The unbelievably disgusting weasel Bill Maher really did say this . . . . .

This morning I heard Debra Saunders on with Laura Ingraham. One of them quoted Bill Maher, a man who is constantly mocking those with religious values. Remember, Maher is the man who played the talking Clinton penis in the audio version AMERICAN RHAPSODY.

Bill: I understand that one group of people, you know, operates under this, you know, religious--George Bush, a very religious candidate. He appeals to religious-thinking people 'cause religious people are not, let's be honest, critical thinkers. That's what faith is. They believe something, and it's absolute, and you can't shake them, and they all work backwards from that, and that's how they think of George Bush. George Bush could slaughter his family on the 6:30 news, and 40% of this country would vote for him anyway.
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Where are these 40 percent of religious conservatives who would forgive a murderer and vote for him? Are there any on this forum? This is really projection by Maher. He and his gang happily voted for the rapist and perjurer.

When Saunders came on with Laura, I think the first thing that she said was that "Maher is a disgusting little man." When she was on with him once, he was hyping the virtues of affirmative action. Saunders challenged him and suggested that he have a black host sit in for him some time. He has not spoken to her since.

For your enjoyment --- or to create anger --- here is the entire transcript of this disgusting little man:

Transcript: Bill Maher

Tavis Smiley: Good evening. From Los Angeles, I'm Tavis Smiley. Tonight a conversation with Bill Maher. The outspoken comedian's back with all-new episodes of his HBO series â€œReal Time.â€ We'll get his thoughts on next week's Republican Convention in New York City and the continuing war of words between John Kerry and George W. Bush on the subject of service, or lack thereof, in Vietnam and I suspect a whole lot more with Bill Maher. We're glad you've joined us. That's all coming up right now.

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Bill Maher

Learn more about this guest. Tavis: I'm not about to tell the good folk at HBO how to run their network, but I think I speak for a whole lot of folk when I suggest that there are a lot of us who start to get a little antsy, maybe even experiencing some angst during those long stretches when Bill's show is not on the air. Thankfully, he's back now, Friday nights at 11:00 on HBO with all new shows leading up to the election in November. Recently Bill Maher received an Emmy nomination for his work on HBO. Here's a clip from a recent episode of â€œReal Time with Bill Maher.â€

Bill Maher: OK, our exclusive accu-terror radar is picking up a lot of chatter out here in the Denver area, so stay away from chemical plants, nuclear facilities, and of course, the French fries at Arby's. Ha ha. OK, back out here in the west, some light showers of ammonium nitrate or perhaps a little saran gas are possible in the Los Angeles area, but don't expect loss of life.

The Santa Anas are gonna push all that nasty gunk out to sea. OK, here's your 5-day. Yellow, bluish-yellow, yellow again, yellow gradually becoming orange, and orange back into yellow. And we've got an orangeish-red weekend on tap, so be sure to have plenty of bottled water and canned goods on hand. And that's terror.

Tavis: Well, you know, I guess I'm always looking out for you. Season number 2 now.

Bill: Yeah, that's--I always consider it a good day when I still have a job.

Tavis: I started the show, as you heard, by suggesting that a lot of us get really antsy, and for me--I said angst. I meant that. I kept watching--reading all the news, and you know, I'm on TV, radio every single day, and I'm wishing and hoping--I'm like, "Man, where is Bill?" I'm like--I was thinking of all this stuff that you missed that you didn't get a chance to sound off on. Were you--Is that just me and your fans, or are you walking around the house thinking, "God, I wish I were on the air this week"?

Bill: That's why I love doing stand-up, 'cause that's what I do when I'm off. You know, I get to take it out on the road. But yes, you're right, it is frustrating. And I hope a lot of people think the way you do, that we do have a unique niche, and some people feel like, you know, he's the only one stupid enough to really say some of the things that people are thinking and not really saying. So, it is good to be back.

Tavis: Yeah. So many issues, so little time, so I'm just gonna start throwing stuff at you and get your take on this. I don't know about you, but I am so sick and tired--I'm like Fannie Lou Hamer. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired...of hearing about the Swift Boat issue. What do you make of this?

