What I Did on My Summer Vacation

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[nexus1961]

Love the show.. with keith olbermann, we get
some actual news not filtered... but Bill..
You have GOT to jump all over HBO..
here it is FRIDAY---a WEEK after last weeks show, and 8-24's Overtime segment & bonus New Rule STILL haven't been posted on HBO's site!!!
In spring it was taking them 2-3 days to get to it.. now a fucking WEEK???
Doesn't your contract say they've got to be there by the next day?
Like I said, jump all over HBO.. we plebes can't even get those pricks on the phone!

[janmB]

Re- Hillary and some of you saying she has no message ? Then its is obvious you just haven't been listening.

Let's see if Americans are MATURE enough or evolved far enough to vote for a woman to become president that is more qualified than any man running.

Consider this ---God may have created man before woman, but there is always a rough draft before the masterpiece.

[iggy06]

Read "The Emperor has no Clothes". Hemp oil is 9 times more efficient than corn, plus it doesn't require any pesticides. There are many more pluses that don't come to mind at the moment, but google it. You'd be amazed at how hemp could save us. For example, we can stop cuting down trees. Hemp can make much better paper, again usng no chemicals, and the amount of land needed in comparison to forest land is 24X less. That "Emperor.." book is ful of these facts.

[kroses98]

Bill:
I watched your program, and I have to tell you that although I love you, some of your guests are intolerable! The only guest I could "stomach" this week was Tim Robbins. Michelle Martin is a mean, nasty woman, and unwatchable. I thought so the last time she was on, and she was even worse this time. She is a very angry person! When you have someone like that, coupled with a heartles "RIGHT-WINGER," I have to turn you off! I have been one of your best fans, and when I turn you off, you can be sure that I am not alone. You need to choose better guests! And you do not ALWAYS have to have "WINGERS" on your show! Your "fan-base" is liberal, and they always will be. We cannot tolerate those "mean-spirited" idiots! Please listen, if you would like to keep your audience.

[confusedinUSA]

This was one of your best, Bill, except for the jokes about the Iraqi government taking one month vacation instead of putting their shoulders to the wheel.
Really, Bill? What difference does it make?
What we like to call the Iraqi government is nothing but a completely powerless puppet whose function is only to hide the strings we pull. They do even that poorly. They have no power, not even the equivalent of a small town police force to depend on. The Iraqis look upon them as the façade of the occupation, which they are.
Let's not get mesmerized by the mantra repeated over and over by both reps and dems that the problem is the Iraqi government. There is NO Iraqi government.

[KeysDan]

Welcome Back Bill, you were away much too long for my taste, but then your re-charged batteries were evident during your Friday night show. Tim is very smart and expressed his viewpoints and facts very well, with the exception of his response to Mrs. Martin's challenge on his reference to Bush getting us into Iraq Nam based on lies, rather than calling them just "mistakes". (Lies v mistakes would have been easy to document--e.g.yellow cake from Niger,known beforehand to be forged, dropped from Bush speechs and again put into the the State of the Union, Colin Powell's UN falsified documents, aluminum tubes, on and on. Michelle Martin, by the way, apparently has determined that her careerist trajectory at NPR must reflect the Republican management's political positions. Too bad, for us listeners, since we lose her inherent talents along with here-to-fore sterling radio programming. The Weekly Standard tool was just hopeless. While you were prepared, to an extent, on his past and present Saddam/Al Qaeda relationship claim by citing the 9/ll Commission Report's denial of same, you let him get away with his spurious claim of affirmation by Chairman Tom Keane. The Jenna Bush "baby shower gift" of a saber rattle, was great. Seems like they all got you, to your obvious surprise, on Mother Teresa's doubts on her religious beliefs. Need to be ready for these Christians, they will kill you.

[deniz]

The money comment: "Al Qaeda in Cancun" Ha ha

[Aanya]

Dear Bill
Loved your first show of the new season. Your new rule on Croc shoes should have incluede this. It's a pic of Bush wearing Crocs with socks that have the presidential seal. He really is 7 years old.

http://www.littlerubbershoes.com/post/174

[IMPRISONBUSH]

WATCHED THE SHOW THE GUY FROM THE STANARED WAS STILL LIEING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ( HE LOOKED STILL OLD ENOUGH TO ENLIST.
AS FOR THE REST OF THE SHOW BILL STILL REFUSED TO USE THE WORDS :
.............." IMPEACH BUSH ".............

[tchristin]

In our extended family, there was a phone tree reminder "Don't forget, Bill Maher is back on tonight!" We miss the show when it's not on but it's safe to say absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Congratulations to HBO for hosting this show and allowing Bill to be Bill.

I may not always agree with Bill Maher. Indeed, sometimes I scrunch my nose and say "I can't believe he just said that!" But, he is unafraid to challenge the ignorance and stupidity of authority figures. This is basic to our democracy; the right to question and make fun of our leaders.

If not for him and Jon Stewart, I would feel much less hopeful about the future of our country.

* We loved the first season show, although it did seem like there were things left unsaid and Tim was up there all by himself at times.

[Darenjoe]

Hey Bill,
Thanks for the laughter. I dont seem to laugh as much since people stopped taking george bush so seriously. Seriously! AND speaking of seriously,
We need a new "P" party. A "P" party where the American people stopped getting "P"eed-on, and where Americans loved the country not the money in the country.
Some how we have left the country parked in another part of the world with the keys in the ignition and the engine running. That's right. Our country has been "C" jacked by strangers. I don't understand why no one is talking about prescot bush. The man tried to overthrow the U.S. and install a regime sympathetic to Hitler's cause.

[HeadCheese]

Excellent tie in with the broken infrastructure issue. Your point about the usual rebuttal ("don't bring politics into it") hits home.

The same underlies why the democrats underwrote the wiretapping program. They don't want to seem like they are "politicizing" horrible domestic policy.

If I may be so bold, that is also why the current crop of "opposition" will not harden their calls for withdrawal: They don't wish to "politicize" the war in Iraq.

Too late for that by far.

Thanks for some good laughs.

[xcrunner77]

Um, there's no video. Could somebody fix this please?

[BlueGeneralist]

Sorry for the boos in your comic piece. I suspect you will have a few more boos coming your way with your talent for swiping a broad brush stroke with ethnic jokes. This is always a cheap way to get a laugh. Comics have a license to really point out the reality of just how screwed the political establishment is, but I find comedians these days joining the buttercup brigade. Just the other night, Jon Steward handled the neocon Bill Kristol with kid gloves on his show. He must be a kindered spirit to deserve avoiding the hot seat for his unscrupulous defense of this mother of all tragedys in foreign blunders called Iraq. Now, he even advocates the attack of Iran, but he simply smiles all the way to the bank as a regular in the "media." Your interview with Bill O'Reilly was a missed opportunity and I thought you could have thrown a few comic blood darts, but maybe he just overwhelmed you with his presence and maybe the calculation to be shy was pr savy. Instead of mentioning the failures of Democrats be more specific and call them Blue Dogs. Another suggestion, you may use your extravagant talent and explain and lecture to your audience about Republican obstructionism. Boo.

[beachglass]

glad you are back!

As to what some joker said regarding you helped bring Bill C. down, that is just ridiculous.

There are times and positions we accept in life where we must be beyond reproach...this is where Bill failed himself. If he didn't have pressure from blood-sucking character assasignation experts after him from the start, perhaps he might have behaved differently in the head office...tee-he, I don't know.
I don't care. I did not want to know the intimate details regardless.
Anyone might have lied under oath in that same situation.

Have fun this season Bill.