Steve Schmidt, ex-gop strategist

[Duppers]

He and Billy Crystal were the ONLY reasons to watch Bill Maher tonight.

Seriously, Schmidt did a fantastic, excellent job absolutely burning republicans tonight. Catch it if you can.

[bdamomma]

1. I will catch repeat

thanks

[hedda_foil]

2. He's a regular on MSNBC. An extremely impressive guy.

[napi21]

3. Steve is always great. He's the only Republican who always to tell the truth! nt

[malaise]

23. Two words

Sarah Palin

[OnDoutside]

4. What ? You mean Harold Ford said nothing startling ?

[JHB]

6. It's Harold Ford. He always says nothing.

His lips may move, there might be sound, but he says nothing.

[OnDoutside]

7. Yup, got that right.

[Squinch]

26. My father used to say about people like that, "Oh, he's a talker. Not much of a SAYER, but

he's a talker."

[JHB]

5. Out of curiosity, did he admit to...

...spending his entire career as a diligent worker on the crew building the road Trump is using for his drag racing?

I find that similar guys, like Charlie Sykes and Rick Wilson, always stay away from that subject.

[Duppers]

9. Not tonight.

I did once hear him come close to a mea culpa.

He now seems like an ex-smoker trashing smokers (guilty).

He Ab.so.fuckin.lutely cremated the rethug party tonight like no one I've ever heard. It was a thing of beauty. Wish I had taken notes or could remember some of phrases...but he said something like "there's nothing too despicable...horrible...contemptible they could now do that would disqualify them from running for office" (misquoted even for a paraphrasing). Much more than that.

[tblue37]

8. Harold Ford, Jr., shouted over Olivia Nuzzi every time she tries to say anything.

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She didn't get to say more than two sentences because he wouldn't let her speak. And he talked so fast he was worse than Russell Brand's fast talking--but at least Brand was funny. Ford was just obnoxious and overbearing.

Billy Crystal was great. He is incredibly quick witted.

Steve Schmidt is smart, but he gave us Sarah Palin. Yeah, I know he has expressed deep regret over that, but like all the other anti-Trump Republicans, he helped build the corporatist GOP machine and pandered to the idiot base to help the GOP get and hold on to power.

I don't give any of them a pass now, even though I'm glad they realize this has gone way too far, because really, Trump, his base, and his establishment enablers are the natural embodiment of all the tendencies the GOP has been stoking for decades. Trump just abandoned the dog whistle subtleties.

[Duppers]

11. I thought about Palin.

If he were but only partially responsible for that huge idiotic mistake, he should forever apologize.

Your last paragraph ➡

Wish hosts would stop asking Ford on. Just wanted to mute him. And I'd call him a misogynist if I'd not seen him use the same overbearing tactics with men.

[tenderfoot]

20. Olivia Nuzzi is involved with Broadly/Vice/Yiannopoulous/Breitbart expose

Zero effs to her...

https://jezebel.com/milo-yiannopolous-had-a-pal-at-broadly-vices-site-for-1819216070

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/boy-do-i-feel-naive-1819223797?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=The_Concourse_twitter

Link to tweet

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[tblue37]

29. But I still don't like that he motormouthed so much that even Steve Schmidt had trouble

getting a word in edgewise. Ford spoke so fast that he was often incomprehensible. I think people who talk like that in a group interaction do so because they don't want to stop being in the spotlight for even a second.

[question everything]

28. He gave us Sarah Palin because McCain wanted Lieberman

for which Maher said: had Lieberman been Trump V.P. once Trump is impeached, "a Jew would take his place..."

(alluding to the marchers in Charlottesville)

[lunamagica]

10. Steve Schmidt is really hurting over what is happening in this country

[oasis]

13. Schmidt is one of the few decent Republicans left on the planet. nt

[flamingdem]

14. Maher was not funny last night. Even new rules.

Wondering if his good writer/s is on vacation or something..

[ksoze]

15. +1 Thought the same thing

[Mr. Ected]

16. I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed

Told my wife last night that maybe he used his B-team this week. Not funny at all, and even Bill seemed to realize that the jokes were flatter than Kansas.

[Duppers]

18. I was really pissed about the baby/child alarm

Thing he was ranting about.

Locally there was a man who left his baby in the car and the poor baby died. Statistically this may only happen one in a million times with parents but if that were your baby, you would be absolutely devastated.

And any caring person would not mind paying an extra $45(??) for a warning system.

I know he doesn't like children and I'm often not crazy about them myself, even my own kid , but he needs to "get real" and find some common sense and compassion.

He can be an asshole.

[JI7]

24. Also these things don not intrude on peoples lives unlike the right wing with reproductive rights

And things like banning lgbt from places.

[Laffy Kat]

27. I only caught a few minutes of the show,

But I thought Maher seemed quite distracted.

[rockfordfile]

17. Don't like him. Sarah Palin the far right extremist.

[Duppers]

19. Listened to him lately?

[BannonsLiver]

21. People say Schmitty gave us Palin like it was a bad thing.

I was never more sure PBO would win in 2008 than I was the day they wheeled out caribou Barbie. It basically sealed the deal.

To the "but but he gave us Palin!" crowd: Palin, or something like her, was coming anyway. If it wasn't Schmidt it would have been somebody else.

[lordsummerisle]

22. Is there a link? n/t

[Duppers]

25. Full show...

https://bill-maher.wistia.com/medias/au8lbs4l2h

[lordsummerisle]

30. Thanks! n/t