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Bill Maher Tells Andrew Sullivan: "It Was Not That Hard to See Bush Was a Moron in 2000" [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard at 8:28 AM on October 27, 2007.


Sullivan admits that he was fooled once by Bush and Maher tears him up for not waking up to what Bush was about before then.
Andrew Sullivan on Bill Maher's Show

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Andrew Sullivan has a few questions for the Republican candidates. If you could go back in time and abort Osama Bin Laden would you do it? The other is that if you could prevent a terrorist attack by having sex with a man would you do it? Sullivan responds by saying that people need to keep their priorities in mind with what they're concerned with in politics, and that gay marriage isn't something that is a threat to this country.

The conversation (which also includes tennis legend Martina Navratilova and Gen. Wesley Clark) turns to one about the politics of fear that have been used to keep people in office while destroying our civil liberties. Sullivan admits that he was fooled once by Bush and Maher tears him up for not waking up to what Bush was about before then. Check out the video to your right fore more.

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Tagged as: iran, bush, terrorism, maher, election08, republican party, homophobia, election00, clark, sullivan, navratilova

Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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Really Bill?
Posted by: LANCE on Oct 27, 2007 9:05 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Bill and others like Chris Matthews who are just coming out of their coma tend to piss me off.
Where were these guys in '99?
Oh yeah, protecting their huge network salaries.
I love Bill and identify with him being from the same generation and same part of America but ABC canned him for joking about our military, not slamming Bush.

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» RE: eally Bill? Posted by: peacelf
» RE: eally Bill? Posted by: l_m_n
Maher is right.
Posted by: tap17x on Oct 27, 2007 9:10 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
It was obvious in 2000 that Bush was (and is) not only a moron but a hypocrite, a liar, and a narcissist who cares about nothing except himself. He's about as Christian as Osama. Maher's characterization of Bush as a "lying sack of shit" is right on but too mild. Sullivan is afraid to say that he was wrong then and is wrong now. How can a gay be Republican? It boggles. Republicanism is defined by corporate greed, religious intolerance and self-righteousness, love of guns and violence, and fear of the other. That's it.

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This was a great show
Posted by: Jammer2 on Oct 27, 2007 9:54 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
I'm a Texan, and I have to admit that when Bill said that back in 1999, it wasn't that hard to tell that Bush was a moron, it brought the house down here. We knew it here way back before 1999, but we pushed to get him elected President so that we could get him out of Texas! There were many of us who believed that Congress would control him and he could do little damage at the federal level. Here in Texas, our gutless legislature went along with every hair-brained scheme that his drug addled brain could come up with, and he did come up with the most idiotic and irresponsible ideas that I have ever witnessed.

Bush permanently destroyed Texas in so many ways that many people are just now figuring out what he really did to us. Texas will never make a full recovery from his reign as governor. Bush took what was one of the more progressive states in the country; with a balanced budget, a surplus of cash in the bank, and with very low unemployment; and overnight turned it into a cesspool for the common citizen. Then, just as now, if you were one of his rich elitist groupies, you never felt a pinch because he is very good to the rich. But if you are an average person, he doesn’t even recognize that you exist, because in his shadow world, you don’t.

I do want to caution people about calling Bush names like Maher did with the moron crack. Calling Bush a moron is a real slap in the face to real morons. Sadly, Bush found a chink in the armor of this society where a person with money who is a total drug and alcohol burn-out can actually deceive enough voters to be elected Governor and then President simply by hiring the right people to take his hand and walk him through the routine. They dress him, teach him enough English to get through scripted press conferences, make certain that he has the right smile, and they force the press to misrepresent him as a genuine human being. The voters took the bait like starving catfish. Well America, you asked for it, and now you have exactly what you asked for. Bush placed a “For Sale” sign in front of the White House, and Congress is allowing him to sell America off to the highest bidder. The time to take our country back is now, or we won’t have a country left to call our own.

