The Clueless Left
I am not going to say that Bill Maher is stupid. I believe he is far from it. I just believe that he is clueless. He is also full of guilt for being a white man.
I do not usually watch HBO, but since I am out of town on business and staying in a hotel room alone, I flip through the available channels and sometimes stop on things that I would not normally watch with the children around, or more than this, things that my wife normally overrides me on. Bill Maher fits into the former. The History Channel fits into the latter.
Last night, Bill Maher's first guest was Pat Buchannan. His discussion centered around Buchannan's revelation that President Bush should be impeached for his derilection of duty in securing our borders. While Mr. Buchannan made firm arguments concerning the usupation of our sovreignty to Mexican nationals and the economic impacts upon the United States, Maher could not get past the idea that the only reason why anyone would be against Mexicans coming to the United States is that the "1950's" white men wanted to keep the United States a lily-white nation. It was as if all he heard Buchannan say was "I want a temporary moratorium on immigration...". Maher's mind-blinders automatically went into "racism" mode, and ignored Buchannan saying "...until we can seal our borders and control the influx of immigrants."
He is clueless.
Maher then brought out a "panel" of guests to discuss "issues of the day." Of course the president of Iran and the president of Venezuela were mentioned, as was the Iraq War and torture. But the panel, which included such intellectual heavyweights as Gloria Steinem, Clark Kent Ervin, a former DHS official who seems a little bitter since he was not renominated, and Michael McKean, who is best known for his role as "Lenny" on the "Laverne and Shirley" television show. Each topic presented to the panel always was related to how stupid President Bush is and how he has blundered in every move that the makes. Unable to connect dots as children, each of the panelists treated the Iraq War as if it has nothing to do with Iran, when in fact they failed to see that Iraq may have been a strategic move to deal with Iran. But nevertheless, to the "panel" and the host, all is Bush's fault because he and people like him are stuck in the 50's, where white was the rule.
He also brought on Christiane Amanpour, that warriorette of unbiased journalism who is employed by CNN and contributes to NPR. Apparently, this brave journalist walked the steps of Bin Laden. But, of course, she never actually could get to "where he really was". And she let her unbiased veil down as she went on a mini-tirade of the failures of President Bush in the Iraq War.
Summary of the Bill Maher show last night: Religious people are irrational and illogical, Bush is stupid, and everyone who doesn't agree with Bill Maher are racist white male oppressors.
He is clueless.
Fisher Ames, who is an unsung Founding Father, once said, "The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty." Unfortunately, people like Maher who are clueless as to what this means, believing that liberty includes such things as being able to say the "F" word on network television.
True torture would be sitting through another Bill Maher television show.
I do not usually watch HBO, but since I am out of town on business and staying in a hotel room alone, I flip through the available channels and sometimes stop on things that I would not normally watch with the children around, or more than this, things that my wife normally overrides me on. Bill Maher fits into the former. The History Channel fits into the latter.
Last night, Bill Maher's first guest was Pat Buchannan. His discussion centered around Buchannan's revelation that President Bush should be impeached for his derilection of duty in securing our borders. While Mr. Buchannan made firm arguments concerning the usupation of our sovreignty to Mexican nationals and the economic impacts upon the United States, Maher could not get past the idea that the only reason why anyone would be against Mexicans coming to the United States is that the "1950's" white men wanted to keep the United States a lily-white nation. It was as if all he heard Buchannan say was "I want a temporary moratorium on immigration...". Maher's mind-blinders automatically went into "racism" mode, and ignored Buchannan saying "...until we can seal our borders and control the influx of immigrants."
He is clueless.
Maher then brought out a "panel" of guests to discuss "issues of the day." Of course the president of Iran and the president of Venezuela were mentioned, as was the Iraq War and torture. But the panel, which included such intellectual heavyweights as Gloria Steinem, Clark Kent Ervin, a former DHS official who seems a little bitter since he was not renominated, and Michael McKean, who is best known for his role as "Lenny" on the "Laverne and Shirley" television show. Each topic presented to the panel always was related to how stupid President Bush is and how he has blundered in every move that the makes. Unable to connect dots as children, each of the panelists treated the Iraq War as if it has nothing to do with Iran, when in fact they failed to see that Iraq may have been a strategic move to deal with Iran. But nevertheless, to the "panel" and the host, all is Bush's fault because he and people like him are stuck in the 50's, where white was the rule.
He also brought on Christiane Amanpour, that warriorette of unbiased journalism who is employed by CNN and contributes to NPR. Apparently, this brave journalist walked the steps of Bin Laden. But, of course, she never actually could get to "where he really was". And she let her unbiased veil down as she went on a mini-tirade of the failures of President Bush in the Iraq War.
Summary of the Bill Maher show last night: Religious people are irrational and illogical, Bush is stupid, and everyone who doesn't agree with Bill Maher are racist white male oppressors.
He is clueless.
Fisher Ames, who is an unsung Founding Father, once said, "The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty." Unfortunately, people like Maher who are clueless as to what this means, believing that liberty includes such things as being able to say the "F" word on network television.
True torture would be sitting through another Bill Maher television show.
posted by Badbeans | 7:32 AM
2 Comments:
Excellent points. I couldn't agree more.
--Wes, from Animate Matters
Well said, Beans. I don't know about you but I'm ready for the trumpets to blow. Should we pray that he tarries or that he should hasten the day of his return? One great and terrible day (and I believe one day SOON) Maher too will bend his knee...alongside Steinem, Ervin, McKean and Amanpour and realize just who really was "irrational and illogical."
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