Open Thread: Andrew Breitbart on ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’ — Tonight: 10pm EST/ 7pm PST
by Big Hollywood
Big Hollywood’s own Andrew Breitbart is a guest tonight on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher.” He’s joined by comedian Sarah Silverman, professor and author Michael Eric Dyson, and Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post.
The show begins at 10pm ET/ 7pm PT. Those of you with HBO jump on in and tell us what you think. Those of you without can get the latest here.
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Good luck Andrew – tear em up. b/t/w I saw you on Red Eye last night – great nipple dance -HA HA (you were great!)
Why not make it a live blog since some of us don't pay for that crap?
I absolutely detest Maher, he's a revolting diseased cretin. I want to do very unpleasant things to him.
But this I like…….
Ronaldus Magnus vs barack hussein
http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DFR5MweSZjbc
Breitbart on a panel with three bad comedians and an economist(although Dyson doesn't know he's a comedian) . I think there's a joke in the making here. I hope he gets some supplemental danger pay.
Good luck Andrew. Kick some major league leftist wussy butt!
Andrew, don't let them cut you off.
Man, one comment and I'm already in moderation. Maher just brings out the worst in me.
dude, you're getting MESSED up
Listening to Maher speak is like listening to some dumba.. high schooler spout off about what the world is really like.
Add in the car salesman, clown wannabe on the far left and the crowd that's drinking Maher's bathwater and this isn't worth watching. I'm gone.
Maher just stayed out of the debate. He really couldn't get a word in with the Professor Open Mic on there. Breitbart knocked it out.
Will this make you the token right winger? Sarah Silverman is the new Janine Garafalo, only a little more annoying and a little less attractive….good luck man !
Not to mention Maher's audience.
Just got back from church — what happened? (don't have HBO).
Janine can be one of my 12 wives that everybody knows all us Mormons have….wait, dang it I forgot that only happens on HBO anymore. I was so hoping she was the traitor on "24", then art really would imitate life. Bill is what we Latter Day Saints call a "Modern Day Coriantumr". He was a guy who denied the Christ, had lots of followers and tried to perpetuate his beliefs by getting followers to give him money so he could get rich……..Makes me say hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm….
Bill is what my people call a "Modern Day P.O.S."
Andrew should be sainted after that pseudo-speak fest. Dyson's nonsensical "articulations" were nearly impossible to understand and Andrew showed incredible restraint and poise.
Basically, the black guy kept saying that Republicans are "ad hominemizing" or some non-word like that. Andrew tried to explain that it's been their side that attacked Bush, which incensed the black guy who kept insisting that no one ever said anything bad about Bush other than to state their disagreement with his policies. Andrew seemed stunned by the unreality and tried to refute that, but Maher dropped a little verbal defecation on Bush and then his crowd cackled like a clique of grade school girls trying to support their friend against the "evil girl." After that I kind of lost interest and switched over to watch the last part of Battlestar Gallactica.
Maybe someone else can finish the story?
That's true, he showed incredible restraint. If it were me, I would have punctuated my points with a baseball bat.
Too funny……:)
peeps like u can't understand anything that doesn't benefit u at the expense of people who actually make a difference. get a life you POS
Once more and this time try putting it in English. Idiot.
Dyson is utterly infuriating to listen to or watch. He monopolizes every debate by using 200 words (contradicting himself and sounding utterly ridiculous the entire time) to make a 20-word point and is then treated like he's some kind of profound intellectual. Is it me, or does he appear to be doing some kind of bizarre, Don King-inspired performance art?
My dream is to get on that show and argue with Bill Maher. His basic approach is to ask a guest a hot topic question and then when that guest is about to formulate the answer, Maher always makes a quick one-line zinger joke, everyone laughs, and then he changes the subject to something completely different by asking his other guest, who completely agrees with him on everything, a new question. Us conservatives should be civil in Government and brash in pop culture. We need to learn to cut people off and jam our POV down their throat while sill making the audience laugh.
"Every word is delineated into a code word. Drop the double talk and speak plain to me." Andrew to Michael Eric Dyson who did little beyond furthering the black agenda.
Dyson made a fool of himself. I din't see it either, but I'll dance out on a limb.
