and so came to pass that jack maher, so came to pass the moment that jack maher and so many others thought would never come, the mass firing of more than 11,000 skilled specialists and management not only from their jobs but from their careers. for there was no other employer, people of his training in the united states. in many ways i think we're still picking through the wreckage from that collision that occurred 30 years ago now. one of the last legacies of that fateful event, it turns out, was the rapid dissolution of all u.s. workers ability to use strikes as leverage in dealing with their employers. when reagan came into the rose garden on the first morning at 11 to lay down his ultimatum, he was quick to distinguish the patco strike from strikes in the private sector. he steadfastly supported private sector workers right to strike, he said. indeed, he reminded the audience that he fled the screen actors guild on its first strike in 1952. but the distinction that reagan drew between patco's controllers and private sector workers was quickly blurred. once the president of the united s

bill maher that tweet was tacky. it's like, satan and hitler in there and say something about tebow. that is outrageous. >> how about the point i made earlier. comedy, stand-up comedy, it's edgy and biggest punch of pansies. >> i agree. >> i can't remember who it is. comedian tweeted a couple months ago, a joke, hey, what's the name of that favorite conservative comedian. my response was, he assault guy that keeps his mouth shut when you talk about politics because he wants to get jobs. so i totally agree. there is a the definitely a double standard. i think bill maher says what he says and most of the time is stupid and not funny and leave it at that. >> tim tebow presumably everyone is going to be on board publicly praying every time it goes his way on the field? >> he can practice his faith however he wants. it shouldn't be an issue. if he wants to do, that is great for the people that follow him. perfect. wonderful. it shouldn't be something we're all talking about. >> i kind of feel like if tebow did exactly wha

bill maher that tweet was tacky. it's like, satan and hitler in there and say something about tebow. that is outrageous. >> how about the point i made earlier. comedy, stand-up comedy, it's edgy and biggest punch of pansies. >> i agree. >> i can't remember who it is. comedian tweeted a couple months ago, a joke, hey, what's the name of that favorite conservative comedian. my response was, he assault guy that keeps his mouth shut when you talk about politics because he wants to get jobs. so i totally agree. there is a the definitely a double standard. i think bill maher says what he says and most of the time is stupid and not funny and leave it at that. >> tim tebow presumably everyone is going to be on board publicly praying every time it goes his way on the field? >> he can practice his faith however he wants. it shouldn't be an issue. if he wants to do, that is great for the people that follow him. perfect. wonderful. it shouldn't be something we're all talking about. >> i kind of feel like if tebow did exactly wha

there's new outrage over bill maher trashing tebow. shocking, i know.for letting me do this. "the five" will be right back. ♪ >> star christian conservative and athlete tim tebow continues to drive atheists crazy, but that liberal clown bill maher begging for attention tweeted this on christmas eve. "wow, jesus just f'd," wrote it all out," somewhere in hell satan is tebowing, saying to hitler, hey, buffalo's killing them. i tweeted bill maher is disgusting vile trash, i can't even repeat what he just tweeted about tebow on christmas eve, hashtag bil straight to hell bi. >> this is around christmas, celebration of our lord and savior. you do not use that name, use that ridiculous -- i've used that word plenty of times, but not referring to -- i'll tell you, maher is a liberal. bill, you ain't a liberal. we just sent you out of the barn, man. you're gone. i'm so tired of defending him i can't stand it. >> bill maher hates tebow because tebow looks like tebow, and bill maher looks like a talking thumb with a face of an aardvark. >> that's true, because ti

