Bill Maher powders the Dim Son.

[sellitman]

These were comedian Bill Maher's closing remarks on his show the other night regarding George W. Bush.

Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more. There's no more money to spend--you used up all of that. You can't start another war because you used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people.

Listen to your Mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit cards maxed out. No one's speaking to you. Mission accomplished." "Now it's time to do what you've always done best: lose interest and walk away. Like you did with your military service and the oil company and the baseball team. It's time. Time to move on and try the next fantasy job. How about cowboy or space man?

Now I know what you're saying: there's so many other things that you as President could involve yourself in. Please don't. I know, I know. There's a lot left to do. There's a war with Venezuela. Eliminating the sales tax on yachts. Turning the space program over to the church. And Social Security to Fannie Mae. Giving embryos the vote."

"But, Sir, none of that is going to happen now. Why? Because you govern like Billy Joel drives. You've performed so poorly I'm surprised that you haven't given yourself a medal. You're a catastrophe that walks like a man. Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but even he never conceded an entire city to rising water and snakes."

"On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airlines, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans. Maybe you're just not lucky. I'm not saying you don't love this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side."

"So, yes, God does speak to you. What he is saying is: 'Take a hint.'

[babylonsister]

1. I love Maher's truthiness! LOL! nt

[mcscajun]

14. No, he tells the truth.

BushCo deals in truthiness.

[tblue37]

17. Have you noticed how pretty nearly

everyone is now misusing "truthiness" to mean the opposite of what it was originally coined to mean. I see that misuse all the time in MSM articles, in message board posts, and on blogs, too.

[mcscajun]

18. Yup. It's all over the place.

And it's got to be stopped, one poster at a time. :)

[tblue37]

21. I am working on it.

I correct it ever time I run into it. When properly used, the coinage is helpful--it makes a point that needs to be made. But when misused, it just muddies the waters.

What is so hard about it? I don't see why people can't see that "truthiness" is not meant to be the same thing as truth.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. ROTFLMAO!

"I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side."

[rusty_parts2001]

3. Comics, sadly, have to lead the way

The presstitutes have abdicated.

[AX10]

4. I saw that.

[upi402]

5. i love these 2 lines the most

I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side."

On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airlines, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans.




(I'd like to write these on a 2X4 and smack my Bushbot neighbors long side the head.)

[The Wielding Truth]

6. This was my favorite...

"You've performed so poorly I'm surprised that you haven't given yourself a medal."

[mdmc]

7. proudly providing the fifth

R
:kick:

[Little Star]

8. Kick

[IntravenousDemilo]

9. Is Bill Maher rerunning old material?

It looks really familiar, especially the last two paragraphs.

[mcscajun]

12. It should. It's from 9/9/2005

Available on www.billmaher.com in the transcript section.

[Carbon Tiger]

10. Heh

I d/l that clip several months ago and it remains funny and oh so true.

[mcscajun]

11. The other night being September 9, 2005

and Chimpy has yet to take the hint.

[sellitman]

26. This was an email I recieved.

I guess I should of checked it out further but the thing was so darn good i went with it. Lesson learned!

[mcscajun]

28. Absolutely nothing wrong with posting the classics.

:)

[IndyOp]

13. I think that is a pretty old sketch - like a year old...

Just sayin' -- I've seen the video and I saw it a long time ago.

:kick:

[KAT119]

15. K&R again!

[applegrove]

16. That was from the week or few after Katrina. Must be a repeat. September

I think.

[eallen]

19. Beautiful. Maher nailed it.

[tavalon]

20. This isn't new

I saw it months ago. Nonetheless, it was deliciously truthy then and no less now. I don't mind the repeat. If they have to put on repeat Bill Maher shows, at least they're picking the cream of the crop.

[mcscajun]

24. It isn't truthy...it's the truth.

Truthiness is the stuff BushCo puts out in defiance of Truth.

[tavalon]

27. Look at my icon

It was a nod to him. He's the one who has popularized the term "truthiness".

[mcscajun]

29. Yes, he is.

So let's use it properly in that tribute. :)

[cosmicdot]

22. speaking of Herbert Hoover and rising water ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mississippi_Flood_of_1927

1927

~snip~
Several reports on the poor situation in the refugee camps, including one by the Colored Advisory Commission by Robert Russa Moton, were kept out of the media at the request of Herbert Hoover, with the promise of further reforms for blacks after the presidential election. When he failed to keep the promise, Moton and other influential African-Americans helped to shift the allegiance of black Americans from the Republican party to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democrats.

The aftermath of the flood was one factor in the Great Migration of African-Americans to northern cities. Previously, the move from the rural South to the Northern cities had virtually stopped. As a result of displacement lasting up to six months, millions of Southerm blacks moved to the big cities of the North, particularly Chicago.

The flood propelled Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, in charge of flood relief operations, into the national spotlight and set the stage for his election to the Presidency. It also helped Huey Long be elected Louisiana Governor in 1928.

The flood had the unlikely effect of contributing to both the election of Herbert Hoover as President, and his defeat four years later.

~snip~

amazing effects on the political/cultural landscape



I thought it was interesting.

Sorry to interrupt.

Carry on.

[nicknameless]

23. Bill's delivery of that was fantastic. I downloaded it from CrooksAndLiars

on Sept. 14 2005. (That might not have been the day it actually was posted on.)
If you can find it, it's well worth watching.

[nicknameless]

25. Here ya go!

From Sept. 10, 2005 http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/10.html#a4892

:D