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Bill Maher On Rand Paul: “The Sh*t Doesn’t Fall Far From The Bat”

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This week the nation was introduced to Rand Paul, the winner of the GOP primary election for the Kentucky Senate seat. Because he was portrayed as the “Tea Party” candidate, and also perhaps due to a rather strict adherence to libertarian philosophy, Paul became the in-the-moment avatar for American politics. Much has already been written about his interview with Rachel Maddow, and how that coalesced support from the libertarian set. Tonight was Bill Maher‘s turn to have a go with Rand Paul, and he decided to go the Borscht Belt route, proving that even the most hackneyed jokes will still elicit a forced laughs.

For those who haven’t been paying terribly close attention to Kentucky primary politics, you will be forgiven to have missed the fact that Rand is in fact the son of Ron Paul, who many see as the real creator of the Tea Party movement.

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  • felixw

    Maybe Bill Maher and Jon Stewart can have a swearing contest to see who can have the most words bleeped out of their monologue. How low the Left has sunk….

  • roxsteady

    Actually, I liked Patton Oswalt’s take on the teabaggers, or as he called them, Ballsacks in Mouthers! As for how low the left has sunk? The ballsackers in mouthers are lower than whale shit at the bottom of the sea! Suck it you morons!

  • roxsteady

    Paul made an ass of himself on Maddow’s show. Rachel didn’t put those ugly words in his mouth, and when she asked him a simple yes or no question, like many of the mouth breathers who show up on this site, when faced with the facts, he changed the subject. He’s as dead as that raccoon on his head.

  • mynwworld5

    I had read about Rand Paul, actually i liked Patton Oswalt. This videos are very nice, i had watched them all. They are quite interesting. Primary politics is really very vast subject, it is not possible that understanding politics is very easy. m3i zero

  • writer

    rox, as for that anger management class, you should ask for your money back.

  • TROLLING4LIBS

    Roxsteady stay in that narrow-minded , hatred , filled social circle. Nobody else likes you.Nobody.

  • Rogue-Comic

    roxsteady, is that really how you want to express why your point of view is the correct one?

  • Rogue-Comic

    felixw says:
    May 21, 2010 at 11:23 pm
    “Maybe Bill Maher and Jon Stewart can have a swearing contest to see who can have the most words bleeped out of their monologue. How low the Left has sunk….”

    —x—x—x—x—x—x—x—x—x—x—
    To be fair, comparing Maher to Stewart is an egregious insult to Stewart.

    Regardless if you disagree with his ideology or not, it is admirable that a comedian rose to become the leading voice for liberal thought in the United States.

    Maher, at best, is a liability to serious socially active liberals.

  • Barney

    Maher is a completre idiot. Outside of his studio audience which is stocked with grunting baboons, who to applaud his every fart and belch, he gets smacked down by even the most lightweight of consrvative pundits.

    All he has is offensive remarks. he is a child..a stupid, ignorant, uninformed child. Yet he is considered a leading intellectual light on the left.

    He’s sort of like a certain current president. Go figure

  • Puter Boi

    Colby?
    Hackneyed <———one of my favorite words….nice job!

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Poor ignorant rox, she went to ForDumb. What ugly words? Wacko libs here words no one uttered.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    felixw says:
    May 21, 2010 at 11:23 pm
    Barney says:
    May 22, 2010 at 6:39 am
    Yes, there you go. Attack the messenger. Don’t mention anything about the subject. The fact that it’s Maher has nothing to do with Paul’s statements. Isn’t that what you accuse the left of? Maybe you should address the actual issues mentioned such as Paul’s aversion to the Fair Housing Act, Americans with Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights Act of 64 rather than attacking Maher. Neither of you have anything of substance.

  • http://thedailybarb.com Burnnotice

    You know I use to love reading the comments on mediaite, Its getting so high school anymore. that I just read the story anymore and move on…

    P. S. As long as we’re being juvenile You Chinese Spam Merchants can suck my American tea bagging ball sack!.

  • RexKramer

    @roxsteady (and all liberals) using the phrase “teabaggers” in such context now makes you a homophobe racist.

