Enough with the Obamathon, By Bill Maher

LA Times ^ | June 12, 2009 | By Bill Maher

[Oldeconomybuyer]

President Obama should just join the cast of "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!" It's not that farfetched; he's been on everything else.

I'm still a fan, but there's a fine line between being transparent and being overexposed. Every time you turn on the TV, there's Obama. He's getting a puppy! He's eating a cheeseburger with Joe Biden! He's taking the wife to Broadway and Paris -- this is the best season of "The Bachelor" yet!

I get it: You love being on TV. I love my bong, but I take it out of my mouth every once in a while. The other day, I caught myself saying to a friend, "Don't tell me if he's fixed the economy yet, I'm Tivo-ing it."

Remember during the campaign when John McCain attacked Obama for acting like a celebrity and we all laughed at the grumpy old shellshocked fool? Well, it turns out he was right. Sorry, senator. I'm sending a nice gift basket of high-fiber muffins your way.

Obama needs to start putting it on the line in fights against the banks, the energy companies and the healthcare industry. I never thought I'd say this, but he needs to be more like George W. Bush. Bush was all about, "You're with us or against us."

Obama's more like, "You're either with us, or you obviously need to see another picture of this adorable puppy!"

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[NeoCaveman]

When you’ve lost Bill Maher, you’ve lost the liberal douche bags.

[misterrob]

Just shut up Maher.....

[ScottinVA]

I’m hoping this media saturation is wearing thin with many millions of other Americans as well.

[sarasota]

Have I entered the Twilight Zone? This is remarkable.

[Deb]

Now he gets to claim he’s an “equal opportunity basher”.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

I never thought I'd say this, but he needs to be more like George W. Bush. Bush was all about, "You're with us or against us." Obama's more like, "You're either with us, or you obviously need to see another picture of this adorable puppy!"

Priceless!!!

[Joann37]

Bill Maher? This is probably the first time in history I’ve agreed with him on anything!

[Nathan Zachary]

"I love my bong, but I take it out of my mouth every once in a while."

Not often enough. It explains why you are such a brain dead DUmmie though.

[Riodacat]

Wow, we really are living in a bizzaro world.
One day we're getting advice from Pravda on how to save our capitalist system and the next day we have Bill Maher taking Obama to the woodshed..

[Oldexpat]

In a Banana Republic the news..written or spoken..always begins with “Today President Zero...”.

[Red in Blue PA]

And letting reporters ask you questions like “You like to be the one who picks out the shaving cream, don’t you?” Or as it’s called today, “journalism.” I was willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt until I saw him take Brian Williams into his bedroom, and at the end of the bed there was a teleprompter and it said, “Who’s your daddy?”

[Red in Blue PA]

LOL!

[El Cid]

Obama needs to start putting it on the line in fights against the banks, the energy companies and the healthcare industry.

Maher criticizes Obama for not being an outspoken marxist, instead of being a deceptive Fabian-style communist.

[rom]

My brain is about to explode.

[GOPJ]

I never thought I'd say this, but he needs to be more like George W. Bush. Bush was all about, "You're with us or against us."

Maher is still a pig. When Bush said this he was talking about standing up to an enemy that had killed over 3000 of our citizens. Maher wants Obama to take on his fellow citizens (read conservatives) with the same passion President Bush took on a war. Maher's the only "celebrity" that makes Letterman look ok.

[ArrogantBustard]

Bill Maher is still an ass ...

But this is fascinating.

It's not just us rightwingers ... Zero is starting to annoy his own supporters.

[utahagen]

I loathe Bill Maher, but I have to give him points for speaking candidly and critically about Obama. While Saturday Night Live’s sketches about Obama are just jokes about how “cool” he is — and SNL is not being ironic; the show’s point really is that Obama is cool — Maher has the guts to ask Obama to stop acting like a celebrity.

[dainbramaged]

He must have overslept, the drugs wore off and a moment of clarity ensued. It will be brief.

[Venturer]

When he takes his bong out of his mouth he either fills it with some homosexuals appendage or shoves his foot in it.

[WayneS]

Maher is and will always be a jack-ass (and his politics are all wrong, too); but I have to admit, that column is pretty funny.

I guess the old saying is true: Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then.

[Brookhaven]

President Obama should just join the cast of “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!” It’s not that farfetched; he’s been on everything else.

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Mark this moment. History has been made. Bill Maher will go down in history as the FIRST Hollywood comedian to make a JOKE about Obama.

I can see the future trivial pursuit questions now.

What Hollywood comedian dared to make the first joke about president Obama?

How many months after his election passed until a Hollywood comedian made the FIRST joke about president Obama?

[jersey117]

He must have lost a significant amount in his portfolio

[LottieDah]

There’s that broken clock again...

[US Navy Vet]

Are EVEN his Minions getting tired of “The One”?!

