Real Time with Bill Maher #357 6/19/15 "Kick-Ass"

Bernie Sanders

by Catherine Giordano

Real Time with Bill Maher was a kick-ass show on June 19, 2015, when episode 357 aired.

The interview was with Bernie Sanders. He is kicking ass on the issues hard and I love him for it. I believe he has changed his registration from Independent to Democratic so I am claiming him for the D’s. 

Another guest, Ann Coulter, just kicks ass because it is all a game to her and a way to sell her stupid books and I hate her for it. [Ann Coulter is a conservative commentator and author of many diatribe books. Her latest book is Adios,America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole.]

Bill Maher had to give his conservative guests an ass-kicking several times for telling lies and for their bad behavior on the show. He had to remind Coulter and panelist Matt Lewis (political blogger for the libertarian Daily Caller, contributor to The Week magazine, and author of Too Dumb toFail: How the GOP Won Elections by Sacrificing Its Ideas (And How It CanReclaim Its Conservative Roots) that guests are not allowed to talk over each other. You would have thought they would have learned that in kindergarten. Wait your turn, a--holes!

 
The SC murders
There is not a lot of humor to be milked from these horrific murders. The only thing funny was watching the Republican presidential candidates twist themselves into knots trying to avoid saying that this incident had anything to do with race. The confessed murderer said, “I want to kill black people.” And “I want to start a race war.” But Republicans (some, not all) and Fox News (pretty much everyone) were saying “What could have motivated him?” Maher asked, “Isn’t denying racism a form of racism.”   

The senseless murders of good decent people in a SC church on Wednesday June 17, 2015 got me to thinking about the death penalty. If anybody ever deserved the death penalty it is Dylann Storm Root who murdered nine people in cold blood with premeditation after spending an hour with them in Bible study because he hated black people. When I first heard about this, I was thinking no punishment is too harsh for him. 

 

But then I watched the families of the victims, one by one, look Root in the eye as they struggled to contain their grief, and say that they forgave him. And I knew that the death penalty is immoral no matter how heinous the crime or the murderer. The families showed immense dignity and set an example for us all about how to hold to your moral ideals no matter how great the challenge.  

 

The family members of the victims are true heroes. 

 

The Confederate flag and racism



Luis Gutierrez: "Take the fag down."

The only good thing to come out of this is that the Confederate flag may finally be removed from public property. Panel member Luis Gutierrez, Congressional Representative (D, IL), was especially eloquent. He said “Take the Flag down! The Civil War was over 150 years ago." 

 

Maher said, “It is the flag of treason.” [I agree.]

 

Matt Lewis, of course, had to defend the flag and introduce misinformation to do so. He said it was still flying because of a SC Democratic governor. True enough, but misleading. Maher had to explain that was a governor who held office in the “Old South,” before the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and the consequent Republicanization of the South, back when the Southern Democrats were the racists. 

Maher handed Lewis’ ass to him when he said, “We can never know why someone snaps, but I know where he got his news. I looked at your website, Matt Lewis, there was a lot of news about blacks.”

Maher scoffed at those who are trying to make this part of the war on Christians just because it took place in a church. (He was talking to you Republicans and Fox News hosts.) Lewis tried to claim that the killer murdered Christians in a church because he was an atheist because of Maher’s atheist’s views. 

 

Joy Reid, host of The Reid Report on MSNBC, managing editor of the Grio.com, columnist for the Miami Herald, and the author of Fracture:Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide, had to point out that the killer’s clothing and car bore the flags of Rhodesia, South Africa, and the Confederacy—all white supremacy Christian countries.

 

Gutierrez added that the killer said “They [Black people] are taking over our country, raping our women.” Does that sound familiar? It is exactly what Donald Trump said when he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president. Only he said it about Mexicans.

 

The Pope and climate change

Pope Francis

Bill Maher loves Pope Frank again. Maher said that the Pope “opened up a can of whoop ass” when he delivered his encyclical.

 

On climate change, the Pope said, “Halfway measures delay the inevitable. We are creating a world of filth.” And he also had plenty to say about poverty, justice, and economic inequality. All the Republicans came at the Pope hard.

 

Gutierrez said that the Republicans are running scared because the pope is coming to the United States. He will talk about these issues and it may cause them to lose the Catholic vote.

