Hey, Bill Maher, if you inivte guests, let them talk

[question everything]

Yes, some of your guests will dominate the discussion but it is up to you, as a host, to intervene and let your other guests talk.

This evening you had Clarence Page from Chicago, I think, and he could barely get a word. You rudely cut him off. He actually had to insist, at one point that he should be allowed to finish his sentence.

It is one thing with Jon Stewart who has only five minutes to clarify for himself what he wants to ask and his guests are often reduced to just confirming what he is saying.

But you have a whole hour! If this is not enough, then change the format, or get fewer guests.

And for you and for Mike Taibbi (sp?) to constantly insert fuck in your sentences just shows the paucity of your vocabulary and the limitations of your thoughts.

One thing you were right: you suck without the writers.

[DS1]

1. Maher is far from perfect

but he's 1000 times better than most political talk show hosts.

[ThomWV]

4. Maher is a self-centered prissy little bitch and always has been

I have no idea why the guy has a TV show - he is terrible.

[Paladin]

5. Yeah, He's Just Fucking Awful, Isn't He?

Thank Christ we have so many other TV venues where liberal viewpoints are articulated and advocated....:)

[Orsino]

6. And yet he is *still* a thousand times better than most talking heads. n/t

[DCKit]

2. It wasn't his best, and last week was a bore....

but you've got to be kidding. The panelists wouldn't shut up and he had to skip "Blogga, Please!". Not that I care, because the emails are generally pretty lame, but it wasn't his best panel either. I hope two lame shows in a row is only due to the writer's strike.

On another note, I went to the web-site last week after the show and tried to read through the emails - I thought I was in freeperland. Not only were they all incredibly stupid, the ones with any recognizable words made no sense at all and, of those, I couldn't tell what point they were trying to make. The kids must have turned on their 'puters and set the site before Mom and Dad tucked into the Wild Turkey and Purple Haze while watching Bill. Then again, maybe they were watching Oprah.

[Simeon Salus]

3. Agree with your assessment

I thought Maher's show with Dan Savage was actually very funny, but "Blogga, Please!" is just as bad and as insulting to the viewer as the title implies.

On Colbert and Stewart, the hosts have been reduced to actual newscasting, perhaps because truth is funnier than anything you can write. I can't say I approve of the shows' breaking the picket line, but IMHO if they hadn't returned, they'd have risked rendering themselves irrelevant by their absence.

[timtom]

7. I WANT to envy all of you who still watch TV.

Really, I do.

But I just can't seem to get envious about it.

[madokie]

8. I doubt if I've ever watched the equivelent of one show of Maher's

every time I try he just pisses me off so as far as I'm concerned he can go on sucking on someone else's teevee but not mine on the rare occassion that I watch the damn thing.
peace

[robcon]

9. It seems Mathews on MSNBC is worse at interrupting...

and not letting his guests finish their sentences.

[question everything]

10. Oh, yes, Matthews is the worst

and after one try - he was going to have Edwards but did not - I stopped watching, only when I happen to open MSNBC a minute before Olbermann.

He asks questions and immediately shouts his guests down. At least Maher does not shout at his guests and the interruptions come more from his other guests.

I think that all of them: Maher, Stewart, Colbert and Olbermann are best at the opening monologues, when they put their spin on recent news.

Stewart is pretty bad in asking a question and immediately is trying to explain his question and the guests barely have time to reply. It is even worse when he has more than one, as when he had with Woodward and Bernstein after Deep Throat was revealed.

It was Peggy Noonan, of all people, who was there Wednesday, I think, and actually said: let me finish my sentence.

[applegrove]

11. I think he moderates pretty well. That said, I like it when the discussion gets

heated and people get emotional about the issues. It is one of the best talk shows out there.

[stanwyck]

12. Well,I am grateful to Maher for this

he asked the question I want answered: why do so many people on the right just hate Hillary Clinton with such heated vehemence? Even if you don't agree with her politics, she is hardly the type of person who should elicit such frothing at the mouth hate. Even the glib Issa stumbled around when asked directly about all the Hillary hate. He stumbled around and finally said "health insurance.' Right. A person who attempted to get health insurance for Americans should be public enemy number one. When I ask the rabid Hillary haters why all the venom, I get "uh, Whitewater. Vince Foster." And I ask for details. Specifics. What laws were broken during Whitewater. Do they truly believe Hillary murdered Vince Foster? You don't get details about Hillary's supposed dirty deeds. You just get people who need somebody to hate and she's convenient.
If the most horrendously evil person that these people know is Hillary Clinton, then they must lead truly cloistered lives.
Maher's right. If you truly HATE Hillary Clinton, that's a personal problem. It's not her.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. I love that Mike guy

I hope he is a regular.