Loughner could have been treated very easily, his family didn’t seek help for their troubled son. His mom works for the county, I’ll bet their insurance is fantastic!

Maher=crazy left wing hate

oh, puleeez

“Bill Maher: Lack Of Government Health Care Leads To Crazy People Buying Guns”

This is why “Fair and Balanced” Fox News includes such lunatic-left d-crat socialists nitwits on their commentary shows. It’s just for for comic relief and to show rational people what insanity they spew forth.

LOL

Man, Maher and the libs just can’t understand that America rejected them on 11/02/2010.

Bill, we saw what you libs had to offer and we weren’t buying it then and we aren’t buying it now, so take your pathetic agenda and pretzel logic somewhere else where it might be bought like Venezuela or Cuba.

He is on a roll this week, though more unhinged than usual. Why doesnt anyone in power on the left tell this nutjob to keep his trap shut..Although he does make a great case to keep them out of power

Why don’t crazy people get health care? Because the ACLU attacked the laws that allowed us to pick-up and evaluate the nuts. Because the democrat party is owned by the ACLU and passed laws blocking mental health care.
The democrats get votes from crazy people. They go to the streets to register the homeless and then fill out absentee ballots for them. A large portion of the homeless have mental problems. 20% of Americans are said to have a mental problem. 20% of Americans claim to be liberals. Hmmmmmmmmm?
No SANE person would vote for a LIBERAL democrat.

Maher is right.

I think each gun should come with a free doctor’s visit.

Kill two birds with one stone. Or bullet.

This loudmoutthed, uniformed buffoon gets loonier all the time. Oh, and he’s a punk, too.

BFD said:
I think each gun should come with a free doctor’s visit.

So should every lib post on the internet or comment on a talk show.

Bill, 99.9% of people who buy guns, have jobs and healthcare. The people who don’t have healthcare, can’t afford a gun. The criminals who buy guns, do so illegally, therefore keeping guns out of law-abiding citizen’s hands only affects those citizen’s ability to protect themselves against the criminals who have no healthcare and illegal guns.

Is, “no socialized healthcare” the new “Bush’s fault?” When BHO doesn’t get re-elected, will Bill blame the lack of socialized healthcare or will he just call the public, idiots?

I’m sure he thought this was really clever….but if you’re crazy you most likely don’t know it so how would having health care make a difference? He’s trivializing a real problem but that’s what Bill does – complain and offer no solutions…just jokes (though I thought jokes were supposed to be funny….)

gordonbloyershow said:
Why don’t crazy people get health care? Because the ACLU attacked the laws that allowed us to pick-up and evaluate the nuts. Because the democrat party is owned by the ACLU and passed laws blocking mental health care.
The democrats get votes from crazy people. They go to the streets to register the homeless and then fill out absentee ballots for them. A large portion of the homeless have mental problems. 20% of Americans are said to have a mental problem. 20% of Americans claim to be liberals. Hmmmmmmmmm?
No SANE person would vote for a LIBERAL democrat.

I guess in Bill’s small mind, it is the “sane” people’s responsibility to pay for everyone else’s healthcare. I’d love to know how many people Bill has paid for to ensure they have healthcare. He is very generous with my money. What a nice guy.

Anyone who is anything right of the Progressive Loons should drop their HBO. Always hit them where it hurts in the pocketbook and Mahar will just go away quietly.

Please. Canada also invents nothing, contributes nothing to culture and has no important companies. There is a reason why Google, Apple and Facebook are here. There is a reason why the rest of the world watches our movies and television.

Canada is a nice mediocre country for boring white people. If they weren’t always doing their “little brother” whining, we would forget they exist.

gordonbloyershow said:
Why don’t crazy people get health care? Because the ACLU attacked the laws that allowed us to pick-up and evaluate the nuts. Because the democrat party is owned by the ACLU and passed laws blocking mental health care.The democrats get votes from crazy people. They go to the streets to register the homeless and then fill out absentee ballots for them. A large portion of the homeless have mental problems. 20% of Americans are said to have a mental problem. 20% of Americans claim to be liberals. Hmmmmmmmmm?No SANE person would vote for a LIBERAL democrat.

Right on! Damned ACLU only go after laws that protect conservatives. Whatever libs want, the ACLU commies go along with! I say, health care for those who can afford it. The rest: go to england!

bobmoses said:
Please. Canada also invents nothing, contributes nothing to culture and has no important companies. There is a reason why Google, Apple and Facebook are here. There is a reason why the rest of the world watches our movies and television. Canada is a nice mediocre country for boring white people. If they weren’t always doing their “little brother” whining, we would forget they exist.

Hey Bob, didn’t you have something to do with NYC? Shame on you! Thats where all the libs hide out.

Why don’t libs pay more in taxes, than they are required to? This way, my taxes don’t have to go up every year and people can have healthcare for free. Libs love to spend other people’s money.

espo222 said:
Bill, 99.9% of people who buy guns, have jobs and healthcare. The people who don’t have healthcare, can’t afford a gun. The criminals who buy guns, do so illegally, therefore keeping guns out of law-abiding citizen’s hands only affects those citizen’s ability to protect themselves against the criminals who have no healthcare and illegal guns.

right on target! I have a great gun collection, have a job with guys working for me, and have healthcare that I pay for. Oh yea, I paid for my guns, and have permits. So stay away, ACLU.

About Maher: Lack of solid evidence leads to TV comedian coming up with a silly argument.

These liberals exceed their own levels of stupidity. You can’t make this stuff up. With all that we know about this Jared, for Maher to come up with this argument is beyond stupid.

Alz said:
These liberals exceed their own levels of stupidity. You can’t make this stuff up. With all that we know about this Jared, for Maher to come up with this argument is beyond stupid.

Fucking A! And to think we have to waste money on a trial for this pos.

espo222 said:
Is, “no socialized healthcare” the new “Bush’s fault?” When BHO doesn’t get re-elected, will Bill blame the lack of socialized healthcare or will he just call the public, idiots?

Both but back and forth in a fill of liberal rage. What’s amazing is how loony they are now. Imagine the stupidity that they’ll come up with as the 2012 election gets closer.

