Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Cindy Sheehan on Bill Maher's Real Time Friday!

Bill Maher returns to Real Time Friday! And it's about time. It may be a wonderful hiatus for Maher, but for some of us the long stretch without a weekly dose of Maher feels like cold turkey.

Cindy Sheehan has been on every other show in America, but it should be especially good to see her on Real Time (via satelite).

The other guests are Chris Rock, Asa Hutchinson and Michel Martin.

Thanks to Bill in Portland Maine over at kos for the heads up. He also has a few snippets from Maher's new book, New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer, which is now at #8 on the New York Times bestseller list. Here are two (heh,heh), but go read the whole thing.

NEW RULE: Skip the truck. President Bush is down on the ranch, and we all know what that means---lots of pictures of him in that pickup truck, as if he's going into town to pick up a bale of hay. Okay, we get it. You're a "rancher." You're "clearing brush." You're a "Washington outsider." You're a huge country fan. Unfortunately, that country is Saudi Arabia.

NEW RULE: God is a waffler. Pat Robertson said God told him that Iraq would be a bloody disaster. But the same God told George Bush it wouldn't, which so surprised Robertson, he almost dropped the pennies he was stealing off a dead woman's eyes. But why is God talking out of two sides of his mouth? Flip-flop. God told us to beat our swords into plowshares. God: Wrong on defense, wrong for America.