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Bill Maher Tells Letterman: Elisabeth Hasselbeck ‘Had Some Sort Of Bug Up Her Ass’

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Yesterday morning, Bill Maher appeared on the set of The View and instead of a convivial discussion about the topics of the day or a promotion of whatever book he was trying to sell, co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck confronted the provocateur over what she deemed an inappropriate joke in what was a pretty uncomfortable interview. Cut to last night’s setting of The Late Show where host David Letterman asked Maher to explain what happened.

Some background: yesterday, a nonplussed Hasselbeck took exception to a joke Maher made back in spring of this year in which he suggested that former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarek release then-captured Lara Logan in exchange for co-host of The View. To Hasselbeck’s credit, she calmly confronted Maher over what she claimed was not a funny joke, and while the back and forth made for compelling television, it was the awkward “holy shit” style, and not the “what smart and funny people” type of TV programming producers typically aim for.

Safe from Hasselbeck’s dour and unforgiving mien, Maher went back to criticizing Hasselbeck insinuating that she simply didn’t get his style of humor. To his credit he refused to play the part of the victim, though he did joke that his contentious appearance on The View made him feel “like a teenaged boy at Penn State.” Maher summed up by archly saying that he really liked her a lot and this was all an act where the play that “they don’t like each other on TV.” Watching Hasselbeck in yesterday’s clip makes me think that this is perhaps another point on which the two don’t agree.

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  • SNAPTIE: “Occupy Billy Clubs”

    This puke is irrelevant. It shows in his terrible ratings. You’ll need to scroll to the bottom of Friday’s ratings. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/10/24/friday-cable-ratings-smackdown-ties-spongebob-plus-sanctuary-boss-house-of-payne-more/108154/

  • shonangreg

    It is true. Maher is not always funny. Somtimes his jokes are flat. He is rude at times . . . Herman Cain is a much better comedian of late. That dude can say anything, even insulting the women who’ve accused him of sexual harassment. Cain supporters just eat it up and swallow whatever loads he shoots at them. Such whores they are  ;-)

  • Anonymous

    Since when is comedy “relevant”? thought at first “contagence” linking the bug up hasselbeck’s ass to your post… but it’s not a bug at all, it seems to be republicanism

  • Peter

    A woman having a bug up her ass over a joke about being raped. Image that

  • SNAPTIE: “Occupy Billy Clubs”

    So it’s OK to say lets trade a liberal for a conservative and rape this one instead? Progressives are sick people.

  • BR

    He is a typical liberal.  nuff said.

  • Anonymous

    ok, symbols &supporters of women rights and struggles, did you even try to fake feigning similar outrage over Bieleck’s unfortunate incident with one vile louse named Herman Cain?

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    Maher made the joke long before Logan was reported to have been abused, dim wit. This has nothing to do with jokes about “rape’. Conservatives are so humorless.

  • Pablo

    You’re a little young for dementia, aren’t you?

    The spirit, intellect and delusion of the left. And let’s not forget the visceral hatred.

    Did Mayor Bloomberg have your house taken down, Bunky?

  • SNAPTIE: “Occupy Billy Clubs”

    This coming from the unemployed gold digging Bieleck’s who lives in the same multimillion hi-rise units as Obama’s campaign chief David Axelrod? When asked, do you know Axelrod? Bieleck’s answer was yes.

  • Anonymous

    it wasn’t comedy.  It was sick, vile statements stated by a “comedian” (only in your eyes.)

  • Anonymous

    A bug is better than what Maher likes up his ass.

  • Bigamma

    You should know. Perv!

  • Anonymous

    “To his credit”

    Really?

    This sexist pig makes jokes about conservative women getting raped, calls them “twats”, uses the “C” word and you want to give him credit for something/anything?

    Geez

  • Anonymous

    The bug up your ass has a bug up its ass

  • Pablo

    That must be Plouffe.

  • Anonymous

    shush…. go play with yourself

  • shonangreg

    I thought that was true, but Hasselbeck certainly made it out to be the other way. Why didn’t Maher mention that? Does he just not take her seriously enough to even listen to what she says?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3VUFTUN5223ITCWO7CHS2CI44A David

    I think you have to go back and find out what Elisabeth was talking about that made Bill use her in the joke.

