Real Time with Bill Maher (season 9)

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Real Time with Bill Maher
Season 9
No. of episodes35
Release
Original network HBO
Original releaseJanuary 14 (2011-01-14) 
November 11, 2011 (2011-11-11)
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List of episodes

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

Episodes

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No. in
season
GuestsOriginal air date
1981 Elizabeth Warren, Martin Short, James Carville, Mike Murphy, Chrystia Freeland January 14, 2011 (2011-01-14)
Consumer protection, Tucson shooting, gun control, right wing rhetoric, health care
1992 Michael Hastings, David Stockman, Rachel Maddow, Stephen Moore, Russell Simmons January 21, 2011 (2011-01-21)
Keith Olbermann, Tunisian Revolution, health care, Ronald Reagan's legacy, gun control, Tucson shooting
2003 Michael Steele, Will Cain, Kim Campbell, Jack Kingston, D. L. Hughley January 28, 2011 (2011-01-28)
2011 State of the Union Address, deficit, education, Egyptian Revolution of 2011, Domodedovo International Airport bombing, climate change, evolution
2014 Mona Eltahawy, Charles H. Ferguson, John Fund, Anthony Weiner, Neil deGrasse Tyson February 4, 2011 (2011-02-04)
Egyptian protests, financial meltdown, RNC in debt, Kepler spacecraft, NASA going to Mars, Clarence and Ginny Thomas, Civil War celebrations in the south, GOProud at CPAC
2025 Arianna Huffington, Cornel West, Hooman Majd, Norah O'Donnell, Matthew Perry February 11, 2011 (2011-02-11)
AOL-HuffPo merger, Egypt after Mubarak and US reaction, Chris Lee, alcoholism, O'Reilly's interview of Obama, CPAC and homophobia, re-writing Mark Twain
2036 Tavis Smiley, Kevin Smith, John Heilemann, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Matt Taibbi February 18, 2011 (2011-02-18)
Griftopia , budget cuts, Obama as a bad negotiator, trade unions for government employees, Tea Party Review magazine, Red State , treatment of women in Arab world, Natalie Munroe, Civil War reenactments
2047 T. Coraghessan Boyle, Gloria Steinem, Gavin Newsom, Ezra Klein, Tracey Ullman March 4, 2011 (2011-03-04)
Overpopulation, road quality in the US, Planned Parenthood, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Equal Pay
2058 Keith Ellison, Bill T. Jones, Paul Begala, Dana Loesch, Thomas M. Davis March 11, 2011 (2011-03-11)
Peter King's radicalization hearings, Islamophobia, labor dispute in Wisconsin, sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Philadelphia, NPR, 2012 GOP presidential candidates, no-fly zone in Libya and the wealth gape.
2069 Richard Belzer, Michael Oren, Dan Neil, Annabelle Gurwitch, Erica Williams March 18, 2011 (2011-03-18)
Democracy in Arab countries, nuclear power, the economy's social impact, the environment, disaster porn, Charlie Sheen, Bradley Manning
20710 Jeremy Scahill, Elliot Page, David Brooks, Ed Rendell, Tina Brown March 25, 2011 (2011-03-25)
Libya, youth bulge, Republican birthers and racism, labor unions, bee colony collapse disorder, America's growing Hispanic population, General Electric's tax bill
20811 Bernie Sanders, Timothy Shriver, Julian Schnabel, Randy Cohen, Doug Heye April 1, 2011 (2011-04-01)
Government shutdown, budget cuts, public vs. private labor, corporate taxes, birthers, Miral , Pastor Terry Jones, War Powers Resolution, American exceptionalism, Iowa caucuses, same-sex marriage
20912 Chesley Sullenberger, Eliot Spitzer, Katty Kay, Andrew Sullivan, Colin Quinn April 8, 2011 (2011-04-08)
Government shutdown, Planned Parenthood, US Budget, Objectivism, Libya, reaction to Pastor Terry Jones, Donald Trump, Class conflict
21013 Michio Kaku, Ed Schultz, Michael Steele, Amy Walter, Irshad Manji April 15, 2011 (2011-04-15)
