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Bill Maher Gives Democrats Slogan To Go With Their New Logo: ‘Don’t Get Up; We’ll Let Ourselves Out’

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Whenever a major political party tries to “rebrand” itself, aesthetically, it inevitably ends in disaster. Last time it was GOP.com, but to prove the graphic failure is bipartisan, the Democrats have come up with a new logo, and a new slogan (“change that matters”). An exasperated Bill Maher tried to help out the party by offering some new slogans, like “fighting for you (to a point)” and “we got Lisa Ling‘s sister out of Korea.”

The logo (which, it should be noted, The Atlantic has already called out for plagiarism from a Midwestern pizza place), is a small “D” in a blue circle. The hours spent thinking up this complex design must be incalculable. Maher presents it without comment, though his face says it all, and to add insult to injury, Jon Hamm of all people deadpans from off-camera, “Radiates power, doesn’t it?”

Maher himself goes a bit harder on the Democrats, at some point even lobbing the grave insult of comparing them to the Chicago Cubs. The list of slogans Maher has chosen for them are all hilarious in their own way, though the last one, perhaps, is the most apt for this November: “Don’t get up; we’ll let ourselves out.”

The clip from last night’s Real Time on HBO below:

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  • zumpano

    Gotta admit. DAMN FUNNY.

    Classic Maher punchline.

    Sadly, it’s funny because it’s partly true.

  • no-touchy-touchy

    the nerve of this left winger

  • MichelleF

    Wow Fran, 2 stories on Maher today and neither mentions this quote he made yesterday:

    “Isn’t Obama’s big problem is that he does everything half-assed? Maybe it’s because he’s only half black. You know? It’s that, if he was a, if this, if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president.“

    You’re not still wondering why people consider you a joke of a journOlist, are you?

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    Hey, none of the key d-crat descriptors – socialists, radicals, extremists, America-haters – appear in the logo. Can we sue them for mis-representation? (I’ve put in a call to Gloria Alred to see if she’ll take the case. We’ll make it a class-action lawsuit with 300 Million Americans against the d-crat socialists – like the vote will be in November.)

  • Arkansas Steve

    RATS!!

    I kinda enjoy hating Bill, just a tiny bit. Then along he comes with something that makes me laugh out loud.
    You just can’t really HATE anybody who makes you laugh.

    Hmmmm….. I guess that explains why nobody likes Keith Olbermann. Zero sense of humor.

  • MiddleRoader

    MichelleF said:
    Wow Fran, 2 stories on Maher today and neither mentions this quote he made yesterday:

    “Isn’t Obama’s big problem is that he does everything half-assed? Maybe it’s because he’s only half black. You know? It’s that, if he was a, if this, if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president.“

    You’re not still wondering why people consider you a joke of a journOlist, are you?

    Must you always be a broken record? Likewise, why do you and another have to ALWAYS inject racism into threads that have absolutely nothing to do with the topic? It’s old, very old!

  • MichelleF

    MiddleRoader says:

    Must you always be a broken record? Likewise, why do you and another have to ALWAYS inject racism into threads that have absolutely nothing to do with the topic? It’s old, very old!

    Colby, is that you?

  • PureFreedom

    The Democrats… if you cant win a argument call them a racist!
    The Democrats… Lindsy Lohan and Ben Afflick support us!
    The Democrats… We listen to the Unions and NAACP before the people.
    The Democrats… Freedom of speech is for the ones we agree with.
    The Democrats… Why work when the government will support you.

  • notsofast

    Classic Maher punchline.

    Gotta admit. DAMN UNFUNNY.

  • shootfromthehip

    Hey “TeaPartyPatriot,” we liberals love America just as much as you do.

    And you want to talk “extrimists?”

    You guys are now the party of extreme. You want to ban homosexuality in Montana. And you guys are also the party of crazy. See Christine “dabbling” in withcraft and now I’d like you to watch Sarah Palin getting saved by a Kenya with doctor in Alaska. Not kidding. This is real footage.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwkb9_zB2Pg

    Sarah Palin and the hateful liars in the GOP who seek not to work together to make America great again. Such a shame. I long for the days when there were real, intelligent Republicans in Congress who understood that America cones first, politics come second.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    If you cheer for a political party like it’s a football team, you’re part of the problem

  • jk76

    the font, style, and coloring immediately resembles the liberal non-profits like Media Matters and CAP

    I can disagree with alot of Dem stuff, but wow, we’re talking Superfriends animation. That saying, I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy comes to mind. I would like to know who designed it and who approved it….and how long they’ll have jobs for.

