This About Gets It: Bill Maher on Bush

[stubtoe]

This from an email going around ... enjoy


Bill Maher put it very well on HBO the other night:

"Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more. There's no more money to spend--you used up all of that.

You can't start another war because you used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people.

Listen to your Mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit cards maxed out. No one's speaking to you. Mission accomplished.

Now it's time to do what you've always done best: lose interest and walk away. Like you did with your military service and the oil company and the baseball team. It's time. Time to move on and try the next fantasy job. How about cowboy or space man?

Now I know what you're saying: there's so many other things that you as President could involve yourself in. Please don't.

I know, I know. There's a lot left to do. There's a war with Venezuela. Eliminating the sales tax on yachts. Turning the space program over to the church. And Social Security to Fannie Mae. Giving embryos the vote.

But, Sir, none of that is going to happen now. Why? Because you govern like Billy Joel drives.

You've performed so poorly I'm surprised that you haven't given yourself a medal.

You're a catastrophe that walks like a man. Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but even he never conceded an entire city to rising water and snakes.

On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans. Maybe you're just not lucky. I'm not saying you don't love this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side.

So, yes, God does speak to you. What he is saying is: 'Take a hint.' "

Bill Maher
HBO-Real Time

[AX10]

1. I saw that last week!

True, True, True!

:kick:

[Dogmudgeon]

2. With all due respect to Bill Maher ...

Billy Joel drives a lot better than George Bush governs.

Billy Joel never killed anybody by driving. Can you say the same thing about George Bush's governing?

--p!

[JohnnyBoots]

3. What about George's wife driving?

[rateyes]

20. Ouch! That was cold!

Not saying you aren't right, just saying that was cold!

[Lost-in-FL]

34. Cold?

Cold is the guy she killed... :hippie: :smoke: :freak:

[rateyes]

41. You got that right!

IMHO, it was that event that perhaps kept her from getting married until she was in her thirties, and chose to marry the "bad boy" W was. The young man she hit who was killed was supposedly the guy that she was going to marry. For a long time, she grieved over that, and she "needed" someone to help her get over that grief--the carefree "bad boy" fit that image. I wonder if she ever regrets marrying George, with his now infamous temper and the disrespect it seems he often shows her.

[B3Nut]

21. Or he himself driving!

Didn't he get so pissed at Laura one time as governor that he drove through the back wall of his garage?

He's a danger to himself, others, and the whole world.

Todd in Beerbratistan

[Trevelyan]

46. Looks like Brian Williams is under armed guard in NOLA or is it protection

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8045532/

Authority in New Orleans
Brian Williams

Having landed in New Orleans, we are now traveling on Interstate 12, after traversing the Causeway across Lake Pontchartrain. We are headed to Slidel, La. and an interview with the forecaster who sent out the chilling special weather statement on the eve of the hurricane... and predicted the damage with such alarming precision.

We are under escort thanks to an off-duty law enforcement officer... like any military operation, it helps to have Authority with you when confronted by Authority. This is very rapidly becoming the most credential-ed region of the United States. Roadblocks are prevalent but scattershot... rules of the road change, it seems, by day. Depending on the jurisdiction posted at the roadblock you happen to approach... the assumption often is that you're with al-Qaida. The reception can be very brusque, and many roads remain shut to normal everyday vehicular traffic.

Later this afternoon we will make our way to what passes for an NBC News compound in downtown New Orleans. Tim Russert will join me there. Nightly News will originate from that location, which happens to be just blocks from where the President will deliver his primetime speech tonight. EMAIL COMMENT NOW

[davidwparker]

57. Read the book, Bush On the Couch. It pretty much says it all.

[AuntiBush]

55. Didn't She Rid her Town of that Boyfriend?

Good Call.

[MadisonProgressive]

35. Hi Billy - I like your music!

[rosesaylavee]

4. YYYYEEEEESSSS!!!!!!

Recommended.

Bill just has a way with words, yes?

:rofl:

[Iris]

5. Is this the same Bill Maher people were bashing and accusing of going to

the dark side not long ago?

[tsuki]

11. Because he supported the war. But remember, Maher is a Libertarian,

not a social Democrat. He is pissed at Bush for losing NOLA, and his anger is real. The show before this he had only progressives because he thought that he would not be able to face a Conservative.

He still differs in many ideas from me. We just came together on NOLA.

