Bill Maher Says You're Too Stupid to Understand the Issues

I was going to leave this exact comment! I agree

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please, tell us how he's either: a) lies OR b) fake

Bill Maher is neither a liar nor a fake. He's not a politician. He is a comedian who is extremely astute and straight forward. Because of his honest opinions he's considered to be politically incorrect which is a title he treasures. No telling what realitybytes problem is but it's certainly not his clear thinking.

so your saying that comedians dont lie? or maybe you believe everything you hear on TV. And also, having an honest opinion doesn't make you politically incorrect. Saying what people will not or dont ant to hear because its not PC makes it Politically incorrect.

no thanks. I watch his show with my filtered brain & knowing some of the facts. I dont take his word as gospel.

"so your saying that comedians don't lie?" is quiet a generalization so no, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that since his show several years ago, "Politically Correct", I've watched him and appreciate his dry wit and his courage to tell it like it is. He can be a little harsh at times so naturally he offends some people, however I've never caught him misrepresenting the facts. So if you don't like Maher you're probably not alone but I and many others like and agree with him. Maybe you don't like him because he offends you but when you call someone a liar you need to prove your case.

Especially the Muslim world listening to their brainwashed Imams.

agreed

I've known a lot of people who are academically intelligent but life-wise stupid. It's disgusting when someone goes through life thinking he knows everything when he's actually clueless about what's really going on.

More people vote for American Idol than vote for political leaders. That is my one sentence response. :)

lol! How about a Republican that told me: Obama made the swine flu to steal Mexico's OIL!!! --Bask in the Crazy!

Untrue. There are more VOTES for American Idol, but that does not mean there are more VOTERS. Since in American Politics it is one person, ONE vote and in American Idol it is one person, AS MANY VOTES AS THEY CAN CAST in an hour. The math does not support that more PEOPLE vote for American Idol, only that more votes are cast.

Sorry, just wanted to clarify a misconception that I too had.

Okie Dokie, more people are interesting in voting for American Idol than for political leaders (and are willing to pay for for it - that is what kills me). :)

Oh, and what makes you think it is one person one vote in American politics? I think Diebold has proven that is no longer necessarily the case. ;)

Good point, on bot counts..lol...

To my fellow countrymen:
relatif too tha edukashun leval uv tha rest uv tha wurld, yea americas purdy stoopid

To the rest of the world:
Education is the key to fixing this fault and thankfully Dems have included tax cuts as a pseudo tuition reimbursement for secondary education. Thanks to this application of the Stimulus, I was able to finish college and still afford food.

America is overrun by a blinding sense of patriotism that makes the average citizen/sheep easily herded in which ever direction the talking heads on TV care to send them. This patriotism is instilled by movies, lowest common denominator politicians(Palin Palin Palin!!!) and an unspoken racial biased against the current President; that drives the average citizen to believe that EVERYTHING is OWED to them, that the American Dream is their sovereign RIGHT and that the only reason that they do not have it is because of foreigners diluting revenues or the radical Left Wing Conspiracy.

The moment the inbreed south, the spoon-fed north and the pipe dream west begins taking personal responsibility for their lives, their careers, their education and their piece of the American Dream; we will see a change in America, and not a moment sooner.

While I agree with a lot of your sentiment, especially the secondary education issues. The idea that Bill Maher is pushing is that of a Benevolent Dictator, which in the end is a Dictator. NOT one single Dictator has ever ended Benevolent. It belies his own intelligence to support such a concept, that HE can decide for ME because he is smarter. This makes him a Dictator, and historically evidenced, this makes it evil and NOT in the best interest of the people at all.

You hit the nail on the head. EDUCATION, for those of us who agree with concepts like Universal Healthcare, Free Secondary Education, it is up to us to EDUCATE those others. Persuasion is always preferable to coercion. To force others to do a thing shows a limited intelligence and even less patience on our part. Rather than a lack of intelligence on another's.

Also...more education does not equal more intelligence. Some of the smartest people I have ever met have NO formal education at all.

Someone voted me down without debating any of the points? Let's have a discussion.

u tel em billy bob ray jackson johnson levi lynchmen!

