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Bill Maher on Hardball
Published on September 29, 2004 By Draginol In Current Events

Yesterday Bill Maher demonstrated the kind of attitude that is all too common with liberals: Intellectual arrogance.  They believe that they have a monopoly on enlightened thinking.

On Hardball with Chris Mathews, Maher says, "We know who's on Bush's team, we keep hearing about how the God fearing people are with Bush. Fine. But what about the people who believe in say science?"

The meaning that irrational religious whackos like Bush while rational, intelligent, people who believe in things such as logic and the scientific method are -- like him -- liberal.

Care to take a poll on who most professional practicioners of science are going to vote for, Mr. Maher?  It's pretty rare to meet an engineer, for instance, who favors liberal positions. That's usually because in my experience liberal positions aren't based on science but rather warm fuzzy emotions.


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on Oct 12, 2004
Hmm...yes, I've found that engineers, who have a science that deals with the business world more tend to be more conservative. However, members of the life sciences tend to skew more liberal because of the environmental deficiencies of every republican president since Nixon (although they weren't fans of Clinton either). It depends on what the science is and where it is applied.
on Oct 16, 2004
Not all liberals are iconoclasts like Maher who certainly cannot be characterized as intellectual. However, I do admit to an occasional icon blast.
on Oct 16, 2004
But that doesn't mean science is the opposite.
Nevertheless, it does tend to be rational. I agree that some secular humanists are just as adamant and often overly emotional about their posture.
I do see more of the wacko religious vote going to Bush. Don't you?
Good for you, Texaii! Love the picture.LOL
on Oct 20, 2004
I agree on the Engineer front.. I work with 15 of them, and only 1 is a liberal, and he is VERY liberal.
Every other one will be voting for GWB in 2 weeks.

These are VERY well educated people and its a shame that the dem's think if you believe in God u must be a moron.

Shame they have never looked back at all the people that believe in God that had the intelligence to FOUND THIS country, and make the Constitution that they seem so found of taking apart piece by piece.
on Oct 24, 2004

The point is that people like Mahr like to pretend that Democrats are somehow the party of intellectualism while the Republicans are the party of supersticious Jesus freaks.

Reality is much more complex than that and if Maher really wants to get into it, he'll find that the people who turn science into a practical reality -- called engineers -- are overwhelmingly conservative.

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