  • Republitarian

    Arkansas Steve said:
    Hmmmm….. I guess that explains why nobody likes Keith Olbermann. Zero sense of humor.

    Bingo. I loathe Maher’s politics, but he cracks me up. That line is hysterical.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    Its amazing how Bill Maher does his best to offend everyone. I guess you could call him an public offender… Don’t they have to put you on a Registered Offender list for that???

  • gar

    Isn’t that the line he uses with his girlfriends?

  • Patrick Henry

    shootfromthehip said:
    And you want to talk “extrimists?”

    No, I want to talk extremists.

  • Patrick Henry

    shootfromthehip said:
    You guys are now the party of extreme.

    Damn straight!

  • felixw

    How about these slogans for the Democrats

    Come and spend other people’s money
    Every job a government job
    Down with religion — except Islam
    If you can name it, we will tax it
    Making big government even bigger
    We don’t need to read no stinkin’ bills
    Whatever Nancy wants, Nancy gets
    His programs suck, but the birth certificate is real

    And, of course, many others come to mind.

  • shootfromthehip

    Yes I know how to spell “extremists” Patrick.

    Was rushing because y’all get me so heated.

    ;)

  • Patrick Henry

    shootfromthehip said:
    Yes I know how to spell “extremists” Patrick.

    Was rushing because y’all get me so heated.

    ;)

    Thumbs up!

  • shootfromthehip

    Patrick, are you drinking tonight, perchance?

    This is not like you. You were just saying the other day how the “hate” comes more from the left than from the right and then i see this from you tonight on a different thread directed towards one of my lib friends.

    “F you and the LA horse you rode in on..”

    Easy on the whiskey there pardner!

  • Patrick Henry

    shootfromthehip said:
    Patrick, are you drinking tonight, perchance?

    This is not like you. You were just saying the other day how the “hate” comes more from the left than from the right and then i see this from you tonight on a different thread directed towards one of my lib friends.

    “F you and the LA horse you rode in on..”

    Easy on the whiskey there pardner!

    No, Shoot, not drinking. I’m just fed up with being civil after reading alot of the crap here. What the hell, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

  • shootfromthehip

    No bueno my friend!

    Rise above the hate, otherwise you’ve lost the high ground.

  • greg454

    “Bingo. I loathe Maher’s politics, but he cracks me up. That line is hysterical.”

    —He was funny when Bill Clinton was president, back then he would bitch about democrats and republicans. But now he’s changed, now he’s only bitching about republicans and attacking Obama for not being progressive enough. Really? Isn’t that like attacking Fidel Castro for being too soft on dissidents? Bill Maher makes no fucking sense!

  • TfT

    MichelleF:

    It is SOOOO funny how Fran ignores the Maher comment about hehimselftheone. “Half assed” because he is “half black” would mean that Fran would have to call him a racist, and Fran won’t do that to another liberal.

    Mediaite-=MSNBC=meltdown

    What another embarrassment for Dan,,,I guess Fran thinks that if she doesn’t report it, people won’t know about it. Instead it makes her look just like another liberal whacko, which unfortunately is the direction this board is going.

    And what is the mission statement about this board? Clearly, the columnists aren’t living up to that.

  • blurgh.

    MichelleF said:

    You’re not still wondering why people consider you a joke of a journOlist, are you?

    How magnificently petty and childish of you. Kudos.

  • writer

    How about these for new slogans:

    “My carbon footprint is bigger than yours.”

    “Don’t put that windmill where I can see it.”

    “We upped our level of compassion. Up yours.”

  • MichelleF

    TfT says:

    And what is the mission statement about this board?

    I’ve asked that before, but can’t get an answer. I wouldn’t give them such a bad time if they admitted to being a leftist site, but they insist on claiming they aren’t so the ridicule continues.

    ps, good stuff, Writer!

