let's bring bill maher back, host of hbo's "realtime with bill maher."e a look at what speaker boehner said to cbs news. >> when you look at the final agreement we came to with the white house. i got 9% of what i wanted, i'm pretty happy. >> you know, bill, if a party has got 98% of what they want, why are they belly aching and kevetching now about democrats who say they're hostage takers, they got 98% of what they want, according to the man who leads their party. >> they need that sense of victimhood, that is their identity, they always have to be fighting the man, and i don't know if they know how to be winners. look at how they're sort of cannibalizing their own. who's crazy enough these days to be pure enough for the tea party? their threat is always to primary each other. if you don't fall in line, we will primary you, we will find someone even nuttier. they went after alan west, the guy from florida. when he said he would vote for one of the boehner plans, they said, okay, we'll find someone who is pure enough for us. if he's not pure enough for yo

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it leaves people to start asking questions for which i think are just kind of stupid questions bill maher went ahead and talked about this one take a look i think hillary would have been better having lived through p.j. dizzy dress. and trillions and all of that she would never of still like obama seems to think that he can win them over you go shit with him she would have bill you know i mean she would she knows how to deal with difficult. i don't view problems with days at all tell you why because yes we can talk about hillary and how she's a ballbuster you know she is so much tougher than obama and i think there is a statement to be made there but i don't think you can actually ask would it been would have been different or would it have been better of course would've been different but would it have been better if this person was in office because. from the record if you look at obama specifically people flip flop a change completely for when they're on the campaign trail to when they get into office you have to start asking all the whys and you never really believe that are you just

if i can handle bill maher i can handle george stephanopoulos. but hes, was very fair. even when he had on my opponents and i talk about this and how my democraticc opponents anybody would say the winner served in a lame duck session you were sworn in the two immediately fill the v rest of the term vacated by joe biden. my opponent literally had no less than five public positions on how he would b devote on extending the bush tax cuts.ing so depending on the audience that is the position that heere, took i tried to get it out there but i would say it but it would never be picked up by the media and i was on "good morning america" and iras i was leaving to go to the next event they had chris tunes on immediately after and george stephanopoulos says your point* accuses you of having no less than five positions on the tax cuts how would you vote? he said thank you for allowing me the opportunity but something to the effectcuts to set the record straight my record is and always has been a blah, blah, blah i could have kissed the tv screen and said i have your website on my

media stuff, and the witch deal came out of some kind of interview you gave, what, 10 years ago to bill maher on his dopey show. >> right. >> bill: you came across as a woman who is saying look, this is ridiculous. i'm just like you are and i want to make things better. you thought that that was a dealt triment to what you wanted to do. >> it was the opening line overshadowed the message of the whole campaign. and i knew that going into it but, you know what? i think that it exploded to the level it did because when you your political opponent doesn't have a platform to stand on they resort to the politics of personal destruction. >> bill: he had every media person in the world helping this guy coons. no doubt about that the guy who did this ad, fred davis, you kind of intimate in your book i had to read it quickly so maybe i didn't get the message properly he did it on purpose. he leaked it to the media on purpose. were you sabotaged by your own people. >> i don't know if he did but somebody leaked it before i saw it. and i respect fred davis. he usually does very good work. >> bill: you bel

and this monkey, curious george, you're on with bill maher. what's your question?onkey for the hour. a more uncanny resemblance i have not seen. i don't know who is who. left or right, i don't know? speaking of 9:00 p.m. host cnn,

bill maher asked on the table show friday if hillary clinton would have been a better choice for liberalsn 2008 to which one guest quickly answered yes. one of the liberal members bernie sanders suggested that a democratic challenger could surface. the "new york times" is calling for a broader vision. former msnbc anchor writes after yet another unconditional sur render in the debt ceiling talk he is has hit his tipping point. current msnbc anchor chris matthews complains that president obama handling of the debt debate was being coy, cute, too clever by half by not laying out his plan. >>> climate activist and former vice president al gore calling some global warming deniers pseudoscientists, paid to dissimilar mate misinformation. he became emotional and profane at aspen institute forum last week. >> bret: european leaders aren't letting the prospect of economic disaster keep them from the vacations. nicolas sarkozy is chilling by the mediterranean. his prime minister is relaxing in tuscany. britain chancellor in california where he rode the ride at universal studio. the cabinet of the

