There are occasions when HBO star Bill Maher is unintentionally funny, like when he claims to stand for decency in our politics. Maher has been one of America’s leading champions of nasty insults and rhetorical indecency, not to mention sexual indecency. Even last night, as he stood for civility, it came right after he insisted the Republican convention crowd was a mob of mentally challenged fascists.
So all I have to say is after this embarrassing Third World cat fight that we just saw, this noxious gathering of short-bus lynch-mob people, are you Bernie people voting for Hillary now? [Applause.] Thank you, thank you. This convention did answer a few important questions for the American people like could another Nazi Germany happen here?...
I've said this from the beginning. This whole election to me is a referendum on decency. Just fundamental decency. I mean, the hatred we have heard. People talking about how Hillary should be treated as a traitor. It's like the best thing that could happen to her is a painless death. What they should really do is, you know, tear her fingernails out and then shoot her. – Bill Maher on HBO.
Among the runners-up was Lester Holt wondering if Donald Trump could cry half as effectively as Barack Obama:
"We also sometimes look for our leaders to be compassionate — to console us during national tragedy. We saw President Obama in Dallas a week or so ago. We haven't seen that Donald Trump. Is this a man that can cry? Can he emote?...Can he wrap his arms around the country in times of crisis?" – NBC anchor Lester Holt to Donald Trump Jr. on NBC Nightly News.
“You're going to see a lot about the big cities. There's going to be an ethnic aspect to this, a racial aspect to it. They — Trump in his speech talks about the crime rate in Washington, D.C. He talks about the crime rate in Baltimore. Those are cities of large minority populations, we all know, and it's going to carry that kind of flavor....it's about big cities with large minority populations. You go back to that old thing of bashing Washington, D.C., the old Marion Barry days, bashing Baltimore and Chicago, those city names evoke minorities.” – MSNBC host Chris Matthews.
“Well, these are the themes that got him to where he is, this is on this unlikely journey but tonight it was delivered on steroids. People in this hall see him as a man on a white horse who will lead them to some kind of sanctuary and then pull the drawbridge up behind them. Others looking in are going to see someone they will only think as a demagogue of some kind. What you talked about, he kept talking back to the themes of ‘We're going to win, we're going to crack down on terror, crack down on law and order and Hillary Clinton, until she took office as secretary of state, the Middle East was a land of milk and honey until she raised her hand and accepted that office.’ That will be a very hard sell." – Retired anchorman Tom Brokaw on NBC.
Perhaps an Honorable Mention is in order for liberal CNN analyst Sally Kohn on Twitter. MRCTV's Brittany Hughes pointed out her tweet from 11:03 last night where she clumsily asked "What about the mothers and fathers who have lost their violence to white guys with AK-15s conducting mass shootings? Why not profile them?"
An AK-15?
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