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If your daddy paid your way through Harvard, I think you have a special obligation to help poor and middle class kids get a higher education.
Paul Begala, Real Time with Bill Maher
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Point, Counterpoint
  • Bill Maher: And I have faith--
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson: You have faith? I... I thought I knew you...
  • Bill Maher: No, you're misrepresenting the word "faith." I mean, you three have all been on the show before, so I have faith that it'll be a good show.
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson: You have EVIDENCE that it'll be a good show.
  • Bill Mayer: -___-
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Bill Mayer just dropped an “Expecto Patronum.” It may be time to stop the Percocet.

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And I don’t think they do!
Bill Maher, on whether people have the right to religious belief
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No, I think if she was a man, he would have thrown a haymaker!
Martin Bashir, about the controversy surrounding Governor Jan Brewer’s body language during a “confrontation” with President Obama
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On Missing The Point, AGAIN, Mr. Maher

“…and we need a little cooperation from the people who are stealing, who are stealing these movies, and we’re not getting it!” — Bill Mayer, “Real Time with Bill Mayer,” in defense of SOPA, a bill which he admits he did not read, and “doesn’t get.”

No, Bill. Do you really expect criminals to cooperate with the law? REALLY? You admit that you don’t understand what this bill is really about, that you haven’t read it. You admit the reason you even CARE is because when you released “Religulous,” you lost a large amount of profit to illegal file-sharing.

When Jennifer Granholm pointed out that at the very least, we could admire the proof that our individual citizens, when banded together, still had power in our government, you laughed it off, saying, “No, they just want free shit! They don’t want to stop getting free shit!”

Hey, Bill, I don’t pirate. That’s not to say I don’t want free shit, its just against my personal morals. Plenty of people were against SOPA on grounds that weren’t about saving their own asses. You know why we didn’t want SOPA passed? Because we felt there was a big difference between uploading the entire “Family Guy” series to your site and then selling ad space, versus taking a home video of your grandma’s centennial—where the whole nursing home gathered round and sang “Happy Birthday”—and uploading it to YouTube.

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The Rape of Gaddafi

Bill Maher: That’s the first thing they did to him… they stuck something up his ass. Don’t you think that says something about those people? Don’t you think that says something about a culture? When you segregate the women you open the door for homosexuality…

NO. Okay, Mr. Maher? NO. Two things. Two very important things that you are increasingly wrong about.

1.) That wasn’t homosexuality. That was rape. Forcibly penetrating an orifice in such a manner counts as rape in the majority of our nation’s municipalities. It’s an issue of power and control, not sexuality. You have no conception of homosexuality if you believe that two men engaged in consenting sexual intercourse is really somehow related to an act of torture meant to undermine the basic humanity of a single being.

2.) Rape is an issue that is prevalent in all societies to some extent. Trying to take one isolated action and extrapolate that to mean something about the entirety of a social or cultural group is bullshit. Trying to say that a segregation of sexes leads to homosexuality, which then leads to rape and torture, is bullshit. Bullshit. While I don’t agree with gender segregation, there is no way that one can claim that a single act of torture can actually mean something about an entire country. 

You’re wrong, Mr. Maher. In so many ways.

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On Misogyny & Rape Culture: Part Infinity

Bill Maher, on Hank Williams Jr’s firing from Monday Night Football:

 But don’t worry, folks; you can still hear his music anywhere women are being assaulted on pool tables.

Thanks for reminding me why I dislike you, Bill. Thanks for reminding me how prevalent this fucking rape culture is. Thanks for reminding me why I’m running out of hope for our species and society.

I don’t even have words anymore. 

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My father got sick when I was 22… and I was poor. And my father had an ulcer, and it exploded, and, you know, all these toxins get in your blood - and basically, my father died 50 days after his ulcer. So I had a father get sick while I was poor.

My mother got sick while I was rich. I don’t really wanna get into to it, but my mother was sicker than my father, okay? And my mother’s alive. My mother’s fine, okay?

I remember going to the hospital to see my mother and wondering, was I in the right place? Like, this is a hotel! Like, it had a concierge, man! …If the average person really knew the discrepancy in the healthcare system, there’d be riots in the streets, okay? They would burn this motherfucker down.

Chris Rock, responding to host Bill Maher asking if he ever went to the emergency room as his primary healthcare provider, on Real Time  (via butchrag, inothernews) (via malloreigh) (via lsdementia) (via pokenells) (via andreagoldston) (via whatwasleftafter) (via eyelovecasey) (via hilaritycondensed) (via feminally)

^ My point. That I’m trying to make. Is this.

If life is a fundamental right of any citizen of our country, than health must also be a fundamental right—at the very least, a certain level of health. We can discuss what that level is, but at some point, there is some measurable level of health without which a person can’t live.

No one should die because they can’t afford to receive a treatment that, if they were rich, they could receive.

I’m sayin’.

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Teachers, cops, firefighters… The people we were taught to idolize as kids, now we’re trying to put out of work.
Van Jones, on the current US political climate towards public workers and the working class
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