He's probably better known in Japan.
Posted on 02/12/2011 12:41:15 PM PST by OldDeckHand
Poor Bret Baier can’t even get ’90s sitcom celebrities to properly remember his name when they call him a “scared asshole” on national TV, which they are still on for some reason. Thus was his misfortune last night on Real Time, as Bill Maher’s panel evaluated Bill O’Reilly’s pre-Super Bowl interview with President Obama and Matthew Perry chimed in to compare that interview to the one “Bill” Baier did with the president a while ago, which he found only marginally more acceptable.
Real Time isn’t exactly a place for euphemisms, but last night’s panel was particularly abrasive, even for the venue (save Princeton professor Cornel West, whose “mom is watching” and thus limited his vocabulary to only certain flourishes of implied vulgarity). Maher opened the discussion arguing that patriotism was less about guns and more about “not belittling your president,” and wondered incredulously what the response would have been to a similar interview of President George W. Bush conducted by Keith Olbermann. Author Hooman Majd went a step further and considered many of O’Reilly’s comments “bigoted,” suggesting that, were he in the president’s shoes, he would have kicked O’Reilly out of the house when he asked whether he knew about football. West noted that he felt the President managed to keep his cool because it’s really dissent among progressives that makes him angry– “people like us”– and that O’Reilly’s routine was expected. Still, Maher countered, O’Reilly “leaned over like it was a bar” and, in his eyes, was generally rude.
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He's probably better known in Japan.
TV turned off Nov 4 2008.....I will trust your review ...
:o)
Stay Safe...
He has a mouth like a salty sailor.
Thanks. Alas, I *missed* it or them.
Mr. Perry thinks the sun shines out of his ass.
I think we should all start getting his name wrong now.
He’s “Gaylord” Perry to me now.
It looked like a lousy show, anyway. Still, I wish these people would just shut up and do their jobs—acting, singing, whatever.
I saw that last night, and the stupid prick called him Bill instead of Bret. Part
of my self abuse to keep up with the enemy, like reading the NY Slimes.
I had his new show recorded on the DVR to watch and promptly deleted it.
Morons like him don’t realize half their fan base votes normal.
Nov 4, 2008 - probably a good idea. Stay warm!
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