Real Time with Bill Maher (season 4)

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Real Time with Bill Maher
Season 4
No. of episodes24
Release
Original network HBO
Original releaseFebruary 17 (2006-02-17) 
November 17, 2006 (2006-11-17)
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List of episodes

This is a list of episodes from the fourth season of Real Time with Bill Maher .

Note that the Iraq War, President George W. Bush (from 2003 to 2009), and current/upcoming elections are frequent topics on the show and may not be listed under individual episodes.

Episodes

No.
overall
No. in
season
GuestsOriginal air date
671 Russ Feingold, Fred Barnes, Eddie Griffin, Helen Thomas, Dan Senor February 17, 2006 (2006-02-17)
Dick Cheney hunting incident, on the Patriot Act, Bush, Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
682 Danny Glover, Gary Hart, Irshad Manji, Heather Wilson, Nicholas Kristof February 24, 2006 (2006-02-24)
Dubai ports, the extreme Left, Iraq, religious use of hallucinogenic tea
693 D. L. Hughley, Graydon Carter, Dana Priest, Michael D. Brown, Robert Baer, Harry Anderson March 3, 2006 (2006-03-03)
Academy Awards, rebuilding New Orleans, Iraq
704 Gloria Steinem, Larry Miller, Ramesh Ponnuru, Pete Rose, John F. Burns March 10, 2006 (2006-03-10)
Port security, baseball, Bush, Iraq
715 Michael Stipe, Richard Belzer, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Michele Mitchell, Lou Dobbs March 17, 2006 (2006-03-17)
Troops and Iraq, corporate America, Chile's new President
726 Jason Alexander, Reza Aslan, Jack Kingston, Michael Ware, Tavis Smiley March 24, 2006 (2006-03-24)
Religion, torture, Katrina
737 Robert Wuhl, Seth Green, Erica Jong, Dana Rohrabacher, Jorge Ramos March 31, 2006 (2006-03-31)
Immigration, Bush, telling history
748 Ben Affleck, Joe Biden, Bill Sammon, Kevin Phillips, Cynthia McKinney April 7, 2006 (2006-04-07)
Tom DeLay, on Bush's war, faith, Intelligent Design, Iraq exit strategy
759 Heather Higgins, Anthony Zinni, Mortimer Zuckerman, Stephen A. Smith, Rahm Emanuel April 21, 2006 (2006-04-21)
Iran, Iraq media bias, Barry Bonds, Duke University and Jesse Jackson, Bush & Hu Jintao
7610 George Clooney, Ian McKellen, Barney Frank, Michel Martin, Victor Davis Hanson April 28, 2006 (2006-04-28)
Darfur, gas prices, immigration, The Da Vinci Code controversy
7711 Bradley Whitford, Kim Campbell, Jim Gilmore, Wesley Clark, Mel Martínez May 5, 2006 (2006-05-05)
Democrats, terrorism, Federal Emergency Management Agency, immigration
7812 Madeleine Albright, John Legend, Richard A. Clarke, Cornel West, John Gibson May 12, 2006 (2006-05-12)
NSA, conspiracy theories, 2006 elections, homophobia, Iran
7913 Spike Lee, Elvis Costello, Markos Moulitsas, Max Cleland, Vali Nasr, Christopher Hitchens August 25, 2006 (2006-08-25)
Katrina, war on terror
8014 Penn Jillette, Darrell Issa, Mary Frances Berry, Fouad Ajami, Harry Anderson September 1, 2006 (2006-09-01)
Katrina, poverty, church and state, Lebanon
8115 P. J. O'Rourke, Joan Walsh, Rob Thomas, Benjamin Netanyahu, David Gregory September 8, 2006 (2006-09-08)
9/11 anniversary
8216 Gloria Steinem, Clark Ervin, Michael McKean, Pat Buchanan, Christiane Amanpour September 15, 2006 (2006-09-15)
Immigration, torture by military, Muslim extremists, airport security, hunt for Osama bin Laden, free speech in media
8317 Bradley Whitford, Sandy Rios, Reza Aslan, Frank Rich, C.C. Goldwater September 22, 2006 (2006-09-22)
Iraq War, anti-American dictators, torture legislation, religion
8418 John Kerry, Lincoln Chafee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Richard A. Clarke, Robin Williams, Chris Matthews October 6, 2006 (2006-10-06)
Mark Foley congressional page incident, 2004 and 2006 elections, Iraq War, international relations
8519 Lou Dobbs, Danielle Pletka, Ben Affleck, John Danforth, Richard Branson October 13, 2006 (2006-10-13)
North Korean nuclear test, civilian casualties in Iraq, global warming, immigration and culture wars
8620 Bill Richardson, Barney Frank, Jason Alexander, Stephen Moore, David Kuo October 20, 2006 (2006-10-20)
North Korea policy, Congressional scandals, gay marriage, Military Commissions Act of 2006
8721 Andrew Sullivan, Christine Todd Whitman, Harry Belafonte, Harold Ford, Jr., Arianna Huffington October 27, 2006 (2006-10-27)
Campaign tactics, gay marriage, toxic chemicals, character of politicians
8822 Alec Baldwin, Jack Kingston, A. B. Stoddard, Robert Greenwald, Roseanne Barr November 3, 2006 (2006-11-03)
Cost of Iraq War, Republican fiscal policy, John Kerry's comments on Iraq and education, energy alternatives, teaching of abstinence, political advertisements
8923 Candy Crowley, Rainn Wilson, Salman Rushdie, Chuck Schumer, Jeff Flake November 10, 2006 (2006-11-10)
2006 elections, plan for Iraq, Congressional earmarks, resignation of Donald Rumsfeld
9024 Tom Morello, Dana Priest, Richard Dreyfuss, Dan Rather, Norman Lear November 17, 2006 (2006-11-17)
Journalistic roles/ethics, strategy for Iraq, 110th United States Congress, If I Did It , future of democracy

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