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Maher Distinguishes Between His Bush Insults And Conservative ‘Disrespect’ Towards Obama

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Bill Maher revisited a recurring theme of his show in his final New Rule tonight: conservatives actively disrespecting President Obama to his face. From Congressman Joe Wilson to Bill O’Reilly, Maher argued there is a consistent pattern emerging that Obama is being treated far worse by his opposition than any Democratic president of the past fifty years. And as he did exactly a year ago, Maher patiently acknowledged the numerous insults he threw at George W. Bush, but insisted upon the difference between someone like him or Sean Hannity attacking a sitting president and someone scolding him to his face.

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Maher went down a list of his most insulting nicknames for Bush, before admitting he would have never called the former president “a rube” to his face, even if he was served the opportunity on a silver platter. But, Maher said, that’s not how conservatives have been with Obama, because of the multiple instances of people “going apeshit in his presence.” He pointed to presidents like Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Lyndon Johnson for doing all the things Republicans hate Obama for, and yet those presidents were treated with “a modium of respect, at least to their faces.”

Maher was even willing to acknowledge that the Clinton impeachment was at least done “through proper legal channels” and was somewhat dignified. But Maher couldn’t even begin to imagine what kind of outrage there would be if Obama was ever caught in a similar sex scandal. Comparing the president to Jackie Robinson and the insults he had to put up with from white baseball fans, Maher concluded that the president has done absolutely nothing to warrant treatment unbefitting of the Commander-in-Chief.

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  • Anonymous

    I loved….The Cowboy from Toy Story.  He IS a little slow on the draw on this story.  

  • Anonymous

    Not just the President but the outright disrespect and insults to his wife for recommending we all eat heather. Republicans claim they are the party of “Family Values”, well the person with the most “Family Values” has been in the white house this whole time with more family oriented values than any republican candidate they have had at the top of the republican presidential field.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    The spiteful delirium a special function of acute fundamentalism.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Maher is basically right – though he forgets the right always does this sort of thing when they lose an election.
    Remember how nutcase conservatives claimed Bill Clinton killed Vince Foster, concocted a fake scandal with Troopergate and were gleeful to further the lies of sociopaths like Gary Aldrich? 

  • Anonymous

    To “conservatives”, Obama isn’t an American therefore etiquette normally afforded to presidents is optional.      

  • Anonymous

    It’s probably because he is black, right liberals? 

    Lets cut through the shenanigans here, and get straight to race baiting. I know your dying too.   

  • Anonymous

    Then why?  Republicans just can’t control themselves?  

  • Anonymous

    You mean like when Rep. Doug Lamborn called President Obama “Tar Baby”?

    sure that’s not because he’s black…

  • Anonymous

    Bill is right. It’s only okay to talk shit about somebody when they aren’t present. Especially when it is on television.

  • Anonymous

    We have no idea – entertain us.

  • Anonymous

     Tar-Baby is a doll made of tar and turpentine  used to entrap Br’er Rabbit  in the second of the Uncle Remus stories.

    Again with the double standards, liberals point out everyday that Hussein is a Black man, but if a republican talks about an Uncle Remus story he is demonstrating “unprecedented racism” right? 

  • Anonymous

    Disagree with Maher, it’s one thing to criticize the president’s policies. Oppose Bush for the tax cuts, invasion of Iraq, the handling of Katrina, or the collapse of our economy. Hate Obama for the stimulus & mandates. At the same time, I don’t think either Bush nor Obama are idiots or incompetent. The POTUS is a very difficult job & although it’s easy for us to armchair, it’s quite an immense responsibility. Most of us criticize the POTUS when they don’t conform to our ideologies, but there is also a practical aspect to public policy & many of us overlook that. Cut the presidents some slack.

  • Anonymous

     Excellent and proper use of quotations. Calling them conservatives is the embodiment of political correctness. They’re the scum that forms when you forget to flush the toilet after taking a nasty dump.

  • Anonymous

     Funny enough, I wasn’t aware who Gary Aldrich was til this comment, but did know who (almost undoubtedly “conservative”) Gary ALDRIDGE was, because I think Maher had mentioned him in the past.

    http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/5160a79be171b5ae

  • Anonymous

     I think it’s a combination of being black and, more so, him having a Muslim name, which just sort of exacerbates the whole black thing.

  • Anonymous

     Your right MrsPorkChops, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney don’t demonstrate family values at all do they? I mean Mitt with his 16 grandchildren and Rick with his 8 kids.

  • Anonymous

     This is certainly the exact point he was trying to make.

    Please don’t insult reason by using it in your handle.

  • Anonymous

    Every president gets tarred and feathered.  It’s just the Tea Party has taken their hate and rage to a whole new level.  You should see some of the comments they have about Mitt Romney.  Complete disdain for the man, and he’s on their side.  I mean, any party seriously debating putting a guy like Santorum as the nominee has some real issues with sanity.

  • Anonymous

    Is your post supposed to be a joke? Reason? My post points out how unreasonable his assertions are. Only selective partisan nutjobs can see reason in this. You whine about respect and vitriol even though you exhibit same which you complain about. Reason to such illogical hypocrites isn’t reason at all in reality. But please go ahead and attack me and blindly assert I’m wrong for daring to point some reason out that you are too blind to see.

  • Anonymous

    And how was Rep. Doug Lamborn  “tar baby” comments connected with President Obama?

    Out of all the things to connect with president Obama… I’m sure he thought “tar baby” would be most appropriate.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2QAWUIHIDMLFEDA2CJV2QIGY7A Aquarian

    So Rep Lanborn was telling an Uncle Remus story? 

    To be fair and balanced did he talk about the story of “Uncle Tom’ Cabin” referencing Herman Cornbread Cain?

  • Anonymous

     Br’er Rabbit
    (“Brother Rabbit”) is the main character of the stories, a likable
    character, prone to tricks and trouble-making who is often opposed by Br’er Fox and Br’er Bear. In one tale, Br’er Fox constructs a lump of tar and puts clothing on it. When Br’er Rabbit comes along he addresses the “tar baby”
    amiably, but receives no response. Br’er Rabbit becomes offended by
    what he perceives as Tar Baby’s lack of manners, punches it, and becomes
    stuck.[2]
    Using the phrase “tar baby” to refer to the idea of “a problem that
    gets worse the more one struggles against it” became part of the wider culture of the United States in the mid-20th century.

  • Anonymous

    Shouldn’t we treat all people the way we would like to be treated ?

  • Anonymous

     If you want me to insult you, you are gonna have to write with at least an iota of logic.

  • Anonymous

    I never said they don’t demonstrate “family values” but president Obama in my opinion has promoted more “family values” that most of your top republican candidates that you conservatives had leading the republican presidential field.

    Look who you guys had leading the field. Trump, Newt, Herman Cain. C’mon.

  • Anonymous

    My Grandma told me Uncle Remus stories every day and we were black…..

  • Anonymous

    Obama is saving this country.

  • Anonymous

     The Oxford English Dictionary (but not the print version of its American
    counterpart) says that tar baby is a derogatory term used for “a black
    or a Maori.”

    Mitt Romeny has been in this sticky situation before in 2006 Yet Rep Doug Lamborn felt the need somehow to use this word also.

    http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1221764,00.html

    You know it has racial history but you refuse see that and defend the term “tar baby” in any way possible. I understand that you being a conservative and all.

    Not all republicans are racist but all racists are republican.

  • Anonymous

     ”we were black…..”? your not black anymore?

  • Anonymous

    When Bush was in office it was one long, long screed/callous joke after callous joke from Maher. On and on and on, even to this day.

  • Anonymous

    Agreed.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2QAWUIHIDMLFEDA2CJV2QIGY7A Aquarian

    If insults is all you have like Senator Lamborn…..birds of a feather.

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin

    (Uncle Tom) is the main character of the story.  The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number of stereotypes about black people.  These include the affectionate, dark-skinned “mammy”; the “pickaninny” stereotype of black children; and the “Uncle Tom”, or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress.

  • Anonymous

     Trump, Newt and Cain never lead the fields. Keep up.

    Seriously, are you retired? Why do you leave comments in every thread? Do you not like to read books or partake in social conversation that doesn’t involve the use of a computer?

  • Anonymous

     Ah yes but alas you conveniently forget John Edwards and Anthony Twitter Head Weiner. Both very famous Democrats.

    And lets get to the point here i know what your thinking, and i agree.  If i was married to a woman as scary as Michelle Obama i would not dare be promiscuous either.

  • Anonymous

     Give up on MrPorkChops. It appears his only social activity is commenting on Mediaite. He has negative commentary in every thread topic, regardless of the content.

  • Anonymous

     I think it’s an economy problem and whoever was at the top would have issues.

    But you can continue to divide the country. It’s working great so far. Please don’t procreate. All you do is leave negativity in threads. Look at what you wrote above. Don’t ever talk about family values when you can’t even comment on a thread with a sense of dignity.

  • Anonymous

     Precisely. I just made a similar comment to Publius above. He was actually commenting on family values when he himself was using rude commentary.

    I merely laugh at the hypocrisy.

  • Anonymous

    No, he was talking about a “sticky situation” which was referred to as a tar baby.  Another phrase that cannot be used any more.  

  • Anonymous

     It is the first paragraph in Wikipedia, and there for the most prevalent use of the term.

  • Anonymous

    He wasn’t talking about the President.  He was talking about a situation which wasn’t going well.  Nothing to do with the President.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    “It’s okay to be an asshole to the president as long as you do it behind his back. Oh, and as long as he’s a Republican.”

  • Anonymous

    My question for Democrats is, why do they have skeletons running for office? Why doesn’t Pelosi want to retire? The Democratic Party is full of the oldest members. Why do they refuse to give up that power to spend it with family and friends?

    Did Spitzer have kids?

  • Anonymous

     Hey don’t cut the Democrat party short. They have the richest and proudest tradition of racism in the world (besides any Islamic nation)

    Republicans would have a hard time claiming racism with people like Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King in their party.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2QAWUIHIDMLFEDA2CJV2QIGY7A Aquarian

    Gingrich is the fourth person to LEAD the GOP field since the debate season began on May 26. By the Real Clear Politics Average, it’s been: Romney May 5 to August 23, Perry August 24 to Oct. 3, Romney again from Oct. 4 to Oct. 19, Cain from Oct. 20 to Nov. 11, a ten-day muddle and Gingrich from Nov. 21 to the presentRead more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/05/newt-runs-risky-course-with-donald/#ixzz1miFwA6S3

    Poll: Donald Trump Now Leads Republican Primary Field By Nine Points
    by Tommy Christopher | 2:16 pm, April 15th, 2011

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/poll-donald-trump-now-leads-republican-primary-field-by-nine-points/

  • Anonymous

    You must also think that unemployment figures are down too.

    HAHAHAHA

  • Anonymous

    Unlike you I can multitask

  • Anonymous

     .. wow! stay classy bagger. 

  • Anonymous

    Exactly. Crap on the Rep president year after year, but if you were to ever meet with him personally, be sure to be a complete lying, two-faced jackass. But I’m sure that would come naturally to Maher. 

  • Anonymous

     lmao.. yeah sure.

  • Anonymous

     Just like I don’t watch Bill Maher, I don’t watch Youtube clips from rude posters.

    There is nothing to Google.

  • Anonymous

    …wow! Stay ignorant you Occutard.

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=occutard

  • Anonymous

     @WCinWI2:disqus in other words you hate to be provided with facts…

  • Anonymous

    Wow. How civilized. The President would be so proud.

  • Anonymous

     They are trained to avoid facts… it wont matter.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2QAWUIHIDMLFEDA2CJV2QIGY7A Aquarian

    You were proven factually wrong with CITATION from Mediaite and Foxnews and then you deflect & defer to something elese most commonly known as:  “moving the goal post.”  LOLOLOL

  • Anonymous

    You must have just returned from the pub. you’re making sense.

  • Anonymous

     I believe they call that a Publius219. You know the scum after a nasty dump.

    Stay classy you Occutard

  • Anonymous

    So # of children = values? interesting logic there skippy.hows is 8, or 16 more family values than 2 or 3 or 4? how does that calculus work , please do tell..

  • Anonymous

     Watching Bill Maher is watching abuse to my mental senses.

    Not only is he unattractive, but he’s rude. Why would I want to pay to ever watch someone like Maher? That’s just financially dumb.

  • Anonymous

     Anyone that guides themselves with polls that change day to day is just not living in the real world.

    The only polling that matters is on election day. Keep up.

  • Anonymous

    Yea I remember all of that. And now that I think about it they have been kind of easy on Obama compared to Bill lol. Those was some crazy political days. Man those Clintons were tough with that stuff.

  • Anonymous

    Please do tell how what you typed had anything to do with what FMCDH typed? I fail to see the logic because the context is not the same.

    Obama’s a good family man. Mitt’s a good family man. Santorum’s a good family man. Period.

  • Anonymous

    Maher never did it to his face.

  • Anonymous

    Yes it was the Democrats who asked President Bush for his long form birth certificate and called him a Kenyan muslim marxist anti-christ non christian African illegal

    All presidents get their fare share of negative remarks from each political party but the right has clearly went to the Extreme right which is the reason why Fox News is clearly trying to lean more towards the center. They know that the majority of the public is turned off by the extreme right wing of the party.

    Sending investigators to look for a sitting presidents birth certificate? come on.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2QAWUIHIDMLFEDA2CJV2QIGY7A Aquarian

    @From_MyCold_Dead_Republicans would have a hard time claiming racism with people like Abraham Lincoln and  “NOT” Martin Luther King Jr.

    In “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” which was published after his death from his written material and records, King called the Republican national convention that nominated Goldwater a “frenzied wedding … of the KKK and the radical right.”

    “The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction and extremism,” King said in the book.

