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Bill Maher Punks America With Fake Christine O’Donnell ’90s Flashback, Then Delivers With Evolution Clip

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Bill Maher caved on his promise to America that until Republican Senate candidate from Delaware Christine O’Donnell agreed to do his show again, he would show embarrassing clips of her from appearances on his old show, Politically Incorrect. While keeping his audience waiting with bated breath and promising his new clip would “blow your socks off,” he delivered… a parody sketch. Was Maher bluffing about his personal O’Donnell gaffe library last week? Did the soothing presence of Andrew Breitbart give him reason to reconsider?

The answer to both of those questions is probably “no,” as Maher did release a real clip of O’Donnell from the ’90s (calling evolution a “myth,” which will probably only make her more likable to many of her followers), and Breitbart was happy to partake in the making fun of her. Maher has exhibited surprisingly little mean-spiritedness towards O’Donnell throughout the whole deal, insisting that O’Donnell, who he admits he liked to have on the show, is “nice” and could be more successful than Sarah Palin because Sarah Palin is “mean.” Compared to his treatment of many other right-wing figures, he has really put on the baby gloves here.

After giving her a week of fretting and wracking her brain to remember what the worst thing she said on his show was, Maher gave her a break. On a panel with acclaimed ’90s rapper Christopher “Kid” Reid of Kid N’ Play, actress Edie McClurg, and OJ Simpson houseguest Kato Kaelin, O’Donnell managed to outshine them all and terrifying poor “Kid” with her “abstinence” theory, stem cell marketing, and murderous tendencies. It was almost as believable as any of the actual Christine O’Donnell vintage clips which, by the way, Maher did show, but only for about 20 seconds and all she said was that she could not grasp how evolution was not visible to the human eye if it was, indeed, real. This set guest Seth MacFarlane on an explanatory monologue about evolution, which Breitbart followed up with, “But do we really exist?”

Maher also showed off a small Ten Commandments plaque, which he says was given to him by O’Donnell and he keeps in his office to remind him how “stupid” they are. Despite his thorough bashing of the Commandments themselves, he was sentimental about the gift and his friendship with O’Donnell, though MacFarlane theorized that may just be a ruse to get more money for the plaque on eBay.

The clips from last night’s Real Time (fake O’Donnell clip first, real one second) on HBO below:



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  • Big Eddie

    Hey ! Let’s laugh at the Ten Commandments ! …This is a sick man . …He needs to hit the road …http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwvazMc5EfE&feature=related

  • Big Eddie

    Let’s see him do that with the Koran . …Don’t tell anyone this , but Maher has called for a new ” Let’s all draw Mohammed Day ” . …Don’t tell any jihadists about what Maher has called for ( LET’S ALL DRAW MOHAMMED DAY ) . Should be REALLY FUNNY , BILL MAHER .

  • Hugo Daun

    Big Eddie said:
    Hey ! Let’s laugh at the Ten Commandments !

    Don’t mind if I do, thanks.

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • CosmosDan

    the fake clip wasn’t funny or clever.

    The ten commandments have a cherished place in history and tradition. And it was a good movie.

  • CosmosDan

    I was curious how Brietbart would do. I’d be interested in seeing the discussion portion. He was genuinely funny in these brief clips.

  • Patrick Henry

    Hugo Daun said:
    Don’t mind if I do, thanks.

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    You probably don’t try to follow any of them, do you? That says alot about what kind of person you are.

  • Big Eddie

    One more thing , BILL MAHER of CALIFORNIA , USA , what is the date of your new ” Let’s all draw Mohammed Day “? …THE BILL MAHER LET’S ALL DRAW MOHAMMED DAY AND MAKE FUN OF THE KORAN DAY should attract a lot of attention .

  • Hugo Daun

    Patrick Henry said:
    You probably don’t try to follow any of them, do you? That says alot about what kind of person you are.

    Of course not!

    Hell, I just robbed a liquor store, killed my neighbor, and fucked his widow.

  • Patrick Henry

    Hugo Daun said:
    Of course not!

    Hell, I just robbed a liquor store, killed my neighbor, and fucked his widow.