[AuntB]

Actually, Craig Ferguson, Late Late show, has done several jokes about Obama. He really went after the tax cheats appointed by him.

[MNSlim]

My thought too. Maher’s ego has elevated to the point where he no longer sees the value in the sinister duplicity of traditional leftist American Marxism.

[sarasota]

And he sees that the tide is turning against 0.

[tje]

So he really is a comedian....

[1000 silverlings]

look at him until you puke, Maher, like the rest of us

[joejm65]

‘When you’ve lost Bill Maher, you’ve lost the liberal douche bags.’

Maher is still a supporter of The Illegal Alien. He just wants Zero to focus more on the complete eradication of America and less on his public exposure.

[Navy Patriot]

Little Billie just looked down and saw that his rope ended far, far above the pointed spikes of the Marxist trash heap.

What to do now? Check to see if conservative memories are short?

Jump, Billie, we'll catch you, I promise.

[proud American in Canada]

Wow, we really are living in a bizzaro world. One day we're getting advice from Pravda on how to save our capitalist system and the next day we have Bill Maher taking Obama to the woodshed..

LOL!

[AuntB]

Wow!

Maybe there IS hope!

[rom]

I found this quote about leadership quite telling actually:

In conclusion, Bush was a jerk, but he never cared about being seen having a burger with Dick Cheney. He picked up the phone in the White House and said, "I'm the president, bring me a burger."

And let's stop worrying so much about doing anything that might tarnish the brand. See, this is why I don't want my president to be a TV star: Because TV stars are too worried about being popular -- and too concerned with getting renewed.

and like Lohan, we see your name in the paper a lot, but we're kind of wondering when you're actually going to do something.

It's actually quite an insightful piece on Obama as a person. I'll take it where I can get it.

[Chuzzlewit]

He is supposed to be funny? sorry, I’ll take Ann Coulter or Steyn, any day over this guy.

[avacado]

Bill Maher wishing for more Bush like qualities in his panty-waist president. LOL!!!

[Brookhaven]

Actually, Craig Ferguson, Late Late show, has done several jokes about Obama. He really went after the tax cheats appointed by him.

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It is very different going after Obama’s staff, than Obama himself.

Did Leno every tell an Obama joke before he left the Tonight Show?

Isn’t it pitiful that we can actually argue over who made the first Obama joke?

[Reagan Man]

I don’t give a rats arse what Maher says... he’s still a POS!

[patriot preacher]

Can you imagine just how dark, negative, pessimistic and sad this man (Bill Maher) is? What a pathetic character!

The fact that he’s right about the “Obamathon” is irrelevant. Even a broken clock is right twice a day...

[Juan Medén]

In conclusion, Bush was a jerk, but he never cared about being seen having a burger with Dick Cheney. He picked up the phone in the White House and said, "I'm the president, bring me a burger." And they'd say, "Sir, this is NORAD. Would you please stop ordering burgers with the red phone?"

Sorry. That's funny.

[flutters]

NOW speaks up for Sarah Palin, and now this??? Surly the the time is near.

[alloysteel]

Bill Maher doth love the bong too much, and even HE is getting information overload of the image of Resident (Pres_ent) Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., or Barry Soetero, or Mr Michelle Robinson, or Sock-Puppet, or whatever sobriquet may serve to identify the Great Pretender who is the titular head of the failing nascent obama regime.

A little concealment would not hurt.

[frogjerk]

Maher, trolling for viewers...

[Oldeconomybuyer]

It's actually quite an insightful piece on Obama as a person.

Agreed, and from the hardcore hollywood left in a newspaper liberal elites trust. Could mark the tipping point.

[Mac from Cleveland]

Wow—On FR today there were threads from articles criticizing BO in the NY Times and the Wash. Post

Now, lil’ Billbo the Dildo, in the LA Times, no less, spanks Obumble.

I can’t wait for the BO house of cards to fall (except that he’s going to do his best to ruin our country)-of course, all that means is the libtards get to see BO and his henchmen with the kid gloves off. Maybe after a Black Panther goes upside their head at the polling place in 2010, they might reconsider......

[Travis T. OJustice]

Maher, trolling for viewers...

Won't work for me, i'll never willingly let that asshat earn one cent of ad revenue from me.

[SampleMan]

I love my bong, but I take it out of my mouth every once...

Well, maybe, just for public appearances.

[Abathar]

Maher is one of the fools that is right only once a day, not twice.

He and a select group of other idiots I’ve put on military time, they don’t deserve to be given the twice a day status of lesser idiots.

[Dick Bachert]

Yeah, this azzhole DEFINES "class."

This ever classy, pathetic excuse for a life form seen here whacked out on a large quantity of booze and/or exotic chemicals in his Halloween, 2007 STEVE IRWIN get-up! What a guy!!