    In a statement released through the King Center, Martin Luther King III said, “It is disingenuous to imply that my father was a Republican. He never endorsed any presidential candidate, and there is certainly no evidence that he ever even voted for a Republican. It is even more outrageous to suggest that he would support the Republican Party of today, which has spent so much time and effort trying to suppress African-American votes in Florida and many other states.”
    http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2008/07/05/kingrepublicans.html

  • Anonymous

     Obama has been treated with kid gloves. That’s why I find your commentary so funny and misguided.

  • Anonymous

    You are a blithering idiot, what does having kids and grandkids have to do with family values? Just because you,re party feels contreseption is a horrible sin does not mean they automaticly are shining examples of family values, it simply makes them baby factories.

  • Anonymous

    “I fail to see the logic”

    Most republicans do. Don’t feel bad.

  • Anonymous

     Well you see along time ago there was this terrorist named bill who attacked the pentagon with his fellow occutards. But bill never apologized or was properly punished for his treasonous acts against his country. And then a fellow traveler named Muhammad Obama moved next door to this occutard and they became best friends. little billy and Muhammad would sit for days together talking about how much they hated the country and what all they should do to destroy it. Then little billy came and told Muhammad he should run for president and that way, it would be easier for them to destroy the country. So Muhammad Obama quit praying to mecca five times a day and claimed he was a Christian. And decided to run for office and won by beating the evil Hilldog in a primary. He then went on to win the office primarily because people like Samuel Jackson vote based solely on race. Finally Muhammad Obama and Little Billy were happy and set out to destroy the country by a huge debt, weaken the military, divide the county by race, income and religion. But fortunately  for the country they had some more elections in 2010 and through a good # of the Occutards out of office and will finish the job in 2012 with a complete majority. And this made Little Billy and Muhammad Obama very sad. THE END  

    I hope this answered all your questions.

  • Anonymous

    You fail to see your own hypocrisy.

     

  • Anonymous

    Hey stay classy you Occutard.

  • Anonymous

     Yet, here you are, responding to Republicans.

    Odd. Logic fail Chops.

  • Anonymous

     Family values to me means that you can spell.

    Don’t call someone an idiot when you yourself fit the bill. Code to live by.

  • Anonymous

     Yes, your commentary is rude. Don’t question it.

    It’s plastered all over this site.

  • Anonymous

    pot meet kettle.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve seen numerous interviews of George Bush where the interviewer was hostile and insulting.  As usual Maher is full of crap.  Even if he was telling the truth he’d still be wrong by not also mentioning Obama has the benefit of no other president of being on the cover of just about every kind of magazine from fashion to news to sports.  If he were to get a pimple the New Yorker would have a feature on what kind of pimple cream he prefers. 

  • Anonymous

    Awwwww, you’re talking to a Republican. How sweet.

  • Anonymous

    Of course not! Maher has always struck me as a guy who is just fine with trashing pretty much anyone as long as he doesn’t have to come face to face with them. I remember watching a video of Pres. Clinton in the midst of the Lewinsky debacle, handing out diplomas at the Univ. of Illinois, and about every other young grad—a lot of young women particularly—would not shake his hand after receiving their diplomas from the President. Youthful hubris? Going apeshit? Maybe a bit of both, but at least they had the courage to express their truthful distate for the President—to his face. And I would have done the same. That’s while the likes of Maher would have offered to kiss his sorry ass.

  • Anonymous

    There is no hypocrisy to see.

    Continue responding to me. You are supporting The Man.

  • Anonymous

    Dont believe I was talking to you but thanks for you,re meaningless 2 cents

  • expatpatriot

    Bald-faced lie.

    Bush was never interviewed by major media with half the disrespect that O’Reilly showed. Certainly Bush faced hostile crowds — every president has, and Bush deserved it more than most — but that is not even remotely the same thing.

    And the fact that sensible people happen to like and respect the guy does not validate the wingnutariat’s seething resentment. It just shows how far out of the mainstream you haters are.

  • Carl Emmoth

    What do you think is so confusing?

  • expatpatriot

    Yes, if by “kid gloves” you mean “occasional civility.”

  • Anonymous

     Don’t always agree with Maher, but you gotta give it to the guy. It’s been really nasty these days. That Joe Wilson comment will go down in history. Almost like challenging John Adams to a duel on the floor of Congress.

    If we don’t learn how to “agree to disagree” in this country, the presidency will be disrespected by anyone. Probably have a random foreigner throw a pie at a future president, like they did to Bill Gates in Brussels.

  • Anonymous

    We’ve already had shoes thrown at Pres. Bush’s head, that was quite awhile ago. Which is completely ingored by the Obama whiners.

  • Anonymous

    Not to mention that he had to be 10x better than the other candidates just to be noticed and 20x better to make it to the WH

    It’s not disrespect nor is it racism, it’s the us of a.

    Not saying don’t feel sorry for the president but consider what we’ve witnessed him going through a glimpse and a window into a ‘polite’ and a classed-up version of what black people & other minorities go through on a day to day basis – emphasizing ‘glimpse’ considering not all black people have secret service protection… or just equal protection under the law

  • Anonymous

    oh conservative whiners.

    here’s a pro tip.  if you don’t like being called out for your racism

    try being less racist. 

    kthnx

    sincerely

    Real Americans.

  • Anonymous

    you’re dumber than a bag of hammers

    that was from an Iraqi who was pissed off that conservatives illegally invaded their country.

  • Anonymous

    A one term senator who routinely didn’t vote one way or the other on legislation, who hasn’t held a private sector job in his life as far as I know, who won’t release ANYTHING about his college years, who has received constant fawning coverage from the MSM ever since his speech at the ’04 Dem convention—-as well as a Nobel Peace Prize before he’d ever done anything as president etc. etc.—-this is what you think is being 10x better just to be noticed? You cannot be serious.

  • Anonymous

     conservative whiners are funny.  “WAHHHH!!!! THEY TREATED BUSH BAD!!!”

    ok.  when we said that george w. bush lied to get us into a war, he tortured people, let new orleans drown, pushed through tax cuts that exploded the deficit and didn’t create a single job, and left the country in tatters.  we weren’t making that up.  thats historical fact

    when conservatives claim that obama is a socialist muslim atheist communist without a birth certificate who had ACORN and the new black panther party steal the election for him.  now, that’s not truth, you are making sh1t up.

    thats the difference between conservatives and real americans.  real americans don’t have to lie.

    only conservatives do.

  • Anonymous

    I’m well aware of the context, but no matter your take on invading Iraq, don’t you think it was a tad disrespectful of a sitting POTUS? Any outrage from you over that? I thought not. I’ll presume you supported the Iraqi throwing shoes at our President.

  • Anonymous

    I guess I must be a “real american”, because I don’t believe any of the lies you’ve listed above. I think Obama has been treated better, particularly by the MSM, than any crappy president in history. Any comment on how in the hell a newly elected POTUS got a Nobel Prize for doing absolutely nothing to deserve it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Oreilly certainly didnt disrespect him. The governor of arizona is fighting hard on the immigration front and Obama is totally screwing her, she had no choice but to catch him at the airport.

    And Obama is a socialist to his core which, if he is reelected the democrats who arent socialists will find out the hard way.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Its hard to “agree to disagree” character assasinations are the presidents stock in trade.

    See the recent expose on Media Matters. These people attack in the vilest ways possible ANYONE who disagrees with the president. Labeling them racist is just step A. They use fake video, fake audio and well guess what. They have been totally exposed and it turns out they get their attack orders every week or two directly from Valerie Jarret.

    So if you can fiure out a way for a conservative politician to disagree with the president and not be villified by his attack dogs at media matters/msnbc we could get back to rational dicourse.

  • Anonymous

     ” Maher patiently acknowledged the numerous insults he threw at George W. Bush, but insisted
    upon the difference between someone like him or Sean Hannity attacking a sitting president and someone scolding him to his face.”

    Only a liberal could say it is more respectful to talk behind someone’s back then to their face. That’s what cowards do. Has anyone ever heard someone say they would rather someone talk behind their back then to their face ?

    Ridiculous.

    I mean does Maher really think it was the classy thing to do when Harry Reid called Bush a loser in front of high school kids ?

    ” Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid called President Bush “a loser” during a civics discussion with a group of teenagers at a high school on Friday.

    “The man’s father is a wonderful human being,” Reid, D-Nev., told students at Del Sol High School when asked about the president’s policies. “I think this guy is a loser.”
    http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-693713.html

  • Anonymous

    Called out for “my” racism? Is that meant personally? If so, you’re guilty of a logical flaw in thinking called “guilt by association”. I’m far from a racist, and I’d say most citizens in this country Dem or Rep, could not fairly be labeled a racist. Interesting how people such as yourself seem so eager to throw around such a term. Why do you so generally see racism? Could it be possible that projecting a bit? Just wondering. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Hate and Rage to a new level? Obamas attack dogs practice character assasination every single day. Mahers entire premise is false. Look what they did to poor Sarah Palin, that was Obamas folks at media matters, a VERY good job they did too. And yes the far right REALLY dislikes Obama but there is a LOT of valid criticism for jus about everything he touches. I almost forgot how bad the lies and damm lies aout the tea party. That is ALL he presidents doing, or at the VERY LAST Valerie Jarrets doing, you know his chief of staff that tells media matters/MSNBC who to call racist every week.

  • huffnnoccupyn

    The big difference in the treatment of Bush and Obama is that because Bush is from Texas, the broad stereotype is that he wouldn’t be too bright or articulate. The media would give Bush many opportunities to prove that is not true, but he couldn’t do it. Because he couldn’t rise above the stereotype, conservatives complained that those opportunities were humiliating set-ups and disrespectful.

    So, in the conservative mind, Bush must be avenged. The stereotype of an American black man, to a conservative, is angry. The conservatives have said and done everything it possibly can to make Obama show anger in public in order to peg him as the angry black man of whom everyone should be afraid.

    But they just can’t do it. As much as they try, and as much as the conservatives up the ante and elevate their game to try to get Obama really angry, he’s just too cool.

    That’s why he will win 2012.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Again, I repeat that the presidents attak dogs are out in force every single day. And there is NOTHING they wont stoop to, no lie too heinous to repeat. Maher chose a stupid time to say this. Both the complete discreditin of Media Matters and the concrete evidence of its ties to the administration are out there and not going away. I cant believe Im even responding to you, usually you are one of the vilest hate spewers on this whole site.

  • Anonymous

    1. ” who won’t release ANYTHING about his college years”

    What president in history released anything about their college years? Bush’s transcripts were leaked.

    2. “who hasn’t held a private sector job in his life as far as I know”

    There are other presidents who never had a private sector job. This is irrelevant, besides President Obama was a lecturer at The University of Chicago Law School, sounds like a private job to me.

    3. ” being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize before he’d ever done anything as president”

    You don’t have to be a president to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

    4. “A one term senator who routinely didn’t vote one way or the other on legislation”?

     President Obama was elected and served eight years in the Illinois state Senate. Unlike the you know who that quit half way though in their 1st term.

    Obama was able to get campaign finance reform and crime legislation enacted even when his party was in the minority, and after 2002, when the Democrats won control of the Senate, he became a leading legislator on a wide range of issues, passing nearly 300 bills aimed at helping children, old people, labor unions, and the poor.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Well the other factor to consider is whether the citicism is valid. The president is responsible for a great many outright SMEARS of many, many people. Outright lies, doctored video tape, accusations of racism. His dogs even suggested that Sarah Palin was responsible for Giffords being shot. How would you like toturn on the TV to see fake video tape that suggests your a child molestor? Yes FOX is critical of the president almost every single day, but then the president does something to be critical about almost every single day.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    I really dont think his race has anything to do with the criticism he gets on TV, its a combination of his policies and the overall sleazy way he treats people who dont agee with him.

    At least the media people, there are all kinds of internet trolls that make it an issue, but that goes without saying.

  • Anonymous

    Are you comparing an Iraqi citizen throwing his shoes at President Bush to actual Americans citizens disrespecting President Obama by calling him a Muslim Marxist Illegal Kenyan?

    Do you support that?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    If he said that, I would say over the line. But you should show a source andmaybe some context because, well. We know liberals lie about these things.

  • Anonymous

    How is Obama totally screwing her?

    BTW… Jesus was also a socialist…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    And besides the trolls on the internet who is attacking the first lady?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Wow, this is crazy, we are all being slightly civil, not one mention of KKK yet…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Sure they did, Trump was frst, then Cain who by the way wasattacked viciously by Obamas dogs. And then Newt with some Perry thrown in.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Well he refuses to help her with illegal immigration, and whenever she comes up with a plan to fight it herself the feds sue her. And BTW its pretty obvious to everyone who pays attention that its a total political ploy to get out the illegal vote on election day.

    Screw Jesus. Socialism stinks, I hope you never learn that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Now youre lying, Oreilly wasnt disrespectful in any way to the president.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Come on now, the presidents dogs are digging through reporters garbage hoping to find dirt, and when they cant they make it up.

  • Anonymous

    So she resorted to pointing her finger in the Presidents face? Because she wanted help?

    Obama wanted help from congress but I don’t remember him pointing his finger in anyone’s face.

  • Anonymous

    Where is all the fake material that MMFA use? You guys are so full of it.

  • Anonymous

    I’m very happy that Maher is bothered by the treatment of Brick OBAMO.

    As with all leftist Media Hacks who fattened themselves with champagne and caviar after having pushed ‘Their Boy’ into the White House, the past 3+ years have been miserable for them. OBAMO’s failure is a direct reflection on them. They sold this big-eared cigarette-smoker on us.

    So, I hope people keep taking a baseball bat to Brick OBAMO so Leftists like Maher get angrier. As we move toward November, many of them will ‘go postal’ and happily thin the herd.

  • Anonymous

    Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.

    I know its hard for republicans to connect with that but. Its true.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Its all fake and everyone knows it now. And everyone knows the white house is in charge of it. And everyone knows Obama gave them money. A beautiful 3 part expose. Thank you daily caller.