  • no-touchy-touchy

    MichelleF said:
    Wow Fran, 2 stories on Maher today and neither mentions this quote he made yesterday:

    “Isn’t Obama’s big problem is that he does everything half-assed? Maybe it’s because he’s only half black. You know? It’s that, if he was a, if this, if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president.“

    You’re not still wondering why people consider you a joke of a journOlist, are you?

    TfT said:
    MichelleF:

    It is SOOOO funny how Fran ignores the Maher comment about hehimselftheone. “Half assed” because he is “half black” would mean that Fran would have to call him a racist, and Fran won’t do that to another liberal.

    Mediaite-=MSNBC=meltdown

    What another embarrassment for Dan,,,I guess Fran thinks that if she doesn’t report it, people won’t know about it. Instead it makes her look just like another liberal whacko, which unfortunately is the direction this board is going.

    And what is the mission statement about this board? Clearly, the columnists aren’t living up to that.

    YES DAN – Embarrassing. Why won’t you put up any stories about racism, islam, ETC
    You see that’s all anyone wants to talk about.

    TfT said:
    which unfortunately is the direction this board is going.

    cant get enough

  • Kitsune

    writer said:
    How about these for new slogans:

    “My carbon footprint is bigger than yours.”

    “Don’t put that windmill where I can see it.”

    “We upped our level of compassion. Up yours.”

    Brilliant.

  • OldJudge

    The Circle D was established by designers in the early 70′s to be used as “designright,” similar to the Circle C in “copyright.” It was placed in the public domain and is thus not available for anyone to use as a registered logo.
    Why would the designer of the new Democrat logo not know design history and the legal implications of intellectual property law and prior art, not to mention distinctive branding? Maybe the party leaders have no access to legal minds, i.e., good lawyers? Or maybe, they just overlord over whoever they want.

  • chatmandu002

    Obviously you liberals don’t love America or we wouldn’t be in this situation.

    Stop the spending
    Stop big government
    Let the free market do its thing, make money and jobs.

  • no-touchy-touchy

    chatmandu002 said:
    Obviously you liberals don’t love America

    Nice

  • Pablo
  • CarmanK

    Have to admit, the logo is is SO LAME, I told the DNC that I would not put the bumper sticker on my car or a sign in my yard.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    chatmandu002 said:
    Obviously you liberals don’t love America or we wouldn’t be in this situation.

    Stop the spending
    Stop big government
    Let the free market do its thing, make money and jobs.

    Man you sound like some Libertarian Nut Job….

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    TeaPartyPatriot says: “Hey, none of the key d-crat descriptors – socialists, radicals, extremists, America-haters – appear in the logo.”

    That’s because they’re only used by lying reactionaries.

  • dante99654

    Mahr is an entertainer, the same sense that Hanns Johst was an entertainer. He is a polemicist whose “craft” is employed only to emphasize a sense of political solidarity with his co-believers. His humor is universally cruel and destructive, and highly political – used to ridicule his political enemies, humiliate those with whom he disagrees..

    I think his treatment of Christine O’Connell demonstrates the political filter through which he views the world. People like Mahr will betray the usual sense of personal obligation to a “higher” purpose of advancing their fringe-left agenda . She went on his show, with the tacit understanding that it was all friendly, etc. – yet later Maher is willing to betray that basic understnding, and use it to attempt to destroy her politically. People of his ilk will betray any friendship in advancement of their political agenda. To present him as humorist is, at best, disingenuous. His only problem with the Democratic Party is that they have disappointed him in not being far enough Left. (And who, to the left of Pol Pot, could meet his standards of ideological purity.)

    As with all on the fringe Left, no one should ever make the mistake of believing Mahr has any “friends” – people being valuable to him only in advancing the cause of state-socialism.

  • backlink

    the font, style, and coloring immediately resembles the liberal non-profits like Media Matters and CAP
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    I can disagree with alot of Dem stuff, but wow, we’re talking Superfriends animation. That saying, I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy comes to mind. I would like to know who designed it and who approved it….and how long they’ll have jobs for.

  • Admin

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