Bill Maher: We Hardly Knew Ye
I watched Leno last night for some unexplained reason and I got to witness a man completely destroyed by bitterness and self-pity. If anyone who watched it can chime in on this will be appreciate, but Maher is among the most pathetic people I've ever seen on a late night talk show.
His bitterness was tangible and it stood in the way (like it always has) of clear thought. Leno was a gracious host (the same can't be said of the guest) and he absolutely schooled Maher at every turn during their political discussion. You know you've fallen when a comedian is making you look uninformed.
I found myself asking ..uh... myself, "Why in God's name is this man on the show, and why in God's name was he ever on television?"
A question unanswered. But thank Jesus he's gone.
Praise the Lord!
His bitterness was tangible and it stood in the way (like it always has) of clear thought. Leno was a gracious host (the same can't be said of the guest) and he absolutely schooled Maher at every turn during their political discussion. You know you've fallen when a comedian is making you look uninformed.
I found myself asking ..uh... myself, "Why in God's name is this man on the show, and why in God's name was he ever on television?"
A question unanswered. But thank Jesus he's gone.
Praise the Lord!
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<strong>Praise the Lord!</strong><hr></blockquote>
hmmhmmmm !
this is ?© and other nasty stuff 2002 by Fellowship
you gonna get your *** filled up with lawsuits !
He's too stupid for his own good, he doesn't know when his cutesy bullshit needs to be turned off, he's incapable of objectivity or even listening.
[ 10-31-2002: Message edited by: groverat ]</p>
Editorialism requires knowledge.
And when you have neither you have Politically Incorrect.
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You have to see how his hair has gone completely grey, no doubt from nights of skulking and pouting. You have to see his childish-looking book that will sell 5 copies and hear how awkward his bitterness makes him. I had to turn the channel occassionally because it was just so painful.
I hate it when someone wastes a perfectly good soapbox like that. He doesn't get any pity from me.
So he started working on the kid's show Zoom and says he is much happier (probably more viewers too).
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So he started working on the kid's show Zoom and says he is much happier (probably more viewers too). </strong><hr></blockquote>
Smarter ones too
Yes.
I once watched a 4 or 5 hour marathon of Zoom out of sheer boredom last year.
A friend who was with me thought one of the girls had cigarette burns on her arms.
[ 11-01-2002: Message edited by: spaceman_spiff ]</p>
<strong>I watched Leno last night for some unexplained reason and I got to witness a man completely destroyed by bitterness and self-pity. If anyone who watched it can chime in on this will be appreciate, but Maher is among the most pathetic people I've ever seen on a late night talk show.
His bitterness was tangible and it stood in the way (like it always has) of clear thought. Leno was a gracious host (the same can't be said of the guest) and he absolutely schooled Maher at every turn during their political discussion. You know you've fallen when a comedian is making you look uninformed.
I found myself asking ..uh... myself, "Why in God's name is this man on the show, and why in God's name was he ever on television?"
A question unanswered. But thank Jesus he's gone.
Praise the Lord!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Amen
Fellowship
I can't think of something more cowardly than wanting to kill thousands of men, women and children so your God will give you a free spot in eternal paradise.
The immediate reaction of America was to paint these criminals as cowards. So very trite, so self servingly propagandist, but so very true. I wonder if Americans had in that moment reasoned themselves to the right conclusion or simply searched for the most demeaning slander they could muster and luckily found the right target. I tend to think that the label 'coward' was a Hail Mary pass that just happened to be right on the mark. Sometimes you get lucky.
But going back to the my first paragraph, I have to wonder if 'coward' does any good as an operational tag? We expect cowards to protect themselves and this enemy didn't care about that, so for all its truth, the moniker did (I believe) aim to instill a false sense of security. Maher, for all his annoying quirks, recognized at least part of this and responded to it. Only he didn't think through it completely and he suffered when he wavered. You have to be sure of your opinion before you give it, and he wasn't sure because he wasn't sure if he was trying to be funny or serious, and neither was anybody else.
So, yes 'coward' is the best moral descriptor, but it is a slightly dangerous practical application. We count on cowards to chicken out, only now, when they do chicken out, the consequences are more disasterous for us than they are for them.
Maher got caught in the middle of this. His own failure to appreciate the fine distinction is embarrasing, but the rest of his pro-Americana critics have failed in roughly the same way and their reaction has been at least as embarrasing as Maher's comedic or editorial failings.
guests would actually speak on relevant societal issues
not just floss their new film or pump cd sales pop stars and senators, any colour, any fringe
those who rose to maher's defense cited the proverbial 1st Ammendment
which protects idiotic, foot-in-mouth speech as much as any other kind.
from my perspective, the reaction of the white house press rep ari,
to "watch what you say" was far more insidious
verging on the orwellian, as has been discussed in other threads
somebody sent me a link to some repurposed propaganda posters on this theme <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html" target="_blank">here</a>
makes one wonder what freedom is
if maher deserved to be banned from any media, it'd be film
ever watched <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094834" target="_blank">Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death?</a>
first film on record?... D.C. Cab
but late night tv is less mentally meaty without maher
now that dennis miller is gone too (damn),
now don't let me get off on a rant about miller
where's a viewer to go for ironic humour plus vocabulary
bring back one of them at least, please