Bill Maher is a male Chauvunist Oink

[fat dad]

Watching over the past few weks, and the past few years, Maher has become increasingly annoying with all of his guests. But with his female guests most of all. He overtalks, condescends, cuts off and simply ignores great points from his female guests. It's become obvious and annoying.

Gloria Steinem was brilliant tonight, especially her comment about there only being two types of people in the world. Those who say there are only two types of people in the world, and the rest of us who know better. But it took four interruptions for her to finish a thought about a CNN documentary that was pretty insightful and interesting.

The only two females I've ever seen him allow to finish a thought were Maureen Dowd and Ann Coulter. Dowd, because he so obviously has the hots for her, even though she is light years out of his smarmy, shallow league. And Ann Coulter who he may let speak because she has more testosterone than he does so the rude to female guests may not apply in *her* case.

[EFerrari]

1. Nobody's perfect. n/t

[napi21]

2. Each to his own opinion. I enjoyed his show tonight! n/t

[question everything]

3. When he has three guests, invariably one would get more air time

than the others. This evening he concentrated on 9/11 and related topics, so the guest who used to work for DHS got more time.

There are many male guests who get drowned by others.

And he has not had Ann Coulter for ages. I think that even he got fed up with her.

Last, this is his show, with his personal stamp - warts and all. If he tried to be more balanced or sensitive, he may lose his edge.

[LostInAnomie]

4. Well, to be fair...

... she did take forever to finish her thought.

Bill has to try to keep some kind of pacing so he can get to all of the topics. If he let each guest take three or four minutes to finish a thought they wouldn't get through the first segment.

[aquaman]

5. Whatever....

I don't agree with everything that Bill Maher says, that's for sure. But, why don't you welcome someone that constantly puts Bush in his place? Get over it. He is an asshole at times. Oh well. I agree with most of what he says. I am grateful that there is a TV show that is not Fox news and talks about the issues. Release the anger.

[k_jerome]

6. I noticed this as well...

however, I believe it was because she was taking entirely too long to make her point. This show is based on moving along quickly with "sound bite" type responses to a variety of subjects.

[rman]

7. opinions are a dime a dozen

[im10ashus]

8. I missed tonight's episode.

But I thought he was fair and listened well to Mary Frances Berry a few weeks ago. I adore her and he let her speak her mind when Penn Jillete wasn't commandeering the show. It's such a sound-bite-related show, IMHO, that it's hard not to get frustrated with all the oneupmanship that dominates the show. I think he's funny...most of the time.

:shrug: