May 02, 2010

Bill Maher is a Tiny Friggin Idiot
— Dave in Texas

Roundtable today with Jake Tapper on the 'now imperative to the narrative' oil disaster.

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You can move it up to 3:40 to hear Maher's claim, that Brazil "got off oil" in the last 30 years.

I've worked in Brazil, through the 90s, actually up till 2006. They were kinda living on oil Bill. They still are. Just like the rest of the nations with growing economies (or trying to grow again).

Got. Off. Oil.

Will challenges this goofy assertion around 6:20 by asking "are you wearing blue jeans and also what the hell are you blathering about regarding Brazil and oil again?"

Maher: "I uh, believe they did, I believe they had a program in the 70s to use sugar cane to produce ethanol...blah blah I don't know what the hell I'm talking about"

He couldn't say "fuck". Kinda messes up his delivery in a room with adults and also Katrina vanden Heuvel and Al Sharpton.

This is what passes for a panel of informed media experts on ABC.

I saw this earlier today but wiped it from my mind until Rosetta reminded me about it.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 03:56 PM | Comments (143)
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1 Any nation that touts Al Sharpton as an informed political figure is doomed to catastrophe.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 02, 2010 04:11 PM (P33XN)

2
I cannot watch that. If I do...

Posted by: Contessa Brewer at May 02, 2010 04:12 PM (fFl1M)

3 How low has the MSM gone when they present Maher as someone who isn't a preeminent asshole.

Posted by: ParisParamus at May 02, 2010 04:13 PM (lf/rr)

4 ABC just let go, what, 400 people last week?  So to make up for that, they replaced the stupid of 400 people with the stupid of one really stupid guy, Bill Maher.

Posted by: Boots at May 02, 2010 04:13 PM (06JTY)

5 This one is worse: Bill Maher: If You're Racist, You're a Republican

Posted by: newser at May 02, 2010 04:13 PM (39SGJ)

6 Second thought:  if I could throw out my television a second time, this would be a reason.  But I would have to buy one again to do that, and that would not make sense.

Posted by: ParisParamus at May 02, 2010 04:15 PM (lf/rr)

7 Punching down?

Posted by: ArrrJayyy at May 02, 2010 04:15 PM (ADbI4)

8 "Bill Maher" is a term we use around here to describe the ick we have to scrape off our shoes after we step in something nasty.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 02, 2010 04:18 PM (P33XN)

9 Bill Maher is an evil troll.

Posted by: damian at May 02, 2010 04:19 PM (4WbTI)

10 Obama gave 200 billion dollars last year to Brazil, to develop oil fields.

Posted by: RecklessProcess at May 02, 2010 04:19 PM (JClQG)

11 really. really ABC...Sharpton and Maher?? Maybe one at a time but the stupid is so thick it is difficult to call this a news program anymore.

Posted by: karenm at May 02, 2010 04:19 PM (2y90e)

12
Look at him. He looks like a little Larry King. Bill Maher looks like a Larry King puppet.

Posted by: Dynomutt After Dark at May 02, 2010 04:20 PM (fFl1M)

13

Okay, lets just humor Bill Mars here for a moment and lets just say they did get off oil. If thats the case, the last time I checked they found one of the biggest reserves in the world right off the coast in their waters not too long ago and the Chinese came a courtin'.


Does that mean they're gonna stop drilling for it and selling it too?


Yea, I didnt think so.

Posted by: Blazer at May 02, 2010 04:20 PM (t72+4)

14

Bill Maher isn't funny, he isn't smart and, God know, he isn't good looking.  All he's got going for him is his hipster-intellectual persona and he gets laid because he goes to the Playboy mansion and stupid sluts live there. 

Smart sluts would have nothing to do with him.

Posted by: huerfano at May 02, 2010 04:20 PM (oSrBX)

15 ABC, Sharpton and Maher. Tri-fecta of Stupidity.

Posted by: skye at May 02, 2010 04:21 PM (HwMXR)

16
If George Will had any brains and balls and integrity, he would've walked off the set. He's sitting there with a stupid fucking comedian and sourpuss Katriana Vandenhoovel.

Posted by: Dynomutt After Dark at May 02, 2010 04:22 PM (fFl1M)

17 Bill Maher gets off on oil. Baby Oil.

Posted by: Pecos Bill at May 02, 2010 04:22 PM (8WOM0)

18 Brazil is off oil like Obama is off Newports.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at May 02, 2010 04:22 PM (FRHGr)

19 You can always tell the men who like to be peed on.

Posted by: sifty at May 02, 2010 04:22 PM (urxqJ)

20 Can't do it. Nope, just can't do it.  Teh stoopid is just too much for me to take. 

Posted by: Insomniac at May 02, 2010 04:22 PM (n+bbX)

21 Ok - so how about liberals "get off oil" then themselves if it is so easy?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2010 04:23 PM (bgcml)

22

Bill Maher.