  • Steve P.

    Bill Maher hates women, he is afraid of women as well. Bill Maher is puke

  • Linda Anne

    Here’s a man, and I use that term very loosely, who when caught with his pants down insists that he is a comedian and that anything goes and is considered to be acceptable.  I find it strange that there are people in this country, especially women, who watch this loser on a daily basis.  He has a very limited comedic role because all he can talk about is republicans and believe me as an Independent it gets stale.  My take is his face is as ugly as his heart and soul.

  • Anonymous

    Liz torn him a new (-). it was so funny to watch his “deer in-the- headlights” look as there were none of his snot nosed lemmings in the audience clapping  at every word of hate he had to say.

    And Maher’s lies- MG if he were Pinocchio, his nose would be on the floor by now.

    BTW, only the hate monger Joy Behar attempted any excuse for Maher’s hatred and even that was half-hearted.

    Congrats Liz- you destroyed Maher, the bigot racist and (-).

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    You people will accuse children raped at Penn State of being little Obama brown-shirt foot solders had Sandusky been a republican.. you’re simply a lower life form and don’t mind playing politics with people’s deepest and gravest misfortunes

  • One pissed off liberal

    Oh…so let me guess.  You must be a private investegator who looked into what seemed to be laughable accusations and found very incriminating evidence against Cain…right?

    Either that or your a partisan idiot who will believe anything that supports your political allignment. 

    Which one is it?

  • One pissed off liberal

    This is coming from a guy who’s party worships a sexual predator who lost his BAR qualifications, was found guilty of purgery in a court of law, and had seriouss evidence substantiating his predatorial tendancies over the course of twenty years.

  • One pissed off liberal

    Yea…like most liberals, he certainly doesn’t class the place up with his presence.  Similar to feces throwing OWS animals….

  • Valkyrie101

    She and her husband were secretly liking Maher and his late night outrageousness. Then, like a shot to the heart, he made fun of her. Oops. (Its possible that her husband and his friends thought it was hilarious too.) She was humiliated. No way she forgets that. But really, all of this stuff is just to get attention and buzz for all parties involved. I mean Maher got Letterman to nurse this silly gag along. The only good thing out of it all is that we get to see Elisabeth who is cute and fun, and comes across as innocent in her silliness. A far cry from the two crotchety old men pictured here.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t bother rationalizing. They know that but they chose to play dumb and capitalize on people’s misfortunes 

    They did the same to Letterman with the joke about Palin’s daughter. They’re masters of creating victim-hood out of thin air and victim cards to play politics with

  • Anonymous

    fuuny! it did not stop you from talking the time out of your life to comment about it! who is really irrelevant? YOU!

  • unrepentant_expat

    That said at least they’re not hypocrites about it.

  • Anonymous

    We don’t have the technology to verify this yet but when we do we’ll find a bug up the ass of the bug up the ass of the bug up your and Hasselbeck’s behinds… 

    hopefully one day we’ll have no republicans, only the bugs that used to be firmly embedded up their behinds

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M5V6VTQAVLARF7XXO47Z5OCZWM TangledThorns

    At least Letterman had the guts to apologize for his rape joke against Palin. Maher lacks balls and decency.

  • Valkyrie101

    One thing, it is fun to watch Maher work. And Elisabeth is an up and comer.

  • Lucky Loon

    I am so shocked that Billy Boy hasn’t felt the back lash of his statement of President, “blacky black man”
    and his shocking joke of feeling like a teenage boy at Penn State…This isn’t a man, but a piece of work!

  • Anonymous

    he should know all about asses.  he is one.

  • shonangreg

    Liberals do not have a savior who passed down an 11th Commandment to not criticize each other thus sentencing his servile party to idiocracy.

    If you do want to elaborate on what you are talking about, please already do it.

    PS Notice, I did criticize Maher — and not for being a DINO.

  • shamsky24

    What rape joke?   The rape allegations regarding Logan didn’t surface until more than a week after Maher told his joke about Hasselback.   How could he have been joking about something that wasn’t public knowledge at the time?

