Why does Bill Maher have a panel loaded with conservatives

[One of the 99]

and no liberal to counter them? Is he trying to please his corporate masters at Time Warner?

[bigdarryl]

1. Yep you got it

You never see his show with all Progressives

[KaryninMiami]

2. It is rather annoying, frankly. Not one of his best shows.

Would have preferred a more balanced panel. Should have had Arianna Huffington for the panel instead- would have been much more interesting.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

3. Because in the end, he's an entertainer and all that matters is the money.

Not the politics or the fairness... just the money.
Sadly, too many ACTUAL politicians also operate under the premise of existing merely to make money as well.

[gateley]

6. He cared enough to donate $1,000,000 to Obama's PAC. I think you're being

unfair.

[ElboRuum]

4. This particular show...

...right now watching it, is a class-A, first-rate, turbocharged cluster fuck.

[Arctic Dave]

5. DL Hugley is good.

I think it's good to have them up there talking about their own parties slip into insanity.

[gateley]

8. Is Hugely Republican?

[Arctic Dave]

11. Not in the least.

He is a liberal and very funny.

[gateley]

12. Imdidn't THINK he was! I thought your post meant he was on Real Time tonight as one

of the Right Wingers.

[Loudly]

7. The panel segment wears me down.

Too many voices trying to talk over each other, and constantly raising their volume to do it.

I dream of a show where each of them is in a separate booth, and gets a live microphone for only 20 seconds at a time.

[MrSlayer]

9. No. He does at least one of those every season.

I like when he battles the conservatives, it's a good debate. How often is it all liberals or all liberals beating the piss out of one conservative? Very.

There's no real point to a panel show if everyone believes the same thing.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. So statutory rape is cool?

The right winger was saying that it was, giving an example of a 19 year old with a 17 year old. That's so dishonest. It's not representative of all statutory rape. Most people would agree on the 19 year old with the 17 year old usually being milder than a so-called "forcible rape". But what about a 14 year old with a 30 year old? How is that not as bad as a forcible rape because it almost automatically implies coercion whether psychological or physical.

[rusty charly]

13. Sometimes I think it's just a matter of...

who the bookers can get on any given night. Sometimes, I think, there's nothing nefarious about it, but just the way the cookie crumbled.

[One of the 99]

14. Conservative Will Cain was originally scheduled.

But when he dropped out they replaced him with another conservative. Sounds like it wasn't chance but design.

[uponit7771]

15. Mahers show attracts a lot of gen x conservatives...all 56 of them...so every now

...and then he give a good conservative perspective that doesn't sound like a bunch of bastards

[woolldog]

16. When you donate 1 million dollars to Obama

then you can complain about Bill Maher. Until then, not a peep out of you against Maher.

[One of the 99]

17. Who says I didn't

And Maher's million dollars is offset by the millions of free airtime he's giving to the right.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

20. When you have a lot of money... you can do what you want and expect no complaints?

Sounds about right. Thanks for clearing that up.

[Cleita]

18. Maybe he couldn't find any liberals.

Or maybe he did it because of the convention next week. He seemed to touch on the subjects that will be the RNC platform and maybe he wanted their take on it.

[One of the 99]

19. Your theory makes a lot of sense

but the line up for next week's show is mostly conservatives too.

[Cleita]

21. I just took a stab at it. n/t

[One of the 99]

22. LOL nt