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Humanist Comedian Bill Maher’s New Movie Is Full of Falsehoods, Bigotry, Ignorance, Arrogance, and Hypocrisy By Dr. Ted Baehr, Publisher, and Dr. Tom Snyder, Editor Religulous, comedian Bill Maher’s attack on Christianity and religion, is full of lies, half-truths, false assumptions, logical contradictions and fallacies, distortions, intolerance, prejudice, bigotry, arrogance, ignorance, and hypocrisy. It’s a pathetic propaganda piece that will warp the hearts and minds of the gullible and the ignorant. It is also very poorly researched and argued. Maher’s diatribe starts out innocently enough. He tells the viewer how he was raised a Roman Catholic, even though his mother...

There are three problems with Bill Maher's new movie mocking faith: It misunderstands religion, misconceives God and gets human nature all wrong. I have a fantasy of a counter-movie. I would travel around the world and interview every scientist with a crackpot theory or a quack cure. I'd find researchers who were venal, eccentric, foolish or cruel, throwing in a few responsible scientists for credibility. Call it, say, "Scientifictious." Of course, that would be no more convincing than "Religulous." Religion is not univocal; there are lots of varieties and personalities. There is no shortage of strange beliefs and practices. There...

Bill Maher has built a career at the nexus of Hollywood and D.C. (or Hollywood for ugly people, as Rush Limbaugh famously calls it) by convincing an audience that quick-witted retorts about contentious and complex debates are somehow indicative of high-level discourse. But you could say the same of most cable-news shows these days, so in some respects it’s hard to hate Maher as a player any more than the game. Still, it’s never taken much to scratch the surface of Maher’s glib opinions to expose the underlying dermatitis of vanity, egoism, and even outright hostility. Maher apparently thinks he...

Bill Maher's Anti-Religion Movie “Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.” That’s my favorite quote from Bill Maher’s often brilliant, but often unfocused “documentary,” called “Religulous.” It opens in early October right after its debut at the Toronto Film Festival. The articulate, quick-witted comedian sets out in this film — which was supposed to have been released last Easter — to prove that line is true. Directed by Larry Charles, the man who put "Borat" together so skillfully, "Religulous" is blatant about Maher’s feelings: religion is bad. All religions are bad. They are ruining everything. If you go for...

HBO's Bill Maher was spewing some extraordinary hatred for his fellow countrymen again Friday night, this time claiming that he doesn't "trust Americans to do the right thing or make the right choices" because "[t]hey're just too f***ing dumb." Why does he feel this way? Because not everyone is going to vote for Barack Obama. Yes, folks, if you don't vote for the Messiah, it has nothing to do with the issues, or whether the junior senator from Illinois isn't qualified, or even because you think John McCain is a better candidate. According to Maher, if you don't vote for...

A entity called Group XP placed a video of comedian Bill Maher making fun of Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and his advice to the Shiite faithful, as well as posting messages on the site.

Palin has had to endure several vicious verbal assaults that liberals ordinarily would not tolerate against a woman. Comedian Bill Maher, for example, crudely joked about her four-month-old baby Trig, saying “she had ‘it’ when she was 43 years old, and ‘it’ looks like John Edwards.” Actor Matt Damon dismissed Palin as a backwoods naïf unfit for the presidency. “It’s like a really bad Disney movie,” Damon cracked. “You know? The hockey mom, ‘Oh I’m just a hockey mom from Alaska,’ and she’s the PRESIDENT…. I need to know if she really thinks that dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago…because...

New Rule: Republicans need to stop saying Barack Obama is an elitist, or looks down on rural people, and just admit you don't like him because of something he can't help, something that's a result of the way he was born. Admit it, you're not voting for him because he's smarter than you. -- Barack Obama can't help it if he's a magna cum laude Harvard grad and you're a Wal-Mart shopper who resurfaces driveways with your brother-in-law. Americans are so narcissistic that our candidates have to be just like us.

On Friday evening, HBO's Bill Maher announced to the world what certainly won't come as a shock to many: "You know who's putting country first? I am by supporting Obama." With this coming a week after he chastised "guys" at MSNBC -- likely Chris Matthews and Chris Olbermann -- for being ready to have sex with the Democrat presidential nominee, it appears Maher no longer thinks it's wrong for media members to gush all over the junior senator from Illinois. Having previously insinuated that Trig Palin was not Sarah's child (as pointed out by my colleague Brent Baker), Maher concluded...

