Real Time with Bill Maher (2003)
Each week Bill Maher surrounds himself with a panel of guests which include politicians, actors, comedians, musicians and the like to discuss what's going on in the world.
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11x01 January 18, 2013
19 January, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Bob Kerrey (ex Governor & Senator D-NE)
Panelists: Michelle Caruso-Cabrera (reporter), Martin Short (comedian) & Steve LaTourette (ex Congressman R-OH)
Panel Guest: Rula Jebreal (journalist)
Topics: The future of the Republicans, gun control, Israeli elections, revolution in Syria, torture, Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax, the media, neither party cares about privacy.
11x02 January 25, 2013
26 January, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Nancy Pelosi (House Minority Leader D-CA)
Panelists: Howard Dean (ex Governor D-VT), Kristen Soltis(pollster) & David Avella (GOPAC President)
Panel Guest: Jon Tester (Senator D-MT)
Topics: Obama's inaugural address, Republicans focused on Benghazi attack, voter ID laws, GMOs and farming, women's rights, what to do about the actual "takers"?, 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, masculinity and sports hero worship
11x03 February 1, 2013
02 February, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Alex Gibney ("Mea Maxima Culpa" director)
Panelists: Cory Booker (Mayor of Newark D-NJ), Jackie Kucinich (reporter) & Eva Longoria (actress)
Panel Guest: Sam Harris (author & neuroscientist)
Topics: Immigration to the United States, Crime in the United States, Chuck Hagel's nomination as United States Secretary of Defense, gun control, age and health of Americans, Presidential term limits, right-wing pundits as con men.
11x04 February 8, 2013
09 February, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Julian Assange (Wikileaks founder)
Panelists: Lawrence Krauss (theoretical physicist), Martin Bashir (news anchor) & Josh Barro (journalist)
Panel Guest: Tina Brown (editor of Newsweek & The Daily Beast)
Topics: US drone policy, exhumation of Richard III, supply-side economics, Obama catering to conspiracy theorists, Malala Yousafzai and Muslim women, near death experiences, Super Bowl XLVII blackout and US infrastructure, Chris Christie's health, Donald Trump suing Bill Maher.
11x05 February 15, 2013
16 February, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Robert Zimmerman (brother of George Zimmerman)
Panelists: Jamie Weinstein (editor), Donna Brazile (Democratic strategist) & Jon Meacham (author)
Panel Guest: Joel McHale (actor on "Community")
Topics: Is democracy working?, the Republican Party, Reality television, hypocrisy of the Catholic Church's wealth, gun control, future of the Catholic Church.
11x06 March 1, 2013
02 March, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: James Lyne (Cybersecurity expert)
Panelists: Gavin Newsom (Lt. Governor of Cal.), Monica Mehta (finance expert) & Steve Schmidt(Republican strategist)
Panel Guest: Snoop Lion (rapper)
Topics: Cyber security; US Congress and President on sequestration; impact of spending cuts on defense, education, and social security; and upcoming Republican conference.
11x07 March 8, 2013
09 March, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Charlies LeDuff (journalist)
Panelists: Avik Roy (health care expert), Michael Steele (ex RNC chair) & Arianna Huffington (editor)
Panel Guest: David Cross (actor comedian)
Topics: the Dow vs. the economy, Obama's dinner with Republicans, media panics over sinkholes, American culture, women in the workplace, why does everything in America have to be political?
11x08 March 15, 2013
16 March, 2013 5:00 am
Interviewee: Michelle Rhee (education reformer)
Panelists: Jared Bernstein (economist), Tom Davis (ex Rep. R-VA) & Rachel Maddow (MSNBC host)
Panel Guest: Tom Colicchio (chef)
Topics: Budget plans, fallout from the Iraq War, hunger in America, NYC soda ban, Republican empathy, the extremely vocal conservative minority.
11x09 March 22, 2013
23 March, 2013 5:00 am
Interviewee: Austan Goolsbee (economist)
Panelists: John Feehery (journalist), Maria Teresa Kumar (voter registration advocate), Jim McGreevey (ex Gov. D-NJ)
Panel Guest: Clive Davis (music-business executive)
Topics: Obama's trip to Israel, what budget cuts to make?, gun control, Bloomberg hiding cigarettes, the music industry, prisons in America, LGBT acceptance, the Catholic Church's New Rules.
