Bill Maher on Obama, “Republican lite”

“Shouldn’t there be one party that unambiguously supports cutting the military
budget, a party that is straight up in favor of gun control, gay marriage, higher taxes
on the rich, universal health care – legalizing pot – and steep, direct taxing of
polluters? These aren’t radical ideas. A majority of Americans are either already for
them or would be if they were properly argued and defended.”
“Hey, Bill, we’re over here! What you described is the GREEN PARTY! We already exist!”
An Open Letter to Bill Maher from the Green Party
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=231

“Maybe you forgot about us because the major media have an aversion to mentioning

the Green Party and our candidates. Maybe the FCC has banned “Green Party” along
with the late George Carlin’s seven dirty words, “Chomsky,” “End the Drug War,”
and other language that offends delicate sensibilities.”

Are you fed up with sanity being left out of “the public political discourse”?
Then have a good laugh while absorbing

some of the best political analysis available!
Time to see some best of Bill Maher and guests like Naomi Klein.
In ascending chronological order:
June 19, 2009
Opening Monolog
“the AMA, if you’re not sick, we’re not doing our job” ; 7:38
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XhhKwppeO8&feature=related
New Rules
“Democrats have become Republican lite” ; 7:51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtUAHPYYzeM&feature=related

“bottom line? Democrats are the new republicans”
“we don’t have a left and a right party in this country anymore,
we have a center right party and a crazy party.
And over the last thirty odd years,
Democrats have moved to the right,
and the right has moved into a mental hospital.”

“look folks, i like Obama too, I’m just saying,
let’s not make it a religion. …

every time Obama tries to take on another on another progressive
ccause there’s a major political party standing in his way,
the Democrats.
People talk a lot about a third party in America,
we don’t need a third party, we need a first party.
You go to the polls and your choices are the guy who voted for the
first Wall Street bailout, or the guy who voted for the next ten.

This week we’re hearing that a public option for health care is unlikely,
because it doesn’t have the support of enough Democrats.
Even Ted Kennedy’s plan (Ted Kennedy yeah!),
leaves 37 million uninsured.

This is because we don’t have a left and a right party
in this country anymore,
we have a center right party and a crazy party.
And over the last thirty odd years,
Democrats have moved to the right,
and the right has moved into a mental hospital.

So, what we have is one perfectly good party for hedge fund managers,
credit card companies, banks, defense contractors, big agriculture,
and the pharmaceutical lobby, that’s the Democrats,
and they sit across the aisle from a small group of religious fanatics,
flat earthers, and Civil War reenacters,
who mostly communicate by AM radio
and call themselves the Republicans.
And who actually worry that Obama is a Socialist.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtUAHPYYzeM&feature=related 7:51
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In case you think it is just Bill and I who feel this way, here are some reports of
a couple recent polls that show we are not alone in being disappointed about Dem’s performance this year:

Strategists Worry Obama’s Popularity is Dropping – Kenneth T. Walsh - July 1, 2009
Some worry Obama’s honeymoon with the public and the media may be over
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/obama/2009/07/01/strategists-worry-obamas-popularity-is-dropping.html
Rasmussen Poll: Obama’s Popularity Plunging – June 30, 2009 7:27 PM
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_rasmussen_poll/2009/06/30/230686.html
Barack Obama’s honeymoon with voters is over, polls suggests – June 23, 2009
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6557276.ece
Barack Obama’s honeymoon on the wane – June 19, 2009
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25656299-2703,00.html
“Obama honeymoon coming to an end”: NBC - Jun 18, 2009 9:59am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE55H36820090618
Honeymoon Over: It’s On Obama’s Watch Now – June 18, 2009 – 12:26 a.m.
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003146528
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6-19-09
Overtime with Bill Maher; opening ; 6:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPd_uqjeYCg&feature=related
6-19-09
Overtime: Paul Begala Schools Meghan McCain!;4:33
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiVlZo6a5aA&feature=related

6-19-09
CNN Situation Room ; 1:34
“This country needs a left wing. It doesn’t have it.
And part of the reason is the media!”
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=ydaGZuqGnz
http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20090616100543.aspx

