Bill Maher on HBO with Swifty liar O'Neill coming on NOW

[KelleyKramer]

Maher better give O'Neill the smackdown!!

Hopefully this will be a great show.

Starting at 11pm eastern on HBO.

[graywarrior]

1. Please report for those of us who cannot get HBO

[Comicstripper]

2. Got my Tivo up and running....

[KelleyKramer]

3. O'Neill on Now!

He's first, here we go!

[gmoney]

4. Why give this asshole more airtime?

Ugh...

[EstimatedProphet]

5. O'Neill's a complete a$$hole

Jerk

[EstimatedProphet]

7. Maher got in a good lick

about Bush-"He wasn't there"
And the crowd goes wild!

[RummyTheDummy]

6. Why doesnt he call O'Neil on his own lie that he was in Cambodia

C'mon Bill!

[KelleyKramer]

8. Whats the motivation for the vets to lie FOR Kerry??

Maher is nailing him!

[hadrons]

9. man, this O'Neill is pathetic ...

not answering any of Bill's questions

[graywarrior]

10. Let us know when he starts to cry

[KelleyKramer]

14. He's full of shit

Lies without shame. Just incredible.

[Zinfandel]

136. Maher is not imformed...wrong questions.......

Stumbling....but very impressed with the "NBC" reporter...didn't expect much from her, but she surprised...Maher's closing absolutely kicked -ass!!!

However, too much on Maher tonight was lost.

[zuzu98]

11. (tepid applause)

Maher: "For a second I thought we were on the golf course."

[mourningdove92]

12. Waiting, Waiting, not very patiently.

No HBO here. I want Oneills ass nailed.

[MuseRider]

13. We are having a terrible storm

so it is blinking on and off. Keep posting so I can keep up please! I will await the re runs to see it.

[RummyTheDummy]

15. this guy is living in denial

Anyone who says we didn't commit war crimes in Vietnam is on crack.

[Cush]

16. Maher: I wish we had more guys like 1971 Kerry

people who talk about the unsettling truths

[Cha]

18. Cool!

I share Bill's wish on that one.

[zuzu98]

17. more of the same O'Neill nonsense

O'Neill keeps repeating the lie that JK called "average soldiers" in Vietnam 'war criminals." Whines about JK meeting w/ the North Vietnamese in Paris, blah blah blah

Maher didn't really nail him on much. Got in a few swipes at Shrub ("furriner") but not a KO

[Cha]

20. Is he doing better than michelle malkin

did on the last Real Time?

[zuzu98]

24. I think W would do better than Malkin...

she is too idiotic for words.

[eleny]

21. Thanks!

We are HBO-less and hanging on every word!

[EstimatedProphet]

19. Jeez what an ass!

O'Neill is such a shill

[graywarrior]

22. When you guys get a chance, read this

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0826b.html

[kskiska]

81. O'Neill is a pathological liar

He does it with such ease. He reminds me of guys involved in some sort of sleazy operation who then allow themselves to be interviewed by Mike Wallace. Or guys like O.J. who've committed horrendous crimes volunteering to take a polygraph test. They're so arrogant they think they can beat it.

[a kennedy]

103. and say they're Innocent right up to the jail house door.....

yeah, I love those kind of people. Or the big payout, but the company denies any wrong doing. It's just sick and wrong.

[Cush]

23. whats Dana hinting out?

Bill said he'll say he was wrong, Bush won't

Dana said somethign like. "we'll see about that"

[jezebel]

30. I think * is going to have a Jimmy Swaggert moment at

the convention. And say he was wrong to rely on the faulty evidence. He laid the groundwork with that miscalculation quote in the NYTimes today. I think they think if he just admits he was wrong and hopefully a tear or two comes to his eye, America will forgive him.
I can just see the media fawning all over his sorrow.

[Norquist Nemesis]

115. There will be a "miscalculation" extrapolation

and all of the faithful will be saying, "Isn't he wonderful?! *swoon*" Then, when we point out the hypocrisy, they'll tell us, "That's what you wanted. What's the problem?"

