Bill Maher Sounds Off On Chris Christie

Bill Maher panned New Jersey governor Chris Christie for vetoing the state's gay marriage bill on Friday.

"It's my home state so I take these things a a little personally," he said. "When somebody from New Jersey does something that I consider sort of backwards, and I consider this backwards on the part of the governor, it bothers me."

Real Time With Bill Maher guest Eliot Spitzer said the move was typical of Christie. "He panders to the very conservative on pronouncements on all sorts of issues. He's just wrong on the fundamentals."

Maher, who said he'd prefer Obama run against Rick Santorum than Christie, asked the panelists if they thought the New Jersey governor could be the savior of the Republican party.

Spitzer dissented. "I don't think Chris Christie withstands the scrutiny," he said.

The panelists also discussed why Obama is the worst pot president, how to increase voter turnout and their thoughts on Obama's recently released budget.

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Comments

[John Kelley 1]

01:30 AM on 02/22/2012

Chris Christy isn't going to be competitive in any Presidential race precisely because the very moderate platforms he would need to hold to win the general election would undermine any effort on his part to win the GOP nomination and vice versa. It's the same conundrum that every Republican faces in the modern age of far right ideology within the GOP.

[Hillbilly49]

08:38 PM on 02/21/2012

Bill Maher is the best; he humorously points out how right wingers are so hypocritical and senseless.  

[GayleAlstrom]

11:43 AM on 02/21/2012

Legalizing marijuana would bring in lots of tax dollars. I wish that just once Obama would put revenue first. Also all the millions that would be saved from not having to enforce the current maijuana laws.

[Hillbilly49]

08:39 PM on 02/21/2012

Exactly !  

[jcshiloh]

11:44 PM on 02/21/2012

Exactly no woman would have him, kinda like you billygoat

[whyus]

11:27 PM on 02/20/2012

Cant watch it in iPad.

[mcmutter]

11:17 PM on 02/20/2012

ease up Bill .... the Glutton of NJ is probably our biggest state attraction .....

[Hillbilly49]

08:40 PM on 02/21/2012

Mr. BearClaw does provide shade for hundreds of residents in New Jersey.

[RJROW]

09:24 PM on 02/20/2012

I agree with Bill on this issue. Why are the Republican party so affraid of gay marriage and gay rights. could it be because they only have sex for procreation, and they are struggling with their own sexual identity? How can GLBT even consider supporting a party that publically denies their right to social equality. Hetrosexual's don't have to understand why people are gay, just except that the are, and that it is ok, they deserve equality under the law.

[YouDontWantMeHere]

06:10 PM on 02/20/2012

would
i thinks that's onna them
rectal questions
have worked?

[wayne the pain]

05:22 PM on 02/20/2012

Obama's war on medical marijuana will cost him votes with the base. Not that the Republicans are better, there are worse, it is the Obama hipocracy!

[William A]

09:40 PM on 02/20/2012

I don't think we can blame Obama for the marijuana tax act of 1937 :)

[WashingtonDCsucks]

01:00 AM on 02/21/2012

We can blame him for not doing the logical intelligent thing and legalizing it.

[wayne the pain]

03:09 PM on 02/21/2012

Cop out!

[TKI]

10:52 AM on 02/21/2012

Obama does not have a war on medical marijuana outside enforcing the laws that are in place...laws which he did not enact.

[wayne the pain]

03:09 PM on 02/21/2012

Cop out!

[Jim NLN]

03:41 PM on 02/20/2012

Rick Perry was the guy until he opened his mouth. The same will be true of Chris Chris!

[BadgersBite]

12:27 PM on 02/20/2012

Chris Christie.... Fat Chance!

[William A]

09:41 PM on 02/20/2012

Ok, I LOL'd. Which is wrong. Wroooong. Prejudice is bad! Unless the person is evil... then it's ok, but only if it doesn't strictly violate PC!

[catgirl666]

04:54 AM on 02/21/2012

He wouldn't make the w e ight requirement to s it on air forc e o ne.

[Spiral Architect]

09:48 AM on 02/20/2012

The same-sex marriage advocates who today congratulate themselves as freedom fighters in the tradition of Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, MLK, Gandhi, etc..are misconstruing the significance of what these leaders accomplished in the face of actual tyranny. Whether they mean to or not, the gay marriage movement is confusing the civil rights struggles against slavery, racism, and totalitarianism with something very different—their desire to redesign history's most important cultural institution in a manner that will eventually render it meaningless.
Those who contend that marriage is a civil right must contend with additional questions. Is graduation from school a civil right? Is a government job? How about being a son, or a daughter, an uncle, or an aunt? What about a graduate degree? Employment? Housing? Health? Business ownership? A driver's license?
Just as it is with these institutions and definitions, so it is with marriage—each one is defined with exclusions in place, and once it becomes anything we want it to be, it is nothing at all. Marriage is an institution, not a civil right. It has nothing to do with first- or second-class citizenship. Marriage either has an enduring, unchanging definition, or it will have no definition

[Lorcan]

11:05 AM on 02/20/2012

Marriage IS an institution. However, your logic suggests that you should be IN an institution.

[bbriani3842]

11:08 AM on 02/20/2012

" ... the face of actual tyranny ... "

Never been thrown out of your home because of who you are, eh?

" ... the face of actual tyranny ... "

Never been denied access to a dying loved one in the hospital because you weren't "family", eh?

" ... the face of actual tyranny ..."

Never had the bit sheat out of you because you dared show your lover the same PDA "normal" people show, eh?

Moving on ....

"Is graduation from school a civil right? "

No, but a fair and equitible education is.

"How about being a son, or a daughter, an uncle, or an aunt? "

No, because all of those things are depend on the actions of others (like your siblings having children).

"Employment­? Housing? Health? Business ownership? A driver's license?"

Yes ... yes ... yes ... and yes. You cannot be denied these things because of your race, religion, gender or ethnicity.

Marriage is a civil contract regulated by the state -- the SECULAR state.

There are NO secular arguments denying two couples of the same gender the right to marry. None ... I've looked. If there are any, please feel free to list them here. And, good luck with that.

Where the state is concerned, marriage is about property transfer and ownership. That's why the state deems it necessary to regulate it.

[Spiral Architect]

02:13 PM on 02/20/2012

Funny how the black community doesn't see this as a civil rights issue. In fact Prop 8 passed in CA as a result of 2 out of 3 black and Latino voters voting for it....many of which were Obama voters.

[Kalikat]

09:37 AM on 02/20/2012

How can you tell he is backwards. Both sides look like a butt to me.

[bbriani3842]

11:13 AM on 02/20/2012

Was your spouse able to visit you in the hospital as you battled cancer?

[SisterAnn]

09:36 AM on 02/20/2012

Every idea we come up with, the elected government ignores. Our leaders are not stupid, they are up to no good.

Obama needs to pull away from the elected republican mob.

[deridaa]

09:27 AM on 02/20/2012

Spitzer on anything........with his black socks on. OMG he is back!

[cobretti]

02:56 AM on 02/20/2012

Wow. I've heard Maher accused of all sorts of things, but never that he's gay. If anything he's a mysoginist.

[MyDawg1967]

08:08 AM on 02/20/2012

I bet you think calling gay people gay is some kind of slam.