Comedian Bill Maher cracked a tasteless “joke” involving Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Down syndrome child — and referred to the Alaska governor as a “stewardess.” In the monologue of his most recent HBO show, Maher noted that Palin has five children including an infant “that has Down syndrome. She had it when she was 43 years old. And it looks a lot like John Edwards.”

Bill Maher calls Sarah Palin a stewardess and says her youngest child looks like John Edwards.

The media in general, and MSNBC in particular, are so far into the tank for Barack Obama that even the far-left Bill Maher, on his HBO show Friday night, recognized “there is a problem...with the media gushing over him too much.” Specifically, though he didn't name co-anchors Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, Maher pointed to MSNBC's coverage following Obama's acceptance speech: “The coverage after, that I was watching, from MSNBC, I mean these guys were ready to have sex with him.” Maher's assessment, ironically enough, came in the midst of his panel (CBS Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson, New...

Compare and contrast: Example 1: Two years ago, Pope Benedict XVI quoted a 14th Century Byzantine emperor who used the words "evil" and "inhuman" to describe some teachings of the Prophet Mohammed and contended that violence is incompatible with the nature of God. The result: Violent protests were held across the Muslim world. Islamic countries recalled their ambassadors to the Vatican; Muslim leaders issued fatwas for the Pope’s death; a Catholic nun was killed in Somalia. Example 2: Last year, radio “shock jock” Don Imus made an inappropriate and implicitly racist comment about the Rutgers’ women’s basketball team. The result:...

April 16, 2008. I caught the end of Bill Maher's show the other night, the part where he does a kind of monologue called "New Rules." Among other things, he said that Pope Benedict XVI "used to be a Nazi." At least he didn't blame Nazism on Catholicism, as Ben Stein might have done if Catholics accepted evolution. Wait a minute! Many Catholics do accept evolution. They must not believe in creation, then, right?

Just announced on FOX there is a website up with a petition to get Bill Maher off the air. Maher insulted the Pope and all Catholics with his comments last week calling the Pope a "Nazi" and calling the Catholic Church "a child-abusing cult." Go to Fire Bill Maher Petition

The station of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Write to Phil Boyce, WABC Program Manager and let him know what you think. WABC webmaster: webmaster@wabcradio.com Bill Maher is a bigot and an anti-Catholic. His HBO bit was offensive and insulting to Catholics. Maher's hatred of all things Catholic is well known and documented. Maher's popularity and following as a "comedian" are dismal. Talk show host Don Imus demonstrated to the WABC listening audience that he concurs with the offensive sentiment of Maher when he broadcast Maher's entire anti-Catholic HBO bit during the 7 and 8:00 time slots on his show...

Bill Maher on Friday night's "Real Time" made something crystal clear that conservatives have known for decades: Liberal means never having to say you're sorry. Having on last Friday's program (as reported by my colleague Matthew Balan) "stated that the Pope 'used to be a Nazi,'" Maher was supposed to apologize for his transgression. Well, if the nonsense he uttered last evening is what liberals call an apology, it should act as a grander indictment as to what's wrong with the extreme-left in our nation (video embedded upper-right courtesy our friend Ms Underestimated): Last week, I got into some trouble...

<p>Comedian Bill Maher stopped short of apologizing Friday night for accusing Pope Benedict XVI of being a Nazi, but he said he'd refrain in the future from drawing that connection.</p> <p>"I will never make 'the pope is a Nazi' joke again," Maher said on his HBO show, "Real Time With Bill Maher."</p>

"The pope was not a Nazi. When he was a teenager, he was in the Hitler youth, which meant he said the oath directly to Hitler and not to the Nazis ... which is sort of worse, okay."

Maher to Apologize for Calling Pope a 'Nazi' By Melanie Hunter-Omar CNSNews.com Senior Editor April 17, 2008 (CNSNews.com) - Liberal talk show host Bill Maher, whose controversial comments about the pope drew fire from the Catholic community, is planning to apologize Friday night for falsely accusing Pope Benedict XVI of being a Nazi, the Catholic League announced Thursday. Catholic League President Bill Donohue received a phone call Thursday from an HBO executive regarding comments Maher made last Friday on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher." As Cybercast News Service previously reported, Donohue said Maher "lied when he said the Pope...

'Nazi' Pope Runs 'Child-Abusing Cult,' Says HBO's Maher By Fred Lucas CNSNews.com Staff Writer April 15, 2008 (CNSNews.com) - Comments by HBO's Bill Maher insulting the Pope and calling Catholicism a "cult" that promotes "organized pedophilia" have stirred resentment among many American Catholics upset he would say this the week before Pope Benedict XVI visits the United States. The comments were made on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday, Apr. 11. Maher went into a long monologue on his program comparing the Catholic church to a polygamous cult -- the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...