As soon as I heard that discussion on Crossfire today, I wanted the guy from 'the left' to ask what happened to resolve??? :mad: This administration just keeps going merrily along, rewriting history, forget about the past, it's about all about the future, forget about the past, what we really said was..., it's about the future (and we're gonna FUCK YOUR ASS!! heeeeee haw!!!)

[EstimatedProphet]

25. Rohrbacher is a shill too

Evil Bad Guy Soros said things about Bush...ooo, bad!
Of course, MoveOn told the truth, but that shouldn't be allowed, should it?

[zuzu98]

29. Dana just got LAUGHED AT

Maher: Why aren't we in SUDAN?

DR: I don't think we should do everything at one time

HUGE LAUGH FROM CROWD

Ashley Banfield: What are we waiting for, genocide?

[leesa]

41. Ashley, Ms Investigative Reporter...WE are committing our OWN genocide

Pay attention now.

[Cush]

26. Bill's talking about the Iraq soccer team

and how Bush tried to use them

[jdj]

78. Someone should point out that the Olympics is one of the

only places they have left to play, since their own soccer fields have been used as graveyards (otherwise known as mass graves when not speaking of the U.S.)

[zuzu98]

27. Maher going to town on Bush Olympic ads

quoting Iraqi soccer player saying that "for sure he would be part of the RESISTANCE" if he was back in Iraq.

[EstimatedProphet]

28. Has anyone noticed that Rohrbacher has Bush's smirk?

Is this some sort of Republican Tourette's?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

32. He looks totally dumbfounded

when faced with Michael Eric Dyson and Ashleigh Banfield.

[KelleyKramer]

33. Dana is getting his butt smoked

That guy is a joke.. weak and pathetic points, he's getting hammered and looks like a fool.

[xxqqqzme]

137. Ain't I lucky?

that whiney, lame-ass rethug is MY congress person. god help us all.

[EstimatedProphet]

31. They're all mopping the floor with Rohrbacher

Nice to see-the idiot keeps going on about how wonderful Bush is

[Kathy in Cambridge]

35. I love it!

they are rolling over him!

[zuzu98]

Dana Rohrbacher: dressed like Jack Hanna

I'm waiting for him to bring out the giant anteater...

[Kathy in Cambridge]

37. He needs a visit from the Fab Five!

[RummyTheDummy]

No kidding

Carson would eat his lunch.

[KelleyKramer]

38. Jonathan Winters on bad drugs

Look at him and see what you think!

[Cush]

34. Oh man, this guy is a moran!

The war in Iraq isn't a recruiment tool for terrorists!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

53. That dude looks like my freeper boss, too. Blech.

[eleny]

36. How is Ashley doing?

I see one quote here from her so far. Has she participated much?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

39. She's good-bright woman

[zuzu98]

42. She keeps getting drowned out by DR

making some good points when she can

just got in a jab about Bush not admitting mistakes

[Raven Macabre]

44. UGH

Is it more or does Dana just seem like a stereotypical fingers in the ears republican white guy. ugh and you californians voted this dude?

[calimary]

59. Hey, don't blame me for that pathetic excuse for a human being.

He's from Orange County - for years a hopeless republi-CON stronghold. Literally hopeless. He's horrible. Just like another one of our Orange County prides - "B-One Bob" Dornan (who, thankfully, was finally turned out of office. I'm in West L.A., and GRATEFUL to be a Henry Waxman Woman. California can blow it, bigtime (after all, we're the folks who gave you Reagan and Nixon (and Ahnold), don'tcha know? But we do a few things correctly, and Henry Waxman is one of them. George Miller, up north, is another. Same for Barbara Lee of Oakland, and Maxine Waters down here. And of course, there's Barbara Boxer - of whom we're quite proud. But Dana Rohrabacher - oh GOD, he makes me shudder.

[Carla in Ca]

131. I actually live in Orange County!

We can't put Kerry/Edwards stickers on our cars. Our neighbor got egged when he had his Clinton/Gore sign on his lawn. It is pretty awful, but it is changing.

