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| Bill Maher: | We all got very excited by the rhetoric -- remember the fierce urgency of now, and the audacity of hope -- so he gives a great speech ... but you know, Muhammad Ali had a great way with words; it helped a great deal that once in a while he punched somebody in the face. And that's what I would like this president to do, is punch somebody in the face. |
| David Letterman: | Figuratively. |
| Bill Maher: | No, literally. I would like him to take a swing at John Boehner -- I would like him to stop listening to these crazies, stop trying to placate them. |
-- from the CBS television program The Late Show With David Letterman, 2009-11-05