The only way you could debate a Bill Maher would be like those chess matches people play through the mail. I'd do it in writing. A back and forth on paper with no audience and no ad hominem. It would allow you to pick apart his lies and asides and quips and deconstruct the snark he calls logic. He would never agree to that, though. For obvious reasons.
Can Andrew Breitbart get some time to speak without being called a racist?
Good observation. I think you're right about his style. The best way to meet Maher in a verbal debate is to counter attack — he's actually not good under pressure. You should never let your opponent control the debate (a rule Republican candidates never seem to understand). Loosen up, be yourself, but take control and run the interview/debate.
Absolutely brilliant. It was 150 (or whatever) to 1 in that braindead studio and you refused to back down. When you asked for proof of their ad hominem crap, they stumbled all over themselves. And Dyson needs to send out the inane book of "codewords" so we can know what words to avoid in the future. Of course, the English language would then be reduced to a paltry list of bland words and monosyllabic grunts because almost every single utterance is interpreted by those raging lunatics on the left as "offensive" or "racist" or "intolerant".
Good on you, Andrew. Here's hoping you get asked back regularly. You could make the show watchable again. Somehow, I doubt you will be invited back. Maher seems uncomfortable with getting his pampered, hypocritical hindquarters handed to him.
Actually, I would say you just need a good master of the use of one-liners and an aggressive enough personality to keep up an attack for the entire length of the interview.
Let's be fair….
Sara Silverman is attractive. Not Pam Anderson attractive but certainlky better looking than Garafalo. I don't think she is all that funny and her political acumen is nonexistent. Her voice is like listening to glass scrap over a chalkboard. But she is a "fair" looker. I'd give a 7 on physical looks.
I find it funny that she is this big time feminist married to the guy that got his carreer started doing the Man show. Liberals are such fakes.
You mean like Fox News anchors?
The best way to debate Maher would be drop a lifetime supply of Ex-Lax in his Wheaties before said debate. He wouldn't have a word to say.
No, like MSNBC anchors.
Bill Maher can never be bothered with facts. If anyone tries to use facts or statistics to prove a point he deflects away and makes a joke or panders to asumed common knowledge such as "Bush is Evil" or some other nonsense. It is the same trick that Stewart uses but then John Stewart always has to mug for the camera as to say,"What, It's not Me?" A technique he uses to deflect facts from opinion. These are comedians and they can be funny, but funny is not the same as intelligent or smart, or more importantly wise. I can laugh at Stewart but I do not agree with him and I think that he hurts the country by pretending what he says does not matter. I cannot stand Maher. He is just a mean and stupid little minded man/child who is stuck in puberty.
You could try the gotcha approach. The problem liberals have is that they purposely allow themselves to be ignorant of reality if it is something that counters their latest fad belief. You shoud go on the show and play a Rush endorsing Clinton and no matter what they say you sell it. You start by praising Obama for his effective use of "third way" politics. You explain what "third way" is mechanicly and never admit or discuss the history of the term. You explain that it means that in some areas government should own or control industry and delve into the health care debate. If you are sly enough you could probably get Maher agreeing with you and praising your "third way" insight. Then as the show is ending without any time you let the cat out of the bag and explain that the "third way" approach was first done by Musolini and then Hitler. Course you have to make sure it is a live show so they can't edit the comment out. That suits my sense of humor.
Andrew impressed me tonight. He was composed and coherent, and he didn't take any crap from Maher or Dyson. The cards were massively stacked against him, of course, but he did the best he could under the circumstances. I don't think I've seen a stronger conservative performance on Maher's show.
Andrew you did well. How you kept your cool is beyond me. Right on, when you tagged Dyson by comparing his tangential cocaphoney of words to listening to post modern professors in college. Dyson thinks he's brillant and so does Maher and his adolescent audience. But some of them did hear you, Andrew. I wish I had your poise. You are a great representative for conservative ideas.
"I don't think I've seen a stronger conservative performance on Maher's show."
Took the words right out of my twitter.
Maher didn't use any 'codewords' when he made his racist attack on Bobby Jindal late in the show. It was a staggering example of hypocricy, even for him.
I have some points to make on these comments:
1. It's a shame that the show's (or any show's, for that matter) format and time frame are such that the host practically HAS to interrupt good points with diversions to his/her agenda. This detracts from the depth of the panel's input and almost defeats the 'advertised' purpose of the show in the first place. The same can be said for the Comedy Central shows, Larry King, Bill O'Reily, etc. We can watch overtime of a sports game, which is MANDATORY, but we can't watch as a guest/panel gets into their groove? That sucks.