    Just a typical day in the life of a lib. :)

  • Pablo

    Hugo Daun said:
    Of course not!

    Hell, I just robbed a liquor store, killed my neighbor, and fucked his widow.

    And then you woke up and twiddled your angry inch, huh?

  • Thelonious Funk

    Ah shucks, she’s just mad at monkeys because they masturbate all of the time.

  • betweentwoevils

    CosmosDan said:
    I was curious how Brietbart would do. I’d be interested in seeing the discussion portion. He was genuinely funny in these brief clips.

    I too was very curious how Brietbart would do. I watched the whole show. Brietbart delivered all of the conservative accusations and talking points. Nothing was said about Sharrod. All at the table were non believers in the existence of a god …both right and left.

  • TfT

    Dear Frances:

    The Coates story made the front page of the WAPO today, just in case you wanted to write a column on it.

  • Pablo

    TfT said:
    Dear Frances:

    The Coates story made the front page of the WAPO today, just in case you wanted to write a column on it.

    Meanwhile, the only mention of Coates’ name you can find at the New York Times is in a link appended to this extremely important story on their politics blog.

    The Voting Rights Section chief turns whistleblower and defies orders against complying with a lawful subpoena, a Congressman preemptively threatens the Attorney General, racism at the DoJ is the subject and the New York Times doesn’t even notice. This sounds like a good story for a media analysis outfit.

  • no-touchy-touchy

    Hugo Daun said:
    Of course not!

    Hell, I just robbed a liquor store, killed my neighbor, and fucked his widow.

    Its one thing to point out hypocrisy, or just try to get someones goat.

    This, is pretty far over the line.
    Not Funny.

  • Azarkhan

    In other news:

    “Remote rural state parks will likely run out of toilet paper by early October,” says an internal email from the state Finance Department. We’ve reached this crisis because it’s taken legislators a record amount of time — 85 days — to come to something resembling an agreement about the state budget. Vendors, meanwhile, haven’t been paid since the beginning of July….

    http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/prop-zero/Toilet-Paper-Rolls-Running-Empty-Due-to-Budget-Impasse–103734679.html

  • Hugo Daun

    no-touchy-touchy said:
    This, is pretty far over the line.
    Not Funny.

    Yeah, the store clerk, my neighbor, and his widow thought the same.

  • Dsiscokid

    Evolution is not a myth, but an OUTRIGHT LIE. It takes more faith to believe that nonsense than to believe in God. BTW- rather you believe in God or not, we all will have to stand before him one day
    Hebrews 9:27 (King James Version)-
    “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:”

  • notsofast

    Darwin was right;how else can you explain Maher?

  • notsofast

    Big Eddie said:
    Let’s laugh at the Ten Commandments

    Notice how Maher will never attack the Koran. He is afraid he will be killed by the tolerant Muslims.

  • Dsiscokid

    I would expect this blasphemy from Maher and MacFarlane, but the last insult by Breitbart surprised me. It just goes to shows you- Proverbs 4:27- “Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil”
    The professional Left nor the Right wing is going to save this country. Only by repentance from our sins and faith in Jesus Christ is going to help. John 3:16. The pagans have led us and fed us their lies for far too long

  • writer

    Saying everything just happened to get here from a ‘big bang’ explains things much more clearly than believing in a supreme being.

  • murf

    … And Breitbart punked Maher by calling him out on the bogus claim that he’s a Libertarian while wanting government run Health Care for all .. Sorry Bill you’re a Socialist , there is no such thing as a Progressive Libertarian..

    Watch :

    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/09/25/andrew-breitbart-nails-bill-maher-youre-not-libertarian-youre-socialist

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    i believe the funny part of the ten commandments is more of a sad kinda funny, or really pathetic kinda funny in that these ten ‘great’ laws consist of not swearing or lying yet no mention of rape, incest or genocide.

    and besides, if you need a list in a book to tell you it is wrong to murder someone…that is just sad.

  • Azarkhan

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    if you need a list in a book to tell you it is wrong to murder someone…that is just sad.

    Sadly, many Muslims around the world need just such a list.

  • writer

    There is also no commandment against tobacco. Smoke if you got ‘em.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    Azarkhan says:
    September 25, 2010 at 11:55 am (Quote)
    1 1
    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    if you need a list in a book to tell you it is wrong to murder someone…that is just sad.

