Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime - Episode #360 (Originally aired 8/14/15)

Episode Date: August 17, 2015

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Don't miss what the movie blog calls something you need to watch. Saving those children is how we all go home. From binge all episodes exclusively on Paramount Plus. Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-month series, Real Time with Bill Maher. We're on the overtime. Okay, 50 years after the Voting Rights Act,

are minorities still being disenfranchised? Yes, next question. Yes. Duh. Yeah, I mean... May I say one little things? Yeah, please. Yes, I'm sure you can.

The one time black people voted in an election equal to whites was when Obama got elected. Percentage-wise. Yeah, well, yeah, percentage-wise. But, and guess what's been happening, cutting it back ever since, against the black voters? Oh, yes. I mean, big time. Oh, yes. ID laws. Voter ID laws. No, like in Louisiana, you've got to have ID. You've got to have a picture.

You got to. No, I mean, the demographics, as you well know, are against the Republican Party. So, answer, cheat. Okay. He's so subtle. Yeah, yeah. You learn that in catechism. You've got to say the answer.

say it. You know, I still have my, they give me a... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know it's the big of... I don't want to see your scars. No, no, no, I was going to... You don't even know what I'm going to say

in here against me. I was going to say, I still have the... Boy, I can smell the weed from here. That's her. My bad. I'm so sad. He got the weed. But I still have the mimeograph sheet that they gave out

with all the questions that we had to memorize a hundred of them. Like, where is God? God is everywhere. Then why do I have to come here? All right. Will Hillary's plan to make college more affordable win over a key demographic? Wow. Who's writing these questions?

Well, it should, though. I mean, today, wait, wait, wait. Today, though, I mean, if anybody who watched this this week, she's talking about massive investment in college affordability, allowing students to be able to refinance their loans at regular rates rather than these ridiculous rates. But today, she did something really interesting, which was that she unveiled a portion of the plan that allowed for parents, working parents, to be given grants and services so that they can go to college as well as to make sure that their kids are taken care of. Really important for single mothers in particular. So good for her. Yeah, that's really important.

To live, why did you decide to release your album for free? Well, maybe because no one buys it anymore. No. They'd steal it anyway. Yeah, people don't buy music. They'd rather stream and pay money to stream in companies. Horrible. You know, and it's convenient.

You know, as horrible as it is, it's my responsibility to do something about it. It's not on the consumer to do something about the new business model. And so the way I do it... Well, I disagree with that. Well, I mean, I don't think it's fair, but that's how it is. It's my responsibility. I don't think it's fair. You wouldn't say that about it.

You wouldn't say that about civil rights. It's just how it is. It's not fair. It's not, well, it's not quite, it's tactics and strategies. So I have a website now, quali club.com. You come to my website. Ryan Leslie, are R&B artist. Great guy he built it for me.

You come to my website. You log in. I get your email. I help people with their homework. I listen to demo tapes, all that. People come by directly for me. We sell, but we saw your book. We sell books.

Wait, you help people with their homework? Oh, yeah. People have sent me their homework, and I've helped them with their homework. Wow. We sell books, we sell art. I sell my music. And in order to get people there,

I have an album called Fuck the Money, pardon me. And, uh... So sorry. It's too late. It's too late. I hold me back. I, uh...

Oh, boy, that offends me terribly, sister. I have, I have fans who have come there support me all year at quality club.com. So I'll give them a free album. you know, to keep them coming there. You know, I don't want a mass market and try to canvas the whole market. I want to market to the niche of people who really support me.

And you didn't jam it in everybody's iPod like you too. I'm not you too. Right. Definitely. Now, that's a venal sin, right, when you say a bad word, the son of a mortal sin. And all that was pre-Vatican. We don't talk about venials and mortals anymore. You knew all the degrees of it.

I didn't know anything about the Catholic Church anymore. I'm going to see that. Follow Pope Francis. He's showing us, bringing us to the gospel. No more venal and mortal sins? Can you handle it? I guess I can't. It's been so long.

By the way, Bill, you know. So they're all just sins. You do know an atheist is the one who's against the theism of the time. It's against theism. So, hey. Well, no, it's just the absence of theism, not against. Or, just opposing it.

saying that's not real. Well, it's not real. Exactly. I couldn't have said it better myself, but I probably did. Glad to help. Okay. Doug, we got to do a comedy act.

I know. You got to do a lot. It's really important. It is so important. It is too important. I do a straight man over here. Yes. You could do a ventrillic as act.

I could be the dummy. You could be like, ladies and gentlemen, I'm so sorry for my atheist. dummy over here. No, you know all of Woody Allen's good jokes about, I don't believe in the afterlife, but I'm bringing a change of underwear. I mean, you know, he has a lot of good stuff.