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a twitter message from political satirist bill maher. known about his negativity about religion. his message about tim tebow. after the broncos lost maher sent the following message saying wow, jesus just blanked tim tebow. well, that prompted fox business host eric bowling to call maher disgusting, vile trash. some conservatives are calling for a boycott of hbo which carries maher's tv series "realtime." >> it's not the first time he's done that. >> that's what i was going to say. everyone is a target for bill maher. >> he did lose the game. but that's just wrong. >> let's talk about celebrities. a little happier note. >>> justin bieber, george clooney and lady gaga have snagged the top spots on the list of celebrity do gooders. >> according to dosomething.org's annual celeb gone good list. the longest list ever. the lady gaga's campaign for anti-bullying legislation, her soon-to-be launched born this way foundation and other charitable endeavors launched her to the top of the list. justin bieber claims second place after the pop star l

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maher marco rubio's a running mate. if i had to bet i have no idea i really assume that the save money is on mitt romney or i look you know. marco rubio talk about validating your theory talk about you know why i'm coming for media matters i mean he's a candidate and now a senator created out of whole cloth by fox news yeah well i think it's bad of us because i think you're probably right vince it's such troubling it's from going to venture a guess but between i guess the beginning ridged most likely i think romney has a few more vice presidential nod is in his direct ok meanwhile let's get out of problems with democrats we had we you know. democrats had. senator ron wyden from orgon. either do something brilliant which seems to have a lighted all of us or eluded all of us or totally step in by you know maybe i don't know paul ryan and those three are all bottles of wine what's the deal you know it's this tourney medicare into a public option and and doing it like there is in the schools where health insurance companies

take that bill maher. "the five" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> eric: our top story today, the big endorsement each candidate looking to score one or more. there are many still out there to be had. herman cain, sarah palin and donnel trump amongst many others virgin islands my own idea of the most coveted endorsement. i'll save it for last. who is the big kahuna as far as endorsements go? who will land them? >> bob: the biggest one is cain for this reason in iowa. he does have tea party suppor support. that does matter. there are tea party people undecided that would like to move. they probably won't move to romney. will they go to the caucuses? if cain makes a big push it will help marginally. the biggest endorsement is the "des moines register." the biggest newspaper in the state. it hasn't always picked the winner but a big endorsement. >> eric: kimrly? >> kimberly: i like people for the primary. i agree that cain is big for iowa. michele bachmann is already claiming it, staking it out for her own. good move

maher is not the only comedian making people angry.is leary offended islamic groups this week when his production company tweeted a link to this video. >> santa is converting to islam? i converted when i went to prison. >> a christmas spoof features charlie brown coping with doubts about christianity converting to islam. despite the fact it is from comedy central, a special seven years old, critics called it jaw droppingly islam phobic. they haven't apologized. >>> we go from political come eed yans to politicians. arlin spector tried his hand at standup using material he says he got from his political experience. he performed a mostly sex filled set at an open mic at philly. we can't show you most of the set. here are some of the more tv appropriate highlights. >> and this guy, arlin spector. >> congress tells a joke, it becomes a law. whenever congress passes a law, it turns out to be a joke. 65th birthday, i said bill, congratulations on 65. how do you feel? he said i feel like a teenager, but problem is i can't find one. herman cai

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though the line up for the upcoming fifteen day race includes nick alive and drake our good health iraq maher day of and his brother in gives our seven sides a car race japie have led the march again where it's art from the last february will be that seems manager the veterans count on the youth and hope that the new generation won't let them down and continue that seems a winning tradition. we expect serious rivalry between our young drivers and i'd be trying to say to the mom from the russian team in previous years this year race will be interesting and unpredictable but we hope that the rupee's will be able to continue great winning tradition in the sport. unless the end of this edition with another holiday special park or is the art of overcoming urban obstacles on surveillance of all four untrained people in everyday life now the discipline has been made famous in europe through movies and is slowly but surely winning over the hearts of russia's youth a festival called three move games was held in moscow in the summer and our teams put together the highlights of the events that as it usu