11x10 April 5, 2013
06 April, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Sebastian Junger (war correspondent & "Which Way Is
the Front Line from Here?" director)
Panelists: Abby Huntsman, Stephen Moore, Bernie Sanders
Panel Guest: Zack Kopplin (science education activist)
Topics: Social Security chained to CPI, the economy and the middle class, the Keystone Pipeline and energy, Mark Sanford, science education and climate change, science funding, marriage equality, Libertarianism.
11x11 April 12, 2013
13 April, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Peter Byck (Arizona State professor)
Panelists: David Stockman (former Ronald Regan budget director), Bob Costas (sports caster) & Stephanie Cutter (former campain manager for O'bama's reelection)
Panel Guest: Saru Jayaraman (Restaurant Opportunities Center co-founder)
Topics: Gun control, official religion for America?, role of government funding, homosexuality in sports, plight of restaurant workers, how to help the working class, US policy on Cuba, crony capitalism, North Korea and the military-industrial complex.
11x12 April 19, 2013
20 April, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Brian Levin (director of Center for Study of Hate & Extremism)
Panelists: Salman Rushdie ("Midnight's Children" author), Amy Holmes ("Real News" anchor) & Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist)
Panel Guest: Colin Goddard (gun safety advocate)
Topics: Reactions to the Boston Marathon Bombings, NRA's power over lawmakers, rewriting the Constitution, women's rights.
11x13 April 26, 2013
27 April, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Don Borelli (former FBI special agent & COO of The Soufan Group)
Panelists: John Avlon (senoir columnist for Daily Beast), Robert Traynham (dean of Georgtown School of Continuing Studies), Anna Deavere Smith (playwright & actress from "Nurse Jackie")
Panel Guest: Jimmy Kimmel (late night talkshow host)
Topics: Fallout from the sequester, George W. Bush's presidential library, government regulations, number of terrorism deaths in context, looming war with Syria, U.S. a police state?, does solitary confinement violate the 8th Amendment?, why is redemption easier for Republicans?
11x14 May 3, 2013
04 May, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Jeremy Scahill (journalist & author of"Dirty Wars")
Panelists: Lawrence O'Donnell (MSNBC host of "The Last Word"), Mattie Duppler (director of group Americans for Tax Reform), & Pete Hegseth (CEO of Concerned Veterans for America)
Panel Guest: Marc Maron (host of WTF podcast)
Topics: The economy, tax reform, Gitmo, drug reform, moral development of teenagers, will an insurrection to protect the 2nd Amendment ever be necessary?, should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be tried as an enemy combatant?
11x15 May 10, 2013
11 May, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Mark Bittman (NYT Food & Opinion journalist)
Panelists: Glenn Greenwald (Guardian columnist), Joy Reid (MSNBC analyst) & Charles C.W. Cooke (National Review journalist)
Panel Guest: Zachary Quinto (actor from "Star Trek: Into Darkness")
Topics: Politics of the Cleveland kidnapping case, What is the scandal in Benghazi?, theocracies as dictatorships, gay acceptance, printing 3-D guns, sexual assault in the military, the wealth gap.
11x16 May 17, 2013
18 May, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Richard Haass (author of "Foreign Policy Begins at Home")
Panelists: Andrew Ross Sorkin (NYT Finance columnist), S. E. Cupp (co-host of "The Cycle") & Michael Moore (director)
Panel Guest: Zach Galifianakis (actor & comedian from "The Hangover Part III")
Topics: 2013 IRS scandal, CIA-AP scandal, the recent deficit reduction, food, organization of left vs. right political groups, gun control, Benghazi
11x17 May 31, 2013
01 June, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Michael Isikoff (investigative journalist for NBC News)
Panelists: James Poulos (producer of "HuffPost Live" and writer for "Vice"), Neera Tanden (from the Center for American Progress) & Paul Rudnick (screenwriter and humorist)
Panel Guest: Brit Marling (Actress and screenwriter)
Topics: Obama and the War on Terror, John McCain and Syria, health care, freeganism, Pope Francis and atheism, Bush's hypocrisy with the Wounded Warriors, marijuana as the new gay marriage.