  • Anonymous

    O’Reilly was very disrespectful, O’Reilly interrupted the President a total 22 times in a 15 minute interview.  Many times O’Reilly did not interrupt to ask another question, but instead to insert a statement of his own.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Are you sure or is that just what Al Sharpton said that he said? Al Sharpton, calling good people racists for a living. I think thats a pretty fukked up way to make a living myself.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Everyone needs a hobby, but nobody who actually works at FOX has every said anything like that about her. I am often surprised at the hate she gathers, but mostly its just the ACTUAL racist trolls.

    On a side note Im pretty disgusted the government is hiring people at union wages to inspect the lunch boxes of 4 year olds…

  • Anonymous

    O’Reilly does that in every interview, and it is annoying. It wasn’t directed personally at the President. Get a clue.

  • Anonymous

    “What president in history released anything about their college years? Bush’s transcripts were leaked.” 

    Leaked or not, it would be nice to know something/anything of young Mr. Obama’s grades—or if he even attended class. Hey, we know all about Hillary’s college thesis, even some about Michelle’s. But I have no idea of Pres. Obama’s college thesis, as it were, in college. NONE. If you have some info on that, it would be much appreciated. 

    “There are other presidents who never had a private sector job. This is irrelevant, besides President Obama was a lecturer at The University of Chicago Law School, sounds like a private job to me.” 

    Name one president who has never worked a private job. I’ll stand corrected if you can name one, with evidence. U of C law school is primarily publically funded I believe. No matter, the guy was just a lecturer, not even a tenured professor.

    “You don’t have to be a president to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” You figured that out? That wasn’t my point. Obama was getting world wide recognition for doing nothing, as opposed to having to be “10x better” than other candidates.

    “Obama was able to get campaign finance reform and crime legislation enacted even when his party was in the minority, and after 2002, when the Democrats won control of the Senate, he became a leading legislator on a wide range of issues, passing nearly 300 bills aimed at helping children, old people, labor unions, and the poor.” So what? There have been a zillion other anonymous senators who have done plenty more than Obama—statewide and nationally. Any of them on your radar? Somehow I have my doubts. But I suppose you’re earning a paycheck on Mediaite, and perhaps elsewhere. Have fun being a shameless propagandist. You bore me.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s Maher’s ‘dog-whistle:’

    “Only DIS Presi-det has been treated unfairly. Only DIS one.”

  • Anonymous

    Porky–

    “Are you comparing an Iraqi citizen throwing his shoes at President Bush to comparing actual Americans citizens disrespecting President Obama by calling him a Muslim Marxist Illegal Kenyan?

    Do you support that?” 

    BorntoSynthesize–  

    I don’t support either one, but I did support Bush’s policy in Iraq, and even if I didn’t support it, it was a high insult for that idiot to throw his shoes at my President. I would have been just as insulted if it had been Obama. Capish? If you’re going to whine about Obama’s treatment in this country, how’s about the same outrage when a person from another country throws his shoes at our President’s his head.

    I won’t hold breath.

  • Anonymous

    How do you know Jesus was a socialist? Are you serious?? The term wasn’t even understood. You may infer that he was a “socialist”, but there’s no way you could be certain about that. Jesus preached charity to all, as I understand, but I sincerely doubt he endorsed government enforcement of such.

  • Anonymous

    Yasser Arafat was also awarded the Nobel “Peace” prize.  They were both given the award because as it has been said by members of the committee that Obama and Arafat both support the elimination of Israel.

  • Anonymous

    Little Willie is further proof that Obama’s supporters are black racists and guilt ridden white people.

  • expatpatriot

    Other than continuously interrupting him and implying that he was being disigenuous and had to be dragged back to O’Reilly’s talking points.

    Had the conversation been across a conference table at a business meeting between equals, O’Reilly would have been shown the door in two minutes.

    Obama is 1) more gracious than that and 2) realizes that such obnoxious overreaching by jerks like O’Reilly actually plays into Obama’s hand.

  • FormerlyLib

    O’Reilly had 15 minutes to interview the president. Obama has a four to five minute rehearsed answer to each and every question that might come up whether relevant or not. If BOR hadn’t interrupted, he may have gotten in three questions. Most of the sycophant leftist media just let the president ramble on for minutes on end or ask adoring, fawning questions. What a crock!

  • Anonymous

    So did Bush, so did Clinton. Both did far more than Obama. Get some help Porky, you have an evidently unhealthy fixation on a person who deserves no such undivided loyalty.

  • expatpatriot

    OK, so O’Reilly is an asshole across the board, which I think we already knew. Doesn’t alter the fact that he was insulting and unprofessional in a way that no interviewer of Bush ever was.

  • T.Gloves Donahue

    I see. Say what you want about a good and decent man if he’s a Republican.

    But, watch what you say about a jugeared jackass if he’s a Dem.

  • Anonymous

    Giving him yhe peace prize was the biggest joke ever. So much so that the committee is under investigation. The committee is a laughing stalk.

    The level of disrespect for W was far worse than what is being dished to the one. Obama needs to show respect in order to get respect and he has not done that.

  • T.Gloves Donahue

    As arrogant as The Barry is, if his grades were any good at all, the Dems would have them up on billboards in every state.

    They damn sure wouldn’t be sealed.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget…..it’s the “tolerant” liberals saying that.  lol  What a group of hateful people they are.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Thanks for asking. We all know that, historically speaking, a national currency cannot purport to be an international currency unless there is an excess of exports in that nation thus underwriting the structural adjustments of other nations. If we were to export Rush to China could that be possibly leveraged to assist in the Greek debacle?

  • http://mcstumpy.myopenid.com/ Stumpy McGrumpy

    Pretty clear that you haven’t read all the details of that story.

    http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2012/02/15/a-north-carolina-non-troversy/

  • Anonymous

    It’s the perfect example of the Maher bubble paradigm. They cannot distinguish between opinion and fact. It’s a mental and education issue. Poor souls. 

  • Anonymous

     Thanks for the laugh.

  • Anonymous

     You’ll have to ask the people who vote on it. I suspect it was more of a hope and encouragement after 8 years of Bush and 2 wars.

  • Anonymous

     The problem is she did an about face IMO just to appeal to conservatives.

  • http://mcstumpy.myopenid.com/ Stumpy McGrumpy

    About half the commenters in these threads, regardless of affiliation, are somewhat mean-spirited. Of course there are nasty liberals, but there are plenty of nasty conservatives, too. One of the typical political strategies today is to find an example of someone from the other side saying something mean and ridiculous, and then applying it to the entire opposition; comment boards such as this one provide plenty of fodder for tarring everyone with the same brush. Many of my close friends and family are politically conservative, and we have interesting and helpful discussions about issues; I wish everyone could debate respectfully, because it really does help, but the political parties work hard to make people hate each other, and commenters on websites have learned by watching them.

  • Anonymous

    sadly maher is correct how the conservatives treat the president.When they lost the election their hatred was on steriods, comming to rallies with guns, the racist signs threats on his life escalated. in my lifetime i never seen a president treated the way he has been. though i did not like gw i dids not respect the office. people seem to forget he’s the president of all the people not some. the disrespect is apparent due to many sterotype AAs & believe he should not be in the “white House” or write any laws. he’s been called everything he’s not. his birth was questioned by trump & the birthers. if they hate him & he holds the highest office i wonder how do they feel about me. 

  • Anonymous

    Mmmm Porky!…strengthened International Diplomacy….By increasing troop levels and upping the ante in Afghanistan, Increasing Drone Attacks, keeping Guantanamo open, Supporting the Patriot Act….I know its hard for Blind Democrats to connect with that but Porks!, its True!

  • Anonymous

     I doubt Jesus cared about the official title or form of government but his attitude of the haves being obligated to help the have nots is pretty socialists. The early Christians lived a communal lifestyle where all things goods were shared in common.
    I don’t think Jesus would mind or care how it was organized or run, government or private, as long as the intent was to offer aide to those that need it. If we need government programs it’s at least in part because those who profess to follow Jesus {the majority in thisd country} aren’t getting the job done.

  • Anonymous

    Yo! PorkButt…You  knew Jesus?

  • Anonymous

    I read this crap up above me and is the exact reason I’m not a democrat anymore and have switched to independent. Liberals have become completely blind to their hate and now are just bad as the republicans they hate.

  • Anonymous

     were? What are you now?

  • Anonymous

    Did you know that too much Pork is bad for you!

  • Anonymous

     Please don’t try to defend or rationalize Tarbaby. It’s a racist insult plain and simple.
    I think it’s a mistake for people to cry racism when Obama is heavily critisized. Poltics is a rough game.  I do think there was some racist response to our first black president. Hell the Tea Party nominated a guy in NYC who was forwarding racist emails about the president. Some poltician was sending a photo of watermelons on the front lawn of the WH. Blatent racism like that deserves to be called out and should not be excused.

  • Anonymous

    Maher, when conservatives start marching in the streets with signs of Obama in a  noose, with a bullet hole in his forehead, with his head in a guillotine, or with sign calling him a disease and death the cure or I’m here to kill Obama, give me a call.

      http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621

  • Anonymous

    This from a guy with his head up Obama’s butt.

  • Anonymous

     His wife is a BBW and fat.

  • Anonymous

     Yeah, like the respect you afforded Bush?

    http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621

    You are so funny and quite ignorant.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe it’s me, but shouldn’t you not say anything about a person unless you would also say it to their face?  If it’s disrespectful to call the President of the United States a bad person – shouldn’t  you just not say it whether he’s in the room or not?  How is it noble to say, “Yes.  I said hateful things about President Bush…but never when he was around me to hear it.”  Makes you a weasel, no?

    I was brought up to not say something behind someone’s back that you wouldn’t say to their face.  Only in our current society is it considered better to talk trash from behind a TV camera than to the person who you’re out to trash.  It would be better if we could all treat each other nicer.  But if that can’t happen, you should make sure the nasty things you say would be suitable to say to the person themselves.  If not, don’t say them at all.

  • Anonymous

    Sigh, now tolerance and compassion are understood by liberals to be, “Yes, say the President likes to have sex with animals, just don’t say it when he’s actually in the room.”

    I wouldn’t mind liberals thinking they were better than the rest of us, if they actually were.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, but putting record # of people into foreclosure, into poverty, on food-stamps and adding record debt after saying adding Bush’s $4 trillion in 8 years showed a lack of leadership and was unpatriotic, and Obama has added more in 3 years than Bush did in 8.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuTG19Cu_Q

  • Anonymous

     Yeah, putting record # of people into foreclosure, into poverty, on
    food-stamps and adding record debt after saying  doing so showed a lack
    of leadership and was unpatriotic.

  • Anonymous

     You are a tar baby.

  • Anonymous

     He was talking about a situation but it’s not true to say that it had nothing to do with the president.
    On a raido show he said,

    “Even if some people say, ‘Well, the Republicans should have done this
    or they should have done that,’ they will hold the president
    responsible. Now, I don’t even want to have to be associated with him.
    It’s like touching a tar baby and you get it, you’re stuck, and you’re a
    part of the problem now and you can’t get away.”

    associated with him, is like touching a tar baby? How does that have nothing to do with the president.

  • Anonymous

     But PorkChop face, you left out when Rick Perry talked about that “big black cloud of debt” which obviously was a reference to Obama, right?

    Hahaha

  • Anonymous

    I don’t agree with Bill on this. Insulting a president on TV is not more resepctful than shouting You Lie.

  • Anonymous

    Co-opting the replies of others means you have a Cold_Dead_Brain.

  • Anonymous

    Are you a conservative whiner?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Well come on, slandering good decent republicans pays a lot better…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Got any examples?

  • Anonymous

    Wow and I had not even read the bs story before you cited it – you are just going to believe and repeat every bogus right wing baloney story they shove down your throat arent you.  I have a suggestion – turn off Rush and stop watching FOX.  

    Watch House or some other fictional drama that at least has artistic value not the fictional ‘news’ you seem to be addicted to …

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    well I dont live in Arizona, but I heard they have a problem and Obama INSISTS that its his responsibility to fix not hers

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Yea, Bill, it’s much better to call the POTUS vile names on TV *behind his back*… 

    And Democrats and Liberals never disrespected Bush… ? 

    Dems boo Bush at Obama inauguration, chant hey hey goodbye.

    Dems Boo Bush at SOTU 2005

    Reid Calls Bush a Liar and a loser

    Guy Calls George Bush Senior “Murderous, Zionist Piece Of Shit” To His Face

    Obama called Bush unpatriotic, Pelosi called him an utter failure. Liberals blamed him for 9/11, even saying he was behind it. Olbermann wailed nightly about what a fascist Bush is. Some of that *behind his back* some of it, not.

    Maher called Bush President Shit for Brains, a gruesome boob, a rube, dolt, vain half-wit and a Gilligan who cannot find his ass. Called for Bush’s impeachment, accused him of treason, and he should be tried for war crimes. He called him a redneck idiot.

    And it’s not just the POTUS, but Conservative members of Congress, and Governors. Maher has called them retarded, idiot, MILF, dumb twat, c*nt, boob, bimbo, pathetic, really stupid, said that Palin would f*ck Gov. Perry, “If only [Perry] was black, I’d fµck him” and about Brewer, “It’s very hard not to be condescending when you’re explaining something to an idiot.” 

    If Maher wants to lament about incivility, he need only look in the mirror. Republicans have listened to him and Democrats and Liberals, for a decade, HATE on Bush, Cheney (wishing for him dead) and Conservatives. 

    He, Liberals, the media like the tools on MSNBC, and Democrats created the toxic environment during the Bush years, and it continues today. No one is to blame for the lack of incivility that we see now, better than those who created that environment during the Bush years. People are fed up, and not going to take any more. And he is wrong that no one ever disrespected President Bush to his face. 

    They can try and blame it on racism, but they are wrong. 
    Own it, Maher.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Would you like to see tape of the school officials in question responding to the story? Maybe you should try watching the real news once in a while so you dont sound like such a pathetic retard.

  • Anonymous

     Why does it always have to be about some group being better than another? What is wrong with honest disagreement? The right constantly has to demonize those who are not in lockstep with their ideology. This country can go nowhere if we cannot respect each others views and have discussions without hostility.

