Bill Maher Thinks The Government Would Work Better If It Was Run By Apple

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by Frances Martel | 11:21 am, May 15th, 2010

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Bill Maher‘s public disillusion with President Barack Obama continued on last night’s Real Time, where Maher expressed confusion at the fact that the President was now denouncing technology, a reference to a commencement speech last week asking graduates to give up the “iPads” and “XBoxes.” “What’s with the fuddy-duddy act?” asked Maher, concluding that his newfound confusion was an appeal to the fact that “America conflates out of touch with adorable.”

“If we wanted a president that didn’t understand gizmos and doohickeys,” Maher reminded the President, America would have elected McCain and Palin. “McCain thinks an iPad is something women wear on their Xboxes once a month.”

Maher also lamented the lack of advancement in technology in the past half-century, pointing to the lack of successful action to stop Gulf oil spill, the recent mining accidents, arguing that, in 2010, “we should be having mining disasters on the moon.” To bring in further advancement of technology, Maher argued for a roundabout free market solution: bringing in Steve Jobs to “fix America… Goodbye US Senate, hello Genius Bar!” Of course, there’s a high chance Apple won’t find our country’s name very marketable…

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Bill was always bitter and angry when we didn’t have a liberal in the White House. But now that we have a liberal, he’s…..oh, wait.
TROLLING4LIBS

I wonder if Billy Smeahers is gonna lobby Apple for a ihookers app, oh and his show continues to be a dumpster fire.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Lindhartsen/704548889 Chris Lindhartsen

I agree with everything, but I’d never let Apple operate the government, sorry.
TfT

Bill Mahr sure does get a lot of attention on this site; why do comediennes get so much attention here?
TylerDurden

Why are so many of the stories on Mediaite from the Huffington Post??
freetrademan

Finally, a liberal admits that private industry runs things better than government bureaucrats.
Snipzor

There’s also a lot more being said here. Apple is well known for doing stuff that right away is dismissed by everyone, what do they do then? They make the ipad, and it’s a fucking success. There’s a lot to say about human nature when we spend 23 hours making fun of something and denouncing something, where in the 24th hour, we go ahead and buy it anyways. Obviously we care too much about popular opinion, a concept that has no basis in ethics, because at the end of the day there are a lot of stupid people who won’t like your ideas, and they’ll still buy it anyways and conveniently forget the entire day happened. People are so uptight when people know what’s right for them, they shouldn’t be, because chances are they do know what’s good for you because they are probably smarter than you.

/endrant
MDT

Of course Maher thinks Apple is a good model…

Maher has stated that the American people are too stupid to know what’s good for them so…

He likes the Apple way!

It’s the most fascist of high-profile companies.

Don’t get me wrong, Apple puts out absolutely great products for people.

But its (really successful) business model rules things with an iron fist.

Obama – Apple parallels…

Apple is about as transparent as concrete, gives you relatively limited choices and steamrolls over whatever is in its way.

Sound anything like…oh, I don’t know…maybe like the current administration..?
sweetwalter

bullshit….when Ipod and Apple cure cancer or what the hell, how about the common cold, then I will believe that they have added some benefit to the human condition…all the rest is sugar on the strawberries. I-pod, A-pod, Z-pod, Blackberry’s and all that crap are just bottom line profits for their corporate investors…doesn’t add shit to benefit humanity. How about putting some damn federal stumulus money into health research instead of banks, public service unions and political entites which just piss it away. Sweetwalter
felixw

The biggest difference between Apple and the U.S. government is that Apple spends less money than it brings in every year. I can’t imagine Pelosi and company ever allowing that to happen in the U.S. Congress. As a result, Apple won’t ever go bankrupt or need to borrow money from China to pay for entitlements, which is more than you can say for the U.S. Treasury.
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Sue

Geez, at long last the biggest fool on the planet gets something right!! Hell, my garbageman could run the government better than who’s in charge now!
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Of course this minityrant would want a megatyrant to rule us all.
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