A man who's film career began and ended with D.C. Cab.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 02, 2010 04:23 PM (P33XN)

23 Bill Maher gets off on oil. Baby Oil.

Posted by: Pecos Bill at May 02, 2010 08:22 PM (8WOM0)

Cleanup on Aisle 17.  No one should be allowed to repeat the rumor that Bill Maher raped and murdered a little boy in the 90s like that.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at May 02, 2010 04:23 PM (FRHGr)

24 18 Brazil is off oil like Obama is off Newports.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at May 02, 2010 08:22 PM (FRHGr)

Or like I'm off of race-hustling.

Posted by: Al Sharpton at May 02, 2010 04:24 PM (n+bbX)

25 Brazil is off oil like Obama is off Newports. Cocaine

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at May 02, 2010 08:22 PM (FRHGr)

FTFY

Posted by: Obama's Drug Dealer at May 02, 2010 04:24 PM (bgcml)

26 Well, the reason that the Anointed Barack Channel could let 400 stupid people go and replace them with Bill "I could be a pedophile or necrophiliac or both" Maher is that ol' Bill's advanced case of syphilis has rotted his brain to where he is a veritable motherload of industrial strength, weapons-grade STUPID. 

Posted by: Clutch 1956 at May 02, 2010 04:25 PM (X67eL)

27 Obama gave 200 billion dollars last year to Brazil, to develop oil fields.

Posted by: RecklessProcess at May 02, 2010 08:19 PM (JClQG)

Hey, no one complained about all those white politicians rewarding their campaign contributors...

Posted by: Barack Obama at May 02, 2010 04:25 PM (bgcml)

28 If I hadn't just seen actual video evidence of Bill Maher on a Sunday A.M. talk show, I wouldn't have believed it.  Talking about bottom feeding.  Too bad he had to compete with Katrina Vande Wahtever for the title of Obama fanslut of the month.  And Sharpton?  Well, he's a halfwit, which is preferable to bankrupt whoring of Maher.  Yeah, we're boned.

Posted by: ambidextrous stroker at May 02, 2010 04:25 PM (YsSn7)

29

Second thought:  if I could throw out my television a second time, this would be a reason.  But I would have to buy one again to do that, and that would not make sense.

 

I was actually considering buying a television last night after contemplating that I was completely oblivious of a terror incident in my own city until reading Ace of Spades (you are my outside connection!).

Now I see this.

Yeah, I'll be putting off that purchase for a while.


Posted by: La Mauvaise New Yorkaise at May 02, 2010 04:25 PM (zLORJ)

30
Erik Estrada is my fucking hero!

Look at how much of a pussy Bill Maher is. LOOK!

Watch that, and rewind it a hundred times where Maher gets his beak busted.

Posted by: Dynomutt After Dark at May 02, 2010 04:26 PM (fFl1M)

31 18 Brazil is off oil like Obama is off Newports teh man-root.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at May 02, 2010 08:22 PM (FRHGr)

FTFY.

Posted by: Larry Sinclair at May 02, 2010 04:26 PM (n+bbX)

32
Bill Maher gets an invite?  why not invite Larry the Cable guy or coco the chimp?  A least they are kinda funny and easier on the eyes.





Posted by: Lemon Kitten at May 02, 2010 04:27 PM (0fzsA)

33 Tapper is an idiot for agreeing to host that crew of dunces; Maher is bad enough but Katranny vanden Coochsmell wasn't dressed like a long lost Ramone.  WTF?

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 02, 2010 04:27 PM (V5s1P)

34
Watch that vid I linked...it helps, trust me.

Posted by: Dynomutt After Dark at May 02, 2010 04:27 PM (fFl1M)

35
It's amazing that anyone takes this clown seriously, but then it is the MFM.

Posted by: Dang Straights at May 02, 2010 04:27 PM (qEmr3)

36 Brazil is off oil like Obama is off Newports teh man-root.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at May 02, 2010 08:22 PM (FRHGr)

FTFY.

Posted by: Larry Sinclair Hillbuzz at May 02, 2010 08:26 PM (n+bbX)

And the favor is returned.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at May 02, 2010 04:27 PM (FRHGr)

37

Bill Maher isn't funny, he isn't smart and, God know, he isn't good looking.  All he's got going for him is his hipster-intellectual persona and he gets laid because he goes to the Playboy mansion and stupid sluts live there. 

