Bill Maher's Lineup for Tonight

[Marlie]

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER
Plus New Online Program: Ask Bill
11 pm Friday

Bill Maher welcomes actor/singer Harry Belafonte, blogger Andrew Sullivan and fmr. Gov. Christine Todd Whitman. Plus, via satellite, Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN) and blogger Arianna Huffington.

[truebrit71]

1. Wow, that's a pretty crappy in-studio line-up....

With the exception of Harry Belafonte I'm not sure I can stand listening to Christine (EPA-Liar) Whitman, and the self-loathing ex-pat log-cabin poster-boy former (?) * apologist for a full hour....

Might have to give this one a miss...

[Marlie]

2. I'm not sure

Andrew Sullivan has become disillusioned with Bush of late and has been really
raking him over the coals. Whitman hopefully will be taken to task since she's
been blamed for giving the OK on how safe ground zero was. She's personally being
sued. Maybe some of that will come out.

[Hamlette]

6. not just Bush, Sullivan is pissed at religion taking over the GOP

he loves the new Kuo book, is totally pissed off about the war, and calls for Rumsfelds resignation on a weekly basis.

Yes, he pissed me off in the past. But watch, you might be surprised.

Edited to add:

And for the last few weeks he's been saying "Vote Democratic or abstain" at least once a day.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. I just don't understand......

....a couple of people who you disagree with is no reason to miss Bill's show. You know they aren't going to be given a free ride. This isn't TweetyBall or The Situation Room.

[seabeyond]

11. whitman will diss bushco, sullivan will diss bushco,... are you kidding

this is a full group that are pissed at bushco...

[Blackhatjack]

3. Whitman should be savaged to no end..... equated w/mass murder

.... just in slow motion as people who breathed the contaminated air she cleared as 'safe' die all around her. She should never have another good night's rest knowing she was responsible for so many deaths, and that she acted intentionally rather than negligently.

I have little pity for her. She should be in prison. period.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. Like a "good nazi" she was following orders. Of course she should be punished

but the marching orders came from the White House. How come people seem to forget that?

[Blackhatjack]

15. I am sure she got those orders, but she had a choice & decided wrongly

...sometimes you have to say no rather than do something legally and morally reprehensible.

Any way you cut it, she has the blood of many dead people on her hands. She killed them just as surely as if she pulled the trigger of a gun, and she had the opportunity to prevent their deaths and committed the unpardonable sin of omission regarding her fellow man.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

16. I agree with you and said she should be punished. When I mean punished,

tried,found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. My comment was more about the fact that you didn't mention that she was told to kill those people by the White House. In fact, if you read the EPA Inspector General's Report, it places the blame squarely on the WH's lap.

And of course, this was never brought up tonight on Real Time. I'm not surprised though. I have started and participated in many threads about the 9/11 rescue workers and if those threads last through 20 or 30 posts, that's a lot. I just don't get it.

[Blackhatjack]

18. Agreed, I don't get the general apathy toward the 911 workers harmed

...there should be an outcry in this country over the fact that true heroes volunteered to help clean up after 911 on the promise from their government that the air was clean enough not to require masks or rebreathing apparatus.

Well, we lied to them through officials like Whitman, and have killed them just the same as if we had pulled a trigger of a gun.

I think these people deserve to go to prison, no question. And the WH officials that ordered their actions, need to be in the same prison cell with them. Period.

[stillcool]

4. I adore Harry Belafonte...

such a classy dude...so I'll have to struggle through..

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Looks like a GREAT show! Sullivan is everywhere!

That's GOOD! He's a repuke who has the guts to speak out against the cabal. Harry Belafonte..:thumbsup:, Harold Ford...:thumbsup:, and Arianna! :woohoo:

Thanks for the post!

[GreenTea]

8. Belafonte can hold his own, Whitman a regug, is a bit disenchanted with this sick

administration and Sullivan will as always try to score points with the audience and also the right for some weird reason...the republicans despise all openly gay people.

It'll be a good show though.

[phoebe]

9. Belafonte will be bringing the house down - he's "on fire" lately

and is calling out * in no uncertain terms..

[DesertRat]

10. I'm looking forward to it tonight. n/t

[Rowdyboy]

12. What a line-up! This one deserves taping for Belafonte alone....

Thanks for the heads-up!

[chat_noir]

13. video (off-topic, but interesting)

Blitz Busts Bush on Early Iraq WMD Invasion Plans in 2000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjyz-XaeTUo


Just found this, and couldn't find a related current topic.

[Hamlette]

17. good catch, Bush threated to take out Saddam in Jan 2000

if he found out Saddam had WMD.

Now we know he made up the evidence of WMD. So, was it oil or to be tougher than his daddy?