HBO’s Bill Maher said Friday that members of the Tea Party support Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich because he’s racist like them.
Fortunately for the small portion of Real Time viewers with a brain, the Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis was there to set the ignorant host straight (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
“They may not see a Republican,” said Maher early in the panel segment of the show, “but watching these last couple of debate, all of them, but especially recently, the Tea people, who really kind of wag the dog there in the Republican Party, they finally see somebody they like.”
He continued, “I mean, Newt Gingrich, I’m sorry, but he does mirror who they are: mean, snarling, borderline racist.”
Lewis smartly interrupted, “Wait a second. Newt Gingrich is a lot of things.”
This elicited laughter and applause from his sycophants in the audience.
Undeterred, Lewis accurately replied, “Wait, who’s the one guy, though, the one guy who said on stage and took heat that if you’ve been in America for 25 years, and you’re a grandfather and you’re Hispanic, we’re not going to deport you? That was Newt Gingrich.”
Indeed it was making him likely the most moderate of the remaining candidates on the illegal immigration issue.
But one shouldn’t expect Maher or his audience to understand this.
They probably get their “news” from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
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