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    Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition

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    Bill Maher: "Usually Girls Are Haters"

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    Bill Maher, Dave Chappelle: A Pair Of Punchlines

    Did Bill Maher Get Kicked Off The View After Telling Sherri To Go To Bellevue?

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    10/03/09

    In reply to Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition
    Herman Melville: Moby Dickhead
    Friedrich Nietzsche: Where to start?
    The Auntichrist
    Ecce Homophobic
    Thus Babbled Zarathustra
    Beyond Good and Evil and Intelligibility
    Pretty Much No Meditations
    Twilight of the Idle
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition
    "Quitter: A story o' quittin'"
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition
    Thomas Paine: "A Complete Lack of Common Sense"
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition
    Steinbeck: "Of Moose and Ma'am"
    John Irving: "The World According to GOP"
    Tom Wolfe: "The Electoral Kool-Aid Batshit Test"
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition
    Barack Obama: The Audacity of a Dope
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition
    C.S. Lewis: "The Lyin', the Witch, and the Wardrobe."
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition
    John F. Kennedy: "Profiles Discouraged"
    Ernest Hemingway: "A Farewell to Hermes"
    Hunter S. Thompson: "Fear and Bloviating on the Campaign Trail"
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    10/03/09

    @Glib and Bitchy:
    Hemingway: "A Farewell to Charms"
    Faulkner: "Hoedown Moses" "The Clown and the (Ethics Investigation) Jury" "Intruder on the Trust"
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition
    Thomas Wolfe: You Can't Go to Nome Again
    Tom Wolfe: The Right's Fluff
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition
    William Faulkner: The Crowned and the (Snow) Flurry
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    10/03/09

    @katekate is squared: "As I Lay Lying"
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition
    Raymond Carver: "So Few Neiman Marcuses So Close To Home"
    Thackeray: "Vanity. No, That's It, Just Vanity"
    Wharton: "The Customer of the Country Beauty Parlor"

    Bonus: McCain and Mrs. Batshit
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    10/03/09

    @stew:
    Or the Biblical Version: McCain and UnAble
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    10/03/09

    @futuremouse: haaaa.

    "The Lyin', The Bitch and Her Wardrobe."
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition
    Oh my god Tom Friedman is such a dork and I heart him.
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    10/03/09

    @gabbiana: Awkward High Five!
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition
    Charles Dickens offers many possibilities:

    "The Sale of Two Titties"
    "The Nitwit Papers"
    "Nut House"
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition
    Stephen King-"Twit"
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition
    "Braindead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh
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    10/03/09

    @seattlesue:

    Ayn Rand: The Figurehead
    Jonathan Swift: Gullible's Travels
    Marcel Proust: No Remembrance of Things Past

    This is fun!
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    10/03/09

    @futuremouse: Tolstoy: War and Fleece.
    Bronte: Mothering Heights
    Wilde: The Picture of Pull out and Pray.
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    10/03/09

    @seattlesue:
    Ernest Hemingway: The Pit-bull and the Sea
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    10/03/09

    @curiousgeorgiana:
    Zora Neale Hurston: Her Eyes Were Watching God (And Russia)
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    10/03/09

    @seattlesue:
    Dostoevsky: The Idiot
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Bill Maher Brings Us Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: The Jane Austen Edition
    Worth noting you can now also add Maher to the group of celebrities who are vocally out against Polanski.
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    10/03/09

    @MyNameIsChris:
    Yep. I know his attitude towards women is oftentimes lacking but he was pretty adamant about it last night.
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    10/03/09

    @MyNameIsChris: I was surprised but glad to see that. He's not always all that progressive when it comes to this issue, but, glad to see someone be that outspoken.
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    10/03/09

    @ides: Yeah... I don't have enough evidence either way to get into a debate about whether he dislikes women... I'm certain you can point to many things that show he does. Though I'm sure you could point to just as many that show he dislikes men just as much. I get the feeling he dislikes most people, in general...
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    10/03/09

    @MyNameIsChris: I think he often is pretty sexist. I remember he commented when Hillary Clinton did something: "Isn't that just like a woman!". I mean, nobody talks about Hitler, Stalin, Bush, etc., saying: isn't that just like a man"! I was happy to hear that he spoke out so clearly against Polanski.
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    10/03/09

    @Highsmith: Unfortunately there's no standard "joke" about just like a man. I know, that's a whole other issue... I HAVE seen him make jokes equating arguments between (male) world leaders as competitions over who has the biggest dick or other standard issue things you'd say to explain a man's actions. Part of his comedy is certainly saying shit that people don't really say - in a somewhat ironic sense. We could have an argument about whether that's right in any situation at all, and I would totally understand if people don't care for it. But it makes me laugh. He's been making non stop black jokes about Obama since the election (he's about the only person who does it) and I certainly don't presume he's racist or doesn't like Obama

    For every moment I've heard cited as showing he doesn't have respect for women, I've seen other moments where he shows - with his actions on the show - that he does. I think the overall message is stronger than a few choice soundbites that were tailor made to get a laugh.
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    10/03/09

    @MyNameIsChris: I agree. He seems to really enjoy, respect, and consider as equals the women he has on his show that are intelligent. I know that's awkwardly phrased but he does have idiots of both sexes on, and seems to disdain them equally.
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    10/03/09

    @MyNameIsChris: I think he is one of those men who is intellectually down with the cause but hasn't bothered to check his own privilege or evaluate the language he uses. He hates people who disagree with him regardless of their gender, but he uses gender-based insults when they are not relevant. I grew up watching Politically Incorrect so have a real soft-spot in my heart for him and generally agre, but sometimes he says things that make me go "hmmmm..."
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    10/03/09

    @KATE!: I think that's a good point. I grew up watching Politically Incorrect too, so I'm in the same boat. I find him entertaining, frequently funny and I like that's he's somewhat of an ultra lib who's willing to attack them when they do stupid shit. I find that honorable and lacking in far too many partisan people.

    I think he knows exactly what kind of language he uses and I think he does it for the gags. I think he believes he can get away with it because he's seen as an ultra liberal and audiences assume he must be making tongue in cheek jokes. Surely there are people who don't see it the same way and get pissed. I imagine that just makes him laugh as well.

    I don't always agree with him and he can tend to crazy on certain issues, but I like that a show like his actually exists. And the fact that he hosts a entertainment program that regularly has women on, (for their brains, and thoughts on issues) certainly beats virtually every other late night entertainment style program that have women on 99% of the time to simply look sexy in a dress and promote something.

    Or maybe it's just stoner solidarity.Who knows? Ha!
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