  • Anonymous

     Why is it always about hate?

  • Anonymous

    President Bush’s Nationality and Birth were never questioned. Neither was his wife made fun of.

    No one called him “Obamawo” or “Messiah” Or made him show his Birth Certificate. both forms.

  • Anonymous

    the original comment, implied that Romney and Santorum, had “more”family values, due to their having more # of children. The person who had wrote it, now changed it. But we agree on this one point , I do believe Obama, Mitt and Santorum, are all good family men. Different priorities? Yes, but they all share that in common! 

  • Anonymous

     what is your point?

  • Anonymous

    why not stop being the spelling police, and start paying more attention to the stupidity you type. Because. it might be spelled correctly, but dam! It’s stupid! 

  • Anonymous

     You’re so right. It couldn’t possibly be that we see the good in this man, that we honestly believe he has the right ideals and goals for this country. Let’s reduce every complex issue down to simple us vs. them, because then we don’t actually have to think or use reason. Let’s base our conclusions on hate, and racism and sound bites. I am sickened by the hateful rhetoric in this country since the president took office. The right is an embarrassment, at least own it, admit your prejudice. Stop pretending you hate him because he wasn’t born here, or he didn’t get good enough grades at Harvard, or he’s a socialist. The rest of the world is smart enough to see through you. Every one of you that posts such nasty hateful comments on the president here, do you really think your comments are helpful? Do you really care about this country, or are you more concerned with childish name calling and saying, “nah-nah, I told you so”? I suggest each and every one of you GROW UP. Your comments show your ignorance, your small-mindedness, your prejudice, and your choice of self-interest over what’s best for your country. You should be ashamed of your comments and how they drag down the discourse. Yes, you have the right to your opinion, but really, what is the point of such nastiness?

  • Anonymous

    right because I am so sure that’s what he was referring too! your such a tool! jesus freaking christ!  that you would even try and justify that with such a stupid statement, just proves your nothing both a redneck, hillbilly, bible thumping, gun toting, hater, hiding behind a computer screen , crying like a little bitach because he is soon to be the minority in his country! and he doesn’t have the balls to do anything about it, expect cry like a baby girl. Boo hoo! Get over it freak and go have sex with your cousin or something.

  • Anonymous

    What did they make up? provide me with a link.

  • Anonymous

     They were conservatives… lmao.

  • Anonymous

     So you are mad at Obama for not fixing Bush’s mess fast enough?

    The economy is improving, even Mitt Romney admitted to it.

  • Anonymous

    seriously, don’t even bother trying to reason with these, backwoods Billy Bob’s it is pointless, how can you argue with people who dislike education, and universities,yet are dumb as a bag of rocks, who are poor, yet fight for the rich, who are gay, yet fight against gay rights, who are , who’s farms and towns are being destroyed by weather and fracking and still fight against environmentalist! There is no getting through,they are just DUMB and refuse to be educated. So, I recommend just toying with their minds, its really easy! And fun

  • Anonymous

    Hurray! You just won the argument!

  • Anonymous

    you conveniently  left out the last part of the definition, typical. selective editing huh? here I’ll help you out: 
    Although the term’s provenance rests in African folklore (i.e., the gum doll Anansi created to trap Mmoatia, the dwarf), some Americans consider “tar baby” to be a pejorative term for African Americans.[7] The Oxford English Dictionary defines “tar baby” in its original sense — and as “a derogatory term for a black person (U.S.) or a Maori (N.Z.)

    DOH! 

  • Anonymous

    yeah because people use that phrase so much nowadays, it is such a loss to the English language!

    How about redneck? or hillbilly? or gringo? or better yet a cracker? 

    I mean cracker just means person that cracks the whip right? or a saltine,  I’m not being racist If I call you cracker right, cracker? 

    I am just calling you a saltine..

     

  • Anonymous

    so whats your point? are you saying that if some dude off the street says “yo tar baby come here”  that you are going to be cool with that?because your grandmother read you the story? 

  • huffnnoccupyn

     “Maher called Bush President Shit for Brains, a gruesome boob, a rube,
    dolt, vain half-wit and a Gilligan who cannot find his ass.”

    At least the left didn’t create a cottage industry around trying to convince people that, in fact, Bush’s brain was actually composed of fecal matter. The left didn’t send insane reporters to New Haven to sniff around for any evidence of a conspiracy to hide the truth of the composition of Bush’s brain.

    The left uses hyperbole and exaggeration. The right are DEAD SERIOUS.

  • Anonymous

    This behavior is the New Republican/Tea Party folks nothing more. Hmmmm anyone else think it may have something to do with the color of the current Presidents skin? America is in this mess because of the last President and his puppet masters. You who disagree are foolish to all the world.Please keep doing it for it insures the reelection of President Barack Obama.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Bingo.

  • Anonymous

     Bill Maher is a Comedian…. Rep Joe Wilson is a Col in the US Army reserves. 

    There is a big difference in that buddy.

  • Anonymous

    How many other Presidents had to show both forms of their birth certificate?

  • Anonymous

    Keep up.
    “The vetting process did not disclose what would become obvious afterward,” Schmidt said in the phone interview from his home in Lake Tahoe. “We had a person who fundamentally lacked the knowledge and basis — at a very, very deep level — to be a plausible commander in chief and to take the oath of office as president, should it become necessary.”

  • Anonymous

     you should read more.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg
  • Anonymous

    “The right constantly has to demonize those who are not in lockstep with their ideology.”

    You gotta be shittin me.
    Riddle me this, Leftman.
    What does a left winger call someone who dosen’t agree with Obamacare?
    Racist
    What does a left winger call someone who dosen’t agree with the Stimulus?
    Racist
    What does leftwinger call someone who who is against ILLEAGAL immigration?
    Racist
    What does a leftwinger call someone who belives in a balanced budget?
    Racist
    I can list about 10 more examples .
    Who uses the the common phrase of “racist” to demonise those who are not in lockstep with their ideology?
    Leftist!

  • Anonymous

     ”Pelosi called him an utter failure”

    Bush WAS an utter failure. The criticisms of Bush were based on the facts of his performance. Now the economy is improving and the right continues to deny it, what is that? Even Romney admits the economy is improving. No one questioned Bush’s education, demanding to see his transcripts, even though the man often spoke like an idiot (“Childrens do learn”). People made fun of him because of our frustration with his gross mishandling of everything. The right refuses to give President Obama credit for anything, even the death of bin Laden, which proves there is an unjust bias against him. If the right would admit racism at least we could respect you for being honest.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    they sent over 100 people to Alaska to dig for dirt on Palin. they went through her emails, questioned her college days, questioned if she was the mother of Trig, filed numerous bogus charges against her. They created an entire movement that she is an idiot. She’s not. They challenged McCain and a filed lawsuit on whether he was qualified to run, being born in the Panama Canal. They attacked his age, and health.

    And I would say that they did, in fact, create an industry, or at least utilize one currently in place, to convince people that Bush’s brain is composed with fecal matter. 

  • Anonymous

    Not true at all. For the country to “go [somewhere]“, all we need is a President  and legislature that can effectually institute policies that have a history of being successful. I don’t have to repect American leftism. I don’t, and it’s because I actually do try to understand it. Holding hands in utopia is not for this world. I will always promote non-violence and hope that in public, we can be civil. But the more I understand your side, the less I respect it. And if you feel that way about my side, I will disagree but I will understand it. As for “lockstepping”, show me a prominant liberal who cuts against the liberal dogma, even periodically on more than a single issue, and yet still maintains liberal respect and I’ll give you a cookie.
    My point was mostly about Maher. He is as vile as they come. Defend him or don’t. But, it’s gonna be a long Saturday for me, so leave me out of it. Cheers.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    so, it’s ok to call Bush names, to his face, and behind his back, because you disagree with his policies, and because he misspeaks? 

    But, if you do those things to Obama, it’s racism?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A74EJCCN62MXTMGTRP6KE4RCWM plls

    HAHAHAHAHA

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps you mean’t this for Royal who just referred to Sarah as a cracker.

  • Anonymous

    This is the new democrat party.  It has been taken over by the radicals.  The black racists and guilt ridden white people who have a deep hatred of America and hope for its failure.  It’s a shame that the word “liberal” which used to be honorable is now an embarrassment and people now even have to change their label to “progressive”.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A74EJCCN62MXTMGTRP6KE4RCWM plls

    The FOX Nation boards refer to his wife as a Silverback.  He’s called fat lipped and purple gummed.  Perhaps these terms imply something else nowadays.

  • Anonymous

     he’s sure doing a good job…

    I bet you feel safer today against terror attacks than under bush.

  • Anonymous

     You didn’t have to dig for dirt on Palin…. her own words were her enemy.

  • Anonymous

    The Pork Butt is feeding from the trough!

  • huffnnoccupyn

    “And I would say that they did, in fact, create an industry, or at least
    utilize one currently in place, to convince people that Bush’s brain is
    composed with fecal matter.

    Finally! A sense of humor revealed from a conservative!

  • Anonymous

    Bottom Line! Saint Bill,…..You can Dish it out, but You Really can’t take it!

  • huffnnoccupyn

    You’re going to have to define “to his face,” because I feel that it means something different to you than it does to the real world.

    “To his face” means standing in front of the president, in person, having his full attention.

    It does not mean his aides see it on television and write a memo to which the president has access.

  • Anonymous

     The comments about Bush and about President Obama are not equivalent. Let’s deal with specifics: Again, did anyone question Bush’s education? The posters showing President Obama as a savage with a bone through his nose aren’t racist? Why can’t the right acknowledge any of President Obama’s successes?

  • Anonymous

    Relax Sara….. Bill is a comedian. It was good to have a good laugh on Friday’s night with jokes about former President Bush. I even took a vacation day to watch on tv the inauguration of Predident Obama for 2 reasons: first, it was a historical USA event and second to see President Bush FINALLY leaving… But the jokes are still gooooddddd!!!! Every party needs a clown!

  • Anonymous

     People went to AK to research Sarah Palin because she was an unknown. The charges filed against Sarah Palin were by Alaskans, not liberals from the lower 48. Her emails were investigated because she attempted to hide them by forgoing the usual government email system. And the birth of Trig is still questioned because what mother of a special needs baby in active labor would fly from Texas to Alaska instead of going directly to the nearest hospital? C’mon, you have to admit that is very questionable. And that story is in her own words.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Again, did anyone question Bush’s education? – yes they did.

    The posters showing President Obama as a savage with a bone through his nose aren’t racist?  - 
    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mNAOq8ApgBA/SrP1GjWDDrI/AAAAAAAABGw/XBoTmwMqv5g/s400/bush_witch_doctor.jpg

    http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/8000/Witch-Doctor-8441.jpg 

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3506/3797552703_9dbdd22d38_b.jpg 

    Why can’t the right acknowledge any of President Obama’s successes? – they have. Why can’t Dems acknowledge any of Bush’s successes?

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    that’s not really the point of his comments, is it? and i am not only referring to Maher, am I?

  • Anonymous

     I guess you never heard of Blue Dog Democrats. And you can keep your cookie.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    tell that to the person the insults are directed. 

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    yet, they tried, didn’t they?

  • Anonymous

     That’s quite an open mind you have there. I guess you have it all figured out. So we just need to put the GOP back in charge and everything will just fine.

  • Anonymous

     ”Obama needs to show respect in order to get respect”

    Wow, I think you really outdid yourself on that one. I admit, I am speechless. You have sunk to depths of ignorance that I didn’t realize existed. You demonstrate a stunning lack of intelligence on so many levels.

  • huffnnoccupyn

     Is making a dictionary obsolete a conservative goal? A world where words only mean what each individual wants it to mean? And when dealing with another person, one must have that person’s dictionary on hand?

    That’s where we’re heading in this country when you respond with “tell him, not me. I don’t know how he defines ‘to his face.’ It could be like yours; it may not be. Compare dictionaries.”

  • OSTL

     how many other presidents paid millions to hide their past?

  • Anonymous

    He, Liberals, the media like the tools on MSNBC, and Democrats created the toxic environment during the Bush years, and it continues today. No one is to blame for the lack of incivility that we see now, better than those who created that environment during the Bush years. 

    Ouch….you must have suffered a horrible head injury around 2006 or so. You seem to have forgotten “Watch what they say….watch what they do…” coming from the Bush Administration. Or the Warrior in Chief landing on the aircraft carrier….to fawning coverage from Chris Matthews. Or the mushroom cloud warnings from Cheney. Or not supporting the war in Iraq meaning you don’t support the troops and are not a good American. Or the great Clinton c*ck hunt of the late 90′s.

    There has always been toxicity in politics. Divisiveness works. Trying to blame all the rancor we see now on liberals during the Bush Administration is just ridiculous. 

  • Anonymous

     Which extraordinary efforts? You can’t be serious.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    huh? I am saying that whether something vile and nasty is said on TV or to your face, it is still vile and nasty, and most likely hurtful. Maher’s excuse that he says vile things *behind Bush’s back* is idiotic.

    http://img.anongallery.org/img/0/2/if-you-cant-win-an-argument-correct-their-grammar-instead.jpg 

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    so, Left wing conspiracy theories and ugly tactics are justified?

  • Anonymous

    I’m a liberal and proud of it, especially after witnessing how the Republican party has been torn apart by the uneducated far right who believe they’re the only ones who are correct, but also seem unable to listen, or maybe just understand opposing points of view  The far right wing has nearly destroyed the Republican Party by tearing it apart with their unwavering point of views based on their religious beliefs, racial bias, and their uneducated and misinformed views.  I believe after the public having watched and witnessing the damage caused to our country by the freshman Tea Party Congressman during last years budget talks and raising of the depth ceiling, they Republican Party will feel it in November.

  • Anonymous

    Not a single name? Not one? It’s oatmeal raisinnnnnnnn.

