The Funny Farm

Repugnicant Values In Action

(a Day Late And A Dollar Short post from The Funny Farm)

So, we finally got around to watching last Friday's Real time With Bill Maher. And I could not believe the crap I heard from the Repugnicant representatives on the show.

First, Alan Simpson (R-Hypocrite) has the balls to call out Maher for some jokes he made, and some slightly rancorous statements directed at the religious right and flyover country. This prick has the gall to talk about the hatred of the Left and how it caused people to turn away from the Democratic Party. Excuse me, what about all the bashing of the Hollywood elite and the liberals that was going on for a year and a half* before the election? The senile old fart seems to have ignored all of that. I guess it's easier to look at the flaws of others instead of trying to do something about your own incendiary rhetoric.

Then, Andrew Sullivan (Independent (cough) - Smirk's Butt Boy) gets into the game by immediately taking offense over Maher's remarks as well. Perhaps you've forgooten the Swift Boat Liars campaign of the past few months? The constant lies about how liberal Kerry was? You want the Democrats to stop saying all those mean things, and ignore the rhetoric from the right, which was worse by orders of magnitude? Go Cheney yourself, icehole...

After that shameless exhibition, Sullivan went on to put words into Noam Chomsky's mouth (I don't recall Noam saying that America was evil. Do you?). Chomsky called into question the motivation behind the Oil Gulf War Too, and of course Sullivan accused him of lying about the motives for the war. What I don't understand is: when Sullivan went to that particular well, why didn't any of the non-conservatives on the show (Bill Maher is moderate at best, Pat Shroeder is a flaming liberal, but D.L. Hughley don't trust nobody and is only Democratic because he feels there is no alternative right now) immediately ask him to tell the audience that, when the war started, the only thing the Americans guarded was the oil fields and Saddam's disinformation ministry. They let looters take five thousand years (at least) of irreplaceable history, weapons caches (which the government wouldn't even let us know about until pRezNit Pinhead was re-electorated), and almost every other damn thing in Iraq. That would tend to suggest to some (coughcoughthewholefreelingrestoftheworldcoughcough) that it was all about the oil. Yet another example of the lies of the Repugnicants getting broadcast unchallenged. That's why we keep losing to these vile creatures, people!

Our recording got cut off before the show ended, so we were unable to catch the sight of Andrew Sullivan playing with his ass on national television. Unfortunately, someone else did. Now my appetite is ruined for another day...

Thanks to Tha Fashionable Left Bank Of Blogistan's Uber-blogger Atrios for linking to the video snippet, and for his insightful commentary about the show over at Eschaton.

* - we have seen Repgunicant hatred for more than twenty years now, but we (like all good liberals) give the opposition the benefit of the doubt, and are only focusing on the increased level of hatred that started up when the 2004 presidential campaign got under way.

Posted by (: Tom :) at November 9, 2004 08:45 PM