Andrew Breitbart corners Bill Maher, gets him to admit he’s a socialist

Bill Maher’s Friday night HBO show featured guests Amy Holmes of CNN and Andrew Breitbart. (Seth McFarland was also there, but mercifully, didn’t participate in the following exchange about ObamaCare and the Democrats dwindling hopes for November.)

There are two great moments in this clip:

1. The look on Maher’s face when Breitbart corners him about his longtime nonsensical claim that he’s a libertarian and forces him to admit he’s a socialist.

2. When Maher says the only reason the American people don’t like ObamaCare is because they’re stupid.

Holmes: They talked endlessly about it and their agenda was rejected by the American people, that’s a simple fact.
Maher: Because they’re stupid.
Breitbart: So you’re, you’re officially not a Libertarian anymore, right? I mean, this position…
Maher: Well..
Breitbart: …has run so far from the Libertarian position. Is this, so you admit that you have more of a, you know, European socialist leaning perspective on this issue?
(AUDIENCE LAUGHTER)
Breitbart: Why is that funny?
Maher: I’m..I’m not afraid…it’s not…I’m not afraid to say European socialism works.

H/T: NewsBusters.org

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  • I saw him in a murder she wrote episode where he was an annoying photographer. I just couldnt watch it so I said "Pass" and deleted it. Yes I do watch Murder She Wrote.

    • Yeah, it was a good show. Lansbury has had quite the career, and there is no way in hell that I would ever live in Cabot Cove.

      Used to be, in the early days of imdb, that Greg Bulmash wrote a 'zine called the "washed update" tracking the careers of hollywood characters past their prime. It turned into an episode listing of MSW and also Love Boat, and I think that's when the lawyers hit him with a cease & desist letter.

    • Is it just coincidence that the "Family Guy" character of “intellectual elitist" Brian Griffin is an alcoholic, wife coveting, drug abusing, platitude espousing, name dropping, dog that eats his own feces & licks his own genitalia? I think not... Give me Glen Quagmire any day.

  • Bill Mahr is and always will be a putz. The only good thing about his career is House II. And he was only an actor in that, not the brains behind the movie.

    ...yes it is a silly movie but I like it :)

  • Back some years ago there was an increase in the "outing" of closet homosexuals in sports and the media.

    Wouldn't it be great if folks like Breitbart et al could "out" more MSM and Hollywood closet Socialists as a public service to the country?

    I know I'd appreciate it !

    • To be honest, I would rather see more MSM and Hollywood conservatives outed and taking about their beliefs. Thank God it is starting, but honestly there has to be more then what we are seeing. I assume most of the MSM and Hollywood are socliast liberals... They don't need 'outed.' (Heck Bill Mahr has never needed to be outed, he's always been this idiotic.) But Conservative people in both forms of media? We need more of them to stand up and not worry about it.

      • Yep, I plan to buy anything that either Ben Stein or Dennis Miller are in, so they collect a little more in royalties.

        We should make a list of the conservative actors that are "out", so we can patronize them. They took a monster career hit for saying what they believe in, and we owe it to them. Places like Fox and talk radio have proved that conservatives are a viable market. Hollywood is more loyal to the dollar than to their principles, and if they see money in it, eventually they will get away from their whiney-assed propaganda.

  • Also what annoys me is that he makes MILLIONS of dollars a year being this hateful and insane OFF the same country that he hates and wants to destroy and RETOOL into a socialistic nightmare. I dont get these people.

    • It is all about pure, naked power. It is no fun to be rich if everybody else is rich. This is why they want socialism -- to impoverish the entire nation so they can feel better than us.

      We live in a blessed age, where the poorest among us has conveniences, games, food, and luxury items that kings only a few hundred years ago couldn't have dreamed of. Prosperity is the socialists nightmare, and ignorance is their weapon of choice. They'd love to take that prosperity away, bit by bit, until us non-political class types live in our proper squalor. Look how well Chavez does it -- all the poor people love him, even though the main cause of their poverty is Hugo himself.

      I look at how NHS (Government Health Care) is ran as a political engine to keep the Labor party in charge in Britain, how they "reform" it, and run all sorts of elections based upon "fixing" it, when that would be the absolute last thing on their priorities. In the sense that it would serve as the basis for liberal domination of the political landscape in perpetuity, the plan works, never mind the appalling and staggering human cost. *That's* what Obama wants.

      They have it with the Chicago school system, and it has been driving elections for decades, even though nobody in Chicago politics actually gives a rat's ass whether or not the kids get educated.

      They even have implemented busing, so that if you give a damn about your kids education, you still can't get away from it.

      Lib politicians are scum. Chicago politicians lower the bar on scum.

  • like all the other self-professed "intellectual elite" it is socialism for the, and not for me....
    this tool bag is just that-he is not funny-just a tool, and just a big mouth, with not much to say, other than he hates America, hates mankind, and loves to go to the playboy mansion where his "Celebrity" can get him laid by women too stupid to know what a douche he is.
    The only time he has ever gotten laid in his life, was when he had pockets full of cocaine at the playboy mansion. No woman in her right mind would ever give a little turd like him the time of day-so to pay him lipservice here is a little wrong! Mahr is a douche-any questions?

  • Maher is the equivalent of the small little dog that lives under the porch that rushes out takes a bite at your ankle and beats tail back under the porch. His idea of European socialist certainly is not working in Europe, they are tearing themselves apart with one failing welfare state after another> Maher, I would be happy to drive you to the terminal, only condition is that you keep your ignorance to yourself

  • ... but Bill... it doesn't. Did you miss Greece? Did you miss Spain? Italy? France? You don't watch the news? You are an idiot. Why didn't this clip go longer?

    If it works and you love it so much move to Europe and leave us alone.

  • "I'm not afraid to say European socialism works."Hey Bill, it's not going work here, that's what July 4, 1776 was all about, we're not f--kin' Europeans. Anyway, European socialism doesn't even work in Europe.