Proclivities wrote:
When Karoline Leavitt referred to it as fake news... it was a lock.

Bill Maher is getting the Mark Twain Prize after all
There's been some confusion about whether the comedian and longtime host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher would, indeed, be getting the top humor award. After The Atlantic cited anonymous sources saying he was, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called it "fake news." But today the Kennedy Center made it official.

 rgio wrote:

 Dssident wrote:
All that dope catches up to you.

He seems honestly oblivious to the notion that folks who hide their dark impulses when appropriate aren't at least partially good people.  It's a bit like saying Jeffrey Dahmer was a wonderful soccer coach... just skip the dinner parties.

 rgio wrote:

Yeah, It's too bad about Bill Maher. In my opinion, he's getting more and more full of himself. He still doesn't seem to realize that Trump played him to kiss his ring without Bill even knowing it. The kicker was when on the first show back he gave Trump a bit of a reach-around too.

For anyone who watches Bill Maher on HBO/CNN, and has been following his "visit to the Donald" book report and subsequent commentary, here is a very well done rebuttal to it from Larry David.

The link is a "paywall free" gift link from the NY Times

My Dinner with Adolf

 hobiejoe wrote: 
Free, and worth every penny?!  

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: 
Now you mention it, my uncle has a 2000 Lincoln something-or-the-other-barge in a garage in Manhatten that we really need to get rid of. You can have it for free, but sucker buyer collects.

 hobiejoe wrote: 
And if it goes up and down too much, you end up selling Buicks.  #upchuck

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: 
A great party, but the membership does tend to go up and down.

 islander wrote: 
Your a boater floater.

 sirdroseph wrote: 

 hippiechick wrote: 
Yes, but he does occasionally have "real journalists" on his panel. His dialogues are on timely topics, frequently including politics.  And his monologue, while coming from a know comedian, aspires to being taken seriously.  Frequently he is dead on and should be taken seriously.  He is kind of a "hybrid personality" with good ideas frequently.  His "comedian" label, though, is deserved and largely neutralizes his attempts at focused discourse being taken seriously, imo.  He has always owned his partisanship/opinion on many subjects.

 ScottN wrote: 

Bill Maher is a comedian. There is no reason to expect non-partisan conversation.

 ScottN wrote: 
Agreed, "infotainment" or even "opinotainment".

BBC is good. I like CNN International also. And thank FSM for NPR!

 Monkeysdad wrote: 
Same with most news outlets.  True journalism has given way to "infotainment" with most shows having a bias, frequently stated if not already well known.  I like BBC America for a somewhat more balanced look at our politics.

 hippiechick wrote:  

 You're either his target audience or you're not.

 hippiechick wrote: 


If you want an intelligent news show watch Up With Chris hayes on msnbc on sats and suns

Bill maher is the same as he's always been. He is a political humorist for the liberal, not a commentator or news person. You're either his target audience or you're not.