Smart sluts would have nothing to do with him.

Posted by: huerfano at May 02, 2010 08:20 PM (oSrBX)




Bill Maher isn't funny, he isn't smart and, God know, he isn't good looking.  All he's got going for him is his hipster-intellectual persona and he gets laid because he goes to the Playboy mansion and stupid sluts live there. 

Smart sluts would have nothing to do with him.

Posted by: huerfano at May 02, 2010 08:20 PM (oSrBX)




There has to be some sort of order of progression here with the nutty left.

Failed theater critic turned NYT Op/Ed columnist:: Frank Rich

Failed sports reporter turned MSNBC libtard pundit: Keith Olbermann

Failed comedians and actors turned HBO and Comedy Central libtard hacks: Bill Maher and John Stewart


You fail at something that takes brains and talent just get a job as a liberal shill at a newspaper or on t.v.



Posted by: Blazer at May 02, 2010 04:29 PM (t72+4)

38

Mahers first live broadcast!

http://tinyurl.com/23qcfp

Posted by: Sonnyspats at May 02, 2010 04:30 PM (68tQb)

39


Brazil is off oil like Amy Winehouse is off the needle and the  crack pipe.

Posted by: Blazer at May 02, 2010 04:31 PM (t72+4)

40 I think he and CJ like riding bikes with the seat off.   .....and they like running thru pot holes with them.  Deeper penetratration.  It works better with baby oil, too.

Posted by: Hous Bin Pharteen at May 02, 2010 04:31 PM (pU4D7)

41 Mahers second live broadcast !http://tinyurl.com/5o3jav

Posted by: Sonnyspats at May 02, 2010 04:32 PM (68tQb)

42 Katrina Van Huwhateverthefuck insists upon herself and it's very annoying. I'm guessing the last time she got laid was her first time who the hell knows how long ago. Now she's just a  constantly pissed off hag,  just go away to your swamp  and play with your cauldron katrina

Posted by: koopy at May 02, 2010 04:32 PM (ctR4U)

43 Hillbuzz at May 02, 2010 08:26 PM (n+bbX)

And the favor is returned.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at May 02, 2010 08:27 PM (FRHGr)

I haven't been over there in a while.  Just took a quick look and they are brutal.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 02, 2010 04:33 PM (n+bbX)

44 bill maher, katrina vanden heuvel, al sharpton... i come to this site for ... what again... why is that.... whoza whatsis... hows that again... ?

Posted by: gomm at May 02, 2010 04:33 PM (7JES6)

45
It was more fun bashing Oregon in the Ixtoc thread.

Posted by: Dang Straights at May 02, 2010 04:34 PM (qEmr3)

46 I just looked at The Daily Beast. I figured their "Top Whatever Moments from The Sunday News Shows" would be 100% Bill Maher. An exquisitely executed lay-up. Not a peep. Nada.

Posted by: J2 at May 02, 2010 04:34 PM (trQJ0)

47 hurts the eyes, the ears, the mind

Posted by: gomm at May 02, 2010 04:35 PM (EA+Co)

48

Holly friggin crap, these people trying to portray them selves worthy to discus this topic with Maher is utter nonsense.  Good god.

  Why the fuck is that jackass sitting there with an opinion on this matter ? Roundtable - coffee table, fish cleaning table, autopsy table

 

 

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 02, 2010 04:36 PM (CYW1e)

49 Brazil is off oil?  Did the aliens tell him that?

Posted by: alexthechick at May 02, 2010 04:36 PM (6Cojl)

50 if i wanted a clown panel i'd go to www.ringlingbrosclown college.com

Posted by: gomm at May 02, 2010 04:37 PM (EA+Co)

51 #29, I have EyeTV for my Mac.  It allows me to watch tv if I really want to; the over-the-air HDTV signal is superb.  No cable here; the occasional SNL viewing, and maybe a few pro sports viewings; that's it. 

TV sucks.

Posted by: ParisParamus at May 02, 2010 04:37 PM (lf/rr)

52

Bill Maher.

A man who's film career began and ended with D.C. Cab.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 02, 2010 08:23 PM (P33XN)




One of the best movies ever even though that smug ass crapweasel contaminated it.

Posted by: Blazer at May 02, 2010 04:37 PM (t72+4)

Posted by: nickless at May 02, 2010 04:37 PM (MMC8r)

54

One of the best movies ever even though that smug ass crapweasel contaminated it.