2. Michael Eric Dyson made a good point (sorry, I know I lost some of you already) about trying to basically vilify intellectual debate when it gets too wordy. I think the average American isn't smart enough, nor patient enough to withstand and manage IMPORTANT debate when it's of utmost urgency. Arguing at length shouldn't be a chore, it should be a basic principle of life. Whether they fought for revolution, invented new technology, or 'changed the game' somehow, every great person had to disagree with the norm or think starkly differently than the majority of the population. Not saying Dyson is that great person, but certainly don't chastise him and those like him for holding higher standards of intellect for their opponents than "stop using big empty words". Every word has meaning, that's what language IS.
3. This is a very general statement, but honestly I tend to hear conservatives use more slanderous terms "i.e., brain-dead, idiots, grunts, lunatics, etc." than anybody else that's serious about what they say. Sure, Maher is one of those brash people as well, but by and large, the major conservative media outlets are some of the most hateful-SOUNDING people, seemingly more focused on that ad hominem crap than elaborating on a point to keep the debate going. See: Papa Bear.
Bottom Line: You're never going to have a show host be so neutral with such great debates. We need to cultivate understanding about each other. I need to watch and read more views that oppose my own, and I think the people that support Andrew should open-mindedly watch more Daily Show and Real Time. Thanks for reading, I know it's long.
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I had a prof. of Govt & Law once tell our class 'If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bulls**t". It's the way of the Left. And apparently it works on a lot of puddin' heads.
Maybe Andrew's best line of the night (to Dyson, who was trying to smear him): "You don't know me, brother."
The most laughably outrageous line of the night – Dyson:(cutting Andrew off and going into a thousand-word diatribe): "I can speak articulately". This seemed odd, given that Joe Biden was criticized for racial insensitivity when he called Obama "articulate". After Dyson's diatribe, Bill Maher then practically patted him on the back for being "articulate". This seemed rather condescending and, dare I say it, racist.
Dyson had one good moment tonight, which was when he tried to explain to Maher that he was a religious person, and that religion does not contradict science – it is a subject separate from science. Maher was of course unable to understand this and stuck to his self-righteous religion-bashing.
Even if Maher did agree, after the first exchange of letters I think your mailbox would be empty JN
Another open minded liberal spouting peace hope and change.
Your definition of hateful though is my definition of Truth….."And in the last days they shall call evil good and good evil" I always liked Nicholas Cage's response to Meg Ryan in "City of Angels when he tells her he is and Angel and she says "I don't believe in that" ……..Some things are True whether you believe them or not!" I am so sick and tired of hearing conservative thoughts and beliefs described as "Hateful" Some things are True even if you think they are hateful…………….
Maher is a bully. He uses his position as moderator to push you into arguing substance while he is busy winning style points. The audience enjoys feeling like they're superior by proxy, like the bully's two friends who watch the bully terrorize the school yard.
The only way to beat him is to realize that it's all about style, not substance, and to counterattack his style. A constant barrage of one-liners and unfair, leading questions would crush him. For example, when he responded to Andrew that he himself went to college, immediately cut him off with "barber or clown" (a Simpson's reference, but a good one) and then toss out a biased question like — "Bill, why do you support providing funding for abortion over seas? Do you have something against foreigners having babies?" (and always do it with a smile). Then hit him with another.
If you play straight man for him, he'll crush you every time.
Dyson is incapable of discussion. He's speaks like a rapper on cocaine, make that "lectures". What's worse is that Maher, as the host, doesn't have the class to interject and referee allowing anyone to get a word in edgewise. He may as well have had ten guests talking over one another. If you're a guest in the future, Andrew, watch the tape of Hitchens when he was on. He owned Maher and the audience. He actually flipped the audience the bird! Classic. They're bullies there and you have to push back to shut them up. You seemed to have finally had it by Overtime and broke loose. Great job.