hbo host bill maher says liberals need a radical wing of their own called the donner party named after the american p pioneers who had to turn to cannibalism to sur viefr. >> we need loud mouths and bad dressers who can match the tea people maniac for maniac. you say no new taxes on the rich? we say tax the rich at 100%. we will not lose the war of bad ideas. >> on keith olbermann's countdown show former vice president al gore called >> we need to have an american spring, a kind of an american tar tahrir square, where people from the grassroots get involved again. >> that, gore says, would even the playing field, but is that really what america needs? would an american spring or donner party just lead to hyperpartisanship? for the talk back question today, does america need a liberal party. facebook.com/carolcnn. >> thank you, carol. >>> the decision by standard & poor's, the downgrade could have rim effects from wall street to your street, everybody's street. over the next two hours we'll take a closer look at how the downgrade is likely to affect the stock market, the housing market,

. >> did bill maher pay you to play his show? again, as i painstakingly detail in the book, it was a different time in my life and perhaps i was a little too candid for television, but my goal wasn't to go on the show just for the sake of going on national television. i went on the show to try to reach a younger audience with a message that, you know, when i was 16, by the way, this was 25 years ago, you know, i, too, was trying to find my way in the world. and ultimately i did. and you know, people have said do you regret making those comments, and i go into detail about what my thinking was. but the more self-inflicted wound was how we chose to respond. and the ad was a big mistake. >> that brings me -- yeah, that brings me -- >> oh, don't tell me you're going to play that ad. >> i'm afraid we are. >> oh. >> let's have a look at how you made a small problem ten times worse. >> i'm not a witch. i'm nothing you've heard. i'm you. none of us are perfect, but none of us can be happy with what we see all around us. politicians who t

and this monkey, curious george, you're on with bill maher. what's your question?ncanny resemblance i have not seen. i don't know who is who. there there is piers morgan who

you were on the bill maher program friday night and you used language that he used at first, but you can't find it in any economics textbook. i want to listen. >> excuse my language, but we used to do a segment on this show [ bleep ] are we. ♪ i didn't expect that there, but just before we went on the air, they said our rating got down graded. >> so pretty darn [ bleep ]. >> it's a comedy moment there, but not a funny thing what happened. explain what you mean by that, though, in family friendly english about how people are pretty darn what? >> well, it certainly was more colorful than i would normally be. and it was a late night comedy show. but actually what i was referring to is the much broader issues. certainly the downgrade is sort of another shock to the economy, another bad thing to be happening to the economy. but it comes on top of just months of weakening economic statistics, comes on months of a realization of just how severe our long run deficit problem actually is, and it sort of all comes together with a political system that doesn't seem able to deal with those proble

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and this monkey, curious george, you're on with bill maher. what's your question?for the hour. a more uncanny resemblance i have not seen. i don't knowho

and this monkey, curious george, you're on with bill maher. what's your question?the hour. a more uncanny resemblance i have not seen. i don't know who is who. left or right, i don't know? speaking of 9:00 p.m. host cnn, there is piers morgan who

bill maher. he's funny. he'd be smarter if he read, bill. >> host: what's your professional relationship with bill maher? >> guest: well, he introduces me as his first wife and, apparently, a lot of people believe that. [laughter] i think he's verified i was his most frequent guest when i was on politically incorrect, and i do think he's very quick and funny, but he brags about how he doesn't read books. and if you're going to get all your politics from rolling stone magazine, i'm sorry, you'd be so much funnier if you read more. >> host: you mentioned that you enjoy the research and writing part of a book. 594 footnotes or end notes are at the end of "demonic." >> guest: we call them footnotes cloak callly. >> host: how do you do your research, where do you write? >> guest: um, i read and read and read. i tend not to take notes, um, which is why i'm really looking forward to doing all of my research on kindle books because it's going to be so far faster to -- so much faster to find facts. i do use post-it no

and this monkey, curious george, you're on with bill maher. what's your question? uncanny resemblance i have not seen. i don't know who is who. left or right, i don't know? speaking of 9:00 p.m. host cnn, there is piers morgan who resembles -- well, never mind. cat, i don't know what you say. if i haven't eye don't know what to say. if i haven't gotten through to you now, all they can say is, watch your step. you and your posse don't want to anger me and you sure don't want to anger wilfred brimley. in the meantime, enjoy your first of nine lives on the "ridiculist."