Gary Busey certainly elevated the material.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 02, 2010 04:38 PM (P33XN)

55 Brazil is off oil like Amy Winehouse is off the needle and the  crack pipe.

Brazil is off oil like Mikey Moore is off the Twinkies.

Posted by: Soap MacTavish at May 02, 2010 04:39 PM (554T5)

56
Bob needs to go on ABCSnooz. Here's Bob's latest rant, and it's a good one.

Posted by: Dynomutt After Dark at May 02, 2010 04:39 PM (fFl1M)

57

Fuck can't edit

 So Maher AND big AL Sharpton - Sitting there with an opinion  - WTF

Quality air time and a teaching moment

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 02, 2010 04:40 PM (CYW1e)

58 In what alternate reality am I now living in where Bill Maher is considered an expert on anything other than how not to drool in public?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at May 02, 2010 04:41 PM (RZ8pf)

59


One of the best movies ever even though that smug ass crapweasel contaminated it.

Gary Busey certainly elevated the material.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 02, 2010 08:38 PM (P33XN)





Adam Baldwin, Mr. T, Marsha Warfield, Paul Rodriguez and the guy who played on Barney Miller. Hell, even Whoopie Goldberg playing the cab driver Bongo was good in it.

Posted by: Blazer at May 02, 2010 04:41 PM (t72+4)

60 bozo maher, crusty sharpton & clarabel vanden heuvel... bozo doesn't belong among this distinguished company? i don't get the offense.

Posted by: gomm at May 02, 2010 04:41 PM (73jUp)

61 Lest we forget !!!! Maher is a bacteria on a maggot turd!http://tinyurl.com/23gdzue

Posted by: Sonnyspats at May 02, 2010 04:42 PM (68tQb)

62

The fucking idiot got a cold, hard dose of the real world. He is used to being able to say the dumbest fucking things possible with a studio audience filled with leftard baboons who would shriek, grunt and hoot their approval.

I love it when these imbeciles step outside their douchetard echo chambers and run their fucking stupidity up the flag pole....only to be laughed out of the room.

 Zsa Zsa Huffington is the same way. I seriously think she's fucking retarded

Posted by: beedubya at May 02, 2010 04:42 PM (AnTyA)

63


Brazil is off oil like Meggie Mac is off Haagen Daz and Little Debbie

Posted by: Blazer at May 02, 2010 04:43 PM (t72+4)

64 I also liked it when the Schmuck Maher said: "I wouldn't accuse all republicans of being racist, because that would be silly.  But if you are a racist, you are probably a republican." 

Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 02, 2010 04:43 PM (yQWNf)

65 Brazil is off oil like Amy Winehouse is off the needle and the  crack pipe

Brazil is off oil like Tiger Woods is off white women.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at May 02, 2010 04:44 PM (FRHGr)

66 No wonder I couldn't fix that leak under the sink this morning all my tools were borrowed by Tapper.

Posted by: Bob Villa at May 02, 2010 04:44 PM (zwbBt)

67 I never truly understood the "punching down' meme until I saw that people were still responding to Bill Maher.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 02, 2010 04:44 PM (qSRHZ)

68 Yeah.  Petrobras.

Posted by: Skookumchuk at May 02, 2010 04:45 PM (btzPD)

69

Adam Baldwin, Mr. T, Marsha Warfield, Paul Rodriguez and the guy who played on Barney Miller. Hell, even Whoopie Goldberg playing the cab driver Bongo was good in it.

With a special appearance by Irene Cara. Don't forget Irene Cara.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 02, 2010 04:45 PM (P33XN)

70 Bill Maher.??

Another public high school half joo that went to Obay's school, Cornell.

Was he an ag major too?

Does Cornell teach Douche Bag as a major? 

Posted by: Kemp at May 02, 2010 04:45 PM (2+9Yx)

71

Morticia Vanden Evil is another fucking idiot. I remember seeing her on Hardballs and and she said something to prompt Tingles who her congressperson was.

She didn't have a clue.

Posted by: beedubya at May 02, 2010 04:46 PM (AnTyA)

72 Hi Bill, ever heard of me?

Posted by: Petrobras at May 02, 2010 04:46 PM (Mf65A)

73
Brazil is off oil like M'chelle is off bloodwine.

Posted by: Dang Straights at May 02, 2010 04:46 PM (qEmr3)

74
Al Franken is a Senator. Bill Maher is on a hard news round table. What next, Janeane Garofalo as Barry's Supreme Court nominee?

Posted by: Atomic Roach at May 02, 2010 04:46 PM (Oxen1)

75 The ethanol folks always seem to neglect that Brazil has a much warmer climate, can grow cane year-round, and largely have shorter distances to transport the ethanol, which is important because it degrades quickly.

