Bill Maher and guests Salman Rushdie, Michael Moynihan and Amy Holmes discussed the 2016 Democratic National Convention during Thursday’s special edition of Real Time. The episode was preceded by a repeat due to Hillary Clinton’s speech running long and began about 27 minutes later than scheduled.
Maher noted that Clinton had just become the first woman nominated to run for President by a major political party in this country, and that elsewhere in the world they were congratulating us and welcoming us to the 1960s.
“First, lady Ghostbusters, and now this. America’s on a roll!” he snarked.
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Maher talked for a while about the uproar caused by GOP nominee Donald Trump suggesting Russian hackers look for Clinton’s deleted emails. It’s the latest incendiary comment Trump has walked back; this time Trump went with an “I was being sarcastic” walk-back.
“It’s like Oscar Wilde is running for President,” Maher said, suggesting next time Trump’s being sarcastic he use air quotes so that people will know.
One night earlier, President Obama gave a keynote address. “He nailed it,” Maher said. “It was an amazing speech or, as Fox News put it: Black Man Steals Show.”
In one of the most memorable exchanges during his panel, Rushdie acknowledged that it’s not fashionable to love Clinton but that he does adding, “I know what it’s like … being demonized and vilified” for decades.
In the late ’80s, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to assassinate Rushdie after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses. Rushdie said he respected Clinton for coming across as strong as she does despite all the hate steered her way.
Maher and all his panelists gave Clinton props for having elliptically addressed her husband’s infidelity during her acceptance speech, when she mentioned them having been through good times and some heartaches.
“It is good to point to the elephant in the room,” said Rushdie in a bit of understatement.
“I always thought they had a real marriage. F*cking around can live side-by-side with real love,” Maher said. “Bill Clinton is a dog, and he loves her. Europeans can do that – we should be able to do it too.”
The frequently misogynistic Maher thinks men should be able to cheat on their wives…. who would have thought?
There was nothing misogynistic about what he said. He’s referring to open marriages/relationships. It IS possible to love and be committed to someone while being sexually active with other partners. No, it’s not for everyone, but neither is monogamy.
The fact IS that men do. They have been doing it in Europe openly forever. In America they do it behind closed doors. He is simply stating the facts. Of course you probably want to blame him for being the messenger.
Gee whiz, and Donald Trump doesn’t?
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He was not speaking about marriage, he was speaking about the Clinton marriage specifically, and only. You’re either incapable of comprehending sentences, you choose not to understand because if fuels you’re unfounded hate, or you just have too much time on your hands.
You are apparently unaware of the fact that men and women have differing sex drives, and women frequently lose interest before their husbands do. In many such cases, the wives tell their husbands, “Do what you want, but I don’t wanna know anything.” It is entirely likely that the Clintons had such an arrangement until the GOP decided to try and destroy him by accusing him of doing something that almost every other President going back to Washington himself had done. The fact that they remain married after 45 years while many of his detractors are on their third and even fourth marriages speaks volumes about the GOP’s innate hypocrisy.
“F*cking around can live side-by-side with real love,” Maher said. “Bill Clinton is a dog, and he loves her. Europeans can do that – we should be able to do it too.”
Pretty sure it’s poor behaviour towards someone you allegedly love if they’re not happy about it, irrespective of where you live. In Europe many of us think little of people who cheat too; we just seem to have slightly fewer public figures who weigh in against it & then get caught out.
The all woman “Ghostbusters” is a dud
Correct it’s a flop financially it’s going to lose money. But that doesn’t matter it is important we celebrate the feminist power of Lady Ghostbusters. They broke the glass ceiling the same way Hillary did. If you don’t buy a ticket to see them you are a sexist and a racist. Same goes if you don’t vote for Hillary you are a bad person if you don’t vote for her.
Ghostbusters was a flop, same of Hillary– her speech to conclude the convention was soporific and disappointing.
She is a phony who had to fill seats in the convention with actors hired on Craigs list. Bernie’s people walked out on her and she lost the Democratic base because she and the DNC are Crooked.
Clinton is a crook should be in jail we know that’s not happening
Agreed. I’ve been saying, since I saw this film, that everyone needs a sober viewing of Clinton Cash that premiered a Canne. It’s on YouTube for free, right now. NYT and WaPo reporting even back up the facts.
Because if you remain object, you’ll be racking your brain about how a glorified “initiative” that has given only 10% of it’s profits to “charity,” has managed to do nothing other than lined the pockets of the Clinton’s and their various international businessman friends, making them rich as hell. And how she escaped jail, as you and I both know.