Real Time with Bill Maher
Guests: Senator Bill Bradley, author Christopher Hitchens, rapper Mos Def, author Salman Rushdie Topics: Banking crisis, Legalization of marijuana, Nuclear proliferation
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Episode 6 - March 27, 2009
Episode 1 - February 20, 2009 Episode 2 - February 27, 2009 Episode 3 - March 06, 2009 Episode 4 - March 13, 2009 Episode 5 - March 20, 2009 Episode 6 - March 27, 2009 Episode 7 - April 03, 2009 Episode 8 - April 10, 2009 Episode 9 - April 24, 2009 Episode 10 - May 01, 2009 Episode 11 - May 08, 2009 Episode 12 - May 15, 2009 Episode 13 - May 22, 2009 Episode 14 - May 29, 2009 Episode 15 - June 05, 2009 Episode 16 - June 12, 2009 Episode 17 - June 19, 2009 Episode 18 - June 26, 2009 Episode 19 - July 17, 2009 Episode 20 - July 24, 2009 Episode 21 - July 31, 2009 Episode 22 - August 07, 2009 Episode 23 - August 14, 2009 Episode 24 - August 21, 2009 Episode 25 - August 28, 2009 Episode 26 - September 11, 2009 Episode 27 - September 18, 2009 Episode 28 - September 25, 2009 Episode 29 - October 02, 2009 Episode 30 - October 09, 2009 Episode 31 - October 16, 2009
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S7 • E1
February 20, 2009
Guests: Financial Times editor Chrystia Freeland, journalist Tina Brown, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA); via satellite, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), journalist Brigitte Gabriel
Topics: The economy, President Obama's first month in office
2009-02-20
S7 • E2
February 27, 2009
Guests: Actor Alan Cumming, political satirist and journalist P. J. O'Rourke, Mayor Gavin Newsom (D-San Francisco); via satellite, political correspondent George Stephanopoulos, author Robin Wright
Topics: Obama's speech, Bobby Jindal, marijuana, home ownership, Iraq, Afghanistan and troops, future of the Rep. party, Vatican and indulgences
2009-02-27
S7 • E3
March 06, 2009
Guests: Businessman T. Boone Pickens; Mayor Cory Booker (D-Newark); news anchor Erin Burnett; author Peter Singer
Topics: The economy, green energy, charity and philanthropy, socialism
2009-03-06
S7 • E4
March 13, 2009
Guests: Comedian Sarah Silverman, professor Michael Eric Dyson, author Andrew Breitbart, columnist Steven Pearlstein
Topics: State of the Rep. party, racism in America, the Teachers' Union, stem cell research
2009-03-13
S7 • E5
March 20, 2009
Guests: Fmr. Sec. of State Madeleine Albright, television host Keith Olbermann, actress Kerry Washington, senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin
Topics: AIG bonuses, the crisis, Teenage pregnancy in America, Glenn Beck, right-wing power
2009-03-20
S7 • E6
March 27, 2009
Guests: Senator Bill Bradley, author Christopher Hitchens, rapper Mos Def, author Salman Rushdie
Topics: Banking crisis, Legalization of marijuana, Nuclear proliferation
2009-03-27
S7 • E7
April 03, 2009
Guests: Joe the Plumber, Journalist David Frum, comedian Carol Leifer, writer Reihan Salam, reporter Sam Donaldson
Topics: 2009 G-20 London summit, tax cut, health care, Carbon tax, nuclear energy
2009-04-03
S7 • E8
April 10, 2009
Guests: Filmmaker Ron Howard and novelist Gore Vidal
Topics: Bill conducts one-on-one interviews
2009-04-10
S7 • E9
April 24, 2009
Guests: Ex-gov. Howard Dean (D-VT), comedian Dana Gould, writer Randy Cohen, author Bethany McLean, ex-CIA agent Robert Baer
Topics: Obama's first 100 days, torture memos, economy, gun control, environment and global warming, children's health
2009-04-24
S7 • E10
May 01, 2009
Guests: Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), journalist Fareed Zakaria, NBC News foreign correspondent Richard Engel, former FDA chief David Kessler
Topics: 2009 swine flu outbreak, state of the Republican Party, terrorism, Souter's resignation, Arlen Specter's party switch, Israel
2009-05-01
S7 • E11
May 08, 2009
Guests: Democratic consultant James Carville, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, author Naomi Klein, journalist Matt Taibbi, author Reza Aslan
Topics: Tax evasion by big companies, torture, Pakistan & Taliban, US military handing out bibles, gay marriage
2009-05-08
S7 • E12
May 15, 2009
Guests: Creator of The Wire David Simon, economist Elizabeth Warren, conservative commentator Amy Holmes, National Review's Richard Brookhiser, columnist Dan Savage
Topics: Torture, climate change, gay marriage, War on Drugs
2009-05-15
S7 • E13
May 22, 2009
Guests: Nobel Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus, Pulitzer Prize-winner and Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, M.I.T. economist Simon Johnson, and rapper M.I.A.