"Code Words" are not racism. Racism may have a play in using certain configurations of words for one's benefit, but only as much as egotism, belligerence, close-mindedness, or any other perceptual ill-will. What code words really means is that people that are passionate about what they believe in, but tactful enough to not smear it all over their opponents' faces, use euphemisms. So, when talking directly about their opponent, they'll instead say, "people that [do exactly what you do but I won't say YOU] don't seem to understand…etc."
Look, it's not a conservative vs. liberal thing. Every type of person does this. However, the Ann Coulters and Sean Hannitys of the world deserve just as much of a calling-out as the John Stewarts and Bill Mahers. What's funny is, have you ever noticed that making fun of conservatives is funnier than making fun of liberals? I can't say I understand it myself, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't work the other way around, or else somebody would've snagged that market by now.
Bush was our President twice, through what many believe were ill-gotten victories. I don't think it's wrong to talk about Obama if he's screwing up, but I think a lot of people (even conservatives) got mad at the way Bush handled things, and luckily we live in a country that allows for the freedom of expression. UNluckily, a lot of Americans aren't responsible with that freedom, and they end up taking it too far. I HATED Bush, but I would never wish death or pain on anybody. That's just retarded. At the end of the day, people from both sides of the fence are going to throw their jabs; let's not take it too hard, but rather respect the validity of our opponents and TRY to gain a better understanding of the world through the eyes of someone else.
It was great to have this back-and-forth.
I tried to emphasize that the words are hateful-SOUNDING. I guess I should've said inflammatory.
What YOU say is true is actually what YOU HAVE FAITH is true. There's nothing wrong with that, but that doesn't equal truth. Truth is the summation of all knowledge. Not just one theology or one philosophy. Why? Because truth is beyond one man's perception. We as human beings don't have it all figured out. Even when we create deities that try to embody the supposed truth that we can't perceive, they (the deities) are still conceived and perceived by us, and so they are man-made. There is more truth in what you and I AGREE on than what you and I DISAGREE on.
THAT…is the truth. Peace, I'm going to a friend's. Take care.
It's hard not to agree with generalized statements; but it would be helpful if you could give some specific examples of conservative hate speech that you personally were offended by.
Couple points in response. First, I am one of those conservatives who was very upset at Bush. I never hated Clinton, though I didn't like him, and I don't hate Obama either — though I do hate Pelosi and Reid. I am willing to give Obama a chance, but he's failing FAST in my book. I was very angry that many on the left never gave Bush a chance, and I agree that too many Americans (right and left) fail miserably in their responsibilities to maintaining an open debate.
Second, I agree that the Coulters and Hannity's should be called out when they step over the line. True. I do not agree that it's funnier to make fun of conservatives than liberals. I think that may be your view from the left. I find Coulter to be hilarious whereas I find Maher to be rather tiring. I also think you may be missing one important factor when you say someone would have snagged that market, someone has — Rush. Rush reaches 10 times the number of people each day that Stewart and Maher do combined, and he does it in large part through his humor.
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So, does religion not contradict science when it wants to create embryos for experimentation? Just wondering.
Third, I am always happy to discuss matters respectfully with the other side. Unfortunately, too often these days that's not possible. You've made good points though, and I'd been a pleasure talking to you. Welcome.
Andrew, I hope you'll forgive me. Even for you, I can't watch Bill Maher. I'll just have to wait for your next appearance on Red Eye.
Like Bill Clinton, Andrew, I felt your pain. But did you feel mine? After having vowed to never watch that smug puss of Maher's again, I felt obliged to tune in to see how the Christian fared against the lions. Quite honestly, between having to put up with Maher, "Motor Mouth" Dyson and the noisy puppets in the studio audience, I don't know how you kept a civil tongue in your head. If Maher ever invites you back, pick up the phone and call me. I will try my best to talk you down. If that doesn't work, I'll lend you a Glock.
Regards, Burt
you are a brave man!
Dyson writes nonsensical books and is known for neologisms. "Afristocracy" and "Ghettocracy" are some of the more famous ones. If you think he's bad on TV, read one of his books. His high-speed babble is another reason I won't watch the show. He has berated Bill Cosby for daring to suggest that individual responsibiliy has to replace race-blame in the black community. A Baptist preacher with a PhD writing paeans of praise for Tupac Shakur. He almost makes Bill Maher look sane.
