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Trump Campaign Manager: “I Can’t Support Someone Who Lies For A Living”

Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway did the “friendly face-off” with HBO’s Bill Maher this past Friday night.

Maher and Conway are friends of over 20 years, and it shows it the back and forth.

Via Huffington Post:

Maher welcomed Conway by telling her she is “enabling pure evil,” and spent part of the segment calling out false things Trump has said. The comedian joked, “I don’t have time to go through all of his lies, we only have an hour.”

But Conway, a “Real Time” veteran, had plenty of counterarguments ready. She accused Maher of cherrypicking examples, and, after pointing out that Hillary Clinton is falling in the polls, said, “I actually think we’re going to win, Bill. You know it. You feel it. I think you’re getting nervous.”

“Oh, I am getting nervous,” Maher quipped, “but it’s not because Trump is good. It’s because people are stupid.”

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Bill Maher: New Rule – Laboratories of Democracy

In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher makes the case that, if Republicans are going to call states the “laboratories of democracy,” they first have to stop replicating failed economic experiments.

Maher gleefully points out that California, under a Democratic governor and state legislature, has raised taxes on the wealthy and reversed the state’s financial fortunes. The Golden State is now the 6th largest economy in the world.

Meanwhile, Kansas and Louisiana, doing their version of “trickle-down” economics hoping the wealthy would take tax cuts and energize those state’s economies, are on the financial skids.

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Bill Maher On Trump Campaign: “This Was The Week It Ended”

Bill Maher and his panel on HBO’s Real Time took a look at GOP White House hopeful Donald Trump’s drop in the polls this week and what the causes were: attacks on Trump University judge, and selfish “I was right” messages coming after the deadly Orlando nightclub shooting.

Said Maher:

“I see it as, this was the week it ended. And by the way I don’t think I’m the only one, because most of the Republicans who were caught on camera this week basically said, ‘I don’t want to talk about it.’ I mean they dashed into the elevator. … The judge thing looked selfish. There is no constituency for Trump University except Donald Trump…And then the first thing out of his mouth after Orlando was, ‘I was right. I was right about terrorism.’ He looks like what he is — a narcissist.”

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Bill Maher: Hillary Did Win “Fair And Square”

Bill Maher and panelists discuss Bernie Sanders’ accomplishments, and Hillary Clinton’s decisive victory in the primary campaign in this clip from June 10, 2016.

Maher celebrated Sanders’ campaign, but reminded that Clinton did win “fair and square.”

“It can’t be the case … where it’s fair when you win and rigged when you lose,” he added. “It’s often seen that when someone has big crowds, that that means something … [but] it’s who shows up in the voting booth.”

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Dan Savage Explains Anti-Transgender Laws To Ann Coulter

Last night on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, author/radio host Dan Savage spoke truth to the current spate of anti-transgender laws popping up in state legislatures now – much to Ann Coulter’s chagrin.

This is how Savage put a point on it:

“They couldn’t demagogue anymore about gays and lesbians because too many of us are out and too many people know us so they took the same old script – oh they’re recruiting children, preying on children, threatening children, creeping in bathrooms. That was what they said about gay men 40 years ago.

“And they’re just taking that now and applying that to trans women and it’s bullsh*t and trans women and men use bathrooms all over the country and have for-ever. And they have no cases to point to where a trans person has exploited a civil rights protection to prey on a child.”

So glad to finally see someone lay that fact out there. Go Dan!

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Comedy Gold: Bill Maher On Sarah Palin’s Endorsement Of Donald Trump

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Trump & GumpPosted by Bill Maher on Monday, January 25, 2016

Bill Maher gets it all SO right as he recaps the wild, rambling endorsement by former half-term governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, of GOP White House hopeful Donald Trump.

This is great.

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Bill Maher On Ted Cruz and “New York Values”

Bill Maher and his guests – Cornel West, Nicolle Wallace and Ralph Reed – discuss Ted Cruz’s comments about “New York values” during the GOP Debate in this clip from January 15, 2016.

Via Raw Story:

“The Republicans who constantly lambaste Obama about dividing America, and then creates smaller and smaller circles about what really is America, “the HBO host said. “Chicago? No that’s thug city. And Hawaii — part of Kenya. And LA is full of q*eers. You know, tell me what New York values are because I don’t know.”

“I was wondering how long after 9/11 before politicians could goad shitkickers into hating New York again,” Maher stated. “And I guess that’s the answer, 15 years, and now you can shit on New York again. Because you certainly couldn’t have said that two years after 9/11.”

Lecturer and activist Cornel West added, “I will admit that Brother Trump, he did tell the truth in terms of there are beautiful people in New York City — so anybody can stumble onto the truth, you know what I mean?”

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Video Of The Day: Bill Maher On Economic Facts

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Bill Maher pulls out facts in response to Republicans who say they want to “take our county back.”

Back to what, exactly?

I should note, and regular readers know this to be true, I’ve been saying exactly this for years now.

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Bill Maher & Panelists Take Down Anti-Gay Kim Davis’ Arguments

Bill Maher and panelists Salman Rushdie, Linda Chavez and Michael Moynihan dicuss the controversy surrounding Kentucky clerk Kim Davis and her refusal to issue marriage certificates to same-sex couples.

At one point Chavez tries to explain some Christians are upset because until 10 years ago marriage was always between two people of the opposite sex in the Bible. Maher corrects her saying not so, that in the Bible marriage was polygamy for centuries. Chavez counters with “Ok, but always, always between people of the opposite sex.”

That fell flat.

Best line was by Rushdie (who was famously targeted by Muslims for his novel The Satanic Verses to the point of death threats):

“One of the things that is a classic trope of the religious bigot is that while they are denying people their rights, they claim that their rights are being denied. While they are persecuting people, they claim to be persecuted. While they are behaving colossally offensively, they claim to be the offended party. It’s an upside-down world. Everybody does this. Everybody does this. So, this is just a trope that they are stealing from other bigots.”