On his April 11 HBO show, “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the comedian went into an extended assault on Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church. For a transcript, click here.Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded as follows:“Maher’s obsession with the Catholic Church continues, only this time there isn’t enough material for him to use as a club, so he literally makes things up. His lies include the following statement: ‘When the—when the current pope was in his previous Vatican job as John Paul’s Dick Cheney—he wrote a letter instructing every Catholic bishop to keep the sex abuse of minors...

On Monday, the Drudge Report released a picture of Barack Obama dressed as a Somali elder claiming it had been circulated by "stressed Clinton staffers." Four days later, on HBO's "Real Time," host Bill Maher strongly implied that the picture had been leaked by conservatives. Although Obama and his campaign representatives strongly lashed out at Hillary Clinton and her supporters for "shameful offensive fear-mongering," Maher, during his "New Rules" segment Friday, never once mentioned the picture's apparent connection to the former first lady:

The hatred from supposedly compassionate and open-minded Hollywoodans is something to behold, isn't it? After all, just imagine despising a radio talk show host so much that you would suggest, on national television, that he should die of a drug overdose. Alas, such was the case Friday evening when HBO's Bill Maher actually asked guest P.J. O'Rourke, who was talking about Rush Limbaugh's use of the prescription drug OxyContin (video available here courtesy our friend Ms Underestimated): Why couldn't have he croaked from it instead of Heath Ledger? Honestly, can you imagine? MSNBC's David Shuster was suspended on Friday for...

This was mentioned earlier in the comments thread. You can see Maher's offensive comments beginning about 1:35 into the video posted on YouTube here. Appearing on the Friday "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," comedian Bill Maher took repeated swipes at the Republican Party and conservatives as idiotic, bigoted, homophobic, you know, all the usual epithets. Although his material was registering mostly nervous laughter from the audience, Maher plunged further into his assault on traditional values, attacking Christians, particularly Catholics, by insisting that one has to be "schizophrenic" to go about life normally for six days a week only to, on...

The hatred from supposedly compassionate and open-minded Hollywoodans is something to behold, isn't it? After all, just imagine despising a radio talk show host so much that you would suggest, on national television, that he should die of a drug overdose. Alas, such was the case Friday evening when HBO's Bill Maher actually asked guest P.J. O'Rourke, who was talking about Rush Limbaugh's use of the prescription drug OxyContin

Philip Delves Broughton, in Monaco for the trial of Ted Maher, finds that the principality is a rotten little retirement home for fat catsIt was bucketing down in Monte Carlo and the casino was empty. Croupiers sat forlornly at the tables in the gilded Salle d’Europe and in the large private rooms at the back, overlooking a sheer drop to the Mediterranean. Several of them were horsing around with the sticks they use to gather in chips. The restaurant tablecloths were starched and laid with silver, but the waiters had no one to serve. A few old birds in dodgy...

Bill Maher Mercilessly Slams Hillary's Crying Game (updated w/video) By Noel Sheppard | January 12, 2008 - 19:00 ET A truly extraordinary event happened on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday evening: the host, in the first show of the new season delayed as a result of the Hollywood writers' strike, began the program bashing Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) for faking a teary moment in a New Hampshire diner Monday. Maybe even more astounding, Hillary's charade was a central focus of Maher's monologue, as well as the entire program during which he questioned the sanity of voters who bought...

A truly extraordinary event happened on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday evening: the host, in the first show of the new season delayed as a result of the Hollywood writers' strike, began the program bashing Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) for faking a teary moment in a New Hampshire diner this passed Monday. Maybe even more astounding, Hillary's charade was a central focus of Maher's monologue, as well as the entire program during which he questioned the sanity of voters who bought into her crying game [0] hook, line and sinker. Readers are cautioned to hold on tightly to...

Insisting he's “not a conspiracy theorist,” Bill Maher, on the Friday night season debut of his HBO show, suggested that because Republicans prefer to run against Hillary Clinton than Barack Obama they engineered her victory in New Hampshire's Democratic primary.

I was at a party saturday with a bunch of big liberals. They were watching a DVD of the Bill Maher special: Victory Begins at Home". There is a part where he starts defaming religions and one of the stage props is a poster of Jesus boxing Mohamed. They all thought it was hillarious until I told them there hero Maher could get killed by muslims for insulting the prophet.They thought that was pretty funnny until I told them about the cartoon riots and the teddy bear named Mohamed.