Oh yes, and it is still largely a third-world shithole, so their energy needs are much lower than ours.

But it makes for a good talking point, I suppose.

Posted by: Gabriel Syme at May 02, 2010 04:47 PM (X2xSP)

76 And Vale has never mined any coal...

Posted by: Skookumchuk at May 02, 2010 04:48 PM (btzPD)

77 So Hurricane Katrina is the Black Holocaust now?  Sharpton won't allow any historical comparisons to the "suffering" of people who sat on their asses waiting to be rescued?

Posted by: Snorty McBrearty at May 02, 2010 04:48 PM (Wjv9m)

78
Al Sharpton is a turd.  Any MFM outlet that gives him screen time should be avoided at all costs.

Posted by: Dang Straights at May 02, 2010 04:48 PM (qEmr3)

79

I saw a comment somewhere today that said that Bill Ayers was at the White House Flock of Sheep Circle Jerk last night.

Anyone else hear that?

Posted by: beedubya at May 02, 2010 04:48 PM (AnTyA)

80

Bill Maher is only an expert on how to fuck in the Grotto and talk in his whiny voice.

 

Posted by: Who Knows at May 02, 2010 04:49 PM (aE/nJ)

81

O.k., I just checked IMDB and it wasnt Whoopie Goldberg who played "Bongo", it was some male actor named Otis Day.

Honest mistake.

Posted by: Blazer at May 02, 2010 04:49 PM (t72+4)

82 Bill Maher? 

Just a little crazier than you think, from his Wiki, which you know he wrote:

Maher is a board member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and has expressed his distaste for the pharmaceutical and health care industries in general, on the grounds that they make their money out of curing people who are made sick by consuming unhealthy food that society urges upon the public. He also maintains that mass consumption of high-fructose corn syrup is a contributor to the American obesity epidemic

Posted by: Kemp at May 02, 2010 04:49 PM (2+9Yx)

83 61 He must have liked the attack against NYC because Gorge Bushhhh was in charge.

Posted by: Hous Bin Pharteen at May 02, 2010 04:50 PM (pU4D7)

84 $116 billion in revenue in 2009, Bill.

Posted by: at May 02, 2010 04:51 PM (Mf65A)

85 70 Bill Maher.??

Another public high school half joo that went to Obay's school, Cornell.

Was he an ag major too?

Does Cornell teach Douche Bag as a major? 

 

Maher was an English major.  The douchebaggery is natural talent.



Posted by: huerfano at May 02, 2010 04:53 PM (oSrBX)

86

Brazil is off oil like Ted Kennedy is off the barbed cock of Satan.

Posted by: Blazer at May 02, 2010 04:53 PM (t72+4)

87 $17 billion in profit, Bill. Sure you've never heard of me?

Posted by: Petrobras at May 02, 2010 04:54 PM (Mf65A)

88

I need a thousand different ways to say "I don't believe you."

Posted by: Cincinnatus at May 02, 2010 04:55 PM (euuyg)

89

Bill Maher.??


Another public high school half joo that went to Obay's school, Cornell.

Was he an ag major too?


Posted by: huerfano at May 02, 2010 08:53 PM (oSrBX)



Would certainly explain the syphilis rotting his brain from f'cking sheep just like his good buddy Keith.

Posted by: Blazer at May 02, 2010 04:56 PM (t72+4)

90 Anyone know how many acres of rain forest Brazil cut down to grow all the sugar cane?

Posted by: robtr at May 02, 2010 04:57 PM (fwSHf)

91 I thought he was funny in Weekend at Bernie's.

It can't be easy to play a dead guy for an entire series of movies.

Posted by: JavaJoe at May 02, 2010 04:59 PM (e9JZd)

92 Anyone know how many acres of rain forest Brazil cut down to grow all the sugar cane?

Shhh. You might destroy Maher's fragile brain.

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 02, 2010 05:04 PM (Mf65A)

93 You think that's impressive?  Burkina Faso is off ketchup.

Swear to God.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 02, 2010 05:07 PM (Gq9y1)

94 If Brazil 'got off oil' why the hell is Obama funding Brazilian oil production?

http://tinyurl.com/pkjmjq

Posted by: ThomasD at May 02, 2010 05:08 PM (21H5U)

95 Shhh. You might destroy Maher's fragile brain.

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 02, 2010 09:04 PM (Mf65A)

Never mind, I found it. It's an area twice the size of Texas and destroyed 93% of Brazils Atlantic Rainforest. Oh and it was originally cleared by slaves.

