Bill Maher And The Far-Left Continue To Get Suckered Into Standing With Rand
Months later, Maher still hasn’t figured it out. On Friday night’s Real Time, Paul was the opening guest and Maher used the opportunity to repeat his earlier pledge, while repeatedly telling Paul that he’s right (as in correct) on statement after statement, not realizing that whatever Paul says is either purposefully deceptive or that he’ll probably say or do the exact opposite in 5… 4… 3… 2…
Here’s where the love affair reached a climax:
MAHER: I am available to the Rand Paul campaign, but not if I don’t think you’re seeing [the climate change] issue realistically.
PAUL: I think the best way to do this is, [pretending to lose audio feed] Bill I think you’re fading out here. I’m not sure I can hear youre question. Um, no I’ll give you the straight poop on this.
No, no he won’t.
PAUL: There’s abundant evidence that carbon is increasing and has increased since the industrial age, all I ask for is that the solution has to be a balanced solution, and that you have to account for jobs and jobs lost by regulation. And I’m not against regulation, I think the environment has been cleaned up dramatically through regulations on emissions as well as clean water over the last 40 or 50 years, but I don’t wanna shut down all forms of energy such that thousands and thousands of people lose jobs. Plus, we’re a growing population and as we grow, we need more energy, and maybe cleaner energy will supplant less clean energy over time and it already is, but I don’t think shutting down dramatically one form of energy is a good idea for an economy.
MAHER: Well, that sounds like you’re pretty open to renewable energy, which is great because you know when you use the job excuse, I mean the truth is that new forms of technology create jobs, not destroy jobs. Wouldn’t you agree with that?
PAUL: Yeah, here’s a good example of how we can work together on it. I have a new bill that’s gonna be coming out in the next month or so that’s going to be called The Deregulation of Alternative Fuels. So I’m for trying to get the government out of the way of converting their trucks from diesel to natural gas, or from gasoline to ethanol, try to get the government outta there and let the marketplace take care of this…
You know what this bill probably is?… CONTINUE READING
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30 responses to Bill Maher And The Far-Left Continue To Get Suckered Into Standing With Rand
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tracey marie November 18th, 2014 at 08:25
rand is trying to change his messaging without changing his views…in other words he is lying. His father, a nut case at least stood by his beliefs.
tracey marie November 18th, 2014 at 09:25
rand is trying to change his messaging without changing his views…in other words he is lying. His father, a nut case at least stood by his beliefs.
Mainah November 18th, 2014 at 08:44
I thought Maher was suppose to be wicked smart? Holy crap! Could you imagine if Rand was President?
I just threw up a little.
Mainah November 18th, 2014 at 09:44
I thought Maher was suppose to be wicked smart? Holy crap! Could you imagine if Rand was President?
I just threw up a little.
MIAtheistGal November 18th, 2014 at 08:45
How can smart people be bamboozled so by Rand Paul? If Maher supports Paul for president, I will have lost all respect for him and his opinions.
MIAtheistGal November 18th, 2014 at 09:45
How can smart people be bamboozled so by Rand Paul? If Maher supports Paul for president, I will have lost all respect for him and his opinions.
searambler November 18th, 2014 at 09:10
Maher is an ass. Always has been. Extremists on either end of the spectrum have blind spots big enough to drive a bus through.
Senator Aqua Buddha is a smarmy, unctuous, self-serving toad. A human wind-sock. Blowing whichever way his audience at the moment is leaning. He’s a serial liar. He has as much of a chance getting the Republican party nomination as I do.
Spirit of America November 18th, 2014 at 18:30
“Extremists on either end of the spectrum have blind spots big enough to drive a bus through.”
so very true
searambler November 18th, 2014 at 10:10
Maher is an ass. Always has been. Extremists on either end of the spectrum have blind spots big enough to drive a bus through.
Senator Aqua Buddha is a smarmy, unctuous, self-serving toad. A human wind-sock. Blowing whichever way his audience at the moment is leaning. He’s a serial liar. He has as much of a chance getting the Republican party nomination as I do.
Spirit of America November 18th, 2014 at 19:30
“Extremists on either end of the spectrum have blind spots big enough to drive a bus through.”
so very true
anothertoothpick November 18th, 2014 at 09:56
Ronald Ray-gun, like Paul believed in smaller government too.
He said one thing and did another.
From Office of Personnel Management records and Treasury records, one can see that Ronald Reagan greatly increased the size and spending of the federal government. When he took office in 1981, there were approximately 2,875,000 federal employees, and when he left office in 1989, there were 3,113,000, for an increase of 238,000.
The national debt went from $848 billion to more than $2.6 trillion.
None of this sounds like smaller government.
Ronald Reagan knew how to talk about smaller government, but he really knew how to grow it exponentially!
anothertoothpick November 18th, 2014 at 10:56
Ronald Ray-gun, like Paul believed in smaller government too.
He said one thing and did another.