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I think this is the stupidest 3 1/2 minutes I've ever spent. Or it would have been if I had watched it all.

Well put. The TeaBagger's mantra seems to be: "If you can't think of anything intelligible then just say anything at all as loudly as you can."

I think the Internet is going to be a miracle drug for world stupidity.

Yeah, because it's worked so good so far.

I don't know if you're being serious or not but think of how children all over the world, even in the jungles of Africa, are having access to the rest of the world. People in third world countries who would never have had the opportunity for an education are now graduating from universities via the Internet. The current generation of elders are able to stay in touch with others while keeping up with instant national, local and world news. The list goes on and so yes, I believe that the computer and the Internet is already a wonder drug against ignorance and it's just the beginning.

Reading your response I'm reminded of those new commercials where Ellen Page (Juno) is going around what seems to be her hometown and is seeing how technology is advancing the lives of the people there. The problem is we all know damn well that crap on those ads is far from average across most of America, much less the jungles of Africa. Even with the far more extensive internet access that we have here we still have hellacious numbers of people who can't name their own senators (there's just too many), find Massachusetts on a map, or think Fox News is fair and balanced. But, truth be told, I am a bit of a pessimist. Even wonder drugs don't work for everybody.

I recently watched National Geographic about kids in Africa receiving lap tops. There is an organization funded by some wealthy people who have made it their mission to supply lap tops to children across the world. I also sometimes lean toward cynicism but sometimes things are not just "crap" so I try not to throw cold water on someone who is seeing the positive and bringing it to my attention.

The internet is the best invention for free porn and that's about it. Oh, and pirated music/movies/tv shows too. Other than that, it's mainly just opinions floating out there disguised as truth. Most people don't know where to look for good information, so I doubt it's the wonderful cure-all to human stupidity. The fact is, most people are stupid. Just because most people have the ability to be rational doesn't mean all people exercise it. Furthermore, there are just a lot of people who don't have this ability to begin with. That leaves a situation where the strong-minded dominate. That's the way it is and the way it will always be.

"Other than that, it's mainly just opinions floating out there disguised as truth. Most people don't know where to look for good information..."

Quite a few of them also can't tell the difference between opinion and fact. Commenting on blogs about their lack of journalistic objectivity and what not.

Dominate. A very telling choice of words.

I've head Maher speak of the 30% of this country who are sane.

Actually I would guess that Americans might be a little less ignorant than the rest of the world because of our wealth giving us more access to education and information over the past century. Also we have our political corruption but that is rampant over the rest of the world, sometimes too a higher degree. But while world wide stupidity and gullibility concerns me it's the uninformed and misinformed American listening too and helping to spread the hate and ignorance that Maher is talking about that makes me feel depressed and somewhat hopeless. How can we change this while so much attention and power is given too the politicians and conservative radicals who control the podiums and the airways? How can we make America less stupid than Maher has observed it too be?

Less time is by design, too many middle class kids with time on their hands going too college like they did in the sixties, and being all knowledgeable disturbed the elite's war in Vietnam......we must never let the commoner have less than 2 or 3 minimum wage jobs. Now is an absolute scary time for the elite, too have so many slaves out of work. My My what shall happen when they all want some cake or something like that.

Too little time for the middle-class and the semi-gifted, but too much time for others. The slave-holders are getting real picky about who does what work so that even jobs at Walmart require that one already know the job, or will get better with little time. Everyone must be a picture of health. Over 40 better be good at what they do. Jobs at the bottom require a good looking youth. People over 40 better have money for a face lift when they need it.

going down with the ship..thats pretty noble

As a general rule most people do not think profoundly enough to seperate factual from fictional information. That's why education is so important. It teaches us to challenge conventional thought and come to intelligent decisions. In this respect most undereducated and brain-washed Americans are easily swayed and ignorant of facts. In other words the greater portion of the population are intellectually incompetent or as Maher puts it, "stupid".

And should we not point out that in 8 years and 4 years of Reagan and Bush Sr. America went from number 1 in educated populace to 47th in the world. I think the dumbing down of America has been quite beneficial to the elite Rich Republicans and the wealthiest people at the top of the food chain.