 

Lewis’ opinion is full speed ahead, business as usual, was a matter of public policy—it creates jobs. Reid flung his words back in his face. “Is it public policy to not be able to drink the water [because of fracking and oil spills]?” I will add that renewable energy and other “green” policies will create jobs.

 

Desperate for a comeback because he was obviously losing the argument, Lewis said to Maher, “You come to Right to Life and I will be a radical environmentalist.” Is that how it works Lewis? You trade your principles like kids in a schoolyard trading baseball cards?

 

The presidential nomination race

If Donald Trump gets elected president, will the presidency become a reality TV show? I don’t think Trump really wants to win. He just wants a platform from which to tell the world how great he is. Maher said, “Trump was talking out of his ass so much that a roadie came up and put a mic behind him.”

 

Trump said Mexicans bring drugs, crime and they are rapists. Maher said, “No that’s fraternities.” He added, “It is like your abnormal psych textbook came to life.”

 

Jeb Bush earned some Maher contempt also. This week Jeb Bush told the Pope that he should keep faith out of politics. Maher said, “This from the person who brought faith INTO politics.” (As governor of Florida he appointed a guardian for the fetus to prevent a mentally incompetent woman from aborting a pregnancy that resulted from rape despite a court ruling that she could do so. He interfered to keep a brain dead woman—Terry Schiavo—on life support after the courts had ruled that life support should be terminated. He was constantly ignoring the law and making faith-based decisions. 

Bernie Sanders is the best presidential candidate out there in terms of his ideas. He says, “Our country belongs to all of us, not just a few billionaires.” Sanders believes that the United States should join the rest of the world on things like health care and free college education. He said, "We are the wealthiest country in the world, but it is not sustainable with wealth concentrated in the hands of the few."

 

Senator  Sanders (D, formerly I, VT), is running for  the Democratic nomination for president. He is well-known for being America’s only Socialist senator and for his 8.5 hour filibuster against tax cuts for the rich and other economic injustices. You can read his full speech in his book, Bernie'sSpeech: Complete and Unedited. [You might also want to learn more about socialism. John Nichols has written an excellent book on the topic: The S Word: A Short History of an AmericanTradition...Socialism.

 

I’ll give my opinions here. Bernie is closing in on Hillary Clinton in the polls. He is so refreshing because he tells the truth and he looks like he is excited about his ideas. Hillary is the far more qualified candidate but she gets called inauthentic. I think it is because she has this robotic quality about her. She needs to throw away her scripts and give a speech from the heart. Talk like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. No one calls them inauthentic. They sound like they mean what they say. Show a little passion, Hillary.

 

Here’s another recommendation to Hillary. If you are running against Jeb (whose wife is Mexican or Rubio who is Cuban (or even if you are not), you might want to have a Hispanic on your ticket. You couldn’t go wrong with Luis Gutierrez. He’s authentic.

 



Dad-Bods

Dad Bods

Dads who let themselves go got ribbed in the midshow comedy segment--once hot movie stars start to get a bit of a paunch.

So Maher did a mockup of a magazine called Dad Bods. He gave the blurbs for the articles. Here are some of them.

 

• Paul Giamatti: Sexiest man alive
• What happens in the garage stays in the garage
• 7 STD’s you wish you had a chance to get
• 12 TV shows you should be falling asleep in front of
• Ooff vs. Argh: Which picking-things-up grunt is right for you?
• Finally, jeans that flatter your front butt

 

New Rules Gag-Reflex

The final New Rules segment was more “Explaining Jokes to Idiots.” Maher says there is a “new brand of censorship that doesn’t care if the joke is actually offensive. You just can’t say certain words.”

 

Maher says when Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Larry the Cable Guy “all say you have a stick up your ass, u don’t need to wait for the X-rays to come back.” Maybe political correctness has gone too far. All three of these comedians will no longer play college campuses because too many things have been declared off limits. Maher said that it is like the start of a joke—“a black, a Jew, and a redneck …”

“Jokes about men? Yes. Gay men? No.” 

“Jokes about kim Kardahian's ass? Yes. Her stepfather's tits? No.“

 

To make his point, Maher told a Muslim joke. “Islam is a religion of peace. A piece of you here. A piece of you there.” He said it is funny because Muslims blow stuff up more than anyone with the possible exception of the U. S. military.  