And no, I never accused him of moving to the dark side. I just recognize him for what he is.

[latebloomer]

13. He opposd the war at first

Then around the time of the Iraqi elections he was saying that Bush may actually have unwittingly done something good.

Now he seems to be back to considering it a shitstorm.

[Twist_U_Up]

6. I loved this part:

"maybe you could play comboy or spaceman" :rofl:

[jackster]

7. it was a golden moment on Real Time

if you can catch the show I highly recommend it - this was a good one!

And George Carlin calling Babs Bush the Silver Douche Bag was beautiful!

[latebloomer]

8. This is PRICELESS!!

I've been circulating it myself this week.

It loses a little oomph without his dead-on delivery, but not that much.

[Toots]

9. Nail meet Hammer

"You've performed so poorly I'm surprised that you haven't given yourself a medal."

[cwydro]

10. Love it

heard it on the radio today...well said. So true and so sad. (But still funny)

[Vox_Reason]

12. We need 10 more Bill Mahers

Truth spoken often tends to wake up the clueless if they're no longer able to sleep due to the volume of the truth being spoken to them.

[Bombero1956]

14. my favorite line

Maybe you're just not lucky. Yeah and neither are we.

[Lost-in-FL]

36. Sarcasm does wonders...

He da'men...!!!!!:headbang: :headbang:

[Hailtothechimp]

15. Bill Maher nails George to the wall!!

I was riveted by this. 2 years ago Maher would have been reviled and Dixie Chicked for saying this. A year ago he would have been dismissed as a wacko. And now he is applauded as a man who knows what's up. Thank you Bill Maher.

[ignatius 2]

16. "I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the

other side." That is a terrific question..scary,but terrific.

Thanks for posting,this one gets passed around to all the idiot repugs I have to work with each and every day.

[Cha]

60. I know what Maher means but

I think bush and his puppetmeisters Are on "the other side" :(

[oc2002]

17. Thanks for posting, that was great read.

[Redstone]

18. Well, that's just about perfect. Better than I could have said it,

no matter how hard I tried. I guess that's why Maher has a hugely popular TV show, and I don't.

The guy's a national treasure. I don't watch TV very frequently, but every time I've caught part of his show, it's made me laugh out loud.

Redstone

[oxbow]

19. If anybody finds a clip of this online, Please share!

[Brotherjohn]

22. Here ya go!

Scroll down to "Bill Maher: George Must Go" and there are several options to view it:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/10.html

[Lasher]

33. Thank you for the link

This video clip makes my day! Think I'll watch it about a hundred times.

[oxbow]

58. Yea, thanks alot. Me and the guys at work really enjoyed that! nt.

[Name removed]

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[Brotherjohn]

24. That's some wierd kinda "bell curve"! 50-60% are compressed...

... at "the low end" and 40% are "planted firmly" in the middle.



Must be "fuzzy math".

[EOTE]

30. Come again?

I suppose all those bush supporting, toothless wonders in the red states are at the high end of the bell curve? Only this link would suggest just the opposite. Care to refute this information? Or just resign yourself to the fact that bush supporters are mindless morons?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

31. Stay the course, pardner!

Right off the friggin' cliff...

[petepillow]

25. THAT IS FUGGIN AWESOME.

period. sharing this with everyone i know right now.

[defiant1]

26. Best part....

*snip*

"On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two Trade Centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans...Maybe you're just not lucky!"

*snip*

Kudos Bill!!!

:yourock:

:toast:

[gauguin57]

43. And not just four AIRLINERS ... also a bunch of AIRLINES!

Bankruptcies all over the place.

[FreedomAngel82]

27. That was very good

So far I've been enjoying this new season.

[Trevelyan]

28. Don't Forget the Other Great Bushco Basher George Galloway

The Regime did allow Member of Parliment Galloway into the country but MSM and alternate news Internet doesn't seem to be giving it much space. I wish the debate with Hitchens would be televised!

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7852 Articles

New York, NY Wednesday, September 14, 7pm
George Galloway and Christopher Hitchens Debate: The Iraq War
Moderated by Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!

http://electionfraudandchristianity.blogspot.com/
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0517-35.htm/

on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
When George Galloway Channeled Rocky Marciano
by Dave Zirin

"I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims, did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country, and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.

Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right, and you turned out to be wrong, and 100,000 people paid with their lives--1,600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies."

When British antiwar leader and newly elected Member of Parliament George Galloway hurled these words at Sens. Norm Coleman and Carl Levin last spring, the cheers were audible from Brooklyn to Baghdad.

Finally, Capitol Hill's bloody lies had been exposed for the congressional record. Finally, after two years of the "opposition" Democrats doing little more than "reporting for duty", we got a taste of what real opposition sounds like. Finally, if but for a brief moment, the masters of war were humbled.

And now, finally, we have a book by Galloway himself, Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington: The Brit Who Set Congress Straight About Iraq, that tells the story behind the smackdown. His inspired polemic arrives in time for Galloway's antiwar tour of the U.S., during which he will be speaking with everyone from Jane Fonda to Cindy Sheehan, during the buildup toward the national September 24 antiwar demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.

http://www.mrgallowaygoestowashington.com/

[Imagevision]

29. God to Bush, Go to Kennebunktport, go to the ranch leave my son

Bill Mayer should remain kicked...!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[KyndCulture]

32. Giving embryos the vote bwahahahahahah priceless!!! nt

[marmar]

37. the brutal honest truth...

presented with humor but underneath lies a whole lot of anger and sadness. That's pretty much how we all feel. "A catastrophe that walks like a man" - that's priceless!

[savemefromdumbya]

38. Yes, he's right we've lost a lot on Bush's watch - what else?

Yes President Bush has been accident-prone during his Presidency - the surplus, four airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans. Bungling fool!

[methinks2]

39. Saw it and loved it !!!

He really took off the gloves and came out swinging.

[skunkapeman]

40. A little intellectual honesty, please

Bill needs to be a bit more selective in his language. Bush didn't destroy New Orleans... a hurricane did.
Let's keep the debate within the realm of reality.

[ghostsofgiants]

42. He never said Bush destroyed New Orleans

He said New Orleans was lost on Bush's watch.

A little reading comprehension, please.

[Theres-a]

44. If I refused to get a needed brake job for my car,

Then canceled my car insurance,then got into an accident during a storm,would it be the storm at fault,or me?:shrug:

[Justyce]

47. Great analogy -- I'll have to remember this

next time some moron says none of this was bush's fault... even though bush himself said he was to blame.... lol

[electropop]

52. Bush's policies had a lot to do with the loss of New Orleans:

(1) Promotes the burning of as much fossil fuel as possible, accelerating Global Warming, which has caused more large hurricanes.

(2) Cut funding for the levees which failed. This despite years of studies, op-eds, and requests from NO, the Army Corps and many others.

(3) Appointed Michael Jerkoff and Michael Brown, who actively blocked assistance of all kinds from entering the area.

These deaths are on Bush's hands.

[Skittles]

45. I agree with him about gift resistries too

I find them appalling

[djbowler]

48. forgot the space shuttle, Bill

[Initech]

49. Maher's right! I miss the insanity of '03's recall election!

[slutticus]

50. Fantastic

Kicked and recommended!

"Now it's time to do what you've always done best: lose interest and walk away."

Nice

[williesgirl]

51. Just watched the video and emailed to my whole list - still

laughing. He's great, although it's so truthful, it's really sad for this country. How can half of us still support this jerk?

[Lindsey]

53. I saw this when it was first aired and all I can say is BRILLIANT!

You gotta listen to his voice inflection and see his expressions for it to be even better. Bill Maher is simply awesome...and,btw, IT IS BUSHS' FAULT THAT NOLA WAS DESTROYED. He is guilty of negiligent genocide. He's just as guilty as that couple that was arrested for leaving the senior citizens at St. Ruths convalescent center. He is a criminal in every aspect of the word and SHOULD F'IN' BE ARRESTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Broken_Hero]

54. I always enjoyed

Bill Maher. He pretty much sums up a lot of the things i think about GWB and this current WH administration.

[davidwparker]

56. Preach On!!!

[Cha]

59. This is drives the points home with

Maher's special brand..

"But, sir, none of that is going to happen now. Why? Because you govern like Billy Joel drives. You've performed so poorly I'm surprised you haven't given yourself a medal. You're a catastrophe that walks like a man."

Only I would say.."you're a catastrophe that walks like a monkey".

[Catchawave]

61. *kick* for truth and Bushhints :)