Real Time with Bill Maher

[14:09:35] Nic: Lucas, this man is hilarious beyond means
[14:10:06] Nic: the things he says about the stupidity of people in general
[14:10:18] Lucas: who?
[14:10:58] Nic: like, on the night of the iraq war 70% of the american people believed that saddam hussein had a direct involvement in 9/11
[14:11:14] Nic: today, 6 years later... 34% still do
[14:11:29] Nic: Bill Maher
[14:12:30] Lucas: oh yeah i've heard of him
[14:13:22 | Edited 14:13:27] Nic: in south carolina, ina townhall meeting, a man stood up and told the congressman to keep his government hands OFF his medicare
[14:14:07] Nic: medicare is the government programme for poor people without a private health insurance
[14:15:02] Nic: Bill Maher "which is like driving across country to protest highways"
[14:15:51] Lucas: hehe, that's awesome
[14:16:31] Nic: two thirds of the americans don't know what the food and drug administration does
[14:17:13] Nic: Bill Maher: "Some of this stuff you should be able to pick up by simply being alive"
[14:19:39] Nic: people are bitching about taxes have no idea what the government is spending, the avarage voter believes that foreign aid consumes TWENTYFOUR percent of federal budget. it's actually less than 1%
[14:20:16] Nic: oh here's a good one: A third of the republicans believe that barack obama is NOT A CITIZEN
[14:21:47 | Edited 14:22:05] Nic: a third of the democrats believe that george bush had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. which is an absurd sentence becasue it contains the words BUSH and KNOWLEDGE
[14:22:58] Nic: oh wow, this one just sends me over the edge
[14:25:09] Nic: the religious america: more than half of the americans don't know that Judaism is an older religion than christianity. That's right half of america looks at books called the OLD testaments and te NEW testaments and cannot figure out which one came first
[14:25:17] Nic: Bill Maher: "I rest my case"