A conversation with Bill Maher

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A conversation with Bill Maher, comedian and host of Real Time with Bill Maher.

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    1. kaioxygen  08/24/2009 02:43 PM Report

      Just a small point about America's technical brilliance such as the development of MRI scans. The Nobel prize for this work was shared between Paul Lauterbur of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sir Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham England.

    2. janeeyre  06/28/2009 06:08 PM Report

      ...and there are wonderful threads of Mark Twain in him...like Jon Stewart my generation breathes easier, here in Canada, knowing these guys are doing their craft and can go to a better network if the 'man behind the curtain' tries to pull them off the stage. A toast to you Bill. You put the handsome in nuanced intelligence.

    3. janeeyre  06/28/2009 05:52 PM Report

      Love you Bill. Keep on truckin' man. Keep 'em honest. You're cute too.

    4. janeeyre  06/28/2009 05:52 PM Report

      Love you Bill. Keep on truckin' man. Keep 'em honest. You're cute too.

    5. slickjilly  12/08/2008 02:02 AM Report

      I like Bill Maher so much. I respect him because he is not afraid to have anyone on his show. Left, right, whatever. He actually allows them to voice their opinions whether he agrees with them or not. I am so glad he is out there saying it like he sees it.I especially love the rant on the outing of under cover CIA agent Valerie Plame. I love New Rules on his Real Time w/ Bill Maher. Keep on keepin' on Bill.

    6. Jackie  11/09/2008 11:51 PM Report

      Bill always hits the nail on the head. I'm just sorry I don't have HBO to watch him more often.

    7. Preston  11/04/2008 08:43 PM Report

      TribalReader makes some valid points, especially the part about narcissistic narrow-minded know-it-all hypocrites trying to pretend they know everything about religion based on some very selective editing and censorship. Essentially pretending (wishing) to be God. But they are angry, because most people given the opportunity would just piss on their faces after listening to what they have to say.

    8. Tim Marlow  11/04/2008 07:07 PM Report

      Over 200 documented religions on the planet. All different, all ridiculous. Nobody knows and thats it. Church is big buisness and control. I think bill hits the nail on the head. We need more thinkers like bill.

    9. Ludafisk  10/24/2008 05:26 PM Report

      Actually , I think TribalReader is the one who missed the point. I wonder if he really saw the movie. I really hope that Religilous starts a movement by like minded people, which is really about 75% of the people if they would just admit it.

    10. TribalReader  10/14/2008 10:03 AM Report

      About Bill Maher's ridiculous new movie Religilous. The movie is missing the whole basic point of religion and shows how limited Maher's research and perspective are, and how unconscious his hostility towards authority. What else is self-congratulatory narcissism. He is a fundamentalist too but of a different persuasion which happens to be as false as the current soul-less beliefs of religions.

      This is what Maher is missing--one cardinal dimension of religion is the Interiors of Consciousness. By bad-mouthing and making fun of the fallacious mind and propagandized belief systems of underdeveloped religious human beings, one cannot deny what mystics of all epochs regardless of their religious inclinations EXPERIENCED in their interiors. Then the limitations of language and the politics of the tribe and pathologies of parenting got in the way of transcendental truth. That is why inner development is a solitary and individual affair. No religious symbol system can do the “inner work” that is necessary for attaining that state of being called the Buddha Mind, the Christ/Krishna Consciousness, aka Satori, Samadhi, Nirvana, Kensho, Fana in different religious systems.

      http://www.selftransformation.net/articles/transcen.htm

      Religions also comprise the essential meditational practices, the pointing out instructions to discover the latent state of infinity within which cannot be expressed in words and beliefs. The founders of all great religions had that particular experience of the Divine which is humanity's finest hidden potential. Instead of making fun of religions, Bill Maher will do much better to broaden his research and perhaps read William James and Ken Wilber and Evelyn Underhill (i.e. comparative understanding of mystical consciousness) what his fundamentalism might never allow him too. That is what Ken Wilber meant when he wrote about rehabilitating the interior.

      'Thus our task is not specifically to reintroduce spirituality and somehow attempt to show that modern science is becoming compatible with God. That approach, which is taken by most of the integrative attempts, does not go nearly deep enough in diagnosing the disease, and thus, in my opinion, never really addresses the crucial issues.

