Maher was a schmuck to pretend he didn't know what the protesters in the audience were yelling about. Talk about selling out. We knew Leno was a moron, now we know Maher has a problem with legitimate debates, too.

Maher gave a talk in Dupont Circle a few years ago and the jerk actually made an anti-gay joke, right in the middle of a gay audience in a gay neighborhood. Everyon groaned and some left, but Maher was too clueless and full of himself to notice.

Kucinich: You know the story? I was 30 years old when I was elected mayor of Cleveland, 31 when I took office. And Dec. 15, 1978, I was given an ultimatum by the chairman of the largest bank in Ohio, the 33d largest bank in the country. He told me that I had to sell our city's municipal electrical system, which serviced a third of the city, provided electricity at anywhere from 20 to 30 percent less than private utility - I had to sell that system to the private utility, thereby giving them a monopoly, or the bank was not going to renew the city's credit on loans I hadn't even taken out, $15 million in loans, this was the lead bank. So I was basically being told what the conditions were of my continuing as mayor. I was the youngest person ever elected to be mayor of a big city. And people were predicting all kinds of things for me. I was mayor by the time that Bill Clinton was on his way to becoming governor of Arkansas, youngest governor.

Kucinich: Well, Iowa is a couple of factors that came into play. The American people - I never looked at it as being about me - I mean the American people are entitled to the fullness of the debate. It's not democratic to try and shut one point of view out. And since it's very obvious to anyone watching that my point of view is profoundly different from any other point of view being offered inside the party, what they're actually doing is unwittingly contributing to the destruction of the Democratic Party itself by saying that "these are the only points of view that we will deem acceptable within the Democratic Party." And those points of view are generally reinforcing the corporate mentality inside the party. And that's very destructive of the democracy. It actually contributes to the undermining of the hope for legitimate debate within a democratic society.

http://www.alternet.org/story/74268/?page=2

Just won't happen, but it is beginning to happen--people are beginning to understand that a free market doesn't solve all ills, and in fact in many cases may exascerbate them (gee, imagine the banking industry requiring regulation, who could have seen THAT coming???)

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Considering these two obviously need writers to be of any Public Use, who cares what THEY REALLY THINK!
but I must say Mahr's unveiling was a surprise-but then Again Miller had me for a moment or two.
So Sad Bill O Jr. You've grown stale too.
Maybe Leno will ask you to be his sidekick for his Late Night show for the comatose.
Bye Bill.

why doesnt edwards get eqal coverageontv as the others. i thoughtit was a law at one time. and the black guy on bill mayer was brilliant and needs his own talk show. bill realy needs his writers. the show is sad

While I don't like cranks interrupting shows I have to say I am disgusted with the way the media ignores HUGE topics like the White House destroying all its emails.

So go ahead and trash the bastards. Our democracy is AT RISK.

I wish these guys had made it into the MSNBC debate itself. I was appalled that Democratic candidates didn't stand for real democracy and that even the ones that supposedly back the people vs the corporations wouldn't even mention the fact
that General Electric and NBC changed the rules to prevent the American people from hearing all four candidates running. Edwards' line of being the most aggressive opponent of the corporations would have been more substantiated if he actually spoke up for fellow democrat Dennis Kucinich, but then again that line would no longer be true since Kucinich has actually VOTED for the people, AGAINST the war AND AGAINST YUCCA MOUNTAIN as opposed to Edwards.

iTS amazing that people are quit comfortable talking about the NH re-count without giving Dk his due.

Where were Obama,Clinton and Edwards on this matter - especially since this re-count will primarily help one of them. Did they spend a dime on this. NO.

But the guy with the least amount of money, and the least to gain from this once again stood up for the US while the "Top Tier" canidates were awol.

So let me see if I have this straight. You people think left wing NUTS have a right to shout down conservatives, BUT when a left wing NUT shouts down a left wing NUT, that is not OK. Do I detect a DOUBLE STANDARD here? YEP!!!1

Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AC5d5bVHtw

Well Bill Maher has an ego problem, I mean he talks free speech and has people tossed physically tossed from his show, and then rants about it for 10 minutes. I really dont care what happens to Maher. He is the opposite of what he preaches. He is no better than a politician

Hello? Is anybody else besides me getting really depressed at how profoundly unappealing the already unappealing Three Amigos are getting? That they go on NBC and say nothing about the silencing of Kucinich? Who is anybody going to vote for? I am going to vote in the primaries - and not for the Three Amigos (well, maybe just maybe Edwards ...) but for the first time it has hit me that I may not vote in the general election. What hope does a sell-out like Hillary or Obama offer a genuine progressive like me? When did middle dem beliefs (think Reasonable Nouveau New Deal) get mis-labelled as "too radical"?!
OMG ...

