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bill maher on gop "manliness" - 1/25/2014 2:21:56 PM

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In my not so humble opinion.... Maher can be an incredible asshat, indeed an utter twatwaffle, he hits also hits my taste meter in this clip.... but..he also has an awful lot that strikes me as sane..and funny. and poignant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuUQyz4bl2o#t=478

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RE: bill maher on gop "manliness" - 1/25/2014 2:32:37 PM

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lol... I knew there was a good reason I loved you.

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RE: bill maher on gop "manliness" - 1/25/2014 2:38:20 PM

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thank you:)

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RE: bill maher on gop "manliness" - 1/25/2014 2:49:46 PM

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Dont you people know?

Only GOP members volunteer for the military and go into combat, hunt, eat meat, do macho things....

And no I did not watch the clip. I watched the show.

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RE: bill maher on gop "manliness" - 1/25/2014 3:14:50 PM

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When Maher nails it, he truly nails it.

Favorite line: "Bullying is not manly. Standing up to bullies is manly."

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RE: bill maher on gop "manliness" - 1/25/2014 3:17:42 PM

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But bullying is manly, when you are keeping women from getting abortions, among other things.

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RE: bill maher on gop "manliness" - 1/26/2014 3:05:52 PM

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I've always enjoyed Mahar but like all comedic commentators...just because they say it, doesn't mean it's true or not true. In my experience, the repubs think that being macho is...acting like or talking macho.

Many women here in fact understand and why most vote for dems, that [they] are the loudmouth, blowhard badboys who couldn't dominate a plate of spaghetti.

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RE: bill maher on gop "manliness" - 1/27/2014 11:29:18 AM

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

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In my not so humble opinion.... Maher can be an incredible asshat, indeed an utter twatwaffle, he hits also hits my taste meter in this clip.... but..he also has an awful lot that strikes me as sane..and funny. and poignant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuUQyz4bl2o#t=478

He's okay from time to time, though this satire about Republicans and manliness was rather funny, especially when he showed the picture of Rush Limbaugh's bedroom.

However, I think he's a bit one-sided in implying that the Democrats are the party of peace. Both parties have actively espoused and embraced interventionist policies since World War II, which was presided over by a Democrat. The Democrats were also the party of the atomic bomb. Hardly a party of wimps.

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RE: bill maher on gop "manliness" - 1/27/2014 1:01:00 PM

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
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In my not so humble opinion.... Maher can be an incredible asshat, indeed an utter twatwaffle, he hits also hits my taste meter in this clip.... but..he also has an awful lot that strikes me as sane..and funny. and poignant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuUQyz4bl2o#t=478

He's okay from time to time, though this satire about Republicans and manliness was rather funny, especially when he showed the picture of Rush Limbaugh's bedroom.

However, I think he's a bit one-sided in implying that the Democrats are the party of peace. Both parties have actively espoused and embraced interventionist policies since World War II, which was presided over by a Democrat. The Democrats were also the party of the atomic bomb. Hardly a party of wimps.

Every once in a while, Mr. Maher does put out some really good thoughts on the reality facing the nation. This example of Lucy's is just one of those examples. When the poor can be bullied into submission by the super rich, and the middle class being turned into the poor; it doesn't take a large leap of logic in deciding which party should not be allowed political power in the future.

Lets say the Republican, Tea, and Democratic Parties were three individuals metaphorically. The Tea Partier runs around flailing their arms all about, in no logical pattern, while foaming at the mouth and screaming unintelligent stuff. The Republican behaving like the Tea Partier every couple of seconds, regaining their composure for a few seconds, and then behaving like the Tea Partier once more. Finally the Democrat whom wisely takes a few steps away from the Tea Partier, while behaving in a sane and reasonable manner. Which of these three people do you do business with? Democrats have their failings, yet, they are the folks trying to push America forward on multiple fronts (politics, religious views, economics, infrastructure, laws, etc.). Republicans once behaved like Democrats and this nation not only had some competition but grew in many areas (technology, educational literacy, practicing being a free people, strong economy, and often looked at by others as the best nation on the planet). The decent into Hell by the GOP started sometime after former President Clinton's first year or two in the White House.

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RE: bill maher on gop "manliness" - 1/27/2014 3:42:06 PM

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Great video; thanks for sharing :)

Here's a partial transcript:

On Friday night’s edition of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher ended his “New Rules” segment with an admonition to conservatives and bullies of all stripes. Bullying, he said, is not a masculine virtue, and Democrats need to stop ceding the narrative to the Republicans that they’re the tough guys.

He began by heaping scorn upon the conservatives who got so up in arms this week when President Barack Obama said that he wouldn’t let his son play pro football due to the brutality of the sport and the risk of brain injury. The “National Review” asked the question as to how the president’s fictitious son would fare in the military if football is too brutal.

“Right,” Maher scoffed. “Because defending your country and kick-off returns are the same thing.”

“I don’t know where Republicans get this delusion that they’re the party of manliness,” he continued, “but this is Rush Limbaugh’s bedroom.”

He showed a photo of the rococo gilt-and-satin nightmare that is a bedroom from Limbaugh’s former New York City penthouse apartment.

“Talent on loan from God,” Maher quipped. “Furniture on loan from Liberace.”

It’s baffling how conservatives, he said, who are by and large a majority of “non-serving chicken-hawks” have managed to brand themselves as the tough guys.

There’s no real manliness there, he contended, “just the pathetic bluster of a blogger in his bathrobe,” the kind of tough guy who “wants Obama to man up and bomb Iran while his mother fixes his macaroni and cheese.”

“It’s not really masculinity conservatives love anyway, it’s bullying,” he said. “Somehow we’ve gone from Teddy Roosevelt’s ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick’ to Chris Christie’s ‘Speak loudly and be a big dick.’”

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RE: bill maher on gop "manliness" - 1/27/2014 6:21:00 PM

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

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In my not so humble opinion.... Maher can be an incredible asshat, indeed an utter twatwaffle, he hits also hits my taste meter in this clip.... but..he also has an awful lot that strikes me as sane..and funny. and poignant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuUQyz4bl2o#t=478

That's twice you've used that word now.

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RE: bill maher on gop "manliness" - 1/27/2014 8:36:04 PM

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Democrats have their failings, yet, they are the folks trying to push America forward on multiple fronts (politics, religious views, economics, infrastructure, laws, etc.). Republicans once behaved like Democrats and this nation not only had some competition but grew in many areas (technology, educational literacy, practicing being a free people, strong economy, and often looked at by others as the best nation on the planet). The decent into Hell by the GOP started sometime after former President Clinton's first year or two in the White House.

I think it actually started much sooner. To be honest, the GOP has been pretty much the same as I remember it for most of my life. The first President I have active memories of is Richard Nixon, and all in all, it's really been the same political "family" all along. They haven't really changed all that much since World War II, when they stopped being isolationists and became rabid interventionists instead. They've always been unabashedly pro-business and anti-labor. They also tried to sell themselves as more zealously anti-communist than the Democrats, who were painted as weak and soft on communism. It's still the same today, except instead of communism, it's terrorism.

The Republicans have stayed mostly the same in terms of their general ideology and rhetoric. The Democrats have changed quite a bit, though. They're not really the party of FDR or Truman anymore - or even the party of JFK or LBJ. Somewhere between Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, the Democrats lost their soul. I think Michael Dukakis drove off with it in a tank.

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