Bill Maher on the Arizona Shootings

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The folks in the audience for Jay Leno’s safe-for-all-audiences Tonight Show clearly would’ve rather had a visit from some cuddly zoo animals than what they got: an extended and at times awkwardly tense visit from HBO’s Bill Maher.

Talking about the shootings in Arizona and Fox News chief Roger Ailes‘ reported instructions to his staff to tone down

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[theartistprince]

I would side with anyone over a Jay Leno audience, tbh.

I'm not really a fan and haven't watched the video yet, but Team Maher out of principle.

[neurotic]

I would side with anyone over a Jay Leno audience, tbh.

haha, me too.

[lightbird777]

Same.

[miss_padfoot]

haha, me too, on all counts. I don't even like Bill Maher all that much but it sounds like the Leno audience were just being dumb.

[archanglrobriel]

but it sounds like the Leno audience were just being dumb.

Yes, I think you've hit the nail on the head with that. I know Bill was serious when he asked them "Do you read?" and I think the overwhelming answer would be "No." I truly believe that to a rather large percentage of average persons on the street, everything Bill said with regard to the inflamed rhetoric on the right is new information.
Maybe "dumb" is too harsh and I would prefer to go with "ignorant and ill informed" but when that marker gets moved from its original position and a person sees that they have vast gaps in their understanding of the world and they willfully do nothing to correct that? That's lazy and dumb.
Those two words go a long way towards describing the main problem with our electorate just now, in my opinion.