Shrinks must have a field day with these liberals. A good book on the subject: “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness” at http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Mind-Psychological-Political-Madness/dp/097795630X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203271380&sr=1-1

The author is a forensic psychiatrist.

notsofast said:
Man, Maher and the libs just can’t understand that America rejected them on 11/02/2010.

The liberals lost something like 400 years of Congressional experience and over 700 seats in the State houses. If this happened to Conservatives, that’s all we’d be hearing about.

The media and the other liberals are quiet, but the pain is there. That’s why they are so berserk.

bobmoses said:
Please. Canada also invents nothing, contributes nothing to culture and has no important companies. There is a reason why Google, Apple and Facebook are here. There is a reason why the rest of the world watches our movies and television.

Canada is a nice mediocre country for boring white people. If they weren’t always doing their “little brother” whining, we would forget they exist.

Canada Very good hockey and really bad skunk beer

“Maher pounced on this last bit to return to the topic at hand, but didn’t make the conventional connection. Many will argue that lack of adequate mental health services will keep a crazy person crazy, and thus in some cases attract them to violence and make them more likely to commit violent acts. From this skeleton of an argument, Maher constructs something slightly more elaborate, and significantly flimsier:”

That is a specious argument. It doesn’t pass the smell test. There are many….very, very many “mentally unstable” people in this country but they don’t go shooting people.

One can argue the under-funding of mental health institutions does not “help” the situation but you need evidence of direct causation. There is non here. This is just demagoguery.

Alz said:
The liberals lost something like 400 years of Congressional experience and over 700 seats in the State houses. If this happened to Conservatives, that’s all we’d be hearing about. The media and the other liberals are quiet, but the pain is there. That’s why they are so berserk.

So how do we get rid of that phony in the white house?

Duke said:
So how do we get rid of that phony in the white house?

2012 election. He probably won’t quit and we’d never get an impeachment.

Au Contraire, Bildo. As it’s only the “Reload” function on my pc’s And laptop’s mouse that’s drawn me to buy My pistolas. Sooo… Steve Jobs Fault? A great analysis, as always, though.

Alz said:
2012 election. He probably won’t quit and we’d never get an impeachment.

I still say we sue him about his (lack of) birth certificate!

Duke said:
I still say we sue him about his (lack of) birth certificate!

Waste of time plus 2012 will be here soon.

Alz said:
Waste of time plus 2012 will be here soon.

Yeah, but think how we could tie up everything he would try to do. He would spend too much time with his lawyers and no time trying to implement his commie agenda!

bobmoses said:
Please. Canada also invents nothing, contributes nothing to culture and has no important companies. There is a reason why Google, Apple and Facebook are here. There is a reason why the rest of the world watches our movies and television.

Canada is a nice mediocre country for boring white people. If they weren’t always doing their “little brother” whining, we would forget they exist.

Wow! Could you possibly be more ignorant? America! Canada’s psychotic brother.

Canoeing to McDonald’s in Australia After Catastrophic Flooding!! http://bit.ly/h4J39u

Alz said:
Waste of time plus 2012 will be here soon.

Who will beat him? You speak of 2012 like it’s 5 years from now. It’s next year and you guys don’t have a front runner.

Gasket said:
Who will beat him? You speak of 2012 like it’s 5 years from now. It’s next year and you guys don’t have a front runner.

I don’t know. As gas and other commodity prices shoot up, taxes shoot up and more liberalism envelopes the country, there will be all sorts of people who can beat him.

He was able to lie his way to office before, but now he has a record. Numbers have a peculiar way of refuting his “hope”. People now see that what he really meant by “hope” is that we are to hope that things don’t get too bad.

As others have noted, mental health care won’t work – or can’t – if the individual doesn’t seek it or he or she isn’t institutionalized for it.

As Dr. Charles Krauthammer noted, when he was head of the Mass. General Hospital pyschiatric ward, he used to be able to get treatment for people who needed it. Often against their will. But over the past two decades well-meaning people have made it more difficult – for good or bad – to get the treatment to the people who need it.

Instead of pointing fingers and getting ugly as usual, Maher would do us a service if – at least on occasion – he elevated the discussion. But he can’t. Not won’t, he can’t.

I truly wish that Limbaugh and Maher and Olbermann and Beck just retired from talk shows. If they did, our political discourse would rise about 50%. Probably more.

They’re just not helping things at this time.

Duke said:
Yeah, but think how we could tie up everything he would try to do. He would spend too much time with his lawyers and no time trying to implement his commie agenda!

Word is there will be a couple of states that will require legal proof of natural citizenship.

Gasket said:
Who will beat him? You speak of 2012 like it’s 5 years from now. It’s next year and you guys don’t have a front runner.

Tell we when Obama was a front runner? LOL

SteveMG said:
As others have noted, mental health care won’t work – or can’t – if the individual doesn’t seek it or he or she isn’t institutionalized for it.

As Dr. Charles Krauthammer noted, when he was head of the Mass. General Hospital pyschiatric ward, he used to be able to get treatment for people who needed it. Often against their will. But over the past two decades well-meaning people have made it more difficult – for good or bad – to get the treatment to the people who need it.

Instead of pointing fingers and getting ugly as usual, Maher would do us a service if – at least on occasion – he elevated the discussion. But he can’t. Not won’t, he can’t.

I truly wish that Limbaugh and Maher and Olbermann and Beck just retired from talk shows. If they did, our political discourse would rise about 50%. Probably more.

They’re just not helping things at this time.

You would be right if both sides used the same belief system. Haven’t you ever wondered why both sides (Modern Liberals/Progressives and the Right) are so polar in their beliefs? Think about it.

I’ve spent the last few years trying to explain it. What I did is to reverse engineer leftists/ I’d ask questions like “under what circumstances would their ideas actually help people in the long run?”

What I came up with is this core issue. It’s not simple politics, but a much deeper definition of what is right and wrong. The way I explain it is the Right measures success as when things are better or can get better. The left doesn’t work like this. They measure success as when things are “equal.”

