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Bill Maher vs. Dinesh D'Souza On "Obama's America" Documentary (D'Souza creams snarky Maher)
RealClearPolitics/HBO ^ | September 1, 2012 | Bill Maher & Dinesh D'Souza

Posted on 09/02/2012 9:27:32 PM PDT by Seizethecarp

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To: AndyTheBear
There is a time as we grow up where we finally understand the difference between finding out what is true and finding rationalizations for what our feelings want to be true. Maher isn’t there yet.

...Nor will he ever be. I believe Maher, like any other characters on the left, are so misguided and narrow-minded in their views, but yet have the audacity to believe they are far superior and far removed from anybody or anything--not even time can sway them.
21 posted on 09/02/2012 11:40:38 PM PDT by hawaiianninja (Palm note to self: Work for a successful 2012! +Throw the liberal garbage out!)
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To: hawaiianninja

Now that I know D’Souza got Maher fired I like him even more. Can’t stand the platypus nosed Maher. Hopefully God will appear to Maher on his deathbed right before he flips the trapdoor switch...: )


22 posted on 09/03/2012 2:14:09 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Seizethecarp
I cannot understand why smart people like D’Souza enter a forum set up by the likes of Maher. The debate is always one sided loaded with untrue talking points presented in front of an audience unable and unwilling to understand facts and truths. There is not a chance in the world that any of Mahers viewers learned the truth.
23 posted on 09/03/2012 2:31:08 AM PDT by JIM O
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To: Seizethecarp

Excellent summary. I watched it too. Tough to listen to the foul mouthed Mather, but D’Sousa is cool and collected. He should go as many liberal shows as he, and debate these people because he has the truth.

Maher is on very thin ice on all arguements.

Great video... Please watch...


24 posted on 09/03/2012 3:39:44 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: MaxMax

There is a trick to it. Just ask the same question over and over again without acknowledging his non answers. Especially around a group of people like family members. What that gets across to everyone is that he didn’t answer the question because he doesn’t know the answer, or worse, is unwilling to answer it. If he does answer it, focus on the answer and ask the next obvious question that he will not answer. Essentially an adult’s way of the little kid that keeps asking “why” to everything he hears.

My wife’s uncle was the same way with the entire family. As he was a union shill, it was easy for me to tear his biases apart. It really pissed him off so badly that he never came around again while we were visiting the area. Family members in later visits thanked me for what I did. They were used to being bullied by him and his ego soaked up the unwillingness of them to challenge him.


25 posted on 09/03/2012 4:07:49 AM PDT by mazda77 ("Defeating the Totalitarian Lie" By: Hilmar von Campe. Everybody should read it.)
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To: jsanders2001
Hopefully God will appear to Maher on his deathbed right before he flips the trapdoor switch...: )

Kinda like Steve Jobs' "Oh Wow!, Oh Wow!, Oh Wow!" moment as he focused above the heads of everyone in the room in the last words he said before he passed away moment?

26 posted on 09/03/2012 4:16:13 AM PDT by mazda77 ("Defeating the Totalitarian Lie" By: Hilmar von Campe. Everybody should read it.)
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To: Seizethecarp

The really disturbing thing is the audience reaction. There are actually a lot of insane people in our society, walking around like normal people.


27 posted on 09/03/2012 4:18:39 AM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: Seizethecarp

I am sick and tired of the rats blaming every one of their failures on GWB. Bush had his problems but certainly doesn’t deserve this abuse. I found the following information in my email just recently.

After three years of Obama’s Hope and Change, here’s the “change” since January 2009!