Bill: It's astounding that John Kerry, the war veteran, is the one who has to defend himself. That's what blows my mind. How come George Bush, the guy who dodged the draft plainly, attacked the wrong country, and couldn't get up for 7 minutes after he was told the country was under attack...how come that's the guy who gets the higher marks on defense? How stupid is this country that they cannot figure this one out? They can't figure out the war veteran from the town drunk. It's maddening. And it's low. You know, I know that they are low. I know politics is a low game, but you know, I feel like--Where's that guy in the fifties who said, "Sir, have you no decency?" You know?

Tavis: But it's working. It's working this time, apparently, because it's gotten Kerry--it's got Kerry spending all his time responding to it, number one, but don't forget they did the same thing 4 years ago with John McCain. This isn't the first time they've gone after a guy. So the question for me is, or for you, that I want to ask is how did they get away with it not once, but twice?

Bill: I think so. I really do. I mean, because this is working, obviously. I mean, can you imagine what Karl Rove would be able to do if he was on the other team? If he was playing the Democratic hand against Bush with just those 3 things I mentioned? Sitting there for 7 minutes when the country was under attack. Plainly a draft dodger in a time of war, a guy who calls himself a war president. Not to mention Abu Ghraib and what's going on in Iraq. I mean, if he had that hand to play, I mean, Bush would be down by 40 points.

Tavis: OK. So does that mean then that they, the Republican strategists, are better--

Bill: Incredibly better. I mean, John Kerry, his plan seems to still be the old Al Gore playbook, which is "I'm not going to differentiate myself from the Republican," you know? That's what Al Gore did. His strategy was "don't make a big difference," you know? "The drug war? We're not gonna talk about it." Whatever. It's all like, "We're pretty much the same guy, except I have a brain, and the other guy doesn't. So even if you hate me, when you get in the voting booth, you're gonna go, â€˜OK...the other guy's a retard. So I have to vote for...â€™" But that strategy didn't work for Al Gore, and I don't think it's gonna--Well, it's making me nervous about John Kerry, I'll put it that way.

Tavis: Let me flip this on you. Maybe--What would you say if I said to you that this is, in part, John Kerry's fault? Because if he had not tied his campaign so much to the Vietnam veteran thing, so much to the Swift Boat issue, that he wouldn't have played into the hand of Karl Rove.

Tavis: Let me answer that, though. Because there are other issues in this country that he ought to be talking about that more Americans are concerned about, but he tied it--he hitched his wagon to his Vietnam veteran record.

Bill: I'm quite sure that he talks about those other issues every day. It's what the press covers. This is something that they find to be juicy, and of course, now it's really juicy. But I don't think he should walk away from that and be ashamed of that. I mean, when John Glenn ran, did he--Ha ha--Well--

Bill: "I wasn't really an astronaut." Because nobody would have the--the temerity to suggest that he didn't really go into space.

Bill: Or that it was more honorable to be in the NASA National Guard, you know?

Bill: I mean, I would hope that no one would do that. So, yeah, I don't think it's really his fault, but then again...there is something to what you're saying in the fact that we should be talking about the war that we're in and not the one that we left 35 years ago. Uh, it seems perverse, but that, again, is their strategy--is to always create a distraction, always to create an issue where there really isn't an issue. I mean, maybe it doesn't matter what George Bush was doing in 1970. OK, he was in rehab, but, uh--

Bill: But it certainly matters, I think, that when we are in a war, which we are constantly told we are in, and we certainly are in a real shooting war in Iraq. I think it matters that you have a president who's been to war. If we need a war president, as George Bush calls himself, then I want a president who's been to war. Because I think a president who's been to war just understands what's going on better in a war situation. I don't think George Bush gets it. I really don't. He's a simple-minded person. I know that's a cliche, but it has been borne out. I really do believe that. When he--Every time he says, "They hate us for our freedom," I just want to slap him in his two-dimensional mind.

Bill: Seriously. Because it is so much more complicated than that, and I don't think George Bush understands what a man who went to war understands, which is that people who are, you know, foreigners, are not like us. They don't think like us, and that's what George Bush doesn't get.

Tavis: All right. So let's assume for the moment that, one way or the other, this issue, this Vietnam-era issue is going to play, certainly, with the World War II generation, the folks who were around during Vietnam, those who--let's say those who are chronologically gifted, those voters who are a little bit older, who do, in fact, go to the polls, this issue may play with them. The question I'm trying to get to is whether or not this very same issue will turn off younger voters. I'm not yet 40, but I'm so turned off about this issue. I'm not voting on the Swift Boat issue, whether Bush went or Kerry went. I mean, that's not the issue that I'm voting on. Does it run--Are they running the danger of turning off a whole other significant group of American voters who just don't care about this issue because they weren't around when Vietnam was even...being fought?