Posted by: robtr at May 02, 2010 05:10 PM (fwSHf)

96 What kind of uninformed idiot would go on a news show and say something so stupid?  Maher is a retard.

Posted by: RickS at May 02, 2010 05:15 PM (hKB1N)

97 Bill Maher is a poor man's Xerox of a shadow of a shell of 80s Dennis Miller.

Nice.

Posted by: damian at May 02, 2010 05:16 PM (4WbTI)

98

Petrobras...Google it Bill.  Then check the World factbook (Brazil the 7th largest oil consuming nation).  12th largest oil producer, and about to increase that due to the recent enormous oil field discoveries off the Brazilian coast...dangerous, deep water off-shore fields.

Brazil is, however, the second largest producer of ethanal...so Bill has a point.  Oh wait...they are second to...the evil United States.

What Bill was trying to refer to is that Brazil has a 30 year old ethanol fuel program that lefties consider a success in that college coffee house liberal, know-it-all because it sounds good and evokes nice feelings sort of way, which is as far as Bill ever understands anything.  This means that they have, over the last 30 years, mandated that all light vehicles must be flex-fuel...these days with between 20-25% sugar-cane ethanol/the rest gasoline.  Why did they do this?  Because they have a frickin' ton of land and a history of sugar cane farming from the 1500's, so it's what they do and do well.  It also results in nationalistic forced mandates and all that entails, but Bill doesn't care about that.  He also apparently doesn't care about the resultant deforestation of that Amazony-rain forest thingy over there, or use of agricultural land to produce sugar cane for fuel instead of food (top environmentalists have called biofuels a "crime against humanity" for their causation of a rise in food costs), or the massive ammount of water and fertilizer and pesticides and field-burns used to grow this sugar-cane.  Sugar-cane ethanol is a far more efficient ethanol than our corn-based ethanol, and therefore cheaper to produce.  However, the flex-fuel vehicles there get lower mileage/gallon due to the decrease in energy contained in each gallon of fuel.  Their gas has to be 25% cheaper than ours to reach the break even point.  As with most nationalistic mandates, subsidies for ethanol or heavy taxes against pure gasoline have been used to make the deal "worth it".  And not every country is fortunate enough to be able to grow sugar cane...4 of our states can (Florida, Louisiana, Hawaii, and Texas).  Finally, the poor of Brazil often work as cane-cutters on the massive plantations, and this line of work is replete with hazardous working conditions and reports of slavery and deaths due to overwork.

The man looks like a practice cadaver at a 3rd rate undertaker school.

Posted by: MostlyRight at May 02, 2010 05:18 PM (0aCXd)

99 It's not a lie, if you believe it

Posted by: George Costanza, Chief Democratic Speech Writer at May 02, 2010 05:26 PM (rzJpR)

100 Pretty sure the extent of Maher's knowledge of Brazil is a late night Cinemax showing of Blame It On Rio.

Listen, asshole, I watched the documentary "The Boys from Brazil" too.

Posted by: Bill Maher, South American Expert at May 02, 2010 05:28 PM (Mf65A)

101 Thanks for reminding me why I DON'T watch ABC so I didn't inadvertently stumble into them.

Posted by: Gmac at May 02, 2010 05:30 PM (J7DY/)

102 Maher will probably be Obama's Science and Reach-Around Czar in a week.

Posted by: sifty at May 02, 2010 05:33 PM (pJ9dF)

103 ABC puts bill mahei on its panel of experts lol. wow

Posted by: Dan at May 02, 2010 05:33 PM (1jzSs)

104  I also liked it when the Schmuck Maher said: "I wouldn't accuse all republicans of being racist, because that would be silly.  But if you are a racist, you are probably a republican." 

Well either republican or the member of a group that has the race of a person in their title. OK, let's play how many groups that have white in the title. National Association for the Advancement of White People?  Nope.  Congressional White Caucus?  Nope. Association of White Journalists?  No.  White Chamber of Commerce?  Not that one either.  Say, could it be that there are enough racists to go around?

 

Posted by: kansas at May 02, 2010 05:49 PM (2kVkH)

105 Why is that race baiting , pogrom leader Sharpton on the panel

Posted by: av at May 02, 2010 06:20 PM (rG4O2)

106 Maher, vanden Heuvel, and Sharpton? Getting all pissy on air? All in one place? Didn't Ghostbusters warn us about crossing streams?

