The Truthers looked silly and Maher looked oppressive. He dodged the Building 7 question by blowing it up to be about all the towers. This was a golden opportunity to say something along the lines of “So the fuck what. Building 7 was a smoldering ruin. Who cares if they pulled it.” but he blew it, and this kind of stuff only stirs the Conspiracy pot. Joel The Journalist did what he usually does in awkward situations: duck and cover. As for Rep Sheila Jackson Lee, I’ll lump her in with the audience; if I’d been there I would’ve flat walked out.
Chris Matthews was as usual, mirthful. Not that I’m a fan, but I have had the opportunity to hear him speak in public and he knows how to deal with nutjobs. Once upon a time Bill Maher was a comedian who could handle the heckle. Now he’s just an ill-tempered TV Blog with Guests.
Here is a vid where Carey appears to be sitting on a panel of “Truthers”. Upon further study, it looks like the “Truthers” Photoshopped themselves into a shot from a different ep of Maher’s show (the one where Maher called them out).
I don’t think this is complicated. Chris Mathews (he was one of the panelists, you all get that part I hope) appeared to be enjoying the wacky antics, the other guests seemed distressed.
There’s no mystery about WTC7. The collapse of the main towers ignited a fire in WTC7’s basement, which destroyed several support columns until gravity took over. The reason it looked like controlled demolition is because that’s also how controlled demolition works – they’re just a lot less messy about it.
But you’re making a big assumption in thinking the 911truthers actually care about logic, reason, and science. They DON’T care. Bill Maher doesn’t engage those lunatics because sometimes ignorance ain’t worth fighting.
(Speaking of ignorance, at first I thought the loonies were reacting to Ms. Lee’s statement that she believes in evolution. But I suppose the idiots who believe in creationism at least have enough class not to disrupt a live TV show…)
That Buzz Aldrin clip is freakin’ AWESOME. I thought he was cool before, what with walking on the moon, being named “Buzz,” sitting with Ali G in an interview… but this puts him in the demigod realm. Dude has to be 70+ and that was a wicked cross.
Maher did get a little pissy on one of the first RT episodes this season when the audio went out. He ended up getting a microphone and speaking from it. He got pretty snarky, which is fine, but I get the feeling he probably ripped some low-level audio guy a new asshole after the show. I sense that Bill’s kind of a jerk in real life, but aren’t most comedians? The good ones, anyway.
I was TV-less for a lot of this weekend and just watched this On Demand–thought you might want to know that the entire incident (AFAICT) has not been purged from the repeats.
Wow. His security people suck. Not as much as CTers, but for guys who look like they moonlight as bouncers, they’re pretty sedate.
Oh. My. God. How did I miss this when it went around the first time? That guy had a good 6 inches on Buzz, but the old man dropped him like 3rd period French. Awesome!
There’s was neat photoshopped pic circulating on the web when it happened. It was a photo of Buzz from the Apollo era in his spacesuit, appearing to flex his muscle with the words, “Buzz Aldrin Still Kicks Ass” wrapped around him. In searching for it, I came up empty, but I did find this nifty illustration!
