My Best Picture

My favorite movie of the year was the one about the heartless con man who's obsessed with finding oil. Its called No End In Sight.

Comments

[mamacat]

I don't always agree with you Bill, but at least you try to think.
One of my all time favorite panelists is Salmon Rushdie. So smart and incisive.
Also, if you invited him, I wouldn't be surprised if the Pres. of Iran allowed an interview.
How about a one-on-one with Karl Rove?

[TakLoufer]

Lately Maher has been a little too impatient and smug for his own good. And when he starts in with the PETA party line, he really becomes a boorish bore. You can't be bashing all sides but your own, Bill. You really need to step back and take a good look at some of the statements you've made and apparently stand firm upon.

Best episode of the season: the one with all the uptight straight guys -- especially a backtracking D.L. Hughley, who had stated on a previous Real Time that he (big surprise for a black man) opposed gay rights -- being uncomfortable in front of Dr Dan Savage. Unfortunately openly-gay Dr Dan did not call Hughley on that issue, which would have been the proverbial cherry on that cake.

[ShockandAutism]

Concur. You have been acting quite self righteous and dickie lately Bill.

Especially when you get on your food puritan anti-antibiotic rant. Sure, I would like to have a personal cook or eat at Nobu every night to better my nutritional in-take. But we can't all have our own talk shows, we're a little busy making the world that you comment on run.

I wonder what a working class Bill with wife and kids would say if he or one of them were in the hospital and his only chance to save them was an antibiotic.

I know it's difficult but try sometimes to empathize with mortals.

[Everyonepoops]

When has Bill not been a dick? He always has been because that is what this country needs: someone who doesn't care and just says things they way they are.
Bill Maher is no different today than he was a few years ago on ABC except now, HBO doesn't censor him so everyone thinks that he has turned into a dick.

[AmericanDreams]

Bill ,
Great shows!

Can you book Jamie Johnson...­he would be great!

Thanks
Dave

[2liveNdie]

I would rather live my life as if there was a God, die and find out that there wasn't, than to live my life believing there was no God, die and find out that there is.

[JaseAllen]

Duh-huh. Many of those professing to "believe" lead lives filled with anger, greed, hatred, and power. Others profess their "faith" as a means to distinguish themselves as better than everyone else. There is a huge difference in wearing a "What would Jesus do?" bracelet and actually living a life prescribed by Jesus.

[AristophanesJones]

You do realize that Pascal's Wager is religious hucksterism, don't you?

It doesn't work from the atheist point of view because "God exists" is merely a random assertion, and it doesn't work from the theist point of view because if you're believing in God "just in case" it's not faith for faith's sake.

[LiberalMathProfessor]

I'd rather live in the delightful freedom of not knowing and saying so out loud. Try it. It is so freeing and so honest. And it allows one to use energies, otherwise wasted on pretending and the tyrranies of baseless hoping, for actually trying to find things out and actually portraying oneself as a no-nothing since nobody really knows much at all. Try this strategy and its tactics in every walk of life, not just in the silly arena called religion, where people pretend to understand the cosmos with various verbal approaches to concocting fantasy explanations;but try it in everything, when someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer, you say "I don't know, I have no idea, and I am either interested in finding out or I am not." It saves on BS galore and is an act of what the Eastern mystics might call "harmony" wherein one's true thoughts, feelings and behaviors are all in sync... "I don't know something and I won't lie to you about it in trying to make something up." I guess it resolves down to either being full of it or not being full of it.

[lenski]

Why not live with thoughtfulness, consideration, patience and as much wisdom as we can muster, whether there is a God or not?

I do not believe in magic, I do not believe in some dude in flowing white robes "running things", "loving us all". Oh wait... No, we can be saved only if we accept His Son into our hearts... It's kind of conditional, isn't it? Not for me, sorry.

Some parts of the Bible are inspired and inspirational writings; but one need not believe in magic to aspire to live according to the standards set by the Prince Of Peace.

So I live my life as if we had both the ability and responsibility for living wisely without the need to hear about it from some well-dressed, rich, media-savvy guy or gal claiming to speak for the being who if he/she/it exists, would be as far removed from our capacity for expression or understanding as we are from a DNA helix wrapped in a protein shell.

I appreciate the sentiment, as expressed in "Dogma" the movie: The voice of God would be so powerful that to hear would be to die instantly. Another good one: If you want to hear the voice of God, shut up and listen. Or drop a leaf, and listen while it drifts softly to the ground. THAT is the voice of God.

[AristophanesJones]

I want to see more episodes like the one where Michael Moore and David Dreier were at each others' throats.

[AlphaMutt]

Bill, the one guy that you haven't had on since your old show on ABC is John Shelby Spong. It was your show where we first heard of him and have been buying his books ever since. And for an Episcopal bishop to pique the interest of an old apostate like me is saying something. I'd love to hear his take on this administration.

[AlphaMutt]

Bill, the one guy that you haven't had on since your old show on ABC is John Shelby Spong. It was your show where we first heard of him and have been buying his books ever since. And for an Episcopal bishop to pique the interest of an old apostate like me is saying something. I'd love to hear his take on this administration.

[Bluesage]

Bill - I hope you read these messages. For Christ sake Bill, why do you insist on having Luntz, Frum and Kingston on your show? They are morons and an insult to the people who watch you and you keep inviting them back. The last show with Frum, Kingston and the silent blow-up doll in the middle was the worst show you have ever done. Kingston & Frum kept throwing their BS out there and you just sat there with a smile and challenged nothing. Just a bit of advice - lay off the weed until AFTER the show.

[LARiverWater]

Bill, the last show was a complete dud, but the one before was absolutely my favorite. It seems that those guests were uniting all the watchers to understand the state of the political choices we have and it's better when you guys explain it to the masses, funny, honest but true!! Let's have more of those guests. Also Rachel Madow!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!

[flatus]

You may just want to hear what you want to hear, my friend.

The last show was one of the better ones with well spoken 'Pugs and a Maher 'helper' to scrape the slime off.

Keep it up. That's how it's done, Bill.

[smzzzz]

Trouble is they didn't "scrape the slime off." Neither Maher nor the woman answered the slimers in any meaningful way.

[janvoght]

thanks bill, for being there! great balance when you invite matt to counter that spinnmeister, decpetion! he's a young man that is not afraid to tell them the TRUTH!

[w&cheneysuck]

The other shoe is dropping!

[w&cheneysuck]

AGREED!!!

[cherylmo]

Movies come to mind when I hear Obama speak. Movies, like The Music Man or Elmer Gantry. Sometimes I could swear the band is playing "76 Trombones.­"

[Mother77]

I agree. It's scary that we don't know what he DOESN'T know. Shall we find out???? Or, vote for someone with banking knowledge, foreign diplomacy experience and a twice elected Senator. Hmmmmm.

[rich3324]

With Mcain I hear, "Night of the Living Dead."

[joanndarc]

Bill, I don't undrstand why you treat pets as if they are wild animals. Pets are not the product of nature UNLIKE real (wild) animals, the product of natural selection.
And pets take away the habitat of wild animals by simply needing foods.
Unfortunatelly, you will not likely read the comment though.

[lenzorizzo]

while we're suggesting guests, why not get todd rundgren. smarter than a roomful of congressmen and funnier'n shit when he wants to be. too bad zappa's gone