[UCLA02]

141. I live in LA, but my wife was in Fresno recently...

and was driving with a "Regime change starts at home" sticker below our John Kerry sticker. She was at a stop sign and had some asshole in a big truck stopped next to her (you know the kind, the raised ones with the "never forget", Osama's picture with a circle and a line thru it, multi-American flags and an NRA sticker on them, driven by a guy with a mullet and a goatee), roll down his window and scream at her that if she didn't like it to "get the fuck out of my county." She had no idea what the hell he was ranting about until she notied our stickers in her rear view mirror.

I thought that love-it-or-leave-it shit went out with us "goddam peaceniks" spitting on the troops returning from the war-du-jour.

[Cush]

40. Maher: "The 3 week war was the trailer"

"This is the movie"

[Kathy in Cambridge]

47. Great line-Rohrbacher is waaay outsmarted here!

[KelleyKramer]

51. That was a slam dunk!

Would make a great campaign poster

[hadrons]

43. Dana actually used the "they threw flowers at the troops" ....

talking about the Kurds of course ... Michael Eric Dyson and Ashleigh Banfield are doing a good job

[Kathy in Cambridge]

48. And the audience lauged thier asses off...

[zuzu98]

50. Yeah. It happened, but no one knows it because

of the "liberal media." LMAO

[Catherine Vincent]

45. Why is liar O'Neil still making the rounds?

[Cush]

46. Gen Karpinski on now

Says she was a perfect target for the blame game, because she was a reservist and a woman

[Placebo]

49. How Do People As STUPID As Dana Rorhbacher Come about?!?!

CAN SOMEONE TELL ME?!?!

He's a fucking I-D-I-O-T who can't even answer a question without reverting back to the same boring basic 'saddam was a bad man' talk! it's like a broken record

HOW THE HELL DID THIS MAN GET ELECTED?!?! :grr:

I HAAAAAAAATE HIM!!!!!!!!

[calimary]

66. I don't know, for the life of me. That's Orange County for ya - The O.C.

But there IS hope. After all, they finally woke up and bounced B-One Bob. Thank GOD.

[Carla in Ca]

132. about Dana R.

I don't think you realize how conservative it is. This county was formed in the 20's by a KKK off-shoot. We are known as "living behind the orange curtain" elsewhere. We have homeowners associations in Irvine where you can't have your garage door open for than 2 hours at a time. Now, I live in a free area (county) or I wouldn't live here at all.
Dana has Hughes Aircraft in his district and he keeps them busy and happy. But the last few dems to run against him have done better each time...there is always hope.

[Cush]

52. Karpinski: It wasn't for fun

They were going to use the photo's to intimidate other prisoners

The anger directed at is now multiplied by 1000 because of those photos

[zuzu98]

54. Bush "flip flop" on Global Warming

"Congratulations Mr. Bush, you're a little late to the party."

[Cush]

55. slamming Bush for not knowing

what's going on with his own energy department (the global warming thing)

[EstimatedProphet]

56. these monsters in the Republican party HAVE GOT TO GO!

Rohrabacher tonight has just reaffirmed my beliefs-we can't let these monsters stay in power! They will get us all killed! We WILL be looking at us versus the world if they keep this idea that they are superior to the rest of the world.
November can't come soon enough

[hadrons]

63. Rohrabacher: Global Warming = Global Baloney

:eyes:

[KelleyKramer]

57. "I izz wurried!"

Maher doing a Bush impression

[zuzu98]

58. Every comment Rohrabacher makes

is met with dumbfounded silence. and then usually laughter.

[Cleita]

69. Yeah, but the idiots who voted for him will again.

:grr: some of our California Congresspeople in our solidly repuke districts are among the worst.

[jdj]

89. Just imagine, if the media were truly balanced, we

would get this 50%of the time on all stations.

shows just what deep shit we are in.

[RummyTheDummy]

60. Rohrbacher is a surfer?

Oh for a free afternoon, a small boat and a bucket of chum.

Just kidding.

[Andromeda]

138. Hahahahahahaha...

a VERY small boat and a LARGE bucket of chum.

Just kidding too. (NOT)

[Cush]

61. Dana: Global warming is global baloney

[Raven Macabre]

64. sigh

goddamn I do not like this Dana rorbacher, who the heck voted this guy in 8 damn times!!