Hi Jack – just ordered your book on Amazon! So excited! I will be reading it on my trip (not to Montserrat). Anything I should know? Is this the trip you got Yellow fever on? I can't remember. Yeah!!! I am so excited!!!! So many exclamations!!!!
I love the whole term "code word." The people on the opposing side take it on themselves to define how it is conservatives are articulated, which gives them the power to say "we need to get people off welfare" mean "we hate giving free money to black people." Nevermind, more whites are on public assistance than blacks. Basically, any calling card or motto can be twisted for their convenience and benefit.
It's primarily used in the race debate and it's done what the left intended – silence people with its p.c connotations and give them an infinitely long whip to lash those they disagree. It's why I can argue race with a leftist, and eventually get it narrowed down that I'm at first racist for being a Republican, then from being from Ohio, and finally the cause being I was born white.
Hitchens proper and just retort to the frivolities of Maher's pavlovian mob was both simple, effective and quite the correct response.
You reminded me of an old New Yorker cartoon. Two very highly-educated psychobabble parents are looking at the ruins of the house their little boy has just burned to the ground. They look at him and gently say, "It's not you we hate, it's what you did." Obama is burning America's economic and moral house to the ground. I hate what he's doing.
I see Stewart's smirk and Maher's condescension and I wonder how they would have performed on Firing Line with an in-his-prime BIll Buckley. Take them out of their act, the pomposity would die pretty quick.
Maybe it was dengue… Dengue? I cannot remember whether it was what i had or another mosquito borne illness. GOD! Fans are so annoying… ; ))
First, its great to cherry-pick your audience, isn't it Bill? Secondly, Andrew, I applaud your courage for venturing into that venue of divisiveness of the 'drive-by media'. We need more of people like you, the courageous, to inspire us on the sidelines to lift ourselves off the couch to say, and act "No, this is wrong". Thank you.
LOL!! I truly don't have any ill will toward him personally. He seems nice enough. I despise his politics though and what he's trying to do to my country.
LOL!! I truly don't have any ill will toward him personally. He seems nice enough. I despise his politics though and what he's trying to do to my country.
Please don't revoke my membership to BH!
She only dated Jimmy Kimmel.
Yup, here's the clip. It says everything you need to know about the show in 45 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoclaTQWzvc
1. Hitchens is the token non-conservative of the week.
2. He tries to calmly present a counter-argument to the prevailing "wisdom" of the show.
3. Before he can finish, Maher cuts him off with another tired unverified Bush "fact".
4. The audience cheers wildly upon hearing Bush being insulted.
5. Hitchens gives the crowd the respect it deserves.
As for the show tonight, I have HBO and I stopped watching this program long ago. I applaud Andrew's efforts, but I don't know why he bothered. Andrew would have been better off going to a Jonas Brothers' concert and trying to convert people to AC/DC.
I can appreciate that your willing to debate and don't require four letter words to do so and for that I say thank you.
"Truth is the summation of all knowledge," that seems like quite a tall order for the word.
I think one man or woman can surmise truth with out an entire understanding of all things.
The truth I think you are referring to is omnipotence. It's more of a god like quality than a man or woman like quality
The right using more mean words than the left only indicates selective listening.
It's a tough sell to say that at some point some great people had to go against the grain. Of course they did but for every great person going against the grain there are a hundred thousand idiots doing the exact same thing.
I don't have cable so didn't see it but in re: Hitchens the best of them (British) can slice and dice a dullard with the recipient not even knowing it until it is too late. Would have loved to have seen that debate. And they will cut with just a simple polite sentence or 2.
That's what irritates me about most of these "debates" you have to talk over your other "guests" to be heard or be a wallflower for the entire segment. Seeing Ari Fleischer slice up Chris Mathews was worth the price of admission.
Well put old boy. (insert bad British accent)
Wow, great clip!
OK. But you're on report.
He also cavalierly used the term "homo" at one point. The cashmere mafia should be calling for his head by now. They would if Andrew said that.
So basically, you need to be a trained standup comedian to go face to face with him live. As you said, I would like to see Dennis Miller and him go at it.
I watched 9 minutes of this on youtube and it's aggravating to watch. He who talks most wins. Dyson would not shut up or actually argue a single counter point.