Topics: Global economic crisis, the progress of the Obama administration, Dick Cheney, religion in the United States
2009-05-22
S7 • E14
May 29, 2009
Guests: Actor Hill Harper, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, former House Representative Heather Wilson, documentarian Michael Pollan
Topics: State of the Republican Party, torture and Guantanamo Bay, North Korea's nuclear weapons threat, nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, and California Supreme Court's decision regarding California's Proposition 8
2009-05-29
S7 • E15
June 05, 2009
Guests: Actor and comedian D. L. Hughley, Council of Foreign Relations president Richard Haass, novelist Paula Froelich, journalist Jeremy Scahill, Fortune editor Matt Miller
Topics: Obama's visit to the Middle East, terrorism, abortion debate and the murder of Dr. George Tiller, gay marriage, health care reform in the United States
2009-06-05
S7 • E16
June 12, 2009
Guests: CNN host Larry King, MSNBC host Chris Matthews, former White House Homeland Security advisor Frances Townsend, NAACP President Ben Jealous, humorist P. J. O'Rourke
Topics: 2009 digital television transition, Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting, racism, affirmative action, nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, terrorism, car culture in the United States, socialism
2009-06-12
S7 • E17
June 19, 2009
Guests: Commentator Paul Begala, BBC reporter Katty Kay, blogger Meghan McCain, columnist Joel Stein, writer Hooman Maj
Topics: Iranian presidential election, 2009, health care reform, David Letterman joke controversy, sexuality and infidelity in politics, 2009 imprisonment of US journalists by North Korea
2009-06-19
S7 • E18
June 26, 2009
Guests: Actress Cameron Diaz, director Oliver Stone, actor Billy Bob Thornton
Topics: Bill conducts one-on-one interviews
2009-06-26
S7 • E19
July 17, 2009
Guests: Joe Scarborough, actor Jason Alexander, actress/playwright Anna Deavere Smith, Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-MT), Markos Moulitsas.
Topics: Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings, racism and the Republican Party, clean coal electricity debate, health care reform in the United States, recent sex scandals involving politicians, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, death of Michael Jackson, drug use in the United States, death of Walter Cronkite (news broke shortly before tonight's show began), 40th anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing
2009-07-17
S7 • E20
July 24, 2009
Guests: Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano (via satellite), Iraq War veteran and California congressional candidate Anthony Woods, Susan Eisenhower, journalist John Heilemann, writer Matt Taibbi
Topics: 2009 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. arrest by Cambridge police, racism and the Republican Party, Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories, health care reform, military-industrial complex
2009-07-24
S7 • E21
July 31, 2009
Guests: Journalist Jeff Sharlet, CNN foreign correspondent Michael Ware, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, economist Niall Ferguson, humorist Joe Queenan
Topics: 2009 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. arrest by Cambridge police, health care reform, current economic crisis, resignation of Sarah Palin as Governor of Alaska
2009-07-31
S7 • E22
August 07, 2009
Guests: Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, Georgia congressman Jack Kingston, California congressman Darrell Issa, Dr. David Scheiner, President Obama's doctor in Chicago
Topics: Health care, town hall mobs, Sarah Palin's 'death panel' comments, confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor, prescription drugs, children's health, bailouts, criticism of Bill Clinton's role in freeing American journalists.
2009-08-07
S7 • E23
August 14, 2009
Guests: Actor Ashton Kutcher, fmr. Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command Gen. Anthony Zinni (ret.), journalist and blogger Ross Douthat, comedian Dana Gould (also reporter), actor Brad Pitt
Topics: 'Death panel' claims, healthcare, income inequality, the current state of the Republican party, John Brennan 'ending' the war on terror, town hall discussions, mobs comparing Obama with Hitler, climate change.
2009-08-14
S7 • E24
August 21, 2009
Guests: TV host Jay Leno, journalist Chuck Todd, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), author Sam Harris, journalist Jeremy Scahill
Topics: Health care reform, protesters bringing guns to town halls, lack of information and explanation of issues by the media, controversy over private military contractors like Blackwater, politicization of the terror alert level system in the 2004 presidential election, lack of employers offering vacation and sick leave pays in the United States
2009-08-21
S7 • E25
August 28, 2009
Guests: Rapper Jay-Z, journalist Bill Moyers
Topics: Bill conducts one-on-one interviews
2009-08-28
S7 • E26
September 11, 2009
Guests: New York representative Anthony Weiner, comedian Kathy Griffin, author and veterans advocate Paul Rieckhoff, journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke
Topics: Healthcare reform, eighth anniversary of 9/11, response to terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, race and criticism of Barack Obama, the media, global warming skepticism
2009-09-11
S7 • E27
September 18, 2009
Guests: Actor and comedian David Cross, law professor Annette Gordon-Reed, journalist Jeffrey Toobin, journalist Matthew Continetti, fmr. health insurance executive Wendell Potter
Topics: Health care reform, racism
2009-09-18
S7 • E28
September 25, 2009
Guests: Filmmaker Michael Moore, fmr. New York governor Eliot Spitzer, economist Paul Krugman, director John Waters
Topics: Capitalism, the economy, the housing market, gay marriage, marijuana reform, terrorism
2009-09-25
S7 • E29
October 02, 2009
Guests: Columnist Thomas Friedman, EPA Chief Lisa Jackson, actress Janeane Garofalo, Ohio congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, author Richard Dawkins
Topics: Criticism of Barack Obama, health care reform, the senate, Iran's nuclear capabilities, religion in America, terrorism, Hollywood defending Roman Polanski
2009-10-02
S7 • E30
October 09, 2009
Guests: Former senator Bill Frist, actor Richard Belzer, professor Cornel West, former senator Lincoln Chafee, comedian Sarah Silverman
Topics: Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Iran, peace, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, the economy and the job market, income inequality.
2009-10-09
S7 • E31
October 16, 2009
Guests: Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) , Actor Alec Baldwin, comedian and actor Garry Shandling, Hardball host Chris Matthews, Maryland governor Martin O'Malley
Topics: Balloon Boy incident, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, health care reform, H1N1 vaccination concerns, ongoing efforts to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell, sexual harassment in the military, Rush Limbaugh's failed bid to buy the St. Louis Rams, steroid use in professional sports
2009-10-16