US Budget, trickle-down economics, Iraq War, military–industrial complex, France's ban on Muslim clothing, gender inequality in Muslim culture, Jon Kyl, health care in Paul Ryan's budget plan, racism in the Tea Party, National Endowment for the Arts
21114 Deval Patrick, Laura Flanders, Andrew Breitbart, Mark McKinnon, John Waters April 29, 2011 (2011-04-29)
Labor union bill in Massachusetts, birther and schooler conspiracy theories, Romneycare, racism in the GOP, Donald Trump, gas prices, windfall profits tax, censorship on TV, Victory Day in Afghanistan, monarchy in the UK
21215 Peter Bergen, Michael Eric Dyson, Jeremy Scahill, David Frum, Irshad Manji May 6, 2011 (2011-05-06)
Death of Osama bin Laden and his potential successors, Bush doctrine, Bin Laden's decline of popularity in the Muslim world, celebrations of OBL's death, OBL's goal to bankrupt the US, David Petraeus as CIA director nominee
21316 Richard A. Clarke, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Reihan Salam, Michelle Bernard, Harry Shearer May 13, 2011 (2011-05-13)
Osama bin Laden's life in the compound, Pakistan as ally, Newt Gingrich, job gains/losses in the private and public sectors, US Army Corps of Engineers, FEMA, education, green energy, John Ensign scandal, pediatricians and gun safety
21417 Amy Chua, Dylan Ratigan, Gillian Tett, Reza Aslan, Zach Galifianakis May 20, 2011 (2011-05-20)
Republican 2010 Presidential nominees, health care, socialism, Israel, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Catholic priest abuse scandal report
21518 Shaun Donovan, Melissa Harris-Perry, Rick Lazio, Larry King, Adam McKay June 3, 2011 (2011-06-03)
Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign, Republican hyperbolic rhetoric about Obama, Sarah Palin's bus tour, Anthony Weiner sexting scandals, Lee Atwater, John Edwards scandal, the US budget deficit, link between cell phones and cancer, businessmen as politicians
21619 Jane Harman, Janeane Garofalo, Joshua Green, Sharon Waxman, Jane Lynch June 10, 2011 (2011-06-10)
Tax cuts for the wealthy, climate change, Rick Santorum, Anthony Weiner scandal, Sarah Palin's gubernatorial record, the Republican field for 2012, cybersex
21720 Ray Kurzweil, Ross Douthat, Gretchen Hamel, Chris Matthews, Kevin Nealon June 17, 2011 (2011-06-17)
Mitt Romney, FEMA, Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann, Republicans rooting for America to fail, Anthony Weiner scandal, Tracy Morgan, hunting, freedom vs. entitlement, Rick Perry's spiritual solutions to national problems
21821 Richard Engel, David Carr, Michael Smerconish, Susan Del Percio, Alexandra Pelosi June 24, 2011 (2011-06-24)
Obama's non-Democratic policies, Republican candidate Jon Huntsman, Jr., Mormonism, Obama impersonator Reggie Brown, Walmart, the state of the news media, role of family in conservative politics & overbreeding
21922 Ethan Nadelmann, Ann Coulter, Chris Hayes, Amanda Foreman, Chaz Bono July 8, 2011 (2011-07-08)
U.S. debt ceiling, jobs, Michele Bachmann, Keith Ablow, News International phone hacking scandal, Casey Anthony trial, favorable laws for the wealthy
22023 T. Colin Campbell, Dan Savage, Chrystia Freeland, Mark Cuban, Marc Maron July 15, 2011 (2011-07-15)
American greed, the economy, the environment, Marcus Bachmann's gay therapy, marriage vow pledge, tax pledge, Rupert Murdoch's media empire, Carmageddon on Interstate 405 (California), liberal vs. Christian sexism
22124 Martin Lewis, John Fetterman, Donna Brazile, Nick Gillespie, John Turturro July 22, 2011 (2011-07-22)
Republican strategy of no, the US budget, financial services industry, Marcus Bachmann, personal sacrifice in the US, independent voters, Michele Bachmann's migraines, political pledges
22225 Harry Markopolos, Eliot Spitzer, Margaret Hoover, Matt Kibbe, Bryan Cranston July 29, 2011 (2011-07-29)