He blames teachers…WOW…..a majority of teachers sit on the left side of the aisle. He blames unions….WOW….another function of the left. Is Dyson really attacking the institutions that he is trying to prop up as a defense to his opinions. I did agree with him on those two points but that was pretty much it. Although blaming teachers for having to be security guards in the school system is more a reflection of the parents and the society.
The audience had approximately 2 conservatives from my ability to judge the number of claps.
I've got to give a lot of credit of Breitbart for not reaching over and slapping Dyson. While Dyson was stunned Breitbart may have gotten a word in. That is what makes me cringe so much about the left the constant onslaught of words with out an apparent need to breath. Nor a need to actually address the argument put before them.
My hats off to you Sir I would not have been able to control my rage in a moment such as that. I must admit I'm a firm believer in the conservative JUDO CHOP when basic dialogue fails.
Andrew,
GREAT job on Bill Maher; I don't know if I saw it live but I watched on Friday March 13 to see you up against a pompous self-aggrandizing “professor” from Georgetown University. It is appalling that our society sees education as the sole identifier for someone’s worth in this life. Since when has intelligence been measured only by a piece of overpriced paper on the wall? I have an MBA in Marketing and people are usually impressed with that BUT when I tell them I got it online while working as an adult and a father of three I get the obligatory…Oh, you got it online. Did Ben Franklin go to an Ivy League school??? I would NEVER EVER EVER let my children attend Harvard, Georgetown, Boston University, or New York University under any circumstances. In this country the most beautiful thing about the American Dream is that you DON’T NEED A COLLEGE DEGREE to achieve it!!!
The best part about watching that 9 minutes was that Sarah Silverman was not there.
IVY LEAGUE!?!?!? Why in hedes is that synonymous with good education? Shouldn't good education be based on truth and ACTUAL historical evidence? Here is a piece of historical evidence turned into a question: When has Keynesian economic theory worked? Has government OVERSPENDING ever resulted in a sustainable situation? UGH!! I'm getting off the couch and running for supervisor in a Democratic controlled county in ARIZONA since 1875…wish me luck!
Good work tonight Andrew, first time I've watched Maher's show although your segment was all I could stomach.
I'd like to see someone tear into Maher and his insistence that science is soooo different from religion and is based entirely on fact. It was only a brief part of the show but he got real indignant and puffed up when it was suggested that organized religion and science have some things in common.
Apparently he believes that a scientific theory is proven if there's a "scientific consensus" lined up behind it. And if a slick movie and Nobel Prize winner can spew the same dogma, well you're preaching to the choir now.
So ironic that he belittles "faith."
Wow, amazing articulation. Go back to Daily Kos, take a few deep breaths, and come back when you've regained your strength from this supreme effort.
The only thing worse than Bill's lame jokes and that Dyson character giving a sermon-lecture, is that Real Time audience. They are further to the left than anyone on stage tonight; even Maher's Obama monologue jokes caused them to get all confused and flustered.
First off, I would like to thank Andrew for reminding me why I stopped watching Maher about five years ago. Anyone who doesn't toe Maher's leftist elitist line gets shouted down, talked over, or called a bigot. For a guy who used to tout himself as "Politically Incorrect," he's sure become one of the leading PC thugs in this country.____I've never posted here before and do so now only because Michael Eric Dyson infuriated me so much. That thing someone said about him making a point about villifying intellectual debate when it gets too wordy? BS. He is intentionally wordy to keep the opposing view from being heard. And I've rarely heard Dyson say anything that could be characterized as intellectual. He just uses big words and talks really fast so no one else gets a word in edgewise and so no one can tell just how full of it he is. You can weave garbage into a tapestry -and man can he ever- but punching up the presentation doesn't mask the smell. To be continued.
You can watch parts of it on youtube. It's rather nauseating at times. If it's a question of who's right and who's wrong and the deciding factor is amount of time spent talking….well Andrew lost. Dyson goes on rants longer than Dennise Miller and he lacks the comedic styling.
Dyson blamed schools and unions, which was refreshing to hear, for the bad education of impoverished children. It was refreshing to hear but the reasoning seemed a tad off target.
Daniel in the lions den comes to mind but the lions didn't just lay down this time.
Andrew made quite a few great points but they seemed to get lost in the Maher mire and clapping police frenzy.
From the 18 minutes of youtube vid that I saw it's almost what one would unfortunately expect.
