Real Time With Bill Maher

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Friday July 25, 2003

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Rated: TV-MA for Adult Content (AC) and Adult Language (AL)
Tonight's episode is Live from L.A.
Senator Bob Graham spoke with Bill via satellite about the classified section of the congressional report on 9/11, (Sen. Graham was a member of the committee that issued the report). The roundtable guests, Angela "Bay" Buchanan, D.L. Hughley and Aaron McGruder, then discussed the reference to Iraq in President Bush's now infamous State of the Union speech. Rev. Al Sharpton then "dropped in" via satellite to talk about Liberia, which piqued further debate on the issue with the roundtable. Conversation then moved to Kobe Bryant, and the issue of rape and consensual sex. Finally, the group touched upon the movement to ban ephedra. Bill then closed the show with the New Rules, where he focused on the movement to recall California Governor, Gray Davis.

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  • Bob Graham Guest
  • Al Sharpton Guest
  • Aaron McGruder Guest
  • D.L. Hughley Guest
  • Bay Buchanan Guest

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  • Bill Maher Himself
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• Bill Maher: But, you know, I read an interesting thing about Liberia. It was founded by freed American slaves in the 19th century. And you'd think when they got back to Africa they would not have carried the same sort of baggage that they found in America. But they actually lorded it over the natives there. They were almost as bad to the natives in Africa as they had been treated in America. Which to me says that slavery is not about race but about power. edit »
• D.L. Hughley: I think I finally understand our foreign policy. We will attack no country Halliburton Oil can't make money off of. That's the deal. edit »
• Bill Maher: But Reverend, you know - you know what people are saying here, which is, we tried this in Africa before, in Somalia, and look what happened there. We didn't accomplish the mission and we lost troops. Why is it going to work in Liberia if it didn't in Somalia?
  
  Al Sharpton: Well, I think, first of all, you have a situation here where all of the parties are asking us to come in. Second, it's not working not going in. You have people stacking dead bodies in front of the U.S. Embassy two days ago while we were in Ghana, begging for us to come in.
  
  Third, we have responsibility in Liberia. Let's not forget the United States backed Samuel Kado [sp]. We made arrangements with Taylor. We have businesses that have used the rubber and the timber. We can't act like we don't have a reason to be involved. We use Liberia for a strategic base. So you can't help a country go down and then say we're not going to do anything to make it come up.
  
  We have troops surrounding Liberia. We can take 500 of them, have them join the West African nations - not go ahead of them, join them as a peace-keeping force, to go in and make sure food and medical supplies come through. edit »

• Bill Maher's reference to a Woody Allen film (in new rules) could be either Curse of the Jade Scorpion (co-starring Helen Hunt) or Hollywood Ending (with Tea Leoni.) edit »