[Bill]Maher: Why Didn’t Rush Die From Drugs Instead of Heath Ledger?

NewsBusters ^ | February 9, 2008 | Noel Sheppard

[2ndDivisionVet]

The hatred from supposedly compassionate and open-minded Hollywoodans is something to behold, isn't it?

After all, just imagine despising a radio talk show host so much that you would suggest, on national television, that he should die of a drug overdose.

Alas, such was the case Friday evening when HBO's Bill Maher actually asked guest P.J. O'Rourke, who was talking about Rush Limbaugh's use of the prescription drug OxyContin (video available here courtesy our friend Ms Underestimated):

Why couldn't have he croaked from it instead of Heath Ledger?

Honestly, can you imagine?

MSNBC's David Shuster was suspended on Friday for making insensitive remarks about Chelsea Clinton being "pimped out."

Will Maher even get a slap on the wrist from HBO for this?

Yes, that's a rhetorical question.

Of course, what's really interesting is how just before Maher made this despicable remark, he was actually condemning Republicans for their antipathy towards John McCain:

BILL MAHER, HOST: Why is it, I was asking Amy this, why is it that the Republican establishment, I guess it is, have so much disdain, not just for McCain, but for the other guy who's still in it...Huckabee? They don't like either one of them.

P.J. O'ROURKE, WRITER: Well, I think a couple of things are going on. It's the it's the twilight of the radio loud-mouth, you know? I knew it from the moment the fat guy…

MAHER: …You mean Rush Limbaugh and Sean..?

O'ROURKE: …from the moment the fat guy refused to share his drugs (audience laughter). I was, you know…he never called, he never wrote. I'm ready to party, you know, come on! No, I think it's kind of over for those people. So…

MAHER: Right, you mean the OxyContin that he was on?

O'ROURKE: Yeah, exactly. I mean, that stuff's good!

MAHER: Why couldn't, uh, why couldn't have he croaked from it instead of Heath Ledger? (small audience groans)

O'ROURKE: Yeah, yeah.

Amazing, wouldn't you agree?

First, Maher chastises Republicans for not liking their presidential candidates. Then, he wishes ill of the leading conservative voice in the media.

Physician, heal thyself!

*****Update: Late night slip of the keyboard alert: OxyContin is certainly not an over-the-counter drug. Correction made, and thanks to all who brought it to my attention.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Bill Maher vocalizes what the left is thinking.

[RDTF]

What a tool

[Darkwolf377]

Bill Maher is the embodiment of the word “irrelevant,” as is PJ O’Rourke.

[CzarNicky]

because god hates leftists.

[L.N. Smithee]

P.J. O'ROURKE, WRITER: Well, I think a couple of things are going on. It's the it's the twilight of the radio loud-mouth, you know? I knew it from the moment the fat guy…refused to share his drugs (audience laughter). I was, you know…he never called, he never wrote. I'm ready to party, you know, come on! No, I think it's kind of over for those people.

I am frankly more shocked at P.J. O'Rourke's comments. We all knew that Maher is filled with hate; I didn't know O'Rourke -- who has made his living being a right-leaning guy in a left-leaning scene -- was such a jackhole that he would toss it up for Maher to swat out of the park.

[eleni121]

Of course he does.

And what can be said about the has been P J O’Rourke the Toledo troglodyte?

Only in America can a baboon like this guy actually make a living writing inocuous stuff.

Greeks have a word for him: malaka

[attiladhun2]

Now we’re supposed to reach across the aisle, right? I’d like to reach across the aisle and slap the cr@p out of these pukes. Am I allowed to say that?

[river rat]

I think ηλίθιος, βλάκας is closer to the mark...

[river rat]

σκατά head also works ......and will drive the moderator nuts finding out if I violated the NO PROFANITY rule......

[oust the louse]

I just took a Bill Maher right after dinner...something went right thru me...

[oust the louse]

This is what I meant to write oops...

I just took a good (BM) Bill Maher right after dinner...something went right thru me...

[river rat]

Χρειάζεται το γάιδάρο του που κλωτσιέται για να στρέψει την προσοχή του

[A knight without armor]

"Χρειάζεται το γάιδάρο του που κλωτσιέται για να στρέψει την προσοχή του"

It must be hot where you are. Your words arrived all melted.

[eleni121]

LOL—great Greek by the way.

This one is dedicated to the both of these poustides:

AFTOS POU PIDAI POLA PALOUKIA THA TOU HOTHI KAI ENA STO KOLO

(I truly hope I do not get banned forever...)

[xzins]

The answer is that it wasn’t God’s timing for the death of Rush but it was for Ledger.

That is something in the unsearchable counsel of God.

[AlternateEgo]

“MAHER: Why couldn’t, uh, why couldn’t have he (Rush Limbaugh) croaked from it instead of Heath Ledger? “
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I would say that it makes a good argument for the existence of God.

[isthisnickcool]

TO BE SEEN ON BILL MAHER’S HEAD STONE:
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“He had a small peni$”

[Dr. Eckleburg]

The answer is that it wasn't God's timing for the death of Rush but it was for Ledger.

That is something in the unsearchable counsel of God.

Amen.

"Seeing his [man's] days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass" -- Job 14:5

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"And [God] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation" -- Acts 17:26

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"And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?" -- Luke 12:25-26

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I am frankly more shocked at P.J. O'Rourke's comments. We all knew that Maher is filled with hate; I didn't know O'Rourke -- who has made his living being a right-leaning guy in a left-leaning scene -- was such a jackhole that he would toss it up for Maher to swat out of the park.

I agree. The craving to be invited to all the fab parties is a strong incentive to capitulate.

Maybe O'Rourke is angling for his own HBO gab-fest, and he thinks if he's nice to the sabertooths they might share their kill instead of biting his head off.

Good luck with that one.

[xzins]

I don’t know O’Rourke, but I do know liberals.

I’d not besmirch the good name of sabertooths by putting them in the same company. :>)