    Sadly, many Muslims around the world need just such a list.

    and yet they still commit murder and suicide in their gods name…i just don’t get it.

  • pigfacedouchebag

    Hugo Daun said:
    Of course not!

    Hell, I just robbed a liquor store, killed my neighbor, and fucked his widow.

    no-touchy-touchy said:
    Its one thing to point out hypocrisy, or just try to get someones goat.

    This, is pretty far over the line.

    Well I thought it was hilarious Hugo. You can’t reason with these Jesus monkeys, so why not just laugh at them.
    Not Funny.

  • pigfacedouchebag

    Dsiscokid said:
    I am a stupid douchebag. Jesus was a homo.

  • Pablo

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    i believe the funny part of the ten commandments is more of a sad kinda funny, or really pathetic kinda funny in that these ten ‘great’ laws consist of not swearing or lying yet no mention of rape, incest or genocide.

    You didn’t notice the “You shall not murder” one?

  • notsofast

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    i believe the funny part of the ten commandments is more of a sad kinda funny, or really pathetic kinda funny in that these ten ‘great’ laws consist of not swearing or lying yet no mention of rape, incest or genocide.

    and besides, if you need a list in a book to tell you it is wrong to murder someone…that is just sad.

    Wow a true bigot! The Jews, Christians and Muslims accept the 10 Commandments and here is a loving bigoted lib who disrespects the major religions.

  • notsofast

    writer said:
    Saying everything just happened to get here from a ‘big bang’ explains things much more clearly than believing in a supreme being.

    And what caused the big bang?

  • MrAut

    Simply go back through this thread and read. We are lost, people. F**king lost.

    We’re making the monkees seem smart by comparison.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    Bill Maher calling Sarah Palin mean is like Michael Moore calling Newt Gingrich fat.

  • MiddleRoader

    no-touchy-touchy said:
    Its one thing to point out hypocrisy, or just try to get someones goat.

    This, is pretty far over the line.
    Not Funny.

    I don’t mean to speak for Hugo, but perhaps it was not his intention to be funny. Being non-religious does not automatically put you akin to the devil. I think he was trying to point that out by referencing some extremes.

  • writer

    Most women around Maher agree with everything he says. Of course, it’s costing him.

  • MiddleRoader

    MrAut said:
    Simply go back through this thread and read. We are lost, people. F**king lost.

    We’re making the monkees seem smart by comparison.

    Amen to that! (pun intended)

  • MiddleRoader

    Azarkhan said:
    Sadly, many Muslims around the world need just such a list.

    Sadly that list has not helped very many Christians around the world either.

  • MiddleRoader

    So are all you Brietbart backers ready to denounce him since he is not a christian/religious?

  • notsofast

    MiddleRoader said:
    So are all you Brietbart backers ready to denounce him since he is not a christian/religious?

    Why denounce him? We are not libs; if someone disagrees with us, that’s fine. WE do not impose our views on others like you libs try to do.

  • notsofast

    MiddleRoader said:
    Sadly that list has not helped very many Christians around the world either.

    List for me the last time a Christian tied a bomb vest to himself and blew himself up in a crowed place or better yet, list the time when a Christian commandeered a plane and flew it into a building.

    OR, list for me the time when a Christian put a bomb in his pants and tried to blow up a plane.

    I’ll wait!

  • writer

    Christian Slater once told a girl he had a party in his pants. He got community service.

  • MadCharles

    God, these people just glom on to anything for facetime.

  • CosmosDan

    notsofast said:
    Why denounce him? We are not libs; if someone disagrees with us, that’s fine. WE do not impose our views on others like you libs try to do.

    That’s way funnier than Bill Maher thanks

  • no-touchy-touchy

    notsofast said:
    And what caused the big bang?

    shhhhh
    christine will hear

  • stoogedudes

    notsofast said:
    Why denounce him? We are not libs; if someone disagrees with us, that’s fine.

    Ooh, good, then I can say the following without getting some “dumb lib” comment, or something to that extent, from you:

    I disagree with you that Obama is destroying this country.
    I disagree with you that liberals are hateful.

