Bill Maher's eminently sensible proposal: There are much bigger fish to fry

[MrWendel]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/12/1500211/-Bill-Maher-s-eminently-sensible-proposal-There-are-bigger-fish-to-fry

By Reyesanfrancisco


In which Bill Maher asks the Bernie and Hillary camps to aim their outrage elsewhere

In the “New Rules” segment that ended his weekly “Real Time with Bill Maher” HBO show on March 11, Maher finished the run of visual/verbal jokes with a bit entitled “Capes of Wrath.” The image on the screen to Maher’s left featured the two title characters in “Batman vs. Superman: The Dawn of Justice,” a Warner Brothers/DC Comics movie due in theaters beginning on March 24:

Batman and Superman have to explain something to me: why are you two fighting? You’re supposed to work together. I saw it on my footie pajamas. It’s unsettling to see two beloved mythical figures go at it: It’s like watching Jesus beating up a unicorn.

And I think the same thing when I see the Democrats these days (image appears of Bernie and Hillary on a debate stage): You two also need to work together so you can stop the greatest super villain of all time: (image of Donald Trump as “Incredible Hulk” appears on screen) Orange Crush.

As fans of Maher’s show know, the funny man’s bits can bite. This one did, near my neck of the woods. (Full disclosure: I am supporting Bernie Sanders with monthly contributions and my vote in California’s June primary and in November’s general election, if Bernie becomes the Democratic Party presidential nominee. Although I believe that Hillary Clinton is as bought and paid for by America’s ruling elites as every Republican Party presidential candidate who has walked the face of the earth since who knows when—and as President Barack Obama is, for whom I voted twice for president—I know that Hillary Clinton is not the devil. That is why I have not dived into the pool of Bernie vs. Hillary antagonism in which so much of left/liberal communication wallows these days.)

More from Maher:

(Rest in link)

[Hoyt]

1. Sadly, while Clinton and Sanders are beating each other up, Trump is looking good to wingers.

Don't know what can be done about it, because neither should give up. It would be nice if both started slamming Trump rather than each other. They can still portray their differences doing that.

[MrWendel]

2. The poll

Here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511475599

is very telling. For me it's either your a Democrat or you're not. Cause looking at the alternative, is unthinkable at this point.

[Stallion]

3. Actual Democrats Will Vote Overwhelmingly for Clinton

as the poll shows you don't have to a Democrat to post on DU

[MrWendel]

4. Thats true...

I would love a poll to see who is actually a democrat and who is "Other"

[Jefferson23]

5. An ignorant bigoted comedian and take advice from him....bad idea. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

6. I might listen, but I'm a racist sexist berniebro who supports a guy who writes rape fantasy porn

or so I've been told, here, for the past 7 months.

[Billsmile]

7. We'll Start Frying At The Convention

That's where we'll start the refocusing on a common enemy...just like we did in 2008.

Hillary Clinton justified staying in that highly contentious Democratic primary in late May of 2008 noting, “My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?"