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Hopefully, everyone who's planning on pouring into the Chicago Theater tonight to watch Bill Maher and Ann Coulter face off will take the time to read the reports from the appearances over the last couple nights - so they'll have an opportunity to head over to the box office and request their money back.
Both Boston and New York have both had their chance to take a look at the sideshow, and after reading about the Speakers Series - tagged as "The Minds that Move the World" - tonight's sit-down seems more like the Minds that Are Just Diametrically Opposed (But They Might Hook Up After A Couple Drinks).
If you're planning on showing up and watching an actual full-length debate between two political minds, deflate your hopes: Coulter addresses the crowd, then Maher does the same, then they take a few questions. There's some back-and-forth, but it doesn't seem like anything you can't gain from watching a couple talking heads on your cable news network of choice. Coulter will breathe pure acid over the audience, and then Maher will, without his team of writers behind him, resort to being the jerk he proved himself to be in "Religulous."
The real question is: what's the point? What is there to be gained from watching two of the most polarizing people in political pop culture snipe back and forth for an evening? Does anyone really think that any sort of intelligent conversation will occur, or is it just a show with the same appeal of a train wreck that's got a full house handing over up to $185 to be privy to the mess?
People vote with their dollars, so it shouldn't be surprising that lowest-common-denominator "events" like this get asses in seats. This is the kind of show that almost requires Monster-Truck-Demolition-Derby style advertising: "Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday! Maher/Coulter face off in a gut-wrenching, blood-curdling, sparks-will-fly event! Pay for your whole seat, but you'll only need the edddddddddddge!"
For what it's worth, the other upcoming Speaker Series events with Chris Matthews, Al Gore, Tucker Carlson and others (save Karl Rove) are promising. But for this evening? Get HBO. Watch Maher's Real Time. Buy Coulter's books. Subscribe to her newsletter. Support either one however you like - but don't expect to get your money's worth tonight.
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bitch needs her jaw wired shut again.
coulter has an adams apple.
I enjoy listening to Maher's monologues,and his tv show, but I don't think I'd pay to see him with Coulter. It all seems so set up to me.
Who I would like to see own Ann Coulter in a debate would be Janeane Garofalo.
Karl is write, without writers Maher quickly becomes an unfunny George Carlin parody.
Coulter is a comedian too, that's why these two pair up so often. Just not a funny one.
If these are the "Minds That Move The World" I'm praying for a meteor strike.
There is another one of these in a couple of week with Karl Rove and James Carville. Turdblossom Vs. Golum is a far, far better matchup.
I used to really like Maher until a girl I dated pointed out that he's not really telling jokes or making wisecracks, he's just sort of smugly asserting his opinion.
The Oscars this year where he mentions his own, stupid, unfunny, one note, and unnominated documentary three times while mentioning the ones that were nominated as fast he could was classless.
It pisses me off he represents the left like I'm sure some middle of the road republicans (I'm sure they exist) hate Coulter.
Neither of them represent the left or the right to anyone other than the knuckle-draggers on either side.
They're cartoons.
Tell that to my uncle who has his TV glued to Fox News and holds me to every single thing Micheal Moore or Ralph Nader say or do because I voted for Obama.
Then again, "knuckledragger" sounds about right.
Michael Moore, Ralph Nader, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Medved, Sean Penn, Bill Maher, Michelle Malkin, Jim Cramer, Joe Scarborough, Bill O'Reilly.
Y'know what that is? That's the best cast of Survivor ever.
Only when you get voted off, you get driven into the sea.
I'd ask "How much would the pay per view of this awesome reality show cost?" but I know that no matter what number you'd say, I'd pay it.
My money is on Sean Penn. I think he'd make all kinds of alliances with his actor skills and then betray them all.
First prize? Life in prison.
FINALLY! A reality series I would actually watch!
This is a Dog and Pony show. Years ago, I went to a so-called debate between G. Gordon Libby and Timothy Leary. What a load of hooey. Anyone who pays money for this and expects any sort of enlightenment beyond what you get with a below-average episode of Jerry Springer is a dope. Why are people wasting their time with these two?
best organized debate i've ever seen was Chomsky v. William F. Buckley.
I'm just planning on getting the highlights from Jon Stewart.
Speaking of which;
Stewart's CNBC/MSNBC tirades over the past days have had me falling out of my chair. I end up watching Morning Joe on MSNBC along with a few other programs. The banter of Scarborough in response to Stewart has been priceless. Today Joe was talking about how Stewart just makes a funny face after explaining something, and the audience acts in Pavlovian response. Steward reacted to this assertion here;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1-Z10OkaN8
This ranks up their when Stewart challenged Tucker Carlson on Crossfire about being a trained monkey.
Which led to the death of Crossfire not too long after.
Let's hope he has the same effect on the shouting man.
I bet Coulter whips out her junk and hits Maher with it. THAT I'd pay to see.
Someone considered all the bickering that occurs on the blogosphere between the left and the right and figured "there's gotta be a way to make people pay to witness this kind of bitching!"
Crap like this sells because politics/news junkies always flock to it.