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seeds of contemporary swinging were planted at that party, but who could have known it would blossom into an industry? kok # If it’ s true that, as Bill Maher once stated so poetically, “The real problem with marriage is that it’ s just very difficult to bump your uglies with the same person every night y
father. Then that /s kinda news. [Click!] BILL MAHER: Palin has five children including an infant that
ce their partners. | start to slide out, but not inconspicuously enough. Ramana Das, who knows me from a previous incarnation, calls out, “There goes Paul Krassner. Are you afraid to participate?” “I’m here as a journalist.” “Ah, he can’ t participate because he’ s a journalist. See how everybody has excuses.”
previous incarnation, calls out, “There goes Paul Krassner. Are you afraid to participate?” “I’m here as a
his material. “One hit is all | need now and it’ s punch-up time.” At the Shadow Convention that took place while the Democrats were in Los Angeles, Bill Maher revealed to the audience, “I’ m not just a pot reformer, I’ m a user” —something which ABC forbids him to say on Politically Incorrect—then quickly a
ace while the Democrats were in Los Angeles, Bill Maher revealed to the audience, “I’ m not just a pot re
in the military are fighting, being maimed and dying unnecessarily, supposedly to protect the freedom their own country is denying them. Sincerely, Paul Krassner Postscript: | sent a copy of the letter to some folks that day. Among the responses, | received a message from a mother: “I am trying to explain thi
eir own country is denying them. Sincerely, Paul Krassner Postscript: | sent a copy of the letter to some
ask. | have to tell you, though, as far as campaign slogans go: Donald Trump 2016--Who’ s Doing the Raping?” Hey, it sounds familiar already. And on Bill Maher’ s Rea/ Time the reactionary blond witch Ann Coulter defended Trump: “These aren’ t people we have to have here. We already have our own rapists and
g?” Hey, it sounds familiar already. And on Bill Maher’ s Rea/ Time the reactionary blond witch Ann Coul
OVERSIGHT_015376 rhetoric, | wrote to the Justice Department to find out the status of their case against Groucho, and received this reply: Dear Mr. Krassner: Responding to your inquiry, the Supreme Court has held that Title 18 U.S.C., Section 871, prohibits only “true” threats. It is one thing to say that
fantastic guy I've got comin’ out, and | don't know what I'm gonna do yet but | just wanna talk with him.’ And | said, ‘Well, who is it?’ He said, ‘Paul Krassner.’ And | just fell out, and said, ‘Are you serious? He's one of the hippest minds in the whole world.’ Then he came back and said, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_0
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A POLITE INTERVIEW = Skin So Thin, It’s Inside Out” Ethan Persoff talks with Paul Krassner about running The Realist, hacking The New York Times Bestseller list, and that “true, extraordinary liar,” Donald Trump. of American comedy: Lenny
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023638 →hese days — it’s the fate of truly seminal sources to seem inevitable, when in fact they reshaped the world in their own image. Fortunately, in 2006 Krassner teamed with archivist/comic artist Ethan Persoff on The Realist Archive Project (http:// www.ep.tc/realist/), a free online repository of every issue
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023638 →is job!” He would just take an approach like that. Lenny would “appreciate” the defined tragedy. 1See The American Bystander #1, Dec. 2015. I think Bill Maher’s show, February 17, was terrific. Lenny would have really appreciated it. Just the same way Lenny got serious sometimes, and the audi- ence would say,
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023643 →ly appreciated it. Just the same way Lenny got serious sometimes, and the audi- ence would say, “Hey, you’re honest!” instead of “Hey, you’re funny.” Maher’s monologue that night was really beauti- ful. Because he’s well informed, and he couldn’t just do jokes about it. He talked about the fascism. He ta
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Condoleezza Rice
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Marc Rich
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Vicky Ward
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Joe Biden
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Lawrence Krauss
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Woody Allen
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Richard Kahn
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Alan Dershowitz
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George Mitchell
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