Posted on 04/28/2018 4:28:16 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Bill Maher on Friday cut New Rules short to share an open letter to “dear friend” Roseanne Barr.
The seven-minute segment found the Real Time host addressing the success of the Roseanne revival, while also questioning both Barr and her character’s controversial support of President Trump.
“It’s 2018 and we have to talk about Trump,” Maher said. “Like it or not, you’re now the face of the Trump supporter, because you really do speak for a certain kind of American who knows they’re being screwed by someone, they just don’t know who. But here’s what you’re missing about Trump: When he says he’s looking out for the little guy, he’s talking about his [bleep]."
Later, Maher opined that making Roseanne Conner a Republican was the equivalent of making Will Truman a heterosexual in the Will & Grace revival. Then, after pointing out that Roseanne and Dan aren’t able to afford their prescription medications in Season 10 because “Trump sold out to big pharma and sabotaged Obamacare,” he went on to suggest a new storyline for Season 11:
“If in the next six months, you don’t see Trump’s magic starting to work for you… if you’re still trading pills and driving an Uber, wouldn’t the more realistic plot line for Season 2 be your disillusionment with Donald Trump?” he asked. “There’s no shame in it. You saw a miracle product on TV, and you ordered it. You impulse-purchased a Trump. It promised to drain swamps, build walls and make things great again. But you got it home, and it flooded your basement, maxed out your credit card and dropped your phone in the toilet.”
I guess he’s given up on the Russia fraud.
It’s shtick of comedy and politics. People believe what the TV says.
Why are this comedian’s “jokes” continually reported as news?? Pathetic journalism.
Next season should be about Roseanne beating Maher’s @ss on camera.
Reminds me of David Letterman .... was never funny and was always mean and nasty. I can’t understand anyone even acknowledging that he is part of the human race.
He believes it because his standard of living isn’t affected one iota no matter who is president. So, all he has to go by is what his entertainment biz peers and our corrupt, submoronic media has to say about him, which is not very flattering.
There’s really nothing as convincing as being lectured by a millionaire TV personality about how the reality you’re living isn’t actually reality. Actually, he seems to acknowledge that you’ve been in decline but completely divorces that from the guy who was president the last 8 years, which of course is preposterous.
actually, thinking about this, it would be pretty cool if Trump makes a surprise cameo appearance on a Roseann episode ...
He’s probably given his talking points to repeat just like all the others.
Wow!!!I’m shocked!!!! sarc/on
Most people I know are paying more for health care after Obamacare than before Obamacare.
Now, yes, the market is wrecked. There are many fewer companies writing health care policies. Putting the genie back in the bottle is no easy task.
Mahar will serve well at alienating people from the democrat party if enough citizens’ economic picture improves under Trump.
And he’ll never understand why. That’s just the way he and his kind are. Like the WHCD last night.
And I say, “Carry on, please!.”
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