you were on the bill maher program on friday night when they was breaking but he used language that he used. you can't find it in an economic's textbook. >> excuse my language we used to do a segment called how [ bleep ]ed are we? i didn't expect that there but -- just before we went on the air they said -- they said our rating got downgraded. >> pretty darn [ bleep ]? >> ew. >> it was a comedy moment but not a funny thing what happened. sman what you mean by that though, in family-friendly english, about people are pretty darn what? >> well, certainly it was more colorful than i would normally be and it was a late-night comedy show. and actually what i was referring to is the much broader issues. certainly, the dawngrade is sort of another shock to the economy, another bad thing to be happening to the economy. but it comes on top of just months of weakening economic statistics. it comes on months of realization of just how severe our long-running deficit problem actually is and it sort of all comes together with a political system that doesn't seem to be able to dole with those proble

right now, they may be tuned in to the extent that they watch it on stewart or stephen colbert or bill maher, but they will give the next president a fair hearing. and that is our window of opportunity to make the case. and we need to make it along the lines that i've outlined. and i think that they'll hear us. i genuinely believe; but we've got to try, and that's the other thing. i mean, half the battle is showing up, right? we've got to make an effort. we've got to be where they are which is online, and i are say the republican party at least in the last few years realize we got creamed by technology by the democrats. i mean, they had facebook involve inside their campaign, and they were involved in online advocacy, and they were engaging youth. i still, i mean, i signed up for fun. i was at the dnc convention for fox news, and i signed up because you could text this thing, and president obama would text you and say thanks for being here. i still get texts from president obama. i'm not getting texts from the rnc. i should be getting texts there the rnc. but we knew that we got creamed, and

belmar --bill maher. he is funny. >> host: what is your professional relationship with him? >> guest: he introduced me to it -- his first wife. people believe that. the most frequent guest on politically incorrect. we sometimes do debate together. he is quick and funny but he brags about how he doesn't read books and give you get your politics from rolling stone magazine that will not cut it. so much funnier if you read more. >> host: you mentioned you enjoy the research and writing part of a book. 594 end notes at the end of "demonic". 594. how do you do your research? where do you right? >> guest: i read and read and read. i tend not to take notes which is why i am looking forward to doing all my research on kindle books. it will be so much faster to find facts. i use post-it notes. no lawyer you will find without post-it notes. we could be at a formal gathering and we will have post-it notes. my books tend to be full of post-it notes but that doesn't help when you are trying to find something cheaper to release specific quote. i do lots of reading and i don't end up using

. >> did anybody see bill maher on friday, by the way? christina romer, got a little salty.this show called how [ bleep ]ed are we. ♪ i didn't expect that there, but -- just before we went on the air, they said our rating got downgraded. >> so pretty darn [ bleep ]ed. i've been hanging around timothy geithner too long. >> does she swear like a sailor? >> oh, like a seventh grade boy. >> there you have christina romer worked in the white house until about a year ago, saying we are pretty darn blanked. >> and she burned tim geithner too. >> just for the language, though. we'll be right back with "morning joe." i'm good about washing my face. but sometimes i wonder... what's left behind? [ female announcer ] introducing purifying facial cleanser from neutrogena® naturals. developed with dermatologists... it's clinically proven to remove 99% of dirt and toxins and purify pores. and with natural willowbark it contains no dyes, parabens or harsh sulfates. dirt and toxins do a vanishing act and my skin feels pure and healthy. [ female announcer ] new purifying facial cleanser from

i heard bill maher say awful things with no one to check him, the raging on sarah palin. >> gretchen:d conservative women, even though they were the national organization for all women. here is what they're saying now. what they're saying of a woman who is a serious contender for president of the united states of america, they are basically casting her as a nut job. i find that fascinating that n.o.w. said that. tara, let's be honest here. n.o.w. in the past has not always defended all women. >> n.o.w. has certainly not spent a lot of time, i think, contrary to what's being said, i think n.o.w. hasn't spent a lot of time defending every woman. >> gretchen: come on. it's been political in the past. >> i think what's happened is n.o.w. has certain positions. they support reproductive rights, they support a lot of issues that are more progressive. typically when women are carrying those issues and being attacked, n.o.w. responds to those women carrying their messages. but n.o.w. did defend sarah palin earlier this year and michelle bachman again in addition to this. they actually defende