Bill Maher’s New Rule: Republicans Have To Stop Calling OWS Protestors ‘Hippies’

On Real Time‘s New Rules tonight, Bill Maher said that “Republicans have to stop calling the Occupy Wall Street protesters ‘hippies’.” “Yes, they’re peeing outdoors and having sex in sleeping bags– or as Bristol Palin calls it, dating,” Maher explained. “[But] these people down there– they’re not the counter-culture, they’re the culture. They don’t want free love, they want paid employment. They don’t hate capitalism, they hate what’s been done to it.”

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Maher mentioned he had visited Occupy DC’s protest and contrary to press reports, he was not offered a “marijuana cigarette”– and was “a little insulted.” He had a revelation that conservatives were living in the past in their negative perception of the demonstration.

“There’s not going to be a repeat of the last time the hippies were in the streets,” Maher argued. “Those hard hats that you’re depending on — here’s what they’re doing now. They’re cheering them on; because now the hard hats are just as broke as everybody else.”

Watch Maher’s new rule on Occupy Wall Street below via HBO:

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