Bill Maher was on the Imus in the Morning program today...it was on the surface a pretty nondescript appearance certainly no more newsworthy than Congressman Harold Ford's lackluster call-in yesterday.
Maher described at lengths the cancellation of his late night show "Politically Incorrect". This bit of two year old news seemed the only thing Imus was interested in despite supposedly being palsy-walsy with Maher's late Father.
Bill's version of his ouster from ABC is colorful and selectively self edited...he claims ABC somehow didn't realize that "Politically Incorrect" really WAS a fount of politically incorrect talk...as such some of his rhetoric and musings somehow gave the network the whirlies.
As such when it came time for Maher to characterize our cruise missile attacks on various cretins as cowardice
Y'know it all makes a kind of sense except when you realize that Maher declined to assign any blame to the ensuing flag-hag superpatriotism...all stoked by radio talk show hosts and the usual rightical chic punditariat.
Nope none of this figures prominently in Maher's post mortem.
It's sad when a perfectly mediocre talent becomes a eunuch and it's plain gruesome to see it happening right before our eyes...so to speak.
Never once in a fifteen minute call-in to the Imus program, did Bill use the word "right wing"....He insists the network wasn't comfortable with his challenging politically incorrect dialogues....there is a vague hint in this formulation that it is all the liberal suits fault.
THEY didn't stand up for him, THEY didn't defy a conservative media monolith that no-one dares to oppose anymore.
Well...Bill has a new show on HBO now so I'm sure he has to sing for his supper.
I mean, it's either this or he goes back to headlining at the Comedy Studio in Harvard Square....
And we can't have that can we?
Sick
Demented
Typical...
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