COMMENTARY | Bill Maher may be one of the unfunniest people on cable television, but he is sometimes unintentionally a hoot. No greater example can be had when Maher accused Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer of being "disrespectful" to President Barack Obama, according to Mediaite.
Of course, a careful look at the confrontation on the airport tarmac suggests that Obama was being disrespectful to Brewer by going off on her because of a passage in a book rather than the other way around.
It is not as if Brewer had accused Obama of being a traitor, as Maher did President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, according to Newsbusters. Nor has Brewer called for Obama's impeachment, as Maher did in this YouTube video. Nor has Brewer likened Obama to a child molester, as Maher did Bush, according to the Daily Caller.
One could fill up a book with Maher quotes about former President Bush, but the point has been made. Then there are the things he has said about Sarah Palin; but we will pass decorously from those.
Maher has once again performed admirably for the entertainment and outrage of conservatives with his bald faced hypocrisy and mendacity. He plays a valuable role in being a left winger who is unafraid of saying things that place the entire leftist point of view in doubt. He is the ultimate bad example.
Mind, there is the question of whether Maher is in earnest when he says these sorts of things or whether he is just being provocative to boost ratings and get him talked about in the media. The first theory suggests a certain nuttiness that, while off putting, is not that uncommon among the left. The second theory suggests a diabolical showman who is perpetrating a big joke on his fans, especially the trained seal people who comprise his studio audience.
If the second theory is true, one can just imagine Maher sitting in his dressing room, relaxing with a reefer, laughing himself silly over the idea that the rubes are buying it. Perhaps he is only pretending to be outrageous, perhaps as a way to undermine the left by combining in his own on air persona every bad quality of the left. It may be a horrible thing to be deliberately hateful for a good cause, but perhaps Maher believes that it is worth it.
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