27 Replies to “Bill Maher is New Self-Declared Expert on Libertarianism”

  1. The classic example of a typical smug liberal. Forgive them Lord for they know not what they do. They are just ignorant.

  3. yup, typical smug liberal. If they can’t understand it with a moment’s thought, they won’t try to understand it. They won’t learn (or teach) cohesive history, so its lessons are lost to them. The world is made anew on a regular basis, and each time their ideas will work, if only the right people are in charge.
    On another story I read today about Lady Thatcher’s passing, one of her quotes “For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.” Vilification and personal destruction of their opponents has been the hallmark of a fanatical left for over a century. Wouldn’t it be nice if they’d just debate items of substance for a change? Nope, much easier to silence those who disagree.

  4. Ayn Rand wasn’t a libertarian but her books perfectly depicted guys like Maher.

  5. I’ll confess to having never read Ayn Rand in university: I had several girlfriends, so I didn’t have the chance to pick it up (“Atlas Shrugged”, that is). As I couldn’t decide, I thought I’d read “The Communist Manifesto”, which was quite a lot shorter. That was of no assistance, unfortunately, or fortunately, or something.
    Mr. Maher has this quirky little bombastic and “edgy” cross-positioning routine (sort of like Anderson Cooper), which used to bug me, but now I just find it bewildering: he had that show, “Politically Incorrect” and he claims he’s a libertarian and he wrote a book with the title, “Don’t drive alone with Osama bin Laden”, or some such, blah, blah, blah… And then he just rolls out the most standard of most standard of left-wing tropes. Very strange.

  6. Wow, where to begin, Maher shows his ignorance in so many ways – and do we really want to take seriously a scripted monologue from someone who has blurred the line between philosophical debate and retrogressed TV clown shows. Another Hollywood airhead who wants to bore us with his narrow optics and light-weight intellect. Personally, I’m surprised this pretentious talking sphincter hasn’t suffered a good old fashioned beating for his insulting ignorance – must have hired goons protecting him 24/7.
    In his anti-liberty monologue all the common fallacious arguments of quack expertise were there – appeal to ignorance, argument from omniscience, bandwagon fallacy, circular reasoning, ad hominem of Icon, confirmation bias, half truths, non sequitur, straw man mis directs, gross exaggeration, etc, – all the banal devices one might expect from the indoctrinates on the commie martyrs high school debating team. Ironic he accuses Libertarians as being “kind of smart but not really” because that is the demographic he is appealing to – or perhaps it is a case of Freudian projection.
    Whatever, in the end analysis Maher has revealed himself to be someone who has failed to either understand nor make distinctions between the moral message of Libertarianism and Randian laissez faire capitalism (objectivism) – or he does understand it and rejects Libertarian morality as being impractical in a corrupt world.
    Objectivism isn’t Libertarianism and the Pauls have never acted as if they were. Of course objectivity never makes for good comedy shtick, and Maher is all about mucking it up in front of an echo chamber to whom substance is a bore.
    In any event it matters nothing to me that someone as confused and malicious as Maher hates libertarians or not, because I am secure in my libertarian convictions and they have never factually or logically been proven to be a false reasoing system to me – perhaps that’s the problem with dogmatic “progressives” like Maher, they are intelligent enough to see the hypocrisies and fallacies of their progressivist dogma but not intelligent enough to stop apologizing for it.

  7. Well said, and sums him up well.
    I am not able to stomach him at all when I perchance see him on Fox News, as he viciously attacks anyone who does not agree with his brand of progressiveness, particularly anyone of faith. O’Reilly usually cuts him down to size.

  10. Ken – ” I perchance see him on Fox News, as he viciously attacks anyone who does not agree with his brand of progressiveness, particularly anyone of faith.”
    Ken – I mentioned he has shot his mouth off for a long time without suffering any repercussions – but that ties into his other major trait; he is a devout coward. He only attacks people/groups with a displayed history of non aggression – people who are too evolved, rational and peace-loving to lower themselves to violent reactions. That’s why he targets groups and institutions where morality is a core directive (Christians, libertarians, conservatives and red state America). We have never seen him attack aggressive militant groups like the violent left, imperialist bureaucrats, Straussian Dems in the crony capitalist-security complex, Green radicals, Islamic radicals et alia – ones likely to run a hit, lawfare assault, political purge or jihad on his sorry craven ass. These are the groups he defends.
    Big insulting mouth but no guts for a real fight – true “progressive”

  12. This makes total sense once you realize that everything Maher does is a pose. He’s 100% poseur. Libertarianism was once useful to pose as edgy and kool, now it’s edgy and kool to crap on libertarianism. That’s all there is.

