Real Time New Rules: Bobby Jindal Exorcist Edition
By Heather Saturday Mar 14, 2009 11:30am
I don't know who else watched Real Time tonight but in general the show was not too much fun to watch IMO. He brought on Matt Drudge's buddy Andrew Breitbart to bloviate about Rush Limbaugh and the Republicans not being racist and then sit and play the victim after he and Michael Eric Dyson got into it on the subject of racism and the right wing's use of "code words" to drum up racial hatred.
Fortunately next week's panel looks like something I'll enjoy a bit more with Keith Olbermann, Bernie Sanders and Kerry Washington slated as the guests on the ticker when the show ended.
Maher did make up for it with his New Rules segment where he took our sorry ass excuse for news-tainment to task for allowing Bobby Jindal (R-Exorcistland) unfettered air time without ever being asked about this.
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I watched it, Heather. It really wasn't too fun or funny. Kind of some odd moments when Bill was interviewing Sarah Silvermann.
I did buy a ticket to see Bill when he comes to the Fox on April 16th.
The sparing that went on during the guest panel was amazing! Not exactly informative on a factual level but truly awe-inspiring on a psychological level. It was a brutal clash of invincible ideologies. Maher was sort of sidelined in the skirmish and just watched the feathers fly.
but that particular show just didn't do as much for me as Bill normally does. Not sure what it was or was not....but I just didn't laugh like I normally do!
hey, we're neighbors!
i am 100 miles east, corner of I70 & I57...
love the Fox... last time was Mama Mia...
i would not pay one cent to see the coultergeist though...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA-psfR_EzQ&fe...
get your money back , hes a dumbassed douchbag no tallent hack, his brains so dammaged by the weed hes smoked he cant even keep up with two guest pannelists!
cancer? It's completely consistent with the Bible. It seems it's safer to suggest Jindal is crazy then to suggest the Bible is crazy.
and the tiger, upon whose back Bobby swam across hurricane swept waters in Lake Ponchatrain to rescue drowning victims from bureaucrats. Even Maher knows this timeless tale of carrying desperate Katrina victims to the safety of well stocked grocery aisles filled with frozen American pies cannot be challenged.
should be committed.
I think I'm going to get in trouble for stoning my Applebee's waitress to death last Sabbath rather than tipping her.
It's not a crime to tip cows though.
our bills are printed on these days...
To play devil's advocate, Christians weren't the first to come up with exorcisms. The Jews had what they called a clinging spirit they named the dybbuk. There were various exorcistic talismans to drive away Lilith and her Lilim from your children, as well as the men, whose vitality they sapped with their nocturnal congress. The Egyptians had various charms and exorcisms. The Indians had the first known vampire, the batal (sometimes called vatals) only here the vampire spirit possessed the body of a dead man. They also had nagas who were snake women, so one could liken it to a demonic serpantine lycanthropy. The Chinese had fox spirits who often took the form of lovely women, to seduce lovelorn scholars and cause them to neglect their duties.
As for calling people insane for taking the literal interpretation of the Bible, it's only since the early 70's we've had reforms to keep people from being committed unneccessarily. Think of how often conservatives say liberals have a form of insanity (a projection if there ever was one.)
The Protestants built up on the doctrine of Sola Fide/Sola Scriptura since they had no Magisterium nor Apostolic Succession to centralize belifs. So this led to greater literacy, as poor people were taught to at least read, so they could meet the religious obligation of studying scripture. It also led to a greater egalitarian, less hierarchian approach to religion, that borders on occultic practices; where one can commune with God directly without any intercessors. Ultimately, coincidentally and ironically it led to the ability for people who thought for themselves being able to say, no I don't just want to disbelieve this doctrine, I don't even want to believe in this religion at all.
but I'm getting the feeling that you've been visited by a fox spirit at least once in your life ...
Now that I think of it, you were gone recently for a few days while you 'worked on your book' ... hmmm.
;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqQOaA2LPRo
Actually in my old place my bedroom window faced an empty area, where I could sleep nude in the light of the full moon.
I've read that causes one become either a poet or a mad-man.
I miss not being able to do that anymore.
Jimi really was so ahead of his time. Everything about him was unique ... his music, fashion style and smarts. Interesting to see him coaching the band members midway through the song.
As for poet/madman, you are both ... and that is a good thing!
I am most saddened to hear that you are not able to moon the moon from your present sleeping chambers. This is truly grim news, indeed.
is the CRAZIEST book ever written,period!Let's see ,a talking snake and a dead guy who wakes up after being nailed to a couple of 2x4's! Just 2 examples of ,many,many crazy things in the "bible"!LMFAO!