I guess we're only allowed to talk about the things rich people want us to talk about. Time to change the tax code.

For all you bloggers who don't go back to prior postings, let me point out that mark799
is also Mark Lipman....the heckler in the Leno/Maher video !!

Thanx, Mark, for being there, and doing what I and those I personally know, would LOVE to have done !!!!

Thanx again, Dude !!!!

And your 2 part post here is most awesome !!!

Wow. If you want to find out why Dennis was excluded from the debates here's the answer:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/260.html

the rabblerouser doesnt like to be roused, i guess

I live in Cleveland, Ohio. Not only was Dennis Kucinich the worst Mayor Cleveland had, he's probably the worst Congressman Northeastern Ohio has ever had. While this guy is off flitting around the country getting his 15 minutes of fame, his 10th Congressional District is dying a slow death. He has done "jack" for the District. Anyone who supports him for President needs to do a little homework. Kucinich is a complete loser.

"Women haters can't even comprehend their own pathetic attempts at explaining how absurd they sound when they put down women feeding babies, probably the most natural act of humankind."

Nobody did that. No one put down women feeding babies. When you learn how to read, get back to me. Also, explain why not wanting to see a man perform the natural act of scratching his nuts in public does not make you a "man hater".

"it is NATURE,..."

I don't have a problem with nature. This isn't nature. It's a resturaunt or movie house. In the meantime you might want to stop assuming that all mothers agree with the notion that breast feeding in public is a good thing.

"If people cannot get over feeding a child, it is my personal hope they starve to death, but are offered a full and supple breast of milk to refuse during the process... perferably, in a public place."

Which proves my point. It's not about "hating" women or feeding children, it's about you being so obsessed with yourself that you would rather offend other paying customers than get up off your butt and walk ten feet to a restroom. And of course anyone who questions your complete and total self-absorbtion should be starved in public.

By the way, since little babies don't stay little forever and since cooking at home for everyone else is going to be cheaper anyway, are you really telling me it would be too much for your psyche to handle to take a year or two off from the movie house or a sit down resturaunt?

But then again, that wouldn't allow you to show off would it? Because what you're really arguing for is your ability to show off the fact that one out of a couple million sperm managed to make its way far enough to fertilize one of your eggs.

"Look at me! I can reporduce! I'm so special!"

Maher is a douchebag. Leno is a tool.

I feel for Dennis. Clearly, the media decides pretty early on who gets heard and who does not. While I think that he is a horse's ass, Alan Keyes has gone completely under the radar. When I first saw Keyes in a televised Republican debate, I said to my wife "Ehhhh, Keyes is running?" He then appeared in maybe one or two other debates before disappearing. Since the media ignores him, I'm not sure I will ever know when he actually drops out of the race.
National politics is the same popularity contest that high school politics is. The news media is only a small step from Hollywood. It's all for our entertainment and to hell with the better good of the country.

Now that he's officially a scab, we can see his true colors emerging. As for the article, he didn't display any heroics as in his own show because he wasn't heroic. What happened on his show was staged BS.

Dennis' supporters are the best

When I read the comments of those who understand Dennis' message of hope and real change, then I know he has struck a chord in the American people that is good and clear and comes through loudly. There is always a double edge to this kind of message and that is the powers that be are very jealous of their power and while Dennis himself is not a threat, his message is and it is the real message of change for this country.
The backers of Dennis get that. They are fully aware of how he will change the way American conducts herself as a nation and the way she will treat not just her citizens but all people. While the Masters of the Universe like us to believe they are all powerful, they are not. Dennis' message proves that and the lengths they will to to in order to stop us from hearing Dennis' message says a lot about their vulnerability.
It also says a lot about the ways in which the parties at this point have become a mirror image of each other. I find it hard to believe that if Hillary Clinton were excluded from the debate or Barack Obama were that Dennis would not challenge the tv networks making that decision on their behalf or stand next to them and usher them onto the stage because of his belief that these airwaves belong to the people (which they do) and because the truth is not so fragile that it cannot be talked about by everyone.

Those shows in the '90's, such as Phil Donahue, Richard Bey etc. did serve a purpose. They provided the average Joe to participate and speak their mind. Today, it seems everything in the MSM is so pre-packaged and so corporate owned, that people have to resort to heckling to voice their opinion. Witness the MSNBC debate. That heckler was speaking for me. And if you are not enraged and angry with the state of our country, then you are not paying attention!

Bill Maher is a jackass...spouting off about free speech and all that until someone disagrees with him, then its "shut up...you're stupid and dumb...shut up...you're dumb and stupid...i'm not listening...lalalalalala."

His audience is the aging who like to think of themselves as progressive, so long as it requires nothing more than telling their friends how right Bill Maher is...and so long as it does not, in any way, interrupt their day to day life.

He gives potheads a bad name...