Posted on 11/06/2010 1:33:09 PM PDT by careyb
O'Reilly holds his own and there's actually some pretty humorous exchanges.
did oreily take maher on his “bigotted” statement on islam. How he’s afraid the country will become a country of Muhammad. What Maher said was a lot worst than what Oreily said on theview
O’Reilly is correct. I watched this and I never watch Maher’s show. So by O’Reilly being on increased his ratings. I will bet you other conservatives also watched this if they knew O’Reilly was on.
OK BOR has officially “jumped the shark”
oreily don’t seem to understand theres a big difference between government spending and business investment. So he don’t mind giving an extra 3%. Well that extra 3% to government means 3% less to create wealth
Leftists prefer wealth distribution by government. Right wing prefer wealth distribution by business
I tried ... couldn’t make it through 4 or so minutes.
I haven’t watched Mr ego in almost five years. He would rather be friends with the liberals who despise him then be a true conservative.
A common argument that they use to defend that Obama is not a socialist is that, the tax rate isn’t that high. If that’s so that everyone before reagan was a communist. Its not the tax rate that determine whether someone is a left or right, its each individual philosophy. You can throw out Stalin and make Reagan the leader of USSR for one day and it does not make Reagan a communist, not do Stalin automatically become a capitalist simply because he’s suddenly in control of USA when tax rate is low
Smarm vs Ego
no thanks
I just learned something, there are two liberal bozos who I find irritating. One is this Bill Maher guy and the other is some guy named Jon Stewart. I see one or the other on TV and I listen all of a couple of seconds and change the channel because I can’t stand either one. And now I know there are two of them, not just one. Though they do look and sound alike. Wow. Then there’s Stephen Colbert, he’s the better looking of the three as well as the one I find to be least annoying. Though,I’ve heard he’s not real, he’s only a character. ?
This was set up, staged, a performance. BOR concedes that Bush was responsible for the debt in 07, but he does so with the knowledge that Democrats held the purse strings since 06. Does he say that? No. He lets Maher blather on that Obama is not to blame. This whole thing was scripted like some phony public school performance. Why BOR would agree to be on this flop of a show is beyond me, but I suspect the trait he shares with liberals is he wants to be liked by them.
“Why BOR would agree to be on this flop of a show is beyond me . . .”
According to BOR, he agreed to be on Maher’s show because Maher had been on his show — a sort of “gentleman’s agreement.”
BOR did as well as expected, considering he’s not really a conservative. Had someone asked me about zerobama’s leftist tendencies, I would have replied that (i) zerobama was a member of an explicitly Marxist political party in Illinois called the “New Party”, which featured his photograph in its newsletter after he joined the Illinois State Senate; (ii) during an interview on Chicago Public Radio in 2000 or 2001, zerobama stated that the Constitution was “flawed” because it had no provisions in it for governmental redistribution of privately produced wealth; (iii) zerobama’s “tax cuts to the middle class” — as pointed out repeatedly by The Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, and other publications, amounted to redistributing tax revenues and handing them out to those who paid no taxes at all, helping to create yet another ever-increasing entitlement class of tax-consumers dependent an ever-shrinking base of productive tax-payers. Again (iv) during a debate with HR Clinton (Charles Gibson moderating on ABC) zerobama stated that he favors increasing capital gains tax even though he is well aware of the fact that by doing so, the total amount of tax revenues decreases. He stated so openly. His reasoning was that raising the tax on capital gains was inherently “fair.”
These are all leftist notions, most of them explicitly Marxist.
I also would have questioned Maher after the latter stated that Business Week was “not a liberal publication.” Business Week might not be liberal but that doesn’t imply that it’s conservative, libertarian, or even remotely pro-capitalism. Like “The Economist,” it’s essentially a pro-mixed-economy, pro-Keynesian publication.
BOR also could have expounded much more on the phony science behind “global warming” and the whole “Climategate” scandal behind the leaked e-mails . . . but I didn’t really expect him to go into this sort of detail, and, of course, he didn’t.
For his part, Bill Maher is simply a moron, who parrots leftist propaganda — we remember well when George Will trounced him for his asinine statement that “Brazil consumes no oil, having completely replaced its oil with bio-fuels” (Brazil, indeed, subsidizes bio-fuels, but is nevertheless one of the world’s biggest consumers and producers of oil.)
In fairness to BOR, I should also mention that he recently interviewed Christine O’Donnell. He did a decent enough job, and I must say that Ms. O’Donnell came across as intelligent, charming, and a total class act.
I don’t live in Delaware, but I sincerely hope she stays in politics since we need good people like her.
Thank you for the in depth analysis of Obama’s Marxism. I’m sure Obama’s family, education and personal associations had much to contribute to his socialist thinking. Obama is odd in some respects: according to Glenn Beck he brokered a deal to set up the Chicago Climate Exchange — a very capitalist enterprise it seems. Further, Obama has always lived high on the hog, never the type to be cultivating the ideology with the comrades while cutting sugarcane in Cuban. Its seems a very pampered and privileged way of life. But not that uncommon compared to other Chardonnay socialists.
BOR and people like Anne Coulter, Jonah Goldberg have some kind of showbiz reciprocity with Maher and I’m not sure why. They appear to be friends but the conservatives never go in for the kill or the cheap laughs as Maher so often attempts on his show. That is why I think it is scripted or managed in some way. You’re getting entertainment...
I’ll check the O’Donnell interview and I thought BOR did a bang up job interviewing Barney Frank. That interview should have ensured that Frank lost the election.
An oaf and bloviator... neither are worth the time to watch.
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