So while the right is working to make things better, the left hates it! I need to get going and I’ll try to come back to explaining it later, but the short answer is we are dealing with very fundamental differences that affect just about every decision each a person makes. If “Limbaugh and Maher and Olbermann and Beck” retired, there would be plenty of people to fill their shoes.

SteveMG said:
I truly wish that Limbaugh and Maher and Olbermann and Beck just retired from talk shows. If they did, our political discourse would rise about 50%. Probably more.
They’re just not helping things at this time.

Their discourse had NOTHING to do with the shooting or the shooter. Why do you libs keep bringing up NONSENSE.

Alz said:
I don’t know. As gas and other commodity prices shoot up, taxes shoot up and more liberalism envelopes the country, there will be all sorts of people who can beat him.

He was able to lie his way to office before, but now he has a record. Numbers have a peculiar way of refuting his “hope”. People now see that what he really meant by “hope” is that we are to hope that things don’t get too bad.

You do realize gas prices were at their highest under that “liberal Bush regime” right? LOL. You are right, he will have numbers. Creating more jobs last year than Bush did in 8 etc. You do realize that the economy will be in a much better state next year than it was in 2010 right? Look at what his approval numbers are after a “bad” year and look at the polling with his 12 rivals. None of them are beating him and they all have flaws. You guys are screwed. Not to mention the bloodbath that will be the 2012 GOP primaries. Your teabagging flock will be nominating a far right candidate who will make Obama appear a moderate…ha. The electorate will be much different in 12. Don’t use 2010 as a template. Republicans will actually have a congressional record to defend. No blaming Dems.

Actually, both Bill Maher is right and so is the guy who had something to say about the ACLU. Nationalized health care (not this Barack Uncle Tom-a cop out health care) is not socialism, it is a mark of a civilized and humane society. I am from DC, which has the highest homeless population in the country as well as the highest HIV rate. In 1981, this started and never stopped with the homeless when the funding of St. Elizabeth’s was turned over to a bankrupt city and the hospital was the first to let their patients walk off unhealed. But part of the problem with many of those who have some of these illnesses is that in thier minds it isn’t them who has the problem-it’s everyone else. We need to make a law that if three objective, competent phychaitrists agree that somebody has a mental illness they need to treat it with what their doctor sees fit-no specific medicine by the government, but they need to treat it all the same. The ACLU means well, but they waste a lot of fitna on non-issues such as an underage girl suing a junior-high school because they took discipinary action about her posing nude in front of a camera on school grounds and posting the photos on the internet. They are also often little but political correctness police. In the end, neither those with mental illness are helped from this ACLU position nor is the rest of the society. As for a gun in the city, the rule of thumb is that if you want one, you shouldn’t have one. So yes, both Malher and the guy who had something to say about the ACLU are right.

gordonbloyershow said:
Their discourse had NOTHING to do with the shooting or the shooter. Why do you libs keep bringing up NONSENSE.

Maybe you should actually retort to what he said and not what you IMAGINE he said. Take those meds please….OH YER GORDON BLOWS.

So Sirhan Sirhan’s attack on Robert Kennedy, and Lee Harvey Oswald’s attack on John Kennedy was about the lack of government health care?

I’m so sick of hearing about discourse!!! The baby libs can’t argue their side, so they claim that the right is being violent in their speech and try to shut them up. When libs play 1 on 1 basketball and are losing, do they claim that the other side is cheating and quit the game? Anyone who is not passionate about what the believe in is a mindless twit. I really think that this is the beginning of the end for Maher, the early stages bat-sh!t crazy are setting in. He will be in a rest home in a few years.

Just a sidebar comment: Why isn’t Mr. Maher ever identified at this site ideologically? He may have some center/right views; but he’s clearly a man of the left. And this site is pretty aggressive in labeling people.

For good or bad, he’s a leftist. It’s not my cup of tea but he’s welcome to it.

It’s just me noticing that Bill Maher is really drooling nonsense bulshit?

This lunatic, Loughner, was a poor guy?, a destitute man with no family to look upon his mental status?, and get some professional help?

Maher is just forcing the Obamacare stretching out a situation.

Ed Lascar said:
It’s just me noticing that Bill Maher is really drooling nonsense bulshit? This lunatic, Loughner, was a poor guy?, a destitute man with no family to look upon his mental status?, and get some professional help? Maher is just forcing the Obamacare stretching out a situation.

In this instance I have to agree with you. This situation in no way relates to gov healthcare as the solution.

espo222 said:
Why don’t libs pay more in taxes, than they are required to? This way, my taxes don’t have to go up every year and people can have healthcare for free. Libs love to spend other people’s money.

I really like this idea! And to put this on line it is easy: The taxes would stay the same for everyone, and one ( a liberal, of course, I suppose) could assign a permission to be taxed with extra points to collect. Maybe, in that fashion, they could CHANGE America.

How many Bill Maher peices is this site going to run?

We get it,he’s controversial and all that.He obviously didn’t get the “less rancor” memo.

He’s milking it all to make money and saying things that are really stupid,we get it already.

Ed Lascar said:
I really like this idea! And to put this on line it is easy: The taxes would stay the same for everyone, and one ( a liberal, of course, I suppose) could assign a permission to be taxed with extra points to collect. Maybe, in that fashion, they could CHANGE America.

Sounds easy enough doesn’t it? Except what happens when the people that did not pay into those safety nets lose their job and no new one in sight? Do we tell them, hey real sorry about your luck, but you didn’t pay so there’s that park bench you can sleep on. Or if they get seriously ill and exceed their insurance providers cap limit. Do we say, sorry about your luck, but there’s that park bench you can lay and die on?

It’s hard to believe so many people take this jerk so seriously.

Bill Maher and Jenny McCarthy need a talk show together.

MiddleRoader said:
Sounds easy enough doesn’t it? Except what happens when the people that did not pay into those safety nets lose their job and no new one in sight? Do we tell them, hey real sorry about your luck, but you didn’t pay so there’s that park bench you can sleep on. Or if they get seriously ill and exceed their insurance providers cap limit. Do we say, sorry about your luck, but there’s that park bench you can lay and die on?

See, I saw it from outside. I am not an american and never went to America.
I perceived that, since 2002, you , guys, are splitted in two half. One has the great state as solution and all the entitlements of a socialist society. The other half wants less intrusion and lesser state controle of individuals. So , as an experiment, this half coul live ahead of The Time of future bonanza to demonstrate how is that good for society to convince the non-believers.

Abs.

Gasket said:
Maybe you should actually retort to what he said and not what you IMAGINE he said. Take those meds please….OH YER GORDON BLOWS.

You need to get your head examined. Anyone that brings up the subject of guns or the public discourse is talking about the shooting and the shooter. Nobody would be bringing up this subject if the congresswoman was not shot last Saturday, would they?

TangledThorns said:
Maher=crazy left wing hate

He’s no left-winger. The guy’s only allegiance is to who’ll pay him the highest. Back in the day (late 90s), he was a small government, individual responsibility libertarian. Then HBO offered him a contract and all the sudden he’s a far left-wing loon. He obviously is saying whatever HBO tells him to say. Give him 50 bucks and I’m sure he’ll tell you how great President Bush was.

You’re a phony Maher and we know it.

It’s funny how perfectly Maher’s vision for what is needed to fundamentally change American life so perfectly dovetails with all of the reasons someone might commit a violent act in America. Here’s his math:

Lack of healthcare = Gun violence!
Conservative speech = Gun violence!
Lack of gay marriage = Gun violence!
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell = Gun violence!
Not Raising the Debt Ceiling = Gun violence!
Tax Cuts for the Rich = Gun violence!
No Cap and Trade = Gun violence!
Free exercise of religion = Gun violence!
First Amendment right = Gun violence!
The Tea Party existing at all? Gun violence!

The only math I’ll accept from Maher is how many hookers he can afford in one night. Is there any real reason to watch his show anymore? We know exactly what he’s going to say. Whatever is wrong with the country is the fault of a) the Tea Party, b) Sarah Palin, or c) Christianity. There, I just laid out the rest of his career as a pundit. Sorry for the spoiler.

“the question was why people like him turn to violence in the first place.”
Silly me – I thought it was Global Warming.

gordonbloyershow said:
You need to get your head examined. Anyone that brings up the subject of guns or the public discourse is talking about the shooting and the shooter. Nobody would be bringing up this subject if the congresswoman was not shot last Saturday, would they?

OH YER GORDON BLOWS, it doesn’t change the fact that you responded to something he NEVER said. Again, dementia might be an issue.

Sasha Lazarios said:
Nationalized health care (not this Barack Uncle Tom-a cop out health care) is not socialism, it is a mark of a civilized and humane society.

Do you know the definition of “Socialism?”

Leftists don’t like to be identified with Socialism. but there simply is no getting around it. Every Leftist program or policy invariably fits the definition of Socialism as provided by Merriam-Webster:

1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.

Obamacare fits the dictionary definition of Socialism perfectly. Lefitsts should just own-up and be PROUD to be Socialists. Why hide it if you really think you have a better plan than America’s Right-Wing Conservative founders.

gordonbloyershow said:
Their discourse had NOTHING to do with the shooting or the shooter. Why do you libs keep bringing up NONSENSE.

All those red states have a high violence rate. Sorry Bloyer your theory doesn’t hold water.

Davo said:
Leftists don’t like to be identified with Socialism. but there simply is no getting around it. Every Leftist program or policy invariably fits the definition of Socialism as provided by Merriam-Webster:

1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.

Obamacare fits the dictionary definition of Socialism perfectly. Lefitsts should just own-up and be PROUD to be Socialists. Why hide it if you really think you have a better plan than America’s Right-Wing Conservative founders.

Somewhere in their little brains they know it ends up hurting people so they have to hide it, lie about it AND demonize their opponents.

By definition, in order to force things to be “equal”, they have to treat people unequally. People don’t like it.

Leftists will never adapt because the pain that their ideas create IS ACCEPTABLE to them. It’s just the sour taste of their medicine that is required to get us to their goofy Utopia where everything is “equal.”

This is why they never care much about the pain that their ideas have caused to the people in the inner cities. They have had 50 years to adapt, but they do not. It’s not that they don’t know how, it’s that they don’t want to.

About all we can say about liberal control over the inner cities is there is a lot of hopelessness, despair and death. Obama worked as an “organizer” for years and he found the pain acceptable. Otherwise he would done something. You never saw any pictures of success because based on the normal-person’s definition of success, there wasn’t much to talk about.

Liberals LOVE to celebrate writers, artists, etc. who can bring out the plight of the people in these areas, but they never do anything to help in any long term success. When the pain becomes too unbearable and the people complain, the liberals jump into action and come up with another program which is designed to be a salve on the pain that their ideas created in the first place! And if anyone complains, they are branded as racists.

This has been going on for 50 years. Either you blame the people in these areas (not me) or the system. Since the liberals have run the system for 50 years, that’s who should get the full blame.

Someone blasts Liberal darling Bill Maher for his RACIST tirade about black men by saying that Obama should be more “Gangsta”;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8MANpbg_3w

The video is really true and sarcastically true how Maher says RACIST things about black men;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8MANpbg_3w

.

Maher IS a racist.

Latin2 said:
The video is really true and sarcastically true how Maher says RACIST things about black men; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8MANpbg_3w . Maher IS a racist.

if you give him 20 buck and a couple joints, I’m sure he’ll NOT be a racist. Maher has no conviction except to the highest bidder.

Please keep talking Maher.

Gasket said:
OH YER GORDON BLOWS, it doesn’t change the fact that you responded to something he NEVER said. Again, dementia might be an issue.

Do you know how dumb you make yourself look? You use a atom bomb avatar and you hide behind a stupid phony name gasket, do you think you are being funny or clever? Yet you have the nerve to claim that you are smarter than me? You need help kid. You should suspend your comments until you can stand behind them with a real name. If not go play on HuffPo.

Yoda002 said:
All those red states have a high violence rate. Sorry Bloyer your theory doesn’t hold water.

More nonsense.