  • Anonymous

    Neil, you’re a racist so who cares what you have to say? If you have a problem with our president, yore free to leave the country. Don’t let the door hit you in the @$$ on the way out, loser.

  • Anonymous

    They can…and do.

    Here’s an embedded clip from the Today Show reporting on Bush’s visit to Africa. Where he is wildly popular.

    http://www.usglc.org/2011/12/22/bush-family-visits-africa/

    P.S. Wasn’t it nice of Leftist Propaganda Factory NBC to hire a Bush daughter AND let her do a report on her family?

  • Anonymous

     I’m being sincere here, I would genuinely like to see examples of the right giving the president the credit he is due. I do not think it exists in the mainstream.

    You didn’t answer my question: do you think pictures of Obama with a bone through his nose are racist?

    I’m sorry, but Bush is deserving of all the criticism he gets. He took a billion dollar surplus and turned it into a trillion dollar deficit. He started two wars without even considering how to pay for them, not to mention the thousands of lives that were lost. He lied about WMDs. He was unprepared, irresponsible and almost entirely inept. The criticism Bush earned has nothing to do with the unjust attacks on Obama and his family. They have been compared to monkeys, there have been photoshopped pictures of the WH lawn with watermelons and the FLOTUS has been criticized for everything from her hair to her healthy eating programs. Did Laura Bush suffer this kind of criticism? You know she didn’t.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Nothing better demonstrates the Left wing honoring and acknowledging the accomplishments of President Bush like a report by his own daughter, a couple of years after he left office…

    Yet, ask your average Liberal what Bush did for AIDS in Africa and they will say, “nothing, he’s a racist”.

  • Anonymous

     During the 2000 campaign Bush’s team put out a rumor that McCain’s adopted daughter was actually a black child born out of wedlock. That’s right-on-right ugliness. And I’m sure you’re aware of the Swift boat attacks against John Kerry. So please do not suggest that conspiracy theories belong to the left. And I don’t even know why you’re bringing up conspiracy theories; everything I cited above is fact.

  • Anonymous

    I am a republican ashamed of my own party, very sorry for our idiots in the GOP they are abundant.

  • Anonymous

    I have never heard anybody ask for Bush’s college transcripts or birth certificate, and if you say they did they never were as loud as they are with Obama.  They also never disputed Bush’s qualifications to be President based on where he was born.  How many of the Republicans have denied that Obama’s is entirely responsible for the killing of Bin Laden.  How many past presidents have been told right after being sworn into office by the opposing party they planned to make him a “one term president”.  The examples go on and on how this president has been treated differently than any other president.

    As to the photo’s you provided in an effort to answer Laprofesora952, you didn’t provide any sources for the pictures to place the time period pictures were produced. For all we know these pictures could have been made while Obama has been in office and were made to counter the claims that no one ever made pictures of Bush being dressed as a medicine man.  I personally have never seen these photo’s, although that of course doesn’t mean they weren’t produced during Bush’s presidency.  You need to do this in order to back your point.

  • Anonymous

    I sadly agree

  • Anonymous

     So I have to do your homework for you?  Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C. Even though you only begged for one: Jason Altmire, Mike Ross, Joe Baca,, Baron Hill, Leonard Boswell. Now you can do something special with that cookie.

  • Anonymous

     I think I may have even been too kind. Note I wasn’t referring to ALL conservatives/Republicans, just those that think Obama isn’t an American, as poster I replied to had already specified.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll admit Bush messed up but he wasn’t unpatriotic.

  • Anonymous

    So you asked why Dems can’t acknowledge any of Bush’s successes and I just showed you where they did. You need more examples?

    How about the honor when he landed on the aircraft carrier? Do you remember that? 

    http://www.thenation.com/blog/160252/8th-anniversary-mission-accomplished-how-media-heavies-hailed-hero-bush

    There you go. Look at all of the nice thing the mainstream media had to say about him. 

  • Anonymous

     To your point above about Bush’s work in Africa and liberals: I’m an average liberal and I gratefully acknowledge his efforts on AIDS, so please don’t put words in my mouth or make things up.

  • Anonymous

    They tried to find information on the unvetted VP candidate. It just happened that what they found was a lot of dirt. It must take a lot of effort to keep making the left the bad guys. Can’t we agree that neither left or right is all good or all bad?

  • Anonymous

    Always loved that picture of the Boob President. I still can’t believe you Republicans inflicted that idiot upon the rest of the country  .. Your eternal shame.

  • Anonymous

    Now this is rich. You’re accusing the Democrats of being “lockstep”? 

    That’s a new one.

  • Anonymous

    These are prominant liberals? The entire progressive caucus find these people to be nothing but a headache. Pelosi and Frank and Conyers and Sanders and Schumer and all the rest complain about the “blue dogs” pretty nastily when they attemp to moderate the dems. Pretty sure those people get picked on by Maher and Moore and Uyger and Olbermann and the rest of the small cabal because they don’t, how did you put it? Lockstep.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    trying to blame all the rancor now, as you point out, existed before Obama was POTUS, on racism is just ridiculous. 

    I am pointing out the massive escalation and flat out vitriol, and hate that was spewed during the Bush years – literally from Election day to the inauguration of Obama.

  • mac691

    Nor did Bush announce that he “was the ONE we have been waiting for” nor that people would say that his inauguration was “when the seas rise began to ebb” nor did Bush’s followers blithely ignore the assault after assault on liberty so that the govt could be empowered.  And before you mention the Patriot Act, remember that was an act of Congress, not a unilateral usurping of power. Nor did Bush attempt to portray himself an a Messiah, as did Obama.

  • mac691

     You mean family values like voting to allow babies actually born in an abortion be left to die?  Those types of family values?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3GKFVYE4ERPTIPL3NJ3S7COQGY Doc P

    People (?) like you are the  worst threat to our nations future. Low-brow, misinformed, narrow-minded, simpletons such as yourself spew nonsense, cant figure anything out on your own, and further the propaganda on a daily basis.. Theres no point in debating a cretin like you, youll never admit your wrong, NEVER. Its beyond your comprehnsion AND ego. Heres hoping youll leave the country after PO is reelected. Or just die. Either works for me. 

  • Anonymous

     I believe that stems from the fact that many people believe SCOTUS elected Bush, not the people.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly
  • Anonymous

     So I give you examples below but they’re not good enough. You throw out the facts you don’t like. Convenient.

  • Anonymous

    Literally from Election day to Obama’s inauguration?

    Please. Bush had a 90% approval rating after 9/11. The highest ever. Where was all the “vitriol and hate” then? 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4E2QJVDSSMPWFVT7EZYQARK4H4 Jimmy

    Not all liberals are assholes but all liberals are assholes!

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    I have never heard anybody ask for Bush’s college transcripts or birth certificate, and if you say they did they never were as loud as they are with Obama.    http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/benedetto/2005-06-10-benedetto_x.htm
    They also never disputed Bush’s qualifications to be President based on where he was born.  -Because people knew where Bush was born….http://archive.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=248 How many of the Republicans have denied that Obama’s is entirely responsible for the killing of Bin Laden.  - Do you honestly believe that Obama is entirely responsible for killing OBL???How many past presidents have been told right after being sworn into office by the opposing party they planned to make him a “one term president”.  The examples go on and on how this president has been treated differently than any other president.http://archive.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=248  

  • Anonymous

     That really helps elevate the discourse. Are you proud of yourself?

  • Anonymous

    You bring up an excellent point.  Bush had sky high approval ratings after 9/11, his policies didn’t change, he still pushed for the Patriot act, had the same tax-cutting business growing economic policies, and his ratings were sky high.  After a decade of Iraq misbehaving and with the added dangers modern terrorism brought to the world he decided to go to war – and that one decision made people like you hate him so much he overnight went from one of the best Presidents ever to the worst – based on one decision that the majority of Democrats supported!    Sounds so very similar to how Sarah Palin had sky high approval ratings as Governor of Alaska, including by Democrats, until the day after she was announced as a VP candidate – then overnight she became the worst person in the world (according to obviously disconnected from reality liberals).

    Who really is the fool?

  • Anonymous

     I have to admit, that’s some fancy mental gymnastics there. It’s absolutely impossible that anyone on the right could be racist, so it must be the people who elected Barck Obama who are racist. Completely ridiculous but I have to give you an “A” for effort; that’s some twisted thinking.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    ah, so you’re saying people played dirty BEFORE Obama came into the picture? huh…

    Oh, so Alaska doesn’t have Liberals? 

    You can justify the attacks on Palin all you want. Doesn’t change the dirty facts of what they did.

  • Anonymous

    FU Pig Maher.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    What dirt did they find on Palin? 

    Can you explain why they didn’t descend on Chicago, and try to vet the unvetted Presidential Candidate, Obama?It must take a lot of effort to paint the attacks on Obama as something new, and blame it all on racism.. Oh wait, it doesn’t seem to take any effort at all, since it happens daily.Can we agree that it isn’t all racism from Conservatives, and that incivility happened long before Obama came into the picture? Can you admit that there was an enormous amount of incivility, even hate, directed at Republicans during the Bush years?

  • Anonymous

    Did you mean, “Not all assholes are liberals, but all liberals are assholes”?

    A for effort, though.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    There was also 70% support for the Iraq war, from Congress and from the public. 

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    are you forgetting about the “illegitimate President who “stole the election”? Literally from day one people questioned the validity of his Presidency.

    His numbers went up after 9/11. 

    More than half of Democrats, according to a neutral survey, said they believed Bush was complicit in the 9/11 terror attacks. 

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0411/More_than_half_of_Democrats_believed_Bush_knew.html

  • http://twitter.com/12barbluz Lightnin’ James

    Conservatives will never accept a non-white as President. This should surprise no one.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    “I think John [McCain] is trying to throw that big tar baby out there. You want to lose, you don’t want to win. Of course Barack Obama wants America to be successful.”

    http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/793189/

    Was John Kerry calling Obama a tar baby here? The references are the same.

    Tar Baby is a novel by Toni Morrison, first published in 1981. Explanation of the novel’s title from the Author” Tar Baby is also a name [...] that white people call black children, black girls, as I recall. At one time, a tar pit was a holy place, at least an important place, because tar was used to build things. It held together things like Moses’ little boat and the pyramids. For me, the tar baby came to mean the black woman who can hold things together.” 

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_Baby_(novel)

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    “I think John [McCain] is trying to throw that big tar baby out there. You want to lose, you don’t want to win. Of course Barack Obama wants America to be successful.”

    http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/793189/Was John Kerry calling Obama a tar baby here? The references are the same.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    long_drawn_knivesCollapse
    yeah because people use that phrase so much nowadays, it is such a loss to the English language!

    ***

    “I think John [McCain] is trying to throw that big tar baby out there. You want to lose, you don’t want to win. Of course Barack Obama wants America to be successful.”

    http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/793189/

    Was John Kerry calling Obama a tar baby here? The references are the same.

    Tar Baby is a novel by Toni Morrison, first published in 1981.
    Explanation of the novel’s title from the Author

    “Tar Baby is also a name [...] that white people call black children, black girls, as I recall. 
    At one time, a tar pit was a holy place, at least an important place, because tar was used to build things. It held together things like Moses’ little boat and the pyramids.

    For me, the tar baby came to mean the black woman who can hold things together.” 

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_Baby_(novel)

  • Anonymous

    Brava mamn, brava!

  • http://www.facebook.com/chasrmartin Charlie Martin

    The difference being shut up.

  • Anonymous

    Nothing is convenient. We obviously have a different understanding of the word “prominant”, that’s all. If you think those are all important movers and shakers in your movement, that’s ok. But we know what I was talking about. It’s like me pointing to some old stump like Dick Lugar to prove to you that the Republican party was moderate and asking you to accept it. Every lib that has gone sideways on abortion or the war immediately falls from grace. We’re just wasting time now.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Of course, the other Democrats weren’t trying to subvert the Democracy.

    Bush was disrespected on a daily basis by the left – much more virulently than the community organizer has ever been.

    Ask yourself how the media would be treating Bush now if he had coordinated with a conservative group similar to liberal Media Matters on manipulating media coverage, and threatening them if they didn’t comply?

    Yet, NO COVERAGE of this actual (not what if) scandal anywhere on CBS, NBC, ABC, etc.

    More misdirection from this gutter-snipe Maher, that’s all this is.

  • Anonymous

    The shouting out “you lie” incident was classless and wrong.    But it did have some truth to it.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Mediaite:

    Why don’t you report on the non-cable news media more?- Particularly CBS, NBC and ABC, and their blatant political bias of their evening reports.

    It’s the same old cable shows who’s schtick is wearing thin, especially with this snide, self-serving half-pint. 

  • Anonymous

    Funny thing is, I don’t remember any past presidents publicly scolding their opponents to their faces in a venue where their opponents didn’t have a chance to respond, as Obama once did with Paul Ryan and as he did with the Supreme Court justices at the SOTU a couple of years ago.  

    And framed another way, Bill Maher admits he’s a coward who’ll only call people dirty names when they’re not there.

  • Anonymous

    Bill Maher is 100% correct.

  • Anonymous

    This is starting to go in circles. You claimed that liberals and the media created this terrible political environment. Yes? And that they never gave Bush a chance. Correct?

    In disagreement, I gave you evidence that 90% of Americans polled (surely some liberals in there) supported the job he was doing and that the media provided him positive press. Do you have a rebuttal to these facts?

    And have you ever considered that the Bush presidency was one of the worst in American History? That perhaps a toxic political environment was created by things like Bush’s fear mongering and support of a federal ban on gay marriage?

    You act as if this was some milquetoast Presidency that rabid liberals just couldn’t stomach. In reality, Bush had lots of support. We all remember what he did with it.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/UBQLUABX6NF62WADPVYWDIYKGQ Geoff

    Bush was booed at a state of the union address when he brought up social security.

    When an Iraqi threw shoes at him, many on the left applauded it. 

    Maher’s distinction is false.

