Goodbye Jon Stewart, you will be missed

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  1. Denny Crane

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    So did the person commenting on Maher's comments just completely misunderstand his point, or is he just trying to be a prick?
     
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    Wow! You spent a significant amount of time ragging on those guys, failed to mention one thing against the others. Well I could go on for a page or two about how incompetent Clinton is but why bother. I will just say this, anyone of those people you ripped up is vastly preferable to Clinton or the other socialist. There use to be Democrats a person could vote for and not be far wrong. No more. So I will vote for the one, warts and all, that runs against the Democrat. A win is, anyone that will stop this fundamentally changing America. It was a pretty good place before this crap began.
     
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    Anyway, back on topic. Stewart did a great job with his show. He pointed out hypocrisy where opportunity was, whether it was related to politics or other cultural issues, and if nothing else made people who watched second guess a bit. I don't think that's a bad thing at all.
     
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    Could be both.

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    Construction worker, cowboy, policeman, and native american?

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  7. Denny Crane

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    You think you're a macho, macho man?
     
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    The anti-vaxers actually are kooks and liars. There's been absolutely no link at all between vaccines and autism (which is what the kooks like RFK Jr. claim). Maher made exactly that kind of link:

    "It seems like common sense that vaccines, even thimerosal, probably don’t hurt most people — if they did, we’d all be dead, because they’re in a lot of vaccines that we all took — but some do. Obviously some minority gets hurt by this stuff."

    The WWW site that titled that article "bizarre anti-vaccine rant" etc., is Salon, a very left wing/leaning site.

    Science sites take issue with what he said, too:

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    While I don't agree with Bill Maher on his vaccine stance, the crazy liberal sites like Salon have had it out for him since he came out in favor of free speech and is anti-PC. He isn't loved by that brand of liberal anymore, if he ever was.
     
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    I know a lot of journalists who come closer to the title of "Clown" than John Stewart. I can name a couple just in the Portland area!
     
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    FTFY.

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    He said that it is reasonable to assume that vaccines, like with any drug, are going to generate a negative reaction in a small minority of people, and that that small minority should have the freedom to choose not to do something that would be harmful to them because the majority says they have to. What exactly is unreasonable about that?
     
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    The vaccines don't hurt people. He agreed with RFK Jr who is a lunatic.
     
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    Probably that nobody knows who that small minority is until after they have the reaction.

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    https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.or...an-antivaccine-crank-and-proves-it-yet-again/

    It is with reluctance that I decided to write about this topic again, given how many times I’ve written about it over the last decade, both here and at my not-so-super-secret other blog and given how little his fans seems to care when I do. I’m referring to the antivaccine stylings of comedian and political pundit Bill Maher, something I’ve been writing about for over a decade now. Indeed, a little more than five years ago, I stirred up a bit of trouble in the skeptical community through some particularly harsh criticisms of Bill Maher, in particular of the Atheist Alliance International’s (AAI) decision to award Maher the Richard Dawkins Award. More than once, I’ve likened giving Bill Maher an award that lists “advocates increased scientific knowledge” anywhere in its criteria, not to mention being named after Richard Dawkins, to giving Jenny McCarthy an award for public health, given that, at least when it comes to medicine, Maher is anti-science to the core. Along the way, I’ve ruffled the feathers of some of both Dawkins’ and Maher’s fans.

    Arguably Maher reached his peak of antivaccine advocacy through his weekly HBO talk show, Real Time With Bill Maher, five years ago, when the H1N1 pandemic was going on and public health officials were working hard to persuade people to get vaccinated against H1N1 influenza. Indeed, it got so bad that his own guests, such as Bill Frist and Bob Costas, were openly dissing him on his own show for his antivaccine views. Perhaps my favorite example came from Bob Costas, who in response to a wild claim by Maher that he doesn’t worry about getting the flu, even in the crowded confines of an airplane because of his superior lifestyle that apparently made him immune, blurted out, “Oh, come on, Superman!” Even worse, a friend of Maher, Michael Shermer, published an “Open Letter to Bill Maher on Vaccinations” in—of all places—The Huffington Post, which led Maher to respond, both on his show (in which he referred to vaccination as a “risky medical procedure”) and in a post on HuffPo himself entitled “Vaccination: A Conversation Worth Having“. It was, as a certain “friend of the blog” put it, a pyre of stupidity.
     
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    I've never gotten a rabies shot.

    Or distemper.
     
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    Why is this thread about what Bill Maher thinks about vaccinations?

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    Denny is looking to argue with someone.
     

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