The Tea Party, Democrats, the economy, Allen West, crystal meth, Herbert Hoover, U.S. Tax Code, religious terrorism, socialism in America
22326 Christina Romer, Joan Walsh, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Steve Bannon, Anthony Bourdain August 5, 2011 (2011-08-05)
National debt, United States federal government credit-rating downgrades, James Webb Space Telescope, food, wealth inequality in the United States, infrastructure and jobs in U.S., the Tea Party caucus
22427 Keith Olbermann, Rich Galen, Jennifer Donahue, Dexter Filkins, Louis C.K. September 16, 2011 (2011-09-16)
Rick Perry vs. Mitt Romney, health care, Obama's poll numbers, Joe McGinniss's book The Rogue, reaction to tapes of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, New York's 9th congressional district special election, 2011, US feelings toward a Palestinian free state
22528 Ron Suskind, Tom Morello, John Avlon, Jane Harman, Michael Moore September 23, 2011 (2011-09-23)
Republican presidential candidates attacking each other, the economy, the American Dream, tax rates, Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, Tony Bennett's remarks about terrorists, American foreign policy towards Muslim countries, political uprisings and protests, the execution of Troy Davis, the rich as "job creators"
22629 Dana Priest, Van Jones, Jennifer Granholm, Seth MacFarlane, Salman Rushdie September 30, 2011 (2011-09-30)
Obama's war record, assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, Obama's political record, sanity of the religious right, Occupy Wall Street, Solyndra scandal, opening of the ground zero mosque, fallacy of trickle-down economics, viability of Jesus as a Republican candidate
22730 Richard Trumka, P. J. O'Rourke, Jonathan Franzen, Alan Grayson, Nicolle Wallace October 7, 2011 (2011-10-07)
Chris Christie and Sarah Palin's decisions not to run for President, Mitt Romney's Mormonism, Hank Williams, Jr., voter registration rules, Occupy Wall Street, Republican denial of racism
22831 Robert Jeffress, Penn Jillette, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, John Fund, Thom Hartmann October 14, 2011 (2011-10-14)
Pushback regarding Occupy Wall Street, tax reform, Herman Cain, morality, libertarianism, Obama's jobs bill, relaxed pollution standards, U.S. energy policy, absurdity of Mormonism and Mitt Romney's commitment to it
22932 Lisa P. Jackson, Touré, Thomas Friedman, Joshua Green, Rachel Maddow October 21, 2011 (2011-10-21)
Obama's lack of credit for Muammar Gaddafi's assassination, Republicans holding Obama back, Republican lack of foreign policy experience, fighter drones, college loan debt, immigration, racism, Herman Cain's viability as a serious candidate, competition in politics, Republicans living in the past
23033 Grover Norquist, Michelle Goldberg, Michael Ware, Cornel West, Ron Christie October 28, 2011 (2011-10-28)
Herman Cain's creepy ad, Fallout from the status of forces agreement, brutality of treatment of Gaddafi's corpse, Iran, Occupy Wall Street, Newt Gingrich as a big thinker, class warfare, recreational drugs vs. prescription drugs
23134 Beau Biden, David Paterson, Alex Wagner, Darrell Issa, Bill Engvall November 4, 2011 (2011-11-04)
Herman Cain's popularity, the United States national motto, climate change, legalizing marijuana, Occupy Wall Street, same-sex marriage, Second Amendment, Republicans trusting Jesus over government
23235 Barney Frank, Chris Matthews, Keith Ellison, Andrew Sullivan, Common November 11, 2011 (2011-11-11)
2011 Mississippi elections, Republican debates, government agencies Rick Perry would cut, viability of various college degrees, education and parenting, allegations against Herman Cain, Penn State child sex abuse scandal, John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Republicans as anti-Christmas

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