Posted on 02/06/2010 2:11:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Bill Maher took another swipe at President Obama when he appeared on Jay Leno’s show on Friday.
The comic was appearing on one of the last Primetime shows in current form. From February 12, the show will air at 11.35, not 10pm.
Maher said the president’s new populist tone worried him. “He’s not a populist,” Maher told his host, “he’s an elitist, that’s what I like about him – he’s smarter than the rest of us.”
Maher criticized Obama’s trip around the country where he is taking on the middle class concerns about jobs. “He’s demanding to see his own birth certificate!” he laughed, continuing: “I just don’t want to see him start bowling again. Remember that, when he hit a 37? Anne Coulter offered to lend him one of her balls.”
He complained the Democrats were cowardly, though he singled John Edwards out for ironic praise. “They are so impotent – not John Edwards, of course – they’re so pathetic.”
“They couldn’t sell healthcare. This is something that the American people wanted. This is something that would save lives, save money. And they couldn’t even sell that. “They couldn’t sell a cubscout to a pedophile,” he added.
Maher praised Obama’s State of the Union address, saying he liked his attack on the Supreme Court’s decision to allow unlimited corporate funding of political campaigns. “People say why is the system broken ... I’ll tell you why, money,” Maher asserted. “It’s exactly this kind of stuff, money. There’s too much money in the system. Everything works backwards.
"If the first primary was in Vermont we would be putting maple syrup in our cars.”
Maher also teased Leno about the recent furore between his show and that of Irish American frontman Conan O’Brien.
“When this show went on the air, liberals were still behind Obama, Tiger Woods was still a role model, and having something exploding in your underpants was a good thing,” Maher joked.
“Now you can’t argue with me, now that you’re Mr. Vulnerable,” he later said.
Clasping Leno’s hand, he said, “You’re holding up so well, Jay. Isn’t he holding up well?”
NBC recently switched Leno’s Prime Time show to a later slot, and in response O’Brien left the network.
They’ve tripled the national debt. That’s pretty effective, albeit it in the worst say possible.
He obviously didn't do it on talent or intelligence.
I know a Marine Corpseman who would beg to differ.
“he’s an elitist, that’s what I like about him – he’s smarter than the rest of us.”
Bill wants a mommy.
Maher is the comical version of Keith Olbermann. They must ridicule to survive.
Correct.
“he’s an elitist, that’s what I like about him – he’s smarter than the rest of us.”
Agree he is smarter than Maher. Almost everyone is.
But then 0bozo is smarter than the rest of us like there are 57 states in America, and the US Navy has got “Corpsemen”.
If anyone would be an expert on impotence Maher would.
Is Bill Maher complaining that he wanted to buy a Cub Scout but that Obama refused to sell him one?
Bill, I don’t think that would be legal. Or nice.
Hello, Bill, anybody home? The American people DON'T WANT Obama's Health Care. That's why Scott Brown, comprende?
Democrats are so incompetent right now they couldn’t run the dope concession at a Grateful Dead concert
It's interesting that Maher thinks the Democrats WOULD try to sell a Cub Scout to a pedophile.
As well as being an expert on how to pick up little boys.
Remember, Obama thinks people from Austria speak Austrian. What a numb skull! Had Palin said that you would never hear the end of it.
He is a lot less smarter than the hype. Right CORPSEMAN Obama!
Too late ... The Indians are forming up for the massacre in November.
The wisdom of the crowd gets you every time.
Bill wants a mommy....or a transvestite hooker.
Just a small correction...corpsmen are in the Navy. The Marine Corps doesn’t have their own medical personnel.
Cindie
Smarter than the rest of us? Take away Totus and his IQ drops a hundred points
just like Bill Maher to want to think about how to “sell a cubscout to a pedophile”
somehow I don’t think that phrase could occur to decent human beings
And he also thinks there are 58 states.
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