{"id":188226,"date":"2010-11-08T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/08\/what-bill-maher-said\/"},"modified":"2010-11-08T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T00:33:00","slug":"what-bill-maher-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/08\/what-bill-maher-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What Bill Maher Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 385px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/videos.mediaite.com\/embed\/player\/?layout=&amp;playlist_cid=&amp;media_type=video&amp;content=J3LRXR0RZDCY9CX9&amp;read_more=1&amp;widget_type_cid=svp\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"376\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"375\"><\/iframe><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">True Dat<\/span><\/div>\n<p>there are way too many people who think that reasoned discourse is about equating the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not.  Reasoned discourse is about the truth, and as Bill Maher notes, &#8220;Keith Olbermann is right when he says he&#8217;s not the equivalent of Glenn Beck. One reports facts the other one is very close to playing with his poop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is the problem with the Stewart\/Colbert March for Sanity\/Fear.<\/p>\n<p>At the core of this discussion, there are people who are just lying or delusional, and they should not be considered equivalent to those who are merely partisan.<\/p>\n<p>As the noted tippler Daniel Patrick Moynihan once noted, &#8220;People are entitled to their own opinions, not to their own facts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Stewart and Colbert did not make that distinction at the rally, though, ironically enough, Stewart does so regularly on his show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True Dat there are way too many people who think that reasoned discourse is about equating the two sides. It&#8217;s not. Reasoned discourse is about the truth, and as Bill Maher notes, &#8220;Keith Olbermann is right when he says he&#8217;s not the equivalent of Glenn Beck. One reports facts the other one is very close &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,1003,978,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}