This Week’s Powerhouse Roundtable: George Will, Bill Maher, Rev. Al Sharpton, Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Matthew Dowd

Only ABC will put Maher (a COMIC) and Al Sharpton (who is only out to get his picture on TV) on a Sunday morning supposendly serious round table show.

Bill Maher and Al Sharpton….yeah, a real powerhouse line-up.

I hope Jesus returns during the show. I want to see the look on Bill’s face!

“Al Sharpton? Seriously? Talk about stacking the deck against the liberal side of the table.”
What? Did you forget to place a sarcasm tag at the end of that?

lets see, a racist bigot, an unfunny comic that thinks he is bigger than he is, and a radicalized left wing extremeist, that can’t put together a coherent sentence….sounds like a segment worthy of MSNBC

“Good, interesting crowd, besides George Will”
Yes, the only intelligent, thoughtful and articulate person on the panel and he’s the one you want gone. Says a lot about you.
jhw:”Would you like to have Orly Taitz (birther) arguing the conservative case?”
Fair enough, although I have never heard of that person. However, I think there is significantly more tolerance and sympathy for the thoughts and views of Sharpton within the liberal ranks than there are for birther views within the conservative ones.

Maher? Sharpton? you gotta be kidding me….and libs make fun of PALIN? heh

Al Sharpton? I thought he was forever banished to cable news.
Dowd, Will, and Katrina always provide a great conversation on the show and can actually intelligently debate all sorts of issues.
And what will Maher be bringing to the table this weekend? Don’t vaccinate your kids?
3 out of 5 ain’t bad. You’ve had much better left leaning guests on your show instead of Sharpton and Maher.

After that comment Progressive, how does one take you seriously?

so progressive, you would rather watch the cast of SNL debate on weekend update then those who actually know what they’re talking about, like a George Will.

LOL – from all the sighs from Tierra and Progressive, it must be so hard to be a liberal woman these days. Can only imagine how many shoulder shrugs and sighs and just flat out disbelief that someone would have a different opinion when your party isn’t in power.

you would rather watch the cast of SNL debate on weekend update then those who actually know what they’re talking about, like a George Will.
Posted by: J.R. | Apr 28, 2010 5:02:30 PM
I don’t think George Will knows what he’s talking about any more than the other guests, and on some subjects, he knows much less, imho. He seems to sniff some pretty rarified air that keeps him rather out of touch.

Thanks for the heads up, I just removed this episode from my TIVO. There is NOTHING I can learn from Bill Maher or Al Sharpton or the Vanden Huevel dingbat.

You are loosing us ABC. Maher is an “entertainer,” and a hack one pony show entertainer at that. You might as well invite Rush Limbaugh, Michael Moore, or Glen Beck to appear on your panel and espouse their form of entertainment. I thought This Week was a NEWS show. You’re only saving grace ABC, is that David Gregory over at Meet the Press and Face the Nation have such “soft” left leaning shows that it forces me to continue to watch This Week.

To George Will: I know you believe this shows needs a conservative view point, but the reality is they never acknowledge your profound comments. My grandmother called it “talking to a fence post.” Please write an article on why Bill Maher is allowed on the show to demonstrate complete and total bigotry with his comments regarding republicans. His refinement was even worse. And the left say the right are bigots? Please!
George, please consider another news outlet roundtable discussion where your thoughts are not lost on trite mionirty dribblers. You are the only person that acutally understood the topic and even when you show them the federal law, they deny its very existence and continue to flame the hostile minority views. The show host lost any control and was incapable of challenging the vial diatribes spewing complete mistatement of the facts only in an obvious attempt to be inflamatory. This is the leftist tactic of the day, forget the facts and inflame the situation to insite riots. Al Shaprton, Jesse Jackson and others used this tactic for years, under the guise of Civil Rights, yet it is clearly Civil Wrong.

ABC owes the American public an apology for allowing Maher to make such an ugly and unessary comment to Mr. Will.
Saying if you are a r*cist then you must be a Republican is offensive.
And shame on you Jake for not standing up to Maher and letting him know that ” we don’t say those types of things on ABC.”
I will Mr. Will had just gotten up and left the studio and maybe Mr. Dowd would have followed him.
Even Glenn Beck would not have been so crass.

Al Sharpton wasn’t much better , predictable don’t let the facts get in the way. This is one of the only ABC news shows I watch , how much longer I don’t know

Everyone is talking about Bill Maher (who by the way was guility of nothing but telling the truth), but no one is talking about the way Al Sharpton and Katrina Vanden Huevel cleaned the clock of the forever pompous George Will concerning the racist Arizona legislation.

He didn’t say all republicans are racists he just said all racists are PROBABLY republicans. Bill was right and if you are unaware of this, then I guess you don’t know any people-this describes to a “T” the MANY republicans that I know and grew up with.

This week I removed “This Week” from my DVR schedule. The Roundtable with Bill Maher was the last straw. Mr. Will, I humbly suggest that you quietly step back from this train wreck, they can not hear you.

The show is losing its intellectual edge as a show where intelligent people debate or discuss the priorities of the day. Liz Cheney and Arriana Huffington, or Roger Ailes and Katrina van heuvel? Bring Al Hunt and jeff Greenfield and George Will and David Brooks. They may disagree but at least there would be intellegent arguments made.

Jake,
Surely you guys can do better than Bill Maher and Al Sharpton…I use to watch ‘This Week’ for the intellectual stimulation…no longer.

Bill Maher embarassed himself. Jake Tapper embarrassed ABC by failing to moderate an intellectually honest roundtable.

Thank you for having Bill Maher on This Week. I thought he was great. Has anyone fact checked the Brazil claim?

Bill Maher and Al Sharpton were WAY out of their league in a table of people who can intellectually opine. George Will must have been so annoyed wasting his time trying to debate with the political lightweight, Mr. Maher. Case in point: Mr. Maher, there are plenty of racists…both Dems and Reps and some in between. Throwing out generalities does not further debate. Sometimes people have different opinions on policy which does not make one racist or evil; however, that term is thrown out WAY too liberally. ABC should consider who is invited to their round-table in the future. Perhaps someone with REAL credentials and not just bomb-throwers like Maher and Sharpton or Coulter … those people should be on a show called “Everyone but me is Stupid, Wrong and/or Wicked”.