  • Anonymous

    Yes it did.  My question was, just how advanced is this guys case of Obama Derangement Syndrome?  And the answer is…..well, pretty fu*king obvious.

  • Anonymous

    Like a child who just used the potty on his own for the first time, I’m sure he was proud.

  • Anonymous

    Very weak examples. The booing of Bush at the inauguration was unfortunate but that was the reaction of the crowd to a President who was leaving office with the lowest approval rating in history. President Bush was also booed at a baseball game a few months earlier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6z40MHlzEc. This is just the natural reaction of the people to an unpopular President. So there is no equivalency.

    The same is true of the Reid example. Reid said he apologized for the loser comment but stands by calling President Bush a liar because he had lied. And Bush did lie to

    the whole country. But he never shouted out “You lie” to Bush during an session of Congress while the President was giving a speech.

    If you actually look at the clip of the SOTU, it is debatable that anyone was booing, just because a conservative website says it was booing 4 years after the fact doesn’t make it so. And again even if some were booing it is not the same as one of them shouting out “You lie”.

    The last example is totally ridiculous. It is one extremist, who apparently is not a fan of Bill Clinton either, who had a private encounter. Not an elected official in front of the national press.

    As far as the other examples, President Obama was calling a policy unpatriotic not President Bush. Pelosi called Bush an utter failure but so have many republicans of President Obama and Clinton. It is part of Mitt Romney’s standard stump speech. That’s just standard political rhetoric that has gone on forever.

    9/11 conspiracy crazies are just that, crazy. Maher even ran them out of his studio once. So that is a weak example. Olbermann may have wailed nightly but so do a lot of conservative commentators. And did so during the Clinton years. There is nothing new about that.

    And Maher did own it. He admitted to what he had said. But his point, which you seemed to have missed, is that he never did it to President Bush’s face. That is something new and undeniable.

    Unfortunately, there is toxic rhetoric on both sides. Again this is nothing new. When Bill Clinton was elected, Bob Dole branded the election as illegitimate because Clinton did get 50 percent of the vote. The Christian Coalition called the election of Bill Clinton “a repudiation of our forefathers’ covenant with God”.

    This is something both sides has done. So to try to blame the other side of being singularly responsible is just not the truth.

  • Anonymous

    “Name one president who has never worked a private job. I’ll stand corrected if you can name one, with evidence. U of C law school is primarily publically funded I believe. No matter, the guy was just a lecturer, not even a tenured professor.”

    Actually the President worked at the Chicago law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland from 1993 to 2004.

  • Anonymous

     You’re making no sense. Yes, Sarainitaly, there have been dirty politics since the invention of politics, therefore before the current president. What is your point? And what do liberals in AK have to do with anything? I did not justify attacks on Palin, I said because she was unknown people looked for information. Looking for information is not automatically an attack. And every single politician suffers attack, like it or not it’s the nature of the beast. If one cannot handle it, one should not go into politics. It is getting tiresome explaining everything to you. And please stop twisting my words, although I know that’s the MO of the GOP.

  • Anonymous

     Prominent.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you, surrender was all I was willing to accept anyway.

  • Anonymous

    Fox and Fox Nation are loaded with these types comments on a daily basis.  

    The other thing that Fox does is post a untruthful headline and then bury the link to the story they’re lying about knowing full well their readers will never bother to follow their link and realize Fox is lying to them.  It’s insulting, really. 

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    laprofesora952Collapse
    You’re making no sense. Yes, Sarainitaly, there have been dirty politics since the invention of politics, therefore before the current president. What is your point? 
     
    - Because Liberals, like Maher here, seem to believe that no one disrespected a POTUS before Obama came around, or that he receives some new form of outrage, or disrespect, and that it is due to racism. As we have pointed out, there has always been nasty politics, and it skyrocketed under Bush. 

    And what do liberals in AK have to do with anything? 
    “The charges filed against Sarah Palin were by Alaskans, not liberals from the lower 48.”

    LIBERALS. Not Alaskans, Liberals.

    I did not justify attacks on Palin, I said because she was unknown people looked for information. 

    - And Obama was unknown. The media didn’t descend on Chicago, frantically looking for dirt. There is plenty there. They dug through her trash, they viscously attacked her kids, and the paternity of baby.

    Looking for information is not automatically an attack. And every single politician suffers attack, like it or not it’s the nature of the beast. If one cannot handle it, one should not go into politics.

    - Ah ha. So… can you tell that to Obama and his supporters?

  • Zigeunerweisen

    You know, for some reason I feel as if fellow Republicans don’t even respect Bush. After all, when you get 2 terms, that’s a double mandate — it commands some type of respect. But nobody wants to quote Bush, wasn’t he great? We really have to look at this objectively. Every republican is quoting Reagan, and how such a great President he was — when America gave Bush 8 years in power. I’m not a Bush fan, but doesn’t that mean something?

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    The very chart you provided showed his approval, immediately after 9/11 skyrocketed. That’s normal. I am saying that many liberals protested his presidency from day one, calling him illegitimate. His approval fell off over his 8 years. 

    I don’t care if people disapproved of his job performance – but the vitriol and hate was deplorable and prevalent. I never voted for him, I didn’t like him as a President. But I saw the hate and the vitriol. 

    The toxic, vitriolic environment was created by people who now ignore Obama implementing/utilizing the very same policies.

    And the attacks didn’t stop with Bush, but to all Republicans and Conservatives. Conservatives, perhaps, got sick and tired of being called idiotic, and every other name in the book. 

    By going in circles, people on here are bending over backwards to convince me that liberals didn’t create the toxic environment because other Presidents were disrespected, long before Obama. ta da

    Obama even contributed to it, with comments like Bush was unpatriotic…

    Obama had a lot of support too, but he is losing supporters left and right. He and his supporters set their tone during his campaign. 

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Again someone justifying the vitriol from one side. It’s ok, cuz you have reasons for it! Well, you know what? Obama was lying, too!

    ‘Unfortunately, there is toxic rhetoric on both sides. Again this is nothing new.”

    Want to tell Maher, and Obama supporters that?

    “This is something both sides has done. So to try to blame the other side of being singularly responsible is just not the truth.”

    Kind of like blaming one side, and chalking it all up to racism? You can have your reasons for vitriol, like policy differences and failed leadership but Republicans are just racist, and/or wrong? 

    I’m not saying there was never hostility or anger in politics before Bush. I’m saying we have never seen such a decline in civility. The hate and vitriol grew to a whole new level.

  • Anonymous

    I have no respect for a man I cannot TRUST.  Barry Soetoro is a fake, a phony, a liar, a chump, a thug and a terrible role model for American youth.

    I will insult him to the day he leaves for Chicago or Indonesia.  

    He’s a Marxist and a Socialist.  And never in my life has a President of the United Statess called average citizens racists, terrorists, un-American and unpatriotic.  For that and the lies, disception, distortions, and misleading the average American, he will be remembered as the man who tried to push the United States into a third world power of sociailist slime.

    Watch out this year because all the posts are going to get very ugly.  And I’m going throw mine right between the eyes of the Creep from Chicago who conned Americans in 2008.

    Never again.  As they say in Brooklyn, throw the BUM OUT.    

  • Anonymous

    In America, you get to say what you want when you want to say it.  It doesn’t make you anything but American.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tonykoch1 Tony Koch

    same liberal bs… it is ok if we do it but you can’t do it to our president!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LUKTQTZLZUTCR3SGOO76TTVOGY moremonkeybusiness

    Mahers comments since he returned are an example of what the left will use against someone like Newt or Santorum or even a Palin if they are nominated. They will annihilate them and ridicule them in the public eye to the point where you have to be a hillbilly to support the Republicans. 

    The only hope is Romney but it will have to be left up to the Repubicans to do the right thing.

  • Anonymous

    “Again someone justifying the vitriol from one side. It’s ok, cuz you have reasons for it! Well, you know what? Obama was lying, too!”

    I’m not trying to just justify anything. But you seem to be.

    “Kind of like blaming one side, and chalking it all up to racism? You can have your reasons for vitriol, like policy differences and failed leadership but Republicans are just racist, and/or wrong?”

    I’m not blaming one side, you are. And I never brought up racism, again you did.

    “I’m not saying there was never hostility or anger in politics before Bush. I’m saying we have never seen such a decline in civility. The hate and vitriol grew to a whole new level.’

    Again you can’t just blame that all on one side or even say the decline in civility started with Bush, it started long before that. I’m sure if anyone did the research they could find examples going back to Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, Johnson and Kennedy.

    The point that Maher was making, that you continue to ignore, that most wasn’t done to a President’s face. This is something that has changed of late.

  • Anonymous

    I heard a great quote the other day “you have a right to your own opinion but you don’t have a right to your own facts”.  It was brilliant and apropos(sp?) for the responses on this thread.

  • Anonymous

    OK then Maher should shut up about people insulting Obama to his face.  According to your views, it’s their right to say it when they want.  Thank you for backing up my point.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Sorry, see below. You’re late to the party and I don’t want to rehash the whole thing. I know exactly what I am doing, and I am not ignoring anything, I am proving a point. 

    Maher is justifying his vitriol. We are all pointing out it exists on both sides. I am also pointing out that it was done to Bush’s face. I’m pointing out where it escalated. 

    The climate under Bush is what lowered the level of civility to where we are now. The level of civility, or lack there of, is not so much about “Obama” but the climate we are now in, because of years of this kind of coarsening of the dialogue. And it most certainly isn’t about Obama’s skin color – as Maher alludes to. 

    Yes, people oppose Obama’s policies, and his lack of leadership, and his failure to turn the country around, and lower the deficit and pass a budget, and the Left over his continuation of unpopular Bush policies all add up to reasons why people  act out – just as they did under Bush. (the Brewer finger example is BS. Wilson was out of line to yell out, but Obama was lying) The examples that people disrespect Obama far more than any other POTUS because Obama is *different* is hogwash. 

    It’s the climate we are in – when you have news people and members of Congress, Obama administration, etc. flat out spewing vitriol at Bush, and his administration, and now tea partiers, and Conservatives, etc…. It’s where we are at – not because some evil racist plot against Obama.

    There was a movie about assassinating Bush, for gawds sake. People accused him of stealing the election, and calling him illegitimate. People still blame and accuse him for 9/11. He was called a murderer and a traitor. He was called Hitler, and a fascist – ON THE NEWS. People cheered when someone threw a shoe at him. Democrats set up booths called throw a shoe at Bush, raising money off of it. Protesters carried signs calling for his murder. If that isn’t lowering the level of discourse in our country, I don’t know what is.

  • Anonymous

     I don’t think that’s correct. Brewer had a meeting with Obama at the WH and gave a favorable press conference afterwards saying several times it was cordial. She described the meeting less favorably in her book saying he was condecending, treating her like a kid. so, she did an about face on the meeting at the WH, and het, her book sales skyrocketed. And Obama said , it’s good for republicans to be seen fighting with him about something. Guess he was right.

  • South Park Conservatives

    When was the last time anyone quoted Clinton or  Carter? Republicans , Obama , and a few Democrats quote Reagan all the time.

    Its not out of respect. Its the popularity numbers.

  • South Park Conservatives

    This is “Do has i say not has i do Liberalism”.

    Joe Wilson was right.

    Democrats are the original birthers.

  • Anonymous

    Foreclosure,food stamp increase, record number of unemployment was because of Bush and Republican policies. Clinton handed Bush a surplus which he squandered. Trickle down economics didn’t work, except for the rich and crooks. Crooks like Lehman, Goldman Sachs and Chase cheated consumers. We were losing jobs at the rate of 750,000 a month when Obama came in. To clean up the Republicans mess, it will probably take three more years. Yet, Obama made sure that jobs are coming back, people are not starving, and they will be able to pay their bills. Some people are ingrates. No matter how you help them, they don’t have the sense to see it. America is a sick country. There are people in it who would destroy it for the love of money.

  • Anonymous

    My point was Tarbaby stories were not shameful to us even though we were black. I’m still black….check my user name…..

  • Anonymous

    “Sorry, see below. You’re late to the party and I don’t want to rehash the whole thing. I know exactly what I am doing, and I am not ignoring anything, I am proving a point.”

    The only point you’re proving is just how partisan and unreasonable you are. Until you can point to examples of a Democratic member of Congress shouting out ‘You Lie’ while President Bush was giving a speech or a Democratic Governor or Senator angrily sticking their finger in President Bush’s face, then you don’t have a
    leg to stand on.

    And if you think it escalated under President Bush you’re conveniently forgetting the Clinton years when a Pat Robertson, who ran for the GOP nomination, went on TV nightly and accused the Clinton’s of murdering people in Arkansas.

  • Anonymous

    Bill Maher, by his own words, proved, without a doubt, that the liberals are not only scum, but gutless, cowardly, chicken-hearted, craven, yellow, lily-livered poltroons, who would never have the courage to say those despicably things that Maher so proudly claimed he had said, to President Bush’s face.

    This hateful jerk glorified his cowardice by condemning Joe Wilson for having the courage to call President Obama a liar. Which he was at the SOFTU.

    Or bashing O’Reilley for stopping a potential worthless verbal tirade, so typical of politicians, when time is of the essence in a time-constrained TV interview. 

    Or besmirching the Governor  or Arizona, for taking issue with the President whose Justice Department is suing the State for enacting State Laws, which the Federal Government is unable or too cowardly to enact or enforce.   

    While there should be respect for the office of the Presidency, Bill Maher and his ilk certainly never showed it to President Bush.

  • Anonymous

     Because he’s commander in Chief? I guess that’s a valid point. I realize ridiculing the president as a poltical comic is part of the job discription. I get that, but that makes it expected, not respectful. His point about not saying it to his face was completely wrong IMO. Politics in general is disrepectful. People say less than honest things about each other to get elected. Then they lie to the people who elected them to stay in office.  That’s disrespectful. IMO, respect is earned, not by some title, but by your efforts and your character. By your gifts and contributions being greater than your flaws and mistakes.