From Office of Personnel Management records and Treasury records, one can see that Ronald Reagan greatly increased the size and spending of the federal government. When he took office in 1981, there were approximately 2,875,000 federal employees, and when he left office in 1989, there were 3,113,000, for an increase of 238,000.
The national debt went from $848 billion to more than $2.6 trillion.
None of this sounds like smaller government.
Ronald Reagan knew how to talk about smaller government, but he really knew how to grow it exponentially!
R.J. Carter November 18th, 2014 at 10:30
Not in favor of reaching across the aisle, eh?
Mainah November 18th, 2014 at 10:31
Paul waffles as bad as Kerry.
R.J. Carter November 18th, 2014 at 11:30
Not in favor of reaching across the aisle, eh?
Mainah November 18th, 2014 at 11:31
Paul waffles as bad as Kerry.
Bunya November 18th, 2014 at 14:05
I think Maher is coddling Rand Paul because he’s the only republican willing to appear on his show. Rand is saying things the liberals want to hear and Maher is saying things Rand Paul wants to hear, with the result being just plain pandering, no facts.
mmaynard119 November 18th, 2014 at 18:15
Many Republcans and RWNJ’s appear on with Maher. Most recently he had on Jack Kingston, Rep from Georgia, who had nothing interesting to say. Usually Maher has one RW on his panel each show.
Bunya November 18th, 2014 at 15:05
I think Maher is coddling Rand Paul because he’s the only republican willing to appear on his show. Rand is saying things the liberals want to hear and Maher is saying things Rand Paul wants to hear, with the result being just plain pandering, no facts.
mmaynard119 November 18th, 2014 at 19:15
Many Republcans and RWNJ’s appear on with Maher. Most recently he had on Jack Kingston, Rep from Georgia, who had nothing interesting to say. Usually Maher has one RW on his panel each show.
Kick Frenzy November 18th, 2014 at 15:21
Rand Paul is an untrustworthy mouthpiece of wishy washy dumbassery.
Bill Maher, while smart in some ways, is also an idiot who doesn’t seem to hold to a central belief as much as he does to either ratings or being able to yell at someone.
Also, I would’ve liked to have read more of the story, but the link goes to a “Members Only” article on daily Banter and I’m not in the mood to pay to read half a story.
Spirit of America November 18th, 2014 at 18:29
“I’m not in the mood to pay to read half a story.”
I agree. I commented before on having to go to other sites to read a full story here, I simply don’t do it, won’t click through.
“You know what this bill probably is?…”
That is either hiding from people here a bad guess, or a pure money grab.
Kick Frenzy November 18th, 2014 at 22:36
Probably just an oversight.
If someone is registered with a website, they wouldn’t think twice about whether non-paying eyes would have to do anything to get through to a story they had no problem seeing.
It’s annoying, but I don’t sense any real conspiracy.
Kick Frenzy November 18th, 2014 at 16:21
Rand Paul is an untrustworthy mouthpiece of wishy washy dumbassery.
Bill Maher, while smart in some ways, is also an idiot who doesn’t seem to hold to a central belief as much as he does to either ratings or being able to yell at someone.
Also, I would’ve liked to have read more of the story, but the link goes to a “Members Only” article on daily Banter and I’m not in the mood to pay to read half a story.
Spirit of America November 18th, 2014 at 19:29
“I’m not in the mood to pay to read half a story.”
I agree. I commented before on having to go to other sites to read a full story here, I simply don’t do it, won’t click through.
“You know what this bill probably is?…”
That is either hiding from people here a bad guess, or a pure money grab.
Kick Frenzy November 18th, 2014 at 23:36
Probably just an oversight.
If someone is registered with a website, they wouldn’t think twice about whether non-paying eyes would have to do anything to get through to a story they had no problem seeing.
It’s annoying, but I don’t sense any real conspiracy.
viva_democracy November 18th, 2014 at 15:50
I’m not fooled. Rand only says what each crowd wants to hear. That’s because the media isn’t putting any real focus on him. If they were, like they do with Hillary, than everyone would know how much of a liar and flip-flopper Rand really is.
runner_runner November 18th, 2014 at 16:50
I’m not fooled. Rand only says what each crowd wants to hear. That’s because the media isn’t putting any real focus on him. If they were, like they do with Hillary, than everyone would know how much of a liar and flip-flopper Rand really is.
FDRliberal November 18th, 2014 at 18:32
Aside from foreign affairs, Rand Paul is as right-wing as they come on a slew of issues such as healthcare, the environment, abortion, energy, marriage equality, gun control and immigration. But Bill Maher has always had a libertarian side, especially visible when he had his ABC show Politically Incorrect, so this on-air cuddling with Rand is unfortunately not a great surprise.
FDRliberal November 18th, 2014 at 19:32
Aside from foreign affairs, Rand Paul is as right-wing as they come on a slew of issues such as healthcare, the environment, abortion, energy, marriage equality, gun control and immigration. But Bill Maher has always had a libertarian side, especially visible when he had his ABC show Politically Incorrect, so this on-air cuddling with Rand is unfortunately not a great surprise.