      'Rather, it is the rehabilitation of the interior in general that opens the possibility of reconciling science and religion.'

    11. Dennis G. Cannon  09/24/2008 11:43 PM Report

      I have a friend with a great sense of humor who created an "early morning line" of the political scene that Bill's writers may want to exploit; here it is:(Actually, I tried to clean up the formatting but it is almost impossible to re-create the race program look in this comment field). If you writers are truly interested in something funny, email me at my address and I'll be happy to send you his word document or have him send it to you Since he deserves the credit. Thanks.

      Early ProgramEntry # Election Day StakesBelmont Park – 1 ½ Miles Nov 4, 2008M/ L

      1 GOP Stables

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      Off Course – Five Bars Cell Service 2/5

      1a Lactation Station Inc./GOP Stables

      Sara P. All-in B f 44,

      Aye Wood - Poker 2/5

      2 Jackass Stables

      Olabama Dk B. c. 47,

      The Great Communicator-Alabamanana 3/5

      2a Jackass Stables

      J.O. BidenGr g 67,

      Exact Copy – Eyes on Paper 3/5

      3 Bible Belt Racing, Inc.

      Pro Choice Ch f 3,

      HesIntoAbstinence–She’sDoingItAnyway 20

      4 The Last Eight Years, Inc.

      Sofa King Unbelievable B g 4,

      Believe It - Fornicating 15

      5 Bush – Cheney Legacy Racing Ltd.

      Nochildleftadime Dk B or Br g 2,

      The Bush Years - Penniless 30

      6 3 Men & No Baby Partners Inc.Gay RightsCh m 6, Gayt Dancer – Trouble gettin’ Hitched 25

      7 Inconceivable Stables, Inc.Pro LifeGr g 35, Rho V. Wade – Must have a Pinhole 30

      8 Slippery Grip On Reality Partnership Inc.Moron PaulGr rig. 73, I’m a Freak Show – Yes You Are 99

      9 We Been Cheated and How Stables Inc.American PeopleDk B or Br c 234, George Washington – Trailer Trash 40

      Scratched: Huckaberry, Run Hillary Run

      1 and 1a – GOP entry, 2 and 2a – Jackass Stables entry

      Early Book Clocker’s Selections: 1a – 2 – 4

    12. elisabeth  08/15/2008 12:12 AM Report

      Certainely one of the most patriotic american! One who is not afraid to tell the truth which so many americans are afraid to hear. Sorry, but America is not the greatest country in the world, if it was, misery in this country would not exist.

    13. billfromthehill  06/05/2008 11:44 PM Report

      Maybe bill maher is a tv star, but he is intelligent enough and concerned enough and brave enough to speak, question and accuse when and where it is needed. My hats off to him for his ability to weed thru the flak about this country and the myth that we are the greatest, smartest, bravest, kindest nation on earth. those who say so have never seen us from afar thru the eyes of others around the world. We have made grave mistakes during our brief history here and we are now paying the price. Money rules this country and we let it and that is WRONG...PERIOD! Our government has gone to the well of taxation and spending too many times and we have no way to stop it. Vote for an independent polititian who cares about the common man, not the common company.

    14. Anne Suire  05/04/2008 12:01 AM Report

      The kurds found Saddam Hussein, not the Americans!!.

      I like Bill Maher, he is more aware than a lot of Americans!. I enjoy watching him!

    15. Anne Suire  04/18/2008 10:33 PM Report

      Catching up with Bill Maher & Charlie Rose. Bill is intelligent & aware & speaks for a lot of people. Thank you.

    16. sam  11/28/2007 03:47 AM Report

      The decline of a society begins when the public prefers to listen to people who rather shit on everything it is and stands for under the allusion that it's comedy. I find it quite distasteful to watch two people who think their the elites of society because their on t.v (which actually is the opposite , T.V is as common as you get) laughing about the stupidity of the American public and if we only were as informed as them, would we then make the right decisions. The only answer to that is, maybe we are stupid, to find a degenerate comedian's opinion worthy of debate on foreign policy or the state of our country.

    17. Karen Fitzgerald  10/14/2007 01:59 AM Report

      I would just like to ask, Charlie, why you are so invested in the United States being the greatest country in the world? Would it be so awful if we were only second-best or third-best? This interview showed yet again your arrogance and ego, particularly in your sputtering claim that we're making great progress in medical technology and curing cancer! Of all the absurdities. Wake up and realize that you were bamboozled by those medical researchers to get funding for their projects. You seem blind to people's motivation to make money, perhaps because you deny it in yourself.

