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Mira

(22,380 posts)
Sat May 28, 2016, 12:00 AM May 2016

Bernie on with Bill Maher, and as always

when I get to see him sitting down in an interview I feel the bern all over me spreading like love.
I've known Bernie for ages from the Lunch with Bernie on Fridays with Thom Hartman, but getting to know him better and working for him has been a treat.
I so often announce who the guests are, since I am a friend of the Maher show, and today I neglected to look ahead. When there is a video, please watch it, it's showing Bernie pre California with whim and vigor standing up for his principles, and for us who support him.

Even though Melissa Harris Perry is on the show, and she is a professional of Politics and of TV she gets drowned out by a rat like looking, red tie Trump imitating, Trump supporting lunatic who will not shut up and thinks he's only invited to hear his own voice drone on.
Too bad. Bill Maher needs to not have these incompetents on his show, in a balancing attempt, when all they do is attempt to steal the show by yelling over reasonable opinion.

Ignore the show, but watch Bernie.
He is wonderful in calling Trump a congenital liar, a person hard to take on because he lies all the time and can't be pinned down, and talks about just how very much he would have wanted for the debate with Trump to have happened.

ME TOO

Addendum:

I was so frustrated with the show and the overbearing loudmouth that I could not really focus on what the last guest, Scott Adams, the brilliant creator of “Dilbert” brought to the discussion about Trump. So I will add my impressions now.
His insights into Donald Trump and his behavior are different and novel and well worth hearing, so if there is a video of that section available, do yourself a favor and see it.

He is a trained hypnotist and a person who has studied the human tools of persuasion and says that the Donald uses them to perfection.
His rhetoric is not about facts, but about focus and attention. The nicknames, though demeaning and insulting, are studied and not randomly selected. They stick.

And when they stick then every time the candidate so labeled does something in the least demonstrative of the nickname it pops into your mind and re-enforces the label. He said when Bush was labeled “low energy” he knew it would sink him. Donald uses an all intentional technique to destroy, and it works.

He then went into examination of the Clinton slogans in comparison, and brought up two of them, which I now forget, but he showed why they are weak and not well chosen in how they affect those who hear them.

We all love Dilbert.
In the beginning Bill Maher ran down how many papers it is in I think 2000 and how many countries.
This man, Scott Adams, is brilliant. Look for the video of that segment. I hope someone will post it.

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Bernie on with Bill Maher, and as always (Original Post) Mira May 2016 OP
Bernie was great tonight. And the audience LOVED him. nt tblue37 May 2016 #1
Melissa did well. oldandhappy May 2016 #2
She did really well, considering Mira May 2016 #4
Miss her. But stopped watching MSM when MSNBC did their number. oldandhappy May 2016 #5
That was great! nt silvershadow May 2016 #3

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
2. Melissa did well.
Sat May 28, 2016, 12:05 AM
May 2016

I love watching how she thinks things thru. She was first out of the gate and made her points well throughout the show. I agree re Bernie. He is a little different in an interview vs a vs a campaign stop. He made his points but carefully and in a match with what Bill was saying. He is a pro.

Mira

(22,380 posts)
4. She did really well, considering
Sat May 28, 2016, 12:15 AM
May 2016

she really wanted to just slug that silly man whose name I refuse to learn. At one point, unable to get into his tirade and set him straight, she went into a prayer pose with her hands and held them in front of her head and shaking it slowly while mouthing "NO".
I live in the same town she does, in my very integrated and diverse neighborhood her house is less than a five min stroll from mine.
She did great, I just wanted her to have so much more of an opportunity and no matter how hard she fought for it, it just wasn't available to her.
That is Bill Maher's job to not let happen.

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
5. Miss her. But stopped watching MSM when MSNBC did their number.
Sat May 28, 2016, 12:17 AM
May 2016

Have had a great time discovering alternate media on YouTube.

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