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Lets hope Bill Mahr doesn't try to push his views, because....


Because I don't know if anyone's seen him talking about it, he says VICE on HBO is his show, its his baby. He didnt mention it was a magazine, a hugely successful internet documentary maker ect. Just mentioned how proud he was to getting it on HBO.

Bill Mahr is alright in some points

But totally and absolutely *beep* insane about many other things, things that if you believed them you wouldn't believe them at all.

And that's why im scared he calls it his show. Ill just list 3 examples.

Just from the last Bill Mahr, on either Thursday or Friday April 19th. Did you hear him say "Well not all Muslims are terrorists, but all Terrorists are Muslims, can you name any terrorists that arn't muslim?[ One point he argues about no terrorist Israelis is another point below.

He is absolutely anti-Vaccine and ANTI MEDICINE IN GENERAL, hates pharmacutical companies and believes in new age medicine and homepathic medicine. Take one drop of say caffine, drop it in 4 litres of water. shake. Take you now have 4 litres of Homepathic sleeping medicine, because you dilute the opposite of what you wanna do, wanna sleep, do it with caffine, wanna stay up? do it with chammoile extract


but open minded like Vice he is not. Also, if anyone watches Real Time, He has said some very eerie things about Israel and how no Jewish person has ever committed a massacre of Palestinian civilians (cough http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre and many more /cough) How Israel has every right to have a Nuclear bomb since all their neighbors hate them and they "don't have to tell the world *beep* Also for someone who is an athiest or so he claims, he states his races as Ashkinazi Jew



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I don't wanna argue about my views, I don't hate Israel or Israelies, I just hate alot of their politics and the fact that its a crazy super religious state that for some reason, even jews turned athiest still defend so insanely.

Vice is known for doing whatever they want, and always having it turn out awsome and unexpected, this last episode of vice, with the school, it didn't feel like any vice documentry id seen before.Lets all hope Bill doesn't turn it into his soapbox, but ive been hearing rumors he knows that people will love the shows because he always makes sure he loves it before it goes to air.

Uh-oh

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Another Bill hater who "knows it" but won't accept it.. Get over yourself, he says it how it is and you loathe him?? Pathetic.....

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From the linked wiki article:

"Goldstein [the person who did the massacre] was denounced "with shocked horror" by Orthodox Judaism,[4] and most in Israel denounced Goldstein as insane"

Denouncing it doesn't bring back the lives of those people but it is much better than no denouncement wouldn't you agree?

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As a complete un-lover of Bill Maher due to his extreme leftist ideas as well complete lack of respect to people with different opinions than his own I can tell u - ur crazy.
Please give me another Jewish-Israeli terrorist. Please look hard and u will remain with just this insanity by Goldshtein. Umm and how many Muslim-Palestinian got on busses with bombs strapped to their bodies, fired rockets into residential civilian buildings, went to mall with bombs, fired, stabbed citizens minding their own damn business? Yes ur right Israelis are definitely war mongering nation.
Get a clue man.

Will check out this show though, love when something like this polarizes the watchers. A lot of great debate can be had then. Was a bit apprehensive this will be too left leaning, I prefer my journalist un-biased neutrals. But after reading the boards on here kinda excited to check it out now.

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Bill Maher has an appetite for shock. I don't agree with everything he says, but sometimes I wonder if the government should add some basic political ideology classes to late high school so people can learn to differentiate between different concepts.

There isn't much extreme about Bill Maher actually. The guy was a self described Libertarian for a while before the crazies really put him off of that. He's pro abortion, pro weed, anti police state. He's actually a pretty tame liberal by Scandinavian standards.

This is part of the problem of America's inherent closed world view. So much cold war propaganda persists. You get people calling Obama a socialist or a communist when the guy is so painfully right of centre he really disappoints most people who would identify as communist or marxist.

Fact is most people hate Maher cause he goes out of his way to piss you off. He's right, then he's wrong, but globally he ain't no crazy, he's just a bit of an a$$hole.

He also hates religion so he's guaranteed to piss off most human beings.

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"Will check out this show though, love when something like this polarizes the watchers. A lot of great debate can be had then. Was a bit apprehensive this will be too left leaning, I prefer my journalist un-biased neutrals. But after reading the boards on here kinda excited to check it out now."

Please tell me that English is not your first language., please!

It's very difficult to take someone serious when they type out a paragraph like that. I'm ain't no English teacher, brah, but dang yo!! Yous need sum fonics!

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When I saw his name on the credits I was totally shocked. The show is so well informed and seems to approach things straight up without too much bias either way. It was a pleasant surprise.

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Lets all hope Bill doesn't turn it into his soapbox, but ive been hearing rumors he knows that people will love the shows because he always makes sure he loves it before it goes to air.


Gotcha, I have seen a considerable change in the VICE documentaries ever since it's been on HBO. It just isn't the same as it used to be.

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