I've been critical of Bill Maher at times in the past. Overall I have found his shows to be entertaining even though I don't agree with him most of the time. However I will definitely give him credit where I feel it is due.
This week he threw out a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who interrupted his show. Here's the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzrUD-5hf1A
Now the guy was obviously a disruption so regardless what he was for or against his removal was warranted but I thought Maher's comments after the fact deserved credit as well.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SCU1C00&show_article=1
Now I'm not saying that civil disobedience isn't always unnecessary but it seems too many times it's just for some to get their 10 minutes of fame, "Don't taz' me bro!" This type of protesting is counterproductive to any thoughtful debate and shouldn't be idolized.
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...I thought applied to government - not a tv show...but then, what do I know?
all the more power to him that he didn't let the disruption rule HIS SHOW...
your 'right to speak' does not mean that I (citizen or business) have to provide you with a forum in which to do so.
I saw the show and I agreed with Bill Maher's decision to remove the heckler. Its Bill Maher's show and not a forum for debate from the audience. If the hecklers want to debate the issues then they can get an invitation from Bill Maher to be one of his guest.
I went to Whitmer High School during the time their debating society won the national title for high school debating. I remember going to a couple of the debates (at the local level), and enjoying the wit of those debating. There was a structure to the "give and take", and you might have learned something from the exchanges.
I doubt that these "hecklers" had anything to impart. I watched the snippet on "Youtube". I just heard disconnected "phrases" seemingly designed more to disrupt that impart anything useful. I enjoy Maher's wit, and am irritated by these "conspiracists" who make outlandish claims (right up there with the flying saucer nuts).
I saw the clip, and I agree that the idiots should have been given the bum's rush. Why they were allowed to stay as long as they did is the real question.
If only Maher would have done the same thing to Tucker Carlson last week...
It was fun to watch a smug, elitist liberal rendered helpless. After he threw the first one out, there were more and there was nothing he could do short of throwing the entire audience out. The look on his face when the second one spoke up was priceless. To me the whole scene was a microcosm of the fall of old media's monopoly - no longer having the only voice - the bully thrown off his pulpit.
I didn't see the program, only the "Youtube" segment. What I saw seemed to indicate that just those members who insisted on disrupting the "guests" were thrown out. Of course, maybe more occurred after the "Youtube" segment.
Yep.
Maher--elitist liberal?
On elitist, omg yes.
On liberal, Ok, how about anti-capitalist social engineer that trolls for wider acceptance and even more elitism by calling himself a libertarian?