Avg. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
Then: $1.83 Now: $3.44 Change: 84% Source: 1

Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
Then: $43.48 Now: $99..02 Change: 127.7% Source: 2

Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
Then: $38..74 Now: $91..38 Change: 135.9% Source: 2

Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL
Then: $3.56 Now: $6.33 Change: 78.1% Source: 2

Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL
Then: $9.66 Now: $13.75 Change: 42.3% Source: 2

Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. Fob
Then: $13.37 Now: $35.39 Cange: 164.7% Source: 2

Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall
Then: 7.6% Now: 9.4% Change: 23.7% Source: 3

Unemployment rate, blacks
Then: 12.6% Now: 15.8% Change: 25.4% Source: 3

Number of unemployed
Then: 11,616,000 Now: 14,485,000 Chance: 24.7% S: 3

Number of fed. Employees
Then: 2,779,000 Now: 2,840,000 Change: 2.2% Source: 3

Real median household income
Then: $50,112 Now: $49,777 Change: -0.7% Source: 4

Number of food stamp recipients
Then: 31,983,716 Now: 43,200,878 Change: 35.1% S: 5

Number receiving unemployment benefit
Then: 7,526,598 Now: 9,193,838 Change: 22.2% S: 6

Number of long-term unemployed
Then: 2,600,000 Now: 6,400,000 Change: 146.2% S: 3

Poverty rate, individuals
Then: 13.2% Now: 14.3% Change: 8.3% Source: 4

People in poverty in U.S.
Then: 39,800,000 Now: 43,600,000 Change: 9.5% S: 4

Present Situation Index
Then: 29.9 Now: 23.5 Change -21.4% Source: 11

Failed banks
Then: 140 Now: 164 Change: 17.1% Source: 12

U.S. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate
Then: 89.76 Now: 82.03 Change: -8.6% Source: 2

U.S. Money supply, M1, in billions
Then: 1,575.1 Now: 1,865.7 Change: 18.4% Source: 13

U.S. Money supply, M2, in billions
Then: 8,310.9 Now: 8,852.3 Change: 6.5% Source: 13

National debt, in trillions
Then: $10..627 Now: $14..052 Change: 32.2% S: 14

Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation’s history.
Over 27 times as fast. Metaphorically speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane, 27 times faster, it would be doing 7,555 MPH!

Sources:
(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor;
(7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC;
(13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can’t think of anything? Don’t worry. He’s done all this in 33 months — so you’ll have about 3 months to come up with an answer. Every statement here is factual and directly attributable to Barrack Hussein Obama. Every bumble is a matter of record and completely verifiable.

EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS.
********************************************************************************************************************************************
This tells the story, why Bush was so bad at the end of his 2nd term.

Don’t just skim over this, read it slowly and let it sink in. If in doubt, check it out.

The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3rd 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress.

The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.

For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is “Bush’s Fault”, think about this:

January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress. At the time:

The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%

George Bush’s Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH.

Remember the day.-

January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.

The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?

BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!

Unemployment - to this CRISIS by (among many other things) dumping 5-6 trillon dollars of toxic loans on the economy from your Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!

Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy.

And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA.
And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie?

OBAMA and the Democrat Congress.

So when someone tries to blame Bush,

REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007, THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!

Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.

Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 &2011.

In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.

For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets.

And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009.

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.

If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.

If Obama gets four more years of this, there will be no HOPE for any of us.


28 posted on 09/03/2012 6:17:40 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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To: Rocky

The really disturbing thing is the audience reaction. There are actually a lot of insane people in our society, walking around like normal people.


Quoting that grizzled philosopher Bob Dylan ( all along the watchtower)

“No reason to get excited,”
The thief he kindly spoke.

“There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke.

But you and I, we’ve been through that,
And this is not our fate.

So let us not talk falsely now,
The hour is getting late.”

Insert Obama, et al for the thief, and rational thinkers for the you and I as you
desire


29 posted on 09/03/2012 8:01:49 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: snarkytart

About six or seven years ago, I saw Maher at the Tony Awards. His date was...a hooker. A pretty obvious hooker, lol! Yet, despite having to buy his date, he looked like the cat who swallowed the canary. Weird.


30 posted on 09/03/2012 8:10:08 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (,)
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To: New Jersey Realist

So when someone tries to blame Bush,

REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007, THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!

Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.

Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 &2011.

In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.

For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets.

And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009.

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.

If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.

If Obama gets four more years of this, there will be no HOPE for any of us.

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lets hope a super PAC or Romney/Ryan lays these facts out.....


31 posted on 09/03/2012 8:13:22 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: New Jersey Realist

Very excellent analysis and presentation of facts!


32 posted on 09/03/2012 8:30:15 AM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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