What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love and the Founding Fathers?
January 19th, 2011 - 8:53 am
Trifecta: In which we ever-so-gently, and with all due respect, correct a misconception or two Bill Maher might have about the Founding Fathers.
Bill and Scott were excellent on this one, but I must modestly admit that I rocked.
Heh. You did indeed. I think that was probably the best Trifecta I’ve seen. Good job.
Again Maher demonstrates what a shallow grasp of the issues he has. Perhaps if he’d spent more time in class and less time selling pot (by his own admission) he’d have actually known what he is talking about. Of course the cool thing about doing a monologue is that the sound of your own voice is the only one being heard. With Bill, it must be sweet music indeed.
P.S. Yeah, you did rock.
It is now my dearest wish that Maher have you three on a live show. This of course will never happen because even he’s not stupid enough to go toe to toe with anyone who actually knows what they are talking about. But man, it would be 10 kinds of awesome. And I’ve never seen Bill laugh so hard as he did during Steve’s monotone Fisking of that douchebag. Well done sir.
Couldn’t watch. Has PJTV disabled video pre-buffering? Do you realize that that makes the site unusable for many of us?
Mr. Green, I like Trifecta a lot, but I think your colleagues went over the top on the Maher bit. Maher is no doubt a nihilist and a hateful person, but mostly he just isn’t very funny. As for the Founders, they probably did gain some guidance in their ideas from the church. However, the churches and just about every other institution of the period were still greatly influenced by the Renaissance, the Age of Reason. The Age of Reason was a rebirth of Greek philosophy. Randian philosophers argue that the prevailing moral code of the Renaissance, the Age of Reason and most likely the Founding Fathers was Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.
Also, Mr. Green, if you haven’t already, at some point Libertarians with Objectivist leanings like yourself are going to have to call the religous conservatives out on the contridictions of capitalism and Christianity. Much of Christ’s teachings are incompatible with capitalism.
Indeed — but that’s a fight for after 2012. Right now, we need all the allies we can find, no matter how imperfect.