I'd like to know just how he equates America becoming a Theocracy with the Jackson trial.

One of several golden moments from Thrill-kill bill, whose pontificating pushes an envelope containing junk mail from a mail box at an abandoned cat-litter factory.......

The point, I believe, is that people cared more about the Jackson trial than the fact that our government had been taken over by the fundamentalist Christian right. The Jackson trial, like so many other BS news stories of the last 6 years, was a shiny bauble to distract people from noticing that we've been stripped of many civil liberties and from the atrocities we've committed in the name of our "safety".

Frankly, I don't think Bill's comment here was so bad.

"the fact that our government had been taken over by the fundamentalist Christian right. "

I'm afraid I must insist that you back up your claim.

An overreaction to a joke.

People blew the Michael Jackson trial way out of proportion at a time when there were so many more important things going on on Earth. Idiotic media let Michael Jackson's trial preempt domestic policy and foreign affairs, and Bill Maher is right to be angry about that. His last joke is a good joke that exposes irrational priorities. I don't think he crossed the line at all. This is not at all close to his worst work. His worst work is frivolous stuff about celebrities that nobody complains about. I like to see comedians tackle the real issues instead of dwelling on frivolous subjects.


"the fact that our government had been taken over by the fundamentalist Christian right. "
>"I'm afraid I must insist that you back up your claim."

The pledge of allegiance and the currency were hijacked by McCarthyist Christian zealots in the fifties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance#Addition_of_the_words_.22under_God.22

"Fundamentalist" might be an exaggeration, but George H. W. Bush said he doesn't believe atheists should be considered U.S. Citizens. George W. Bush supports creationism.

http://www.videosift.com/video/CNN-panel-discussion-slandering-atheists
http://www.videosift.com/video/Response-to-CNNs-slander-of-Atheists

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