When I saw this segment of Bill Maher’s New Rules, I wanted to post it on this blog. The segment didn’t make it to You Tube until yesterday.
Huffington Post
No one will ever accuse “Real Time” host Bill Maher of not saying what he really thinks.
On his Friday night show, he openly equated the Casey Anthony verdict with Republican policy — with Casey Anthony as Republican politicans and voters as the jury, reports The Daily Caller.
“And before you accuse me of equating the Casey Anthony verdict with Republican thinking — save your breath, I am. I’m equating them. If you’re a working-class American who still votes Republican then you don’t get to bitch about that verdict,” said Maher.
Maher went on to explain his assertion:
[Half of American voters] say ‘I’m with the party that cuts all these programs for real people, for the 99 percent. Planned Parenthood, environmental protection, college, health care, infrastructure, but holds the line on private jets.’ Voting for them is as stupid as voting not guilty for the mom who lost her baby for a month and went looking at a wet t-shirt contest.
The HBO host wrapped up his monologue saying:
We’re now being told that multinational corporations bring home their current overseas profits of $1.4 trillion, they’ll only be taxed five percent on it because we’re told it will create jobs. It won’t. It didn’t, just like the last time we tried it in 2004. Companies took the savings and paid it out to themselves in dividends. Yes, Republican base, you are just like that jury. It’s pathetically clear who’s killing the middle class but you keep letting them get away with murder.
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I agree with Maher’s point regarding the stupidity of the average citizen voting Republican. But you cannot compare a vote for a Republican with a vote to acquit Casey Anthony. Unlike a vote against Casey Anthony, no “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard applies to the decision to vote against a Republican. Similarly a vote against Casey Anthony could have resulted in her execution. A vote against a Republican would merely send the candidate back to his/her previous shenanigans. Thus a citizen’s decision to vote to elect a Republican is far more avoidable and far less consequential than a juror’s decision on whether to vote to acquit a Casey Anthony.
Aside from his not so applicable analogy, however, I agree with everything Maher said about Republican voters. The choice between parties should not even be close for the average voter.
Aside from his not so applicable analogy, however, I agree with everything Maher said about Republican voters. The choice between parties should not even be close for the average voter.
LTL, so do I. Maher was spot on in his assessment of Republican voters, sans the weak analogy to the Casey Anthony jurors.