Kasparov on Maher – checkmate in two 20.10.2007 – Bill Maher is a colorful, eloquent and witty talkshow host, a comedian who has very high ratings and a dedicated following. Maher also tends to dominated his guests with his superior intellect and verbal skills. But his encounter with Garry Kasparov ended in a double checkmate for the former world chess champion. It was an impressive display in a tough talk show. Good stuff, must watch.  

The headline from Comcast news said the Bill Maher booted a 9-11 Conspiracy theorist from his audience after the protester was disrupting the show. Aside from the hypocrisy of Maher denying free speech to others I found it amusing that he threatened to throw out the protester personally yet did not go near the guy until AFTER the security guards arrived. Then Maher became a lion and helped throw the guy out.

For those of you who thought you knew how low Bill Maher would go to get a laugh, this one may surprise you. For most of you though, it probably won’t. As part of Bill’s program ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’, he has a ‘New Rules” segment. During this segment Maher lampoons various public figures and subjects in the news. While viewing a few minutes of Maher’s program today, I viewed the following presentation. Cut to program… (Maher has just roasted Victoria Becham for not smiling in public…) Broadcast… “New Rule, journalists in Iraq must stop celebrating miracle babies rescued...

As the new season of HBO's "Real Time" began Friday night, I watched with great trepidation, especially given host Bill Maher's disgraceful special on that network back in July wherein he spent virtually two-thirds of the program bashing President Bush and anyone with an "R" next to his/her name. With that in mind, my stomach started turning during his opening monologue as he made joke after joke about our president. I was put in further unease as he introduced his first guest, New York Times correspondent Damien Cave, currently in Baghdad, who seemed likely invited on to speak the liberal...

HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” ran a show on May 18—repeated throughout this week—that began with an attack on the late Rev. Jerry Falwell and then devolved into an assault on Catholicism: “And it’s easy to start a religion! Watch, I'll do it for you: I had a vision last night! A vision! The Blessed Virgin Mary came to me—I don’t know how she got past the guards—and she told me it’s high time to take the high ground from the Seventh Day Adventists and give it to the 24-hour party people. And what happens in the confessional stays in...

HBO’s Bill Maher is quickly becoming a walking billboard for the concept that hate is blinding. In a blog published at the Huffington Post Wednesday, Maher actually implied that he knows more -- from his residence in Southern California -- about what’s going on in Iraq than America’s troops that are risking their lives there (emphasis added throughout): Since this war began the number of soldiers in Iraq who think Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11 has stunned us all. We continue to be surprised by the number of troops over there who still think we're winning, convinced we're doing...

Remember after 9-11, when Bill Maher got into some trouble for claiming that the Islamo-nazis, whatever else they were, were courageous? After all, anyone who is willing to fly a plane into a building must be very brave. But this only goes to show what has happened to language and its relationship to intelligible, which is to say, higher, realities. For example, the cardinal virtues -- prudence, justice, courage, and temperance -- represent one such intelligible reality. But children and even (or shall we say, especially) college students are no longer taught about intelligible realities. Rather, they are specifically taught...

The new $30 million, 60,000-square-foot Creation Museum, built on prime real estate near Cincinnati's airport, isn't scheduled to open its doors officially until May 28, but it already had its first celebrity visitor. The facility, the crowning achievement of Answers in Genesis, which defends a biblical worldview including its account of Creation, was visited unexpectedly – and covertly – by comedian Bill Maher, formerly of ABC's "Politically Incorrect" and lately of HBO's "Real Time," and who once said Christians suffer from a neurological disorder. Ken Ham, president of the organization, calls the incident part of "an elaborate media deception." "A...

The group Answers in Genesis (AIG) says comedian Bill Maher of HBO recently made an unannounced visit to its new Creation Museum in an effort to "mock Christians and creationists." According to a ministry spokesman, Maher chose to circumvent security measures in order to obtain an interview with AIG founder Ken Ham. A production company called "First Word Productions" told Answers in Genesis it was doing a documentary on world religions and wanted to showcase AIG's Creation Museum near Cincinnati, which will open to the public May 28. The film crew spent about three hours walking through the museum with...

Following a letter to HBO’s weekly show “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Mayor Raul Salinas sent a similar letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin, making him aware of the “negative coverage” on Laredo.“I just think it’s important they regulate the communications,” Salinas said. “Just to let them know that we’re awake here.” In his letter to Martin, Salinas quotes comments exchanged between Maher and former CBS new anchor Dan Rather in reference to Rather’s July 2006 trip to Nuevo Laredo. Maher and Rather refer to Nuevo Laredo as a “bad neighborhood.” The negative report paints Laredo and Nuevo...