  • shamsky24

    It wasn’t a joke about being raped.    Maher told his joke on his February 4 show.    The assault on Lara Logan occurred on February 11, and the allegations about Logan didn’t become public until the 15th.  

    Even Fox News managed to get this timeline right, so there’s really no excuse for this sort of reaction from the wingnut contingent.

  • shamsky24

    This coming from the same crowd who hung on gold-digging Paula Jones’s every word, right until the moment she wound up spread-eagled in the centerfold of Penthouse magazine?    And exactly what is the fact that Bieleck lives in the same building as David Axelrod supposed to prove?   Do you really think that every single person living in that building is a Democrat?

  • Anonymous

    You should watch the video without your rose tinted glasses. Nothing you describe is actually close to the truth.

  • VV

    Typical idiotic comments from the unhinged ….HUH?   

  • Jerry

    Forntunately most of us realize that Maher is about 1/2 as smart as HE thinks he is and about 25% as funny as HE thinks he is.  Bill thinks he’s the intellect’s Don Rickles with his venom.  Don was funny, Bill is a joke himself.  I think he and Letterman quit being funny about the same time.  If I want intellectual humor I’ll take Dennis Miller over Maher any day.  Dennis uses words Bill would have to look up and he’s funny without being mean and spiteful.  I don’t know where Bill’s chip on the shoulder comes from.  Maybe from frustration that no one else thinks like him?

  • VV

    Nuff said?  typical ..right wing computer geek

  • Rick Patel

    Maher & Letterman: Couple of cockroaches. Stepping on them with a hard hunting boot would make a satisfying “crackle”.

  • One pissed off liberal

    Of course you need Elaboration….how silly of me.   What I was refering to was your comment about Cain supposedly insulting the women who kinda sort accused him of harassment…or flat out assualt.. in Bialiks case,  who has a history of false accusatory litigation,.Yet, the defacto “God Father” )(<—i'd be happy to argue this claim by the way)………of the Democratic party Bill Clinton, has had substantial, and diverse evidence pointing towards his predatory tendencies.  Then, you got Hillary..whom I'm sure you like as well and another top tier member of the Dem party, who initiated a scorched earth character assassination campaign in the 90's against all of Bubba's victims, in an effort to save face.
     
    So here you are on one hand, criticizing Cain for defending himself, yet on the other hand, support a political party that actually has a history of a insulting victims of sexual crimes.  Weird…huh.
     
    Also your claim of the GOP being an idiocracy is unsubstantiated and irrelevant.

  • Anonymous

    So it’s really funny to trade one woman for another in an Arab country that is in chaos due to violence; a country that suppresses womens’ rights. While Ms Logan’s assault was unknown at the time….I guess it’s still funny. Must be why I no longer watch Maher. Maybe he should have just resorted to his habit of calling women the “C” word. Now that is hilarious—right? shamsky24 must be a guy.

  • Anonymous

    The joke in question was told a week before the rape details came out.  But I won’t let facts get in the way of a nice blind hate diatribe.  Rage on!

  • shonangreg

    Much of what you say about Bill Clinton is true, but Democrats don’t worship him. We do remember how much better he did at handling the economy than his Republican successors. We are free to criticize him — and each other. No one holds him up to be a paragon of personal responsibility. We just know he did a decent job of being President. I wish the Republicans could grow a spine and learn to find the errors of your ways . . .

    Cain, the idiot who doesn’t know China has nuclear weapons (how could that have been misspoken?), and sits in an interview trying to remember which answers he was coached on regarding Libya and gives it up, “I disagree with Obama for the following reasons . . . No, that is something different. I got a lot of stuff twirling around in my head . . .”, etc., has been the leading candidate of the party of idiots. And it was dumb as a rock Perry before that and crazy as a loon Bachmann before that. Substantiation provided.

  • Anonymous

    Do you think Rush Limbaugh ever makes sick and vile statements?

