I would, however, probably change my mind if Pam Anderson were on more often.
Hey!! what a good idea, keep the show except with Pam as host instead of Bill!!
Any other host suggestions?
My heart bleeds for Maher ... NOT! The fruitcake deserves to have his show yanked. As far as Jonah Goldberg, I believe he has the quote wrong. Maher didn't say "WE" in the "We have been the ..." In Maher's original quote, the implication was clear that the MILITARY PILOTS/TECHNICIANS who launch the missiles from afar are cowards.
The show was so good I wrote an e-mail complimenting them, and received a nice reply thanking me for the comments. Shortly after came the announcement of the move to ABC.
And once the move came, it was clear things had changed right from the start. The set was darker, the atmosphere more rigid and formal, as if suddenly everyone regarded it more serious and important. The freewheeling sense of fun that was there on Comedy Central was gone. And so was the balance. The "3 liberals (4, counting Maher) against 1 moderate" panel was born. And Maher's attitude changed a lot. He seemed to affect an attitude of importance, where he was more a likeable guy on Comedy Central.
I only watched a few episodes on ABC -- that's all I could stand. Whatever the show had on Comedy Central was gone, and what was left was hard to endure.
It is interesting that with the long list of hideous things that Maher has said since moving to ABC, all were overlooked by the powers that be until now. Could it be it's because all the other venomous things he said were aimed at the right, and this one time Clinton was the actual target? What else would explain the sudden mood of hyperliberal ABC to consider dumping Maher?
Whatever the outcome, it was kind of sad to see what once was such an entertaining show become something of a dark monster. Too bad.
HA! This guy is a hoot....
This leaves the conservative seats to mockable right-wingers.
What "seats"? 99% of the time, there's only one conservative. The libs are still out numbered.
Don't stop now, folks:
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Like I posted when this whole flap was being debated here on FreeRepublic, Maher is a has-been. He's no longer cool. His mean-spirited malicious jabs (like wishing Kathleen Harris' murder, calling Clinton's women 'pieces of tail' and lying sluts, calling Bush a 'lying sack of $hit') at conservatives brought this on him. Not just his stupid, thoughtless remarks about the hijacker-murderers not being cowards. Duh. The opposite of coward is hero. Does that make the terrorist-murderers' act heroic? Maher was aligning himself with those stupid Palestinians and other Muslim nutcases. It sure sounded like that to me.
As for the Clinton Administration's cowardly bombing of a couple of empty camps and an aspirin factory on the eve of Monica Lewinsky's testimony to the grand jury, Maher refuses to admit that his horney, cowardly, women-degrading hero, Bubba gave the final order without congressional approval. Like his hero who he fails to even name as Commander-in-Chief at that time, Maher tried to pin the blame of the equivalent "sending a 2 million dollar missle into a 10 dollar tent and hitting a camel in the butt" on the Republican-controlled Congress. I am glad that Maher is getting what he deserves. He is a women-degrading, intolerant creep. His humor is out. I find sweet justice in that. There's nothing a Hollywood-type finds more distressing than to discover that he is no longer hip or in.