  • notsofast

    stoogedudes said:
    I disagree with you that Obama is destroying this country.
    I disagree with you that liberals are hateful.

    You left out saying I was a racist, bigot and Islamophobe.

    Don’t bother, I said it for you!

  • http://thereaganomicsreport.blogspot.com Austin Reagan

    notsofast said:
    Darwin was right;how else can you explain Maher?

    I thought Maher was the result of an evil experiment gone horribly, horribly wrong!

  • notsofast

    no-touchy-touchy said:
    shhhhh
    christine will hear

    I’m not worried about her, I’m worried that Clinton or Edwards will hear it and come a running!

  • stoogedudes

    notsofast said:
    You left out saying I was a racist, bigot and Islamophobe. Don’t bother, I said it for you!

    Oh, wow! You knew what I wasn’t thinking, as I wasn’t even thinking it! You have some kind of talent!

    Quick…what else am I thinking??

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  • Patrick Henry

    MiddleRoader said:
    So are all you Brietbart backers ready to denounce him since he is not a christian/religious?

    MR, Whether you are religious or not doesn’t matter to me. I do think following the ten commandments would make anyone a better spouse, citizen, neighbor, etc,, as opposed to laughing at them.

  • notsofast

    stoogedudes said:
    Quick…what else am I thinking??

    That you wish you had a job, talent, and was no longer living in mom’s basement.

  • stoogedudes

    notsofast said:
    That you wish you had a job, talent, and was no longer living in mom’s basement.

    Wow, for someone as insecure as you seem to be, you know an awful lot about not much!

    To quote Jon Stewart, “Finally! A guy who says what people who aren’t thinking, are thinking!”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    stoogedudes said:

    Quick…what else am I thinking??

    N/A

  • More Liberty

    Maher is an idiot – don’t believe a word that comes out of his mouth. Below is a link where Polifact shows he is a liar.

    http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/sep/17/bill-maher/bill-maher-says-some-natural-gas-pipes-are-made-wo/

  • notsofast

    stoogedudes said:
    Wow, for someone as insecure as you seem to be, you know an awful lot about not much!

    Poor baby! Now you are projecting!

    Libby, is that how to show your love.

    Tsk, tsk- the stooge is upset!

    I struck a nerve!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

    Maher’s mouth looks like a foreskin. He must be an example of devolution.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jammin-Jesse-Buckner/100001185654606 Jammin Jesse Buckner

    Bitch Bitch Bitch! damn you guys are ignorant.
    Edie is awesome! That was funny!

  • TCinAZ

    MiddleRoader said:
    So are all you Brietbart backers ready to denounce him since he is not a christian/religious?

    Gee, I Dunno, MiddleRoader. Are all of You Maher backers gonna be ready to denounce Him in 20 years from Now, when I’m my 60′s, and the “planet’s Still Here, but the People are Still Fucked” just as the Late, Great and REAL Liberal and Genius Master Comedian, George Carlin said, But Bildo Maher is Still preaching the Religious Gospel of GlobalWarmingClimateChangeGlobalClimateDisruption.com.org.FOS, and He’s made His small Fortune via the CCX, thanks to his Kissing Obama’s Sweet, Brown Shugga AZZ, and by Kissing Al Gore’s Pasty CRACKA’ Ass Too, and by his leading you Sheeple around by your Teabags, because he’s always been a Carlin-Wannabe and finally, and Most Importantly, because He Couldn’t use his Own entrepreneurial wits to make his Own money in the Private Sector, since he’s Never Fucking HAD Any?

    http://ptesoterico.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/big-freeze.jpg

    http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/al_gore_time_magazine.jpg

    Ps. Yes, He Will. To the Closest Massage ParlorS from his “Eco-Friendly” Mega-Mansion(S), ‘Lockbox’ in Hand, while the Wife’s PMRC continues to Censor The DEBIL’S Music from my ‘Weergin’ Ears!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH_QDD7TaDA

    Oh My! How Very Un(Greek)Orthodox Of Me! How UnChristian!

