Gasoline. Before the ship entered the lock, red lights came on and announcements were made to ensure that no one was smoking. In the presence of volatiles, the respo...

Foxs Bill OReilly Wins Big: 1 Million Viewers On 1/11/11
Cable news Ratings, January 11, 2011: •There’s no disputing the numbers: Bill O’Reilly was the king of Cable News on January 11, with 1,000,000 viewers 25-54, destroying the competition in the 8 o’clock timeslot (Keith Olbermann was second with 376,000 viewers) and posting his best performance in this key demographic since 11/3/10-one day after the mid-term Elections. •The new live-format Parker Spitzer on CNN is showing signs of life, with 176,000 viewers 25-54-...

Jared Loughner Terrified Everyone At His Old Community College
Email Sent! You have successfully emailed the post. Since the Arizona massacre on Saturday there have been some very pointless debates about the role of Rhetoric in American politics, and whether Sarah Palin used an inappropriate phrase in a video she posted on Vimeo. But the debate that will emerge have some actual impact is whether society ought to get even more aggressive about pro-actively protecting itself against psychos, which is exactly what everyone who came into contact with shooter J...

No More Mister Nice Blog
Glenn Beck THINKS I'M A PSYCHOPATH From the Open Letter posted by Glenn Beck on his Web site: All evidence points to the fact that the assailant from this weekend was severely mentally disturbed. His belief system was not rational by any modern political standard. He was an atheist, believed George W. Bush was responsible for 9/11, feared a global currency, cited the Communist Manifesto as one of his favorite books and thought the Mars rover landing was staged. These are not the opin...

Snippets of Revelation.
Snippets of Revelation by digby Anderson Cooper interviewed Bill Maher tonight, playing Devil's Advocate to Maher's strong denunciation of Right Wing violence. It's worth watching on the rerun if you care to. This was a highlight: Cooper: I'm reading biographies of Lincoln and Jefferson and Lincoln had horrible things said about him when he was president, really vicious, vicious stuff. Maher: Sure, and look what happened to him. Cooper: well... Maher: yeah, and we saw how that ended. I guess ...

On CNN, Weak Parker Spitzer Outperforms Slumping Anderson Cooper
Cable news Ratings, January 7, 2011: •On the same day news surfaces that CNN execs may be looking to shuffle hosts on the poorly performing (and soon to be key lead in to Piers Morgan Tonight) Parker Spitzer, the Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker hosted show wasn’t the weak spot on CNN’s Primetime schedule. Parker Spitzer attracted 137,000 viewers 25-54 (coming in fourth place), a full 30,000 viewers stronger than Anderson Cooper’s AC 360 Special at 9 p.m. and 17,000 viewers ...

44: Palin accuses critics of 'blood libel'
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) released a statement Wednesday morning denouncing efforts to blame her for Saturday's Tucson shooting rampage. "Like many, I've spent the past few days reflecting on what happened and praying for guidance," Palin said in a lengthy statement posted on her Facebook page. "After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame...

VIDEO: Add Bill Maher to the Blame Massacre on the Right Crowd Predictable
It’s strange how someone can be so spot-on about Islam and Israel, yet so wrong and so utterly loathsome on everything else.  But, hey, you know about the broken clock’s rate of correctness:  twice a day.  Everything Bill Maher says here is sooooo predictable and such complete BS. As we all know, the shooter at the Tucson Safeway massacre, Jared Loughner, was a lot like Bill Maher-an atheist who liked to watch MSNBC and say obnoxious things-not like any of ...

Bill Maher: 'I'm So Tired of the Second Amendment'
Comic and HBO "Real Time" host Bill Maher has always been good at stirring the pot, and his comments about Gun Rights on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" Tuesday night are certain to stir up something! When Jay Leno asked Bill Maher for his take on the Tucson Shooting Spree that killed six and wounded more than a dozen people last weekend, Maher responded to the Tucson event rather indirectly, but was quite direct as to how he feels about gun issues in general. You must login to comment. The Fox...

Bill Maher: The Rhetoric Of The Right Is Wouldnt It Be Fun To Kill The People We Disagree With
The folks in the audience for Jay Leno’s safe-for-all-audiences Tonight Show clearly would’ve rather had a visit from some cuddly zoo animals than what they got: an extended and at times awkwardly tense visit from HBO’s Bill Maher. Talking about the shootings in Arizona and Fox News chief Roger Ailes‘ reported instructions to his staff to tone down language after Tucson, Maher argued it would never happen, as “that’s the Rhetoric they love. The Right Wing love...

Bill Maher: Exclusive Footage From New Season (VIDEO)
Bill Maher has returned from a holiday hiatus and given us a Sneak Peek into his newest slew of hilarity. Take a look at our exclusive footage below, which includes commentary on "Sarah Palin's Alaska," the war on Christmas, Congress's Lame Duck session, Julian Assange and Boehner's tears, among other timely events worth his two cents. WATCH: ...

Bill Maher: Psycho Killers Chalkboard Likely Looks Like Glenn Becks Chalkboard
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Bill Maher says Glenn Beck's nutty and like the Giffords shooter, Jared Loughner
 Bill Maher says Glenn Beck’s nutty and like the Giffords shooter, Jared Loughner. It is now open season beyond the shadow of a doubt on all Conservatives, at least from the standpoint of many liberals. Each day after the Gabrielle Giffords shooting has brought with it increasingly shocking Defamation by liberals looking to turn the murderous tragedy of Giffords’ shooting into a poorly calculated political opportunity. The latest shameless liberal to jump on the desperate attack...