“According to Maher, when you go too far to the Left, you end up on the Right,” NewsReal’s Walter Hudson writes, paraphrasing Maher’s latest sophistry:
It’s not unusual for Bill Maher to accuse his ideological opponents of being flat-earthers. But he took the concept to a new extreme over the weekend in his analysis of history and the political spectrum. According to Maher, when you go too far to the Left, you end up on the Right.
“Both [the Russian and French] revolutions got hijacked by the right-wing – and the Iranian Revolution,” Maher added.
AdvertisementHowever, Maher explained that you could argue the Russian Revolution was “hijacked by the left-wing,” but due to the nature of it being that far left, it was really right.
“I suppose people would say the Russian Revolution was hijacked by the left-wing,” Maher said. “I think when you go that far left – you’re really the right-wing. I consider Lenin and Stalin right-wingers. Don’t tell Rush Limbaugh.”
Well, that explains some of the crazier rhetoric from Frank Rich and Chris Matthews in recent years. Though as Andrew Breitbart asked Maher in September, “So you’re officially not a Libertarian anymore, right?”
Seriously, when are we going to quit giving attention to the loud clowns? I regret to admit I watched this guy when he had his network TV show. At the time he sold himself as some kind of anti-liberal conservative or something. He advocated war with South American countries if they would not stop harvesting rain forst trees. But what really got me was stand on sex between children and adults. To him it was ok, “if they love each other.” The way he said it was so sanctimonious. In fact everything he says is in a sanctimonious manner. The guy is sickening. That he has a TV show and that somewhat credible people go on it is amazing to me. I stopped paying attention to him and those like him years ago.