Bill Maher’s got a man crush again. On the President. Again. All of a sudden the President is his hero. Last night on Anderson Cooper 360, he waxed lyrical about the President, and how he’s the one source of reality in a world of politics gone mad. He’s full of Obamalove again, and he thinks the President can beat Mitt Romney in November.
This is all damage limitation. Bill knows exactly what he’s been saying about the President, or “Barry,” as he sometimes, derogatorily, called him during this period. He also knows that many of the people who sucked on his words like oxygen during the Bush Administration, suddenly sat up and took notice of some of the vile, outlandish and totally untrue things Maher uttered about this President.
The President can win now, Bill has decreed, hoping that people won’t remember that he’s called him a wussy and that as late as last September, he was subtly insinuating that people shouldn’t vote. As late as last October, he was calling the President a liar for failing to close Gitmo (ne’mind, it was Congressional Democrats who effected that fiasco). And as late as November, he was insisting that Mitt Romney could certainly beat the President, and in the presence of his good friend, frequent guest and convicted felon, Rep Darrell Issa.
Now, as the Cockneys say, it’s a completely different kettle of fish. Maybe Bill realises that all of his sayings and doings as a graduate of the Arianna Huffington School of Advanced Ratfuckery are here on the “internets” for all to see and to fact check. Or maybe he realises that people just aren’t so stupid as he would like his arrogant minions and herd-followers to believe. Maybe Bill’s scared that, should the President lose, as a member of the Professional Left, he might be held responsible.
Watch Bill’s political Moon Walk backwards over his undermining of the past four years – the best and most ironic bit is when he refers to the Republican debates as being like the television show you watch and love, until it jumps the shark and then becomes a liability to your taste – a bit like Real Time :-
For all that luscious, fulsome praise, Bill still cannot manage to extricate his head from Ron Paul’s posterior portion, clinging to this vicious, old racist homophobe disguised as a folksy, old country doctor, because he wants to legalise the weed Bill gets via medical prescription and effect a program of isolation with regard to what would be non-foreign policy.
And like all Paulbots, Maher insists that Ron Paul is honest, something which The Washington Post, today, proved to be a dubious assertion. Maher says that there are many things which Paul advocates, which make him uncomfortable and with which he doesn’t agree. Amongst those things, he cited the gold standard and Paul’s ideas about healthcare. Apparently, Ron Paul’s racism, or his opportunism in promoting racism and homophobia in order to make a quick buck, doesn’t bother Bill Maher in the least.
Well, it takes one to know one, I suppose.
I leave Bill, and the rest of the celebrity talking heads of the Professional Left, with this prescient song to ponder:-
Cross-posted from Emilia Wahoo
