Bill Maher: The Founding Fathers Wouldn't Have Liked George Bush

[marmar]

From HuffPost:


Bill Maher

The Founding Fathers Wouldn't Have Liked George Bush
Posted July 20, 2007 | 09:54 AM (EST)


I'm in Boston today, getting ready for my standup special tomorrow night live on HBO (last shameless plug, I promise), and walking around the city has made me remember: oh yeah, America started here. That's right, America was invented by liberal men in Boston and Philadelphia. Not that I don't love all of America, but rednecks who think they're the real America should read a history book once in a while. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin, Madison -- the whole lot of them were well read, erudite, European thinking children of the enlightenment, and they would have had absolutely nothing in common and less to say to a cowboy simpleton like George Bush.

And speaking of who's a real American, was anyone as outraged as I was reading Robert Novak's little interview in the NY Times magazine on Sunday? Asked if in hindsight he would leave out the part of his 2003 column that identified Valerie Plame as a CIA operative, he said "I don't know. I thought journalistically it was justifiable. Nobody had told me -- and I still don't believe -- that it put anybody's life in danger. I don't think she was an important person in the CIA."

That really is quite an astounding quote, isn't it? How the hell would he know if it put anybody's life in danger? YOU'RE NOT IN THE CIA, BOB! They don't tell you any of their business! Considering the consequences of being wrong about such a hunch, is it really the patriotic thing to do? To sit in your office and just conjecture that this agent wasn't very important to the CIA? First, I think everyone who works at the CIA is important; and second, WHO THE HELL IS THIS MAN TO OUT PEOPLE IN THE DEADLY WORLD OF ESPIONAGE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HE "THINKS"?!

With patriots like that, I'm sure glad there are traitors like me and Michael Moore still living here in America.

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[Deep13]

1. "...I'm sure glad there are traitors like me and Michael Moore..."

Well put.

[liberal N proud]

2. bu$h is exactly what the founding fathers warned us against.

They knew this could happen and tried to create safeguards but it happened regardless of what they did.

[BOSSHOG]

3. I've been constantly amazed

at how every jerkoff right wing douchebag with access to a microphone knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that Plame was not covert. Just amazing. Hell we probably meet and greet covert CIA or FBI agents on a daily basis and don't know it. I guess ya gotta be a brilliant conservative (with an agenda) to pick them out.

[mzmolly]

4. But they would have loved Al Gore, too bad Maher took so long to wake up to the "differences."

;)