Comments | ontd_political: Real Time With Bill Maher March 20 | Madeline Albright | Keith Olbermann

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Real Time With Bill Maher March 20 | Madeline Albright | Keith Olbermann | Kerry Washington

Mar 21, 2009 17:41

bill maher, madeleine albright, celebrities, keith olbermann, bernie sanders

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veidt March 21 2009, 22:31:19 UTC

This episode was better than the last two, which isn't saying too much since they were both awful.

Corey Booker giving what amounted to a stump speech rather than any kind of discourse two weeks ago and the idiot Breitbart last week was just a bit too much.

This week was much better, I'd say. And Madeline Albright was pretty charming too. This show is best when they have three people who know how to keep from talking over each other and acting like insufferable boobs.

_lilou March 21 2009, 22:38:49 UTC

Was Breitbart the moron that was on with Michael Eric Dyson? If so, yea...he was grade A douche.

sunoftheskye March 21 2009, 22:40:35 UTC

Yes. Talk about a hot mess.

cattyhunts March 21 2009, 22:47:50 UTC

Oh god, last week was horrible. Normally I don't turn Real Time off, but last week I did. I missed the week before that though.

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ladypolitik March 21 2009, 22:46:05 UTC

Thanks bb, watching as I do laundry, haha.

laurie_springs March 21 2009, 23:51:12 UTC

Good Lord, Kerry was annoying. She had, like, nothing to contribute to any of the topics that came up.

Her fangirling of Keith was borderline embarrassing, too.

sunoftheskye March 21 2009, 23:52:31 UTC

:( I loved her on the Michael Steele episode.

laurie_springs March 22 2009, 01:25:00 UTC

Me too. That's what made her so annoying/dissappointing to me in this ep.

Lovely icon.

sunoftheskye March 22 2009, 01:26:34 UTC

ty. :D

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potatoboat March 21 2009, 23:58:11 UTC

OP, who is that in your icon?

sunoftheskye March 21 2009, 23:59:07 UTC

Me.

to_biased March 21 2009, 23:59:52 UTC

omg

potatoboat March 22 2009, 00:02:51 UTC

AWOOOOOGA 0_0

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ladypolitik March 22 2009, 01:54:41 UTC

OMG, SEE THE LAST CLIP? I.E.,Olbermann discussing Murdock essentially being just a businessman ("if he found out he could generate more money by turning FoxNews into a liberal squawk box, he'd do it")?

I'VE BEEN SAYING THAT FOR A DECADE.

sunoftheskye March 22 2009, 01:55:30 UTC

I wonder why though, extreme right wing conservatism seems to be so much more profitable than extreme liberalism.

ladypolitik March 22 2009, 02:10:17 UTC

Hmm, that's a good question -- I dunno, but I think in purely political theoretical terms, extreme liberalism isn't what we might think it is in the partisan sense -- I think extreme liberalism might technically be libertarianism?

Maybe THAT explains the marketing riddle.

LOL

But seriously. I suppose extreme conservatism is popular because it's contemporary format is basically a manufactured freak show of an ideology.

That is to say, as far as the way FoxNews/NewsMax/Freep/Townhall et. al. market it, there's very little serious conservative philosophical discourse. It's just reactionary-ism + "culture wars" over wedge issues (abortion, gay rights, euthanasia).

Freak shows sell tickets, I guess.

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