Bill Mayer plays to his Left wing base like the Commie loon that he is….the scary thing is that 35 to 40 percent of our citizens fall in line…..a perfect example of the Herman Hess propaganda machine…pandering to their Muslim prince….God help this great country!!!!!!

Let me see, who are the violent crazy people? From ABC News……………….

TUCSON, Ariz. — A Tucson mass shooting victim was taken into custody Saturday after yelling “you’re dead” at a Tea Party spokesman during the taping of an ABC-TV town hall event hosted by Christianne Amanpour.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Office said J. Eric Fuller, 63, was involuntarily committed to an undisclosed medical facility, NBC News reported. The Associated Press said he was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.

He faces charges of threats and intimidation and disorderly conduct, according to Tucson TV station KGUN.

Ann Coulter wrote one of her best columns this week. The libs won’t like it but is very funny. My ribs hurt from laughing.

LIBERALS SEEK BAN ON METAPHORS IN WAKE OF ARIZONA SHOOTING
by Ann Coulter
January 12, 2011

After the monstrous shooting in Arizona last week, surely we can all agree that we’ve got to pass Obama’s agenda immediately and stop using metaphors.

At least I think that’s what the mainstream media are trying to tell me.

Liberals instantly leapt on the sickening massacre at a Tucson political event over the weekend to accuse tea partiers, Sarah Palin and all conservatives who talk out loud of being complicit in murder by inspiring the shooter, Jared Loughner.

Of course, to make their case, they first must demonstrate:

(a) Right-wingers have called for violence against anyone, especially conservative, pro-Second Amendment Democratic congresswomen;
(b) Loughner was listening to them; and
(c) Loughner was influenced by them.

They’ve proved none of this. In fact, it’s nearly the opposite.

Needless to say, no conservative has called for violence against anyone. Nor has any conservative engaged in any “rhetoric” that was likely to lead to violence. Every putative example of “violent rhetoric” these squeamish liberals produce keeps being matched by an identical example from the Democrats.

Sarah Palin, for example, had a chart of congressional districts being targeted by Republicans. So did the Democratic Leadership Committee. Indeed, Democratic consultant Bob Beckel went on Fox News and said he invented the bull’s-eye maps.

Similarly, every time liberals produce an example of military lingo from a Republican — “we’re going to target this district” — Republicans produce five more from the Democrats.

President “whose asses to kick” Obama predicted “hand-to-hand combat” with his political opponents and has made such remarks as “if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun” — making Obama the first American president to advocate gun fights since Andrew Jackson.

These are figures of speech known as “metaphors.” (Do liberals know where we got the word “campaign”?)

It’s not that both sides did something wrong; neither side did anything wrong. The drama queens need to settle down.

The winner of the most cretinous statement of 2011 — and the list is now closed, so please hold your submissions — is MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who on Monday night recalled Palin’s statement, “We’re not retreating, we’re reloading,” and said, I quote, “THAT’S not a metaphor.”

Really, Chris? If that’s not a metaphor, who did she shoot?

By blaming a mass killing on figures of speech, liberals sound as crazy as Loughner with his complaints about people’s grammar. Maybe in lieu of dropping all metaphors, liberals should demand we ban metonyms so that tragedies like this will never happen again.

As for Loughner being influenced by tea partiers, Fox News and talk radio — oops, another dead-end. According to all available evidence, Loughner is a liberal.

Every friend of Loughner who has characterized his politics has described him as liberal. Not one called him a conservative.

One friend says Loughner never listened to talk radio or watched the TV news. Throw in “never read books” and you have the dictionary definition of a liberal. Being completely uninformed is precisely how most liberals stay liberal.

According to voluminous Twitter postings on Saturday by one of Loughner’s friends since high school, Caitie Parker, he was “left wing,” “a political radical” “quite liberal” and “a pot head.”

If any public figure influenced this guy, my money’s on Bill Maher.

But liberals have been so determined to exploit this tragedy to geld conservatives, they have told calculated lies about Loughner’s politics.

In the most bald-faced lie I have ever read in The New York Times — which is saying something — that paper implied Loughner is a pro-life zealot. This is the precise opposite of the truth.

Only because numerous other news outlets, including ABC News and The Associated Press, reported the exact same shocking incident in much greater detail — and with direct quotes — do we know that the Times’ rendition was complete bunk.

ABC News reported: “One Pima Community College student, who had a poetry class with Loughner later in his college career, said he would often act ‘wildly inappropriate.’

“‘One day (Loughner) started making comments about terrorism and laughing about killing the baby,’ classmate Don Coorough told ABC News, referring to a discussion about abortions. ‘The rest of us were looking at him in shock … I thought this young man was troubled.’

“Another classmate, Lydian Ali, recalled the incident as well.

“‘A girl had written a poem about an abortion. It was very emotional and she was teary eyed and he said something about strapping a bomb to the fetus and making a baby bomber,’ Ali said.”

Here’s the Times’ version: “After another student read a poem about getting an abortion, Mr. Loughner compared the young woman to a ‘terrorist for killing the baby.’”

So that’s how the Times transformed Loughner from a sicko laughing about a dead fetus to a deadly earnest pro-life fanatic. (Never believe a news story written by Eric Lipton, Charlie Savage or Scott Shane of The New York Times — or for simplicity, anything in the Times.)

I wouldn’t have mentioned Loughner’s far-left world view immediately after a tragedy like this, but now that liberals have opened the door by blaming Loughner’s politics, they better brace themselves.

And when I say “brace themselves,” I don’t mean they need to actually strap themselves into a brace. That’s a metaphor, Chris.

COPYRIGHT 2010 ANN COULTER

gordonbloyershow said:
Tell we when Obama was a front runner? LOL

Maybe if your question made any sense, I would answer it OH YER GORDON BLOWS! Keep on whining you miscreant.

Davo said:
Leftists don’t like to be identified with Socialism. but there simply is no getting around it. Every Leftist program or policy invariably fits the definition of Socialism as provided by Merriam-Webster:

1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.

Obamacare fits the dictionary definition of Socialism perfectly. Lefitsts should just own-up and be PROUD to be Socialists. Why hide it if you really think you have a better plan than America’s Right-Wing Conservative founders.

