How Bill Maher Could Oust the Worst Sitting Congress Member in 2014
Last year, Bill Maher embraced March Madness by holding his own competitive bracket for the country’s “craziest congressman.” This year, he’s actually going to try to take one of them down. On tonight’s episode of HBO’s Real Time, Maher plans to announce a viewer poll that will determine the worst sitting member of Congress. Then will actively do whatever he can to get them voted out of office this fall.
“This year, we are going to be entering into the exciting world of outright meddling with the political process,” Maher told The New York Times about the plan. “There are a lot of terrible, entrenched congressmen out there,” Mr. Maher said. “We’re going to choose one of them, throw him or her into the national spotlight, and see if we can’t send him or her scuttling under the refrigerator on election night.”
Once the congress member has been selected, Maher will do multiple segments about why they are so terrible and even visit their home district to perform stand-up in opposition to them. While viewers can nominate any current member who is up for reelection this November, the show’s executive producer Scott Carter is fairly certain they will pick a Republican.
“We think there will be no shortage of nominations of incumbents who are ludicrous, who are ridiculous for one reason or another,” Carter said, “and we think there is no lack of entertainment value among sitting members of Congress.”
[photo via HBO]
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