Doug, if Trump runs as a third party candidate, will that destroy any chance of a Republican winning in 2016? It sure doesn't help, and that's why I think he's basically been Hillary Clinton's unsecret weapon. Everything he does. I mean, you're loving everything Donald Trump does, right? I thoroughly enjoy it. That's all you.

Who doesn't? I mean... But all I can say is, if you read the Art of the Deal, his book, and he talks about how you gain leverage, he has got the Republican Party by the short neck. He's got them by whatever. Whatever. Right, by whatever or wherever.

It's my presence changing the vocabulary. For the better, sister. Okay, thank you, brother. Sister. Is the FBI investigation into Hillary's email going to come up with anything of consequence? No. I agree. You know, I just got an email from the State Department IG as did all my colleagues when I was Chief of Staff in the State Department,

and we have to now furnish information to the Inspector General on what we did with our emails. Because you have emails from Hillary? Powell had a laptop. office. He had private email. Howell had a laptop. I corresponded with him on his laptop on AOL. Steve Case and George Tinnett set it up. Watch out. You're going to be hauled in. Yeah, I mean, what do they think they're going to find? She is the most boring centrist America. Seriously, this is not Che Guevara in a pantsuit. She's just not that kind of person that would ever she does. It's just crazy.

Plus, these emails that were sent to her were later classified or marked as, there's two of them, marked as classified. You know, she didn't pass them. They came to her and they were later marked as classified after she turned them back to the State Department. You know, it's just a... Yeah, what do they have? If it hadn't been this, wouldn't it have been something? Of course. I mean, it's always something with...

And that's one of the challenges, is this story reminds a lot of voters why they're on Eighty. with Hillary Clinton. And look, she's done very well in blaming a lot of things on the vast right-wing conspiracy. And a little secret, there is one. We have regular meetings, and we've been pretty productive with it. But you can't call Barack Obama's FBI the vast right-wing conspiracy. And so the pushback that they're already doing on this, these are the kinds of things that happen when you run for president just isn't true. Are you going after Colin Powell next then? He's not running for president, is he? And we like Colin Powell. I know, but he had the same email set up. But it wasn't the same setup. And what we've seen,

What we've seen is Hillary Clinton's story has changed repeatedly. It's why she jumped into the race so quickly and got ahead of her campaign. And you know this. There were Hillary Clinton surrogates. I would go on TV with them who would say, I don't know what I'm going to say about the emails because I'm not getting any information. But this idea that there have been so many Clinton scandals, wasn't that something fabricated by the right-wing conspiracy?

Because even in the Ken Starr report, he said, I looked into all of them and I got nothing but the blowjob. Excuse me, sister. And also, why is, um... It's a dirty world. I'm not dirty. No, you know what's obscene. The death penalty's obscene. That's right.

That's right. That's right. That's right. Nothing I've seen about a blowjob, at least in my house. That was perfect. You just say it's pretty. Okay. And we'll end with that question for you.

I had it about, oh, I just had it here. Oh, is solitary confinement cruel and unusual punishment? Yes, I would say, right? When you go to prison, the government owns you. No, really. You do not have civil rights in a prison. You can be beat up.

There was a case that got to the Supreme Court, Louisiana guy, the Angola prison, handcuffed behind his back, and the guards beat a lot out of him, broke his nose. It came before the Supreme Court, and Clarence Thomas and Justice Scalia said prison is a place of pain, deal with it, and they did not see this cruel and unusual punishment.

You die because you don't get medical care. Prison is a terrible place to be in solitary confinement, human beings. We're dialogic. We live because we talk. We even do dialogue in our own head. And it drives people crazy. but they can do anything. And America did a horrible thing some years ago.

It decided that when we put people into prison, we can completely forget about them. And they are just horrible humans who get whatever they deserve. And, of course, that is such silly thinking. There are some truly horrible people there, but most people are. We have more people in prison than almost any country in the world. And most of them are there for drugs. Right. The drug war is a total, utter, abysmal failure.

Right. There's no coincidence that you are a ward of the state. You know, slavery was very profitable for America. Jim Crow was very profitable for America. You need a system to replace it. You have poor people, people of color who are being overly criminalized, who are being ushered into the prison industrial complex. To talk about the prison industrial complex and not talk about the racial overtones

that are wise is like it. Huge. is dishonest. And I think we... If I can end on one of the more encouraging notes in this polarized country where the parties almost never work together, this is finally something where they are working together.

They kind of agree on this that we went too far with the prison system and we have to undo it. A lot of it's happening in the States. In the States. All right. Thank you very much. That's what you are. Thank you. New episodes of real time with Bill Marr every Friday night at 10 or watch them anytime on HBO on demand. For more information, log on to HBO.com.