Bill: Yeah, but there are issues--There is truth to that, but there are also issues about this that are pertinent to today. I mean, number one, George Bush, I think, has...created a big lie for himself. Because he said a couple of days ago that he thought John Kerry served honorably. Well, if he said that, then why doesn't he denounce the ads? If John Kerry served honorably and that's his view, then he can't really want to be a part of what's going on.

Tavis: He did say all these 527 organizations, all these so-called independent groups that are running these ads, should stop running them. What do you make of that statement?

Bill: Well, that's another flip-flop on George Bush's part. Because as I recall, the Republican view on campaign finance for all these years has been free speech. You know, everybody should be able to speak. And now suddenly, it's, â€œNo, we don't want free speech?â€ Um, he's actually a bigger flip-flopper than John Kerry.

I mean, if you look at his record, uh, he opposed the 9/11 commission. Then he was for it. He opposed Homeland Security department. Then he was for it. I mean, over and over again, he presents a front that he has to then back off from, and then, of course, he pretends that he was for it all along. On so many of these issues, it doesn't seem, to me, that he has his country's best interests at heart. I think he has his reelection at heart.

Tavis: I thought 5 seconds ago, while you were still speaking, to say to you that maybe you should run for president, because you're not afraid to say the things that Kerry obviously, for whatever reason, isn't going to say.

Tavis: Well--So silly. Let me come back to that, though, because, while I don't expect you to announce that you're going to run, Howard Dean was the guy of the Democrats who had a shot, at one point, of actually winning. I'm not throwing Sharpton in here, but Dean had a real chance of winning at one time. He was closer to Bill Maher than John Kerry is to Bill Maher in terms of not being afraid to be a little bit more aggressive. John Dean--I mean Howard Dean and Bill Maher are different people, but Dean was--My point is Dean was more aggressive, and it backfired on him. It didn't work. So your advice to John Kerry is to speak out. If it backfired on him the way it did on Dean, he'd really lose.

Bill: But there's a difference between speaking out and really speaking out and keeping it real. Whenever people suggest I run for president, I always say, just as a shorthand, "You do realize that I think religion is bad and drugs are good?" Now let's start the campaign there. You're my campaign manager. That's what we start with. Religion is bad, and drugs are good.

Bill: And I got, like, 20 more like that, brother. That's just the beginning.

Tavis: Yeah. All right, what you make of this story that I was puzzled by, and I'm still not sure I understand it? The story of Ted Kennedy's name being on--

Bill: You know, I've been screaming about this since 9/11, that we don't have real security, especially at the airport. We talked on the clip you just showed, on that show, we talked about profiling. And profiling, obviously, is a bad name because it's been misapplied. You know, pulling over a black guy 'cause he's driving a Mercedes is bad profiling. Understanding that a young Muslim man from Jersey City is more likely to be the guy blowing up the plane than Ted Kennedy, that's not such bad profiling. I mean, that's so indicative of the way we think about our security. We have robots. How many times--It's Ted Kennedy. Excuse me. They did the same thing a few years ago to Al Gore.

Bill: They stopped Al Gore, and they gave him the full cavity search. And they found his head.

Tavis: Ha ha ha! Let me pull you up out of that right quick. No pun intended. So, when you go through the airports--You probably fly on private planes 'cause you're so all that now. You don't have to walk through the airport anymore.

Bill: You know, I used to. It's funny. It stopped. This is maybe a year after 9/11, but for a while, I think before they switched over to the T.S.A., they had the old crew in there. Remember Hoover?

Bill: As I said, it looked to me like they just fired all the black people and hired white people. It really did. It looked like they just switched it around. But there was a time when these guys were newly empowered to go through your luggage, and I think they just enjoyed going through the shaving kit of a famous person. They just really wanted to see how many condoms I was carrying and put them out on a table so everybody could see. "Oh, the KY he's got."

You know, it's like--On my old show, this is one of the last shows we did, I dumped my shaving kit out on the table on the front of the--and I said, "This is what I carry. I'm tired of doing this at the airport. Here's what I got. Just enjoy it." But, you know, again, this profiling thing, when the FBI went after the mafia, they didn't pretend that they weren't Italian. You know? They didn't pretend the head of the Bonanno family might be from Denmark.