JUNE 16, 2009
CNN: Maher explains Obama criticism; defends Letterman ; 6:09
“The way George Bush… He didn’t care if it was approved …

 

 

by the Magna Carta! He just did what he wanted to do.
And i would like to see a bit of that,
in Barak Obama.”
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid6555681001?bctid=26554158001
http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/06/bill-maher-obama-david-letterman.html 

June 15, 2009
Keith Olbermann; Countdown: Bill Maher Talks About Taking On Obama ; 6:04
“where’s the beef?
and it’s easy to make speeches,
and what’s hard to do is stand up against corporations.
Corporations, and their incredible strength
are what has ruined this country, so far…
If not now, when?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ2L1aQy-io
http://tigger500.typepad.com/thoughts/2009/06/more-on-bill-mahers-obama-critique.html

June 13, 2009 ;
“you don’t have to be on TV everyday, you’re the President”; 5:22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWulnfog20c

April 10, 2009
Ron Howard on Realtime with Bill Maher ; 4:28
“Look, if you’re gonna make an endorsement like that,
you know, start, start by humiliating your self, a and a um,
and then be as modest about it as possible.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CgbvIasKUA&feature=related 

March 28, 2009
Bill Maher discusses Obama’s Marijuana statement ; 9:55
with Salmon Rushdie, Mos Def, Christopher Hitchens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqAOnUbvNn0

March 27, 2009
Mos Def Vs Christopher Hitchens, with Salmon Rushdie ; 8:48
(if confused, refer to November 16, 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKwziTJfMbg&feature=related

March 07, 2009
Bill Maher smacks down Wall Street ; 5:17
“”hang them from the stock exchange”", ”with their balls in their mouth”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8EGzEv21dw&feature=related

March 6, 2009
Bill Maher Explains the Healthcare Crisis; too good to quote ; 1:35
memorize it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aitvFZTOrp4&feature=related

January 08, 2009
Bill Maher And Barack Obama on Yahoo News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh8i_FzHVTU&feature=related

January 05, 2009
Bill Maher rant on Big Pharma - Pharmaceutical industry
vs nutrition and common sense ; 3:59
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6x7cx9f7k&feature=related

November 18, 2008
Janeane Garofalo Making alot of sense on Bill Maher ; 9:34
“Custer Battles” (TM)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT5SA71vETk&feature=related 

November 16, 2008
Mos Def and Bill Maher - Pollitics ; 10:38
“I’m from the projects, I know danger,
I don’t feel no danger from that shit” (terrorism)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvO5kD4yr1Y&feature=related

November 10, 2008
Bill Maher New Rules about Obama’s Victory 6:12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0TEc4Kg9VU&feature=related 
September 19, 2008
Naomi Klein on Real Time Live with Bill Maher w/ Shock Doctrine ; 8:13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCHBLt-w9wE&feature=related

September 20, 2008
Most IMPORTANT Point EVER Made by Bill Maher!!! ; 3:41
“Terrorism, as bad as it is, should not control our lives”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmCC_jasq0E&feature=related

11 April 2008
“Atheist” Richard Dawkins on Bill Maher ; 6:26
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tRpbkpNpgw&feature=related
March 01, 2008
“Atheist” Christopher Hitchens W/ Bill Maher Mashup ; 6:48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3viGlD-6STs&feature=related
October 13, 2007
Maher on Blackwater in Iraq ; 5:11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtkGMuWNyuY&feature=related

October 13, 2007
Naomi Klein’s ”Shock Doctrine” on Maher; from Amsterdam ; 5:39
“now we all know that it’s Comunism is when the government
takes over private business, but,
when Corporations take over the government
that is what has been defined as Facism.
Do you think that’s where we’re at?
“Yeah, or Corporatism …
you can call it crony capitalism or corporatism,
but it’s certianly not the free market”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHMuiJwM23M&feature=related

May 14, 2007
Bill Maher interviews Christoper Hitchens ; 6:29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqNKD_nmXqM&feature=related