[minkyboodle]

62. Dana Rohrbacher

what a complete ass!!! I would punch him in the face if I was Bill Maher.

[jessicazi]

70. Rohrbacher is completely uniformed.

He needs to do his research on the issues before he comes on next time, and hopefully, there is NEVER a next time for Rohrbacher, what an idiot.

-Jessica

[EstimatedProphet]

84. Welcome to DU!

And welcome to the weekly Bill Maher thread!

[EstimatedProphet]

65. They're all showing Rohrabacher to be a dittohead

"Is there actually Democratic and Republican science?"
And the idiot says YES! Because the evil Democrats want to increase taxes!

[zuzu98]

67. OMFG. Dana Rohrabacher is a MORAN

"Before the Republicans took over the Congress, there was only the Global Warming side of the story..."

Dyson: "Is there actually Democratic & Republican science?"

DR: "Actually, yes."

[Cha]

75. Good Question!

The repukes scientists are bound by greed.

[KelleyKramer]

68. That guy is a barking lunatic!

Holy cow.

Is that guy actually elected to congress??

[Liberal Veteran]

72. Now you know why our country is in such trouble.

:)

[Cush]

71. Dr Dyson, don't use big words

Dana doesn't understand

[hadrons]

73. talking about Cheney's lesiban daughter now

[hadrons]

79. now Chris Matthews ... Bill: Chris asks follow-up questions

:eyes:

[zuzu98]

74. OOOOh! Now they're on to Cheney's comments about gay relationships

Maher: When it comes home to them, suddenly the tolerance thing kicks in

(e.g., When Reagan finds out Rock Hudson has AIDS, when Rush Limbaugh uses drugs, when Bill Bennett does anything...)

[KelleyKramer]

76. He is a member of the Science committee??!!!!

If this crack head is on the Science committee then we are screwed. Unbelievable!

[minkyboodle]

80. science committee = star wars

for this fool of a Reagan disciple

[Cush]

77. Matthews on now

[RummyTheDummy]

82. He looks like he's had a few tonight

nt

[drbtg1]

109. Matthews doesn't drink...or, at least, that's what he claims

admitted as such on his show a few weeks ago.

I, on the other hand, just started my fourth Sam Adams Summer Ale of the evening. Definately helps when dealing with that shit from the congressman du jour. Just hope my yelling didn't wake up the kids ;)

[hadrons]

85. Bill & Matthews ragging on Fox

[drbtg1]

124. That actually bothered me

Matthews also talked about Fox, and their ratings, when he appeared on The Daily Show. It seems apparent to me that perhaps Matthews knows he has to worry about ratings, and consequently, his job may depend on giving undue respect to issues like the Swift Boats crap. I mean, this is HBO, on a Friday night. Maybe he felt he could be a little more honest about things here and not as worried about giving balance to crap.

If there was real justice, the stuff Michael C. Ruppert and Wayne Madsen reported on at fromthewilderness.com would be covered nightly, not the latest John O'Neill rectal productions.

[zuzu98]

86. Maher: If everybody (journalists) did their jobs...

the White House couldn't blackball you.

[Cush]

83. Bill slamming the media for "softballing" the Admin

[Cush]

87. Matthews slams FOX

the who watch FOX all the time do it because they like to hear the same things every time

[hadrons]

93. Matthews making sense ... what's happening!!!!

[zuzu98]

94. WOW! Chris Matthews

Says if Bush is president, we will be alone in the world, give tax breaks to people with the most money and in 20 years we'll have the same diseases we have now.

[EstimatedProphet]

88. Matthews just compared Fox watchers to Nicholson in Carnal Knowledge!

That they like it the same way every night!
LOL!

[KelleyKramer]

90. Talking to Tweety about media whores, wow!

They are talking about reporters being wusses. Now Tweety is talking about prostitutes.. Wow!

[EstimatedProphet]

91. Man, Matthews has converted!

He's slammming the Bushidiots!

[RummyTheDummy]

96. I think you're right

It still bothers me he swoons over Bush on the rubble with the bull horn which was obviously staged. But I saw something different in him tonight. I think he's come around. That's not to say when Kerry wins he won't be on his ass, too.

