Opie Anthony: Ann Coulter (09/03/13)
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Opie & Anthony: Ann Coulter (09/03/13) - Video
Since his first appearance in 2005, Affleck has been a guest on Real Time seven times, frequently butting heads with conservative blowhards like Ann Coulter and P.J. ORourke. He also pretty reliably blows a gasket just like he did last week.
That kind of indignation is what Maher's show lives on, and Ben Affleck delivers it very, very well. Here, a quick rundown of the actor's best Real Time rants.
2005 Appearing with Salman Rushdie and Andrew Sullivan, Affleck gets into it with Maher after the host suggests people of religious faith are unintelligent. People of faith arent stupid by dint of their being of faith,"says an exasperated Affleck. "I disagree. I think that's stupid." Later, still stuck tussling over the same subject, Affleck exclaims, You cant just frame it in such a reductive way!
2007 Democrats who supported further expenditures on the war in Iraq? To Ben Affleck, they shall forevermore be known as These fuckin people!
2008 Perhaps a late-night talk show hosted by Bill Maher is not the place to look for nuanced discussion, but once the conversation turned to the vague political discourse around the term Arabs, Affleck let fly. Arab and good person, he railed, are not antithetical to one another!
2012 This was a doozy. Ann Coulter launches into a tirade about post-9/11 security measures and how we all have fingers stuck up our butts to go through airport security. Then Affleck goes off. They grab your dick a little bit," he says. "Its not the end of the world!
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A Brief History of Ben Affleck Yelling on Bill Maher
Just a few weeks after openly hoping to have a civil dialogue with Real Time host Bill Maher, Glenn Beck no longer seems to want that meeting to take place.
On his Facebook page Sunday, Beck responded to an interview Maher gave to Tuscon Weekly. In the interview, Maher rejected the idea that his views on Islam are comparable to Becks.
Glenn Beck is more on the Ann Coulter page that what we should do is conquer the Middle East and convert them to Christianity, Maher said. Thats not what Im saying. Im saying all religions are stupid. Islam just happens to be the one right now, in this century, thats most dangerous and violent. Maher said, though, that hes willing to appear on Becks program if Beck will in turn appear on Mahers.
Beck pushed back on his Facebook, saying he doesnt want to convert Muslims. There is no winning in this game, Beck wrote. We can move the world forward, but never in name calling and belittling others. It was played in the beginning and will be played until the end.
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This is why I wont accept an invite on his show. I want an actual discussion. One based in respect. One that I think can actually help reknit the fabric of our country and world,
I think Bill wants to discuss things but he also wants to win and he really wants a good show.
I dont blame him. I used to live somewhat in that world. Then I woke up.
Previously, Beck had said of Maher that, Maybe we should start talking to each other.
Or maybe not.
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Glenn Beck to Bill Maher: Im Not Coming on Your Show
VERA JOUROVA, justice, consumers and gender equality European Union commissioner-designate, has told the EU that the current Safe Harbour agreement with the US is hanging in the balance.
Jourova said that a suspension of the arrangement is a distinct possibility, according to a report on Reuters that has access to her written answers.
"Suspension is certainly an option on the table for me," she said. "But we are not yet there."
The Safe Harbour arrangement has been around since the start of this century and is designed to provide securities for people whose data may be moving between territories.
This is OK locally, but since PRISM and all that Europeans have struggled to trust the US, its companies, its security policies and its government. The EU has asked the US to keep its national security data requests to a fair and not too intrusive minimum.
"Allow me to give this another push and to continue working in a constructive spirit with the US building on the progress made so far, while insisting that a higher level of ambition is shown and must materialise in practice," added Jourova in her answers.
According to a separate report on the Euractiv news site, Jourova is not the only person to be making such noises.
The report says that the commissioner-designate for the Digital Internal Market, Andrus Ansip, who has wide support in the European Parliament, wants tighter controls on data sharing, and a lot more trust in the US.
"As a liberal, I believe in personal rights. We must protect everyone's privacy. Data protection will be an important cornerstone of the Digital Internal Market. The citizens must have trust in this project," he said.
"Safe Harbour is not secure. The agreement has yet to live up to its name. If the US government does not make a clear statement, we must consider suspending the agreement."
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European Union may halt the US Safe Harbour deal
Getty Images French President Franois Hollande.
BRUSSELSThe European Union is preparing to reject Frances 2015 budget, according to European officials, setting up a clash that would be the biggest test yet of new powers for Brussels that were designed to prevent a repeat of the eurozones sovereign-debt crisis.
French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said last month that his country would run a budget deficit of 4.3% of gross domestic product next yearfar from the 3% deficit it had previously pledged. Stripping out the effects of the weak economy, the governments planned cost cuts would amount to just 0.2% of GDP, falling short of cuts worth 0.8% that it had agreed upon with Brussels.
That could put Frances budget in serious noncompliance with tightened EU deficit rules, likely leading the commission to send it back to Paris for revisions, European officials said. So far, the French government has said it wont take any extra belt-tightening measures beyond what it proposed in the spring, indicating it is ready to risk a public clash with Brussels.
People are ready to let the big boys in Brussels reject the budget, a European official said.
The conflict with France could be joined by a budget fight with Italy, which has also said that it will miss budget targets. Italy has more leeway because its past budgets have run lower deficits than Frances, but a senior EU official called a decision about whether to confront Italy borderline.
An expanded version of this report appears at WSJ.com.
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The Wall Street Journal: EU preparing to reject Frances budget for 2015