Bill Maher

Rightbloggers Revel in Romney Rout, But Good Job Numbers Put Them Back in Tinfoil

Rightbloggers had one of their best weeks of the campaign. First their candidate, Mitt Romney, bested President Obama in a debate, and then the Labor Department posted a drop in the U.S. unemployment rate. Both events convinced them of impending electoral victory, as the first proved that the Presid ... More >>

Arbitrage

What Celebrities Had To Say About Clint Eastwood's Chair Routine

At the Republican convention last night, Clint Eastwood made jaws drop by talking to an empty chair--no, not one of the ones from the theater for his last movie. It was supposed to represent Obama, who was invisible (though I'm pretty sure I heard him cackling from miles away) as the Oscar winner t ... More >>

Kumaré

Bill Maher Says "America's Not Number One!"

A lot of triumphalists want to keep alive the idea that America is at the forefront of everything, the same rah-rah spirit that's inflated our egos and sometimes has us coming off downright piggish in our world views. But comic observer Bill Maher disagrees. "Really?" says Bill. "Always waving th ... More >>

NY Post's Abby Schachter: 'The Left' Is Unpatriotic for Complaining About Racism

Did you know that complaining about racism makes you unpatriotic and means that you have a (bad) attitude toward America? Well, it doesn't, but that's what the New York Post's Abby Schachter suggests. "Bill Maher pretty much summed up the left's attitude toward the United States when he declared ... More >>

Donald Trump Raises $600,000 For Romney Campaign By Throwing Birthday Bash For Candidate's Wife

Let's face it: the possible First Lady has had a rough week. The news cycle was head over heels with the recent housewife controversy that sparked between the Romney tent, Hillary Rosen and Bill Maher. You know, that whole comment about Ann "never actually [working] a day in her life." Yeah, th ... More >>

May The Holidays Bring....

​*A toast to Marcus Bachmann: "Bottoms up!" *Lindsay Lohan living behind bars instead of dancing on top of them. *Mothers who keep tiaras off their toddlers.

Sarah Palin Is The Kim Kardashian Of Politics

David Shankbone/Wikipedia​That's the contention of this very enjoyable article by Mike Lupica in the New Yortk Daily News. Says Lupica: "As Bill Maher likes to put it, when Palin ran for Vice President, her idea of a 'gotcha' question was being asked what she likes to read. "Palin's truest ... More >>

American Idol: No Judging, Please, We're Only Being Paid Gobs Of Money To Do So

Michael Becker/FOX​Hey, remember when enough people would get voted off American Idol and the show would go down to a much saner 60-minute running time? That was nice. Now, with only five people left, we still get a 90-minute show, with all the contestants singing twice. Maybe Fox is just dete ... More >>

Is Western Coverage of Japan Veering Into "Disaster Porn"?

Reuters via NYT​An idea getting thrown around on the Internet is that American news networks' coverage of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is a form of "disaster porn." This post from Tokyo photographer Rikki Kasso's blog reposted on Tumblr sums up the argument: Please everybody do not re ... More >>

Super Bowl: Biggest, Greatest, Most Important Day on Earth? So They Say.

Jan. 28, 2011 Clip - New Rule: Irritable Bowl Syndrome If we are to believe a new poll conducted by the market research and consulting firm Penn Schoen Berland, Sunday's Super Bowl matchup between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers will be the most important day in American history & ... More >>

Does Oprah Promote Greed?

​Sure she does, and as someone who adores grubbing for all sorts of things, I think that's marvelous! But satirical commentator Bill Maher objected to her recent, elaborate series of giveaway shows and said so in a sardonic holiday-themed video he just made waves with. Well, last night on MS ... More >>

Zach Galifianakis Sparks a Joint on Real Time With Bill Maher

In a few days, California voters will decide on Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana and allow the local government to regulate and tax the drug. The federal government has warned that no matter what the voters decide, federal law will remain the same and smoking marijuana will be a probl ... More >>

Ann Coulter Sells It Hard in the Style Section

​Only a few years after Ann Coulter called John Edwards a "faggot," she spoke to a room of conservative homosexuals at Homocon 2010. Marriage, she told them, "is not a civil right - you're not black." Presumably, they clapped for her. ("She boasted of having several gay friends.") The New York ... More >>

Stuff Crazy White People Like: 3 Ways Rightbloggers Deal (or Don't) With Race

You may have noticed the controversy over last week's Voice cover story, "White America Has Lost Its Mind" by Steven Thrasher. The story has drawn at this writing more than a thousand comments, many of them devoted to proving Thrasher's proposition by example. Among the more choice reader contribu ... More >>

NY Times Calls Christine O'Donnell Hot, Lets Her Say "Slut" in Sorta Sexist Story

​Christine O'Donnell is most famous, thus far, for her personality, not her politics. She, as we all know, hates masturbation, but used to hang out with Bill Maher and play around with witchcraft and boys who liked Satan. Warlocks? She is not a virgin! This weekend, she made the New York Times ... More >>

Rightbloggers Beat Off Charges of Lunacy in Christine O'Donnell's Masturbation, Satanism Remarks

When Christine O'Donnell beat Mike Castle last week to become the GOP nominee in the Delaware Senatorial race, a clown car pulled up and several bizarre O'Donnell quotes came piling out. The most famous of these, so far, are probably her remarks on the sure-fire comedy topics of masturbation and Sat ... More >>