 

Friday nights 10pm

Get your ass on the couch in front of a screen next Friday night at 10pm. Watch Real Time with Bill Maher. Because you never know when he will release a can of whoop ass.

 

 

Bill Maher’s Guests, June 19, 2015, episode 357:  

 

The interview 

Bernie Sanders: Senator (D, formerly I, VT), Candidate for the Democratic nomination for president. He is well-known for being America’s only Socialist senator and for his 8.5 hour filibuster against tax cuts for the rich and other economic injustices. You can read his full speech in his book, Bernie'sSpeech: Complete and Unedited. [You might also want to learn more about socialism. John Nichols has written an excellent book on the topic: The S Word: A Short History of an AmericanTradition...Socialism.]

 

Mid show guest

Ann Coulter: Conservative commentator and author of many diatribe books. Her latest book is Adios,America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole. [I wanted to dip my cursor into a vat of disinfectant just because it touched that title.]

 

Panel

Luis Gutierrez Congressional Representative (D, IL)

 

Joy Reid: Host of The Reid Report on MSNBC, managing editor of the Grio.com and columnist for the Miami Herald. She is also the author of Fracture:Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide

 

Matt Lewis: Political blogger for the libertarian Daily Caller, contributor to The Week magazine, and author of Too Dumb toFail: How the GOP Won Elections by Sacrificing Its Ideas (And How It CanReclaim Its Conservative Roots)   

 

HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher #323 "Horror and Mayhem"

Max Brooks graphic novel

by Catherine Giordano

Is a co-incidence that a doctor, Martin Blaser, who has a book about modern plagues and an author, Max Brooks, who has a book about zombies are on the same show? I don't think so. Plenty of horror and mayhem in the news served up with a splash of comedy) and some mayhem caused by a horribly ignorant panelist, Andy Dean.

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In the monologue, Bill Maher spoke about the mayhem in the Republican party because of the Thad Cochran and tea-partier (and “real knuckle-dragger,” according to Maher) Chris McDaniel Republican primary race in Mississippi for the Senate. McDaniel had the lead, but Cochran in an upset, won due to a last minute effort by Cochran to persuade black Democrats to vote for him. Mississippi has open primaries, meaning that a voter can choose which primary to vote in. McDaniel and tea-party supporters everywhere are hopping mad. Maher quipped that McDaniel is demanding that the election be overturned because Cochran won with black votes and everyone knows blacks are not supposed to vote.”

Later in the show, Maher said the black voters in Mississippi knew a Democrat would never get elected in Mississippi so they voted for the least bad Republican choice. One of the panelists, Joy Reid (a black woman) who is the anchor of the MSNBC show The Reid Report, also defended blacks who came out to vote for Cochran. She said, “49% of the budget for the state comes from the federal government and the tea party wants to stop those funds and he wants to send poll-watchers to watch blacks vote.”

Here’s my plea to everyone in Mississippi who supports the tea party: In November, exact your revenge on Cochran for seeking the support of blacks--vote for the Democrat, Travis Childers, or don’t vote at all. And my plea to those blacks who voted for Cochran in the primary--come out again in November and vote for Childers. And my plea to Childers, come up with some smart campaign moves of your own and win this thing. The latest poll shows you with only 34% vs. Cochran’s 46%. Let’s have another upset in Mississippi.

The interview was with Dr. Martin Blaser, Director of the NYU Human Microbiome Program, Professor of Microbiology at New York University School of Medicine, author of Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues. They discussed the serious consequences of the overuse and misuse of antibiotics.
 

Harmful bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics and new antibiotics are not being developed. Maher explained that drug companies want to develop drugs like Lipitor that people take every day. There is far more money in it than in antibiotics that people take just once in a while and only for a week. 

Blaser pointed out another problem. The good bacteria that we need to keep us healthy and alive are being killed off (reducing biotic diversity) and/or mutating also. Since World War II, there has been a huge increase in obesity, diabetes, allergies, and other problems. He posits that the effects of antibiotics on the good bacteria may be causing all of these illnesses.
 

After the interview, Maher brought up the subject of climate change. He noted that even some Republicans are not supporting the idea of climate change. Joy Reid said, “We can pay for the solution or pay for the clean-up. “ Another panelist, Bobby Ghosh, journalist, managing editor for Atlantic Media’s Quartz, former TIME Magazine's World Editor, and author of The New Middle East (with Time Magazine editors), added, “There is money to be made in protecting the environment." 