Hats off to Andrew for not wiping out an assault rifle and reducing the number of sycophants in the world.
My main complaint about Dyson though was this "code word" business. Someone needs to point out that his "Racist thought can inhabit black skin" comment was itself code for epithets like sell-out, Uncle Tom, Oreo, and house slave. These code words are commonly employed to denigrate and marginalize black conservatives. And I do not use the term epithet lightly or by accident. Each of these terms bears the same connotation. They are used to describe people as not being "legitimately black." To me there is no difference between these terms being used to describe a Michael Steele or a Condaleeza Rice and a guy in a pointy white hood calling another white man a "race traitor" or… a more offensive term I won't post because I don't know the site's TOS. It just makes me sick that people like Dyson get away with employing tactics that are essentially no different than those used by the KKK half a century ago and no one ever calls them on it because they're black and liberal. Racism is racism and it's all equally ugly.
Besides which, wasn't the whole point of the Civil Rights Movement to give black Americans the same rights as everyone else? Isn't the right to make up your own mind somewhere among them? Apparently only if you make up your mind to think what Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the NAACP tell you you should think. Otherwise you get called a traitor to your race if you're black and a racist if you're white. It's disgusting.
Sorry for being so wordy. And thanks for letting me vent.
That was ridiculously funny and unfortunately sad at the same time, trolls have feelings too…… it's intellectual power that they lack cut them some slack……..Or their venomous head off either way.
Welcome to the party Bryan! Vent away there are few places left to do so. From what I've seen so far here is that people love logic and hate mantras. Truth to power…ooops
I saw that part as well and had to laugh hysterically. All I could think is Algore and his new or metastasized environmental religion.
"For a guy who used to tout himself as "Politically Incorrect," he's sure become one of the leading PC thugs in this country."
This is correct, and very ironic. the same thought occurred to me when Maher was patting himself and Sarah Silverman on the back for "never bowing down to political correctness". In fact, neither of those two are particularly "politically incorrect". They're just potty-mouthed and aggressive poseurs. (And come on, does anyone still find Silverman's shtick of talking dirty in a little-girl voice funny, if it was ever funny in the first place?)
Andrew Breitbart, by batting down false charges of racism and by defending black conservatives, was the only person on today's show who was "politically incorrect".
In that same show Hitchens said that Bush was smarter than anyone in the audience, while giving the audience the finger at the same time. Maher and his audience got a great dose of reality and a good old fasion b.tch slap. Hitchens dealt with Maher the appropriate way just keep talking and make your point, don't let Maher try and side track you with a Bush is dumb joke.
Despite Garafalo's bad hair and ridiculous politics, I still find her considerably more attractive and less irritating than Sara Silverman. Granted, comparing the two seems weird, since one is an aging hipster who actually made some decent movies in the 90's, and is an activist type of the big money liberal persuasion and the other is best known for sitting on Jimmy Kimmel's face and trying to be edgy by picking on helpless tards such as Britney Spears at the MTV Awards show.
okay…Sara Silverman isn't the new Janine Garafalo…she's that chick who used to get grants from the NEA so she could smear herself in pudding on stage at NYU
I really don't get why my comment is "in moderation". I didn't insult anyone or use foul language. To the contrary, I supported and expanded on a couple of points Bryan made.
Glad to see you on Twitter Andrew.
Speaking of twits, why is it that comedians such as Maher, Leibowitz-aka Jon Stewart, late night hosts, et al, represent the best dem dim Dems have to offer? And people eat it up! I don’t get it.
It happens every now and again for no good reason. It might be in moderation because of the length. I've had many comments in moderation that lacked swearing or insults. It will probably show up later.
Why is it that idiots like Maher, Leibowitz-aka Jon Stewart, late night hosts, et al, carry the torch for dem dim Dems? Is this the best they have to offer, representative of duh Dems intellectual hierarchy? And people eat it up! Wow!
Arguing with someone like Dr. Dyson is like entering an elaborate world of fiction, and the only way you can "prove" a point is by justifying your remarks with other fiction writers.
Evan Sayet is my intellectual hero.
The way socialists gain power in academia is by eroding language. It leads to polarization, an Alinskyite tactic. People lose their cool and start yelling. Then when you are on emotional terrain, the leftist shames you. Then the leftist surveys who came to your defense, scoping the terrain.
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