Maher: Clinton Should Become the Supervillain Conservatives Say She Is — ‘The Notorious H.R.C’

Bill Maher reasoned on Real Time Friday night that Hillary Clinton‘s best mode of attack might be to actually embody the supervillain role that conservatives have been casting her as for decades.

Voters “don’t want America’s nicest grandma. They want the wolf that puts a grandma in its teeth,” he said. “They want a ruthless Mafia boss who will protect their frightened souls, which is why Hillary has to own all the nasty things the haters say and run as the Notorious H.R.C.”

This line of reasoning observes that since half of all Americans were going to believe that Clinton was a cartoonishly evil Machiavel no matter what, she might as well run her campaign that way.

“The next time they call her crooked Hillary, she should say, ‘Damn right I am — Crooked for America,'” Maher said.

Furthermore, he posited, she should sign off all her campaign advertisements: “I approve this message and I will cut a bitch.”

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Sam Reisman (@thericeman) is a staff editor at Mediaite.

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