11x18 June 7, 2013
08 June, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: George Packer (author of "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America")
Panelists: Kevin Williamson (author of "The End is Near"), Ana Navarro (GOP strategist) & Dana Gould (comedian)
Panel Guest: Tom Shadyac (Filmmaker & author)
Topics: 4th Amendment infringements (phone taps & DNA), immigration reform, happiness, Republicans vs. female breadwinners, Susan Rice, Reagan as proto-Republican
11x19 June 14, 2013
15 June, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Patrick Kennedy (Ex U.S. Rep. D-RI)
Panelists: Niall Ferguson ("Great Degeneration" author & Harvard professor), Jonathan Alter ("The Center Holds" author), Kellyanne Conway (conservative pollster)
Panel Guest: Josh Fox ("Gasland Part II" director)
Topics: America's involvement in Syria, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, fracking, Democrats' problems with white voters, career congressmen.
11x20 June 21, 2013
22 June, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Haifaa al-Mansour (first female Saudi filmmaker)
Panelists: Joshua Green (Bloomberg Businessweek journalist), Julia Reed (author of "But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria!") & Bob Herbert (Ex New York Times op-eder & Demos Fellow)
Panel Guest: Michael Pollan (author of "Cooked")
Topics: Exodus International apologizes and closes its doors, 2013 IRS scandal, immigration, masturbating fetuses, food, Paula Deen, death of Michael Hastings, mainstream atheism
11x21 June 28, 2013
29 June, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Anthony Leiserowitz (director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication)
Panelists: Kristen Soltis, Dan Neil & Horace Cooper
Panel Guest: Adrian Grenier (producer 'How to Make Money Selling Drugs')
Topics: the Voting Rights Act, Defense of Marriage Act, the War on Drugs, abortions & executions in Texas, climate change, reproductive rights for women
11x22 July 12, 2013
13 July, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Bobby Ghosh (Time International editor)
Panelists: Matt Lewis, Liz Mair & Dr. Cornel West
Panel Guest: Mike Rowe ("Dirty Jobs" host)
Topics: George Zimmerman trial, Obama's record, blue-collar labor and the skills gap, the Southern Avenger, the "Border Surge"
11x23 July 19, 2013
20 July, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: John Hargrove (ex Seaworld trainer)
Panelists: Connie Mack IV, Grover Norquist & Rula Jebreal
Panel Guest: Dan Savage ("Savage Love" columnist)
Topics: Obama's speech about Trayvon Martin, Pope Francis offering indulgences for following him on Twitter, LGBT rights, Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner, Congress voted for 38th time to repeal Obamacare, IRS non-scandal
11x24 July 26, 2013
27 July, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Sarah Slamen (Texas activist);
Panelists: Reza Aslan ("Zealot" author), Robert Ney (ex U.S. Representative R-OH), Eliot Spitzer (ex Governor D-NY);
Panel guest: Jim Wallis (Sojourners magazine).
Topics: Texas abortion debate, Anthony Weiner mayoral campaign, Obama's speech on the economy, social mobility, religion and fundamentalism, Steve King's comment about Hispanics, reactions to Zimmerman verdict.
11x25 August 2, 2013
03 August, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Larry Miller (actor and comedian)
Panelists: Barney Frank (ex congressman D-MA), Alexis Goldstein (Occupy Network member) & Josh Barro ("Business Insider" editor)
Panel Guest: Jay-Z
Topics: Chris Christie vs. Rand Paul, Department of Home Security, Bradley Manning, Occupy Wall Street, Jay-Z vs. Harry Belafonte, stop-and-frisk, House GOP votes to repeal Obamacare for 40th time, Pope Francis on LGBT people.
11x26 September 13, 2013
14 September, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Dr. Edwin Lyman (UCS senior scientist)
Panelists: Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone journalist), Michael Steele (ex GOP Chairman), Zanny Minton-Beddoes (Economist editor)
Panel Guest: Bill Nye ("Bill Nye the Science Guy")
Topics: America's response to Syria, Republicans consistently distancing themselves from Obama, America's love of guns, politicization of science, is the economy safer now than before the 2007 crash?, US income inequality, college tuition and student loans, US tradition of bombing Muslim countries.
11x27 September 20, 2013
21 September, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Billy Crystal
Panelists: Chris Hayes (host of MSNBC's "All In"), Joy Behar (comic & ex-host of "The View"), David Frum (CNN contributor)
Panel Guest: Jeremy Seifert (director of documentary "GMO OMG")
Topics: Tea Party holding debt ceiling hostage, ObamaCare, GMOs & Monsanto, Pope Francis, gun control, widespread online hate, hopeless poor people.