What hospitals does the Govt run again other than the VA that that “liberal” President Reagan instituted? You have defined “socialism” and you have defined “Obamacare” as being part and parcel of it. Now using YOUR definition, give me an example of a “governmental ownership and administration” with respect to “Obamacare.” Name me those hospitals the US government is running. Thanks.

Gasket said:
Maybe if your question made any sense, I would answer it OH YER GORDON BLOWS! Keep on whining you miscreant.

This sad that I have to explain this to you, but I know that you are not to bright.
YOU said the republicans have no front runner now and that somehow equates to why they won’t beat Obama. DUH.
When was Obama the front runner? According to your logic he could not have won in 08 because he was not the “front runner” two years before the election. DUH. Does that make it simple enough for you to understand? You better go to bed now you have school tomorrow.

Let’s review the definition:

Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.

Now, if you need to skip out on a technicality, government doesn’t pay the salaries, rent, and expenses for hospitals……………….YET. But that’s the last few crumbs left after government seized control of virtually every function that occurs within the walls of all medical facilities.

Hussein stated that the goal was to eliminate the private sector healthcare system and replace it with the government system. All the steps being currently taken are most certainly toward that end, and if you need to fein-up some faux validation to feel good about yourself, keep ignoring the obvious.

gordonbloyershow said:
Ann Coulter wrote one of her best columns this week. The libs won’t like it but is very funny. My ribs hurt from laughing.

LIBERALS SEEK BAN ON METAPHORS IN WAKE OF ARIZONA SHOOTING
by Ann Coulter
January 12, 2011

After the monstrous shooting in Arizona last week, surely we can all agree that we’ve got to pass Obama’s agenda immediately and stop using metaphors.

At least I think that’s what the mainstream media are trying to tell me.

Liberals instantly leapt on the sickening massacre at a Tucson political event over the weekend to accuse tea partiers, Sarah Palin and all conservatives who talk out loud of being complicit in murder by inspiring the shooter, Jared Loughner.

Of course, to make their case, they first must demonstrate:

(a) Right-wingers have called for violence against anyone, especially conservative, pro-Second Amendment Democratic congresswomen;
(b) Loughner was listening to them; and
(c) Loughner was influenced by them.

They’ve proved none of this. In fact, it’s nearly the opposite.

Needless to say, no conservative has called for violence against anyone. Nor has any conservative engaged in any “rhetoric” that was likely to lead to violence. Every putative example of “violent rhetoric” these squeamish liberals produce keeps being matched by an identical example from the Democrats.

Sarah Palin, for example, had a chart of congressional districts being targeted by Republicans. So did the Democratic Leadership Committee. Indeed, Democratic consultant Bob Beckel went on Fox News and said he invented the bull’s-eye maps.

Similarly, every time liberals produce an example of military lingo from a Republican — “we’re going to target this district” — Republicans produce five more from the Democrats.

President “whose asses to kick” Obama predicted “hand-to-hand combat” with his political opponents and has made such remarks as “if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun” — making Obama the first American president to advocate gun fights since Andrew Jackson.

These are figures of speech known as “metaphors.” (Do liberals know where we got the word “campaign”?)

It’s not that both sides did something wrong; neither side did anything wrong. The drama queens need to settle down.

The winner of the most cretinous statement of 2011 — and the list is now closed, so please hold your submissions — is MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who on Monday night recalled Palin’s statement, “We’re not retreating, we’re reloading,” and said, I quote, “THAT’S not a metaphor.”

Really, Chris? If that’s not a metaphor, who did she shoot?

By blaming a mass killing on figures of speech, liberals sound as crazy as Loughner with his complaints about people’s grammar. Maybe in lieu of dropping all metaphors, liberals should demand we ban metonyms so that tragedies like this will never happen again.

As for Loughner being influenced by tea partiers, Fox News and talk radio — oops, another dead-end. According to all available evidence, Loughner is a liberal.

Every friend of Loughner who has characterized his politics has described him as liberal. Not one called him a conservative.

One friend says Loughner never listened to talk radio or watched the TV news. Throw in “never read books” and you have the dictionary definition of a liberal. Being completely uninformed is precisely how most liberals stay liberal.

According to voluminous Twitter postings on Saturday by one of Loughner’s friends since high school, Caitie Parker, he was “left wing,” “a political radical” “quite liberal” and “a pot head.”

If any public figure influenced this guy, my money’s on Bill Maher.

But liberals have been so determined to exploit this tragedy to geld conservatives, they have told calculated lies about Loughner’s politics.

In the most bald-faced lie I have ever read in The New York Times — which is saying something — that paper implied Loughner is a pro-life zealot. This is the precise opposite of the truth.

Only because numerous other news outlets, including ABC News and The Associated Press, reported the exact same shocking incident in much greater detail — and with direct quotes — do we know that the Times’ rendition was complete bunk.

ABC News reported: “One Pima Community College student, who had a poetry class with Loughner later in his college career, said he would often act ‘wildly inappropriate.’

“‘One day (Loughner) started making comments about terrorism and laughing about killing the baby,’ classmate Don Coorough told ABC News, referring to a discussion about abortions. ‘The rest of us were looking at him in shock … I thought this young man was troubled.’

“Another classmate, Lydian Ali, recalled the incident as well.

“‘A girl had written a poem about an abortion. It was very emotional and she was teary eyed and he said something about strapping a bomb to the fetus and making a baby bomber,’ Ali said.”

Here’s the Times’ version: “After another student read a poem about getting an abortion, Mr. Loughner compared the young woman to a ‘terrorist for killing the baby.’”

So that’s how the Times transformed Loughner from a sicko laughing about a dead fetus to a deadly earnest pro-life fanatic. (Never believe a news story written by Eric Lipton, Charlie Savage or Scott Shane of The New York Times — or for simplicity, anything in the Times.)

I wouldn’t have mentioned Loughner’s far-left world view immediately after a tragedy like this, but now that liberals have opened the door by blaming Loughner’s politics, they better brace themselves.

And when I say “brace themselves,” I don’t mean they need to actually strap themselves into a brace. That’s a metaphor, Chris.