HBO’s Bill Maher may have hit a new low on Friday’s installment of “Real Time.” During this episode, which was really just one long Bush bash, the host actually suggested that President Bush and Vice President Cheney are traitors. As Maher used a lot of vulgarity in his final “New Rule” segment entitled “Treasonable Doubt,” I will post the details after the break for those who are uncomfortable with profanity addressed specifically at the most powerful man in the world. However, I must caution the reader ahead of time to move forward at your own risk. This was Maher at...

Bill Maher's License to Lie 2007-03-10 -- I caught a few minutes of "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO yesterday, when he joked about Newt Gingrich's recent confession that he had been having an affair while he pushed for Bill Clinton to be impeached for "getting a blow job." Comedians have a license to lie, and Bill Maher was certainly using his here. That is the standard Democratic line on Clinton's impeachment, and Maher echoes it faithfully. What Clinton was actually impeached for, of course, was perjury, subornation of perjury, and obstruction of justice. He was later fined and...

Here is what has been said the past week or so that sparked argument: Bill Maher, on HBO, said a lot of lives would be saved if Vice President Cheney had died, and Ann Coulter, at a conservative political meeting, suggested John Edwards is a "faggot." She was trying to be funny and get a laugh. He was trying to startle and get applause. What followed was the predictable kabuki in which politically active groups and individuals feigned dismay as opposed to what many of them really felt, which was grim delight. Conservatives said they were chilled by Mr. Maher's...

The double standard of Leftists who are ignoring the outrage of Bill Maher -- who alluded to his wish that Vice President Dick Cheney was assassinated – while at the same time are wildly fanning themselves in mock outrage as if they had the vapors over Ann Coulter -- for calling Democrat John Edwards a bad name -- was on full display in the MSM over the weekend. If you are a conservative who stays up on the "happenings" in conservative news, you'd have by now heard that firebrand Columnist Ann Coulter called Democratic Candidate John Edwards a "faggot" at...

In 2002, ABC made the decision to not renew Bill Maher's contract after he made some disgraceful comments on his program "Politically Incorrect" concerning America's military response to 9/11. After what transpired on "Real Time" Friday, the heads of HBO should be equally outraged, if not more. As the discussion moved to the attempted assassination of Vice President Cheney last week, Maher asked his panel why it was necessary for the Huffington Post to remove comments by readers concerning their disappointment that the attempt failed. As the conversation ensued, Maher said one of the most disgraceful and irresponsible things uttered...

Maher and Rather Attack Fox News For Reporting White House Talking Points Posted by Noel Sheppard on November 18, 2006 - 00:45. It was a pretty funny “Real Time with Bill Maher” on HBO this past Friday, although not for the reasons the host would have preferred. Maher invited deposed CBS anchor Dan Rather on to discuss whatever he wanted with total impunity, and what ensued was a full-fledged Fox News hate-fest. However, that wasn’t the funniest part, for Rather actually had the gall to insinuate that FNC gets talking points from the White House, and was doing its darnedest...

On Bill Maher's Real Time: "There are some, you know there are some anti-Semites in this country, but most of them would vote Republican anyway." You can watch it here. Yeah, because, you know, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Keith Ellison, Michael Moore and other leading lights of American anti-Semitism are Republicans. Not to mention surveys demonstrating without question that Democrats are more likely to have unsympathetic views of Israel than Republicans. (No, I'm not saying you can't be anti-Israel without being anti-Semitic. But it's a signpost.) This was Chuck Schumer attempting to be jocular. Hardy-har-har.

A few days ago Chuck Schumer said this on the ultra-liberal show belonging to Bill Maher: (h/t Larry Elder) "there are some anti-Semites in this country but most of them will vote Republican anyway" (Video available on the blog post) Ha ha, funny stuff right? I mean we all know Republicans hate Israel and the Jews right? What planet do these guys come from? I mean seriously? Let me start a list here: Jesse Jackson - Referred to NYC as "Hymietown" and the Jews as "Hymies"Al Sharpton - Referred to Jews as "Diamond Merchants"Michael Moore - Referred to the Iraq...

Political pundit Bill Maher last night accused the head of the Republican National Committee of being a closet "gay." Appearing on CNN's Larry King Live, Maher said it's an open secret in Washington that RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman is a homosexual and that he has "never denied" it. Maher added that he plans to out at least three other closeted Republican officials – including "chiefs of staff" – on his HBO political show tomorrow night to show their hypocrisy in supporting traditional family values. He is host of "Real Time with Bill Maher." " Rumors of Mehlman's sexual orientation first...