Bill Maher on Alabama Campaign Ads and Solution for America

Friday night, Bill Maher took on Alabama campaign ads on Real Time with Bill Maher. The State of Alabama has historically been wrong about so many decisions and, thus, remains at the bottom of so many lists. Unfortunately, many Alabamians continue to be proud of being so backwards and out of touch.

I love many things about Alabama. The acceptance of Alabama's continual reliance on protecting classism by fueling superstitions, falsehoods, and hatred is not one of them.



Note: If you made it until the end of this video, you'll either be real angry or laughing real hard. Everyone knows I love my football team. One of the reasons there is so much pride in this team is because Alabama has very few other accomplishments to cheer.

I don't agree with everything that comes out of Maher's mouth - yes, I'm able to disagree and still enjoy the routine - but here are a few quotes and comments in which I do agree:

Responding to Teabaggers (giggle): "I don't want my country back. I want my country FORWARD!"

"We're stuck on a wheel, having the same arguments about getting off oil that we had in the 1970s; the same arguments about our ballooning debt that we had in the 1980s; the same arguments about global warming that we had in the 1990s; and, we never do anything."
 
Maher: (paraphrasing) We can't even reform the way we make pennies and nickles. Last week, we learned that making a penny costs two cents and making a nickle costs nine cents, which makes no sense.  The administration suggested we should make our money out of something cheaper, a suggestion first made by President Nixon. But, because this is America where no one ever gives an inch on anything, the coin-operated laundry association does not want to upgrade their machines. So, once again, we are made a little worse.
 
Which is why America needs to focus on getting JOBS - STEVE JOBS. Apple would have come up with a better idea for stopping the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico than the executives at BP.
In 2001, Apple reinvented the record player.
In 2007, Apple reinvented the phone.
In 2010, Apple reinvented the computer.
In 2011, let's let them take a crack at America - our infrastructure, our business model, our institutions - get rid of the things that aren't working and replace them with something that does. 
Goodbye, US Senate - Hello, Genius Bar.
 
Me: What does the latter have to do with the beginning? We will never move forward, if we won't let go of the past. And, with that, we're made a little worse. We shake our heads and wonder why we are having collapsing bridges and faulty levees and multiple mining disasters and oil spills and potholes and power outages and un- and under-educated children and a health care crisis and the impending sense of doom that other countries are breathing down our necks.