On Friday night's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, the host mocked Michelle Malkin's new book on the ethically challenged Obama administration, then mocked Jonah Goldberg, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Glenn Beck with fake books that show how conservatives have "jumped the shark" [sic] in attacking Obama after only six months in office:
He’s been in office, our president, for 6 months, and there is also, or there is already a book by Michelle Malkin. You know Michelle Malkin, she’s been on our show. She won’t come back, but. (Laughter.) But look at this. This is not a fake book we mocked up. This is a real book. Culture of Corruption. Look at him, it’s the American flag, he’s f—ed it up already. [Wrong. It's the Obama campaign logo.]
Six months in office! And already we can make this judgment! It blows my mind, because Bush always said ‘you can’t judge me now. Only history can judge me.' The long – we’ve got to wait 100 years to see how Iraq comes out.
Maher is having too much fun to acknowledge reality: George W. Bush faced a stack of Bush-is-corrupt books by the six-month mark. Try even earlier, like February of 2000, when CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl was promoting the book Fortunate Son by J.H. Hatfield, a man convicted of paying a hit man $5,000 to kill his former boss with a car bomb:
Just because he lied to his editors about being a convicted felon isn't a good enough reason for those editors to doubt his book, in which he uses anonymous sources to accuse George W. Bush of covering up an arrest for cocaine when he was a young man.
Malkin isn't a convicted felon, but she won't count on a 60 Minutes story promoting her new book. Maher then shifted to his allegedly humorous list of fake books. Guest Rachel Maddow cackled at Maher enough to make Ed McMahon sound like a curmudgeon on the Johnny Carson set.
We found out this isn’t the only right-wing book that has sort of jumped the shark. [Jumped the gun?] Look at some of these other books that I think really are a little premature.
Failure: Why the Obama Girls Never Amounted to Anything [Fake author: Jonah Goldberg.]
Clownfall: How Al Franken Destroyed the Senate, Bankrupted Minnesota, and Ruined Ice Fishing Forever. [Fake author: Rush Limbaugh.]
This one: Ann Coulter’s Sh-tfaced: Obama’s Pathetic Descent Into Alcoholism [illustrated by a "beer summit" photo].
And here’s a great coffee-table book. It’s Glenn Beck’s Painting With Poop. Because he is playing with his feces.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
Editor at Large
Comments Policy
Sorry, Bill but
August 2, 2009 - 22:02 ET by lsudolemiteYou libs forfeited your right to the "only six months in office" argument after Obama took over Detroit, rammed through a budget producing all-time record deficits, gave us the "stimulus" bill, is currently pushing cap-and-trade, and attempted to railroad his Trojan Horse of a health care public option before the August recess. All within that short amount of time.
While I'm at it, you also forfeited the "not experienced enough" argument now and forever in future elections for obvious reasons.
Ok
August 2, 2009 - 22:02 ET by beauxdogThis one: Ann Coulter’s Sh-tfaced: Obama’s Pathetic Descent Into Alcoholism [illustrated by a "beer summit" photo].
And here’s a great coffee-table book. It’s Glenn Beck’s Painting With Poop. Because he is playing with his feces.
And these folks think that Glenn Beck is over the line and should be fired for calling Obama a racist?
Beauxdog
If he'd bother to read the
August 2, 2009 - 22:05 ET by Radical1979If he'd bother to read the book he'd see the corrpution Malkin talks about goes back quite a way with the Obamas. She's talking about how Obama brought the corruption with him to Washington. Not that there wasn't enough there already....
But then he'd have to admit to the truth about Obama.
Once again, facts don't matter
August 3, 2009 - 05:52 ET by motherbeltOnce again, facts don't matter to liberals. Maher looked at the cover, decided that Malkin was saying Obama messed up the country (represented by the "flag") in six months, and off he went!
Doesn't matter to Bill that he's operating on a mistaken premise from the beginning; he's on a roll, don't interrupt him!
There's corruption in Chicago? Sacre Bleu!
August 2, 2009 - 22:31 ET by OxyConimo Beck asked for that one. I'm waiting for him to bring a giant toy hammer out and pretend to bash his head in on air, his antics are so insane.
please - just ignore this a$$
August 2, 2009 - 22:46 ET by puredmashiethis giant prick has proven time and time again that he deserves no attention whatsoever.
swing hard in case you hit it.
Re Maher
August 2, 2009 - 22:43 ET by slickwillie2001He's a sad and angry little man.
Maher
August 2, 2009 - 23:43 ET by blazermaniacBill Maher is the only one whom is a PHONY!