  13. As discussed on other occasions, journalists and entertainers claim to be experts on pretty much every subject. Then you hear them talk about subjects you understand and you realize they are confused, outdated, biased and/or just completely wrong…very similar to the blather coming from most politicians. They may be humorous and even interesting but no-one in their right mind should confuse their opinions with objective, factual knowledge. Some journalists are better than others, of course, and once you understand their politics and biases then you can still enjoy their writing/shows even if you disagree with them on most subjects.

  14. Ann Coulter has got to stop dating him.
    Or a least letting him record their pillow talk and then deliver her lines better than she does herself.

  15. A vulgar jackass if there ever was one.
    A pity.
    He’s not stupid, and has a gift for the comedic.
    But, lacks the integrity to give his talent to anything other than a shrinking niche audience.

  16. He’s the least funny “comedian” ever. He’s never said anything remotely funny. Ever.
    Thanks for the transcript, Robert, because I can’t watch him.

  17. So the people who fight big government are not real libertarians. I guess statist fascist swine like Maher are the real libertarians. Where does the world keep finding these unfunny bitter cynical losers with no grasp on reality?

  18. Breitbart once got him to admit that he’s not a libertarian, he’s just a socialist who wants pot legalized.
    And yet Breitbart is dead and the horrible Maher continues to live and thrive in his nauseating way. Nice sense of humour you’ve got there, God.

  19. The great Ego has spoken. We must all bow to his celestial wisdom with its infinate compassion. What a vaudevillian act. He has more Ham in him than apig farm. Just another Marxist with a limited brain.

  20. Fred Oliver mentioned it first here; what’s with the laugh mechanism? It’s not even good or even only mildly offensive. Although I did chuckle evertime the camera flahed on the big smile goof at the roundtable of suckups. Cheers

  21. Maher is a “dirty capitalist pig”, the only money he gives is to corrupt African communists as grease.
    Can’t wait until Maher’s wonderful BIG government IRS eventually catches up with him, and puts things to rights.

  22. I love how Maher repeatedly looked to Bernie Sanders (the only sitting congressman honest enough to call himself and run as a socialist) for support. I think it’s appropriate to quote Ayn Rand on humour for this poseur: “to laugh at the contemptible is a virtue and to laugh at the virtuous, contemptible”. Only in a hollowed-out and mindless culture would Maher be able to make a living laughing at the virtuous.

  23. Bills mom told him he was funny, and who his real father was.
    She lied…. twice.

  25. “… essentially accusing U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of being selfish adolescents …”
    If not wanting to end up under another Hitler or Stalin is being a “selfish adolescent”, then we should all be selfish adolescents. Does he think it’s a mark of adulthood to grovel before every wannabe dictator who comes along?
    The assumption running through Maher’s mindless rant is that government inspectors and regulators can always be trusted, and never make mistakes or otherwise do anything wrong. He must live in the Land of Fairy Tales.

  26. Winter ended before I had a chance to finish reading Atlas Shrugged. Of the 10 or so books I read at a time Atlas Shrugged got picked up less and less often but I’m sure I’ll end up stranded at an airport for 12 hours at some point in the future when I’ll finish reading it. Sorry, while I appreciate Ayn Rand’s ideas, it would have been far better for everyone if Neal Stephenson had done most of the writing.
    Anyone who states they’re “libertarian” and then calls for government control hasn’t a clue about what Libertarianism is about. People don’t like sewage running in gutters at the side of the streets and it was capitalism that brought us underground sewers and cleaned up the environment. A sane person knows when a job is done and gets on with their life but statist watermelons angst over the fact that K40 exists at all is immense.
    I was an adolescent when I first became a Libertarian and it was Turdeau’s war measures act in 1970 that made me decide that all current statist governments needed to be annihilated and replaced with self-organizing systems of free individuals who joined a group of their own free will. So, in that sense, I’ve never grown up but the older I get, the more I see the failings of statism. This is one of the archetypical conflicts in human history which Eric Raymond expounds upon in considerable detail in The cathedral and the bazaar. While this book primarily deals with software development, Eric Raymond is a self-declared Libertarian who really knows what Libertarianism involves. When one looks at the bazaar in comparison the the cathedral, in Nassim Taleb’s weltanschauung, the cathedral is fragile and the bazaar is anti-fragile. Capitalism is based on the bazaar model and statism on the centrally planned cathedral.
    Bill Maher is a LINO and deserves as much contempt as the various other posseurs such as CINO’s and RINO’s.

  27. What a smug, contemptible, slimey prick. Real liberals should run screaming from him because he demeans the brand. Honest, they’re not all assholes.

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