Maher Rips GOP: Very Good at Distracting Public from Failures

Bill Maher ended his show last night with a New Rule saying the GOP is very good at distracting the American public from their failures, citing the Kansas gubernatorial election as an example. Things have been so bad for the state and Republican Governor Sam Brownback, over 100 state Republicans threw their support behind the Democrat.

Maher said that despite his conservative policies failing, Brownback “refuses to give up on the long-discredited zombie lie… of trickle-down economics.” Democrat Paul Davis was doing well in the polls, but now he’s started to lose ground.

What happened? Well, attack ads have been highlighting the fact that back in 1998, Davis was caught in a strip club. Yeah, that’s about it. Maher was amazed and said “this is not a scandal.”

He shamed “easily distracted voters and a shamefully pandering media” for fixating on this non-story, and found it beyond ridiculous that “losing a billion dollars in revenue and having your credit rating downgraded, you can afford… but the lap-dance guy, that’s a bridge too far.”

Watch the video below, via HBO:

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