bad day for cable channel comedian bill maher.some are organzing a boycott of h-b-o after maher's offensive tweet about denver broncos quarterback tim tebow..we're not going to repeat the tweet now... but along with tebow it mentioned... jesus, hitler and satan... and it included profanity. 3 3 and a good day for ray lewis and six other altimore ravens. we learned tonight that ray was invited to the pro-bbwl for the 13th time in is great career.bruce cunningham will have a complete break down of the ravens pro-bowl selections coming up in sports. 3 the cincinnati bengals are trying desperately to fill their stadium for this sunday's match-up against the r. ravens.the 65-thousand seat stadium has only been sold out once in the past eleven home games.... meaning most of the games have been blacked out in the cincinnati television market. thh bengals offered season ticket holders an unprecedented "buy one get one free" offer for the game. that same offer coold soon be available to the general public.sunday's game is a big one for both teams... a ravens win means a first round ye in the playoff

requests was the release of political prisoners and the promotion of internal peace clinton said meow maher must prove reforms will last before any action is taken. the trial of former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi is due to reopen on friday in the land the seventy five year olds accused of paying under-aged prosecuted for sex in two thousand and ten he's also charged with the abuse of power for getting a moroccan born girl released from custody after she was arrested for theft both deny the accusations after george clooney and soccer star cristiano ronaldo are among witnesses expected to give testimony during the trial and some now for the business of date with kareena. her welcome to this is something the star he also goes to the polls on sunday to choose who sits in parliament the election season will that be concluded with a presidential vote in early march the weak state of the global economy is having a bleak effect on the election campaign and like previous years the government has not run public spending ahead of the voting. i think it reflects that we call it is growing

hand over any citizen bill maher the british public and politicians. and also watch the business program about ten minutes time to find out how roughest commentor election results may affect the country's economy. the future of afghanistan is the stake out a conference in germany with delegates from key countries attending except one crucial one pakistan's boycotting it and the latest sign of a deepening crisis in its relations with the us it follows the recent deadly nato air raid on pakistani border pace which killed twenty four of its soldiers cannot report. some of the key political figures like u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and russia's foreign minister said you know after all are taking part this is the second such conference being held in germany the first one happened exactly ten years ago back then the delegates were working on the rebuilding of the honest and we storing peace in the country building democratic institutions and so on and so on fortunately ten years later some of these issues still remain and probably one of the most

that's a hank paulson bald faced corny capitalist lie and but these liberal talk show hosts like a bill maher for example on h.b.o. he says this every other week while the taxpayers got the money that the back which is not only not right but it's not even ten cents of the dollar they didn't get back a penny on the dollar they're still waiting to get back the first penny of a dollar and yet this guy just perpetuates these ridiculous notions in the public domain that somehow his boy obama is faultless and all this when he sanctioned the theft by paulson a continuation of this theme of the mafia racket that is has become the federal government and those connected to the federal government here's the spin on the hank paulson story the positive side paulson hedge fund chat business as usual says william d. cohen of bloomberg he asked was it nothing more than crony capitalism as a rolling stone and janet have a koli said or was it just paulson doing a difficult job as argues william poole a former president of the for. all these are bank of st louis who said it seems to me you've got to cut the guy

my favorite moment will be his brutal take-down of bill maher butt-kissing moronic audience. >> he believese back, who is looking for war here? >> so does george bush, by the way. >> that is not facetious. >> that is facetious of your audience who will clap at practically everything is frivolous. [bleep] [bleep] >> that is awesome. >> greg: i will never get tired of that, bob. >> bob: i don't blame you. but i didn't know a single person you were talk about until the last two. >> ziggy? i love ziggy. >> bob: i shouldn't be wearing dark classes. >> how can you not like ziggy. >> you are a living version of ziggy. >> i am? >> yeah. >> i'll check him out. >> bob likes him now. >> greg: is there anybody that passed away this year -- not make it gloomy. >> kimberly: it's getting gloomy. >> greg: it's not. >> kimberly: talk about elizabeth taylor. she did incredible -- right, bob? she was wonderful. humanitarian. a lot of charitable acts. incredible amount for aids work from the foundation. i think that deserves to be recognized. >> greg: she was old school gaglamour. if a modern one was there now

