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October 08, 2005

That's a Cold Shot (update)

Okay, I'm watching Bill Maher right now and I'm very surprised at the grades I've given the panelists:
1. Andrew Sullivan- D
This guy is way more annoying in person than he is on his blog. He simpered about people of faith and got all self-righteous when Maher had the balls to point out that "people of faith" means they replace rational thought with "non-sensical bullshit that they believe"
2. Salman Rushdie- C-
This guy was pretty funny if a bit of a wet blanket. I think it's awesome that he's become a superstar writer in no small part because of the wacky fatwah that they put on his ass. Plus he was right there with Maher to help him taunt the faith-baiters.
3. Ben Affleck- B+
Now I would have bet the farm that this pretty boy would have been ten times as annoying as Andrew Sullivan, but not the case at all. Granted, he did predictably jump on the whole don't-make-fun-of-religious-people bandwagon. But my jaw dropped when Maher tried to drop a totally sensationalized and hook-line-and-sinker analysis of the "Stand Your Ground" story. Then I swear my lazy ass threatened to move off its glued-in-place position on the couch when Affleck totally bitch slapped Maher: "you said, like, nine wrong things in one sentence". He then proceeded to break down the "Stand your Ground" story with a scary level of accuracy, even adding a few levels of detail that I had missed, eg, the fact that conceal carry laws have been shown to reduce violent crimes and that the "Stand your Ground" law happened as a response to people fleeing confrontation and getting shot in the back, when in some cases they could have defended themselves. Nice assist, Bennifer.

Posted by exaltron at October 8, 2005 01:44 AM

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