"#OccupyLA: Insight Out News Interviews Bill Maher, David DeGraw and Derek Cressman" (video)

ows.org with video (16:36):

Insight Out News reports on day 37 of Occupy Los Angeles, includes interviews with Bill Maher, David DeGraw and Derek Cressman.

"Pot is the new gay"--Bill Maher and Ethan Nadelmann (video)

claw7man, video (08:03).

"WATCH: The routine that got Obama impersonator yanked off stage" (with video)

David Ferguson--MEDIAite with video (04:40):

Audience members at the Republican Leadership Conference last weekend were perfectly happy to laugh at Obama impersonator Reggie Brown when he was aiming racially-themed barbs at President Obama and the First Lady. However, when the comedian began to fire verbal missiles at the Republican contenders for 2012, his mic was cut and he was quickly escorted from the stage.

On last night’s “Real Time with Bill Maher”, Maher brought on Brown to let him finish his act. We think the Republicans may have cut his mic because they realized that the second half of the routine was actually going to be funny.

Watch the clip, via Mediaite, below:

"Bill Maher on Palin, Pot and Patriotism"

Tim Dickinson (Rolling Stone):

An extended interview with America's angriest satirist---Republicans prey on something deep in the American psyche. Steinbeck wrote – it must have been the Twenties or the Thirties – about how socialism never caught on in this country because the poor people don’t see themselves poor, they see themselves as “temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” He’s got Joe the Plumber pegged. Remember Joe was apoplectic that Obama was going to raise the tax rate on people making over $250,000 a year — even though Joe had never seen anything close to $250,000, didn’t even have a job or a plumber’s license. But he’s got that Ralph Kramden mentality: I’m gonna, Alice. I’m gonna be a millionaire, Alice! And if I do, that Obama’s not gonna tax me! Joe was getting killed on the imaginary business in his head, and that just could not stand. MORE...

Howie P.S.: Does Hillary have her hands on a bong in the photo above? If only... Maher on the "benefits" of pot:

I was a shy, nerdy kid who never really had that much fun when I was in high school or college. I never went to spring break in college, but I went for years after. I went to Freaknik '93, and I stayed until 2006. Now I limit myself to a very few precious drinks a week. As far as marijuana? Some people, it makes paranoid. Some people, it makes tired and lazy. And some people, it wakes up and makes creative. [Raises hand] I'm in that group.

"Bill Maher on Jon Stewart's FALSE EQUIVALENCY" (video)

Kevin1354, video (05:25).

"Bill Maher & Chris Rock Talk Politics" (video)

MEDIAite, video (07:43).

Howie P.S.: Specifically, they talk health care, Republicans, Democrats, race and Barack Obama.

"Alan Grayson on Real Time with Bill Maher" (video)

RTWBMfullepisodes. video (06:58).

Bill Maher on Jay Leno (video)

Jay Leno Show-NBC, video, Pt. 1 (07:15) and Pt. 2 (05:14):

Bill Maher and Jay discuss new rules, healthcare and Obama.

"Bill Maher Discusses Obama, Letterman And Palin On CNN" (video)

Nicholas Graham (HuffPo) with video (06:57):

Bill Maher, who aired his displeasure with the pace at which President Obama is accomplishing his policy objectives on his HBO show Friday night, made an appearance on CNN's "Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer tonight to reiterate his concerns.

Maher argues that Obama needs to be more like former President George W. Bush when it comes to taking decisive action. The former president, with a much smaller majority than Obama has, was able to push through several very contentious policies - a massive tax cut for the wealthy, for example - and Maher is looking for a little more of that 'audacity' from Obama.

Maher also lamented the lack of a real progressive party in America:

We have the Democrats, who are what the Republicans used to be when I was a kid. They are a pro-business party; a corporate friendly, pro-business party. And then we have the Republicans, which are just just a club for angry white people and Jesus freaks. I don't know what they are.

Maher also combated the idea that Obama is taking the nation in a "socialist" direction, calling the charge "so ridiculous because Barack Obama is not a socialist, he's not even a liberal. That's the point I'm trying to make. This country needs a left-wing. It doesn't have it."

The "Real Time" host attributed part of the blame for the lack of a true left-wing in America to the media because they elevate personalities such as Newt Gingrich without doing the same for a corresponding voice on the other side of the political spectrum.

Although Maher believes Obama's not doing enough on domestic policy, he said the president is doing a "terrific" job on foreign policy.

Maher weighed in on the David Letterman-Sarah Palin controversy, stating that Letterman is a "fundamentally decent Midwesterner" and that his remarks were twisted into a "lie that [got] into the media and then [became] the truth." Maher said it was a "shame" that Letterman had to apologize.

Howie P.S.: When Maher says Obama could enact health care reform as easily as Bush invaded Iraq, I think he is equating two political initiatives that are not comparable.

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"Keith Olbermann: Bill Maher Talks About Taking On Obama" (video)

News1News, video (06:04).

Howie P.S.: More political wisdom from the ranks of show business. Keith seems to agree with Bill.

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"Real Time w Bill Maher- Matt Taibbi discusses campaign, Iraq" (video)

JeremyBlueDuck79:

On the 1/11/08 season premiere (video 06:28), Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi discusses the 2008 campaign and the ridiculous assertion that the surge is working.

Tony Snow forgets that Bush is no longer paying him to lie, and does it for free anyway.
Howie P.S.: The "ridiculous assertion" comes from Tony Snow, jumps into the conversation at the end.