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Maddow When Cornered Pretends She's a Private Person With No Opinions
June 25th, 2012 7:41 PM
You don't know me, Rachel Maddow complained -- twice -- to Reason magazine editor Nick Gillespie in her hissy fit Friday night on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher."
Yet again, Maddow gets it wrong. By the incisive questions he asked, and Maddow's reluctance to answer them, Gillespie showed he knows her all too well. (video clip after page break)

Maddow Melts Down on HBO's Real Time: 'Leave Me Alone About RomneyCare
June 23rd, 2012 3:51 PM
MSNBC's supposedly most intelligent "news" anchor almost had a total meltdown on HBO's Real Time Friday.
When repeatedly asked by host Bill Maher and guest Nick Gillespie for her opinion of Massachusetts' healthcare program, Maddow whined like a little girl, "Leave me alone about RomneyCare, all of you" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Kirk Douglas Tells Bill Maher 'F--k You
June 23rd, 2012 2:24 AM
95-year-old actor Kirk Douglas on Friday did something that virtually every conservative in America would like to do to Bill Maher albeit not as vulgarly.
In the middle of an interview on HBO's Real Time, Douglas said to his host, "F--k you!" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary, serious vulgarity warning):

Bill Maher: 'Republicans Don't Care About Dead Mexicans
June 23rd, 2012 1:32 AM
Bill Maher said Friday, "Republicans don't care about dead Mexicans."
This came moments after he admitted on HBO's Real Time he didn't know anything about the controversial White House mission known as Fast and Furious "until this week" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Reason's Nick Gillespie Schools Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher on Fast a
June 23rd, 2012 12:36 AM
One of the finest examples of how liberal media members really don't know what they're talking about occurred on HBO's Real Time Friday when Reason's Nick Gillespie gave a much-needed education to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and host Bill Maher on the issue of Fast and Furious.
In the end, Maddow and Maher embarrassed themselves in a fashion that should have both of their respective networks…

HBO Pulls 'Game of Thrones' Episode With Bush Severed Head, Halts DVD
June 16th, 2012 10:50 AM
As NewsBusters reported Thursday, the season finale of HBO's hit series Game of Thrones included a gruesome image of former President George W. Bush's severed head impaled on a stake.
In the wake of heat from conservative critics including us, the New York Daily News reports the cable network has taken action to rectify its egregious error:

Bill Maher and Nobel Prize Winning Liberal Economist Can't Figure Out
June 16th, 2012 12:13 AM
CAUTION: Remove all food, fluids, and flammables from proximity of your computer before proceeding. You've been warned.
HBO's Bill Maher and Nobel Prize-winning liberal economist Joseph Stiglitz on Friday actually couldn't calculate between the two of them how much 87 times 5 is (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Liberal Bias in Action: Maher Gets Mets While Limbaugh Gets Booted
June 14th, 2012 7:49 PM
The double standards operating against outspoken conservatives are legion. Perhaps no one knows this better than talk radio host Rush Limbaugh who has been the target of the left's hatred for decades now. Watching the latest news in the business of sports, he's got to be shaking his head in dismay.
If you're a liberal like Bill Maher, a generous donor to a Super PAC support Barack Obama's re-…

Trump: If Conservative Mocked Someone's Religion Like Maher Mocks Romn
June 12th, 2012 1:08 AM
Donald Trump on Monday had some harsh words for Bill Maher's incessant attacks on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Mormonism.
Appearing on Fox News's On the Record, the real estate mogul said, "If a conservative Republican made a like statement about somebody else's religion, there’d be hell to pay. It’ll be all over the place. It would be the end of that person's career as you…

Bill Maher Gets Schooled on U.S. Corporate Profits By African Economis
June 9th, 2012 1:17 PM
Readers are advised to remove fluids, food, and flammables from proximity of their computers before proceeding. You've been warned.
HBO's Bill Maher on Friday received a much-needed education on U.S. corporate profits from - wait for it! - an African-born international economist (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Filmmaker John Waters: All You Can Eat Restaurants Should be Illegal
June 9th, 2012 11:34 AM
If you’re afraid of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s call for limiting the size of soft drinks, you’re going to quake in your boots when you hear what filmmaker John Waters said Friday.
Appearing on HBO’s Real Time, Waters told host Bill Maher that he didn’t understand how all you can eat restaurants are legal (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Dunce Bill Maher: U.S. Is Fifth Worst in the World in Income Inequalit
June 9th, 2012 10:27 AM
In this week's "How Dumb Is Bill Maher" segment, the Obama-supporting comedian actually said on HBO's Real Time Friday that the United States ranks fifth worst in the world in income inequality.
Actually, we rank 43rd (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Bill Maher: Was Scott Walker the Mentally Retarded Banjo Boy in 'Deliv
June 8th, 2012 11:29 PM
Is there no level Bill Maher won't stoop to attack a conservative?
On HBO's Real Time Friday, the Obama-supporting host said during his New Rules segment, "Now that Scott Walker has survived his recall, he has to tell us once and for all was he that kid in Deliverance" (video follows with commentary):

Krugman: Scientists Should Falsely Predict Alien Invasion So Governmen
May 26th, 2012 4:15 PM
Last year New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman called for space aliens to invade earth so that the government would spend money to mount a defense thereby stimulating the economy.
As aliens have yet to comply with Krugman's wishes, he advocated on HBO's Real Time Friday that scientists should get together and lie about an imminent attack to boost federal spending (video…