talk show host bill maher is coming to silicon valley to host a show on the new comedy channel.it's february 3rd at the san jose center for performing arts. you know, yahoo! goes back and forth. they're a content company, no they're not. they're more interesting when they're a content company and they're making fun of things. it doesn't mean they're profitable. it's interesting. so this will be fun to watch. >> sounds good. thank you very much. >> business and tech and poetry. thank you very much, scott. it is 5:26. still to come on "today in the bay", we could get a better idea of how a promising richmond football player suddenly died. >> and we're flirting with low temperature records yet again across the bay area. but we've got a gorgeous weekend ahead. stay tuned. your forecast is coming up. >> and fridays tend to ease folks into weekend for your commute. not if you're traveling to oakland. i'll give you the newest roadway shift coming up. [ female announcer ] what would you call an ordinary breakfast pastry that's been wrapped in a flaky crust stuffed with a gooey center to

. >> bill maher tweeted something, we wanted to talk about it, we'll do it tomorrow.of time. despite what president obama says, americans are generous, we give our time, our money, and sometimes a well-deserved beat-down. greg will tell us all about it next. ♪ >♪ >> i'm not so peewee herman, although i do have the security device still in my tie,chie just realized. back to "the five." the spirit of gig was in full view sunday, at least in occupy nashville, where protesters exchanged gifts, or rather fists. well, i guess this beats watching "diehard" for the tenth time. of course this isn't how all the protesters spent the holidays. i'm sure some of them went home to lecture their parents on corporate greed after receiving a new iphone. the u.s. is ranked first in the giving, while the rest of the world gives 1% or less of their national income to charity, america doubles that. that's, like, 2%. the point is simple, despite bad times we're still the most generous place on earth. yes, we're not just pretty faces. despite a protest movement that labels capitalism as gree

. >>> there's a boycott call for a show by bill maher. maher, made a tweet about tim tebow. somewhere in hell, satan is tebowing, saying to hitler, hey, buffalo's killing them. >>> now, here's diane sawyer with a preview of tonight's "world news." hi, diane. >> good morning to you, dan. superdrugs, ten-times more powerful than anything we can take for pain right now. they are on the way. but will they set off a whole, new wave of addiction? see the whole picture. that's tonight on "world news." until then, dan. >> thanks, diane. >>> finally, you know you shouldn't text when you drive. you shouldn't film and drive, either. you're about to see a cameraman at a cricket match in australia learning this the hard way. crashing his segway. there it is, in front of 53,000 fans. mildly embarrassing. millions of people watching on tv. he was trying to get a shot of the players. but he failed to see a helmet on the ground. good news there, nobody hurt. >> looks like the cricket players -- hey, buddy. are you okay? >> maybe the segway wasn't the best

. >> bill maher tweeted something, we wanted to talk about it, we'll do it tomorrow.hat president obama says, americans are generous, we give our time, our money, and sometimes a well-deserved beat-down. greg will tell us all about it next. ♪ what is it about taking a first step that we find so compelling? is it because taking a step represents hope? or triumph? at genworth, we believe in taking small steps every day to keep your promises, protect what matters, and prepare for a secure financial future. no matter where you want to go, one step at a time is the only way to get there. go to genworth.com/promises. >♪ >> i'm not so peewee herman, although i do have the security device still in my tie,chie just realized. back to "the five." the spirit of gig was in full view sunday, at least in occupy nashville, where protesters exchanged gifts, or rather fists. well, i guess this beats watching "diehard" for the tenth time. of course this isn't how all the protesters spent the holidays. i'm sure some of them went home to lecture their parents on corporate greed after rece

curious george, you're on with bill maher. what's your question? the monkey for the hour.'t know who's who. speaking of 9:00 p.m. host on cnn, there's piers morgan who resembles, well, never mine. cat, i don't know what you say,