Didn't Maher tell Wolf
August 3, 2009 - 07:20 ET by ThisnThatDidn't Maher tell Wolf Blitzer 5 days ago that America was stupid. And then, when Blitzer asked for example, Maher couldn't come up with a single one? "This country gets dumber and dumber by the day, and I don't think I have time on your program to list all the reasons". He said the only bright people are the ones that watch his program.
Ding! We have another contestant in the hottly run contest for the most arrogant and elitist SOB ever.
___________________________________
"Tax the rich" is a basically unstable way of governing - The NYT
Mahr is simply suffering
August 2, 2009 - 22:57 ET by Captain RepusMahr is simply suffering from a small man / large head syndrome in which he achieves sexual arousal by attempting to bring others down to his knee-high physical and intellectual level. His contribution to civil society can be measured using a solar-powered calculator on the dark side of the moon.
Oh that's just a laugh a
August 2, 2009 - 23:05 ET by bigtimerOh that's just a laugh a minute....real mature too.
The SRM will have Malkin on as a guest as much as they did Mark Levin and his Number 1 Best-Seller Liberty & Tyranny.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Typical Come-back
August 3, 2009 - 00:23 ET by Mr. TerryHere again, Libs have no arguement, just name calling and infantile crudeness....
Gee Bill, at what point
August 3, 2009 - 01:10 ET by ckc1227Gee Bill, at what point does wanting to nationalize the country, attacking private industry at every turn, and apologizing for America become something we can criticize? How about it, Bill....is year 3 long enough to wait for you?
Like him or not, did Bush do anything even remotely close in his first 6 months to what Obama is trying to do? Heck, how about in his entire 8 years?
Ya See Now . . .
August 3, 2009 - 03:06 ET by DoktorFrankenThis is why Maher isn't ''getting any''. He's too busy being a dick rather than using his.
Maher: a case study
August 3, 2009 - 04:24 ET by Vivaldi5"And here’s a great coffee-table book. It’s Glenn Beck’s Painting With Poop. Because he is playing with his feces."
I'm not a doctor, and don't even play one on TV, but I'll be willing to go out on a limb and say Maher is projecting his own scatology here. Very few in broadcasting today are so eager to roll in, throw, and generally be a piece of excrement than Bill Maher.
Current Amazon.com chart: 2)
August 3, 2009 - 04:25 ET by merkavaCurrent Amazon.com chart:
2) Glenn Beck
3) Michelle Malkin
Moonbats everywhere are crying in to their granola.
Why didn't Maher just burn
August 3, 2009 - 04:36 ET by RR GOPWhy didn't Maher just burn a pile of the real books?
If you're going to take up air time and want your ideologies to be seriously considered then, unfortunately, that involves actually reading the damn thing and discussing what is written inside.
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).
I am seriously considering
August 3, 2009 - 05:44 ET by spmcintyredropping HBO in favor of um, nothing.
The initials BM sound like something else that he is fond of apparently. Good for a book title perhaps, Bill Maher, I wish my initials were not the same as Bowel Movement.
Maybe thats his fixation on poop
Also, did anybody else notice that he is starting to look like an ugly, scraggly version of himself as he is ages? Kinda like you would expect somebody to look if they went to prison for 15 years, and was the pass-around bitch....
...how about we have a recall vote on Senator/Congressperson so and so....
Go all the way
August 3, 2009 - 07:43 ET by rjwest21Don't just "consider" it, DO IT.
I dropped it when the Rosie O'Donnell "family" (aka, gays & lesbians) cruise showd up on the HBO *family* channels. I have no problem with that show, even though it's not my cup of tea, but I didn't care to have HBO's shedule makers forcing their political views on my children by sneaking something like that on their supposedly safe family channels. So, HBO went bye-bye. Their cancelling Deadwood made the decision all the easier.
If you continue to give them your money, you're helping them to continue fowarding their left-wing conspiracies (via "Recount" and Real time) and leftist propaganda.
What did you expect?
August 3, 2009 - 06:02 ET by John WIIt's Bill Maher........what did you expect?
Ditto, and...
August 3, 2009 - 06:12 ET by VT Con ManHe likely gets more attention here than he deserves. Next to no one watches his show. He may get a few wing nuts to laugh, thats about it.
That's helpful
August 3, 2009 - 07:23 ET by lareeThanks Bill Maher, now your HBO audience knows about the release of her book. Michelle Malkin's book debuted at #1 on Amazon, when it was released. So Bill Maher is acting like a stain, it's not like he has a huge repertoire of reactions. I wonder if they just fill in the conservative name that week for him to read from the teleprompter? How many different ways can a hedonist display disdain?
Obama wants to Congress to
August 3, 2009 - 15:25 ET by Chris NormanObama demands Congress work fast to get his crap passed - Malkin, Beck, et al have to publish fast to keep pace...
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.