Episode
Real Time with Bill Maher: August 21, 2009
Overview
Guests: TV host Jay Leno, journalist Chuck Todd, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), author Sam Harris, journalist Jeremy Scahill Topics: Health care reform, protesters bringing guns to town halls, lack of information and explanation of issues by the media, controversy over private military contractors like Blackwater, politicization of the terror alert level system in the 2004 presidential election, lack of employers offering vacation and sick leave pays in the United States
Details
- Series
- Real Time with Bill Maher
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 24
- Air date
- 2009-08-21
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
August 21, 2009 is Episode 24 in Season 7 of Real Time with Bill Maher. It aired on 2009-08-21. The runtime is 60 min.
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