Bill Maher: "I'm sure glad there are traitors like me & Michael Moore still living here in America"

[kpete]

Have Liked George Bush
Posted July 20, 2007 | 09:54 AM (EST)
BY Bill Maher

I'm in Boston today, getting ready for my standup special tomorrow night live on HBO (last shameless plug, I promise), and walking around the city has made me remember: oh yeah, America started here. That's right, America was invented by liberal men in Boston and Philadelphia. Not that I don't love all of America, but rednecks who think they're the real America should read a history book once in a while. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin, Madison -- the whole lot of them were well read, erudite, European thinking children of the enlightenment, and they would have had absolutely nothing in common and less to say to a cowboy simpleton like George Bush.

And speaking of who's a real American, was anyone as outraged as I was reading Robert Novak's little interview in the NY Times magazine on Sunday? Asked if in hindsight he would leave out the part of his 2003 column that identified Valerie Plame as a CIA operative, he said "I don't know. I thought journalistically it was justifiable. Nobody had told me -- and I still don't believe -- that it put anybody's life in danger. I don't think she was an important person in the CIA."

That really is quite an astounding quote, isn't it? How the hell would he know if it put anybody's life in danger? YOU'RE NOT IN THE CIA, BOB! They don't tell you any of their business! Considering the consequences of being wrong about such a hunch, is it really the patriotic thing to do? To sit in your office and just conjecture that this agent wasn't very important to the CIA? First, I think everyone who works at the CIA is important; and second, WHO THE HELL IS THIS MAN TO OUT PEOPLE IN THE DEADLY WORLD OF ESPIONAGE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HE "THINKS"?!

With patriots like that, I'm sure glad there are traitors like me and Michael Moore still living here in America.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/the-founding-fathers-woul_b_57064.html

[DS1]

1. Right on, Bill

:yourock:

[NewJeffCT]

2. Novak to CIA - "Drop Dead"

you know if a left-wing columnist had done that to somebody at CIA, it would be all over places like the NY Post with headlines like that.

[Supersedeas]

10. Novak and his ilk now determine who is important at the CIA

[Cha]

22. novakula didn't "think" Valerie was important..

and anyone buys that shyte other than .." novakula didn't THINK."?

[jojo54]

3. I love Bill Maher!

I can't wait until 8/24!!

[5X]

4. I hereby declare myself to be a traitor of the same ilk. n/t

[OwnedByFerrets]

5. K & R

[Bitwit1234]

6. Isn't it strange

that comics have their finger on the pulse of American so much more than the half ass republican congress members. Jon Stewart, Steve Colbert they all know what the public wants better than the bunch that stole the white house.

[Cha]

23. Comics seem to have their pulse more

on America than some Dem politicians who shall remain nameless in this post.

[irislake]

7. Every time I think how much I hate your fucking country

I remember how much I love all your traitors.

I sometimes wonder how Americans can love a country with such a horrendous foreign policy but then what Americans truly love must be most of their truly lovable American people.

[BonnieJW]

8. How does one immigrate to your country, Irislake?

Just in case the shit really does hit the fan, what do we do to become residents of Canada?

[YOY]

9. Kindly don't "hate out fucking country"

Hate those asshats who ploy themselves as "all American" leaders who enforce and promote those foreign policies. Hate those redneck "villager-mentality" who support the bs which they are spoon fed.

But remember they, no matter how hard they try, are NOT the majority. They are the 30%, the very-loud-voiced-backwash. Remember that. Canada has annoying ultra-nationalists. Most of yours are put in their place and not put into power using fear and jingoism.

Hate those who think being American makes their sh*t not stink just as you would a Canadian who thinks the same.

Oh yeah, and hockey + backbacon forever.:hug:

[irislake]

12. I know they are the minority

Problem is they control your corporate media which is the face of America to much of the world. For every Keith Olberman there is a loud-mouthed Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter --- who incidently ---along with Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs and a few others never miss an opportunity to bad-mouth Canada. God how I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart! They have a huge audience in Canada. Luckily for your image.

[YOY]

13. and thanks for Samantha Bee

I swear you guys have the market cornered on comedy at times.

[Cha]

27. They never miss a chance to

bad mouth Chavez, either. But I still love him.

The limpbaughs and annthax's of the US are the paid propoganda lyin' machine of the corporatewhores(including military complex) who have the bully pulpit right now but we're fightin' hard. Some of us are keeping their powder a little too dry, though. :(

[othermeans]

42. A Canadian friend turned me on to the Trailer Park Boys now that is funny

[PurpleChez]

32. Ditto. If I said that I hated fucking Canada because I disagreed

with the current leadership...or, g-d forbid, if I said that I hated fucking Israel because I didn't like Ehud Olmert I'd be branded a Hamas sympathizer. I'm not proud of my country at the moment, but I realize that the US is much more than the criminals and imbiciles that have hijacked it for their own profit. Prejudice doesn't stop being prejudice just because it's directed against Americans or white males or Christians. It's not cool to bash anybody based solely on some demographic.