11x28 September 27, 2013
28 September, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Tim Robbins (founding Artistic Director of The Actors' Gang)
Panelists: Robert Reich (ex U.S. Secretary of Labor), Monica Mehta (financial expert), Matt Welch (editor-in-chief for Reason Magazine)
Panel Guest: Carl Hart (Professor & "High Times" author)
Topics: Republicans threatening to defund the government, Ted Cruz, drug behavior in America, income inequality, California as a successful anti-Tea Party paradise.
11x29 October 4, 2013
05 October, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (professor at the University of PA)
Panelists: Alan Grayson (U.S. Rep. D-FL), Suzy Khimm (MSNBC news reporter), Matt Kibbe (FreedomWorks president & CEO)
Panel Guest: Carl Reiner (TV icon & author of "I Remember Me")
Topics: Government shutdown over Obamacare, Carl Reiner's history in showbiz, businesses vs. the GOP, dress for success
11x30 October 11, 2013
12 October, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Maya Wiley (Center for Social Inclusion president)
Panelists: Jim Glassman (ex George W. Bush Institute director), Carol Roth (author of "The Entrepreneurial Equation"), Chris Matthews (MSNBC host & author of "Tip and the Gipper")
Panel Guest: Oliver Stone (Oscar-winning filmmaker)
Topics: Republicans' strategy backfiring, solving America's debt, America's role in the world, Republicans' debt denial, politicians with extreme religious beliefs
11x31 October 25, 2013
26 October, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Maajid Nawaz (ex Islamic radical)
Panelists: Rev. Al Sharpton (MSNBC host & author of "Rejected Stone"), Michael Moore (filmmaker), Valerie Plame (co-author of "Blowback")
Panel Guest: Richard Dawkins (author of "Appetite for Wonder")
Topics: Obamacare's dysfunctional website, perceived strengths of each party, NSA spying on other countries, new evolution finding, Pope Francis, is Islam more dangerous than Christianity?, the minimum wage.
11x32 November 1, 2013
02 November, 2013 5:00 am
Interviewee: Ann Coulter (author)
Panelists: Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Rep. D-FL), Neil deGrasse Tyson (scientist), Rob Reiner (filmmaker)
Panel Guest: Rob Lowe (actor, "Killing Kennedy")
Topics: Obama's lie about current health care plans, Ted Cruz, Sr., women in politics, Rob Lowe as JFK, US embargo against Cuba, Kessler Syndrome, NSA spying, Republicans should appeal to stoners.
11x33 November 8, 2013
09 November, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Billy Binney (NSA whistleblower)
Panelists: John Heilemann ("Double Down" co-author), Dr. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto (University of Texas fellow), David Avella (GOPAC President)
Panel Guest: Anthony Weiner (Ex-Rep. D-NY)
Topics: NSA spying, 2013 elections, Chris Christie as a 2016 Republican presidential nominee, Republican constituents, Tea Party vs. GOP establishment, Anthony Weiner scandal and media coverage of the scandal, Obamacare, Bill de Blasio's victory, commemorating tragedies, self-importance of political authors, hypocrisy of the religious right.
11x34 November 15, 2013
16 November, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Radley Balko ("Warrior Cop" author)
Panelists: Ezra Klein (Washington Post columnist), Mattie Duppler (Americans for Tax Reform), Reihan Salam (National Review Online blogger)
Panel Guest: Casey Affleck ("Out of the Furnace", actor)
Topics: Problems for Obama & Democrats, botched 60 Minutes Benghazi report, troubled US veterans, cuts to food stamps, Typhoon Haiyan tied to climate change, harmful right-wing Supreme Court decisions
11x35 November 22, 2013
23 November, 2013 6:00 am
Interviewee: Dan Savage ("Savage Love" columnist)
Panelists: Paul Begala (CNN analyst), Katty Kay (BBC America anchor), Bob Ehrlich (Ex-Gov. R-MD)
Panel Guest: Wendell Pierce ("Treme", actor)
Topics: The 'Nuclear Option', conspiracy theories, ending the War in Afghanistan, contributions of New Orleans culture, bringing food to the inner city, businesses open on Thanksgiving, Trey Radel and drugs, Red states not accepting federal money for Medicaid, JFK vs. Ronald Reagan.
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