COPYRIGHT 2010 ANN COULTER

Thanks for posting it! Great!! Ahahahah…..Exactly! The left wants a war (ops!) against metaphors! So ridiculous!
Abs.

Gasket said:
Who will beat him? You speak of 2012 like it’s 5 years from now. It’s next year and you guys don’t have a front runner.

Who was the Democrat front runner in Jan 2007?

Gasket said:
You do realize gas prices were at their highest under that “liberal Bush regime” right?

They’re headed right back there, with most people predicting they’ll be even higher. And Obama will be explaining how awesome it is that gas is so expensive.

You are right, he will have numbers. Creating more jobs last year than Bush did in 8 etc.

Why would you only count one year versus 8? Bush had better single years that Obama has. Obama’s record is not 2010, it’s 1/09 to whatever the current day is. And Bush didn’t spend a trillion bucks “creating jobs.”

You do realize that the economy will be in a much better state next year than it was in 2010 right?

Are you sure about that?

Republicans will actually have a congressional record to defend. No blaming Dems.

Oh, they can do both. You know who the Party of No is now, right?

Always wondered why so many in the old West carried guns. Now we know it’s because they didn’t have healthcare.

gordonbloyershow said:
Ann Coulter wrote one of her best columns this week. The libs won’t like it but is very funny. My ribs hurt from laughing. LIBERALS SEEK BAN ON METAPHORS IN WAKE OF ARIZONA SHOOTINGby Ann CoulterJanuary 12, 2011 After the monstrous shooting in Arizona last week, surely we can all agree that we’ve got to pass Obama’s agenda immediately and stop using metaphors. At least I think that’s what the mainstream media are trying to tell me. Liberals instantly leapt on the sickening massacre at a Tucson political event over the weekend to accuse tea partiers, Sarah Palin and all conservatives who talk out loud of being complicit in murder by inspiring the shooter, Jared Loughner. Of course, to make their case, they first must demonstrate: (a) Right-wingers have called for violence against anyone, especially conservative, pro-Second Amendment Democratic congresswomen;(b) Loughner was listening to them; and(c) Loughner was influenced by them. They’ve proved none of this. In fact, it’s nearly the opposite. Needless to say, no conservative has called for violence against anyone. Nor has any conservative engaged in any “rhetoric” that was likely to lead to violence. Every putative example of “violent rhetoric” these squeamish liberals produce keeps being matched by an identical example from the Democrats. Sarah Palin, for example, had a chart of congressional districts being targeted by Republicans. So did the Democratic Leadership Committee. Indeed, Democratic consultant Bob Beckel went on Fox News and said he invented the bull’s-eye maps. Similarly, every time liberals produce an example of military lingo from a Republican — “we’re going to target this district” — Republicans produce five more from the Democrats. President “whose asses to kick” Obama predicted “hand-to-hand combat” with his political opponents and has made such remarks as “if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun” — making Obama the first American president to advocate gun fights since Andrew Jackson. These are figures of speech known as “metaphors.” (Do liberals know where we got the word “campaign”?) It’s not that both sides did something wrong; neither side did anything wrong. The drama queens need to settle down. The winner of the most cretinous statement of 2011 — and the list is now closed, so please hold your submissions — is MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who on Monday night recalled Palin’s statement, “We’re not retreating, we’re reloading,” and said, I quote, “THAT’S not a metaphor.” Really, Chris? If that’s not a metaphor, who did she shoot? By blaming a mass killing on figures of speech, liberals sound as crazy as Loughner with his complaints about people’s grammar. Maybe in lieu of dropping all metaphors, liberals should demand we ban metonyms so that tragedies like this will never happen again. As for Loughner being influenced by tea partiers, Fox News and talk radio — oops, another dead-end. According to all available evidence, Loughner is a liberal. Every friend of Loughner who has characterized his politics has described him as liberal. Not one called him a conservative. One friend says Loughner never listened to talk radio or watched the TV news. Throw in “never read books” and you have the dictionary definition of a liberal. Being completely uninformed is precisely how most liberals stay liberal. According to voluminous Twitter postings on Saturday by one of Loughner’s friends since high school, Caitie Parker, he was “left wing,” “a political radical” “quite liberal” and “a pot head.” If any public figure influenced this guy, my money’s on Bill Maher. But liberals have been so determined to exploit this tragedy to geld conservatives, they have told calculated lies about Loughner’s politics. In the most bald-faced lie I have ever read in The New York Times — which is saying something — that paper implied Loughner is a pro-life zealot. This is the precise opposite of the truth. Only because numerous other news outlets, including ABC News and The Associated Press, reported the exact same shocking incident in much greater detail — and with direct quotes — do we know that the Times’ rendition was complete bunk. ABC News reported: “One Pima Community College student, who had a poetry class with Loughner later in his college career, said he would often act ‘wildly inappropriate.’ “‘One day (Loughner) started making comments about terrorism and laughing about killing the baby,’ classmate Don Coorough told ABC News, referring to a discussion about abortions. ‘The rest of us were looking at him in shock … I thought this young man was troubled.’ “Another classmate, Lydian Ali, recalled the incident as well. “‘A girl had written a poem about an abortion. It was very emotional and she was teary eyed and he said something about strapping a bomb to the fetus and making a baby bomber,’ Ali said.” Here’s the Times’ version: “After another student read a poem about getting an abortion, Mr. Loughner compared the young woman to a ‘terrorist for killing the baby.’” So that’s how the Times transformed Loughner from a sicko laughing about a dead fetus to a deadly earnest pro-life fanatic. (Never believe a news story written by Eric Lipton, Charlie Savage or Scott Shane of The New York Times — or for simplicity, anything in the Times.) I wouldn’t have mentioned Loughner’s far-left world view immediately after a tragedy like this, but now that liberals have opened the door by blaming Loughner’s politics, they better brace themselves. And when I say “brace themselves,” I don’t mean they need to actually strap themselves into a brace. That’s a metaphor, Chris. COPYRIGHT 2010 ANN COULTER

I wonder WHY we’re not chastizing the Obama Daughter who (allegedly) asked, “Daddy have you PLUGGED the hole yet.”