Bill: Which is not to say that, of course, all Muslims are terrorists. They're just saying that the people who have been attacking us, who have got this bad grudge and are willing to blow themselves up, are overwhelmingly of that--

Tavis: You mentioned in your joke a moment ago Jersey City. What is not so funny, but then again, maybe a joke to some people, speaking of Jersey City, the state of New Jersey--

Tavis: Your home state. I was going there. So what do you make of the trials and travails of the governor in your home state Mr. McGreevey?

Bill: Well, this ties in to the airport security thing a little bit, because of course, it's inexcusable for anybody, whatever your sexual orientation, to put on your payroll somebody who has no qualifications for a job. He gave this guy a job as the Head of Homeland Security of New Jersey.

Tavis: Something like that probably happens every day in this city. But that's another issue. Go ahead, I'm sorry.

Bill: But this guy is an Israeli, and I would submit that perhaps any Israeli without any experience in security probably could do a better job as Head of Homeland Security than any American. I'm just saying that might be the truth.

Bill: But I'm being somewhat facetious. He certainly shouldn't have done that, and it had more to do with just "being a gay American," as he called it. But the point I was trying to make on our show when we talked about it was that in his statement, I don't remember the exact words, but he basically mentioned the fact that he had had his whole life to live a secret, you know, and he had to suppress who he was. And I was just saying, 'cause this was the same week that I had noticed that they kicked off "the people of faith for Kerry" campaign, which bothered me, because can't we have one candidate who it's the people for science?

Bill: I understand that one group of people, you know, operates under this, you know, religious--George Bush, a very religious candidate. He appeals to religious-thinking people 'cause religious people are not, let's be honest, critical thinkers. That's what faith is. They believe something, and it's absolute, and you can't shake them, and they all work backwards from that, and that's how they think of George Bush. George Bush could slaughter his family on the 6:30 news, and 40% of this country would vote for him anyway.

OK, but I was just trying to say, you know, why does a gay American, why does a man like this McGreevey feel all his life like he has to hide something? Well, it does come from faith. That is the root of this problem. If it wasn't in the Bible, if the Bible didn't say, "Hey, no queers," there would not be this issue, and it is from the "people of faith"--I know we hear that, and everybody goes, "oh, people of faith. How wonderful," but they also do cause a lot of pain among people who they don't tolerate. People of faith are the ones who lack tolerance, more than most.

Tavis: I hear the point you're making. Let me challenge you on that, though. It might very well have been that he was struggling with his own personal demons, having nothing to do what you or I believe about his being gay.

Bill: But why are those demons? Why do they have to be demons? If we lived in a country like certain European countries, I'm sure, where it's not a stigma, where there's not half of this country that thinks it's an evil abomination, then I don't think he would feel the need to live a secret life, and what I think is not reported a lot, because we do see a lot of gay people in the arts nowadays. We have television shows about them, but I think in jobs, in a lot of places in this country, most places in this country that are corporate jobs, I don't think there's a lot of gay people who are very overt about it.

I think there's still a lot of people in the closet in this country, depending on what your line of work is. Yes, if you're a makeover artist on â€œQueer Eye,â€ you can be very open and up-front about it. But I don't know if you're doing something and you're working for Prudential or something, if that's the thing you want to walk in the office on Monday and flaunt it, and I think it's a real shame that Americans have to hide who they are.

Tavis: You raised the black/white race dynamic a few minutes ago in a joke about the T.S.A. at the airport. But to this very point, if your point about faith and many people of faith keeping folk because of their judgments in the closet, if you think that's bad in white America, it's really bad in black America. In black America, that whole faith issue is very, very...a lot more black folk in the closet than white people in the closet.

Bill: Keepin' it on the down-low, brother man. The D.L., black soul man. I know, and that's one reason why the AIDS situation is so severe, because there's a lot of guys, you know, it's sort of that prison mentality, you know? "Oh, yes, I was just having sex with a man, but I'm not a homosexual."

Tavis: Before I move off of this, let me ask you whether or not--'Cause I don't know the answer to this, I admit this, but you're brighter than I am.

Tavis: I'm serious. Did what McGreevey had to say, when he comes out and says, "I am a gay American." I'm trying to figure out, even now whether or not what he did helped or hurt the cause, the issues of the gay and lesbian community? I don't know the answer to that yet.

