(Part Six) BILL MAHER'S REAL TIME W/ CORNEL WEST , MOS DEF, RALPH NADER, AND LAWRENCE WILKERSON

[Billysundae]

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(Part Six) BILL MAHER'S REAL TIME W/ CORNEL WEST , MOS DEF, RALPH NADER, AND LAWRENCE WILKERSON

[onehandle]

1. Go away, Ralph. nt

[kirby]

2. Quote

"There is a paradox there that if you say to the audience Ralph Naders going to run again, they go Booooo! But when he speaks on the prinicples, they all applaude for what he actually stands for. Its a shame that we cant vote for the people we believe in because we think they cant win."

[Sam Ervin jret]

3. Let's Talk about "THE SIX" du ! In the world of INJUSTICE and a corrupt justice system

There is not a better example of how far BACK we have gone than this miscarriage of justice in Louisiana. Children in a school yard hanging ropes from TREES to mark the area where the black students cannot gather.
The black students ask the principle if they are allowed to be in the area that is usually held by white students.(as if they should have to ask)
The head of the school says "yes" and the next day there are noose ropes hanging from the tree to intimidate the black students.
A fight breaks out.
The white students are charged with assault the blacks with attempted murder!
Economic prosperity may not "trickle down", but lack of respect, lack of humanity, lack of justice and just plain inhumanity DOES. IT comes from the TOP.
The TOP of the LOCAL government.
The TOP of the LOCAL institutions.
The TOP of the Families.
The top of our GOVERNMENT AND CULTURE.
STOP THIS MADNESS.
The "good ol' days were not good for every body.
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE THE MORE THINGS STAY THE SAME!

[Billysundae]

4. DU sometimes seems reactionary....

I'm sort of surprised that the moderator allowed him to do that to all my videos.(Go away, Ralph. nt)

There's a pretty interesting discussion with Cornel West and Mos Def and the interview with Colin Powell's former assistant Lawrence Wilkerson is fairly enlightening.

BS

[Stardust]

6. Thank you for posting these from, imho, one of the best Real Time episodes

ever.

[digidigido]

5. Nader

You know, it's not his principles people are booing. It's his lack of judgement and the consequences it caused. It's also the quote
that the Republicans and the Demcrats are all the same. It was a cynical arrogant misguided quote that is partly responsable for the
mess that we are in today, and the fact that he doesn't see it or understand it, because as far as I know he hasn't apologized for it.
For any reasonable man to say that there is no difference between Al Gore and George Bush defies logic. So yes Ralph, blow it out
your shorts.