Real Time with Bill Maher guests - Friday, November 5, 2021

[Rhiannon12866]

Real Time with Bill Maher continues its 19th season Friday, November 5 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/tape-delayed PT), with a replay at 12:05 a.m., exclusively on HBO.

This week features a one-on-one, in-person interview with Amy Klobuchar, Senior U.S. Senator from Minnesota and author of Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power From the Gilded Age to the Digital Age.

This week's in-studio panel discussion will include Michael Eric Dyson, Vanderbilt University professor and author of the new book, Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America; and Glenn Loury, Brown University economics professor and host of The Glenn Show, which is available on YouTube, all podcast platforms, and at GlennLoury.Substack.com.

[UTUSN]

1. K&R

[USALiberal]

2. I'm waiting for the Maher haters! Nt

[Rhiannon12866]

3. I post this for those who are interested. *sigh*

[USALiberal]

4. Thanks for posting, I watch every week! Nt

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Thanks! Sounds like a good lineup

Amy Klobuchar is especially always worth hearing from.

[demtenjeep]

7. I do too

I get tired of the complainers.


There is such a thing as a remote...

also-HBO is a pay channel.

Do NOT have to watch

[smirkymonkey]

17. Thanks for posting, Rhiannon!

Looking forward to Amy and MED, not familiar w/ the last person though. I suppose I could look him up. Still worth a watch though.

Even though Bill can annoy me at times, I still think he's pretty funny for the most part.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. Same here!

And I try to never forget that Bill is actually a comedian! He does care about this country, but he also goes for the laughs. And if you watch late-night TV like I do, he appeared more than once on "Murder, She Wrote!"

[Tree Lady]

21. I watch him every week

Have since he was on ABC. Yes he's changed but haven't we all?

[Rhiannon12866]

22. "Politically Incorrect!"

And of you remember some of the guests he had on that show, there was never any effort to be "politically correct!"

[Tree Lady]

23. Actually all I remember is it was on late

And I only watched him when I couldn't sleep, lol. Didn't really know who he was then, wasn't involved like have been last 20 yrs.

[Rhiannon12866]

24. Oh, same here! I didn't know everybody and I didn't get serious about politics until 9/11

Freaked me out. And my mother was not a fan, she used to interrupt to give me a hard time about watching it.

[Tree Lady]

25. I woke up when Gore lost

I couldn't believe America would vote for Bush being so dumb and that was before all the horrid crap he did.

It was the first time I missed voting for pres and I felt bad, my father had just died and I got married a month later moved and forgot to change my voting address which was 3 hours away.

I was living in CA then so at least my vote wasn't crucially needed.

[Rhiannon12866]

26. Oh, I was on DU when Kerry lost to Bush* in 2004 and I was devastated

After all we'd seen, especially the invasion of Iraq (I was on DU the night of "shock and awe" ), I couldn't believe it. I actually felt sick, kept going back and forth with my friend who felt the same way and on DU they repurposed the GD and GDP Forums, one designated for posts for those of us who were upset and needed sympathy and the other for those who were angry and needed to vent. I posted in the first one.

And I' so sorry that you had so much to deal with on top of that. But you're right about your vote and it was the same for me - since I'm in New York.

[Tree Lady]

27. Must have been hard in NY

I joined DU in 2004. Do you remember the thread the day after election where we all said our real names? For many years after if I googled my name DU thread came up.

[Paladin]

5. Here we are.

Wouldn't want to keep you waiting too long.

Maher ought to be especially insufferable, given the election results in Virginia and Manchin's successful kneecapping of Biden's programs. As usual, I won't be watching.

[ProgRocknProgPol]

8. I'm not a Maher hater, but he and Loury will be insufferable with their gloatwhining about wokeness.

I say gloatwhining because they'll spend probably at least 50% of the show complaining about how wokeness is killing the Democratic party and taking over America without proposing a single viable remedy for it. Shame, because I find most of Bill's New Rules hilarious. Hopefully Mr. Dyson will have some good rebuttals ready for them.

[WHITT]

9. Dyson Likely

to Slice n' Dice both of them.

[question everything]

10. Thanks for posting. A nice mix and one can always for "New Rules."

[Rhiannon12866]

11. Agreed! And Amy Klobuchar always a lot relevant to say

And while I don't know Glenn Loury, we can likely depend on Michael Eric Dyson to keep the other two in line, LOL. And I agree that Bill has been on a winning streak with New Rules...

[pwb]

12. I look forward to what you post on this show Rhi.

The good shit.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. Awww! Thanks so much!

Back in the day, the show used to be posted - but with a warning that it wouldn't last long. So I started posting the "official" videos which never disappear - but have started adding a decent "bootleg" video, if I can find one, since they never include the whole show (usually the panel discussion).

[Blecht]

13. I always try to thank you and also say what a shithead whiner Maher has turned into

Thanks.

And Maher has turned into a whiny little shit who is only concerned about his bank account.

[UTUSN]

14. *thank* you for personifying the FREE-thinking, OPEN-minded. *truly* Democratic values -

we ain't SKEERED of MAHER/ROGAN - our minds are strong enough to separate the chaff from the grain.

The key is being SECURE in our own selves and beliefs. We can LOOK WITHIN ourselves for our own constructive criticism to maximize our effectiveness.

We ain't SKEERED.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Back in the day (pre pandemic), there were occasionally guests I couldn't stand

(And we probably could name names). But that doesn't mean that I don't find it informative overall and he often has really interesting guests that I wouldn't be aware of otherwise. And yes, we know enough here to "take what we want and leave the rest..."

[UTUSN]

18. "we" (u & I & few) know "take what we want" -

As for the widespread criticism here of his hosting Wingnuts or himself critiquing Dems - he stands up to them well enough most of the time and it's an identifying criteria that Dems look inward for root causes while Wingnuts look outward for somebody to blame.

[Rhiannon12866]

20. And there are times I've thought he had them on just so he could argue and make his point!