Maher: Santorum Homeschools Kids in His 'Christian Madrassa' to Keep T

March 10th, 2012 1:36 PM
Bill Maher on Friday attacked Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Christians, and anyone that homeschools their children. In his final New Rule on HBO's Real Time, Maher said, "Rick Santorum homeschools his children because he does not want them eating [from the Tree of Knowledge]. He wants them locked up in the Christian madrassa that is the family living room not out in public…

Bill Maher: Rush Limbaugh's 'A Stupid Fat F--k Who’s Not Funny

March 10th, 2012 11:46 AM
As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, Bill Maher's "defense" of Rush Limbaugh via Twitter was not what it appeared. HBO's Real Time host made that clear Friday when he called the conservative talker "a stupid fat f--k who’s not funny" (video follows with transcript and commentary, vulgarity warning):

Palin: 'Doesn't Bode Well for Our President's Character to Not Speak O

March 9th, 2012 10:15 AM
Sarah Palin on Thursday took Barack Obama to task for not telling his Super PAC to return Bill Maher's million dollar donation. Speaking to Fox News's Sean Hannity, the former Alaska Governor said, "It does not bode well for our President's character to not speak out against that dirty money" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Game Change Co-Author Halperin Insists HBO Movie Leads Palin Detractor

March 9th, 2012 3:32 AM
Those who have seen HBO’s Game Change come away with a more sympathetic view of Sarah Palin, Time magazine’s Mark Halperin, co-author of the book on which HBO based its production set to air Saturday night, contended Wednesday night on CNN. Erin Burnett interviewed Halperin and co-author John Heilemann and Halperin told Burnett: We’ve seen a few screenings with people and uniformly – every…

'Game Change' Stars and Execs Gave $200K to Democrats, Zero to Republi

March 7th, 2012 7:04 PM
Days before HBO's anti-Republican propaganda film "Game Change" premieres, it has been revealed that the top stars and executives involved in the movie have given $200,000 to Democrats and liberal causes over the years. By contrast, according to the Hollywood Reporter, they've given exactly nothing to Republicans:

Maher Defends Limbaugh: 'He Apologized, Liberals Looking Bad Not Accep

March 6th, 2012 10:01 PM
Here's something you probably thought you'd never see. Vulgarian Bill Maher Tuesday actually came out on Twitter in defense of - wait for it! - conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh:

Wasserman Schultz Says Calling Women Sluts Isn't Funny - Two Months Af

March 4th, 2012 7:14 PM
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), in response to the Rush Limbaugh-Sandra Fluke controversy, told the host of Meet the Press Sunday, "I don't know any woman in America, David, that thinks that being called a slut is funny." This hysterically comes less than two months after the Florida Congresswoman appeared on vulgarian Bill Maher's HBO program Real…

Liberal Fox Contributor Takes on Left: 'Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only

March 4th, 2012 11:31 AM
NewsBusters readers likely know Kirsten Powers as one of the many intelligent, reasonable, liberal contributors to Fox News. On Sunday, Powers published a piece at the Daily Beast entitled "Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist" that is guaranteed to be applauded by the Right and heavily ridiculed by her colleagues on the left:

Leno Says Game Change ‘Humanizes’ Palin; York: Could’ve Focused

March 3rd, 2012 9:39 PM
A week from tonight (Saturday, March 11) HBO will debut Game Change, which promos strongly suggest will present a disparaging portrait of Sarah Palin, but Thursday night on the Tonight Show, during a segment with actress Julianne Moore who plays Palin, Jay Leno contended the movie “humanizes” Palin and is not “some kind of slash and burn job.” “Whether a Republican or a Democrat,” Leno…

Bill Maher: 'If Rick Santorum Is Your Youth Minister' You’d Switch t

March 3rd, 2012 1:27 PM
Bill Maher unsurprisingly took some vicious cheap shots at Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on HBO's Real Time Friday. In his final New Rule segment, Maher said, "If Rick Santorum is your youth minister, you’d ask your parents to switch you to the one who just molests" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Heilemann Falsely Claims GOP Becoming 'Whiter,' 'More Blue Collar' and

March 3rd, 2012 11:51 AM
On HBO's Real Time Friday, New York magazine's John Heilemann trotted out the same old tired and completely false cliches about the GOP that Americans are going to hear ad nauseum for the next eight months. "The Republican Party is becoming just truly is becoming a whiter, more blue collar, more populist, less well-educated party" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Maher Responds to Limbaugh: I Can Call Palin C-word Because 'I Don't H

March 3rd, 2012 10:27 AM
On his radio program Friday, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh called for President Obama to return the $1 million that Bill Maher gave to his Super PAC due to the vulgar things the comedian has called Sarah Palin. Maher haplessly countered this on HBO's Real Time later in the evening saying, "Rush, I don't have sponsors - I'm on HBO" (video follows with transcribed highlights and…

Bill Maher Slams America, Where 'Guns Are a Religion

February 28th, 2012 1:01 PM
In light of Monday's deadly school shooting in Ohio, both CNN host Piers Morgan and liberal comedian Bill Maher embarked on a lengthy liberal screed against the current gun laws in America. Maher went so far as to castigate gun owners for making their ownership a "theology," on Monday night's Piers Morgan Tonight. "And Rick Santorum likes to talk about theology. This is a theology in this…

Savaging Santorum: The Top 10 Worst Anti-Santorum Quotes

February 24th, 2012 9:00 AM
Rick Santorum’s recent rise in the polls in the GOP primary has escalated the liberal media’s attacks on the former Pennsylvania Republican Senator, primarily on his socially conservative views. This is not surprising since journalists have admitted, in several surveys, to being far more liberal on social issues like abortion than even the general public. One such survey of journalists, from…