Maher Single-Handedly Rehabilitates Weiner: 'It Wasn't That Awful What You Did' - video link

[Tx4obama]

VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/maher-single-handedly-rehabilitates-weiner-it-wasnt-that-awful-what-you-did/

Bill Maher welcomed the now thoroughly disgraced Anthony Weiner to Real Time Friday night, and began by offering a defense of the sexting former congressman and mayoral candidate that his liberal friends over at MSNBC were unwilling to extend.
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[elleng]

1. Aside from reactions to weiner's foolishness,

he said some interesting things that audience appreciated.

[PeteSelman]

2. I thought he was right on.

The outrage was and is so ridiculously over the top. Bill nailed it.

[ancianita]

3. Foibles aside, the party needs him back.

[femmocrat]

4. I watched him on TV.

Weiner was appropriately humble then went after the repuke on health care. He seemed like his old aggressive self and his voice would be welcome in refuting all the repuke hand-wringing about ACA.

[applegrove]

5. Weiner is a great politician. What a loss it is for the democrats.

I hope he becomes a better husband and a regular pundit for the democratic cause.

[rocktivity]

6. Single-handed rehabilitation?

Is that what they're calling it now?


rocktivity

[rug]

7. This was the best part.

Later, before Maher moved on to New Rules, he brought up the postponement of the New York mayoral debate on the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. “Do we always have to wallow and re-grieve over every bad thing that’s ever happened in this country?” Maher asked.

On this topic, Weiner had to disagree, saying Americans “don’t take enough moments to just reflect on things.” When Maher protested, citing the placing of the World Series trophy on the Boston Marathon finish line, Weiner shot back, saying, “That was a nice moment! What’s wrong with you?”

“Wait a second!” Maher said. “I single-handedly rehabilitate you and then you give me the exact line that Lawrence O’Donnell gave you?!”

[Enrique]

8. De Blasio is about a billion times better than Weiner

De Blasio is the kind of Democrat who we hear "can't win". We hear that we need to go with Weiner types so we can win.

Well, we ended up running De Blasio and he kicked the Republican all over the place.

[zebonaut]

9. Why are we so willing to destroy our best and brightest?

[marble falls]

10. It wasn't the "awful" it was the stupid and the lies. I'm mad a Weiner not because of his perfectly

legal kink, I'm mad because we lost a great voice in Congress and a good mayoral possibility because he had no discretion and lied about it. If its an acceptable behavior there's no need to lie about it.