Bill: I think any time it gets out there, it helps. It may be painful in the short run, but I think, absolutely, it's a good thing. You know, it's funny. Dick Cheney this week talked about tolerance for his daughter, and it just strikes me that the Repub--it seems--I don't want to paint the whole Republican Party with one brush, and obviously, there are very good people who are Republicans, but it does seem to me that they are slower to the idea of tolerance, but they're quick to it when it happens to them. Very hard for them, it seems, to project. If they don't know somebody...

But I remember when Dan Quayle, some years ago, was asked about--He wasn't the brightest knife in the drawer, that guy. And they asked him, in theory, what he would do if his daughter was pregnant and wanted an abortion? And he basically gave the exact pro-choice platform, you know: "We would consider it a family matter. We would let her decide." Then he went, "Oh, God, that's not the talking point. Ecch," but, you know, it was the idea that, you know, when it happens to me...

Bill: Then suddenly the sunshine comes out, and it opens up, and I understand why people might wanna have that sort of tolerance.

Tavis: Cheney went off the talking points the other day as well, because he brokered the president, who was pushing this amendment in the senate weeks ago.

Bill: And trust me, if the president, if one of his daughters suddenly turned up gay--I'm not saying it happened.

Bill: Then I think he probably would have a change of heart just like his vice president did. But it seems to me that this should happen in someone's heart without having to see it in your own family. You should be able to--If we are truly a nation bound together, as they keep saying, we're all--

Tavis: As my grandmother, Big Mama, would say, that, Bill, is too much like right. It's just too much like right. Let me ask you what you make of the Republican Convention. We're headed to New York in just a few days. I did the show with the Democratic Party. Now I'm going to New York for the Republican Party, all week doing the show. Any advice for me when I head for New York?

Bill: You are what they're looking for, my man. This is your 4 days in the spotlight.

Bill: I don't know. Enjoy Shaka Khan. That's all I can tell ya. Remember last time, she opened--

Bill: Because, you know, when you get a bunch of 60-ish, red state, white people in a room, voting for entertainment...it's all about Shaka Khan. That's who they want. They...Shaka, Shaka, Shaka.

Bill: Well, Rick James was booked. It's a shame that he had to pass away just before, but some people do anything to get out of a gig.

Tavis: I got 30 seconds left. What do you expect out of this convention now that you've seen what the Democrats have?

Bill: Oh, I expect them to keep it real. I expect it to be very raw. Like Eddie Murphy's first concerts were. That's what I'm expecting. No. The same old… [Mouthing word]

Tavis: Same old, same old. Yeah, I gotcha. Thank you for doing that. This is PBS, so, I'm glad you kind of lip-synced on that. I appreciate it. Nice to see you.

Tavis: Bill Maher. I love this guy. Weekni--Friday nights. I wish it were weeknights. They repeat it all week long.

Tavis: Friday nights, 11:00 on HBO. â€œReal Time with Bill Maher.â€ That's our show for tonight. As always, you can catch me on the radio on NPR, National Public Radio. I will see you back here next time on PBS. Until then, thanks for watching. Good night from Los Angeles, and keep the faith.

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Tavis: If you have comments or questions about tonight's show, we'd love to hear from you. E-mail us at PBS.org

Bill Maher: OK, our exclusive accu-terror radar is picking up a lot of chatter out here in the Denver area, so stay away from chemical plants, nuclear facilities, and of course, the French fries at Arby's. Ha ha. OK, back out here in the west, some light showers of ammonium nitrate or perhaps a little saran gas are possible in the Los Angeles area, but don't expect loss of life.

The Santa Anas are gonna push all that nasty gunk out to sea. OK, here's your 5-day. Yellow, bluish-yellow, yellow again, yellow gradually becoming orange, and orange back into yellow. And we've got an orangeish-red weekend on tap, so be sure to have plenty of bottled water and canned goods on hand. And that's terror.

I'm so glad he can make light of the war on terror. I wonder what his tune will be if he or his family are killed by an act of terrorism, and subsequently another "comedian" makes fun of them. What a putz.

Didn't this take place in Sept.? I never waste my time watching him anyhow, but I think this was reported some time ago and we discussed it and came to the conclusion he is an ass of epic proportions. But HBO didn't seem to care 'cause they still put him on week after week.

Bill Maher finally said something funny. Talking about the TSA, he says:

They stopped Al Gore, and they gave him the full cavity search. And they found his head.

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