 

And then Andy Dean, host of radio talk show, America Now with Andy Dean piped up with one of his many stupid comments. You are going to put hundreds of thousands of coal miners out of a job so a rich guy in Malibu doesn’t lose a couple of feet of his beach-front property.

  

Maher immediately slammed him, saying “There are so many stupid lies in that one sentence. Maher accused him of pulling the number of coal miners right out of a certain aperture in his posterior. (Maher expressed it more bluntly than I just did.) He also said, "The solution was to train the current miners for better jobs." (I 100% agree. Coal mining is a dirty dangerous job. I’m sure coal miners would much rather have a job in a clean energy industry.) Reid added that coal mining is poisoning the water. (I think coal miners would like to have clean water as well as clean jobs.) 

 

More nuclear energy is not the solution of course, this is what Dean proposed, bemoaning the fact that no new nuclear plant has been built since Three Mile Island. Reid smartly shut him down: “That’s because of Three Mile Island.” (P.S. You guys should have mentioned Japan after the 2011 tsunami. If that doesn’t scare us off nuclear energy, what will?)  

 

The situation in Iraq was also discussed. Maher said that the pottery Barn rule should have a statute of limitation. “It’s not you break it and you have to work for Pottery Barn forever.”

  

Reid said, “We should stop infantilizing the Arab world. Everything they do is not because of us” and later, “We sowed division by trying to tinker with the Middle East. We took down a secular Sunni government and handed it to the Shia and told them to fight Iran.”

 

Ghosh said, “It is not about hating each other about religion. It is about power. In other countries, Sunni and Shia live side by side.” 

 

And what were Dean’s contributions to the discussion. 

“The Kurds were the main reason we went to Iraq.” And the Kurds love Israel and everything.” Everyone gives him a WTF look.  

“We walked away from Iraq and that is why we are here we are today. Maher yells, “Bullshit.” 

“It’s because of 9/11.” Joy angrily demands, “What did 9/11 have to do with Iraq?”

“They hate us for our way of life.” Pandemonium breaks out as everyone screams at Dean. I was screaming at my TV.  

Remember two weeks ago when I said that Tom Rogan was acting like a misbehaving child. See Totally Tripping #321) I have the same feeling about Andy Dean. (And, Tucker Carlson, although he hasn’t been on Maher’s show.) Here’s my theory. They are all short, slight, and boyish- looking. I heard Carlson say that he was ignored by the cool kids in high school. I bet the others were too. They became conservatives to get back at the cool kids who were liberal. I’m not picking on short people. Some short people, like Robert Reich, are smart enough to not go through life it a chip on their shoulder. And smart enough not to go through life behaving like stupid children. 

 

In a plug for #FlipADistrict, Maher urged viewers to use the hash tag to vote for who should have his district flipped. He said, ‘Vote for your ‘loser’ to win.” I’ll add, “So the ‘winner’ can lose in November.” 

 

Maher introduced the mid-show comedy segment by reminding us about the Clive McBundy supporting couple who shot two policemen and another person in Tulsa recently because they wanted to start a revolution, were wearing adult diapers at the time of their killing spree. This led Maher to a mock adult diaper ad for gun nuts. The ad said that if you don’t want the revolution to be cut sort because “you have to go,” you need “Defends.” The constitution is written right on the diapers which come in sizes, “small, medium, and George Zimmerman.” The tag line was, “Our movement shouldn’t be sidetracked because of yours.” 

 

The mid-show guest was Max Brooks, son of Mel Brooks, and author of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, and a graphic novel, The Harlem Hellfighters (with illustrator Caanan White). Maher said that Brooks' zombie novels were an allegory for survival of any apocalypse. 

 

Brooks said, “I want to talk about the larger issues, infrastructure and everything that keep civilization running.” Brooks and Maher talked about how the conservatives and tea-party are trying to strip that away. . Brooks said, “They want less government. That’s Somalia. That’s the real zombie apocalypse. Go live the dream!” 

Read about a possible real zombie apocalypse 

Brooks also talked about his new graphic novel, The Harlem Hellfighters. It is a fictional story about the true story of a World War I regiment of blacks who fought heroically in

France. 

 

The final segment of New Rules also focused on WW I. He said that for most wars, you can sum up the cause in a sentence the way you could do a pitch for a movie. Then he did a few movie pitches. 

