"Real Time" w/Bill Maher and guests, on now here:

[babylonsister]

Tonight, Bill welcomes actor Harry Shearer, diplomat Shashi Tharoor, journalist Christopher Hitchens, and Real Time correspondent Dan Savage. Plus via satellite, Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA).

[Mooney]

1. Thank god he's got his writers back.

It was getting kind of grim there for a while.

[misanthrope]

22. Yeah, otherwise he might be able to...

...spend more time on somewhat substantive or thought-provoking discussion rather than rack up minutes with cheap shtick going after easy yucks.

[SeattleGirl]

2. Hey sistah!

I'm watching! :hi:

[babylonsister]

4. Excellent, SeattleGirl!

:hug:

[stanwyck]

3. He needs to atone for last week's show

Jack (Obama isn't wearing a flag pin! ) Kingston. David Frum. It was dismal.

[babylonsister]

5. Agreed. nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. He needs new writers

I expected a drum roll on the monologue.
But it should be better than the last two weeks with his conservatives
At least he has Harry Shearer tonight.

[babylonsister]

7. Obama + Rendell? Posited on Tweety today. What a combo!

:wtf:

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. Is Chris sober tonight that is the question

I really like the undersecretary of the UN.

He is the only one that is rational so far.

[SeattleGirl]

9. Chris sober?

I rather doubt it. If he were, look out! :rofl:

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. Shashi Tharoor

Malayalam: ശശി തരൂര്‍; born 9 March 1956 in London) was the official candidate of India for the succession to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006, and came second out of seven official candidates in the race. Tharoor served as the UN Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information between June 2002 and February 2007. He is an author, journalist, and fellow of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. Tharoor is an Indian national, from the state of Kerala.

# Since 1978, Tharoor has been working for the United Nations, serving with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, whose Singapore office he headed during the "boat people" crisis.

# Since October 1989, he has been a senior official at the United Nations headquarters in New York, where, until late 1996, he was responsible for peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia.

# From January 1997 to July 1998, he was executive assistant to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

# In July 1998, he was appointed director of communications and special projects in the office of the Secretary-General.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashi_Tharoor

[babylonsister]

10. Don't know; he doesn't like Clinton. Then again, he doesn't like anyone! nt

[renate]

24. I have had a crush on Shashi Tharoor ever since seeing him on the Colbert Report

I don't really have much to add, except to wonder why we can't send somebody to the UN who's smart and articulate like that. :loveya:

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. Dan Savage is a gay reporter that likes Obama now

Nice report.

[SeattleGirl]

14. Dan Lives in Seattle, and writes a column called "Savage Love"

for The Seattle Weekly newspaper.

I really like him.

[babylonsister]

17. He started off pretty bad imo. I wonder how much was edited from the

Obama rally.

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. Christopher Hitchens sounds sober tonight...shit

he must have found God.....


LOL

[SeattleGirl]

15. ......

:spray:

[babylonsister]

16. Ha! See, he makes sense, sort of. Sometimes. nt

[countmyvote4real]

18. "I prefer the more traditional term: morons."

Bill referring to swing voters.

[Ichingcarpenter]

19. The show redeem itself a little

even had a good intellectual conversation on religion

And the big smelly cock joke rocked.

[countmyvote4real]

20. Yes. It was a "smart" panel tonight.

I don't agree with everything Hitch or Bill have to say, but I can appreciate that there is an intellectual thought process involved.

[babylonsister]

21. That used to be me. Is every Independent a 'moran'?

I didn't quite get where Bill was going with that.

[Touchdown]

23. Yes, if they think Kerry shot himself to get a purple heart.

See, the mantra of the "Independent" is that they are above it all. They smugly see so clearly that neither side is good enough for them. Yet, these supposedly intelligent people fall for the...

Hillary's a Socialist
Gore said he invented the Internet.
Global Warming is just a theory.
Obama doesn't wear a flag lapel pin, and that's supposed to mean something.
Impeaching President Clinton was for "Lying to a grand jury"
Can never forget Chappaquiddick, but expects us to forget Election 2000.

Every damn time it comes up. They are either idiots or they're lying, because they know I'm not a wimpy liberal. Yeah, they love to talk about something some DEMOCRAT did, but when a Republican does something, the response is "Yeah, it's all those POLITICIANS." A friend of mine at work asked me 3 times the last 6 months if Obama was a muslim. I keep telling him no. Wouldn't it be sinking if he was smart?

I'm sorry. If you are still on the fence about who to choose, because you can't see which is worse, a man who was part of The Keating Five, or a man who's middle name is Hussein, then I really do have to question your intelligence.:hi: