Kucinich-Supporting Hecklers Interrupt Bill Maher On "The Tonight Show"

Just a week after making the boldest talk show appearance ever (third video down), Bill Maher found himself in another awkward position: this time at "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno."

While asking about Maher's opinion on the current crop of presidential contenders, Leno was interrupted Tuesday night by a Dennis Kucinich supporter, who yelled, "Let Dennis debate! Stop censorship! Help save democracy!" (Dennis was shut out from MSNBC's debate last night in Las Vegas).

Then, after a commercial break, Maher was interrupted by a separate audience member, shouting a more ambiguous message: "GE, NBC, Put Impeachment on TV!". Too bad he didn't handle the nuisance like he did on his own show.

Check out the clip from "The Tonight Show" below:

From NBC 1/15/08.

Comments

[Hephaestion]

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.

[SunshineDaydream]

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.

[SunshineDaydream]

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.

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[heidi2360]

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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[Purple Girl]

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.

[bighead]

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

[lvogt]

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.

[Andres]

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.

[rogus]

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.

[Average]

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

[mark799]

Check this out:

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

[loki]

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

[barriosbabe]

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 ...

[wmike100]

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

[EyeWantOneNation]

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 !!!