Bill Maher wants to be given credit, dammit!
After Christine O’Donnell surprised the Left by winning the GOP primary in Delaware, giving the Tea Party another win and more momentum, the politics of personal destruction kicked into overdrive.
First there was Rachel Maddow, her patented sneer plastered on her face, and MSNBC leading the charge by airing the 1996 anti-masturbation PSA that featured the now-candidate Christine O’Donnell:
After the seeing the heat generated by MSNBC, and from deep within his lair beneath the streets, Bill Maher immediately started trickling out clips from his video vault. Then something amazing happened to Mr. Maher: the networks started calling again. Big networks, places once considered to be institutions and defenders of the truth all wanted to talk with Bill Maher about Christine O’Donnell. So it makes sense that the diminutive king of televised snarkiness has decided that he needs to be properly credited for creating the national attention focused on Delaware’s Tea Party Senate candidate. Is he not like the man in the mask, living in the sewers and claiming credit for Christine’s meteoric rise to stardom?
No, I’m not talking about Erik the Phantom; Bill Maher believes that he, Svengali-like, created Christine O’Donnell. Wait, what?
No doubt that Mr. Maher spent the weekend basking in the attention garnered from his the release of his Christine O’Donnell interview demand/threat. She has been ordered by the Snark King to appear on his program or else! Or else he will release an embarrassing clip weekly, until she relents. And the mainstream media has eaten this up.
Shame, shame, shame on the MSM for not standing up to Bill Maher. For the record, all you brave and important network folks, standing up to bullies is what your parents taught you long ago. It never goes out of fashion and is still what one does to bullies.
And shame on Delaware’s Chris Coons (O’Donnell’s opponent) for not asking for civility from the press.
One can only imagine how loud the uproar would have been if any conservative TV talker would have mandated that candidate Hillary Clinton appear on his program or face a video version of water torture by having old, embarrassing and irrelevant clips played until she appeared. If Beck, Hannity, or O’Reilly had done this, they would have been called bullies, Fascists, evil manipulators –
Oh wait – they already have been.