Submit Your 'Overtime' Questions for January 15, 2016
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Bill and his roundtable guests - Vice President Al Gore, Nicole Wallace, Cornel West, Ralph Reed and John Krasinski - will answer viewer questions after Friday's show.
Submit your questions in the Comments section below. Selected questions will be answered on the Real Time YouTube channel immediately following the premiere. Please be aware that concise (50 words or less) single-topic questions have the best chance of being selected, so the shorter and more specific you can be, the better.
Stop Calling Them Mega "Donors"
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People who give donations of $50, $100, $500 dollars, the Bernie Sanders people - those are donors. These are all sums of money so tiny no one could possibly expect anything in return from the politician, except loads of spam email.
Read MoreFake Food Fights
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Earlier this year, the Israeli Health Ministry ruled that Heinz ketchup can’t call their ketchup ketchup in Israel. The reason? There isn’t enough tomato in it. A rival ketchup company tested Heinz and found it only contains only 21 percent tomato concentrate. The rest is vinegar, corn syrup, and the shattered dreams of America’s millennials.
Read MoreA History of Failure
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Years ago, America went to war in Afghanistan to rid the nation of Islamic jihadists and the people who harbor them. Years later, there are more Islamic jihadists in Afghanistan than there were before we went to war, as well as plenty of people to harbor them.
Read MoreReal Time in Review: Season 13
/Go behind the screens with these pictures from Real Time with Bill Maher’s 2015 season:
When the Tough Get Going
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Donald Trump has called himself “the most militaristic person there is,” you know, short of someone who’s actually served his country under arms. I think he means “military-ish,” but it’s hard to tell.
Read MoreDavid Cameron Gets It
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Without a military solution to combating terrorism, what do we need? David Cameron began to lay out his “Counter-Extremism Strategy” for the UK in a speech back in July, and we need to take it global. A few highlights:
First, don’t shy away from acknowledging the root of the problem. People can blame 9/11 or poverty for terrorism, he says:
But let’s not delude ourselves. We could deal with all these issues – and some people in our country and elsewhere would still be drawn to Islamist extremism. No – we must be clear. The root cause of the threat we face is the extremist ideology itself.Read More
Political Climate Change
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According to a new report from the World Bank, climate change is on track to push about 100 million people into “extreme poverty” by 2030, thanks to agricultural disruption and the spread of disease. Yay, carbon!
Read MoreThe Red Zone
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It’s college football season and here’s a cool stat, right out of the latest NCAA programs report: Of the 1092 colleges and universities with athletic programs that compete under NCAA governance, only 24 make a profit.
Read MoreThe GOP’s Guantanamo Fantasy
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President Obama is on a bit of a roll, and it feels like the two last bits of business he has before he leaves office are: 1) get an international agreement on global warming, and 2) finally close Guantanamo, no matter how much the idea of having a guy named Al-Talibani in a stateside jail cell makes Republicans soil their pants.
Read MoreLiberals: The Paternalistic Protectors of the Oppressed
/Last Friday I performed an editorial that included about 30 jokes about white people, and one about black women paying too much money for a weave. You can guess which one made the audience groan.
Read MoreOvertime: November 20, 2015
/Bill Maher and his guests – Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Angus King, MP Chrystia Freeland, Ben Domenech and Andy Cohen – answer viewer questions after the show.
New Rules: November 20, 2015
/Bill Maher issues his latest decrees for society and makes the case against electing politicians who believe we are living in the End Times.
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom Interview: November 20, 2015
/Bill Maher and California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom discuss Syrian refugees and legalized marijuana in this clip from November 20, 2015.
Terror Firma
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At last week’s Republican debate, Dr. Ben CoughSyrup sang a familiar refrain: “When I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video, where I came from, they call that a lie.” Yeah, well, where you came from people attacked their mothers with hammers and stabbed family members in the belt buckle.
Read MoreGuest List: November 20, 2015
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The Interview:
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is the 49th Lieutenant Governor of California, and is a candidate for Governor of California in 2018. He recently announced a new ballot initiative for stricter statewide gun control, “The Safety for All Act of 2016.”
Twitter: @GavinNewsom
Read MoreSubmit Your 'Overtime' Questions for November 20, 2015
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Bill and his roundtable guests - Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Angus King, MP Chrystia Freehand, Ben Domenech, Andy Cohen - will answer viewer questions after Friday's show.
Submit your questions in the Comments section below. Selected questions will be answered on the Real Time YouTube channel immediately following the premiere. Please be aware that concise (50 words or less) single-topic questions have the best chance of being selected, so the shorter and more specific you can be, the better.
Why Do They Hate Us?
/Bill Maher and panelists Dylan Ratigan, Michael Steele and Jay Leno discuss the motivations behind extremists’ attacks on western countries and the GOP's approach to foreign policy in this clip from November 13, 2015.