  • RichS

    “The_Reasonable_Lib says:
    May 22, 2010 at 9:42 am
    felixw says:
    May 21, 2010 at 11:23 pm
    Barney says:
    May 22, 2010 at 6:39 am
    Yes, there you go. Attack the messenger. Don’t mention anything about the subject. The fact that it’s Maher has nothing to do with Paul’s statements. Isn’t that what you accuse the left of? Maybe you should address the actual issues mentioned such as Paul’s aversion to the Fair Housing Act, Americans with Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights Act of 64 rather than attacking Maher. Neither of you have anything of substance.”

    Did he really say he opposed everything in those acts? I thought he, like a lot of us, objected to the government trading one form of government mandated discrimination, NO BLACKS ALLOWED!, which was wrong for another form of discrimination, Affirmative Action. The only difference being that the target of the discrimination changed, not the fact that the laws discriminated and continue to discriminate.

    Affirmative action does not judge people by the content of their character but it judges them by the color of their skin. The only thing that changed is the skin color not the discrimination.

  • TylerDurden

    Poor Maher has to resort to lies and hypocrisy. Paul is not against the ADA but thinks that many issues can be addressed without govt. intervention. If you have a 2 story building and a disabled employee, move the employee to the first floor rather than install an elevator.

    And Bill, quoting people in context? Try quoting Richard Bloomingthal, the lib liar who repeatedly lied about his military service.

    Now in the lib world, lying is “misspeaking.”

    Yeah, he misspoke. He misspoke when he said he didn’t lie.

    Gees, Bill why didn’t ya mention this, hypocrite?

  • Ted

    Barn – Poor Maher. Poor, poor Maher. He is an idiut. He can nut cumpear with intelexooal jeye-ants lyke ewe, Gordo and tea-bag tyler. Poor Maher. He is an idiut. He is an idiut lib. Sea Bill run. Pray to Glenn and beye seedz.

  • The Real Royal King

    I am pleased to see so many people worried about Rand. He is more than a bit terrifying. What I don’t understand is that Maher has a keen analytical mind and so much to offer. Why does he cheapen his gifts by his language and demeanor?

  • WhoIsTheRealRoyalKing

    Why would Robert Bovine cheapen his gifts (if he has any in the first place), but making violent threats about lighter fluid.

  • writer

    Give the King some time. He just got back from Mumbai (LOL) and needs some rest before he can resume dancing.

  • puck30

    So Maher throws out some crap about Paul to his trained seals in the audience, so what’s the big deal?

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

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tantric-Tim/757209514 Tantric Tim

    A “private” business generally operates on a public thoroughfare, is protected by public police and fire departments, is served by public transportation, is staffed by people educated in public schools, is protected against fraud by the public justice system, may serve food or sell products protected by public inspection agencies, etc, etc, etc. Surely the public has a right to insist on non-racist policies!”

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    RichS says:
    May 22, 2010 at 11:13 am
    Your definition of affirmative action is skewed. I don’t agree with people getting a position because of race, but what Paul is saying is that it should be acceptable for them to not get one because of race. You’re confusing the actual definition with racial quotas which is no where in the bill. Are you even familiar with the argument or are you just trying to argue for the sake of arguing?

    TylerDurden says:
    May 22, 2010 at 11:16 am
    Sorry, Tyler, but he did. The site just didn’t put it up. He called Blumenthal stupid. Among other things for lying in the age of technology. If you’re going to argue something please have actual information on the subject.

  • felixw

    Reasonable Lib, you make me laugh. You want me address the substance of Maher’s comment. But the substance is him tossing off profanities. Would you like me to offer a learned discourse on sh-t? Should I present you with its etymology? Would you like me to respond with profanities of my own?

    The problem with people like Maher is that they are incapable of being substantive–as he demonstrates every time he is on TV.

  • TylerDurden

    he_Reasonable_Lib says:
    May 22, 2010 at 12:53 pm

    TylerDurden says:
    May 22, 2010 at 11:16 am
    Sorry, Tyler, but he did. The site just didn’t put it up. He called Blumenthal stupid. Among other things for lying in the age of technology. If you’re going to argue something please have actual information on the subject.”

    You are ignorant. Post the link where he said he was against the ADA.