[drbtg1]

116. I don't think his respect is absolute

As far as 9/14/01 goes, I think Tweety gives credit for the figurehead aspect Bush brought that day, but that's it. Pretty shallow.

Matthews has been pretty consistant stating the Iraq war was a bad idea from the get go, as I recall. It's not like he proclaims it with a bullhorn every show, but it's been there.

Of course, I could be wrong. Could be the beer talking (see post #109) ;)

[BootinUp]

92. Matthews sounds like he has had it with repukes

[Zen Democrat]

95. I can't believe what Matthews just said!

What's all this talk about having a beer with Bush? Who's gonna ever get to have a beer with this guy? We're voting for President not a guy to have a beer with.


... Excuse me, but didn't all this "have a beer" business originate with Matthews? Isn't he the guy that's been going on and on about this for years?????

[minkyboodle]

99. Mathews has smelled the change in the air

Like rats leaving the sinking ship. Me personally I can never take him seriously after his treatment of Gore, or his Mission Accomplished boner he popped at the time.

[drbtg1]

127. With regard to beer, this is the best quote about Bush

Your post reminded me of something. Talking about fraternity life at Yale in Rolling Stone #954, page #66, Garry (Doonesbury) Trudeau said this about our current president:

"I do believe he has the soul of a rush chairman."

Not the soul of a president, but rather Eric 'Otter' Stratton.

Classic.

[leftchick]

140. I loved that interview....

confirms what an absolute spoiled smartass fuckwad bush* was/is...

Welcome to DU drbtg1! :toast:

[Placebo]

97. MATTHEWS SOUNDS LIKE A DEMOCRAT!

All about the radical differences between going it alone, having allies, curing diseases or having the same diseases we have now, WHOA!

[in_cog_ni_to]

100. BINGO!!!

He HAS to be a Democrat after that WONDERFUL speech he just gave! Holy Shit!!!! That was fantastic!

[Sydnie]

102. I love that he said that

That was VERY powerful.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

121. Sounds like a DEM???? Hell, he IS a Dem!

[EstimatedProphet]

"You can't claim you're for peace unless you're willing to disturb it"

Good line!

[Comicstripper]

98. MATTHEWS JUST KICKED ASS!!!!

Chris Matthews was great on Maher. I turned my computer on after shutting it off for the night. He was great.

[Cush]

101. Bill: I want real protests next week

planned, peacefull protests are what they do in places like North Korea

[zuzu98]

107. "and Disneyland."

One of the best "New Rules" yet.

[KelleyKramer]

104. He put it right out there!

Damn, Mathews must be taking a lot of heat from Rove and Co for being the first reporter to start asking follow-up questions to the spin-meisters.

Sounds like Tweety is pissed off.

[in_cog_ni_to]

106. I guess the repubs

boycotted his show (the WH repubs) after he interviewed Michelle Malkin last week. The repubs were whining about how he treated her and refused to go on his show. Yay!

[KelleyKramer]

110. They tried that when Carville joined Crossfire

Carville took a job on Crossfire and started kicking butt, so the wussie Repubs announced a ban for anyone to appear on the show.

That backfired, so after they started looking like even bigger chickenshits they decided to cancel the show.

But it turned out that CNN's Crossfire was the oldest running show on the first cable news channel.. Too much attention that they are chickenshit.

So they just moved it to daytime when no one will see it.

They cant do that with Mathews, so its either he caves or they fire him.

I hope he holds his ground.

[in_cog_ni_to]

139. Yeah, but

look at what MSNBC did to Phil Donahue. Donahue's show was the highest rated show on MSNBC and they fired him because he was anti-war and they didn't want to offend the White House by not cheerleading the war, like every other network was doing. :(

[EstimatedProphet]

105. Howard Dean and Pat Buchanan next week!

That'll be a show to catch!

[T Roosevelt]

108. Thoughts on tonights show

Ashleigh Banfield - hot, has potential, hopefully she will learn to be more agressive and journalistic
Dr Dyson - who the hell is he, and why is he on the show?
Dana Rohrbacher - this guy is on the Science Committee? God help us all...
Bill Maher - please learn to do your homework and shut these morons down when they say something blatantly false

[gulliver]

111. Dyson had some great points!

I would put him right up there with Maher and Matthews in terms of punch. Environment, terrorism, despots in the world ... the guy did great. Best line (roughly, regarding pollution and disregard for the environment in general): "American needs to wake up and smell the coffee or one day we won't be able to wake up and smell the coffee."

