Maher, Maddow Deny Being Partisan; Can't Name Republican They Agree With

realclearpolitics.com ^ | 22 June, 2012 | NA

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During a heated discussion on Fast & Furious on HBO's "Real Time" where guest panelist Rachel Maddow, of MSNBC, accused Republicans of going after the Obama administration and the Holder Justice Department because they believe it is a conspiracy to install tougher restrictions on gun ownership, and host Bill Maher tried to delegitimize the investigation as political in nature, fellow panelist Nick Gillespie, of Reason, accused them of being the partisans.

Gillespie asked Maddow and Maher, who claim not to be partisan themselves, to name one elected Republican they agree with. The duo could not, instead they said it is not them who have a problem, it is the hyper-partisan Republicans.

"You will always take the side of the Democrat over a Republican," Gillespie told Maddow.

"No I won't. You don't even know me," Maddow said in an attempt to distract from Gillespie's point.

"I've seen your show," he rebutted.

"So, what's a Republican that you pick over a Democrat in an issue?" Gillespie asked.

"That's not a fair question," host Bill Maher said. "If there were Republicans -- you could ask me the same question, I could answer that question twenty years ago but Republicans have changed. I haven't changed. You would probably say the same thing. It is they who have changed, not us."

"Twenty years ago there were Republicans who absolutely were reasonable. They are an extinct species now," Maher added.

"So the important thing is that you're not a partisan," a sarcastic Gillespie responded. "This is my point."

"Yes," Maher said. "Both things can be true. Absolutely."

"You're not partisan, but you will always be against the Republicans," Gillespie said.

[GOPJ]

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it....

Mather lacks the balls to admit to what he's become... or as Orwell so aptly explains he's become a victim of extreme doublethink and he's too stupid or indoctrinated to see it...

Mathers's old-think... as are his viewers.

[GOPJ]

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it....

Mather lacks the balls to admit to what he's become... or as Orwell so aptly explains he's become a victim of extreme doublethink and he's too stupid or indoctrinated to see it...

Mathers's old-think... as are his viewers.

[StAnDeliver]

Maher gets owned by George Will...

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I am in Rocky Point NC pretty rural, retired and stay clear of any large town or city. During 911 we lived in Wilmington and were crossing guards (my wifes big idea), the school she had had Muzies they wouldn't make eye contact with her.