One it was a serpent, not a snake, and a variation on a regional myth of divine creator parents, who were made secondary to a transcendental God (although still apparently in the structure of a henotheist belief structure.)
As for surviving the crucifixion, that was largely Paul's work. However, three of the synoptic gospels, I think Matthew, Mark and John mentions Jesus crying out for a drink of water and given a sponge of vinegar to drink. That's often taught as the last jibe against a dying man.
However, there's some evidence that the Jews made a vinegar wine out of the Mandrake root, which has anesthetic qualities. In other words, they were attempting to mitigate some of his pain. This vinegar wine is called Morion, and has several possible side-effects including a cataleptic swoon. This may be the reason why the Romans made a practice of breaking the legs of the crucified, because maybe more than one was mistaken as dead, and revived later.
I found another reference to snakes in creation. I wanted to check it first. The Pelasgian Greeks had a Creator Goddess named Eurynome. She danced alone on the primordial ocean of Chaos, and brought order to the Universe with her dancing steps. Then when she desired to bring forth life, she created the Great Serpent who impregnated her, so life was born. But like the unnamed God (in my sources), in the Babylonian flood story of from Ashurbanipal's library, he claimed to be sole creator, and in both stories this angered both Goddesses (Babylonian Ishtar), they bruised their consort's head and sent him to the Underworld, hence the reference in the Bible to:
"And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
(Genesis 3:3:14-15 KJV)
I had to check my references first because like some doofus I always confuse Eurynome with Eurydice.
I just notice something odd about that quote from Genesis. Christians always claim that Eve's seed would be Jesus. What I've noticed is the head is a more serious injury than then heel. So that it may be the source of Myrddin's (Merlin's) prophecy as a young boy to King Vortigern. The presentment was regarding the discovery of a white serpent and red serpent that were fighting.
These fighting dragons were destabilizing a tower Vortigern was trying to build. His advisors weren't sure what the problem was, so they advised him to shore it up with a virgin's blood whose father was unknown, so young Myrrdin (thought to be the son of a demon or the devil himself), was chosen. He discovered the struggling red and white dragon and interpreted it as the future of Britain. The white dragon was the Saxons and the red dragon an as yet unknown hero of the Celtic world, who would defeat the Saxons, only to fall to them later. This is a possible reason why the red dragon figures as the symbol of the Welsh.
So I find it interesting that this later hero, Arthur, had a sword whose Welsh name was Caledvwylch (Excalibur), whose hilt was formed as two dragons.
he really seems to have lost his edge lately. Too much time spent with Ann Coulter maybe?
God took it back.
I think he's as sharp as ever. His new rules are always hilarious. A lot of how well MAher does depends on the guests. Breitbart seemed to mess up any momentum they could have had.
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Speaking of Coulter, she and Maher are going on a tour throughout the country where they will "debate" each other. Since Maher is a faux leftist, it is doubtful if he, unlike a genuine leftist, will actually hold Coulter's feet to the fire. One theory that is floating around is that Coulter is doing this in order to attract more attention to herself since her books are not selling as much as they have in the past. It does not seem to bother Maher in the least that he may be helping her to sell more of her falsehoods [i.e.trash].
pimp her book. He said it really quickly, like he was embarrassed to talk about it. I was dumbfounded.
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Maher should have been embarrassed as he should be well aware of the distortions, pack of lies, plagiarisms and taken out of context quotes that plague Coulter's books. If there is an afterlife, Maher's fellow comedian George Carlin must be cringing in disgust at Maher's abhorrent behavior.
p*ssy (or whatever is under there), but Maher's a known player. I can't imagine him cozying up to Coulter for the tail.
Barring that, there must be some serious MONEY being waved his way. Carlin and Hicks are indeed probably pleading with God or whomever to return just to bitchslap Maher.
That man made what could have been a decent show into an aggravating shout-a-thon. What a tool. He deserves a boot upside the head. What a jerk.
And the defense he started re: Barack the Magic Negro was wrong. The LA Times did not start that - I was hoping someone would call him to task on that but he got shut down pretty fast.
i had only seen the name, in relation to posts and links left by trolls...
now i know more of the disgusting character behind it:
a big-headed (literally & figuratively) bloviating rude azzhole.
surely that's his last appearance on real time... hopefully.
So now Maher's new rant is that we need to bust the teachers unions. It's only logical that his vast concern for children would lead him to conclude that the problems in today's schools is that there are too many incompetent teachers out there in the schools.
