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$\"\"$ <\/a>So I watch Bill Maher<\/span> on Bill O\u2019Reilly<\/span> last night (Sept. 29, 2010). For me, it\u2019s like getting two teeth drilled since I happen to feel both of these fine gentlemen represent much of what\u2019s wrong in our modern arena of debate. Not that you can\u2019t be straight forward about opinions, or say you think this or that is wrong. But listening to them talk, you have to wonder if it\u2019s all a scam for ratings and money. Do these two (and others) really believe what they say? Surely they can\u2019t believe all of it. <\/span>
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Take Maher<\/span>. O\u2019Reilly<\/span> asks him to admit that there are extremists on both sides of the debate. That\u2019s obvious, as any group, ideology, movement or anything has it\u2019s bad apples. Maher\u2019s<\/span> response? No way! There are only extremists on one side, the Right. I tried to see if he was smirking when he said it, but couldn\u2019t tell. That would be like saying \u2018No way! The world is too flat!\u2019 Who could believe him? Yet how many do believe him, and others in our media, simply because they are on \u2018Our Side (TM)\u2019? I would like to think Maher<\/span> was being facetious, or obnoxiously sarcastic, but a little voice can\u2019t help but think he isn\u2019t. One of the great coups of the Left has been it\u2019s insistence that liberalism is not a belief, but the TRUTH. It could be he actually believes that anyone on his side of the debate is incapable of extremism. It\u2019s one of the differences between the modern \u201cconservative\u201d and \u201cliberal\u201d movements. If that\u2019s so, then there should be no excuse for clear thinking and free thinking individuals to listen to him any more than they would listen to someone insisting there really wasn\u2019t a moon landing.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"