Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime – Episode #395 (Originally aired 07/15/16)

Episode Date: July 16, 2016

Overtime - Episode #395 (Originally aired 07/15/16) - Bill and his roundtable guests Frank Luntz, Viggo Mortensen, Jelani Cobb, S.E. Cupp and Eliot Spitzer answer fan questions from the latest show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series, Real Time with Bill Ma. All right, here we are in overtime. Vigo, is there any historical figure in American politics who you could see yourself portraying in a film? Anybody you admire? No? No? Really? You don't admire George Washington? No. Why? Because he was a slaveholder? Yeah. Picky. So you don't go with the argument that it was just the way. way things were done back then. That's not a good enough reason.

No. Jolani, is it fair to compare the tactics of Black Lives... So I'm guess Mitt Romney is completely out of it. Is it fair to compare the tactics of Black Lives Matter to occupy Wall Street? Who's doing that? Yeah, I don't know that that's the case.

I mean, aside from them both being protest movements on the left, I don't know that you say that there's a whole lot of basis for comparison. Another thing, I think, is that Black Lives Matter has a organizational structure that's kind of become increasingly defined as time has gone on, and that didn't really happen so much but occupied. Okay.

Frank, do you think Hillary... No more. No more. You killed me already. Frank, you came out very feisty. I died. I know I died. No, no. No, you didn't... That was very entertaining television.

Was that not entertaining? No, honestly, I mean, you just came out loaded for bear. I don't know why. I mean, I've been known you for a long time. You've been on this show. used to consult on this show. You just, you know, that's fine, but you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,

you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you know, I didn't, I didn't kick your ass, but you did have feisty with your, go to them. What does I say? I already hate our next. I don't know. Thank you. Thank you.

That's awesome. All right. So, Frank, do you think Hillary's campaign slogans, I'm with her and better together are working for her. I mean, you're the, a master of changing people's minds with words. You go to your evil laboratory and come up. I mean, Frank came up with the death tax instead of the estate tax,

and everybody changed on that. I don't think she has a good team doing this, right? Those are not good, right, Frank? And I would tell her at the National Convention, no teleprompter. She's been doing this now for 25 years. She can do it. Really? She comes out, no teleprompter,

25, 30 minutes just looking straight at the... American people and sink... Just trumps it? Just like starts going off on how great she is? She speaks in complete sentences. That's not bad. Vigo, do you think living abroad has given you a different perspective on American politics? Maybe. I think just watching how people

watch the, for example, a presidential campaign, it's different than the way it happens here because it matters. They really... really think about who's going to be president because we have so much power militarily and economically. What the news that you get? I mean, it must be much more informed than our horrible news. You can get, you can inform yourself here.

You have to work harder? Yeah, you have to, but you have to everywhere. I mean, there's right wing, left wing press everywhere and you have to make up your mind. It's just that people are lazy. I mean, when I drive across the country a lot in the United States and I listen to the radio and it's very difficult to hear anything other than. a kind of scripted right-wing diatribe all the time, unless you get close to a major city

and then you can listen to some, you know, alternative media that's more center or liberal. Maybe upgrade from the car you're renting. But I do. To one with FM. Because FM is really coming around. No, I do. No, I'm serious. I mean, you can't, yes, true.

And FM. I realized that a couple months ago. But, no, I get up every morning, and I make myself listen, no matter where I am in the world, through, you know, using my computer. I'll listen to Fox. I'll listen to Sean Hannity, Savage, all those guys. I can take about 10 minutes, 15 minutes. You're a better man than I can. No, but I want to hear.

I want to hear what's going on. It's better to know what people are saying. Sure. Okay. But it takes work. Essie, will all the GOP elite boycotting the convention next week have any effect on Trump's candidacy? Both Bushes are not going. The last two nominees are not going.

Romney and McCain. The governor of the state where the convention is being held is not going. Wow. Will this have any effect on Trump's candidacy? You know, probably elect them. Nothing that Antonio Sabato Jr.

Can't solve. All right. We're in good hands. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you, folks. You're a terrific audience. Catch all new episodes of real time

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