  • One pissed off liberal

    The party of idiots?  Dude…which party elected:
    - a first term senator with no legislative accomplishment whatsoever, …
    -then claimed he was a brilliant academic, although he has no academic record to view whatsoever,  
    -accepted him as living in Indonesia as a child as reasonable foreign policy credentials,
    - overlooked the openly racist church and mentor he followed for twenty years, and the domestic terrorist that jump-started his career,
    -overlooked the black panther manifesto his wife wrote for her Princeton PhD thesis,
    -Admitted use of crack cocaine ( yet liberals ironicaly point the finger at Rush)
    -and spoke in platitudes and generalities throughout his entire campaign without being called on it once by the press?
     
    Which party elected this guy over at least the semi-accomplished/experienced statesmen..Hillary Clinton? 
     
    So…would you say the GOP has exclusive rights to idiots, or would you to prefer to look at this realistically and accept the fact that the DNC has a huge investment in the idiot portion of the population?

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    “Maher summed up by archly saying that he really liked her a lot and this was all an act where the play that ‘they don’t like each other on TV.’ Watching Hasselbeck in yesterday’s clip makes me think that this is perhaps another point on which the two don’t agree.”

    *LOL* What a delusional creep. Nobody likes that misogynist bigot, that’s why he has to slum it at the Playboy mansion begging carved up whores with daddy issues to sleep with him.

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    He doesn’t have to go anywhere, he types with one hand.

  • Ethridgewells

    bill maher is a typical liberal democrat, the scu, no class, scum of society,  no morals, totally worthless, disrespectful of everyone who disagrees with him. whoever puts this pile of dung on tv should be ashamed.

  • Anon

    she voted for mccain moron
    she is not only a republican, but she is also a tbag
    LOL

  • Anon

    hey moron
    think before you speak
    what reason does a stupid tbag who voted for mccain last election have to accuse cain of sexual harassment?

  • GimmeABreak

    She had some sort of bug up her ass? He needs a large foot up his.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3VUFTUN5223ITCWO7CHS2CI44A David

    Funny, she did not call him out on this when it happened, she saved it so she would have something to say when he came on the show. If it really bothered her she should of brought it up when it was relevant.

  • Anonymous

    I disagree with Maher vehemently, Hasselbeck is the bug up america’s collective ass

  • troy l bowen

    we like him, and his ratings are high

  • troy l bowen

    wow I am a conservative, but I have a brain unlike you

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3VUFTUN5223ITCWO7CHS2CI44A David

    You are what you just wrote. disrespectful of everyone who disagrees with you.Take a nap.

  • Chris

    Wow…didn’t realize he skewed to such an older crowd…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1348434457 Ali Vonal

    Hey, do you usually form your opinions based on ratings? Tool.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1348434457 Ali Vonal

    You aren’t particularly humorous, are you? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1348434457 Ali Vonal

    Your point? Hey, look man, if you can’t see what Herman Cain is all about then you are delusional. Loved his Libya answers, by the way… Loser. 

  • Angel

    Yep, just like the one you grew up in, Uncle Thomas. Remember where you came from? Didn’t think so.

  • m3

    Are you kidding?  She came across as a petulant child.  Her boss, Barbara Walters, tried to get EH to stop making the interview about herself several times, but thin skinned narcissist EH refused.  She had an agenda and darn it she was going to fulfill it.  As a professional she should have made her point and dropped it.  But not poor victim EH who cast aside any semblance of professionalism to whine about a joke.

  • Tony

    When Maher told the joke the woman hadn’t been raped yet. You’re so dumb.

  • Todd

    Right instead of calling him at to his face. LOL

  • Anonymous

    Most women tend to get a bug up their ass when someone calls them the “c” word!!!!

    Bill Maher is a disgusting little puke!! Anyone who thinks this idiot is funny needs their head examined!!

  • Valkyrie101

    Don’t be so easily fooled, my friend. The game that she and Maher play (besides Maher’s sexual fantasization of her on the side), is strickly about media buzz. That is the business they are in. 

  • Guest

    Is that man completely unable to insult a woman without being sexist?
    I kind of wish he wasn’t liberal. He makes us look bad.

  • Valkyrie101

    Your post is a little ironic, don’t you think? No, occasionally Maher is funny, but sometimes, no. I guess that is nature of his business.

