David Gregory Plays Jon Stewart Clip on Meet the Press to Bash Boehner

September 26th, 2010 6:31 PM
September 2010 might go down in history as the month America's comedians took over the Democrat Party.From upcoming political rallies by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to the latter testifying before Congress and the media waiting breathlessly for Bill Maher to release another video of Delaware Republican senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell, our world has surely taken a giant step towards…

Andrew Breitbart Nails Bill Maher: You're Not a Libertarian, You're a

September 25th, 2010 1:21 AM
Andrew Breitbart on Friday exposed Bill Maher for not being the Libertarian he claims to be, but a socialist instead.When push came to shove, a seemingly embarrassed Maher didn't protest.In the middle of a heated discussion on HBO's "Real Time" about healthcare reform legislation passed earlier this year, Maher vehemently defended the program.This led Breitbart to smartly observe, "So you're…

Maher Guest MacFarlane Declares He’d Have Sex w/ Christine O’Donne

September 25th, 2010 12:34 AM
Appearing as a guest on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane made a crack about his willingness to have sex with Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell after host Maher showed a clip of O’Donnell from a Politically Incorrect episode from 1998. After a clip of the GOP candidate in which denied believing in the theory of evolution, MacFarlane…

Maher Praises Pat Tillman Brother Richard’s Rip Against Religion fro

September 24th, 2010 11:12 PM
As the actor Richard Tillman – brother of former Army Ranger and former NFL player Pat Tillman – appeared as a guest on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday promoting the film "The Tillman Story" about his brother’s death in Afghanistan, host Maher played a clip from Pat Tillman’s funeral in which Richard Tillman mocked the religious references made at the funeral by speakers Maria Shriver…

Obama’s Palace Guards: Desperate Maher, Colbert, Jon Stewart Go All

September 19th, 2010 11:02 AM
Remember when American comedians went after the powerful in an effort to bring them down to earth with the sharp satire of accountability? Today, they appear to only protect the powerful. Well, unless the powerful aren't liberal enough. As things stand now you have the likes of David Letterman and Louis C.K. savaging Sarah Palin's family, SNL terrified to rip Obama with any real zeal, cartoonists…

AP Bashes Christine O'Donnell With Bill Maher's 'Witchcraft' Video Cli

September 19th, 2010 10:42 AM
The Associated Press is using a video clip that Bill Maher showed on HBO's "Real Time" Friday to bash Delaware Republican senatorial nominee Christine O'Donnell.Here's the headline:Bill Maher Digs Up O'Donnell 'Witchcraft' Clip Inside the piece, things got even dicier:

Michael Moore: Ground Zero McDonald's Killed More People Than 9/11 Hij

September 18th, 2010 11:14 AM
Schlockumentary film producer Michael Moore on Friday said the McDonald's that's two blocks from Ground Zero killed more people than the nineteen hijackers involved in the 9/11 attacks.Chatting with Bill Maher on HBO's "Real Time," Moore also accused Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin of being America's Taliban."We should start calling them Cleric Gingrich and Mullah Taliban Palin," said Moore."…

Bill Maher: Obama Would Be A Better President 'If He Was Fully Black

September 18th, 2010 12:19 AM
Bill Maher on Friday said Barack Obama's problem is "he's only half black." He'd be a better president "if he was fully black."In the season premiere of HBO's "Real Time," while chatting with former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich, the host said, "Isn't Obama's big problem is that he does everything half-assed? Maybe it's because he's only half black."Maher continued, "If he was fully black…

NewsBusters 5th Anniversary: A Look Back at Some of Our Top Posts of O

August 23rd, 2010 10:18 AM

E! Writer: ‘True Blood’ Rape and Murder ‘Highly Ironic,’ ‘Gr

August 23rd, 2010 8:55 AM
E! Online "The Awful Truth" columnist Ted Casablanca on Aug. 21 called the graphic depictions of sex and violence on HBO's vampire drama "True Blood" "highly ironic" and promoted the show as "great fun." Casablanca defended the show on Fox News Channel's "Geraldo at Large" in a discussion with host Geraldo Rivera and Culture and Media Institute Assistant Editor Nathan Burchfiel. The debate was…

An Actor's Range: From John Adams to...Khrushchev

July 29th, 2010 12:39 PM
Actors love to display their "range," but it might be sad for fans of HBO's John Adams miniseries to see Paul Giamatti go from Founding Father to Soviet dictator. Tom Hanks and his PlayTone Productions, who made the Adams project, are now preparing a film on Nikita Khruschev's 1959 trip to America. Variety reports: HBO and Playtone are looking to revisit one of the lighter chapters of the Cold…

In HBO’s ‘For Neda’ the Symbol of Iran’s Green Revolution Come

June 28th, 2010 5:22 PM
The HBO documentary For Neda, directed by Antony Thomas and narrated by famed Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, first aired on HBO in the United States on June 14 but went viral in Iran on June 1, well before the regime even knew about it. In an HBO interview, Mr. Thomas stated that the goal of the film was to look beyond Neda Agha-Soltan as the most prominent symbol of the Green…

Bill Maher Compares Oil Industry To Child Pornography

June 11th, 2010 11:46 PM
Bill Maher on Friday compared Americans working for oil companies to the vermin creating and distributing child pornography.In the "New Rules" segment of his "Real Time" program, the HBO host concluded with a discussion about the "murderous, hateful" oil industry."You know, it's Washington gospel that jobs in the private sector are better than government jobs," said Maher."But oil jobs are…

Bill Maher Loses Religion-bashing Battle With S.E. Cupp and History

June 8th, 2010 11:50 AM
Editor's Note: The following originally appeared at Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood. Sometimes it’s just so easy. I mean if I really wanted to, I could find all the material needed to expose the folly of the far left just by watching Bill Maher every week and picking apart the claims he offers as “fact” while urged on with hosannas by his trained seals in the Real Time audience.  The…