Shill Maher

I used to like Bill Maher a lot more than I do these days. He used to beat up on both parties equally so I found him to be rather entertaining. I also felt he had some fairly blunt, objective takes. But over the last couple of years he's begun to strike me more and more like the epitome of the just-enough-data-to-be-dangerous, whining liberal who spends vast amounts of time ruminating over, and advancing the cause of non-fact-based strawmen to -read-just-enough-to-be-dangerous audiences. Perhaps I find his rants a bit more offensive than if they cut the other way, but such is life. Nonetheless, I find it hard to laugh at jokes based upon patently untrue premises. And this seems to be Maher's trajectory with increasing frequency.

So it pains me to pimp his show, Real Time, to a certain extent. But for those mildly interested in Galloway-Hitchens, but not quite interested enough to listen to the download or get up at 5:30AM to watch on C-Span, you should get some of the flavor if you tune in to this week's Real Time. Galloway and Hitchens are Bill's guests, along with BBC lowest-common-denominator Talking Head Kitty Kay and Schwarzenegger Manfriend, Cali Congressman David Dreier. Check the link for details and showtimes in your viewing area.