Beyond Stupid, Evil
March 8th, 2008Occasionally, Bill Maher’s television show pisses me off. It usually amuses me, even when I find myself in disagreement with the program, but last night’s show had an extraordinarily obnoxious moment that I just had to write about. Maher had a guest on who was talking about Paul Bremer’s alleged reputation as a “little Saddam” with the Iraqi people and he kept mentioning how much the Iraqi public hates the American presence in that country. I am not so sure that’s true because I’ve never seen anything empirical to suggest that the Iraqis do hate us completely and absolutely or even predominantly or even with a filibuster-proof majority. It’s possible, but when people go on and on about how definitive Iraqi disdain for us is it grates on my nerves. That wasn’t even the worst moment, however. That came when the terrible Joe Scarborough interjected that Bremer was “stupid,” not evil, and Maher retorted moronically, “I wanted to make the point that stupidity can kill more people than evil.” Yeah? When? When and where? On what scale? It’s just a ridiculous comment to make and I’m just sorry nobody called him on it.