Unreal Time
If you want to torture yourself sometime and have HBO, you simply MUST check out Real Time With Bill Maher. Test yourself. Can you sit through an entire hour of this viscious Bush Bashing, which appears to be the ONLY goal of this show, or must you turn it off? Maher's smart. . . I'll give him that. . and his original show years ago was pretty balanced. But I must take issue with the Joe Biden quote on the website that "he is an equal opportunity offender". Um, I don't think sooooooo homey. Last night I was flipping through channels and came upon an equal opportunity panel consisting of Richard "Ax to Grind" Clarke, the ridiculous Cornell West, some singer/ songwriter named John Legend, and an interview that I missed with the ever dreadful Mad Madeline Albright. You can have Bill and the smarmy Jon Stewart. His bombing at the Press Corps Dinner aside, I will take Colbert. The guy is a hoot, can make fun of himself, and trashes the left and the right with pretty much equal force.
posted by stewdog | 8:06 AM | Permalink
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Welcome to Rumpus, RR. Ride the Bike, Read the Twain, Bash the Bush. Life is good.
I could stomach Maher if he had balanced panels to discuss the issues. The bar is not raised if the left and the right simply bash one another.
Bush is a doofus. So what? I'll take him over the Bay Area's finest, Boxer and Pelosi, any day of the week. And a big part of his drop in approval ratings isn't just Iraq, it is that he has p**sed off the right with a number of his stands, including illegal immigration.
Thanks, for visiting, Stewdog
For what it's worth, unless President Bush detonates a nuke on American soil, this is probably about as low as his approval ratings will go. Much of the recent disapproval isn't from his ideological opponents; instead, it's been (as Stewdog has suggested) from Republicans who think that Bush isn't being sufficiently conservative. I don't think there's reason to believe he's lost those supporters forever.
"Unless Bush Detonates A Nuke On American Soil". Hmm. . I live in the San Fernando Valley in the darkest shade of Blue State . I'm afraid. . very afraid.
I agree with Jeff. Many Republicans are down on Bush for his stance on immigration and for too much government spending. But voicing disapproval over the phone to a pollster is a far cry from exercising that disapproval at the polls.
Repack, if you really think a "small minority" supports Bush, go back a mere year and half ago and explain how he received the most votes in the history of presidential elections.
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