Too bad he didn't talk a bit about paying teachers enough so that the positions attract the best people. That or that schools need to be funded so that teachers don't have to pay for school materials out of their own pocket or that schools aren't crumbling around the teachers.
This is analysis so deep that walking on top of the lake of logic that he creates wouldn't wet the bottoms of our feet. What was he smoking when he came up with that rant. I guess that it's what Obama was smoking when he made his rant about teacher unions.
I guess that both felt the need to attack a union in order to show that they weren't too progressive. They both need to increase their percentage of the conservative audience.
demonstrated in the financial markets. Money (lack of) is a de-motivator, but after a certain point money is not a motivator at all.
I don't get hbo, so don't/didn't see the whole show.
If he is indeed slagging teachers, somebody needs to pour sugar in his gastank...
Paul C
Intelligently and persuasively stated.
First of all, not all states have teacher unions... secondly, state legislatures make the rules about public education ... Congress only gets involved when federal funds are being used.
Texas has such archaic rules ... but I know of other states with worse rules .but most teachers perform heroically under horrible state regulations! .. but I notice Maher doesn't really have any compassion for the working class ... I think he feels we are the ones depriving him of free sex and drugs... I notice this attitude more and more with him
Bill Maher seems to have lost his edge lately ... he seems to think his movie deserves more honors than it received ..well, lots of people don't feel they get the recognition they deserve
Also, I wish he would spend less time trying to debunk people's faith and more time pointing out their failure to live up to their religion's best moral codes... loving your neighbor, taking care of the poor, treating others as one would be taught ... he is not do much good attacking faith but he could do a lot of good pointing out that those who claim to follow Christ in fact do the opposite!
It works better than trying to prove or disprove the existence of a Being not subject to the laws of science
And he could have used this technique to great advantage with Jindal... who claims to be a good Catholic. Well, good Catholics don't do exorcisms ..they get a Bishop to investigate the matter and take action. (and since it is canon law to exhaust all physical and psychological problems first, very very few exorcisms are truly performed).... If I ever had the chance to ask Jindal a question about his faith that is what I would ask...why did you do that you do not have the authority to do?
look for mahers to get the boot soon , yah just cant make peole laugh with a stupid joke and an applause sighn that says muthafluckers give it up for the gord head!
left Breitbard pretty much in the dust. And when Breitbart did speak, he sounded insane. Dyson was so rapidfire that Maher could barely moderate. Dyson certainly gets out a lot of info in a short time! The bit on Jindal was very good. I don't enjoy Sarah Silverman's work. Looking forward to Will Farell's Bush farewell tonight.
On SNL? Will try to stay awake long enough.
HBO
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it aint that funny yyyyy yyyyyy
if so, i agree...
funny enough, but not the hoot i was hoping for...
bit of a let down...
I was rather disappointed in last night's show. All of the guests, including Ms. Silverman were boorish. It also seemed like Bill was just going through the motions last night.
No 7-11, durka durka or Tech Support references this time around.
He's definitely lost 'something' this season.
When he mentioned Clayton Bigsby. I meant to write Clarence Thomas.
Clayton Bigsby.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/291638/clayton_...
into wingnut territory for my taste, but the people here dissing Maher are silly. really, the show requires a 3 person panel, otherwise you get Andrew Breitbart or someone like him, pretending that his point of view is valid enough to constitute 50% of a debate. its not. Breitbart lives in a whole world of self-sustaining, self-reinforcing lies. Republicans are so stupid, its amazing. they are largely blatant racists, but think it is far worse for someone to call them out on it than it is to be a damn racist in the first place.
but I digress. it was good to see Sarah Silverman, although I wish she had familiarized herself with the show a bit more before coming on. BUT, things did fall apart at the end, with Maher attacking the concept of tenure for teachers by instead, mistakenly, calling for the breaking of the teacher's union. ugh. it was near Ron Paul territory of wingnuttery. sad that Maher doesn't know better on this subject. he seems exclusively mad about tenure. fair enough. I got stuck with some really awful teachers myself because they were tenured. so go after that, not unions, not now.
It wasn't that bad.
I thought last night's show was terrible, and I don't think Bill Maher has really been up to par since he came back from hiatus. The only segment that continues to amuse and be pungently relevant is the New Rules segment, and last night's was great.
I hope that having Bernie Sanders and Keith Olbermann on next week means we're going to see some improvement. Otherwise, I'm probably going to stop watching the show regularly.
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