Didn’t “Daddy” explain to her that “PLUGGED” is an expression used to describe being SHOT? How DARE the Obama’s not only NOT correct their little crumb-cruncher, but WHY would President Obama REPEAT that “toxic rhetoric” on the air? Surely HE was not advocating further acts of GUN VIOLENCE, was he?

PERHAPS, then, it was the Obama’s THEMSELVES who drove Jared Loughner to commit those acts of violence!

Frankly, I think the squishy-feely Liberal mindset (ESPECIALLY on how the “Mentally Ill” are treated in our Society) is PRECISELY why people like Loughner are NOT institutionalized!

The Squishy-Feely Liberals think the “Mentally Ill” SHOULD be “Main-Streamed” (be a part of “normal” Society).

They lobby (the courts) to NOT institutionalize those who are “Mentally Ill” (even those who appear to be a danger to themselves or to others).

Somehow, they believe that EVERYONE (both the Mentally Ill AND Society at large) would be BETTER OFF, allowing people (even the Mentally Ill) to live in city parks or in cardboard boxes, than to allow the State to institutionalize them (where they can either get the help they need, OR, at least, NOT be a danger to Society).

THEY prefer to WAIT until AFTER someone like Loughner has actually KILLED several people, before they even CONSIDER that he should NOT be amongst us.

NOW, if the issue is “not enough beds” in Mental Health Facilities, then, by ALL MEANS, let’s spend the money to BUILD and STAFF them, but what we DON’T NEED is for the Government to (unconstitutionally) TAKE OVER the entire Health Care system (or FORCE people to purchase a product they don’t want).

By the way, the SAME philosophy applied to PRISONS (yet another institution that The Left) seems to think should NOT be expanded to MEET THE NEEDS of the population that SHOULD be institutionalized THERE, either! IF we don’t have enough Prison Cells, BUILD THEM and STAFF THEM (that’s one of the GREAT stupidities of Los Angeles: We spend MILLIONS to build a “state of the art” facility, then DON’T USE IT [because we "can't afford" to STAFF it]). Never mind that Los Angeles City Councilmen are given $1 MILLION (more or less) a YEAR to do with what they wish (like redecorate their offices).

Now call me “insensitive” to the “needs” of City Councilmen, but, frankly, I’d rather see that money go to Prison Guards (and keeping MORE criminals behind bars) than on seeing overpaid, and underworked City Councilmen having their offices remodeled.

I agree that Bill Maher should not be allowed to possess a firearm. Someone in law enforcement needs to act before he hurts himself.

Bill Maher is a race baiting immoral disgusting individual who needs to be bitch slapped up and down the N. J. Turnpike.

I laughed at first when Mahar linked insane behavior to lack of government sponsored health care. Then I realized he didn’t mean it to be funny. Now that’s funny!!!

Bill Maher: Lack Of Government Health Care Leads To Crazy People Buying Guns

You are now warned: Bill Maher has purchased a gun.

musiccityvic said:
Anyone who is anything right of the Progressive Loons should drop their HBO. Always hit them where it hurts in the pocketbook and Mahar will just go away quietly.

Already did that and I told them why. They came back with a 3 month free subscription and I told them I would block their channed on my remote. Yeah, I’m sure they’re worried about that but I’ve already done my part.

73aaodkt23 said:
Bill Maher is a race baiting immoral disgusting individual who needs to be bitch slapped up and down the N. J. Turnpike.

I think you are entirely wrong about that! I would not stand for that! He should be bitch slapped up and down a California Highway, I live in NJ and don’t want the traffic jams that would be caused.

Bill Maher is going to look really ignorant in a few years when Obamacare is in full swing and some nut shoots up the place.

bobmoses said:
Please. Canada also invents nothing, contributes nothing to culture and has no important companies. There is a reason why Google, Apple and Facebook are here. There is a reason why the rest of the world watches our movies and television. Canada is a nice mediocre country for boring white people. If they weren’t always doing their “little brother” whining, we would forget they exist.

Well… Thats not really true. Canadians have inventing things.. You’d probably know a bit about that if you’d ever bothered to learn about other countries.
It seems those boring white Canadians you’re referring to, have invented a lot of things. Things you might find surprising.
Like the SRMS, or the robotic Canadarm used in space. The Anti gravity suit, Basketball, Computerized brail, kerosene, five pin bowling, Trivial pursuit game, jetliner, heart pacemaker, newsprint, insulin, prosthetic hand, walkie talkie, standard time, zipper, snowmobile, air conditioned railway coach, CPR mannequin, odometer, goalie mask, jolly jumper, railway sleeper car, snowmobile, etc etc.

You might want to check the facts out yourself. Its amazing what a bit of reading will do to expand ones mind.

Maher noted that it appears “half the country is armed and half isn’t,” leading to a troubling cultural divide, and unevenly distributing violent crime.

Maher “noted” that it “appears”? If this is the kind of “evidence” that Maher uses to support his “conclusions”, it “appears” to me that Maher is completely out of touch with people outside his own Hollywood clique.

As a progressive Democrat, I own several firearms, and I can not think ONE of my progressive Democratic friends who do not own firearms.

With the exception of some Democratic politicians trying to attach themselves to the firearms “issue”, to attract the votes of who knows whom, I would suspect that the right to own firearms is NOT REALLY a wedge issue among citizens, and from my perspective is the ONE THING of which I will always AGREE with the right.

bobmoses said:
Please. Canada also invents nothing, contributes nothing to culture and has no important companies. There is a reason why Google, Apple and Facebook are here. There is a reason why the rest of the world watches our movies and television. Canada is a nice mediocre country for boring white people. If they weren’t always doing their “little brother” whining, we would forget they exist.

NEWS FLASH: Canada’s film industry not only competes well with that of the United States, but in the past 30 years, there has been “runaway production” – wherein U.S. film production companies have chosen to do their projects in Canada.

Lay off the pot Bill…some of your comments are getting crazier and more generalized. I always hope you’ll have some intelligents behind your political conversations but, once again, it was everyone but one guest talking over each other. You need to mediate and give each person a chance to make their point. I do love your humor for the most part.