Titanic:                      Two teenagers have sex and turn over a boat.

Jurassic Park:           Resurrecting dinosaurs is a shitty idea.

Wizard of Oz:            Nice girl from Kansas drops acid.

Spiderman III:           Same shit as last time.

 After this digression, Maher returns to the point. There was no point to WW I and WW I’s Treaty of Versailles, caused WW II by stripping Germany of everything but Octoberfest. The humiliation of Germany assured they would come back for revenge.

 

Maher concluded it a bit lamely. He said, "It’s like workplace sex or eating at Wendy’s. It feels good at the time, but eventually you’ll regret it.”

 

In between the horror of war and the horror of apocalypse and  the horror of stupid conservative ideas and stupid conservatives saying stupid things, there as a bit of mayhem, some of it quite delightful.

 

Bill Maher’s Guests, #322, June 27, 2014

 

Joy Reid: journalist, anchor of the MSNBC show The Reid Report, managing editor of TheGrio.com, political columnist for the Miami Herald, and the editor of The Reid Report political blog

 

Andy Dean: host of America Now with Andy Dean, a radio talk show 

Bobby Ghosh: journalist, managing editor for Atlantic Media’s Quartz, former TIME Magazine's World Editor, author of The New Middle East (with Time Magazine editors)

 

Dr. Martin Blaser: Director of the NYU Human Microbiome Program, Professor of Microbiology at New York University School of Medicine, author of Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues 

 

Max Brooks: author of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, and a graphic novel, The Harlem Hellfighters (with illustrator Caanan White)

HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher #282 “Crazy Glue”

by Catherine Giordano

HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, episode 282, which aired on Friday night, May 10, 2013 had a lot of good moments, serious and funny.

Bill had a big target during his opening monologue with Christ Christie and his lap band surgery--the surgery that staples off part of your stomach so your smaller stomach limits the amount you can eat. Bill reported that Christie lost 40 pounds. “He skipped breakfast,” Bill said. Many people think that Christie wants to lose weight because he wants to run for president. Bill commented that having this surgery is tantamount to admitting that you have no will power. He added,“That’s exactly what you want in a president—no will power.”  

He also got a shot in at Sarah Palin. Bill said that when Sarah Palin heard about the arrest of Ariel Castro in connection with his kidnapping of the three women in Cleveland, she said that she was glad that he “was no longer ruling Cuba.”

Bill had a dig for Obama-hating Republicans. “Obama has just done the worst thing ever. We just have to find out what it is. They can’t find the smoking gun. Imagine, this is America and they can’t find a gun.” [The Republicans are so desperate for a scandal and whether it is Benghazi, tax audits, vacations, they can’t get anything to stick. Maybe if they had some Krazy Glue. [They’ve got “the crazy”, all right, they just need the glue.]

The interview was with Mark Bittman, an op-ed writer for The New York Times and the author of VB6: Vegan Before Six. He claims you can lose weight if you eat vegan before 6 pm, while eating whatever you like after 6 pm. [It’s probably a regimen that can help some people—no bacon and eggs for breakfast, no hamburgers for lunch reduces caloric intake--but it is not a sure thing for a lot of people.] Bill pointed out that someone could eliminate all animal foods from his diet, but still be fat if he ate a lot of sugar. [My take: If your excess weight comes from eating too much meat and dairy, the VB6 diet can help you lose weight if you replace those foods with fruits and vegetables.]

This conversation gave Bill an opening to criticize Chris Christie for having lap band surgery—He said, “It is like a cocaine addict Krazy Gluing his nostrils shut to force himself to stop using cocaine.” 

The panel included Glenn Greenwald who writes for The Guardian.  He has just written a new book, With Liberty and Justice for All: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful. During the discussion about the kidnapping of the three women in Cleveland, Greenwald pointed out how there is no longer class mobility in America. The abductor was “hiding in plain sight”, but he held those young women captive for ten years because boarded up windows were nothing unusual in the poor neighborhood where he lived.

Joy Reid, who writes for The Grio (a news website targeted to African-Americans) and an MSNBC contributor was also on the panel. She spoke about the Middle East saying that whenever we try to impose democracy we get something worse. Whenever they overthrow a dictatorship, they get the crazy—a theocracy; democracy just doesn’t stick .