    You cant, because you are just a lying lib.

  • RichS

    “The Real Royal King says:
    May 22, 2010 at 12:30 pm
    I am pleased to see so many people worried about Rand. He is more than a bit terrifying. What I don’t understand is that Maher has a keen analytical mind and so much to offer. Why does he cheapen his gifts by his language and demeanor?”

    Because, as with trrk, Bill Maher does not have a keen analytical mind. He regurgitates the same tired nonsense day after day.

  • Ted

    RichS – Amen brother tea-baggers. Unlke the Glenn, or Sarah Plain who together have the single most anal-itical mind in the history of forever, Maher, he is an idiot lib or something close to that. I never repeet what The Glenn says acuz I think fer myself. I’m just saying. Buy gold if you know watts good fer ya.

  • TylerDurden

    BTW, Mediaite- this headline is verbatim the same post that is on HP.

    You should stop this it might affect your credibility…… never mind, you lost that long ago.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    In Kentucky we’re taking bets on the over/under as to when Rand Paul (In Your Gut You Know He’s Nuts) will withdraw. Rand Paul’s America is an America of primitive values, of bigotry and of simplistic concepts. Rand Paul’s America is one ‘he wants back.’ Rand Paul wants to bring back separate but equal, Jim Crow and hate. Rand Paul’s America isn’t America.

    Rand Paul’s America
    randpaulsamerica.com

  • ImNotBlue

    Bill Adkins says:
    May 22, 2010 at 1:55 pm

    Do you ever feel bad about lying? I just don’t get how you can lie so consistently, and not feel any guilt or shame.

  • writer

    Like with the Times Square bomber. Bill kept repeating “He COULD have been a tea bagger! He COULD have been a tea bagger!” Kinda pathetic.

  • Rogue-Comic

    TylerDurden says:
    May 22, 2010 at 1:30 pm

    BTW, Mediaite- this headline is verbatim the same post that is on HP.

    You should stop this it might affect your credibility…… never mind, you lost that long ago.
    _______________________________________________________________________

    I’m quite sure Mediate is aware nobody comes here for the articles.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tyler-Hamilton/1505130069 Tyler Hamilton

    “In Kentucky we’re taking bets on the over/under as to when Rand Paul (In Your Gut You Know He’s Nuts) will withdraw. Rand Paul’s America is an Americoa of primitive values, of bigotry and of simplistic concepts. Rand Paul’s America is one ‘he wants back.’ Rand Paul wants to bring back separate but equal, Jim Crow and hate. Rand Paul’s America isn’t America”

    What’s America’s values now? Taking money from others to give to those who have not earned it, nor deserve it? Altruism? To make the government be our parents and tells us what to do and how to do it? To disallow individuality and private property for the sake of the so called “public good”?

    Tell me, is it bigotry to say that private business owners should have the right to serve who they want, or is it bigotry to have the government point a gun at your head and tell you that your rights are meaningless compared to these individuals of this race? The business owner would lose his business in a heartbeat because the consumers would not want to deal with such a business. Do you not understand that concept of how the market functions, or were you just asleep during that lesson?

    Paul’s entire point has been that the individuals who privately run these businesses have that right, and of course, will rise or fall with such behavior, but that it is not within the government’s rights to tell you how to run your business and what to do with it.

    What are these progressive values, then, that you supposedly support? The lack of Freedom? The government to do everyone’s bidding while people become ever more mindless about how to function rationally? To allow the collective to take away rights of the others at whim?

    As far as I remember, the values of United States were primarily the Individual and an individual’s right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Not the value of the individual’s right to be sacrificed, robbed, and destroyed at the whim of the society’s panic or outrage or inability to learn how to deal with things rationally rather than asking the government to come in.

    I forgot we became a whimpering collective whining about this and that and hoping and looking for who to sacrifice next so we can get some more money to fill the pockets of those who don’t deserve it. Because it’s quite alright to be trillions in debt and continuously spend money we don’t have or programs we don’t need because people like you really have no values.

  • Rogue-Comic

    Thank you Tyler Hamilton for a very well thought out comment with substance. Agree or disagree, that’s the kind of debate that’s needed here and everywhere.