    That said, it seems to me that President Obama has endured an unprecedented amount of ridiculous criticism. There’s been a real effort to paint him, not just as a president with bad ideas and bad policies, but as an outsider, not really an American, not a Christian, a racist agasint whites, a socialist, a fascist, Marxist, etc etc. It’s hard for me to believe that at least part of that isn’t about race.

    That’s my opinion, but that’s not the point Maher is making. I had no respect for Bush as president. He lost all of that when he lied to get us into a 10 year war. I don’t think I owe the title, or office any respect when the man in office sends my fellow citizens to kill and be killed for a lie. The corruption in DC is rampant in both parites and corruption doesn’t warrant respect.

  • Anonymous

    The point is Grandma just thought they were good stories to tell a pre-schooler and now that I am older, I could care less. I love me the way I am. I’m going to do the best I can with the life I’ve got. Your opinion of me does not matter. This is how God made me and I’m just glad to be alive.

  • Anonymous

    They would have voted for Herman Cain but the libs dragged him through the mud because if he had been nominated  it would have proved that conservatives weren’t racist. Try something else because your point is old and a lie.

  • Anonymous

    Get off the race crap it is so old.

  • Anonymous

    I’m still black. I guess I didn’t say that right. What I meant to say was we were not offended by those stories. Calling me a tarbaby doesn’t hurt me. See my user name. I know who I am. I don’t mind being black.

  • Anonymous

    Interviewees get the list of questions from the interviewer prior to the interview.

    If the questions are deep, probing and tough, the interviewee will try to weasel his way out of answering, will try to prevaricate, evade, go off on a tangent and make every effort to avoid giving an answer.

    A good interviewer will never let that happen. A good interviewer will respect the person and the office of the interviewee, but will never give license to spew long-winded BS. That is not disrespect.

    Bill O’Reilley is one of the best and toughest and the FAIREST there is. President Obama was interrupted by Bill every time the President was trying to evade giving his answers, and well-deservedly so. A President is not a King, a President is a citizen who owes answers, when asked, not evasion and bloviation.

  • Anonymous

     OIh yeah, your user name. That clearly proves it.

  • Anonymous

    Republicans choose their own candidates. Herman Cain quit because he lost republican support… not liberal.

  • Anonymous

     She me where Obama paid millions to hide his past.

  • Anonymous

     We don’t need to see grades if President Obama was Magna Cum Laude

    That speaks for itself.

  • Van Grungy

     nor did the press go out of their way to take photos of Bush with pseudo-halos every chance they could..

  • Van Grungy

     the Wookie is a hypocrite.. 

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    … And your mother was a troglodyte who smothered you with her hairy teet causing your current impairment and related malice. Breath deep. The oxygen assists.

  • Anonymous

    Obama never portrayed himself as a Messiah.  Others, mostly Republicans, saw Messiah like qualities in him and they called him the Anointed One.  You know if you want to see the sick healed, the hungry fed, and the naked clothed, that is like the real Messiah, Jesus.

  • Anonymous

    you call it crap as an aa i find it appalling that the right can not respect this man. he’s been call every thing but god… i did not support the president because he’s black because of his mandates that he won the election outright. the critics never took the time to read his book , or follow what he’s doing except to listen to the vitriol hate from fox news, i do d not say you you have to like him but respect the office he holds without trying to casterate him. yes the economy is getting better , the job numbers are better.. i dod not hate as stated before i did not like bush for taking this country into a unfounded war while trying to concur another country , unpaid for & mandated medicare part d where were the teas anger on this. also bush was responsible for the finanical crash 9/15/08 & he baled out the banks & wall st.. htere’s is plenty of hate from the right because he’s black oure & simple. keep looking for your great white hope to save this country & push us all into the dark ages

  • Anonymous

    Just having kids does not mean you  have family values. 

  • Anonymous

    Yes they did…..they all had their turn at the top…..for about a week

  • Anonymous

    He looks like a happy man to me…..

  • Anonymous

    It’s their duty to remain in office to keep America from being destroyed

  • Anonymous

    Republicans are pro-life while they are in the womb, but don’t let them come out…..Are any Republicans helping  Octomom ?

  • Anonymous

    Now you got it right…..

  • Anonymous

    Did you know what you just wrote is called bearing false witness ( or a lie ), which is punishable by God.  The penalty is death.

  • Anonymous

    To bad the Republican/Tea Party keep it going.

  • Anonymous

    So, if you can’t spell, that means you don’t have family values ?

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know what a  BBW is but she sure isn’t fat.  Are you Sensenbrenner ?       

  • Anonymous

     That is a blatant lie and I am sick of liberals playing the race card.  Obama is nothing but a community organizer and is in over his head.  Everything he has done has been wrong.  It doesn’t take “black” to be a socialist or radical.  

  • Anonymous

     I would be more than happy to vote for Allen West or Tim Scott and would have supported Cain.  What ever happened to those “women” and their complaints?  They came out and did their dirty work and faded back into obscurity.  No one bothered to investigate to see if they had any credibility.  The left played dirty pool with Cain.

  • Anonymous

    Look what the left has inflicted on the country! 

  • Anonymous

    The country was already divided.  Electing a black President brought the haters out

  • Anonymous

    The people who don’t agree with him are the people destroying this country  He can’t give in to them.  If we do, we will all go down the drain.  He has got to push on and save America from the ignorant trolls..

  • Anonymous

    Are you aware that lying is a sin punishable by death ?

  • Anonymous

    Also, Bush did the stimulus and had very poor advisors.  He was in over his head.

  • http://www.facebook.com/omberg1 Rhonda Omberg

    Donow: uh. no. You are not the boss of me.

    Also, House has been cancelled, and frankly, as someone who likes to watch fiction, it blows as most television does.

  • expatpatriot

    I take it you don’t watch O’Reilly much.

    He abuses guests at will and takes delight in doing so. He also sometimes treats his interviewees civilly. He’s a professional entertainer — quite a skilled one — and perfectly aware of the need to keep changing things up so his show doesn’t go stale.

    In the inteview in question, he was at his assholic height.

    Deny it if you will, but the video of the interview makes a liar of you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/omberg1 Rhonda Omberg

    Nope. Never wrong. Never. Nyanner, nyanner, nyanner…etc.

  • Anonymous

    Kid gloves to hide the brass knuckles…..

  • http://www.facebook.com/omberg1 Rhonda Omberg

    You are not a Republican. Please. Gimme a break.

  • expatpatriot

    Clearly, making a distinction between the concepts of “commentary” and “common courtesy” is beyond you.

    I’ve noticed that rightwingers are especially bad at drawing distinctions. It’s one reason that they govern so poorly.

  • http://www.facebook.com/omberg1 Rhonda Omberg

    Unless they ignore you when you try to make nice with them…jus’ sayin’.

  • Anonymous

    I thought all Bo did was sleep by the fireplace and ride in the limosine…..

  • http://www.facebook.com/omberg1 Rhonda Omberg

    Is it making fun of his wife, or making fun or her hypocrisy? Is it questioning whether Obama is an American, or is it questioning who he is at all – I would take any documentation he has at this point. No one seems to remember him, dating back to elementary school. Don’t you find that odd?

  • http://www.facebook.com/omberg1 Rhonda Omberg

    Trump donated to Obama in ’08, so Trump isn’t exactly a Republican.

  • http://www.facebook.com/omberg1 Rhonda Omberg

    I once again have to question Ann Coulter and her decision to actually date this man.

  • http://www.facebook.com/omberg1 Rhonda Omberg

    And yes, you could ask the same of Maher, I reckon.

  • Anonymous

    Well damn, he’s cute

  • Anonymous

    That’s what O’Reilly does….. thats how he rolls…..

  • Anonymous

    I thought it was a good interview

  • Anonymous

    Or a shoe

  • Anonymous

    This one term Senator was so outstanding that his colleagues nominated him to run for President.  He could have held many prestigious jobs after graduation but elected to work for the least among us. Other world leaders saw the potential in him and awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize before his many foreign accomplishments.  He earned it already.  He had to be ten times better than the average man to even get into Harvard to say nothing of the fact he graduated Magna Cum Laude.  What’s your claim to fame?

  • Anonymous

    Why didn’t someone nominate those zillion other Senators to be President ?

  • Anonymous

    If you walk like a duck…..

  • Anonymous

    He’s already earned it.  Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan,Osama Bin Laden, Aw waliki and other bad guys also a couple of Pirates and he’s not through yet…..

  • Anonymous

    What’s the matter, you don’t like Social Security?  I do.  I don’t get very much because I mostly worked for the Federal Government and they don’t take it out of your pay, but it sure helps pay for groceries and Medicare for an old lady.

  • Anonymous

    He sure was.  He would not say let them die.  In fact, he said we would be judged by how we treated the poor, the sick, and the naked.  Oh oh.

  • Anonymous

    He only got one dog named Bo and he can’t talk.

  • Anonymous

    Read the Book.  He didn’t enforce it.  He left the choice up to you, but if you make the wrong choice, you have to pay the penalty.

  • Anonymous

    Obama said he was for Israel…..Does everyone lie on this site ?

  • Anonymous

    Now that’s just crazy…If Bush and Clinton did far more those idiots should have given them the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    When does the investigation start ?  I want to follow that.

  • Anonymous

    He is cool…..and cute

  • Anonymous

    People don’t know hate comes from the devil…..God is love

  • Anonymous

     Struck a nerve,eh?

  • Anonymous

    The next 4 years are going to be hell for you,buddy.Love it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/orinj3 Nelson Franks

    What I’ve noticed is that those on the left, while in mid-sentence describing themselves as morally superior in their civility, will launch into the most vile and vulgar attacks imaginable. And liberals like to go after innocents as well, such as Kathy Griffin’s attack on Willow Palin, Harry Reid’s calling both Bush and Bush’s mother a b**ch, or Congressman Steven Kagen (D-Wis) who bragged about insulting 
    Laura Bush, Bush, Cheney and Karl Rove at a White House function for new members.
    There is ample room for improvement in civility on both sides, but liberals certainly are not standing on any high grund here, and of all people on the planet, Maher is the last one on Earth to be afforded any credulity on the subject of civility.

  • expatpatriot

    I happen to consider Bill Maher pretty odious for most of the reasons you probably consider him odious.

    Nevertheless, he nails painful truths effectively and often. And is screamingly funny about two-thirds of the time.

    And in this case, he’s nailed it again: distinctions do matter.

  • Anonymous

    Right on! And why all the money to keep his college records a secret?

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    “The only point you’re proving is just how partisan and unreasonable you are. ”

    You really missed everything I said, didn’t you. Perhaps it is you, who is not acknowledging the Left’s role in all of this?

    Here, maybe this will help. 

    Let’s say you have a Hatfield and a McCoy. They walk into a bar at the same time. Their families have been feuding for over 100 years. They don’t like each other all that much. They end up sitting next to each other at the bar. They both order drinks. They start making snide comments to each other. They keep drinking. Their comments get more heated. They are still drinking. They start getting angry, they begin shouting. Hatfield punches McCoy. McCoy punches Hatfield. Hatfield punches McCoy. McCoy punches Hatfield. McCoy falls to the floor, face down, and Hatfield begins punching the crap out of McCoy, hitting him in the back about 20 times, kicking him in the back over and over again. McCoy grabs a barstool and knocks Hatfield in the head. 

    Maher is blaming McCoy. Maher think McCoy did it because Hatfield is black. Wasn’t Hatfield a willing participant in the fight? Maher wants you to think Hatfield is justified because he was kicking McCoy in the back. I’m saying the climate we are in now, is a result of Hatfield kicking and punching McCoy in the back repeatedly, and viciously. McCoy’s action were a result of the escalation. 

    There are zillions of examples of the Left disrespecting Bush, to his face, or *behind his back*.  If you think a finger wave in a photo, that does NOT tell the story, is unprecedented, or Wilson shouting *you lie* is unprecedented, I am telling you the reasons that led to where we are. (Wilson was right, Obama was lying.) 

    http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/way-left-is-reacting-youd-think-brewer.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    If you think it will be good for you , youre in for a big surprise.

    gsp, He might be remembered as the man who tried to push the United States into a third world power of sociailist slime.

    But its also possible there will be statues of him in every city in the nation…Hes got a lot of people fooled.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    “I did not have sexual realtions wth that woman”

    “it dependson what your definition of ‘is’ is”

    Boy he was fun…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Race Card! Drink!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Ythink? Unfortunately for Cain, there was a little dirt and he didnt handle it well. He was stupid to not be prepared to face those attacks and he wasted everyones time.

    I am speaking of the settlement,agreement, whatever. And It also seems like he had a long term affair. He at the very least shuld have been prepared for that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    One side of his face calls for civility, while the other side of his face is giving Media Matters their smear orders…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Off topic, but you are really good at this sara, glad your not a liberal… Bet you could get top dollar at Media Matters if you ever want to whore yourself out for a few bucks…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    He is a president wit bad policies and bad ideas. Isnt that enough? corruption doesnt warrant respect? Maybe instead of Sticking up for the guy you should check into him.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    What is wrong with honest disagreement? Again, point to media matters and their weekly meetings with the white house chief of staff. These things arent made up they are facts. I mean cmon, if there was one single shred of innaccuracy in the daily callers report the headline on MSNBC would be

    DAILY CALLER LIES, SMEARS PRESIDENT

  • Anonymous

    “You really missed everything I said, didn’t you. Perhaps it is you, who is not acknowledging the Left’s role in all of this?”

    No I’ve read everything you’ve posted and you seem dedicated to blaming it all on the left. And whether you admit it or not both the Wilson and Brewer incidents were unprecedented. Yet you are doing all you can to rationalize and justify them from ignoring everything that happened when Clinton was president to engaging
    in false equivalencies of what happened when Bush was president.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    What does a leftist call a tea party freshman who votes no on one of their crappy bills?

    Terrorist

    What do they call a radical muslim scumbag who shoots up an army base?

