Bill Maher last night: another crappy show [View all]

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Last edited Sat Apr 22, 2017, 11:14 AM - Edit history (1)

He is SO frustrating!

His first guest was author Hanna Rosin, who had the honor of sitting in a chair while Bill ate up the interview time pontificating. He asked her no serious questions and allowed her no time to answer. If she spoke for 15% of the "interview," I would be surprised.

During the panel discussion, he got off on a couple of his alternative fact positions. First, that Hillary ran a crappy campaign. No one challenged him on this. Yet we know that 1.Hillary got 3-million more votes than tRump, 2. She "lost" by 80,000 votes spread across 4 states, 3. The Russians definitely interfered with the election to hurt Hillary, 4. The FBI jumped in at the last minute to hurt Hillary's chances, and hurt them badly, 5. The media gave tRump over a billion$ in free media exposure while 6. Being super-critical of Hillary on every single insignificant point while giving tRump a pass on everything.

Second, he got off on his "today's college kids are snowflakes who hate free speech" bullshit. The topic: Ann Coulter being disinvited to speak at Berkeley. What Bill doesn't get is that today's college students have grown up in high schools where kids are much more accepting and tolerant of minorities, and who have been taught how to sniff out racism and outright lying when it raises its ugly head. What the students object to is their head-earned tuition money being spent on speakers fees to proven liars to appear on their campuses and to spout their lies and bullshit. How many times does one need to hear Ann Coulter on TV, talk radio or on campus to "get" her act and have the desire to hear something different than yet another regurgitation of her bullshit?

His closing segment about "forget about Mars" had merit only because we are being forced to make choices between spending $ on either Mars exploration or saving the Earth. We should be capable of doing both. There's nothing wrong with aspiring to putting people on Mars anymore than there was something wrong with trying to land people on the moon. But with Bill, it's all about setting one admirable idea in conflict and competition with another admirable idea.

Frustrating.