So you all know - I am a professional LURKER. Ms. Frankenoid, DooD Abides, Hunter, BiPM, and so many others.....
I work at a charitable foundation - we give millions every year to charities - we help old folks, young kids, sick people, you name it. I make all the money and my wife gives it away...
A few months ago, my wife solicited the casting agent for the Bill Maher show to give a few tickets to an auction. Deena Katz told my wife to call any time to go to a taping. So we took her up on it (finally) and went to tonights show. She is so wonderful that we were invited into the "green room" (it is NOT green so you know) and I had the privelge to....
Meet Joe and Valerie Wilson. As other people have previously posted, Joe is the most down to earth, personable, wonderful person you could meet. My wife and I even forgave him for being a Hillary suporter (we love John FYI). And I had the privelege of thanking Valerie for her years of working for us and our country, express dismay at her losing her job and her privacy, and thanking her for continuing to work for the good of us all by exposing the hypocrisy of this traitorous administration ... but ask me how I really feel.
And then Markos walked into the room. I introduced myself as a LURKER, and asked him why he didn't personally respond to every post I have ever made (about 3 and counting). He mumbled something about 5 million people and blah blah blah, but I was not impressed. He did say that being surrounded by smarter people than he felt liberating, but I was surprisingly unimpressed again. I must admit - he takes self derprecating to an incredibly high level.
Then my wife came out of the bathroom, and she was all over him as in "Hey Markos, my husband gets up at 4 AM to read your blog, what's your problem, why don't you respond to all three of this posts, where is the humanity?" and she is like all in his face and stuff. I was additionaly surprised that he shortly left the room... Amazing....
Bill Maher is nothing short of incredible - What a fabulous show. Joe and Valerie called out the adminstration and their enablers as nothing short of traitors. These poor people, great patriots, being portrayed as unpatriotic - talk about a frame job (frame shop - I've been framed).
And I'll be glad to tell you, even though Markos refuses to answer all three of my previous posts, he just ROCKED on the panel. It's almost like he is smarter than all the other front pagers, and even with a tummy ache, he tells it like it is. I'm glad to know that someone speaks truth to power so eloquently. Please watch his performance, and tell me what you think. After the main taping of the show, they do a few "internet" questions, and I think Markos reallly did his best work in this segment. If I knew how to link to it, I would probably be a Trusted User and a Confirmed Geek, but I can't even post pictures of my flowers on Ms. Frankenoids Saturday Morning Blogging (sorry hun, working on photo bucket).
And on a side note, Martin Short is a funny person, and Allison Stewart is a lot more wonderful than Markos, or just about anyone else.
Love you all, Please reccomend my diary, watch the video, and like the Dude says, that rug really tied the room toghether.
Pasadena Ethan