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episode 162 Premiered July 31, 2009 Guests: Joe Queenan, author; Rachel Maddow, news anchor and political commentator; Niall Ferguson, professor and historian; Michael Ware, journalist; Jeff Sharlet, journalist On the Beer Summit This is the change we can believe in, that Obama was always talking about. Black Americans and white Americans coming together to get shitfaced. – Bill Maher Apparently, Gates had Red Stripe, Crowley had Blue Moon, and Obama, just to screw with the conservatives, had a 40 of King Cobra. – Bill Maher Only 42% of Republicans believe Obama was born in the United States! How come in America, Christians are the ones who won't take anything on faith? – Bill Maher I think that alcohol is a social asset. – Rachel Maddow You don't need a degree from Harvard to know what to say to a cop from Boston. – Joe Queenan I'm glad Joe Biden's not drinking. He has enough trouble with his tongue when he's sober. – Bill Maher I feel like Obama ran as a moderate, centrist, not-very-revolutionary guy. And I feel like he's governing as a moderate, centrist, not-very-revolutionary president. – Rachel Maddow People are attacking [Obama] as if he's me. But, he's not. I mean, he's really normal. – Rachel Maddow And if there's anything [Obama] should worry about, it's his control over Congress. – Niall Ferguson [Obama] is Michael Jordan playing on a bad team. There's nobody to pass the ball to. – Bill Maher On Healthcare With all due respect to my fellow Americans, Americans are selfish. This is not an altruistic nation. – Joe Queenan On the Media I get all my information from the Internet, but then I put it on television. – Rachel Maddow On Economics When the [stock] market goes up, people feel better about the country.– Joe Queenan I feel like the market tells you one very specific, often misleading thing about economy. – Rachel Maddow [Corporations] are becoming more profitable right now by laying off American workers. Is that something that we should all be celebrating? – Niall Ferguson I feel so disconnected to this financial mess. I can't understand it. I don't even know if the people who are supposed to be the experts can understand it. – Bill Maher And my grave fear is that Congress is going to get power over the Fed. That's the nightmare scenario, that we have those crazy people on the Hill starting to control monetary policy. Then I really will go back to Britain. – Niall Ferguson If the Fed had not been there, particularly at the time of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, we would be currently in the Great Depression. – Niall Ferguson On Clusterf*ckistan The soldiers fighting and dying in Afghanistan are doing so more about Pakistan's fear of India than it has anything to do with Osama bin Laden. – Michael Ware They were going to film my death with my own video camera. – Michael Ware A choice between a holy war and drug war, I know which one I'll take. – Michael Ware We don't only negotiate with terrorists, we bribe them. We do what America does best: we throw money at a problem. – Bill Maher You're never going to win with bombs and bullets in Afghanistan. It's always going to take a political solution. You cannot win in that country. – Michael Ware [The Taliban] are much more of a nationalist organization than anything Al Qaeda will ever be. – Michael Ware On Middle-Eastern Women's Rights [Afghan] women are screwed whether we're there or not, before, after, and not in a good way. – Michael Ware Afghan women may be screwed, Saudi women may be screwed, Iranian women may be slightly less screwed; Republican women in America are screwed. – Rachel Maddow I think we should airlift all the women out of Afghanistan for 40 years so that the Taliban can't reproduce, and then bring them back and start from scratch. – Joe Queenan It's often been said that in geo-politics, there's no such things as friends. There's only national interests. – Michael Ware You know, women have a lot more rights in Iran than they do in Saudi Arabia. We don't really care that much about democracy or women's rights. – Bill Maher It's funny for me to be asked to speak on behalf of women. – Rachel Maddow On the "Birthers" Hey, Birthers, want to hear my theory? My theory is Obama was born in America, and you were born with the umbilical cord around your neck. – Bill Maher Our mainstream media does such a lousy job of talking truth to stupid. – Bill Maher I will show you President Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma. – Bill Maher |
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