Dangerous, blithering stupidity right there. ABC has gone full retard. Again.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at May 02, 2010 06:28 PM (swuwV)

107 nickless: "OT:  Nancy Pelosi, PhotoShop Disaster"

She's so 'shopped that she looks like a muppet... or one of the background portraits in South Park.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at May 02, 2010 06:46 PM (swuwV)

108 I used to like George Will, at least a little, but I cannot for the life of me understand why he is on that piece of crap ABC Sunday show.  Show was alright when Brinkley was alive.

Posted by: Dumbass Lefty at May 02, 2010 06:54 PM (1kwr2)

109 Dumass Lefty=Hammer.  Sorry.

Posted by: Hammer at May 02, 2010 06:55 PM (1kwr2)

110

gee, I just read that ABC news cut their staff 25% last week, so now they are bringing buffons like Bill Maher on?

yes! that'll make more people watch their crap. that'll make the ad revenues go up!

 

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-democrat at May 02, 2010 06:59 PM (ACkhT)

111 So their letting Maher sit at the table with adults now?

Posted by: GarandFan at May 02, 2010 07:02 PM (6mwMs)

112 Al Sharpton? Katrina vanden Heuvel?  Bill Maher?  Surely, you jest.  ABC thinks people will watch this?  Me, I'd rather go to the chimpanzee exhibit at MetroZoo.

Posted by: Minnie Rodent at May 02, 2010 07:19 PM (PZLW0)

113 Well, I thought that they did. They don't drink ethanol in Brazil, do they?

Posted by: FatBaldnSassy at May 02, 2010 07:47 PM (lFp7s)

114

I hhhaaate Katrina vanden Heuvel. And I hhhaaate Foreskin Maher. I want to say I hhhaaate Al Sharpton but I'll be called a racist.

A banner day on ABC. What? Larry Flint wasn't available?

BTW, Katrina vanden Heuvel has always struck me as a bitter lesbian stuck in a married straight woman's life.

Oh, and Al, the former governor of La. is on audio tape saying how she should have called in the federal government sooner.  Something Pres. Bush was on the phone for days pestering her to do, but she refused. You see, Al, the feds cannot just go storming into states. But then, had Bush chosen to do so you would be screaming he had illegally invaded La.

Posted by: Drillanwr at May 02, 2010 07:50 PM (GkYyh)

115 Facts: 2009 Brazil population (estimated): 192 m 2010 US population (estimated): 310 m 2009 Brazil oil consumption: 2.520 m bb/day 2008 US oil consumption: 19.498 m bb/day 2008 Brazil oil production (estimated): 2.422 bb/day 2008 US oil production (estimated): 8.514 bb/day 2009 Brazil oil imports: 382,000 barrels per day 2007 Brazil oil imports: 633,000 bb/d 2008 US oil imports: 4.726 m bb/d 2006 US oil imports: 5.005 m bb/d Current annual level of US government loans and US- based private corporation investment for oil exploration and development in Brazil: $4.6 billion Current annual level of Brazil government loans and Brazil-based private corporation subsidies, grants and investments for or oil exploration and development in the US: zero George Will: right wing gadfly, prone to blindly trusting corporate b.s. on a spectrum of subjects mostly involving US and world economic matters, including climate change. Bill Maher: left wing gadfly, thoroughly lazy knee-jerk, prone to talking out of his ass on pretty much the full spectrum of subjects of human endeavor. Conclusions: (1) If anything relevant can be gleaned from the above on short to medium period trends in fossil fuel strategy in Brazil, it is not that Brazil has "got off oil", and emphatically not insofar as production is concerned; but instead that in recent years for whatever reasons Brazil has found it increasingly irresistible to join the ranks of pushers to US oil dependency. (2) Disciplined shill kicks lazy knee-jerk's ass.

Posted by: Shooter at May 02, 2010 08:06 PM (zfRju)

116

Checked IMDB for some Maher vitae. Now I know why ABC wanted him for a serious political round-table news show. How could they turn down  a guy that starred in the 1989 classic "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death."

BTW, wasn't George Will in Clan of the Cave Bear, grunting on Daryl Hannah? Glasses and all. Coulda sworn.

Posted by: Mr. Barky at May 02, 2010 08:56 PM (bZW6t)

117 Correct me if I'm mistaken, but doesn't Maher go around bashing Palin a lot? Palin's said some things that are on the margins, but has she ever said anything so obviously false?

Posted by: Amos at May 02, 2010 09:03 PM (gDWoG)

118 Bill Maher has always been full of shit.  He and Letterman would make good bookends.  Maher would smell a little worse.