    18. Heide Mavers  08/17/2007 05:37 PM Report

      You are my Hero.

      Have you ever had the Clintons on your show, will you?

    19. steven  06/11/2007 09:08 PM Report

      Bill Maher is a GREAT guest. Please have him on more often than once every five years!

    20. Chuck  06/11/2007 09:06 PM Report

      Bill Maher is a dweeb (look it up) who talks a good talk. But, for the most part, he's just more hot air. I'd love to see him run for the oval office against any of his heros and see how far he gets. I'm betting if he had to actually hold down a job like that,s while other took cheep pot shots at him every day so they could profit from it, that he would flip flop and flounder around as would any fish out of water. Charlie, please don't waste your time our ours with him again in the future.

    21. Rupert Murdoch  06/01/2007 06:23 AM Report

      It should be noted that most US technology is a spin off from military technology

    22. Wilson G.  05/23/2007 11:56 PM Report

      If you don't watch Real Time, it's great.

    23. adam wilson  05/21/2007 02:15 AM Report

      I agree with bill on health care. I was surprised to see charlie defending many health issues

    24. Tojasoh  05/16/2007 12:11 AM Report

      Bill Maher is brilliant. So is Christopher Hitchens. What an intelligent show. Thank you.

    25. Joseph I. Golden, M.D.  05/12/2007 11:17 PM Report

      As a practicing physician in both family practice and geriatrics, I support Bill Maher's assertion that taking care of oneself, physically and psychologically, does more to ensure personal health than the technological advances in diagnosis and treatment of the last 20 years. Most of these advances do more to raise the cost of medical care. Very few, such as "statin" drugs for cholesterol control, have actually accomplished significant changes in health outcome. The medical diagnostic industry have created more discrete information on diagnosis, but most of the time clinicians defer to this expensive technology rather than risk using their clinical judgment. It has made good clinical and diagnostic thinking "rusty" since one can easily order a CT scan or an MRI scan without clearly thinking through what the history and physical exam of a patient's problem fully indicate. Hence, I am skeptical that technological advances in medicine has really made significant improvement for the populace at large. Thank you for providing this space for my opinion.

    26. MacGuffin  05/10/2007 03:13 PM Report

      Bill Maher has really evolved into one of the best--if not the best--political satirists in the country.

      You can disagree with him, as many do, but the guy usually is ahead of the curve on the issues and accurate in his assertions (e.g. his facts are usually correct).

      Plus he is funny as hell. He really has a sharp wit and a great delivery (very old school Jack Benny/Johnny Carson style). I go to his tapings as often as I can.

      Great episode. Please have Bill Maher on more often.

    27. Mike  05/07/2007 02:36 PM Report

      Great show on TV. Intelligence, funny, etc.... Pls invite him more often !!

      Also the Christopher Hitchens interview although I wished his audio would be louder. Pls invite him more often !!

      Pls less cross talk.

    28. Frank  05/07/2007 02:24 AM Report

      I am always riveted by Bill Maher. Love him...Thank you very much. Hitchens is always engaging as usual. Oh and please have Anthony Bourdain on the show.

    29. Wendy Newton  05/05/2007 01:57 PM Report

      As much as his humor and his edge, we love Bill Maher's intelligence and insight. Thank you for having him on.

    30. Greg Goldberg  05/05/2007 10:34 AM Report

      Itâ??s ironic to watch you arguing with Bill Maher about medicine achievements while both of you are correct. Bush administration is destroying academia as fast as they can and not just because they donâ??t increase NIH budget. They waste the money that is already there because they appointed leadership that is completely incompetent just as they did in other areas of the countryâ??s business just as Bill argued. The NIH road map is as much meaningless as the Middle East road map to nowhere.

    31. Edward   05/05/2007 04:51 AM Report

      Quite thought provoking.

    32. victoria  05/05/2007 02:33 AM Report

      yeah BILL!!!! You inspired me..I bought a wonderful electric bicycle to commute cross town..I even live in the big Sougthern hills...I LOVE IT!!! 5 cents a charge and it is soooo quiet...now Bill....I want a car like yours!!! I LOVE BILL>>>>>