Bill Maher Visits CNN To Talk ‘Bullies’, ‘Question Marks’ And ‘Lazy Moneygrubbers’

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by Frances Martel | 7:52 pm, May 13th, 2010

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Bill Maher is a comedian who considers himself a relevant political commentator. To his credit, he likes to test his substantive mettle outside of his home turf on HBO sometimes, and yesterday he visited Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s Situation Room for a rapidfire round of commentary on all the day’s top stories, from Afghanistan to Arizona, Elena Kagan and Levi Johnston. Across the topics, a uniform disappointment was noticeable with the Obama administration, despite pointing out that he is still a fan.

Blitzer starts off with a serious question on the future of America’s relationship with Afghanistan, and before you can think it, Maher responds “Well, first of all, I’m just very flattered that I’m your go-to guy on Afghanistan and Karzai because, you know, who better?”

He expresses disappointment with the continued war in Afghanistan, citing that the terrorists “are already here,” so fighting them over there doesn’t make sense to him. The way the Obama administration has handled the Gulf oil spill and, on a greater scale, the oil industry in general is also “not one of the places where I’m a big fan,” though he notes that he is more upset with “how this country has handled oil” than the White House specifically.

He wasn’t too happy with Elena Kagan, either, though he praised her for being prepared to be a Supreme Court Justice despite being young enough to be judicial “jailbait.” Citing how little is known about her beliefs, Maher argued that Obama should have picked someone openly liberal, just as George W. Bush picked openly conservative justices. “We could do a lot better than a question mark,” he concluded.

Maher saved the best for Sarah Palin, however, who he called a “lazy moneygrubber” and added, “you know who had it right? That Levi.”

The Situation Room segment below:

Afghanistan, Bill Maher, CNN, Elena Kagan, Gulf Oil Spill, Hamid Karzai, Sarah Palin, Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer

badr

Another day, another jjoke for Cnn
Barney

So..in Frances we’ve finally found the one person who actually gives a flying fuck what Maher thinks.

Seriously..the guy is a fucking idiot. I guess he’s trying a rehabilitation tour after the beatdown at the hands of George Will, of all people, on This Week..
TROLLING4LIBS

CNN has shown once again, they’ll do anything to boost ratings. Only in 2010 , does one think their audience gives a flying F*CK what Bill Smeahers political views are.
Cecelia

It would be interesting to hear what his ex Coco” Johnsen think about him…
Ted

Barney, uh moron…apparently Frances isn’t the only one who cares what Maher thinks. By the way, brilliant commentary, done in true tea-bagger fashion.
writer

Maher has a personal stake in the immigration debate. His favorite hooker was recently deported.
Ted

Thanks writer, we can always count on you for first class tea-bagging racist commentary; and it took, what…2 minutes!!
felixw

Ah, Bill Maher on CNN. Somehow this just seems so appropriate.
writer

Ted, you are the racist. Did I mention her race or where she was deported to? No. You assumed it! Are you insinuating that all illegals must be people of color? Racist!
TROLLING4LIBS

Wow Ted- seems you love the term tea bagger , doesn’t shock me , your probably just mad that your favorite activity is now used to classify a poltical movement.
Ted

Writer – you (and other tea-bagging morons) are the reason the lobotomy was invented. You sir are a buffoonish racist who should cease commenting and schedule a lobotomy…soon!!
TfT

Poor CNN; they really have turned into a joke. If they think having Mahr on to present his POV is “newsworthy” then they are in worse shape that I thought.
kit9

Mahr had his mettle tested? lol. By who? Certainly not Wolf. Maher is still licking his wounds from being humiliated on national television by George Will. Maher is an intellectual lightweight, to put it mildly. He makes Maureen Dowd look like a deep thinker. Listening to him comment on the Az. bill on his show was excruciating. Has no effing idea what he’s talking about. No idea that Arizona’s illegal immigrant problem is killing AZ, costing 750 million per year educating illegals in our public schools alone. He has no clue that Az.is so broke, Phx tried to sell the capital building and AZ cities have considered selling ad space on it’s cop cars. Think Maher knows this? No but that hasn’t stopped him from commenting on it. . Sort of like his knowledge of Brazillian oil consumption. Or, more accurately, his lack of knowledge.
writer

Ted, you’re not addressing the reason why when I mentioned the word ‘hooker’, you automatically assumed it must be a person of color. And I’m the racist?
TROLLING4LIBS

Writer- Its called race baiting, the left try to undermine opposing views by trying to disarm your argument or point by injecting your a racist, and noone buys it, besides their small narrow minded social circles .
ChrisNH

Maher and all the other ‘Palin-haters’ out there surely must know that there are a TON of people who hate and despise Obama with an equal fervor. Imagine spewing hatred for Palin and then bemoaning all the hate directed at Obama. Imagine thinking that everything ought to be so one-way. But that’s why these Libe media elites are so incensed; they are getting the same cards played back at them that they play themselves.
slickerwick

The NYT is reporting that Obama has targeted an American citizen, Alwaki, for assasination but Palin is the bully in the minds of Obot libs. Go figure. I’d like to ask all the Obots out there, has Palin targeted a citizen for assasination, has she launched predator drones, killing civilians? No, but your precious Obama has. So go twist yourselves into a pretzel trying to justify our Nobel Peace Prize winner’s actions. I’m a leftist libertarian and I despise the enabling hypocritical so-called libs who defend our warmonger-in-chief.
jackypond

Bill in his program was horrible. You have no idea what he is talking Effing. I have no idea that the illegal immigrant problem AZ Arizona died, costing 750 million a year to educate illegal immigrants in our public schools get the same cards alone.they read to them they play.
sumvision cyclone
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dona-Barone/1060506711 Dona Barone

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM….
$arah isn’t stupid and Mahar is an idiot…..a little backwards, I think.

Mahar is pretty astute and $arah is an idiot.