Bill Maher Has Masturbation-Hating Christine O'Donnell By the Balls Because She 'Dabbled in Witchcraft' on a 'Satanic Altar'

Oh, this is almost too much to handle. Think Progress, by way of The Daily What, points us toward the above video of Bill Maher on the subject of everyone's latest favorite crazy white person, Christine O'Donnell, who is a real live candidate for the United States Senate who loathes lust and reall ... More >>

Meet Nutty Mainstream Christians in Waiting for Armageddon

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Twitpic by StWiltshire. The last full week of the election campaign was sorta fun -- as it should have been with Mayor Bloomberg spending $37,000 an hour on it. And it worked: the big papers endorsed him, as did another Democrat, and polls showed him way out of Bill Thompson's reach. We still su ... More >>

Q&A: Bill Maher on Catholicism, Obama, Gore Vidal, Polanski, and Never Making Another Movie

Photo courtesy Alberto Tolot/HBO Way back during the Clinton Administration, Bill Maher had the wonderful idea of letting a comedian -- himself -- talk regularly with politicians and political commentators about current events on TV. Politically Incorrect turned poli-chat into something non-wonks ... More >>

Swine Flu Vaccine PANIC: Do We Have Enough, and Will It Kill Us?

Swine flu vaccines will be in New York schools next week -- unless they run out: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius admits there's not enough to go around at present. "Demand is ahead of the yield," she says; Senator Joe Lieberman says there are 30 million doses available, as oppo ... More >>

Revolution 2009: The Beatles Remasters

The new versions might not strike you as drastically different. Buy some anyway.

Let's Have a Moratorium on Jacko Remarks

​Well, just one, actually. Everyone from me to Bill Maher still thinks it's hilarious to say something on the order of "Michael Jackson started as a black man and he ended up a white woman." You can't turn on the TV or pick up the phone or crawl into a sewer without hearing someone say that ve ... More >>

Emmy Nominees Include The Family Guy, Ernest Borgnine; Jon & Kate Snubbed

Emmy-nominated The Family Guy featuring Emmy-nominated Seth MacFarlane. For us the joy of the Emmy Nominations, announced this morning, is in the less-well-known categories. We see that there are only two shows, for instance, up for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction Program: Grandpa, Do You Know ... More >>

News Roundup: Trent Reznor, Eminem, M.I.A., Pearl Jam

--Trent Reznor spoke out against former protege Marilyn Manson, saying, "He is a malicious guy and will step on anybody's face to succeed and cross any line of decency. Seeing him now, drugs and alcohol now rule his life and he's become a dopey clown." The Nine Inch Nails mastermind doesn't hold bac ... More >>

Kirby Dick's Outrage Outs Closeted Pols and the Media that Protect Them

Best Doorman In Town, Derek Neen

The most important personages in New York after midnight, doormen set the tone for a club by weeding out undesirables while making the welcomed throngs feel more special than prize pigs at a state fair. The best at this particular craft is Derek Neen, who guards the door at Beige on Tuesdays at B Ba ... More >>

THE JOKER

Christopher Hitchens Calls Mos Def "Mr. Definitely" on Bill Maher

One of the things most entertaining slash most infuriating about rappers straying, whether intentionally or otherwise, onto political talk shows is the inability of their hosts and fellow guests to call them by their given names. Hence a smirking Dennis Miller calling Young Jeezy both "Emphysema" ... More >>

"Obama is a Fascist" Watch Continues

After Obama fired the General Motors CEO, we predicted rightbloggers would take to calling him a fascist. And we were right! Now, to follow up -- fascism and related accusations since lunch: "[Bill Maher] can't even see that FASCISM is right under his nose, under the name of Barack HUSSEIN Obama" ... More >>

Liveblogging the Academy Oscar Awards! Part III!

Additional, excellent live-blogging here with Allison Benedikt at Sound of the City. The King of All Oscar Predictors walks among you in Part III. Will this hubris bring us low? Watch and judge! Oh no, Ben Stiller, you are not. Natalie Portman, good straight woman. Stiller probably thinks he's C ... More >>

Bill Maher Takes Us to Hell!

Sally Hawkins just grins, while Greg Kinnear spills the Soup

Bill Maher Makes an Adolescent Case Against Religion in Religulous; Muslim Comics Play It Safe in Allah Made Me Funny

Oh, God! You devil's advocate

Bill Maher on Obama, Clinton and McCain

'Fuck'

Name Games

Cause for concern, wonderment: Leader of the free world calls the Russian leader Pootie-Poot

They Came for Bubba and I Said Nothing, for I Was Not a Love Sponge

Liberal Comforters

Jon and Bill: The hosts who make us laugh when we'd rather cry

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The Pleasure Channel

The Year in TV

Concerning Sotoligarchy

What happens when the rich and powerful rule the stupid? It's called America.

It's DéJà Vu All Over Again as Bush and Gore Rerun for Office

Staying in the Game

How Bill Maher Got Dixie Chicked and Survived

Queen for a Night

Gay Hosts Undermine Talk Show Macho

On Being Called a Commie

Red-Baiting in a World Without Reds

The Price of Unity

Our Greatest Danger Is Becoming the Same

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Backlash

Can’t Take the Fag jokes? Dude, That’s Sooo Gay!

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