  • One pissed off liberal

    According to who?…..you?

  • Onne

    Nice try at concern trolling. LOL

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S3S2ZPQRR3XOABOMKB7BBRV62M THINK

    I hope Jerry Sandusky pays BIll Maher a visit and see what bug is up his ass.

  • Bob Uda

    Bill Maher Tells Letterman: Elisabeth Hasselbeck ‘Had Some Sort Of Bug Up Her Ass’

    And Maher has a rat up his.

  • creesa

    Interestingly, on today’s episode of The View little Elisabeth is mysteriously absent.  Suspended without pay?  haha.  Barbara seemed pretty annoyed yesterday…

    Here’s how Bill should have handled it:  “You’re a public figure, but it didn’t HAVE to be you.  It could’ve been anyone whose opinions I often disagree with and therefore find annoying.  I’m sure you disagree with me all the time and find me annoying.  Please feel free to publicly make fun of me all you want.  Also, you should be complimented because one of the big points of the joke was that Lara Logan is hot and the person taking her place would have to be hot as well.  I picked you because I think your hot!”

    Explained, simple, problem solved.  It’s not like they’re gonna be friends.

  • Anonymous

    Elisabeth is a reality show moron who should be happy that Maher was talking about her at all! Move on

  • Anonymous
  • Joan Kelly

    LOL!  Good one.  Thanks.

  • Eeeeegad

    LOL @ Republicans siding with The View!  Never thought this day would come.  Whenever you side with The View, you’re going to get PWNED!  Maher is going to destroy her for his own personal gain.  

  • Keaton

    Cain is an actual rocket scientist! He designs rockets! Get it! He knew exactly what China’s capability was. He was talking about China developing nuclear carriers. Sorry that doesn’t fit your talking point !

  • Anonymous

    Since when did liberals decide it is ok to refer to women as c**ts as long as it is done under the guise of comedy? I agree with snaptie, liberals are fricking sick people!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CNZH4Q6XQS7BKAQWBINU7V7LVU Jonathan

    uh…total viewership of 1 million+ for an HBO show is freaking awesome.

  • Anonymous

    Little ole jerk, Maher that is!

  • Ben Dover

    A bug?  I bet that’s not all that’s been up there…..

  • Anonymous

    Bill Maher is a political comic for goodness sakes.  If Elizabeth can’t take a joke, maybe she needs to stay home with the kids. 

  • Anonymous

    Yes, and he has also been a close friend of Ann Coulter’s.  SHameful.

  • DUCKHUNTER1881

    BILL MAHER IS ONE UGLY DUDE.HE LOOKS LIKE ELMER FUGG OR MR MAGOO.WHAT AN ASHOLE!!

  • Tx4Obama

    If they make Letterman’s chair any higher he is going to bump his head on the ceiling.

  • DUCKHUNTER1881

    BILL MAHER IS ONE UGLY DUDE ,HE LOOKS LIKE ELMER FUGG OR IS IT MR MAGOO.WHAT AN ASSHOLE!

  • Chucker

    Ah, the old “it’s okay because you do it” argument.  Dazzling.

  • Chucker

    To his credit, Bill Clinton knew how to work with the opposition to get things done.  Credit for the economy belongs to him and Congress, just as blame for the current economy is shared by both branches.  His personal transgressions did not become an issue until he lied under oath; I have never understood how so many of my liberal friends can look past that.

  • Chucker

    Yeah!  She should have just walked off the set…..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Fouracre/100000483725262 Robert Fouracre

    Maher was referring to the CBS Reporter Lara Logan Brutally Beaten & Sexually Assaulted while Covering Cairo Celebration. He said they should send Elisabeth Hasselbeck over there. I can see some people agree with that statement. Of course, Lara Logan could have been your mother, sister or wife, then it wouldn’t be as funny.

  • Cartlon

    Maher needs to get over the fact WE ALL KNOW his ex wives and girlfriends have outed him as a watcher and not capable of intercourse. 

  • Dark Chocolate

    I agree.  Liberals like us are made to look like fools and idiots by Maher and types like him.  The OWS is another example of a small bunch of loons making us look totally stupid.

