obama s better at it. yeah, i think romney has a ken doll problem. ken doll problem. and he looks that s what i wanted from a pulitzer prize winning historian. you could put him on rushmore now. and the question is, will the reassurance he projects which is true, i don t think anybody s maybe i m wrong here, but i don t think anybody thinks, boy, if you elect romney, he s going to go crazy in there. that s true. that s true. but that s different than inspiring passion. joe? but how fascinating, though, jon meacham just a few weeks ago you were talking about at the end of the day barack obama doesn t seem to genuinely like being around people. and you said that s certainly a fascinating characteristic for a guy that s running a nation of 300 million plus. you could now say the same thing about mitt romney who seems stiff and awkward. we ve got two possible major
we re back with bill mahr from hbo real time with bill mahr. there are those who say it s there s a double standard, that liberals didn t when a kid shot up a school, some liberals would say, look, it s not video games that made the kid do it or a certain type of music, as some conservatives would say. is there it seems like the same people who are saying if a child shoots up a school, don t blame the music videos or don t blame the movies that they watch. why is it okay to blame the political rhetoric? well, i think they re two different things. first of all, i m not suggesting i don t know if anybody is suggesting legislating this. we re not saying we should curtail anybody s well, there is, though, this
curtail anybody s well, there is, though, thisa federal crime, the same as it is against the president, which would actually have under his bill, it would outlaw the like the bullet symbols, the bullseye symbol. you re not supporting that? i don t know how far it goes. we already have that law. you can t threaten the president. but you can, i guess he s saying that the same protection that the president has should be extended to members of congress, about verbal threats or symbolic threats. yeah, i mean, it would depend on how the law was worded. but, yeah, there are infringements on free speech. we all know that. and this may be one case where that would be appropriate. but i don t know if the analogy holds with video games, if you re talking about, for example, after columbine, we heard a lot about that happened because they took the bible out of the school and because of marilyn manson records and so forth. yeah, i guess that s true. anybody can be ozzy osbourne wa
we re back with bill maher from hbo real time with bill maher. there are those who say it s there s a double standard, that liberals didn t when a kid shot up a school, some liberals would say, look, it s not video games that made the kid do it or a certain type of music, as some conservatives would say. is there it seems like the same people who are saying if a child shoots up a school, don t blame the music videos or don t blame the movies that they watch. why is it okay to blame the political rhetoric? well, i think they re two different things. first of all, i m not suggesting i don t know if anybody is suggesting legislating this. we re not saying we should curtail anybody s well, there is, though, this democratic congressman now who s from pennsylvania, i believe,
particular, to negotiate privately. mort, you had talked about deadlines a second ago and you know a lot about israeli public opinion and the domestic political scene in israel. there is the settlement moratorium is scheduled to end at the end of this month, at the end of september. that seems to me like a pressing deadline at the moment. the palestinians are saying that if moratorium is not extended then the peace talks are going to blow up. what is the solution? how does netanyahu get within the israeli political context, how does he find a way around that problem or get to extend the moratorium? i think he has a hugely difficult position because if there is one thing that is going to undermine his ability to negotiate, it is this issue, because this can break up his coalition and then you would be back into the israeli politics. this was never a precondition of anybody s, shall we say,