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    murf says: “…there is no such thing as a Progressive Libertarian.”

    murf is stuck in a false dialectic. Progressivism and Libertarianism are for the most part opposites. The partisans on both ends claim the truths of their respective position, but the creative among us employ, among other things, a dialectical reasoning that synthesizes the polar opposites. The results can be less a compromise than an entirely different way of thinking about liberty and public policy.

    I would argue that progressivism without a libertarian ideal is as much of a threat to liberty as libertarianism without progress is a threat to (social) security and safety. This, I suspect, is the basis of Maher’s progressive Libertarianism. The health care bill we got is not a bad example of this. While the Dems run from this historic bill, the Pledge to America seeks to retain 6 of the parts of the bill.

    One point that needs to be made clear, the corporation is not a person. Individuals are the agents of freedom; corporations are entities that can get too large, too greedy and too indifferent to the human condition. Even James Madison felt that corporations (and religious organizations) should not be allowed to get as big as they have become: “…there is an evil which ought to be guarded agst in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by ecclesiastical corporations. The power of all corporations, ought to be limited in this respect” What a socialist!

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/07/glenn-becks-guest-wrong-on-james.html

  • MrAut

    More Liberty said:
    Maher is an idiot – don’t believe a word that comes out of his mouth. Below is a link where Polifact shows he is a liar.

    http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/sep/17/bill-maher/bill-maher-says-some-natural-gas-pipes-are-made-wo/

    Bill Maher is an intelligent and wry comedian who finds abject stupidity funny. So do I. If you & Christine didn’t provide him with so much material, he’d have to find some other line of work.

    You sanctimonious morons cannot laugh at yourselves.

  • MrAut

    Lars Svensen said:
    Maher’s mouth looks like a foreskin. He must be an example of devolution.

    excellent example of the level of intelligence among reactionary nincompoops

  • piniella

    O’Donnell represents Bagger nihilism

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    piniella says: “O’Donnell represents Bagger nihilism”

    You overestimate her. She’s just a pretty version of the Republican/Palin base: religulous and reactionary. As Mr.Aut writes, an “excellent example of the level of intelligence among reactionary nincompoops.” (O’Donnell, not you piniella)

    She, Glenn Beck and the Tea Party movement are nothing more than the backlash to the “Other;” this time the “Other” is living in the White House. As one Tea Party activist put it, “it’s not just that he’s black,….” These John Birch Society types used to be marginalized by the Republican mainstream. Now, it’s the other way around.

    I was active for years during the nuclear arms race. Compared to the failure of deterrence, this is enjoyable to contemplate. Not that all is harmless fun. We need a new magazine, the Bulletin of Earth Scientists, to start a new doomsday clock of global warming. Midnight will be the generation the melts after the permafrost thaws. For this social scientist, that’s the part of the Obama agenda that the Republican Tea Party must not be allowed to allow.

    This is where I normally drop a link to The Glenn Beck Review, but the interview with the author of The Backlash is next week. How about a simple argument about the choice voters have which reframes it from how Beck offers the Choice” Beck and the Tea Party want Mr. Burns (Homer Simpson’s boss) to run the country.
    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/09/beck-frames-voters-choice-as-progress.html

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  • magicbeans

    I don’t care what he digs up or on who and I really don’t think it will make any difference. Anyone who is still watching Bill Maher agrees with him. And thinking the ten commandments are funny is really just his lates attempt to make everyone be an athiest with him. He is a hateful little man who got beat up when he was a kid and whose family kept the fact that his mom was jewish a secret for some reason. So he’s screwed up and hates christians and christmas and acts like the damn fool.

    What I find most interesting is the fact that liberals condemn us all for intolerance for not wanting a ground zero mosque and then in the next breath say something completely nasty about christians. Whatever Maher. *rolls eyes*

    I absolutely triple dog dare him to say word one against the Koran. He is an athiest so he should loath Islam as much as Christianity. So where is it? He’s a coward. He won’t speak against a religion whose zealots would kill him in a heart beat for his big stupid mouth and leave a note stabbed into his chest. No he is content to go after the religion that says, turn the other cheek, love your neighbor, treat others how you want to be treated. Liberal men are just unattractive, aren’t they? Just really weak, sexist, cowards with strange mommy issues.

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