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Pryderi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:30 PM
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If you could choose Bill Maher's guests, who would you want on the panel?
Mike Malloy, Lindsey Graham, Rick Santorum
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:31 PM
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1. Randi Rhodes, Michael Savage, Barack Obama
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:32 PM
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2. Interesting question!
Howard Dean, Tom DeLay and DL Hughley. On the satellite feed, John Murtha!
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:37 PM
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3. That's a good one...
I'd LOVE to see D.L. rip into Tom DeLay. I'm sure it would be priceless.
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:38 PM
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4. Malloy to be sure!
LOL!!!!! Must see TV!
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:39 PM
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5. Darn good question.
Maybe some combo of these folks:

1 the BBC's Judy Swallow

2 TX Sen. John Cornyn

3 CNN's Christianne Amanpour

4 Brainless bully Toby Keith

5 FL Congresswoman Katherine Harris

6 Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin

7 White House flunkie Scott McClellan

and

8 former NY Gov. Mario Cuomo


I know it's too many guests for one panel, but I think the sparks would fly with that bunch.
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stanwyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:52 PM
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11. Cuomo is a favorite
everytime I see him on TV, I think...I wish he was our president.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:57 PM
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15. Hi, stanwyck. Me, too. Love him to death. I voted for him for
NYC mayor in that very tight late-70s race (Koch, Cuomo, Abzug, and Badillo all finished within a point or two of each other -- and all four ran magnificent, gritty campaigns. Koch and Cuomo ran in the run-off with Koch prevailing.)

I want Mario Cuomo on the Supreme Court, so a good showing by blue candidates in 06 and a Democratic ticket win in 08 is favorable for that to happen. No guarantee, but with a GOP prez, it's removed from all chance.

Very nice to bump into a fellow Cuomo fan on DU!
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:40 PM
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6. I'd watch Fidel Castro
Hugo Chavez and Dan Burton.
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Ufomammut Donating Member (576 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:42 PM
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7. Some enchanted evening...
Noam Chomsky, Peter Dale Scott, David Ray Griffin, Alex Jones, George Carlin ...with guest appearances by David Icke, and the ghost of Bill Hicks :)
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stanwyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:53 PM
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12. No women?
you couldn't name ONE WOMAN as a guest?
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Ufomammut Donating Member (576 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 07:04 PM
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18. I've been tsk'd...
The wonderful and iconoclastic Janeane Garafalo!
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stanwyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 07:08 PM
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20. and now you're forgiven. n/t
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Pryderi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 09:13 PM
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23. Ann Coulter, Randi Rhodes and Maureen Dowd. How's that?
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 10:36 PM
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27. That would degenerate into a steel-cage wrestling match...
...with Maureen as the referee getting caught in the middle.

Look out, Randi! Michelle Malkin is sneaking up behind you with a metal folding chair!
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 02:24 PM
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31. Now THAT I would pay to see!
Nothing else on my cable is worth even half the monthly fee.
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Midnight Rambler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 02:16 PM
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29. David Icke? The guy who thinks the world is secretly ruled by reptiles?
n/t
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Lin Donating Member (594 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:46 PM
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8. sam adams-tom jefferson-ben franklin& g.w. without his puppetmasters (eom)
Edited on Fri Mar-31-06 06:49 PM by Lin
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:51 PM
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9. Russ Feingold and who cares who else if he is on.....
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:51 PM
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10. Just Take Maher Off and I'll Watch Anyone They Want To Put On
I can't stand that smug little asswipe.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:54 PM
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13. He does not WANT you to like him
He wants you to have the same level of dislike for him that the GOP have. He is not a liberal, he is not a conservative, he is a Maherite--in essence, a selfish libertarian prick. One of those guys who likes low taxes, no services save a strong defense, prostitution on demand and pot machines in the bars!

The fact that people with a particular ideological bent, be it right or left, take issue with him means his schtick is working.
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Dhampir Kampf Donating Member (183 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 07:17 PM
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22. Maher is the bomb. Why?
Because he does not believe that HIS opinions should be law, unlike conservatives.

Of course he has his own opinions, lets not forget he's a comedian(even if he truly does wants pot and prostitutes)

But he's smart, and does know what he's talking about.
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:56 PM
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14. Bruce Springsteen, Dick Durbin, and Ron Reagan Jr. (nt)
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Midnight Rambler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:59 PM
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16. George Carlin, Mike Malloy, and Rush Limbaugh
n/y
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 07:00 PM
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17. I'd love to see him have one guest
George Bush.

Bill sure would make a monkey out of the chimp.

The mere thought makes me smile
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stanwyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 07:07 PM
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19. You'll never find Rush outside
his carefully controlled, tightly managed environment. He's got more handlers than Bush.
I saw the video of his appearance on Letterman years ago. The poor man almost went into cardiac arrest. Really. He was sweating and stumbling and totally off.
His show is as fixed as wrestling.
He, like his master Bush, can't handle direct questions. He needs his notes and his staff feeding him info. He's no Clinton. There's no knowledge base or quick thinking.
He'd be a total disaster on a show like Maher's. He'd get his lunch handed to him by a Hollywood celeb.
And, then, back on the drugs.
And we don't want to be responsible for that, do we?
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YouthInAsia Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 07:11 PM
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21. Thom Hartman and O'Leilly
Hartman would massacre him.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 09:15 PM
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24. Feingold, Ann Coulter, and George Carlin
Oh, and plenty of:

:popcorn:
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insane_cratic_gal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 09:39 PM
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25. Dan would never allow anyone to get a word
in..

She's too obnoxious, the only fair way to neutralize Coulter is to add in Malloy.

Malloy in the ring with Coulter! I'd pay money to watch him thrash her around
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minkyboodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 10:33 PM
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26. Juan Cole!!!!!
I don't know how many times I've heard Bill and
his guests speak out of complete ignorance or without
any nuance concerning Iraq/Middle East issues. Its
the weakest part of the show IMO. Juan Cole would
clean up but his demeaner and speaking style are
probably too soft spoken for the brash style of Real
Time. I'd love to see him lay the smack down though.
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RedG1 Donating Member (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 10:49 PM
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28. Joy Behar,
George Clooney, Bill O'Lie-ly and Mann Coultergeist

OY!
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 02:23 PM
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30. My gosh, they'd have to Scotchguard two of the chairs
Malloy would have them crying, too.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 02:36 PM
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32. Olbermann, Rush, Al Franken (week 1)
Edited on Sun Apr-02-06 02:39 PM by alfredo
(Week 2), Randi Rhodes, Kathrine Harris Helen Thomas or Molly Ivins
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egadsbrain Donating Member (407 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 02:39 PM
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33. cornel west, rachel maddow, and...
hmmm... chris matthews.
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Jigarotta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 03:08 PM
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34. Gore Vidal, Arundhati Roy, Christopher Hitchings.
or
That Phelps freak, George Carlin and Roseanne Barr.
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Nabia2004 Donating Member (566 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 03:47 PM
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35. Mike Ruppert, David Ray Griffin, and Al Martin - nt
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 04:04 PM
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36. Actually, I wish he were more careful in selecting his convervatives.
I don't mind a guy like Lou Dobbs, who although I disagree a lot with, does think through his ideas and tries to present a well-reasoned position. However, he should really leave the astroturf spreaders out like he had last Friday. They bring down the quality of the show with their commercial spin on propaganda.
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