Posted by: Case at May 02, 2010 09:13 PM (0K+Kw)

119 Maher is pretty high up on my "hit with a brick" list.....

Posted by: Gerry Owen at May 02, 2010 09:34 PM (4Hy88)

120 Friday night he had Chris Mathews on and they did not know that Amtrak was a government run agency. They wanted Urkel to spend the stimulus money and build high speed railways all over the country like Europe has. They didn't know it's almost been spent. Then they asked on what? They do not pay attention at all. The left is just stupid and mental, that I know for sure now. Chris Mathews is worse than Bill, they know nothing!

Posted by: jann at May 02, 2010 10:02 PM (ovbRW)

121 whose beauty five-and-thirty years had scarcely scarred, lnttblog

Posted by: lnttblog at May 03, 2010 12:20 AM (+vPQG)

122 I thought I saw a headline in which Maher wonders why, quote "Obama isn't getting more shit for the oil spill."  Did he say that here?

Posted by: Filly at May 03, 2010 12:25 AM (dSJW9)

123 Maher needs to stay in the shallow end of the pool.

Posted by: packsoldier at May 03, 2010 04:31 AM (zxDyp)

124

George Will: right wing gadfly, prone to blindly trusting corporate b.s. on a spectrum of subjects mostly involving US and world economic matters, including climate change.

Oops, it's Monday and somebody's idiot is showing.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 03, 2010 05:19 AM (B+qrE)

125 George Will should have resigned when they gave Brinkley's job to the Clintern tool Steponallofus. Now, this ring of retards. But, folks, it gets even better! George Will was passed over again for...... Cristiana Amanpour!!!

Posted by: Schwalbe at May 03, 2010 05:22 AM (UU0OF)

126

Of course Maher is a complete fool.  Put him in a room with even semi-lucid people and his ignorance shines.

But, just for argument's sake, let's say that Brazil (as dysfunctional a place as I have ever visited, btw) HAD gotten off of oil, and replaced it with sugar-cane based ethanol.

Anyone want to do the math as to how much RAIN FOREST would have to be slashed and burned to grow THAT MUCH sugar cane? Is this Maher's idea of "green?"  Defoliating an entire rain forest to grow sugar cane?

As I said, he really is a complete fool.  The Fool, fully realized.

Posted by: RobM1981 at May 03, 2010 06:11 AM (lV1tZ)

127 Not only isn't brazil "off oil" but Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fundÂ’s largest holding and the U.S. government has to provide up to $10 billion in loans to finance the development of massive hydrocarbon reserves off BrazilÂ’s coast

Posted by: Neo at May 03, 2010 07:01 AM (tE8FB)

128 Brazil got off oil when Maher got off coke.

Posted by: ippolita at May 03, 2010 07:22 AM (lB/5N)

129 Katrina talked about a "Manhattan Project or Apollo Alliance" for green energy.  Freudian slip?  The Apollo Project was the space race, the Apollo Alliance is the liberal brain trust that wrote much of the Obama administration's domestic agenda.

Posted by: Scott at May 03, 2010 07:45 AM (r5Xxu)

130 Bill almost had it right. Brazil is off of other people's oil. dipshit.

Posted by: mark c at May 03, 2010 10:21 AM (SBIko)

131 Is it possible that Katrina is a bigger twat than Maher?  If I only had one pike, it'd be her head...

Posted by: Rewrite! at May 03, 2010 11:13 AM (d7Px0)

132 55 Brazil is off oil like Amy Winehouse is off the needle and the  crack pipe.

Brazil is off oil like Charlie Sheen is off hookers and blow.

Posted by: Average Jen at May 03, 2010 11:33 AM (fRnux)

133

55 Brazil is off oil like Amy Winehouse is off the needle and the  crack pipe.

Brazil is off oil like John Edwards is off his hairdresser.

 

Posted by: Average Jen at May 03, 2010 11:36 AM (fRnux)

134 55 Brazil is off oil like Amy Winehouse is off the needle and the  crack pipe.

Brazil is off oil like Keith Olbermann is off bubble baths.

Posted by: Average Jen at May 03, 2010 11:37 AM (fRnux)

135 Brazil is off oil like Janeane Garofolo is off crazy.

Posted by: Average Jen at May 03, 2010 11:38 AM (fRnux)

136 Brazil is off oil like Joy Behar is off stupid.

Posted by: Average Jen at May 03, 2010 11:38 AM (fRnux)

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Posted by: Cheri at May 03, 2010 01:52 PM (G+Wff)

138 Maher's merely a self absorbed moron; Sharpton, a caricature of a leftist race whore; but is there a more loathesome, gratuitously condescending she-witch than Vanden Heuvel? Nasty, smug, and wrong is no way to go through life, dear lady.

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