  • deathisUNevitable

    I hate Maher, and in fact, would LOVE to see somebody kill him. I’d laugh and dance on the grave of this piece of crap.

  • felixw

    It’s worth pointing out the single biggest difference between Maher’s liberalism and Paul’s libertarianism. The libertarian would allow the liberal to lead whatever life he wants. But the liberal insists on forcing everyone to participate in his social engineering schemes. The lack of symmetry is dramatic.

    This is what makes the Left so meddlesome. They need to force the libertarian to participate in all their schemes — since the libertarians and right-wingers are required to pay the bill for them. In contrast, the libertarian has absolutely no need for the left-winger, who he would gladly allow to pursue any project, as long as he is not forced to join in. But that is the one thing the left would never allow — their whole world view is dependent on forcing everybody to live according to their rules.

  • Paul Foulke

    Hey guys, he’s a comedian – nothing more. Some will think he’s cleaver and funny, other will not. Some find the profanity offensive, some do not. As far as the Bat excrement joke, I would have laughed at that if somebody said it about me.

  • RichS

    “Ted says:
    May 22, 2010 at 1:29 pm
    RichS – Amen brother tea-baggers. Unlke the Glenn, or Sarah Plain who together have the single most anal-itical mind in the history of forever, Maher, he is an idiot lib or something close to that. I never repeet what The Glenn says acuz I think fer myself. I’m just saying. Buy gold if you know watts good fer ya.”

    Thank you for illustrating my point, Ted.

    You didn’t address a single thing I said. You just used redirection. As to Glenn Beck, I’ve never watched any of his shows for more than a few minutes. I do like Sarah Palin, and don’t agree with you that she is plain. She and Tina Fey are both hot, in my opinion. Bill Maher is a sneering idiot. I used to watch Politically Incorrect until I found out it was anything but and he wasn’t funny. I don’t watch his current show. I also don’t own any gold, do you?

  • RichS

    Oh, and I almost forgot, I have never been to a Tea Party rally but I do love to see nonviolent, grass roots political action so I did go to on of my Congressman’s townhall meetings last year and was happy to see my fellow citizens voice their opinions, which ever side of the aisle they supported.

    Seems you like dealing in stereo-types, how is that working for you in the friends department. Or do you talk and act differently when your true identity isn’t known.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    felixw says:
    May 22, 2010 at 1:06 pm
    Yet again you make a fool out of yourself; I’m not referring to Maher, I’m referring to the issue which he addresses with regards to Paul. You have nothing to say on that because there is nothing you can say, so you attack the messenger like the tunnel visioned fool that you are. And you can type all you want, and maybe if you’re lucky 500 people will see, meanwhile Maher has thousands watching his show.

    TylerDurden says:
    May 22, 2010 at 1:11 pm
    One of many instances, please read it and shut the f*ck up:
    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/rand-paul-on-npr-disabilities-act-goes-too-far.php

    felixw says:
    May 22, 2010 at 4:32 pm
    Kind of like what the Texas Board of Education just did? Or maybe the abortion issue? No, you have to be referring to gay marriage. Honestly, you’re sad.

  • TylerDurden

    The_Reasonable_Lib says:
    May 22, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    Ah, RL, did I make you cry over your hero?

    tsk, tsk!

    eat me!

  • TylerDurden

    RL, you are a complete idiot.

    I said”Paul is not against the ADA but thinks that many issues can be addressed without govt. intervention. If you have a 2 story building and a disabled employee, move the employee to the first floor rather than install an elevator.”

    Paul says in YOUR own link:

    “”I think a lot of things could be handled locally,” Paul told Siegel. “For example, I think that we should try to do everything we can to allow for people with disabilities and handicaps…I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who’s handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.”"

    Oh, snap- you are a loser, lib!

    You STFU, loser!

    meanwhile Maher has thousands watching his show. ”

    And FOX- millions- asshole!

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    TylerDurden says:
    May 22, 2010 at 5:35 pm
    You wish, Tyler, unfortunately, when a five-year-old throws a tantrum, I ignore. Unfortunately, your childish tactics will continue to warrant no response.

