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Real Time with Bill Maher – Gravel, PETA, Iraq, and New Rules

By Manila Ryce
Published Saturday, September 1st, 2007, 7:16 am
Filed under: Videos: Political, World: Asia, War, Environment, Videos, World Issues, US Politics

I was pleasantly surprised to see Mike Gravel on Real Time with Bill Maher. Though I love the guy for having big brass balls, I will concede that every so often he does have a disoriented geriatric quality about him. Still, an old man from the past can be a refreshing change of pace when that man is stomping around in the pool of stagnant pond scum which is modern politics. Gravel drew his first great applause of the night when he stated that white Americans took an anti-immigration stance after they got here themselves.

Later on in the show, Maher juxtaposed Miss Teen South Carolina’s infamous blunder with a classic Bush-ism on tribal sovereignty from awhile back. At least Ms South Carolina can claim her nonsensical answer was the result of shock. It’s quite apparent that Bush just didn’t know the definition of sovereignty.

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Maher then discussed “No End in Sight“, which explores the mismanagement of the war. The movie runs closely to “Imperial Life in the Emerald City“, a book by Rajiv Chandrasekaran which basically reveals that democracy never took hold in Iraq because it was never really one of our priorities. We were more interested in making money for a select few than actually stabilizing the country. To this end, loyalists were appointed, regardless of their job abilities.

Gravel once again brought a sane perspective to the conversation of mismanagement when he said that everyone was discussing “how to do a mistake competently”. Well said Mike.

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  4. Did Gravel drool on himself during New Rules?

    Sam
    09/2/07 at 9:46 pm

  5. Ha, he was drinking and spit it out during a joke. I’m just glad he wasn’t holding in a fart.

    Manila Ryce
    09/2/07 at 11:30 pm

  6. They were wrong about one assumption; that the people of Iraq would just sit by and let our country reshape theirs. The actual Assumption was that they’d be welcoming us as liberators and throwing roses at our feet.
    Much more active than passive…
    but just as stupid.

    PapaFigue
    09/3/07 at 8:41 am

  7. First time here. Very nice site. Bill Maher is not as funny as he is informative but then again he always makes me laugh.

    xoites
    09/4/07 at 11:56 pm

  8. Glad to have you here Xoites. I think everyone has a bit of a love/hate relationship with Maher. Some of the things he says make me want to bang my head against a wall, but at least he’s got the balls to say them.

    Manila Ryce
    09/5/07 at 1:20 am

  9. Man, that chick from PETA is a good reason why no one gives a shit.
    Look, the climate crisis is fact, and her point about the significant contribution of methane and CO2 from livestock is a valid one. But as one of the leading contributing countries, second only recently to China, America needs workable solutions that have less than a 30 year payoff.

    Converting America into a vegetarian country? Hydrogen Power will be viable about 50 years before that happens, and that technology is still at least 30 years away!

    Again, she makes valid points. There’s definitely a lot that can be said for reducing, and even eliminating, animal consumption. But her solutions are about as helpful as Live Earth was.

    PapaFigue
    09/7/07 at 12:41 am

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