Bill Maher: Sarah Palin and the GOP Unreality Bubble

It's been said, and perhaps rightly so, that nowadays there is no such thing as privacy. With Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and more, there's little reason to expect that anything you say will be kept in confidence. Particularly in the realm of politics, of course.

Bill Maher's "epilogue" to his New Rules on the May 28th episode of his show was right on. While pointing a great deal at politicians, it's something that everyone should remember in this data-everywhere world. As he said, "Even when you're just at Wal-Mart in your pajamas buying condoms, someone is taking a picture of it and putting it on a website called 'People at Wal-Mart Buying Condoms in Their Pajamas.'"

Here's the full transcript, and the video is below:

Jesus once said that there was nothing hidden that would not some day be revealed, but if he was alive today, and walked on water, it would be instantly on YouTube between a skateboard accident and a turtle biting a baby's ass. And the first comment would be "fag."

Even when you're just at Wal-Mart in your pajamas buying condoms, someone is taking a picture of it and putting it on a website called "People at Wal-Mart Buying Condoms in Their Pajamas." And Fergie, Fergie, Fergie -- whenever you're doing something shady in a hotel room, of course someone is filming it. Also be aware that, without makeup, you don't look anything like you do in the Black Eyed Peas.

And politically, it's even more ridiculous to think you can get away with a lie: Richard Blumenthal, running for the Senate in Connecticut, saying he was in Vietnam when he wasn't? This isn't camp, where you can tell a lie and no one will know back home. The Army keeps records!

Or John McCain saying, " I never considered myself a maverick," which of course prompted an avalanche of video, e-mails, letters and probably telegrams of McCain bragging that he was a maverick. There's video of everything, so to think you can get away with making a speech and just pulling stuff out of your ass, you'd have to be an egomaniac, a sociopath, or a world-class moron. Which brings me to Sarah Palin.

Now, last week Sarah said she knows what the Gulf states are going through now because, "I have lived and worked through that Exxon Valdez oil spill." Oh, please she 25, living in another part of the state that didn't see any oil. She "lived and worked" through Exxon Valdez the same way Christie Brinkley lived and worked through the Iranian hostage crisis. But she got away with it because she lied in the one place where it's still perfectly acceptable to lie -- inside the Republican bubble. It's where facts don't matter, because no one ever hears from that other side inconvenient called reality. 24 days into the oil spill, Fox News' Brit Hume said, "Where's the oil? You don't see it on the shore" -- like it's a hoax by pelicans to get free baths.

Within that bubble, people think they can get away with anything -- hiking the Appalachian trail? Getting your gay hooker from Rentboy.com? But they can't -- no one can anymore. If you don't believe me, text Tiger Woods and ask him.

And, speaking of hound dogs, our old friend John Edwards is looking for a plea deal this month, because he said he didn't have sex with that woman, and then they found video of him going down on her when she was six-months pregnant. Senator, there's got to be a simpler way to hide your face from the camera. Don't you have a hat?

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Bill Maher: Climate Change Deniers Are "So Stupid They Make ME Question Evolution"

On "Real Time" Friday night Bill Maher raked climate change skeptics over the coals, particularly those in the GOP, insisting that they must "stop pretending climate change is a future problem." He showed images of Australia with its current host of wildfires, and wondered how those in Southern California would react to such a vista (see above).

That's in reference to the fact that much more severe wildfire seasons have been predicted for California due to global climate change. It's already clear that California has been in a drought for some time.

I think, one problem with the issue, is that people continue to call it "global warming." It's global climate change, not global warming, and people need to get that straight. Some parts of the world will get warmer, some colder, but all will face much more severe weather patterns.

And that's another thing: don't confuse weather with climate. Just because it's cold today, or even colder in a winter season, doesn't mean the climate isn't changing.

Maher first target was Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), who has previously referred to global climate change as the "greatest hoax." Of course, Inhofe has no science background.

Maher also targeted Republicans who, while no longer insisting that the issue of global warming "needed more study," now insist that it's "probably too late anyhow." An example was GOP Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), who has claimed that we will simply "adapt" to massive climate change.

You right-wingers realize that such adaptation is the sort of thing that evolution would account for? And that evolution would therefore weed out those who are not genetically predisposed to adaptation (meaning a heck of a lot of people would die).

Maher said: "These people are so stupid they make ME question evolution," which is particularly humorous due to his atheist leanings.

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Bill Moyers: Universal Health Care is "Representative of a Deeply Moral Society"

Bill Moyers appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night. When asked about health care reform, he made some statements which should make those against Universal Health Care and Health Care Reform embarrassed, or even ashamed of themselves.

• I find it hard, Bill, to understand why this country has not embraced the notion of health care as a common human need to which everyone should have access regardless of their economic resources.

• They (the Republicans) are totally against health care reform. Why shouldn't they be? They don't want to give Barack Obama the greatest progressive breakthrough in domestic policy since Lyndon Johnson and Medicare. It's to their interest as a party (i.e., it's not about anything for the GOP but politics) not to let Obama get an advantage that will help re-elect him in 2012.

• We are the only Western democracy that has not embraced Universal Health Care as a means of social justice. Our health care system is run by the drug industry, the health insurance industry, and Wall Street. Which means, a relative handful of unaccountable executives and anonymous investors, whose primary interest is in increasing the value of the company share, and raising profits. That's their interest. Now that's a good business model, because it's made a lot of money for the people who runs thos industries, Wall Street, drugs, and health insurance, but it's not the way we should decide who lives and who dies, and who suffers and who gets well; that's just not the way.

• We're all in the same boat. That would be a metaphor. And that's the moral, that's the moral ... The moral message that America would send by adopting care as a human need to which everybody should have access, the moral message would be that we we are in this together, that we care about each other. All of us who have means will give up something in order to make sure everybody has health care. I don't want to live in a country where I am on a hospital floor getting an operation that costs $25,000, and two floors above me someone is being denied that same surgery because he or she has no money. What kind of a civilization is that? What kind of moral order is that? It's not.

• Some things do not have a price tag on it; they have a value system attached to it. And health care for everyone, Universal Health Care for every citizen, irrespective of your resources, is representative of a deeply moral society. What do I mean by moral? A society that cares for the other. That's what makes us moral.

• [...] we need this because we're a decent country.

Those on the right against health care for all should answer this question: if you are against abortion because it kills unborn fetuses, and call it "right to life," what about the 20,000 people that statistics say die every year because they are denied health care? What about their right to life?

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Maher: Here's What a Death Panel Would Look Like

With the lunatic fringe on the right ranting about non-existent "death panels," Bill Maher decided to show how such panels should be run: like a game show.

It should be noted that there are "death panels." They're called the insurance companies who routinely deny care to policyholders.

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