Also non-thinkers scare easily which makes them rich fodder for the Republicans and the conservative talk show clowns.

You are absolutely right, they get steered in the direction the Rich are trying too steer them so they end up constantly voting against their best interest. wayseeker did you happen to read that crashing pilot in texas manifesto. It will freak you right the hell out. Sounds as if he was pretty much a progressive in his views and the tax collector was just an excuse for the way things are going.

I'll go read it now.

Don't forget to let me know what you thought of it!

I don't usually take the side of someone who seems to be acting like a maniac but this intelligent and well spoken man is an exception. Weren't we all on that airplane as it crashed into that corrupt and heartless government bureaucracy? He just happened to be our pilot. Thanks for suggesting it. I'll read it again although it's depressing and scary because it states the sad truth about our country. I didn't see in the article if he was hurt or not. It just said 3 people were injured. If he wasn't killed he probably will wish he was by the time the government gets through with him. A collection should be taken up across the country to pay for his legal defense.

I just read that he is presumed dead. I guess he got the last word after all.

He is dead, and he did seem quite intelligent and to prove he wasn't a nut like he will be branded could have easily killed his family. I hear the house burning was not much of an attempt to kill his family but a way to stop the IRS from taking it.

well were you not trying to hand our healthcare system to this same "corrupt and heartless government bureaucracy"....??

its the marijuana

Please explain to us how integrity & honor are missing from the White House.

More silliness. This is simply how speeches work. And did you not know that presidents have speech writers?

Note to others: If you don't want to watch this boring video, click thru to almost half-way and begin watching. The person who uploaded this video to Youtube took the liberty of adding sticky notes at around that point, spinning their *opinion* to the public.

ibrake, the two concerns that both you and the uploader of this video have seem to be:

1.) That Obama's speech had 1-2 minutes of introduction and setting of context before the message of the speech was delivered.
[That's how speeches go. Given the fact that you hate Obama, had he eliminated the introduction, you would be crying that his speech was too short.]

2.) That Obama shouldn't have spoken from Washington, but should've flown to Texas and delivered the speech from Ft. Hood.
[Why should he have gone there? What good would it have done? Should he get on a plane and visit every crisis? Don't you think it may have been *dangerous* for a President to visit an armed base where shootings have just taken place????]

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Bottom line: that is a FAILURE of an example of the White House having no honor or integrity. ROFL

Well sorry the fort hood shootings had to interrupt the great Obama's speech

That was the **purpose** of the speech. Do you live in a cave? Look at the headline: "Pres. Obama Addresses Fort Hood Mass Shooting." You don't know what you're talking about.

And thats what im trying to point out, This speech was supposed to be dedicated to that, but instead he starts out the speech with a shout out to someone who won an award.

He doesnt even give the incident its own new sentence

skip to the 2:00 minute mark

You're impossible. Fine! This is proof that integrity & honor are absent from the WH....

I'll go argue with a different brick wall now.

Actually, I would argue that you do. It does not matter if your education is academic or experience based, but you do need to have some education to have honor and integrity. Now the flip side of that, being highly educated does not guarantee one will have honor or integrity.

If I can add my two cents, it appears that at the beginning of the video that Obama is clearing away some small stuff to set up the talk about the big stuff. So he acknowledged someone who had won a nobel prize for being there, whoop de do. He didn't spend a lot of time on it, he just acknowledged the persons presence and moved on.

I agree and also the process of being educated allows one to see a broader view and understanding of the world which tends to create more compassion. The educated, formal or self, tend to view society from a whole and historical perspective. It makes them realize: "This too shall pass."

well did obama gave you what you wanted??

Not yet, but he's better than the other options.

How about Tiger Woods? How many women did he actually sleep with? Is he rehabilitated? Where is Tiger Woods? WHO CARES? When they dedicate whole segments to the sex of Tiger Woods, something is definitely wrong with mainstream media. What ever happened to the 'run-away bride'?

The list of 'who cares' is too long to list, yet they spin them anyway. People actually talk about such irrelevant subjects, as though it has anything to do with them, or America. It's amazing how people are willing to be spun, by titillating nonsense.