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» RE: This was a great show Posted by: Lector
» RE: This was a great show Posted by: Grandma Crabby
» RE: This was a great show Posted by: maureen
» RE: This was a great show Posted by: jbur816
» RE: This was a great show Posted by: Bambi
FOR YOUR OWN SAKE, DON'T MISS JOHN EDWARDS
Posted by: SALLY EVANS on Oct 27, 2007 1:26 PM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
WES CLARK MISTAKENLY SUPPORTS THE MONEY, HILLARY,WHO WILL CONTINUE THE WAR THE OTHER GUY SUPPORTS INEXPERIENCE. BETTER TAKE A LOOK AT THE PERSON OF JOHN EDWARDS WHO WORKS FOR YOU. BELIEVE ME, YOU WILL NOT REGRET LEARNING ABOUT THE MAN WHO BECAME A SUCCESS BY HELPING THE UNDERDOG.

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Maher's Foresight
Posted by: mchaun on Oct 27, 2007 2:48 PM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
While Ritter was desperately trying to convince the people that Iraq had no WMD, Maher had Ritter and Dennis Miller on a panel to discuss the situation. Miller needled Ritter the whole time, not with any understanding of the problems, but by mocking Ritter's language, gestures etc.

Ritter's failure to slap the crap out of that little creep cost the Marines a lot of respect in my eyes.

I remember Maher's famous complaint about our cowardly military with their stand off weapons and got a big kick out of Bill's recent dust up with a protester. After Security had the female protester securely restrained, Bill rushed down all set to do some serious ass kicking.

The Republican Congressperson's and Sullivan's griping at Bush is mostly window dressing since Bush won't be running in 2008 and they can shed their responsibility for this mess. However they are still supporting Bush's attacks on social programs and his lavish support for the war.

The Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem is at hand and more than usual, Jews are driving the politics. Obama has been sucker punched by the question of talks with the Axes of Evil which Hillary finessed. CNN brought the asker to the debate so he could direct the question to Hill who was his real target. Talking to one's enemies is, of course, a big NO NO NO to the Zionists who are taking no chances on the US trying to effect a just settlement when an unjust one is so close.

Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com

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Sullivan had lots of company
Posted by: Schroeder on Oct 27, 2007 4:33 PM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
There were a number of good people who voted for Bush in 2000...wasn't that the 'right' thing to do? Wasn't Bush the guy that other 'guys' wanted to have a beer with? Next time guys, you want to have a beer with somebody, by all means, have a beer, but DON'T vote for the guy for president.

I agree with a lot of what Sullivan said but I don't really understand where all the excessive Hillary stuff comes from. I don't always agree with Bill Maher either, and I thought his handling of the heckler was just too cowboy for my taste. I wonder what the purpose of having Kay, can't express an opinion because I'm a republican BH on...do you think they all do share a brain and someone else was using it during the interview?

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» RE: Sullivan had lots of company Posted by: Jefferson's Guardian
Underestimating Bush's brain
Posted by: peacelf on Oct 28, 2007 5:28 AM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Everytime someone questions Bush's intelligence by calling him a moron, an idiot, etc. need only be reminded that he is in the highest office of our land, abusing his power and making us all out for fools. He's exactly where he wants, doing what he wants. You don't get in a place like that being dumb. He's no Einstein, but he is anything but stuipid.

peace

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Baseball Commissioner
Posted by: DHopper on Oct 28, 2007 11:15 AM   
Current rating: Not yet rated    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Are you kidding me? Bush is barely qualified to be an assistant manager of a Rite Aid. That's all he ever would be if he hadn't been born with a silver spoon up his ass.

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Bill...uh, 9-11?
Posted by: AlohaTerry on Oct 28, 2007 1:11 PM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
I like Bill Maher a lot, but the lil Nazi-Knee Jerk reaction to the 'Truther' shows him to be the lil Zionist Coward he is--Tell it like it IS, Billo, before you start sounding like O'Really?

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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Posted by: AlohaTerry on Oct 28, 2007 1:13 PM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Big Oil and Pharma LOVES Bush/ Cheney, Inc!

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Baseball Decider redux
Posted by: AlohaTerry on Oct 28, 2007 1:16 PM   
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Hey, at least he can't attack the World...even Texas hates this Reptoid AntiChrist!

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This is trivial considering an event currently taking place
Posted by: MrX on Oct 28, 2007 4:04 PM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
This bill is currently in the Senate and we're all screwed if it passes.

http://tinyurl.com/256lgn

You can read the text of the bill here

http://tinyurl.com/26gj8m

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Really Andrew?
Posted by: mrb1960 on Nov 3, 2007 6:44 PM   
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Andrew Sullivan is such an idiot I can't take a word he says seriously.

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