Silence of The Shams: Bill Maher Stumps GOP Critics With One Simple Question
Criticism of President Obama’s Ukraine policy, like most Republican criticism of the President, is long on dumb shit and short on better ideas. On this weekend’s Real Time with Bill Maher (Special “Book Conservatives Whose Names Sound Like Fraggle Rock Characters” Edition), the emptiness of that criticism was masterfully exposed when host Maher asked guests Hogan Gidley and Matt Kibbe, “What should he be doing differently? And be specific.”
Freedomworks CEO Matt Kibbe began by explaining how President Obama isn’t respected by Vladimir Putin, and when asked what Obama should do to gain Putin’s respect, replied, “It’s called leadership.”
Reading the minds of everyone everywhere, Maher said,
“Excuse my French, but what the fuck does that mean?”
Then it was Gidley’s turn to tap in, and assert that the lack of respect is due to our failure to “flex muscles, militarily,” shortly before declaring that any conservative who wants to send the military to Ukraine is “off their rocker,” and accused the President of refusing to name Putin a “bad actor in the plane coming down.” (Apparently, Gidley is an early endorser of the James Lipton 2016 campaign.)
Then, when asked “what should we be doing,” Gidley admitted, right off the bat, that his only recommendations would be “symbolic” actions, like…
“He’s trying to buy some French helicopters, you buy the helicopters.”
Can’t you just hear Putin’s inner circle taunting him now? “Awwww, shit, son, he bought your French helicopters! You got served, comrade!”
What Gidley is suggesting is the military equivalent of stealing your best girlfriend’s wedding date. The truth is that, while the President’s actions in Ukraine haven’t worked out all that well to date, none of the suggestions from the other side of the aisle, including French helicopters and spending billions so energy companies can sell liquid natural gas to Europe 10 years from now, are even serious, let alone effective.
Say what you will about Bill Maher (and I have), this is one area in which he frequently excels: getting conservatives to come on his show, and popping their idiocy like a balloon in a porcupine pen.
Unfortunately, he also has a tendency to let liberal dumbshittery get past him, as with this bit of wisdom…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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Skip Patterson July 28th, 2014 at 23:16
Wow, they’re throwing George Jr. under the bus but I guess it was his time. They haven’t said much about him since 2009, or the great accomplishments he made primarily because he didn’t have any. He put us in the whole 6.6 trillions and right-wing Christofascist haven’t said a peep about the poor children who are going to be saddled with this debt from here to eternity. But it looks like they are getting desperate now that the midterms are starting to loom large and they’re not 100% positive that they have all of their disenfranchisement laws in place which might at least give them a chance. So I think it’s safe to say we’ll see George get slapped around a few more times until November.
AnthonyLook July 29th, 2014 at 02:48
Hope Maher didn’t scare them off; soon there will be a tight policy of only Fox and friendly tv and radio exposure. They can’t afford to be questioned during the coming campaign. Only about THREE months left till we vote.
AnthonyLook July 29th, 2014 at 02:48
Hope Maher didn’t scare them off; soon there will be a tight policy of only Fox and friendly tv and radio exposure. They can’t afford to be questioned during the coming campaign. Only about THREE months left till we vote.
TheGirl FromIpanema July 29th, 2014 at 17:08
Conservative/Republicsns are funny; just see Sarah Palin… And I wonder if she still sees Russia from her vindow..
TheGirl FromIpanema July 29th, 2014 at 17:08
Conservative/Republicsns are funny; just see Sarah Palin… And I wonder if she still sees Russia from her vindow..
Guest July 30th, 2014 at 13:19
you sad sorry #&^#$ TheUSA agreed to support them ( The Ukrainne ) if they were attacked
in return for their agreemnet for Nuclear disarmament. They had the ability to protect themselves, to make the world safer, They trusted us ( obozo )
but ob0zo f*cked em bad,
No one will trust the USA now.
He probably the way he wanted it that way You people have no excuse and no right to remain so F$%@^% Dumb
Guest July 30th, 2014 at 13:19
you sad sorry #&^#$ TheUSA agreed to support them ( The Ukrainne ) if they were attacked
in return for their agreemnet for Nuclear disarmament. They had the ability to protect themselves, to make the world safer, They trusted us ( obozo )
but ob0zo f*cked em bad,
No one will trust the USA now.
He probably the way he wanted it that way You people have no excuse and no right to remain so F$%@^% Dumb
Douglas Cockburn July 30th, 2014 at 13:22
you
sad sorry #&^#$
The
USA agreed to support The Ukraine if they were attacked
in
return for their agreement for Nuclear Disarmament.
They
had the ability to protect themselves,
but
to make the world safer, They trusted obozo and Disarmed
but
ob0zo f*cked em bad,
No
one will trust the USA now.
He
wanted it that way
You
people have no excuse and no right to remain so F$%@^%
Dumb
Douglas Cockburn July 30th, 2014 at 13:22
you
sad sorry #&^#$
The
USA agreed to support The Ukraine if they were attacked
in
return for their agreement for Nuclear Disarmament.
They
had the ability to protect themselves,
but
to make the world safer, They trusted obozo and Disarmed
but
ob0zo f*cked em bad,
No
one will trust the USA now.
He
wanted it that way
You
people have no excuse and no right to remain so F$%@^%
Dumb