Bill Maher doubles down on a certain line that has become a problem for the Obama Democrats over the past few weeks.
Everyone loves a good underdog story, and President Barack Obama has just that, according to comedian Bill Maher, who said on his Friday night comedy program that Democrats just wish Republicans would admit they were born into laps of luxury.
“New rule: if reelected, President Obama must appoint Bill Clinton to head the EPA because on Wednesday night he cleared away an unbelievable amount of toxic bullshit,” Maher said. “Beginning with knocking down the contention that Democrats are envious of success and sneer at the American Dream of starting out with nothing and making good. No, it’s not that liberals envy the rich, they just wish the rich would admit they were just lucky.”
Bill Maher is certainly lucky. He is short, not good looking, and hasn’t been close to funny in at least 10 years. He offers no form of insight in any of his commentary, and isn’t entertaining, shrewd or witty. His best lines are probably written for him by other people. But he offers what HBO executives want, a fairly cheaply produced show that can generate buzz based on the idiotic and leftist things its host frequently says. To the Obama campaign, Maher offers $1 million dollars that it cannot afford to turn away.
As for Maher’s comment, it’s the former comedian’s version of “You didn’t build that!” It’s not even an original thought.
Luck certainly plays a role in success, but persistence, hard work, vision and smarts tend to play far more important roles. You could be born with the gifts that Robert Griffin III obviously has and be born at a time in history when they can make you rich, but if he stops working hard or stops making good choices in his life, those gifts won’t keep him in the NFL. Thomas Edison famously said that genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. Visit his lab in Florida and you’ll see more failures than successes there, as he tried, failed, and tried again to perfect his work.
Bill Maher would just say Edison was lucky, and didn’t build any of his inventions anyway. Or that RGIII is just the luckiest man in the world. That’s when Maher’s Pavlovian audience gets the cue to laugh and applaud.
All of this gets at something the Democrats really don’t want discussed: “You didn’t build that!” + “Government is the only thing we all really belong to” sums up their worldview perfectly.
– called out of retirement to do the job because the affirmative action hire wasn’t working out as hoped.
I’m not sure I understand.
Are Republicans supposed to be non-nuanced, tobacco chewing, NASCAR-loving, mouth-breathing, illiterates? Or super-successful, ultra-wealthy, greedy Gordon Gekko’s, lucky to have inherited their daddy’s 401k’s and their granddaddy’s 401k’s?
Lucky captains of industry or laughable flyover country rubes?
How can the Maherfahers of the left scoff at those they envy?
By creating a bi-coastal bubble where reality is an invasion and truth is kryptonite.
Obama on the other hand worked really hard to be born in Hawaii, to marry a woman making $300 K a year, to get admitted to Columbia and Harvard from Occidental College, get onto the Harvard Law Review, write two autobiographies of incredibly diverse literary quality and have all his electoral opponents collapse or suspensd their campaigns in mid election, to write, pass and vote on alot of litigation as senator, to make alot of friends on both sides of the legislative aisle, and in the press corpse too. No luck at all. Just hard shrewd work. No wonder the press is so impressed with his hard shrewd work. With alot of time left over to play golf too.
I can understand how he thinks that way. He’s quite rich himself and is quite lucky to have a job given his mediocre talent.
Well, Billy and Barry both work? on the P. T. Barnum plan to enrich themselves at the expense of others.
According to some of the tangled records I’ve seen, Big Mo was only making $100K a year until Obummer got himself into a position to engineer a 200% increase in her publicly funded salary with the no-show at the office no work required job description.
Former Comedian Bill Maher is the poster boy for euthanasia. Please, put him out of our misry!
There is a man named Bill Maher, to the left he tilts so far,
With big nose and slicked hair, says things without care,
Because Damn it! Don’t you get that Bill’s funny?
Don’t you know the rich are just lucky? (Bill declares as he likes to seem plucky)
Just admit that it’s shit, that hard work and real grit, is not required for you all to make money!
Now to me it seems odd, that a guy with no god,
Says that luck is what brings us the bucks.
Cause luck is a force, that takes charge of our course,
Without giving us much of a say.
Well that can’t be right… Bill might die of fright,
If he knew he endorsed such thought anathema to him!
Just by saying the word luck, could may him look like a schmuck…
But wait… Bill already is!
I left home and high school at 15 with $300 I saved mowing lawns, raking leaves and shoveling snow. I joined a traveling carnival and slept on the ground beneath the rides to save the $35 weekly bunkhouse rent. I ate spam and beans and raw carrots and apples. My only “luxuries” were cigarettes. I read yesterday’s newspapers. I saved enough money to buy my first piece of property when I was 19. I made my first million at 25. None of this was luck. It was hard work and brains. Things the president say don’t count.
You need luck, hard work and brains to make it. Luck to be in a country that allows private enterprise for one, and many other lucky breaks. Denying the obvious gives the left more ammunition. The point is that if the government is involved in redistributing the product of luck et al. then we are all live in poverty and fear, except for those doing the redistribution.
What is also not mentioned that luck comes to those who take risks, and managing risks is done best on individual level.