Here are a few D.L Hughley excerpts from the transcript http://www.safesearching.com/billmaher/print/t_hbo_realtime_110504.htm :
HUGHLEY: Well, I believe I believe in Jesus, too. I just dont believe he only lives in red states. [applause]
SULLIVAN: Well, of course.
HUGHLEY: I believe I believe I believe that Jesus doesnt live in America. I dont believe he lives in Iraq. I believe Jesus is the universes Jesus and not just in Mississippi or Alabama or Arkansas. [applause] This is the United States of America, and not the United States of Red States and Blue States. He tears this country apart and then he says, Now we can unite, now that we now that Ive told those blue states [applause] How is it that the state of California, who has 10% of the countrys population and the fifth-largest economy in the world, counts less than Wyoming or Montana or Iowa or Idaho? [applause] [cheers]
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HUGHLEY: I think I think it was that fear will always win in this country over hope. [applause] Fear always wins. It is amazing to me what I find the height of hypocrisy is the godly nation that we are espoused to be, lets fear rule the day. Fear and faith cannot exist in the same spheres. They just cant. They cant exist together. [applause]
SCHROEDER: I now have fear.
HUGHLEY: They cant. You let and every time this man stood up and said, You know me. You know what Ill do. And the country went, Yeah, we do know what hell do. Like he wont do all that thinking that they do in Massachusetts. Ill just keep going. [laughter] [applause] And that and that, to me[cheers]when I watched
MAHER: Please.
HUGHLEY: You know what? I was never a Democrat or a Republican. I was always an independent. I voted for Democrats and I voted for Republicans. Today, Im a Democrat. Im going to be a Democrat. [applause] And Im not going to be the kind of Democrat that just lets theyre bullies to me. Theyre bullies to me. They allow that s**t to happen.
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HUGHLEY: When you have the Catholic hierarchy saying that it is a sin to vote for Kerry
SCHROEDER: Its terrible.
HUGHLEY: When you evangelists going around the country morphing George Bush into Jesus, that, to me, is
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HUGHLEY: [overlapping] But you can lie to people. You can lie to people. This administration in particular feels like it can lie to people if theyre doing it for their own good. It is amazing to me that conservatives are against abortion but for the death penalty and for war.
SCHROEDER: Thats right.
HUGHLEY: Like we want the baby to grow up and then we can kill it. [applause] Thats amazing to me.
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HUGHLEY: Let me ask you something. When did like I heard after this after the election, I heard a bunch of Republican conservatives telling were returning to our moral center. Was this moral center when they had slaves or killed Indians? [laughter] [applause] Because I missed that part of it.
SCHROEDER: Yeah. [voices overlap]
HUGHLEY: S**t just got good for black people about 40 years ago, so Im wondering when exactly
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SULLIVAN: Well, Bill, for many years, I have gone as a gay man into a church, and I have
MAHER: In Mississippi?
HUGHLEY: Not in Mississippi. [laughter]
SULLIVAN: Well [applause]
HUGHLEY: Damn sure wasnt in Mississippi. Look, I might not go to Mississippi. Im just telling you that now. [laughter]
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HUGHLEY: You mean the red states.
SCHROEDER: The red states. Im sorry. I was red for so long I cant get over being blue.
HUGHLEY: Yeah, I used to love red, growing up, too. [laughter]
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HUGHLEY: Like Im constantly being told, like youll see people going, They dont represent our values. But, literally, you could take Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, put them all together and they still dont have the economic prowess of Southern California alone. But we are a blue state who
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SULLIVAN:... Let Massachusetts have marriage for everybody, not just for heterosexuals. And let Mississippi and Alabama go their own ways as well. [applause] Dont try[voices overlap]
HUGHLEY: [overlapping] Yeah, because Id still be living in Mississippi picking cotton. I dont like that point. That aint that good. [laughter]
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HUGHLEY: It is amazing to me that all of us throughout our lives
HUGHLEY: [overlapping]have to look at ourselves. Everybody is three people: who they really are, who they want to be and who everybody else thinks they are. This country has never taken a good look at itself and its policies and what those policies mean to people around the world. [applause] Now, I dont agree I certainly I feel like I live in the greatest country in the world. I feel like I have the greatest family in the world. But to say that they havent done some f**ked-up things
SULLIVAN: Of course.
HUGHLEY: --family and country, is idiotic. [applause]
SULLIVAN: Of course.
HUGHLEY: And this country, and conservatives only want to see that we certainly are the greatest country that ever existed. But we have our faults that have led to some of the things that have happened to us around the world. And we need to be like we always tell other people to do, like they tell black people: Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and accept responsibility for the shit that youve done! [applause] [cheers]
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HUGHLEY: I think the reason that the left has lost its way to persuade people is that we try to be too go**amn reasonable.
SCHROEDER: I do, too. [applause]
HUGHLEY: As opposed to sticking for what we believe in.
MAHER: Right.
HUGHLEY: If Kerry if Kerry had appealed to his base who was as radically liberal
MAHER: Right.
SCHROEDER: They would have been fired up. Absolutely.
HUGHLEY: --as the other base, they would have done what they had to do. You cant walk you cannot walk in the middle.
MAHER: Right. People who are
HUGHLEY: Youre either dogmatically liberal or dogmatically conservative. Thats the only way to ever act.
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MAHER: And Karl Roves genius is taking private issues like abortion, or that your sister-in-law is a lesbian, or how you feel about Jesus, and making them something you can vote on.
HUGHLEY: Exactly.
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HUGHLEY: Why why why
SULLIVAN: You think America is flawed, and youre right. Of course, America is flawed.
HUGHLEY: In what way? In what way is America flawed?
SULLIVAN: [overlapping] There are many things.
SCHROEDER: Youre saying we cant talk about it.
SULLIVAN: The way we conducted this campaign in Iraq was a disaster.
SCHROEDER: Okay, all right.
SULLIVAN: And we should recognize that and try and solve it.
HUGHLEY: But we cant recognize
SULLIVAN: The way we have treated the question of race in this country is a shame, and we should address it and solve it. But America is not evil, and these people believe it is. And they have to be[voices overlap]
HUGHLEY: When everybody always says we should do something about it. When the f**k are we going to?!! [applause] [cheers] When are we going to? When do we say we are going to address these issues for real, as opposed to some bulls**t?!
DL Hughley's show is sometimes funny and offensive. However, it's sad that he has a chip on his shoulder. Considering that he's doing what no black person even thought would happen in this country, I'd say that's a step towards 'doing something about IT' whatever IT may be.
I've never heard of Hughley but he needs to take that up with Michael Moore. Isn't he the one who labeled the red states Jesusland?
I keep seeing this moronic argument all over the web. My response is usually " so tell me. What capital crime was committed by the fetus. How long was it's trial?"
How is it that you can reach adulthood in American without knowing that America is not a democracy, but a democratic REPUBLIC?
How is it that you don't know what a republic is?
Of course, he doesn't. In fact, perhaps he spends more time in "blue" states...
"HUGHLEY: You know what? I was never a Democrat or a Republican. I was always an independent."
Then:
"HUGHLEY: --as the other base, they would have done what they had to do. You cant walk you cannot walk in the middle.
MAHER: Right. People who are
HUGHLEY: Youre either dogmatically liberal or dogmatically conservative. Thats the only way to ever act."
This man can't even get his philosophy straight, much less how to apply it.