Sunday, February 17, 2013

Is Bill Maher Coming Around on the Israel Lobby's Influence?

I'm not a big fan of Bill Maher.  His movie Religulous, left out how the nuttiness of some practitioners of one major religion, influence the politics of Israel, for instance.  His reputation for being a mild misogynist is pretty firmly established.  He's somewhat of an Obamabot.

Back in 2010, he confronted Oliver Stone, when the latter was defending Palestinian rights under Israeli occupation:

 Maher's argument in the above case was effectively countered by Stone, who brings up AIPAC. Rachel Maddow sat on her thumbs throughout the whole exchange on Israel-Palestine. Maher's problem in the exchange, like that of so many, is to obfuscate when it comes to individual Palestinian rights per se. Yesterday on his show, Maher, defending Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, seemed upset about undue influence by people and organizations supporting Israel over U.S. policy making. The GOP being the case: The two segments show possible signs of evolution by Maher in respect to the conventional narrative about that pesky little country.

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