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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 07:03 PM
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Bill Maher's Christmas Message to Oprah Winfrey (and America)
Edited on Mon Dec-05-11 07:08 PM by cleanhippie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4Ro3wuck_ro#!


2 minutes of absolute truth. I dare you watch and disagree.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 07:08 PM
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1. How fucking true
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Armin-A Donating Member (99 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 07:19 PM
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2. sad but true
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daleanime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 07:28 PM
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3. ......
think I bit my tongue.:banghead:
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 07:31 PM
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4. Yep
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 07:48 PM
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5. I'm gonna force my grandkids to watch that
A couple of them are beginning to deal with reality but the others? I'm not sure there is any hope.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 08:44 PM
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6. I disagee.
Reminds me of GD when bin Laden was killed.
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humblebum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 08:47 PM
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7. What really is comical is how much money this guy has made from
his endless anti-religious and anti-Christian blather. What a bigot and hypocrite.
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 09:15 PM
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8. "Aye. I haven't
watched him in years.
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Goblinmonger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 11:50 PM
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10. So you didn't watch the video.
Check.
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MarkCharles Donating Member (932 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-11 09:52 AM
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11. So a successful comedian who makes about 1/1000th of what Oprah has..
Edited on Tue Dec-06-11 09:55 AM by MarkCharles
made, and who has worked as hard as any successful American television entertainer and personality, is a "hypocrite" because of his financial success? Or he is a "hypocrite" because he detests the turning of Christmas into a materialist orgy, as Oprah has helped to do with that show?

Just exactly what makes Bill Maher a "hypocrite" when he speaks out and gives his opinions, just as Oprah can and so often did?
They are BOTH successful people in the field of television entertainment, one is a lot MORE financiallysuccessful than the other, but the less financially successful is a hypocrite for speaking his mind?

I sometimes wonder why some religious folks get so offended by freedom of speech; so much so that they feel compelled to insult the person speaking freely.
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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-11 09:56 AM
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12. Come on Mark, didn't you see the "don't feed" sign?
You are wasting your time and effort on that one.
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MarkCharles Donating Member (932 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-11 10:05 AM
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13. You're probably very right! I guess my overwhelming love of Bill Maher sent..
Edited on Tue Dec-06-11 10:06 AM by MarkCharles
me over the deep end. Either my love for Maher, or my detestation of the commercialization of what is really an ancient pagan ritual stolen by Christians, then re-purposed by American capitalism so as to turn our children and adults into craving madmen and women, who trample on each other to be the first into a Walmart or Best Buy just a few hours after eating their turkeys.

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humblebum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-11 12:32 PM
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15. Besides being a hypocrite, I also said the man is a bigot.
He is a bigot because of his constant public trashing of other people's religious beliefs, and he is a hypocrite because he makes big bucks for doing it. That is not an affirmation of Oprah, nor of commercialism and greed. Regardless, he is a classic bigot, and radical atheists flock to him in droves just like Oprah's fans do to her.

"so offended by freedom of speech; so much so that they feel compelled to insult the person speaking freely." Don't make me laugh. That's how this idiot makes his living.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-11 10:14 PM
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9. I was at AA when it dawned on me that I was totally out of the habit of being grateful. When I was
a teen/young adult I was too easily pleased. But life got terribly hard and I got out of practice of being grateful. It is now a regular part of my life again...only in a healthy way.
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deacon_sephiroth Donating Member (315 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-11 11:57 AM
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14. Whoop there it is k/r/n/t
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darkstar3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-11 07:24 PM
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16. That is, quite possibly, the most important thing any American can watch this Christmas.
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