[Cha]

25. Yeah, we're not our bushit fascist

government. I love my country for the peeps and the beauty. We need to take it back.

I love your country for its peeps and it's so beautiful, too.

[ClayZ]

33. I hope there are more people like you, out there!

:hide:

[The Count]

11. A bit arrogant, arent'ya Bill? You and Michael Moore? What will your friend Annthrax

say about that?

[mzmolly]

15. Agreed. No offense to either man, I adore Moore, but neither saw the importance

of supporting Al Gore in 2000. Democrats were the true visionaries and remain so. But I dont think Maher has commented on that has he? ;)

[immoderate]

17. I believe he has.

He surely has expressed regret for voting for Nader in 2000, begged Nader, on the air, not to run in 2004.

--IMM

[mzmolly]

35. Good to know!

I recall that now, thanks.

[The Count]

51. MAHER IS STILL ATTACKING GORE! "ISN'T THE GLOBAL WARMING MESSAGE HURT

BY THE MESSENGER?" he asked Barney Frank

[SemiCharmedQuark]

14. Ugh, YES. Some of those right wingers would have been the first to turn in the founding fathers to

the British

[Bluebear]

16. 'a cowboy simpleton like George Bush.'

:)

[Cha]

28. He shoulda made that..

"faux cowboy simpleton like george bush." :silly:

[Vilis Veritas]

41. Exactly. Born in New Haven, Connecticut.

Co-opted the south when the think tanks realized that the South was rising...

[Cha]

52. And I thought everyone knew

that bushit is scared of horsies! :scared: :scared:

[proud patriot]

18. I'm glad we stayed to fight this corrupt bush

come what may . I'm comfortable in my skin and am proud
to be an Anti - Bush , Pro-Constitution, Patriotic American.

[Cha]

30. Yeah, we difinetly need all

our Patriots NOW! :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

[ProudDad]

39. Me too. And it's about time to impeach

the bush crime family -- the whole damn shootin' match...

Here's my suggestion in case you haven't seen it yet:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3391001

:hi:

[Uncle Joe]

19. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread kpete.

[Cha]

20. How Cool of Maher to

equate himself with Michael! I like it!

We gotta take back our country..it belongs to all of us. The bushits are trying to make good little Germans out of us. Some of us are not co-operating.

[Madspirit]

21. k&r...n/t

[LSK]

24. K&R

[Blue_In_AK]

26. Gotta love Bill Maher.

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. Can't wait for his special on HBO!

:woohoo: HBO rocks! So does MM and Maher!

[BlueEyedSon]

31. That Times piece was maddening.

[Warren DeMontague]

34. Maher really nails it, sometimes.

:patriot:

[Rex]

36. Bob's a dried up piece of shit.

A joke among jokes. Bob has it so bad that he hates himself every day he looks into the bathroom mirror. He can lie to the press and anyone else, but he can't lie to the Truth. Truth is, Bob is the so unimportant except for one thing - he betrayed his country.

That is what we should all be saying everytime we have to talk about Novak - he betrayed his country for ratings.

Sleep well Bob, everyone laughs at you and would compare your worth to a warm pitcher of spit.

Traitor.

[wildbilln864]

37. Bravo Bill! I'm glad too! K&R! n/t

[Seabiscuit]

38. Cute, but Maher is no Michael Moore.

Moore is a true American patriot all the way.

Maher is a comic who finally came around somewhat after being a Bushie propagandist for too many years.

[Vilis Veritas]

40. Bush is NOT a Cowboy.

Simpleton, you bet. Not a cowboy. Them thar are fighting words...

That sniveling little shit was born in New Haven, Connecticut. Never forget that.

[Swamp Rat]

43. Yep!

[Vilis Veritas]

44. You kill me Swamp Rat...!

Do you ever sleep?

[Swamp Rat]

45. no

:hangover: Too many interesting things to read and see. :D

[Vilis Veritas]

46. Wow...

With visions like that I can see why...damn. Now, I am not going to be able to sleep. Awesome work.

;-)

[Swamp Rat]

47. sorry

I hope you can sleep. If not, here's some more:
www.swamp-rat.com

:)

[Vilis Veritas]

48. No sorries...

Thanks for the sweet dream images...

Now I lay me down to sleep
with visions of a demons keep
I pray for Satan his soul to take
and IMPEACH that f'ing Executive Fake

Sleep tight.

[Swamp Rat]

49. awesome!

:hi:

[Vilis Veritas]

50. Better yet...

A slightly revised version...more in line with the theme...

Now I lay me down to sleep
with visions of a demons keep
I pray for Satan his soul to take
and IMPEACH that f'ing Executive Fake

Peace...