Advice to the Democrats, by Bill Maher

[Grallon]

Whinny. I think you meant whiney or whiny.

And that's Mr. Ed.

See how contrarian you are!?  You agree with me but for the sake of effects you disagree!  Impossible child!

Incidently I found the Gaga song you favor: "Dance in the Dark".  These lyrics gave you away:

"I am as vain as I allow..."




G.

[garbon]

See how contrarian you are!?  You agree with me but for the sake of effects you disagree!  Impossible child!

I often vote for Republicans so I doubt I agree to any great extent.

Incidently I found the Gaga song you favor: "Dance in the Dark".  These lyrics gave you away:

"I am as vain as I allow..."

G.

Are you calling me a tramp or do you mean So Happy I Could Die?

[The Brain]

  I enjoyed how apt the colorful language he used was to describe the whinny little bitches that are so many republicans when things don't go their way.

G.

?

He's bored.

[Grallon]

Are you calling me a tramp or do you mean So Happy I Could Die?

My (wine induced) mistake - you're right - it's "So Happy I ciould die"



G.

[garbon]

"So Happy I ciould die"

If only.

[Berkut]

I would not at all compare Maher and Coulter. He is damn funny, and she isn't.

[Camerus]

That was funny?     Crudeness in itself does not automatically constitute humour.

[CountDeMoney]

I wonder if people like Maher and Coulter realize that they're helping the other side more than their own. 

Maher is a beacon of truth;  Coulter isn't.

And, as Berkut said, he's funny.

[Martinus]

Awesome.

[grumbler]

That was funny?      

Yes, it was.  Quite funny.

Crudeness in itself does not automatically constitute humour.

No, it doesn't (except the point-at-and-laugh humor, which is what we do to Tiger Woods when reading this stuff).  It is when you juxtapose crudity with politics that it becomes funny.

Maher is an entertainer, not a political commentator.  He does comedy TV, not comic op-ed pieces.  He is nothing like Ann Coulter.

[Eddie Teach]

He is nothing like Ann Coulter.

Both give credence to the slippery slope arguments of the opposition. Both are full of vitriol which turns off the unconverted.

There are plenty of humorists who can advance political arguments without seeming petty and vicious and extreme. Jon Stewart springs to mind. Or Dennis Miller. But I'd bet Bill Maher costs Democrats votes whenever he opens his mouth. Not very many, he's not that important. But more than he gains. This is why I compared him with a "serious"  pundit like Coulter, who does the same thing in reverse.

[grumbler]

Both give credence to the slippery slope arguments of the opposition. Both are full of vitriol which turns off the unconverted.

Maher gives credence to nothing except with people who don't understand what a comic is.

There are plenty of humorists who can advance political arguments without seeming petty and vicious and extreme. Jon Stewart springs to mind. Or Dennis Miller. But I'd bet Bill Maher costs Democrats votes whenever he opens his mouth. Not very many, he's not that important. But more than he gains. This is why I compared him with a "serious"  pundit like Coulter, who does the same thing in reverse.

I don't think you understand show business.  The last thing Maher wants is to be like another comic (Jon Stewart and Dennis Miller do, indeed, spring to mind - but that niche is covered).  Maher wants to be unique, and uses this hilariously extreme approach in order to be unique.

[Fate]

Real Time has its funny moments, but last season he spent more air time lecturing on his obsession with organic food than comedy.

[Valmy]

Being a militant left wing pinko socialist America hating traitor my wife loves Real Time...and I do have to admit he is funny and entertaining.

[Alcibiades]

He's kind of annoying, but I'll give him props for the dig at Palin at the end.