    Workplace Violence

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    I dont know about beeing fine, but we absolutey need to get this American Hating Socialist Character Assasin Dictator Wannabe out of here ASAP.

    You might like him now, but you wont like 4 more years I promise. Do yourself a favor and find out the truth.

    I said it before Ill say it again, I would vote for Sandusky for president if I have too, because the truth about Obama is just that bad.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    It IS anyones right to say things about the president or government whenever they want, very few people disagree with that, but I know one person one does.

    Obama

    Actively trying to suppress anyone who says things that dont agree with his policies.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    OK coming to rallies with guns, that happenned under Bush too.  Thats part of being in Arizona, they are freedom lovers down there, is this the incident you are referring too?

    http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DfvBQDHqdCck&h=aAQGhrkUqAQFKiZ8hQz4TPzbmLotkImP9iN35qZlXGW8Hfg

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Really, you need to look into this guy, if you get past your hero worship you will not like what you find and it has nothing to do with his color. Can you people not get that, the only ones who worry about his color are the 95% of black people who voted fo him. See, Samuel Jackson.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    If you would look for yourself you would see hes a socialist, Im not trying to convince you Im just encouraging you to look beyond what he wants you to see.

    Hate, racism and sound bites, those are HIS tactics and he is a MASTER.

  • Anonymous

     What I’m trying to stick up for is facts and reason and to have our politics and problem solving based on that, rather than partisan emptional knee jerk responses, superficial talking points, and distorted BS.
    IMO corruption in both parties , and a lack of reasoned fact based leadership is a problem for everyone, conservatives, moderates and liberals.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    No, that was a fair an accurate comment. President Obama pays people to attack his enemies as racists. If he didnt MSNBC would deny the reports dont you think?

    Again you should look beyond what he wants you to see.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Well, I can’t help it if you refuse to accept the truth.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Social Security? I hope you are already cashing those checks. I heard from the presidents own mouth a couple months ago that if we ont raie the debt limit thechecks might not go out next month.

    Now maybe the fiscal problem wasnt all his fault 3 years ago, but if we ar relying on China for the cash to get the money we paid into Social Security then it should be obvious to anyone that there actually is a pretty bad fiscal problem.

    That was about what 3 months ago? Has he tried to slow down spending at all since then? Every single day he shovels cash out the door. I think he sends it on crap, you might think he spends it on stuff we need, fair enough. But is he spending iton things more important than making sure he checks come out next month?

    In september we will be in the exact same situation. Borrow a trillion dollars just to keep the checks coming out. I ask again, has he even tried one little bit to slow down the spending? Will that 40 dollars a week be a fair trade for social security checks?

    Ask yourself this too, do you think China loves us? What if we end up shooting at Iran and China puts some “economic sanctions” on us?

    Obama is a master of Saul Alinskis community organization tactics, do you know what that is? Thats what he did in Chicago, maybe you should learn aout it. 2 of the major precepts are making people dependant on you and engineering economic collapse.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Yes Obama says he is for Israel I agree. Tha does not however mean its true, perhaps you should investigate for yourself.

  • Anonymous

     

    What I’ve noticed is that those on the left, while in mid-sentence
    describing themselves as morally superior in their civility, will launch
    into the most vile and vulgar attacks imaginable

    Griffin and Maher are comics who get paid to say outrageous things, just as Coulter, Limbaugh, Beck , etc do. That doesn’t make it okay, and it’s certainly not respectful, but for preformers there is a difference in on stage and off stage. When Jon Stewart is doing his show he skewers people, but his interviews are almost always respectful.

    I don’t agree with Bill oin this , and your point that he is not the one to be talking about civility , is well taken.

    That said, what disturbs me is not finger pointing or Wilson’s lack of self control, but what seems like a concerted effort to paint our elected president as something other than an American ever since he took office.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Love your handle, gives me hope for the future.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    If you can find a story on MSNBC or CNN thatcriticises the president or his policies in any way Ill be impressed. Think about that. Doesnt that imply that the president is perfect? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Bushs stimulus was very different from Obamas, he sent cecks out to everyone. Good policy. No. I thought it was pandering fo votes.

    Obamas stimulus was a massive pile of pork that didnt go to anyone who wasnt in a union. Shovel reay jobs my butt. Billions of it went to GE. Intersting that his jobs czar is CEO of GE. Also interesting that GE had 18BILLION dollar of profits and not one dime in corporate tax, while at the same time creating thousands of jobs in china.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Thank you. And I wont be leaving I will be joining the revolution when Obama makes his move.

  • Anonymous

     I agree that distinctions matter , but I don’t agree that Bill is correct in how he approaches it. “I wouldn’t say it to his face”  There is a difference between being on stage and off stage, I get that, but IMO there’s a line between sharp satire , which Bill nails fairly often , and just plain hatefulness and gratuitous name calling.

    IMO the most disrespectful thing done to this president is the concerted effort to paint his as foriegn, from the whole birther lunacy to Muslim, Socialist etc. etc. Not just a president whose policies they disagree with, but an outsider who is not one of us and trying to destroy American from within.
    I have some respect for Republicans who are willing to disagree but call those accusations nonsense, and little for those who are so afraid of offending thier base that they won’t oppose nonsense or worse, they play into it.

  • Anonymous

    Think what you want we support Ron Paul. Do not give a flip what you think

  • Anonymous

    I’m not the one who is not accepting the truth here. All you’re doing is trying to justify Brewer’s and Wilson’s actions.

    BTW The President didn’t lie: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/09/joe-wilson/joe-wilson-south-carolina-said-obama-lied-he-didnt/

  • Anonymous

    I guess Maher is forgetting the White House Correspondents Dinner with Steve Colbert doing “cheap shots” at President Bush and the First Lady, up close and personal. 

  • Anonymous

    When Bush squandered Clinton’s money, we didn’t need a stimulus. Bad planning, yes. Tarp, initiated by Paulson, Bush’s man, saved the crooks and the Automobile industry because of good planning by Obama. Then the crooks gave out bonuses to the supposed job creators, who caused the depression in the first place, who sat on their profits instead of employing the American people, caused the drag on the economy. Had they invested in the America they claimed to love, the economy would have come roaring back by now. Instead, they decided to obstruct this President in any way they could, so as to continue their fraudulent money practices at the expense of the taxpayers. The love of money is the root cause and the Devil take the hindmost.

  • Anonymous

    Republicans blocked shovel ready jobs. We need infrastructure, green jobs, roads and bridges. America is crumbling. We need to fix it. Obama knows things you don’t know. GE is a player. There will be many more jobs from GE. Once the American turncoats realize they are killing off their employees who work for 31 cents a day in China, they will be back. My advice to all Americans is don’t buy their goods until they create good Union jobs in America. Refuse to work for slave wages.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps you should learn to discern truth from a lie.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps, you should learn to discern truth from error.

  • Anonymous

    Is Romney ridicule proof or is the magic underwear flame proof?  because the Mormotron 2000 will take some heat.

  • Anonymous

    Social Security is fine. The Republicans keep trying to screw it up by not raising the debt limit for the first time in history. Borrowing money did not start with Obama. George Bush’s wars did that. I used to see dozens of Chinese, while I was shopping , in major stores and neighborhoods and I thought they were tourists. No, they were buying up America. Why would anyone want to sell America to the Chinese? They probably own more of it than we do. That was before Obama’s time. We’ve been in debt to China for many years. What dummy thought that up? Maybe you should research that. Another thing, there is nothing in this world more important than the people that God created. This government was created by the people, that’s us, of the people, and for the people of the United States. We all have a stake in it. We all have each other’s back. No one should be left out. I am my brother’s keeper.Yes, I’ve heard of Saul Alinsky. I’ve also heard of Jesus. Obama’s policies follow those of Jesus not Saul Alinsky. Maybe you should research those. Here, I’ll give you a link. It is called the Bible…New Testament…Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It will enlighten you as to what is most important in this world.

  • Anonymous

    and you are? angry old woman find another party pls

  • Anonymous

     No, other than I abhor false accusations.  Just because the right disagrees with Barry’s policies, it can’t possibly be because they are bad so it must be race.  If it were a race issue, why were so many on the right so willing to support Cain, or admire West and Tim Scott?  Bad policy is bad policy.

  • Anonymous

     If he would have thought that there was something from his past that he needed to prepare for, he might have done it.  A large company is inclined to resort to a settlement just to avoid the time and expense of attorneys.  Kind of like the lady that spilled hot McDonald’s coffee in her lap.  How many of these women had filed against other companies they worked for?  “It also seems he had a long term affair.”  You have any proof of this or are you propagating rumors?

  • Anonymous

    Seriously?  Because Media Matters says so?

  • Anonymous

     Lies that were first laid out by dems?
    President George W. Bush
    often referred to the Iraq Liberation Act and its findings to argue that the Clinton
    Administration supported regime change in Iraq and further that it
    believed that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction. The Act
    was cited as a basis of support in the Congressional Authorization for use of Military Force Against Iraq in October 2002

  • Anonymous

     UMMM no It is their every day actions.

  • http://twitter.com/912Cyounger Cole Younger

    The only reason no lefty idiots didn’t disrespect Bush to his face is NOT ONE OF THEM HAD THE BALLS TO DO IT UP FRONT.  COWARDS DO IT FROM BEHIND.   JUST LIKE OBAMA LEADS, FROM BEHIND.  OBAMA AND HITLER,  SAME SHIT, DIFFERENT ASSHOLE!!!

  • http://twitter.com/912Cyounger Cole Younger

    KUDOS MY FRIEND FOR HITTING THE NAIL EXACTLY ON THE HEAD.  

  • James McMillin

    Give them a break.  At least some Republicans realize the mess they have created, the disarray of the party and the comical circus that they are calling caucuses, debates and primaries…  Sit back and enjoy the (Reflub) comedy show.

  • Franca Zito

    As a Canadian looking in from the North, it is appalling to see the disrespectful discourse from either the left or the right. I live in a country that also has a left, a right, and in between many other parties to choose from. Our election ballots usually have 6 to 8 choices. When I hear the far right candidates such as Santorum speak, I am extremely happy to be a Canadian. Our conservative party is no where near your conservative party. Conservatives are suppose to be fiscally conservative with small government but what I see is religion injecting itself into government. Women treated as second class citizens, like they are incapable of taking their own decisions. In what world are these conservatives living in? We are no longer the world we were even 20 years ago, and ideas have to keep up with the times in order to survive. The republican party is doomed not only with its own people, but also globally. Before anyone tells me that I am from a socialist country, I will let you know that I live in a capitalist country that has excellent social programs and I am very proud to be a Canadian, even though you don’t agree with us.

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t support Obama in 2008, but I have to agree with Bill Maher.  I had stated last week that I did not think that Brewer poking her finger in the president’s face was the right thing to do.  It showed a lack of respect.

    I still believe in respect for the office of president.  And I have never seen such disrespect for a president in all of my adult life.   As Maher said – the face to face respect. 

    Perhaps it is the internet world we live in – where we can say what we want to another poster – under the safety of anonymity (sp).  Do I dare say it is because he is a black man?  I hope not.

    I only know that even though I disagree with some of Obama’s policies – face to face I would show him the respect due his office.   And I try to never show disrespect to him or his office on a blog site.  He will never know – but I will.  And that matters to me.

    Shouldn’t it matter to all of us? 

  • corri anderson

    Having 8 kids seems kinda selfish to me.  Just sayin’…

  • corri anderson

    “Not only is he unattractive, but he’s rude.”  He makes a good point, I mean who wants to watch someone unattractive, even if they are smart and funny.  Thank goodness Fox rolls out a plethora of hot blondes with zero original thoughts between them.

  • Anonymous

    Bush’s nationality was never challenged because there was not rumors swirling around that he was born in Kenya…and his daughters weren’t made fun of??  please…how about the Bush’s daughters are drunks and such?  This isthe problem with liberals in America…everyday you lose believers because everyday you lie to them…and eventually they realize it – or at least the semi-intelligent ones do.  That’s why Fox News gains more and more viewers and why Hollywood loses more and more money each year.  People are tired of your lies…and they’re waking up and seeing where 70 years of liberal ideology has led this the US.

  • Anonymous

    Want to know who the racist are? in their own words?            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL__p53QKvQ   

    The Obama regime…  front and center  

    You my friend are projecting your shortcommings onto Republicans and your shortage of intellect is evident. Obama is disrepected because he is attempting to bring on socialism and stomp on the Constitution. He is a traitor and should be treated as such. You on the other hand are a dummkopf. Yeah look it up…  Should you be stupid enough to reply back and attempt to defend his racist policies, be sure add some references for some tiny little bit of credibility.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jaime-Freeland/100003073602667 Jaime Freeland

    Great pseudonym! Could it be I found the only other conservative Todd Rundgren fan?

  • Anonymous

    You are correct sir!

  • Anonymous

    Looking forward to hearing about you in the news. Just don’t surrender when the drones come for you. Oh wait, you won’t even see them coming.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/OE3GGFOKL3GXEEFQEJWMEPELTE Frustrated

    Typical lib hate.  I think you are useless and evil but I sure don’t want you to die.   GOD BLESS YOU and I feel sorry for your family, if you have one that claims your hatefulness.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/OE3GGFOKL3GXEEFQEJWMEPELTE Frustrated

    Family values…..you are delusional.  All you libs do you turn a blind eye and cower to him.  I wish you would ask some questions instead of just nodding your heads and kissing his butt.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/OE3GGFOKL3GXEEFQEJWMEPELTE Frustrated

    He even admits he is coward.  We conservative are not afraid to say our piece.  Respect is earned not give just because of a title.  He(obama, yes in lower case) doesn’t respect anyone and deserves no respect in return.  Just because he has a certain position doesn’t mean you can’t have opinions and questions.  You liberals confuse me about the whole “freedom of choice” and then attack people when they chose to disagree with obama.  I learned that the favorite phrase for the liberals whenever you through something back at them is…”that’s different”. They never have answers to problem just attack whatever they didn’t think about to solve any problems, which they don’t.

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