[Peace-discuss] Bill Maher's Statement to the Hardcore Right Wingers

[John W.]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 8:27 AM, LAURIE SOLOMON <LAURIE at advancenet.net>wrote:

>  Interestingly, this may be a bit of picking and choosing on both Maher's
> part as to what battles he is willing to be a progressive on as well as on
> the part of the person who posted the link. Depending on the particular
> issues at hand, Maher has been hardcore right wing on some and hard core
> left wing on others; he has never really been radical; at best, he has been
> a PC reformer/progressive and traditional Democratic liberal. He has been
> his most hardcore left on issues of social and racial justice.  He is closer
> to Biden than to Chomsky/Zinn/Kline or Bernie Sanders on most political and
> economic issues and sometimes to the right of Biden on law and order
> issues.  He definitely is neither a Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl , Pat Paulsen, or
> the Smothers Brothers when it comes to the consistency of his political
> stance across issues; however, he has been somewhat consistent within issue
> areas.
>
Hmmm...All this time I thought Bill Maher was just a standard,
garden-variety libertarian.




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>  *From:* peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net [mailto:
> peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] *On Behalf Of *Jenifer
> Cartwright
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 09, 2008 2:52 AM
> *To:* AWARE Peace Discuss; Neil Parthun
> *Subject:* Re: [Peace-discuss] Bill Maher's Statement to the Hardcore
> Right Wingers
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> Hey... great!!
>
>  --Jenifer
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> --- On *Sat, 11/8/08, Neil Parthun <lennybrucefan at gmail.com>* wrote:
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> From: Neil Parthun <lennybrucefan at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Bill Maher's Statement to the Hardcore Right
> Wingers
> To: "AWARE Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 8:14 PM
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> All -
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> Bill Maher on a recent ep of "Real Time"...
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> http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/real-time-hard-core-republican-base-stalke
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> Smile and keep fighting,
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>      Neil
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