  • Anonymous

    Maher can joke all he wants, but he still has to answer for what he says, comedy or not.

  • Anonymous

    Republicans aren’t siding with the View, they’re siding with Elizabeth who is the only Republican on the show.

  • Anonymous

    Yuk, yuk.

  • Anonymous

    Val, I have to give you credit, sometimes you have a refreshingly unique point of view on things.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, how terrible of him.

  • IDoResearch

    The details of Lara Logan’s captivity weren’t known at the time, as in nobody knew she was raped until later on after Bill Maher made the joke. This wont change your view one bit will it?

  • Anonymous

    Actually, that isn’t what he was referring to at all.

  • IDoResearch

    Once again; The details of Lara Logan’s captivity weren’t known at the time, as in
    nobody knew she was raped until later on after Bill Maher made the joke.
    This wont change your view one bit will it? Yea, that’s called bias.

  • Anonymous

    He didn’t say anything that was terribly bad – He said we should trade Elizabeth Hasselbeck to the Egyptian Army, who had briefly detained and held Lara Logan before releasing her and her crew.  This event and Maher’s joke came a week before the sexual assault on Logan in the square.

  • Anonymous

    you’re “bias”?  How come you ignored the first part of my post.  Idiot.

  • Anonymous

    Miller isn’t mean or spiteful?  

  • Norbit

    Maher & Letterman?

    Geez, throw in Matthews and Obama, and it’ll look like a Khmer Rouge reunion!

  • Anonymous

    Can you actually articulate what you thought he said that was so offensive?  Because if you’re continuing to hold to the idea that he made the joke about sending Hasselbeck to be raped, it just doesn’t hold up – He made the joke when Lara Logan and her crew were detained by the Egyptian Army, then released unharmed the next morning.   The sexual assault happened about a week after both the incident with the army and Maher’s joke.

  • Political Glutton

    I hate to admit it but Elisabeth ended up winning the day on The View. Maher was thrown off his game and that’s death to a comedian. He got her good with the High Scool jab, but Hasselbeck’s invisible laser of hate beamed him into passive submission. I like them both actually and both had strong arguments but even Barbra Walters can’t stop two worlds from colliding. Bill Maher, with his defenses down, could never recover from the unexpected early assault from Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

  • Wake up America

    These two guys are jokes! However the audience that embraces this guy is one that can easily can be had. Case in point, Obama is sitting in the White House. Need I say anymore? Bill’s audience equals Obama voters alias “DUMBED DOWN AMERICANS”

  • Brincar

    you just described Rush Limbaugh

  • Brincar

    i am sure that Hasslebeck’s husband is mad about this and wouldve done something about it,if he wasnt holding her purse at the mall

  • Ralph

    Letterman is on every night and he somehow avoids rape jokes, and Maher’s reaction was even worse.  Made a joke about Penn State and then sexualized the woman who was pissed at him about making her the butt of a rape joke. 

    I thought it was odd that the professional comedian couldn’t just say “sorry, it’s an occupational hazard,” and move on.  

  • Michael T.

    From Mediaite’s Colby Hall.

    Maher summed up by archly saying that he really liked her a lot and this was all an act where the play that “they don’t like each other on TV.”

    But Colby, you left out the punchline.

    Here’s the full context:
    “Look, I’m only kidding. I like her a lot. We have this relationship on TV where we hate each other,” said the comedian.

    “It’s like big-time wrestling,” cracked Letterman.

    “Exactly. It makes the sex hotter,” agreed Maher.

  • Michael T.

    You need to check your facts Robert.

    Maher’s “Hasselbeck joke” was made after she was released and before she was assaulted (a span of approximately one week if I recall)..

  • Porphyry

    So Harm Libel’s now a proctological entomoligist? Guess that’s where he belongs.

  • Anonymous

    This from the guy that defines the term.

  • Anonymous

    this crap is not comedy.

  • caconservative

    What’s the relevance?

  • Brincar

    yeah REAL CLOSE..you ever see her when shes on his show……..she melts like butter on a biscuit
    No wonder Hannity hates him

  • Brincar

    only when he’s not on the oxy

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