    TylerDurden says:
    May 22, 2010 at 5:41 pm
    Tsk, tsk, tsk, silly billy gumdrops. Please examine again. He also speaks of government overreaching. Local government handling things. He’s against it. These are the same things he said in his Maddow interview on the civil rights act, only I don’t think he even mentioned bringing things local there. Then in a show of hypocdrisy, he admits to not having read it, despite his whole read the bills thing. And no, that’s not in that link, it’s here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l7A8VBrqa8
    There’s your guy, Durden you idiot. Looks like you’re the loser here once again. By the way, I’d like you to notice that his staffer wouldn’t even let him answer the last question.

  • TylerDurden

    The_Reasonable_Lib says:
    May 22, 2010 at 6:00 pm

    Hey asshole- he said the same thing again!

    hahahahaa- He never aid he was against it. What’s wrong lib, don’t like being caught in lies like Bloomy!

    You are indeed the dumbest lib here.. I just ate your lunch, you idiot!

    He was specifically asked if he would have voted against it and he never said “yes.”

    Please examine again. He also speaks of government overreaching. Local government handling things. ”

    My original comment:

    “Paul is not against the ADA but thinks that many issues can be addressed without govt. intervention. If you have a 2 story building and a disabled employee, move the employee to the first floor rather than install an elevator.”

    Learn to read and listen, asshole.

  • TylerDurden

    By the way, I’d like you to notice that his staffer wouldn’t even let him answer the last question.”

    BTW, I’d like you to notice that BHO has not held a press conference since last July and has REFUSED to answer questions this week from reporters.

    “On Monday, President Obama signed into law the “Press Freedom Act,” but refused to answer a question from CBS White House correspondent Chip Reid at the conclusion of the signing ceremony. While Reid described the ironic incident on the CBSNews.com Political Hotsheet blog, neither Monday’s Evening News nor Tuesday’s Early Show mentioned the President’s dodge. ”

    Oh, and you moron, from your favorite site MM:

    Pressure Mounting for Obama Press Conference

    May 21, 2010 5:00 pm ET by Joe Strupp

    The push began Monday when President Obama signed the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act, which requires the state department to undertake better scrutiny of foreign media freedoms. During the signing ceremony, Obama declined to take questions on other topics from the assembled press.

    Later in the week, he appeared again with Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday and took only one question.

    “Sure enough, Mr. Obama was asked about the Arizona law aimed at stopping illegal immigrants, a law he had already denounced in his opening remarks and was happy to denounce again in response to the question,” Peter Baker of The New York Times wrote in a blog item Wednesday after the appearance. “He did not have to offer his thoughts on the loss of an ally, Senator Arlen Specter, in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary, or on any other topic.”

    Since then, others have weighed in on Obama’s lack of a full press event in months.

    Chris Weigant at Huffington Post opined Thursday that it has been too long since an Obama press event, noting he had not had a regular press conference since July.

    “Since that time, Obama has spoken directly to the press only (by my count, searching the White House website) six times — four of which were joint press availabilities with foreign leaders, mostly on foreign soil,” Weigant wrote. “Obama met the press with the leaders of Canada, Japan, and South Korea on separate occasions in other countries. The most recent joint press availability was held in the White House a little over two months ago, with the Indian Prime Minister.”

    Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune said in a compilation of other postings: “It’s well past time for Obama to meet the press.”

  • notsofast

    Tyler- don’t waste your time with The_Reasonable_Lib.

    This miscreant tried to say Jews were a race.

    So I converted and I am a new race!

    Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

  • writer

    If it weren’t for penicillin, Maher wouldn’t be here today.

  • knewborn

    not so fast you are a dumb white trash racist

  • reggie23

    Barney, I agree with everything you said, except who thinks Bill Maher is an intellectual? He is just another Christian hating liberal that thinks Christians have too much power in this country. Even though we founded it. An he and the ACLU are trying their best to destroy it..

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  • MoDans55

    Wow, you Tea Bag, Ballsack In Mouthers really are a bunch of in-denial-of-the-facts morons.
    But, then again, your heroes are Caribou Barbie, the Drugster, Billo, and Beckbo, so your intelligence IS in question.
    Take your heads out of their asses and see the real world.

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