Maher: ‘If you are racist, you’re probably a Republican’ Watch "Bill Maher On The Jay Leno Show" Video at mediaite. Bill Maher: New Rule: Everyone Deserves Equal Rights. New Rule: Everyone deserves equal rights.
That's why they're called "equal" and "rights. " Tomorrow night President Obama will speak before a gay rights group, and on Sunday there will be a massive gay rally in Washington, or as I call it, the Million Mo March. Which makes this weekend the perfect time for Obama to announce he's repealing "don't ask, don't tell" and committing to a full-throated endorsement of gay marriage. One, because it's the right thing to do and two, because it will throw the conservative base into such a frenzied, pants-shitting panic that they'll drop all that BS about death panels and socialism and let us all get some actual work done. But of course that's not going to happen.
"Don't ask, don't tell" has always been bad policy that was made out of a bullshit political compromise. Because here's the thing about today's conservatives: they're not bright. Bill Maher Slams GOP Climate Change Skeptics: They're "So Stupid They Make Me Question Evolution" Is Bill Maher really that ignorant? (part IV): Bill loves him some cancer quackery : Respectful Insolence. I’ve asked at least three times on this blog, “Is Bill Maher that ignorant?”
The first time was four and a half years ago, when, in a fit of germ theory denialism, Maher proclaimed erroneously that Louis Pasteur had “recanted” on his deathbed, while spewing nonsense hither and yon about how disease isn’t primarily caused by microbes but by “aggregate toxicity,” whatever that means in woo-speak. The second time I asked the question occurred in 2008, when Maher lectured David Letterman about “toxins” and and suggested that he consider giving up his heart drugs and pursue “natural” therapies.
The third, and perhaps most hilarious, time came when Maher proclaimed that he never gets the flu and wouldn’t get the flu on an airplane, leading his guest Bob Costas to exclaim in exasperation, “Oh, come on, Superman!” Bob Costas won my respect that day. My favorite part was when Maher looked at his guests and observed, “You all look at me as though I’m crazy.” Why, yes, Bill, we do. I regret nothing. Bill Maher: New Rule: You Can't Complain About Health Care Reform If You're Not Willing to Reform Your Own Health. New Rule: You can't complain about health care reform if you're not willing to reform your own health.
Unlike most liberals, I'm glad all those teabaggers marched on Washington last week. Because judging from the photos, it's the first exercise they've gotten in years. Not counting, of course, all the Rascal scooters there, most of which aren't even for the disabled. They're just Americans who turned 60 and said, "Screw it, I'm done walking. " These people are furious at the high cost of health care, so they blame illegals, who don't even get health care. Yes, it was fun this week to watch the teabaggers complain how the media underestimated the size of their march, "How can you say there were only 60,000 of us?
President Obama has identified all the problems with the health care system, but there's one tiny issue he refuses to tackle, and that's our actual health. I'm not saying tax all soda, but certainly any single serving of soda larger than a baby is not unreasonable. Real Time New Rules: We've let this 'Birther' garbage gather for too long.