The conservative panelist was Charles Cooke who writes for The National Review Online. Usually, I want to crazy-glue the conservative guests’ mouths shut, but Cooke was OK. He’s a libertarian, but not off-the-wall crazy. He said the Libertarians should be alarmed about the government getting involved in things like prohibition, the war on drugs, and removing the specs for making a gun from the internet. There was agreement with the first two, but not with people making plastic guns that could evade metal detectors at home.

For the mid show comedy segment, Bill gave us part three of his ongoing segment “Craziest Congressman.”  He talked about Paul Broun, a Republican Tea party representative from Georgia. Broun believes that Obama is a Marxist who want to destroy the U.S. from the inside. [t is one thing to disagree with Obama’s policies and feel that they are harmful, but to claim that his goal is to destroy America is crazy.  [As much as I thought G.W. Bush was an evil person, I never thought he was trying to destroy America; I believed that he was destroying America because he was incompetent, not because he hated America.] Bill said the Broun is a doctor who doesn’t understand embryology, and opposes abortion because “it puts storks out of work.” He’s the one who said that science is “lies straight from the pit of Hell” guy. [I’m glad he is not practicing medicine anymore.]

Broun was paired with Michelle Bachman, the Tea Party Republican from Minnesota.  Bill said that she thought that “Thomas Jefferson’s slaves were friends with benefits.”  “A woman once told her that her daughter got retarded because of a vaccine and she said ‘Mom?” You know she is way far-out crazy when you learn that the AP stopped fact-checking her because it overloaded the system.

The mid-show guest was Zachery Quinto, an actor who portrays Dr. Spock in the new Star Trek movie. He has come out as gay.  Quinto said that gays have to have visibility.  A total of 12 states have now made gay marriage legal and there is no stopping it now. Bill added that “when you say that the Bible is against the gay, it makes young people question the Bible.“

I liked Quinto. Sometimes I see actors who I like on the screen, but when they do an interview, I see that they are empty-headed morons. Quinto was intelligent and thoughtful. He calls himself a nerd. [Carey Mulligan, the actress who plays Daisy in the remake of The Great Gatsby is a case in point. She’s been doing a lot of TV interviews to promote the movie, and she comes across as an empty-headed moron. She giggles a lot in the hope that all the giggles will cover up the fact that she has nothing to say.]

Bill’s “New Rules” began with a discussion of The Great Gatsby. Bill said the movie is out of date because the wealth gap is so much greater today than it was during the 1920’s.  Today one in four Americans makes less than $10 a hour. Working at McDonald’s used to be a kid’s job, now people are trying to support a family with the earnings from that job. Close to half of all recent college grads have to live at home because they can’t afford to live on their own. A CEO makes 300 times more that the average worker. The six heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune have more money than the 130 million poorest Americans.  [The statistics are frightening.]  

Bill talked about countries that have huge financial inequalities, like Mexico--kidnapping becomes a way of life. A kidnapping for ransom takes place 72 times a day in Mexico. He used this observation as a warning to the uber-rich in America. And it also gave Bill

an opportunity to to stick it to Donald Trump.

This is the “Don’t-get-into-a-fight-with- a-guy-who- buys-ink-by-the-barrel” moment of the week. [I’m referencing an old saying about not getting on the wrong side of someone who writes for a newspaper because he could inundate you with bad publicity.  Let me change that to “Don’t get into a fight with a comedian with his own weekly TV show.  He will make you the butt of his jokes over and over I bet Donald Trump regrets getting into it with Bill Maher.] Bill concluded his remarks about kidnapping by saying “I’m talking about you, Donald Trump” when he spoke about how the trophy wife of a rich man is not going to raid the Swiss bank account “to save your sorry ass.”

“What is the difference between a hedge fund manage and a mosquito?” Bill quipped. “A mosquito stops sucking blood before it explodes.” [Heed the warning!  A socialite once quipped, “You can never be too thin or too rich.” Perhaps you can be too rich.]

I’m glued to the TV set every Friday night When Bill Maher airs a new show.  You never know what crazy thing the guests will say or how crazy funny the show will be.

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Bill Maher made Donald Trump the butt of his joke on Friday, May 10, 2013 when he joked that his trophy wife "was not going to raid the Swiss bank account to save your sorry ass" if Donald was kidnapped.