Bill Maher: Barack Obama Is A Moderate Republican By '70s Standards

newsbusters.org ^ | 24 April, 2010 | Noel Sheppard

[marktwain]

Bill Maher on Friday said Barack Obama is a moderate Republican by '70s standards.

As the subject on the most recent installment of "Real Time" moved to the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the HBO host actually said that it was the Republican Party that has changed in the past thirty or forty years and not Stevens' view of the world.

"You know what's ironic is that you know who's really a moderate Republican by '70s standards?" Maher asked. "Barack Obama."

This stupidity came seconds after guest Richard Clarke actually said that the gun rally in Virginia on April 19 was to commemorate the Oklahoma City bombing (video follows with transcript and commentary, file photo):

[marktwain]

I no longer believe that this is simple stupidity. If the "progressives" actually believe statements such as this, they are evil.

[Brett66]

So what was John F. Kennedy?

[Still Thinking]

Bill Maher on Friday said Barack Obama is a moderate Republican by '70s standards.

And Jack Kennedy would be a conservative Republican by today's. What's your point, Dillweed? (Maher, not you marktwain)

[Common Sense 101]

Bill Mahr is a brain-dead diseased moron by ANY standard.

[babble-on]

I’ll tell you what I’m sick of: people throwing around the word EVIL when, “mistaken” or “stupid” would suffice.

[Still Thinking]

Beat me to it, didn’t ya?

[classified]

My fear is the predominate public can't get rid of TV spectacles from the screen such as this jerk, how in the hell do we think we can get Obama out of the White House along with all the rest of the progressive liberals in the House and Senate. I mean who is watching Maher jerk?

[j.argese]

if anyone hasn’t referred to Maher as a “tool” yet, I’d like to use that one. Thanks
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[Uri’el-2012]

Bill Maher has used way too much meth.

[Teacher317]

because 70's moderate Rpublicans were ardently in favor of abortions being completed after the fetus has exited the womb? In favor of taking over the nation's health care? In favor of denouncing the US overseas as much as possible? In favor of weakening our position in Europe? In favor of raising taxes on the more productive half of the population? In favor of giving union leadership control of other parts of the economy? In favor of nominating unaccountable czars to control numerous parts of the country? In favor of bowing to our enemies and offending our allies?

Exactly what has he done in his first 15 months that is remotely similar to 70's Republicans?
(Now, if you compare him to Jimmy Carter, a highly unpopluar and incompetent 70's Democrat, I believe you'll find no end of silimarities.)

[Oceander]

Actually, this is true, but that doesn't help Obastard and merely demonstrates why it's so imperative that we preserve and defend ourselves against the so-called "moderate" collaborationists in the GOP who would have us all back in bondage to a tyrannical "progressive" ideology.

Richard Nixon, the last pre-Reagan Republican of any note, imposed price-controls without a second's hesitation. That is what a so-called "moderate" Republican would do - witness McCain's recent atrocity with his new bill to give the President discretion to lock up even American citizens without trial - and that is why we cannot ever trust RINOs.

Quite frankly, the Republican party of today is the party that was resurrected from the ashes of its former subservience by Ronald Reagan and the conservatives who rallied to his call so, if The Bastard in Chief wants to go around pretending that he's Richard Nixon - the so-called "moderate" Republican of the 70s this idiot is referring to - I, for one, will go right along with that because, quite frankly, that now-gratefully-dead version of the Republican party is not something I want to have anything to do with.

Barack Obama can have Richard Nixon, as no doubt there'll be a new Watergate sooner rather than later.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Remember when Maher tried to pass himself off as a politically incorrect libertarian?

[Fiji Hill]

The only Republicans in the 1970's whose worldviews would have even come close to Obama's would have been the likes of Senators Clifford Case (R-NJ), Jake "the Snake" Javits (R-NY), and New York City mayor John V. Lindsay. However, in the '70's, these guys were considered well to the left of the Republican mainstream.

The one Republican whose political philosophy was closest to Obama's would hve been Rep. Vito Marcantonio (R-NY).

[John-Irish]

It’s simple to get rid of this gnat called Bill Maher. If enough people don’t watch his show, don’t buy the products advertised on it, don’t buy any books he might/may have put out, etc. things like that. If nobody watches the guys show, he dies out.

[jazminerose]

And Bill Maher is clueless buffoon desperate for attention by any standards.

Why do we even care what he says?

[jazminerose]

He has a show?

One would think your theory is accurate, but then how do we explain MSNBC?

[John-Irish]

How to explain MSNBC? George Soros.

[jazminerose]

Good point.

[musicman]

"Bill Maher: Barack Obama Is A Moderate Republican By '70s Standards"

[John-Irish]

Oh, and btw. Economic boycott isn’t theory. It’s a practice and it works.