I agree on Banfield.

Rohrbacher reminded me of O'Neill. They are both read-only memories. They don't hear anything and they don't believe anything anyone says if it isn't what they already believe.

O'Neill took the story twisting (lying really) to a far greater depth than Rohrbacher. O'Neill is damned. He just hates Kerry, and it oozes out. Truly sickening. O'Neill is a walking abscess.

Mahar was very funny.

[ibegurpard]

135. Dyson

I don't know who he is either, but I thought he was EXTREMELY eloquent. Made his points effectively and quickly and didn't allow himself to be talked over. Banfield just wasn't aggressive enough, although you could definitely tell where she was coming down on the issues. I almost felt sorry for Rohrbacher. He was getting slammed on all sides.

[atommom]

112. Great show! I liked the half-hearted, half-a-second apology ...

Bill gave to Michelle Malkin at the very end. She thought he was dismissive of her book, poor dear. :nopity: Was Bill pressured into that apology, do you think?

But really, there was a lot to think about this week. Lots of guests, lots of hot topics. But I hate O'Neill and Rohrabacher (sp?) with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. Could there be anyone more quintessentially, repulsively Republican than either one of them? And we saw both in one night. I feel a bit ill now, actually. x(

[MattNC]

113. i couldn't believe Maher apologized about Malkin

he didn't do anything wrong at all....go figure.

[lanparty]

129. When Malkin says ....

... SHE should be interned, then I'll take her seriously.

[mountainvue]

114. He let O'Neill

go own way too long. It was like another swiftboat liars commercial.

[Norquist Nemesis]

117. I was disappointed with that too

The man is so obviously delusional, but is well practiced at looking sincere.

[Raven Macabre]

119. Anybody...

...have a transcript of Bill telling people how to riot? That was some hiliarious stuff.

[Placebo]

120. Transcripts of REAL TIME are posted a week (usually) after they aired...

on Bill Maher's official website.

all transcripts of all past REAL TIME episodes may be found there :)

[alcuno]

122. Welcome to DU, Rave Macabre.

No HBO here.

[Placebo]

118. The ONE question I wanted Bill to ask John O'Neil was...

even if u don't agree with john kerry, AT LEAST HE SERVED, how is that worse than the president we have now? how can u be supporting a draft-dodger while calling the man who served a liar, i don't get it.

wish he would have asked that

[EstimatedProphet]

125. He did make that point

Said "Bush wasn't there" at the beginning of the interview. He just didn't press it.
the audience got the point, even if O'neill dodged it.

[Placebo]

126. he didn't make it as specific as i wish he had...

and he shouldn't have let o'neil dodge it

[EstimatedProphet]

128. I thought the same thing at the time

after thinking about it though, I realize that everyone knows O'Neill totally blew that one. He just let it pass without saying a thing, and the whole audience applauded. Everyone knows he dodged it, so he really didn't get away with dodging it after all; his lack of an answer says he doesn't have an answer.

[Blue_Roses]

123. tweety really did

rock tonight! Hate to say it, but he actually looked appealing! I've ever heard him speak such blatantly honest remarks about this failing presidency. The classic, "why would you vote for someone to have a beer with, you're never gonna have a beer with the President..."

Tweety spoke REAL CLEAR about what he supports...maybe not so much John Kerry, but for CHANGE. I think he will be just fine in his job. I still don't think he will be on the band wagon for either candidate, he's just throwing out the policies that are more PROGRESSIVE. I finally think I understand this guy. Well, maybe not...:evilgrin:

[wtf]

130. asdf

Can wonk or someone hook those of us without HBO up with a video of tonight's show?

[zaj]

133. A video link would be great!

thanks

[zaj]

134. Yup... Matthews has always been the kind of media analyst I respect...

... balanced, honest and agressive.

He doesn't have to share my views on all issues... just don't shill for anyone.